Politics and Knesset
The list is normally published in late December or early January, but was released early this year, perhaps due to the elections on Dec. 12.
Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar dismissed notions that he would abandon Likud should he lose his bid for the party leadership, saying “the Likud is my home. I am competing within the Likud.”
“Racists are racists are racists, and Jeremy Corbyn is a racist,” says Blue and White Party No. 2 Yair Lapid at the Israel Allies Foundation’s annual Chairman’s Conference.
Witness statements reveal that Jewish party members often do not feel comfortable attending Labour meetings “due to the intensity of animosity towards them.”
“I don’t believe that it would be productive to go backwards at this point,” said 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro.
Though the addition of his eight mandates to the right-wing or a left-wing bloc would avoid elections, Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman said Likud, and Blue and White have made this impossible.
“Other parties are also affected by anti-Semitism—candidates have been withdrawn by the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, and by us because of it,” says British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The actor was impressed with Golders Green Liberal Democrat candidate Luciana Berger, who challenged Jew-hatred before leaving Jeremy Corbyn’s party and deeming it “institutionally anti-Semitic.”
“[It] really shows the blind spot that the Labour Party has. You cannot think anything other than that is chilling,” said Jonathan Goldstein, chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council.
Such a move would add to the leader and his party’s clear animosity towards and bias against the Jewish state.
Protesters accosted Joint Arab List Knesset member Ahmad Tibi outside an auditorium, calling him a “terrorist” and “murderer” • Tibi: “If [Blue and White] had formed a government supported by the Joint Arab List, an Arab MK would have already been murdered.”
There is “no room for anti-Semitism in the halls of power,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tells Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Ephraim Mirvis during a meeting in London.
