Politics and Knesset
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has called members of Hezbollah his “friends.”
Britain’s “Mail” has unearthed long-standing ties between a senior aide to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and terrorist organizations committed to the destruction of Israel.
“We’re not about to get involved in an election, to interfere in an election of a democracy,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
The two men sought to promote themselves as centrist politicians seeking to unite the country after a decade of right-wing leadership.
In a turbulent race to seal alliances and set lists before the Thursday-night deadline heading up to the April 9 elections, Israeli political parties Yesh Atid and Israel Resilience announced that they would run together in a bid to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As right-wing parties in the Knesset seek to unite ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections in April, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu postponed a planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Joan Ryan joins seven other members—Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Mike Gapes, Angela Smith, Gavin Shuker, Ann Coffey and Chuka Umunna—who have said that “enough is enough” regarding keeping silent about Corbyn’s fitness for office.
The religious Zionist Jewish Home and National Union parties have agreed to run with the staunch nationalist Otzma Yehudit Party in an effort to form a strong right-wing bloc for the upcoming elections.
MP Luciana Berger, who is Jewish, called the party “institutionally anti-Semitic.”
The prime minister still retains the defense and health portfolios.
The Community Security Trust, a London-based nonprofit dedicated to protecting Jews in the United Kingdom, announced a record high of 1,652 anti-Semitic incidents in 2018—an increase of 16 percent over the previous year.
The announcement does not obligate Shas to appoint any female candidates to its electoral lists, but will open the door to the possibility.
