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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...

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...

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 12, 2018, 6:46 PM

Boris Johnson is gone. What now for Iranian prisoner Zaghari-Ratcliffe?

On his way out, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has betrayed yet again the trust of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen currently languishing in an Iranian jail on what can only be described as trumped-up charges. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who worked...

Jul 12, 2018, 10:53 AM

An Irrelevant Anglo-Jewry

I saw my friend in the queue to board a flight from London to Tel Aviv. She was chatting to her friend, and after the benign introductory chit-chat, I realised that between us, we had 14 adult children, 11...

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Jul 11, 2018, 6:02 PM

The Controversy Surrounding My Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture

In memory of Rabbi Emanuel Quint, z"l, a great Teacher in Israel Several of my Orthodox (rabbinical) friends and opponents have called on me not to accept an invitation by the Friends of Louis Jacobs to give a lecture next Sunday...

Jul 10, 2018, 8:30 PM

Calling Jews 'poisonous worms' isn't anti-Semitic?!

Martin Luther's vile invective was hate speech, no different from today's racism disguised as anti-Zionism

Jul 10, 2018, 5:50 PM

Hip Hip Hooray for Jeremy Corbyn

Hip Hip Hooray comes from an old anti-Semitic rallying cry, “Hep Hep”. Rioters in Europe would shout ‘Hep! Hep!’ while looking for Jews to attack during pogroms. This chant was adopted by Nazi storm troopers. One, possibly mythical, derivation...

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