British specialist healthcare company BTG has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Galil Medical, a global leader in delivering innovative cryotherapy solutions for kidney and other cancers. The deal is said to be worth up to $110 million. Galil Medical owns, manufactures and sells a portfolio...

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A second university has voted to disaffiliate with Britain’s national student union following its election last month of a controversial president who is facing accusations of anti-Semitism. Newcastle University Students’ Union (NUSU) said on Thursday that it will sever ties with the National Union of Students (NUS), just days after Lincoln University announced...

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There is now a serious possibility that Jeremy Corbyn, the controversial leader of the British Labour Party, could be deposed over the anti-Semitism scandal engulfing his party. Several Labour frontbenchers are reportedly threatening to resign in protest, and there is talk of a possible coup. The scandal is so toxic...

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Booker Award-winning novelist Howard Jacobson said in an interview with the BBC’s Chris Cook last Friday that he had noticed “a new viciousness” in the anti-Semitism of the British Left since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party last year. The issue of anti-Semitism has been dogging the Labour Party since Corbyn’s...

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One day after it suspended MP Naz Shah for saying that Israelis should relocate to the United States, Britain’s Labour Party has suspended former London mayor Ken Livingstone for saying that Adolf Hitler supported Zionism. In 2014, the year before she was elected to Parliament, Shah shared a Facebook post...

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Students in Britain have reacted angrily as a student politician widely denounced as anti-Semitic was elected president of the UK National Union of Students (NUS). Malia Bouattia was elected president today at the NUS annual conference in Brighton, defeating the incumbent, who was running for re-election. According to the BBC,...

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Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s candidate for mayor of London, said that the level of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is “unacceptable” and a “badge of shame,” The Telegraph reported on Wednesday. “It is unacceptable for 2016 that there is anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. It is with sorrow that I wear...

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British Prime Minister David Cameron said from the floor of the House of Commons on Wednesday that he was concerned by the growth of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party, and admonished opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to “sort it out.” Cameron was asked by Conservative MP Mike Freer during the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions about the...

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Nearly all Jewish MPs from the Labour Party are reportedly on an “enemies list” compiled by allies of party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The document, which was leaked to the Times of London and further reported upon by The Jewish Chronicle, classified nearly every Jewish Labour MP as “hostile” or “core group hostile,” including former party leader Ed...

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Britain’s Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove, said at a global anti-Semitism conference in Berlin on Monday that the anti-Israel boycott movement has adopted “methods of apartheid” against Israel by singling out the Jewish state for condemnation. “Israel is dealing with a prejudiced, systematic attack against its existence,” Gove said...

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