The United Kingdom issued new guidelines on Friday limiting the foreign aid it gives to the Palestinian Authority following reports that the money was being used to pay salaries to terrorists and their families. The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) announced that the Palestinian Authority will continue to receive British aid...

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British Prime Minister Theresa May praised Israel as “a remarkable country” on Monday, affirming her government’s commitment to bolster bilateral relations with Jerusalem and opposition to efforts to economically attack the Jewish state. Her sweeping address before the Conservative Friends of Israel, which received a standing ovation, began with a reference...

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British Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Monday that the UK government will adopt a new, clearer definition of anti-Semitism. May outlined the new definition, which was set out by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, in a major speech to a Conservative Friends of Israel event. The definition includes claims that...

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The United Kingdom and Gulf countries will work together to counter Iran’s “aggressive regional actions,” British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Wednesday. May was in Bahrain for the Gulf Cooperation Council summit, which also included leaders from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The UK and those countries signed...

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A Royal Navy warship arrived Tuesday in the northern Israeli port of Haifa, following joint sea exercises with Israeli counterparts. The HMS Bulwark is part of the Royal Navy’s Joint Expeditionary Force (Maritime) Task Group and has been patrolling the eastern Mediterranean for several months. The visit to Haifa comes just...

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The number of British people who believe that Israel is a “key ally” of the United Kingdom has grown in the last year, as has the number that oppose boycotts of the Jewish state, a new survey from the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre (BICOM) revealed. BICOM also found an increase in...

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The UK’s leading universities regulator has ruled in favor of a Jewish student’s complaint concerning harassment by pro-Palestinian activists at Sheffield Hallam University in the north of England. The regulator, called the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA), cited the European Parliament’s Working Definition of Antisemitism in determining that material...

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Police were summoned to the University College London (UCL) on Thursday evening after pro-Palestinian protesters tried to forcefully shut down a pro-Israel event and trapped attendees in the room. Hen Mazzig, a former humanitarian affairs officer in the Israeli military, was speaking at an event organized by the student group...

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The UK Labour Party’s failure at effectively combating anti-Semitism within its ranks “has created what some have referred to as a ‘safe space’ for those with vile attitudes towards Jewish people, exacerbated by the Party’s demonstrable incompetence at dealing with members accused of antisemitism,” a prominent parliamentary committee stated in a report released...

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The United Kingdom has frozen roughly $30 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority over concerns that taxpayer money is being used to pay the salaries of Palestinian terrorists, The Sun reported Friday. The move comes after an investigative report published in the Mail on Sunday in March and another released by the Overseas Development Institute think-tank in June found that British aid money...

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