A soccer player in the English Football League is proudly displaying his faith with a unique haircut. In an apparent reaction to a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom, Tomer Hemed, a striker with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., posted a photo of himself last week with...

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The University of Central Lancashire cancelled an anti-Israel event scheduled to take place on its campus after administrators determined that it ran afoul of the United Kingdom’s newly adopted definition of anti-Semitism, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. The panel discussion, arranged by the student group Friends of Palestine, was due...

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The United Kingdom issued new guidelines on Monday barring city councils from undermining national policy by targeting Israel for boycotts. Issued by Communities Secretary Sajid Javid, the guidelines strive to “stop councils from introducing restrictions on the companies and countries they use – particularly by introducing boycotts on goods from Israel,” the Department for...

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The speaker of the House of Commons is visiting Israel and the Knesset in an historic first. Conservative MP John Bercow visited the Knesset on Monday and attended a series of meetings and panel discussions on Tuesday. He is the first serving speaker of the House of Commons to ever visit Israel...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday in London, where the two leaders spoke of ways to enhance bilateral ties and address mutual threats. At the start of his meeting with May, Netanyahu—who said he has a photo of Winston Churchill near one...

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The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK rose 36 percent in 2016, reaching an all-time high, a study by a British Jewish organization revealed Thursday. The Community Security Trust’s (CST) survey of the UK recorded 1,306 anti-Semitic incidents in 2016, double the number reported four years ago and more than...

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British Prime Minister Theresa May will welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to London next week for the first meeting between the two leaders. Netanyahu is expected to fly to London on Sunday evening to meet with May on Monday. Not only will it be their first meeting since May entered Downing...

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London’s mayor on Monday called on residents to act against hate crimes after a series of anti-Semitic attacks were reported in the city over the weekend, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. “I ask all Londoners to report any form of hate crime, no matter how trivial,” Sadiq Khan said. “A brick with a swastika on...

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In what been described as an “unprecedented” public rebuke of a close ally, the British government released a statement on Thursday harshly criticizing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after his speech about Israeli-Palestinian peace on Wednesday. “We do not believe that the way to negotiate peace is by focusing on only one issue,...

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The government of Iran has told an imprisoned dual British-Iranian citizen that she must care for her two-year-old daughter in the notorious Evin Prison or sign away her parental rights, The Telegraph reported Thursday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at the Tehran Imam Khomeini...

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