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Fast Forward Bodyguards Needed For Jewish Delegates At British Labour Party Conference
(JTA) — Jewish delegates to the upcoming British Labour Party conference will be given bodyguards over fears for their safety from supporters of party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The protection also will be offered to Jewish Labour Party lawmakers, the Daily Mail reported late Saturday. The newspaper reported that the Jewish Labour Movement has held talks…
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Fast Forward Did British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Honor Munich Massacre Terrorists?
(JTA) — A newspaper published photos of British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn holding a wreath in a Tunisian cemetery, saying it was near the graves of Black September terrorists who in 1972 killed 11 Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics. The pictures published in the Daily Mail on Friday were reported to be taken…
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Community Jeremy Corbyn Is Gaslighting The Jews
Last Friday, upon the start of Shabbat, Britain’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn published an op-ed in The Guardian confronting accusations of anti-Semitism under his watch as leader of the party. What starts off as a welcoming letter of understanding quickly devolves into an exercise in distortion and excuses. Instead of acknowledging the trauma he and…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Says He Respects Jewish Affection For Israel
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn said he respects the affinity many Jewish feel for Israel and appealed to critics to resolve differences over his Labour Party’s policy on anti-Semitism that has drawn fire. Critics of the policy say it downplays hostility to Jews expressed as criticism of Israel. “I fully understand and respect the strong affection…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Vows To Root Out ‘Real Problem’ Of Anti-Semitism
The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said on Friday there was a “real problem” of anti-Semitism in his party which he would root out, but he also hit back at strong criticism of Labour from Jewish newspapers. In an article written for The Guardian newspaper, Corbyn stopped short of agreeing to adopt…
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Fast Forward Synagogue Apologizes For Calling Convicted Ponzi Schemer To The Torah
A British man was honored with a call to the Torah on Shabbat — after he was arrested on fraud charges and two days before he was convicted for his Ponzi scheme, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Freddy David embezzled nearly $17 million from 55 people, most of whom were Jewish. He used his standing within…
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Opinion I’m A British Jew. Jeremy Corbyn Is Not A Threat To Us.
Last week, the three Jewish newspapers in Britain made a point of publishing the same front page editorial to highlight the “existential threat to Jewish life” that a Jeremy Corbyn-led government would pose to British Jews. I am a life-long Labour supporter, a 52-year-old British Jew, born and bred in the outer suburbs of London…
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Opinion Jeremy Corbyn Purports To Defend Minorities. What About Jews?
Since Jews are so notoriously argumentative and Jewish communities notoriously fractious, the joke is that for every two Jews you need three synagogues. So a unified statement from a community citing an “existential threat” to Jewish life in a Western democracy is really news. Even in Britain, a community once noted for its surprising unity…
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