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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...

Micah Feit Mann

Jul 19, 2018, 3:58 AM

Wine-ing: about Racism?

On the 10th, of November, 1975, the United Nations "determined that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination". The resolution was revoked in 1991 due primarily to the efforts of US Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 18, 2018, 5:02 PM

Take the trip and explain later

In Parshat Dvarim (Dvarim 1:22), Moshe recounts: “You approached me, all of you, and said, ‘Let us send men ahead of us to spy out the Land for us, and let them bring back word to us, the route...

Jul 18, 2018, 4:44 PM

Tackling Labour’s institutional anti-Semitism can’t be done by the Party

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (left) and his shadow cabinet at the Labour Party annual conference

Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

In May following the election I attended a meeting of the NEC Antisemitism Working Group at Labour HQ on behalf of the Jewish Labour Movement. The first time, I was left outside and refused entry to the meeting, giving...

Jul 18, 2018, 12:17 PM

I went on Birthright – and I know how it hides the occupation

Last Sunday I was one of a number of Na’amod activists who travelled to meet Birthright participants as they gathered at Luton Airport, to talk to them about the occupation and the ways it might be hidden from them...

Jul 18, 2018, 11:56 AM

Understanding Labour’s disavowal of the IHRA definition

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)

In September 2001 at the global conference against racism in Durban there was a campaign to construct Zionism as the key racism on the planet. Opposition to antisemitism was presented as incompatible with opposition to racism. Jews were said...

Chananya Weissman

Jul 17, 2018, 5:48 PM

What’s your galus exit plan?

There is very little that we know with certainty, but one thing we do know is that at some point in the future -- most likely in the relatively near future -- the Jewish nation will return to Israel...

Jul 16, 2018, 5:21 PM

We can’t have our racism cake and eat it

Board of Deputies plenary meeting on the weekend, where the issue of Roslyn Pine's disciplinary action was brought up

Remember Bigotgate? Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown undoubtedly does, as his unguarded comments after meeting Rochdale widow Gillian Duffy in the 2010 general election arguably cost him the entire election. As it happens, Mrs Duffy was commenting unfavourably – to...

Jul 16, 2018, 4:25 PM

Birthright and the Intellectual Dishonesty of the Anti-Israel Camp

For 18 years, Birthright has been offering free trips to Israel for Jewish youth. With over 650,000 alumni and counting, co-founders Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt are directly responsible for a significant rise in Jewish identity among younger generations....

Jul 16, 2018, 6:21 AM

The Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup — Day 297

Finally. After a month of soccer, of athletic sturm und drang, of media frenzies, of assorted national ecstasies, and of an almost equal number of national anguishes, it has finally come to an end. For the fan, the end...

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