One of Israel’s most prominent authors said on Tuesday that advocating against Israel’s very existence is where “anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism.” “I can tell you exactly where I draw the line. If people call Israel nasty, I to some degree agree. If people call Israel the devil incarnated, I think they are obsessed –...

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The husband of a British-Iranian charity worker who was sentenced to five years in prison by an Iranian court last week said that his wife is being held as a “bargaining chip,” The Evening Standard reported on Tuesday. Richard Ratcliffe, who was recently allowed to speak to his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, explained that she feels “desperate” as “there’s...

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The umbrella organization of British Jews called on the Labour Party to immediately expel former London Mayor Ken Livingstone after he repeated debunked claims that Adolf Hitler supported Zionism, the latest anti-Semitic incident to have engulfed the party since Jeremy Corbyn took over as party leader last year. “Hitler’s persecution of the...

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The United Kingdom’s Labour Party might be unable to hold its annual conference this year because G4S, the security firm Labour asked to handle the event months after boycotting it over its ties to Israel, has rebuffed the party’s last minute request, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. G4S, a multinational British-Danish firm that secured Labour’s annual conference for over 20 years, was...

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Iran has arrested an Iranian with dual citizenship over alleged ties to British intelligence, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi identified the detained individual as “active in the economic field, related to Iran,” but gave no further details to local media except that the arrest occurred last...

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The case of British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained in Iran since April, charged with scheming to enact the “soft overthrow” of the Iranian regime, and separated from her two-year-old daughter, should prompt a reconsideration of whether the UK should normalize relations with Iran, an editorial in The...

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Scottish Jews are increasingly hiding their religious identity, with many choosing to do so in order to avoid discrimination, a study commissioned by the Scottish government has found. The study, conducted by the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC), found that 17 percent of those surveyed attempted to hide their Judaism, which the...

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It’s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate. At the recent Arab Summit in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, the Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, announced that his boss, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, had asked the Arab states prepare a legal case against Britain...

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Ninety-nine years after Lord Arthur Balfour pledged British support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in what is now Israel, Palestinian officials announced their intention on Sunday to sue the United Kingdom in an international court for issuing the document. Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki asserted during an Arab League meeting in...

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In the wake of the high-profile arrests of several dual-nationals in Iran, the United Kingdom updated its travel advisory for citizens visiting the Islamic Republic, warning that they can be “arbitrarily detained.” British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) initially relaxed elements of its travel warning after last year’s nuclear deal, but a “stalemate over...

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