British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks on the fate of the 2015 nuclear deal, said Iranian authorities must stop using dual citizens as political tools and called for the immediate release of prisoners including charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Sky News reported. “I arrive...
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A Jewish woman was attacked outside a pro-Jeremy Corbyn event in north London on Tuesday night, where she demonstrated against the Labour Party’s handling of its anti-Semitism problem, The Jerusalem Post reported. The victim, identified as pro-Israel activist Sharon Klaff, sustained minor injuries to the head, when she was kicked...
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The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence agreed to a contract worth up to $52 million to purchase the MORPHEUS battlefield management application from Elbit Systems UK, a subsidiary of the Israeli defense giant, Globes reported on Tuesday. The initial contract, which covers three years, is for $13 million, but the...
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The United Kingdom is set to proscribe the Iranian-backed, Lebanese-based terror organization Hezbollah in its entirety, The Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. The UK outlawed Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist entity in 2008, but the “political wing” of the organization is not currently restricted. The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid will...
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has said there were “no excuses for any kind of hatred towards the Jewish people” in her first official comments, after the row about anti-Semitism which has engulfed the Labour Party all summer, The Times of Israel reported. In a passionate speech to more than...
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In the wake of the Labour Party’s reluctant acceptance of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, a group advocating boycotts of Israel defaced six London bus stops with signs calling Israel a “racist endeavor,” — violating one of the provisions of the IHRA definition — The Times...
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged to protect “Palestinian rights” as the party reluctantly adopted the full definition of anti-Semitism drawn up by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The National Executive Committee (NEC), the party’s highest-ranking body, however, also adopted a parallel statement clarifying that...
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is an “anti-Semite” who has “given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate,” the former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said in an exclusive interview with the New Statesman on Tuesday. According to Sacks, Corbyn’s recently reported 2013 remarks about British Zionists were “the most offensive...
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British novelist J. K. Rowling stepped up her defense of Jews against anti-Semitism on Sunday in a heated Twitter exchange with Simon Maginn, an author and supporter of Labour leader Jeremy Corby, The Algemeiner reported. In a tweet, Maginn had called Jewish outrage over Corbyn’s 2013 comments indicating that “Zionists”...
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The Labour Party was drawn into yet another anti-Semitism scandal on Friday, after it emerged that leader Jeremy Corbyn had accused British “Zionists” of having “no sense of English irony” despite having lived in the UK “all their lives,” The Jewish Chronicle reported Friday. In a speech at a Hamas-advertised...
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