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Aug 16, 2018, 6:17 PM

Labour should adopt the full IHRA definition and examples

Peter Tatchell

In contrast to the Labour Party, as a left-wing socialist & green, and a long-time supporter of Palestinian rights, I have no problem accepting full the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition and examples of anti-Semitism. They do not prevent...

Aug 16, 2018, 6:15 PM

Corbyn has nowhere left to hide

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Photo credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Let’s first reiterate the facts, because the obfuscation is getting tedious. Jeremy Corbyn laid a wreath at the graves of Black September terrorist masterminds in the Palestinian National Cemetery in Tunis. We know this because Corbyn is pictured in 2014...

Aug 12, 2018, 4:28 PM

Jeremy Corbyn the New Face of British Politics

For year now members of Parliament in the United Kingdom along with support of the British public have been going to the left of politics after the premiership of Margret Thatcher. Jeremy Corbyn is the new face of what the...

Marie van der Zyl

Aug 10, 2018, 12:14 PM

Jeremy Corbyn must come out of hiding

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)

For starters, he must: adopt the IHRA definition in full and open Labour’s disciplinary process to independent review

Aug 9, 2018, 5:41 PM

Muslims and Jews must stick together or they may fall separately

An interfaith event in London to celebrate Ramadan in 2015. (Photo credit: Near Neighbours )

For many months, the Labour Party has been in turmoil due to its failure to tackle antisemitism within its ranks. Now we see senior Conservative MP Boris Johnson, a man often talked about as a potential Conservative Party leader,...

Michael Desmond

Aug 9, 2018, 11:30 AM

Hatred is bad – wherever it comes from

The resignation of Ken Livingstone from the Labour Party and confirmation that new General Secretary, Jennie Formby, would make the fight against antisemitism her top priority, should have helped to draw a line under the issue; but it didn’t. Nor...

Aug 8, 2018, 12:28 PM

Corbyn should admit he’s wrong and move on

Jeremy Corbyn at a Stop The War demonstration in 2012. (Credit: Jewish News)

Premier Leagues matches kick-off and Labour’s anti-Semitism row enters its second month. The old rule in Westminster was that if a story was on the front pages for five days or more then it was political death for whoever was...

Aug 7, 2018, 5:13 PM

Corbyn’s ideological assault may start with Jews – but won’t end with them

Screenshot from Jeremy Corbyn's video apology, posted online (Credit: Jewish News)

In an interview published in Sunday’s Observer newspaper, Tom Watson MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, warned that anti-Semitism must be dealt with, or the Party would “disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment”. It is not...

Aug 7, 2018, 1:41 PM

Labour and British Jews: Time for reconciliation

Jeremy Corbyn

Credit: Jewish News

It’s time to cool things down. There’s been an awful lot of heat over the past few weeks, and not just from the weather. The conflict between the Labour party and Jewish communal organisations has been hugely stressful for...

Aug 6, 2018, 10:29 AM

Corbyn, Still Stained By Racism

Jeremy Corbyn's column in which he defends himself while promising that his party will do whatever it takes to safeguard the Jewish community does provide, finally, a look inside his socialist hard left-wing head (and thanks to JK for that). What Corbyn does...

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