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News Jewish Support for Britain’s Labour at Historic Low Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal
(JTA) — If there were an election tomorrow, only 8.5 percent of British Jews say they would vote for the Labour Party — a sharp decline since last year’s election, when 18 percent of Jews voted Labour. A poll by London’s Jewish Chronicle found that 38.5 percent of Jews give the party the worst possible…
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Fast Forward Britain’s David Cameron Demands Labour Party Head Denounce Hamas
— British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to renounce his self-proclaimed friendship with Hamas and Hezbollah. Cameron made the public demand on Wednesday, during Prime Minister’s Questions, a weekly session in the House of Commons during which lawmakers question the prime minister on a wide range of topics. He…
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Fast Forward British Labour Party Suspends Lawmaker for Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts
— Britain’s Labour Party suspended a local city councilman after a British political watchdog website produced Facebook posts in which he said that Israel should have been created in the United States and that it is not too late to move Israeli Jews there. Ilyas Aziz, a city councilman for Nottingham in north-central England, was…
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Fast Forward Britain’s Labour Launches Investigation into Party’s Anti-Semitism
Britain’s Labour Party has launched an investigation into anti-Semitism in the party. The inquiry announced on Friday comes a day after the party suspended former London Mayor Ken Livingstone for saying that Adolf Hitler was a Zionist for advocating in 1932 a policy of moving Europe’s Jews to Israel. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn also…
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Opinion How Britain’s Left-Wing Party Convinces Itself It’s Not Anti-Semitic
(Haaretz) — A year ago, at the height of the general election in the United Kingdom, there was much focus on racism in British politics. The discussions concentrated almost exclusively on the anti-immigration United Kingdom Independence Party, whose leaders were accused of incitement against immigrants; some of its members, including party candidates, were found to…
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Opinion Will Malia Bouattia Force British Students To Be Court Jews, Like I Was?
The National Union of Students is Britain’s largest membership organization, representing 7 million students. So when it recently elected Malia Bouattia as its new president, and rumors swirled around that she was an anti-Semite, Jewish students on British campuses reportedly felt isolated and uncomfortable. But is Bouattia really an anti-Semite? Isn’t she merely, as she…
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Fast Forward Jewish Backers Trash Anti-Semitic Charge Against British Student Leader
Claims that the new head of the British national student union is anti-Semitic are false and part of a “witch-hunt” and “Islamophobic campaign,” Jewish former student leaders wrote in a letter supporting Malia Bouattia. Bouattia, who is Muslim, was elected president of the National Union of Students last week but has faced criticism from some…
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Fast Forward London Ex-Mayor Ken Livingstone Suspended from Labour for Saying Hitler Was ‘Zionist’
Britain’s opposition Labour Party suspended former London mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday in a row over anti-Semitism, as the party struggles with deep divisions since electing a hard-left leader last summer. Dozens of Labour lawmakers had demanded that leader Jeremy Corbyn suspend Livingstone – his ally and a party veteran – over remarks he made…
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