Eight British parliamentarians, that are touring Israel as part of a trip organized by Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), said they were “shocked by the sophistication” of tunnels dug by terrorists in the Gaza Strip extending into Israeli territory, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The officials saw firsthand the...

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The number of anti-Semitic attacks have reached a record level in the United Kingdom, with the Jewish community targeted at a rate of nearly four times a day during 2017, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The Community Security Trust (CST), British Jewry’s largest watchdog on anti-Semitism, recorded 1,382 anti-Semitic...

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Members of Parliament on Thursday supported a non-binding resolution in the House of Commons to proscribe Hezbollah as a terrorist organization under UK terrorism legislation. There was widespread support for the move to proscribe the political wing of Hezbollah. Currently, only the military wing is defined as a terrorist organization...

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Ahead of a vote in the House of Commons Thursday to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization, two experts have urged Members of Parliament to recognize that there is no distinction between the so-called “political” and “military” wings of the Lebanon-based group. A recent poll showed that...

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Returning from a trip to the Middle East including a stop in Iran, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that it was “too early to be confident” that a British-Iranian dual citizen would be released by Iran before Christmas, even as evidence emerged that Iran is seeking what is effectively a...

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The Chief of the Defense Staff of the British Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, arrived in Israel Thursday for talks with IDF Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said,  “Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach and Lieutenant General Gadi...

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Ahead of decisions of importance to Tehran by United States and U.K. governments, the Iranian state television showed footage of two foreign nationals who have been jailed by the regime, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Monday. The spouses of Xiyue Wang, an American graduate student, and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen who works for...

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“We believe that anti-Zionism with its antisemitic characteristics, has no place in a civil society,” three distinguished British authors wrote in a letter to the editor published Monday in The Times of London decrying that the “themes and language” of anti-Zionism “have become widespread in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.” Spurred by discussions of...

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Prime Minister Theresa May said that Britain is “proud of our pioneering role in the creation of the state of Israel” at a special dinner in London to commemorate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, attended the dinner on Thursday evening. In her speech,...

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Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday Britain would celebrate with pride the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and its role in the creation of the State of Israel. Speaking in the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions she said, “We are proud of the role that we played in...

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