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Fast Forward Ed Miliband Locked in Dead Heat as Britain Votes
Britons went to vote on Thursday in the tightest election for decades; one that could cause government gridlock, push the world’s fifth-largest economy closer to leaving the European Union and stoke a second attempt by Scotland to break away. Final opinion polls showed Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and Ed Miliband’s opposition Labor Party almost…
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Life The Jewish Firebrand Who’s Aiming for Upset in Mrs. Thatcher’s Stronghold
Knocking on voters’ doors is one of the oldest traditions of British elections. All candidates for Parliament do it, including prime ministers and aspiring prime ministers in the constituencies they hope will send them to the House of Commons. There’s always an element of the surprise: Will someone be at home, how are they planning…
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Life For Princess Charlotte, a Pink Dress From Israel
(JTA) — Who knew Israeli President Reuven Rivlin had such a keen fashion sense? As the media frenzy surrounding the birth of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s second child continued through Monday, Rivlin and his wife, First Lady Nechama Rivlin — grandparents of six — sent the newborn British princess a frilly pink dress that reads…
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Opinion How David Cameron Plans To Channel Bibi and Win Britain’s Election
If it emerges that a secretive campaign adviser to Britain’s Conservative Party spent a few weeks in Israel in February and March, no one will be very surprised. Whether or not such a person exists, one thing is very clear on the eve of next week’s U.K. parliamentary election: the successful reelection strategy used a…
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Fast Forward British Politician Suspended for Calling Ed Miliband ‘the Jew’
(JTA) — Britain’s Conservative Party suspended a council candidate after she referred to Labor Party leader Ed Miliband as “the Jew” in Arabic. Gulzabeen Afsar, who was set to run next week in Derby, was suspended on Monday, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Responding to a comment on her Facebook page suggesting that Miliband would be…
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Opinion England’s Green Party Has an Anti-Semitism Problem
Getty Images At a forum with voters in February, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett was asked what she would do to ensure that Jews feel safe in Britain. Bennett rambled on vaguely about funding inter-communal dialogue without even mentioning Jews, indicating that the problem of anti-Semitism was one she had never thought about before. The…
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Fast Forward British College That Scrapped Anti-Israel Conference Backed by Judge
, via Wikimedia Commons” src=”https://images.forwardcdn.com/image/675x/center/images/cropped/southamptonuni-1429184713.jpg”]A London judge has accepted the University of Southampton’s decision to cancel a conference on Israel’s right to exist over security concerns due to protests. The university cancelled the conference on International Law and the State of Israel late last month. It was scheduled to be held April 17-19. Organizers of…
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Fast Forward British Labor Leader Ed Miliband Backs ‘Palestine’ Recognition
The leader of Britain’s opposition Labor Party said on Friday he favored recognizing Palestine as a state if such a move would help bring about a broader peace deal in the Middle East. Ed Miliband was asked by a reporter if Britain would recognize Palestine in the first year or two of his premiership, if…
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