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Aug 22, 2018, 11:16 AM

Jeremy Corbyn and Hamas: No longer friends, but still brothers

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) pictured in Jerusalem alongside Labour MP Andrew Slaughter (left), and Hamas officials Ahmad Attoun, Khaled Abu-Arafah, and Muhammad Totah. (Credit: i24News via Jewish News)

Jeremy Corbyn’s press office keeps telling us that he meets leading figures from Hamas because of his “principled solidarity with the Palestinian people and engaging with actors to support peace and justice in the Middle East.” We now know that he met Hamas officials in...

Jul 19, 2018, 5:53 PM

I support the Palestinians – and I left Labour this week over anti-Semitism

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during the Scottish Labour conference at Caird Hall in Dundee, Scotland, March 9, 2018. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

This week I left the Labour Party due to the failure of the National Executive Committee to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition and examples of anti-Semitism. Despite the pleadings of the Jewish community, the Labour Party instead arrogantly adopted its definition...

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John Strawson is honorary Professor of Law at the University of East London. He is author of Partitioning Palestine: Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (2010).

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