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Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre
Labour Party branch defeats motion condemning Tree of Life anti-Semitic shooting
05.11.2018
Steve Cooke, the secretary of Norton West branch in the Stockton North constituency, said he was “aghast” that the motion was defeated after members criticized that there was too much emphasis on “anti-Semitism this, anti-Semitism that.”
Caskets are carried outside of Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom Congregation, the scene of the funeral for brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal, two of the 11 Jewish worshippers shot and killed on Oct. 27, 2018 at Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha Synagogue in Squirrel Hill. Credit: Screenshot.
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British police investigate anti-Semitism complaints against Labour Party, Corbyn
02.11.2018
The Metropolitan Police said it is acting on a dossier of information, consisting of more than 80 pages of anti-Semitic vitriol, provided by the Campaign Against Antisemitism to London police chief Cressida Dick.
U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Gary Knight/Flickr.
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Danon to UK’s Parliament: ‘Corbyn an anti-Semite who wants to return Britain to darker periods’
09.10.2018
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said “in his actions and statements, [Jeremy] Corbyn gives oxygen to incidents of racism by embracing his terrorist friends and encouraging the activities of BDS. Israel stands by the Jewish community in England.”
Danny Danon, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.
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Corbyn could face sanctions for support of Hamas
04.10.2018
If Jeremy Corbyn were to be sanctioned by the United States, any financial assets there would likely be frozen, along with other penalties.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Corbyn: UK will ‘recognize Palestine’ if Labour Party wins next election
27.09.2018
The development comes amid allegations of anti-Semitism increasing in the party, with Corbyn’s anti-Semitic and anti-Israel history revealed by numerous reports.
British Labour Party and Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, May 12, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Poll: 40 percent of British Jews might leave, 90 percent of them citing anti-Semitism
23.09.2018
“Most British Jews who would ordinarily wear Jewish clothing and symbols said that they now conceal them when out in public,” the Campaign Against Antisemitism said in a statement.
A British Airways aircraft. Credit: Pixabay.
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Ben Cohen07.09.2018
Soviet anti-Semitism in a British guise
Given the number of occasions that British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn publicly defended the Soviet regime, he was clearly well aware of Moscow’s stance on all the key international matters of the time, as well as its propaganda practices.
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‘Israel is a racist endeavor’ posters go up in London
06.09.2018
Londoners woke up on Thursday morning to messages on at least six bus stops with “Israel is a racist endeavor” posters, just two days after the U.K. Labour Party adopted a definition of anti-Semitism.
“Israeli is a racist endeavor” posters put up in London on Sept. 5-6, 2018. Source: Twitter
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Jeremy Corbyn: How he is making British Jews nervous enough to consider leaving
Eric Berger05.09.2018
With the rise of Labour Party leader and accused anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn, Britain grappling with its decision to leave the European Union and Prime Minister Theresa May facing criticism over Brexit, Jewish community members are concerned—concerned enough to consider leaving.
British Labour Party and Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, May 12, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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UK Labour Party accepts full definition of anti-Semitism
04.09.2018
Finally taking this step sounds “positive,” said Gideon Falter, chairman of Campaign Against Antisemitism, but doing so “should never have been in question.”
Thousands gather outside of Parliament in London to protest anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party on Sept. 3, 2018. Credit: Labour Against Anti-Semitism via Twitter.
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The Sephardi Perspective
Lyn Julius02.09.2018
Corbyn’s worldview turns the truth on its head
Hardly a day goes by without another shocking revelation of British Labour Party leaderJeremy Corbyn’s past associations with racists and terrorist enablers. But little has been said about the intellectual underpinnings of the ideological worldview he has clung to for 40 years.
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Senior UK Labour official: Party has a week to save itself
Eldad Beck and Israel Hayom Staff02.09.2018
If Labour does not adopt full definition of anti-Semitism at coming meeting, party could become “irrelevant,” says former home secretary.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Garry Knight via Wikimedia Commons.
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Yisrael Medad31.08.2018
Who and what Jeremy Corbyn really is (not an anti-Semite)
His anti-Zionism and his retelling of the “history” of how Britain betrayed the Arabs is what allows Arabs to mortar and rocket Israel, shoot at its soldiers and civilians, and kill and maim Jews.
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Former chief rabbi of UK lambasts Corbyn’s ‘hateful’ words on British Jewry
28.08.2018
A speech by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2013 was the “most offensive statement by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech,” said former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Jonathan Sacks.
Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Jonathan Sacks at a National Poverty Hearing in 2006 at Westminster, London. Now emeritus chief rabbi, he left the position in 2013 after holding it for more than 20 years. Source: cooperniall/Flickr.
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Jewish UK Labour Party delegates to receive security details
Eli Leon and Israel Hayom Staff27.08.2018
Bodyguards to protect Jewish Labour Party members at upcoming conference out of fear they could face attack by hard-line supporters of party leader Jeremy Corbyn
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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