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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Heckled at British Pro-Israel Event
Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labor Party who has been accused of being anti-Israel, was heckled at a pro-Israel event. Corbyn spoke Tuesday night at a reception of the Labor Friends of Israel organization held at the party conference in Brighton. During his 10-minute speech he did not mention Israel, the London-based…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Will Address British Pro-Israel Event
Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labor Party who has been accused of being anti-Israel, will address a pro-Israel event. Corbyn will speak next week at the Labor Friends of Israel dinner, his office confirmed Thursday to The Jerusalem Post. Some 400 people, including about 30 members of Parliament, are scheduled to attend…
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Opinion Who’s Afraid of Jeremy Corbyn? No, Not All British Jews.
As a British Jew who supports Jeremy Corbyn, I was a little surprised to read Liam Hoare’s piece “.” It is disorientating to hear a group of which you are a member described as being univocal, particularly when the description fails to match your lived experience. Hoare’s tendency to present the British Jewish community to…
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Fast Forward Citing Kindertransport, 100 British Rabbis Demand Open Door for Refugees
More than 100 British Jewish clergy signed a letter urging the United Kingdom to take in more Syrian refugees. In a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, the rabbis and cantors referenced the 10,000 Jewish children that the United Kingdom rescued from the Nazis between 1938 and 1940. Two of the people delivering the…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Claims ‘Element’ of Jewish Roots
The new leader of Britain’s Labor party who has been accused of tolerating anti-Semitism said he has some Jewish ancestry. Jeremy Corbyn told The Church Times that while his immediate family is Christian, he has a “Jewish element” in his background, the United Kingdom’s Jewish News reported. In the interview with the Christian publication, he…
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News Crisis on Continent Opens Britain’s Eyes to Plight of Refugees
On Sunday, September 6, in the sunny yard of a London school, I met Erica, a weary middle-aged woman from Eritrea whom I was trying to help. Over a Styrofoam cup of milky tea, she described her life—an unrelenting limbo of food vouchers, hand-outs and the unpredictable whim of local neighborhood councils. An asylum seeker,…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Riles Jews With Staunch Criticism of Israel
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn, the new head of Britain’s opposition Labor Party, has many of the makings of a hero for British Jews. A Labor lawmaker with over 30 years of experience, Corbyn passionately and eloquently defends blue-collar Britain, multiculturalism and a left-of-center notion of social justice. These are issues that resonate with Britain’s 250,000-strong…
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Fast Forward British Jewish Lawmaker Takes Post With Jeremy Corbyn
A Jewish lawmaker in Britain said she joined new Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet after having a “full and frank discussion” with him. Luciana Berger agreed to serve as the shadow mental health secretary for Corbyn, who is regarded as hostile to Israel and has called the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah “friends.”…
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