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Feb 11, 2022, 5:44 PM

Conflict in the Middle East can never justify antisemitism

Image from a video of the Palestine car convoy driving along Finchley Road, reportedly shouting antisemitic slurs at passersby, at the height of the war between Israel and Hamas in 2021. (Credit: Jewish News)

The shocking figures released by the Community Security Trust (CST), which show that anti-Jewish hate incidents are at record levels in London and across Britain, are deeply disturbing and a stain on our society. They show in stark terms that as a city – and...

Jan 26, 2020, 11:25 AM

As the years go by, we must work harder to remember

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, attends the 2019 Yom Hashoah event alongside Chief Rabbi Mirvis and Board president Marie van der Zyl. (Photo: John Rifkin via Jewish News)

Nearly four years ago, I attended a Yom HaShoah memorial event on my very first day as Mayor of London. It’s a day I’ll never forget. I remember hearing the deeply moving accounts of the Holocaust survivors, the stories of the unimaginable emotional and physical...

Dec 18, 2019, 1:46 PM

Make the Labour Party a hostile environment for antisemites

London Mayor Sadiq Khan speaking at Chanukah in the Square (Credit: Marc Morris Photography via Jewish News)

I want to start with an apology. I’m sorry my political party, the Labour Party, has let down the Jewish community so catastrophically in recent years. I’m sorry that so many Jewish voters felt betrayed at the General Election by a party they used to think...

Apr 28, 2016, 6:39 PM

Like too many Jewish Londoners, I know how discrimination feels

My story will be familiar to many Jewish Londoners. My parents moved to Britain from Pakistan in search of a better life, just like so many Jewish people who arrived here generations before. When my parents arrived in Britain, they worked around the clock to...

Sep 11, 2015, 2:13 PM

I want to be a Muslim Mayor that stands up for Jewish rights

As someone aspiring to be a unifying Mayor of such a fantastically diverse city I want to reach out for support from every community, not win by divide and rule. Because I know what its like to be a member of a minority group in...

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Sadiq Khan is the Mayor of London