British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been warned by his own MPs that the ongoing failure to tackle high-profile cases of Jew-hate could leave the party seeming “institutionally antisemitic,” The Jewish Chronicle reported on Monday. Corbyn was asked to reveal details of Labour’s disciplinary process that deals with allegations...

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Last week, people gathered across the country to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who joined 200 Holocaust survivors at a service in Westminster, shared a photo of himself on social media signing the Holocaust Educational Trust’s book of commitment, saying: “Let us never allow antisemitism or any other...

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British and Israeli ministers announced on Wednesday that they have agreed on an “in principle” post-Brexit trade agreement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as Britain prepares to leave the European Union, The Jewish Chronicle reported. Speaking at the forum, International Development Secretary Liam Fox said: “I’m delighted...

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A local Labour branch has come under fire for suggesting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism is part of a plot by Israel to shield the Jewish State from criticism, The Jewish Chronicle reported Sunday. The constituency Labour Party for Lewisham Deptford, which has a history of...

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Britain’s International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt has been urged to take “a firmer approach” to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), which is under fire for a lack of reform and the perpetuation of the Palestinian refugee problem. After the United States announced in September that it was...

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A Scottish councillor, who was suspended for her anti-Semitic comments on social media, has been readmitted into the British Labour Party, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. Mary Bain Lockhart wrote on Facebook in July that a joint editorial by three Jewish newspapers against rising anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was...

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A Labour MP has described the use of British taxpayers’ money to fund a Palestinian school curriculum which incites violence against Israelis and propagates anti-Semitic material as a “scandal,” The Jewish Chronicle reported Tuesday. Dame Louise Ellman, vice-chair of the Labour Friends of Israel, said in parliament that the minds...

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Labour MP John Mann made an impassioned speech against Jew-hate during the last Prime Minister’s Question of the year on Wednesday, saying, “A disturbing large number of young Jewish people are questioning whether they should remain in this country.” WATCH – @JohnMannMP with an important question to the PM during...

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After mysterious unmanned aerial vehicles caused 36 hours of paralysis at London’s Gatwick Airport last week, stranding more than 100,000 travelers, the British military saved the day with one of six Drone Domes it had purchased a few months ago from Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Rafael’s Drone Dome pinpoints...

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The British Department for International Development (DFID) has come under fire for politicizing a review of incitement against Jews in Palestinian textbooks, after it was revealed that the investigation will also include an assessment of Israeli textbooks, The Jewish Chronicle reported Tuesday. “I’m not aware of evidence of any widespread...

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