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All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism
Britain's Labour Party opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn waves to supporters as he arrives to meet with US President Barack Obama at an event in central London on April 23, 2016. (AFP/Justin Tallis)
May 1, 2016, 1:29 am
Israeli envoy to UK: Labour ‘in denial’ about anti-Semitism
In jab at party leader Corbyn, Mark Regev says those who fail to condemn anti-Jewish hatred should themselves be condemned
By TOI staff
Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is pictured as he leaves his home in London on April 29, 2016. (AFP/Leon Neal)
April 30, 2016, 11:42 pm
Prominent UK journalist: Anti-Semitism in Labour a chronic condition, not just a ‘problem’
Nick Cohen says party faces almost insurmountable task of rooting out anti-Semitism; 83 Jewish supporters of Labour slam ‘wider campaign’ against leadership
By TOI staff
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone outside Millbank in Westminster, London, Thursday April 28, 2016. (Anthony Devlin/PA via AP)
April 30, 2016, 6:04 pm
Livingstone says Netanyahu agrees with him in ‘Hitler backed Zionism’ row
Referring to remarks made by PM last year, suspended Labour veteran says he ‘can’t be anti-Semitic’ because Israel’s leader has ‘said exactly the same thing’
By TOI staff
Ken Livingstone outside his home in London on Friday, April 29, 2016 (YouTube screen capture)
April 29, 2016, 7:40 pm
Livingstone doubles down on Hitler backing Zionism: ‘They don’t teach it in Israel’
Anti-Israel politician George Galloway backs former mayor, says ‘Nazism and Zionism were two sides of the same coin’; WWII historian rejects claims outright
By TOI staff
British Labour MP for Liverpool Walton, Steve Rotheram (left), and MP for Leigh, Andy Burnham (right), arrive to attend the 1989 Hillsborough disaster inquest, in Warrington, England, on April 26, 2016. (AFP/Geoff Caddick)
April 29, 2016, 10:38 am
Senior Labour MPs tell Corbyn to act quickly on anti-Semitism in party
After former London mayor suspended for saying Hitler supported Zionism, shadow minister says allegations of anti-Semitism ‘not being dealt with properly’
By TOI staff
British MP John Mann. (Courtesy)
August 17, 2015, 6:37 pm
UK’s Labour to investigate anti-Semitic messages to members
‘I have very serious concerns about [primary candidate] Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters,’ says MP who was target of slurs
By JTA
Illustrative photo of an Orthodox Jew walking past the Ahavas Torah Synagogue in the Stamford Hill area of north London on March 22, 2015. (AFP/Niklas Halle'n)
April 22, 2015, 1:53 pm
Amnesty International rejects call to fight anti-Semitism
Human rights group says it opposes campaign focused specifically on anti-Jewish discrimination rather than prejudice generally
By Stuart Winer
Democratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley holds a copy of the 2015 All Party Parliamentary Report on Antisemitism. (courtesy)
February 10, 2015, 3:55 pm
Manifestations of persistent anti-Semitism shock British MPs
At a cross-party panel, UK lawmakers leave their tea and scones and discuss grave implications of a new report on the oldest hatred
By Jenni Frazer
Illustrative photo (Photo credit: Quinn Dombrowski, CC BY-SA, flickr)
April 23, 2013, 11:22 pm
Just how anti-Semitic are British politicians?
Do the ramblings of a few minor figures without much influence really matter? The consensus is yes, because their vicious rhetoric normalizes extremism and encourages irresponsible discourse
By Miriam Shaviv
"I don’t agree it is a hostile environment for Jews," UCU secretary general Sally Hunt said in court Monday. (Photo credit: Courtesy of UCU)
November 13, 2012, 12:01 am
Questioned in court, head of UK academic union rejects anti-Semitism accusations
Facing a Jewish lecturer’s lawsuit, longtime Israel critic Sally Hunt denies members’ anti-Zionism crossed a line into racism
By Miriam Shaviv
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