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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

English anti-Zionism

Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators protest Israel's existence in New York City, October 8, 2023, following the October 7 Hamas atrocities and before Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
June 4, 2024, 2:54 pm
After Oct. 7, UK journalist Hadley Freeman believes ‘the progressive left hates Jews’
The New York-born writer comes out with a new essay on the antisemitism emerging after the Hamas atrocities in Israel, and how it’s rooted in a hypocritical and myopic ideology
By Robert Philpot
Anti-Israel protesters hold placards addressed to Britain's Labour leader Keir Starmer as they walk past his office during the 'Day of Action for Palestine,' a march from Chalk Farm to Camden Town, in London, on November 18, 2023. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
February 17, 2024, 8:07 am
UK’s Labour faces Muslim bloc in revolt, anti-Israel challenger in special election
The party’s support for Israel in the Gaza war is causing pushback from within, and has some voters eyeing radical anti-Zionist George Galloway – but does this pose a true threat?
By Robert Philpot
Protesters hold placards and flags and chant slogans at a rally in support of Palestinians and against Israel, outside of the Houses of Parliament in central London on November 15, 2023. (Henry Nicholls/ AFP)
November 18, 2023, 8:13 am
UK Jews say govt not protecting them from Islamic extremism amid Israel-Hamas war
Jews suffering a sharp increase in antisemitic incidents look to state to review legislation and proscribe Iranian-sponsored terrorism: ‘It’s just the political will that’s missing’
By Robert Philpot
In this July 30, 2018 photo, a view of ticket office at the New Lawn, Forest Green Rovers’ football ground, in Nailsworth, England. (AP Photo/James Brook)
August 28, 2022, 5:13 am
In England, world’s greenest soccer team is vocal critic of Israel’s blue and white
Forest Green Rovers is the first UN-certified carbon neutral club, only serves vegan concessions, and proudly flies a Palestinian flag at its ground
By Shaul Adar
Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech during an election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow, England, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
November 15, 2019, 12:04 pm
How bad would it get? Month before vote, UK Jews worry over a Corbyn government
Victory for the hard-left Labour leader on December 12 could radically reshape Britain’s ties with Israel, prompt Jewish emigration, spell an end to domestic displays of Zionism
By Robert Philpot
Rabbi Fishel Cohen with Jewish students at a candle lighting ceremony in Hanukka in Birmingham, the United Kingdom on December 24, 2014. (Courtesy of Rabbi Fighsel Cohen /The Birmingham Tab/via JTA)
June 4, 2019, 4:29 pm
Amid rising anti-Semitism, one British university has a thriving Jewish life
With campuses in London, Oxford and beyond becoming increasingly inhospitable to Jews, University of Birmingham provides kosher housing for first-years and a welcoming atmosphere
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Opposition Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, stands right, as he makes a speech to lawmakers inside the House of Commons in London as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron sits at center left, during a debate on launching airstrikes against Islamic State extremists inside Syria, December 2, 2015. (Photo by Parliamentary Recording Unit via AP Video)
March 6, 2019, 4:33 am
70 years of transcripts from UK’s parliament show clear ‘obsession’ with Israel
Using a new analytics tool, researcher David Collier picks up 17,667 parliamentary references to the Jewish state — more than Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine combined
By Robert Philpot
Rivka Bond
July 11, 2018, 10:46 am
Rivka Bond
Calling Jews ‘poisonous worms’ isn’t anti-Semitic?!
Martin Luther’s vile invective was hate speech, no different from today’s racism disguised as anti-Zionism
Sir Mick Davis (Courtesy)
From the WebJuly 3, 2018, 2:03 pm
We’re at war with ourselves in the battle for Zionism
The diaspora discourse on Israel has never been more polarized, vicious or impoverished
By Mick Davis
Liron Velleman
February 22, 2018, 12:34 pm
Liron Velleman
The death of Israel Apartheid Week on UK campuses
Of course BDS boycott tactics are failing; comparing Israel and South Africa never stacked up to begin with
Photos from the 2017 Jewish Voice for Labour conference, clockwise, from left: Ken McCluskey, general secretary of UNITE; Jenny Manson, chair of Jewish Voice for Labour introducing filmmaker Ken Loach; Leah Lavane speaking on behalf of her Hastings and Rye district. (Screenshots/YouTube)
December 15, 2017, 11:20 am
UK’s new Jewish Voice for Labour seeks to throw off the ‘shackles’ of Israel
Deriding the myth of anti-Semitism in the Labour party, JVL seeks to break its Zionist ‘monopoly’ — to the delight of BDS supporters
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill on a visit to the British Mandate of Palestine in March 1921, nearly three decades before it became the Jewish state. (Churchill Museum)
November 1, 2017, 11:03 am
Ahead of Balfour 100, UK enshrines Churchill’s headstrong case for Israel
A new permanent exhibition highlights the British PM’s unflinching support for the Jewish state — even under heavy pressure from his government
By Robert Philpot
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with his British counterpart, Theresa May, in London on Monday, February 6, 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
October 31, 2017, 11:23 am
Ahead of Netanyahu trip to London, UK’s support for Israel hits seven-year high
UK-based think tank’s poll shows drop in backing for the BDS movement, especially among youth
By Robert Philpot
Rivka Bond
August 22, 2017, 3:56 pm
Rivka Bond
The selective rage of the Left
Neo-Nazi assaults get the righteous backlash they deserve; not so for attacks spurred by hatred of Israel
British MP Andrew Percy holds a terror doll teaching aid used in Palestinian schools. (Jenni Frazer/ Times of Israel)
April 26, 2017, 9:40 am
The Conservative member of parliament who went all the way for Israel
Though British MP Andrew Percy always had an affinity for the Jewish state, he didn’t imagine that it could be more than that — until he converted to Judaism
By Jenni Frazer
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