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Robert Philpot
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's Labour Party, listens to speakers during the Party of European Socialists Council in Lisbon, December 2 2017. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
April 17, 2018, 3:44 am
It backed Israel before Balfour: Corbyn stance is stark shift from early Labour
In a 'long history of friendship' between the British and Israeli parties that has seen peaks and valleys, today's gulf is the grand canyon
By Robert Philpot
Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, March 9, 2018. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)
April 3, 2018, 8:54 pm
For most in Labour, anti-Semitism charges are bogus, Israel is a force for bad
Throughout its history, the British Labour party has prided itself on its opposition to prejudice and racism. In the Corbyn era, that party may no longer exist
By Robert Philpot
Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London on March 26, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)
March 27, 2018, 2:14 pm
Corbyn’s anti-Semitism apologies don’t presage any genuine shift in his approach
UK Jews are fuming about Labour leader's proclivity for siding with anti-Semites, even holding a rare protest rally. Moderate MPs are similarly angry. But he is not about to change
By Robert Philpot
Jeremy Corbyn waves on stage after he is announced as the new leader of The Labour Party during the Labour Party Leadership Conference in London, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
March 25, 2018, 2:25 pm
Corbyn on Labour’s firing line over public support for anti-Semitic artwork
Party in uproar over leader's props for mural Freedom for Humanity, which depicts Jewish businessmen and bankers counting money around a Monopoly-style board
By Robert Philpot
The Cultybraggan Camp as seen fro the end of the road. (CC/SA/2.0/Andrew Scobie)
March 24, 2018, 12:45 pm
Newly discovered cartoons show picturesque British camp that held hardened Nazis
Illustrations depict a placid life for inmates: The only successful escapee came back after a day at the movies, and decades later bequeathed 400,000 pounds to locals
By Robert Philpot
Dudley North representative Ian Austin. (UK Parliament)
March 23, 2018, 9:44 am
A quiet English town fights anti-Semitism thanks to a Holocaust survivor’s son
Representing Dudley North, MP Ian Austin has drawn on his father's legacy to become one of the harshest critics of Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn from within the Labour party
By Robert Philpot
Footage taken from a security camera aboard the Mavi Marmara, showing the activists preparing to resist IDF soldiers about to board the ship. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)
March 13, 2018, 10:05 am
Free Gaza spox admits activist initiated fatal 2010 violence aboard Mavi Marmara
Report on inner-workings of anti-Semitic group reveals that Greta Berlin belatedly acknowledged 'crazy' Ken O'Keefe seized IDF commando's gun, sparking fight in which 10 Turks died
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: Britain's opposition Labour party's leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech at a rally on the eve of Labour Conference in Brighton, September 23, 2017. (AFP/Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)
March 8, 2018, 7:43 pm
Before elected Labour leader, Corbyn was part of an anti-Semitic Facebook group
As the party suspends members for hateful posts, a 280-page report details a slew of racist and anti-Israel material posted in the Palestine Live forum
By Robert Philpot
Britain's first and only Jewish prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, circa 1878. (Public domain)
February 22, 2018, 2:58 pm
150 years ago, the UK’s first and only Jewish leader changed politics forever
Staring down vicious anti-Semitic attacks, Benjamin Disraeli became Queen Victoria's man of the people and built up the most successful party the country has ever seen
By Robert Philpot
Maajid Nawaz speaking at a Liberal Democrat campaign event in West Hampstead, London, in 2015. (Wikimedia commons/flickr/eregis)
February 19, 2018, 12:47 am
The British activist who went from radical Islam to staunch Israel ally
Maajid Nawaz spent 5 years in an Egyptian prison for espousing extremism. Now living in London, he educates about the dangers of radicalization in the Western world
By Robert Philpot
Edward VIII walks by an SS formation on a trip to Germany. (Bundesarchiv bild)
January 29, 2018, 6:48 pm
Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ paints Edward VIII as Nazi sympathizer — but was he?
The UK show pulls from once top-secret Marburg Files to portray a former monarch with suspicious loyalties to all but his wife
By Robert Philpot
The Conservative government front bench sit in the House of Commons in London, April 11, 1981. Left to right are then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe, Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph, Defense Secretary John Nott, and Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit. (AP Photo/BIPHA/Central Press Photos)
January 17, 2018, 4:09 pm
Meet the little-known Jewish man behind Britain’s Thatcherist revolution
Born 100 years ago, upper-class Sir Keith Joseph made for a strange political bedfellow with Methodist, underprivileged Thatcher -- but together the two changed UK politics forever
By Robert Philpot
Momentum founder Jon Lansman. (YouTube)
January 8, 2018, 9:25 am
Jeremy Corbyn’s biggest Jewish backer sows discord within UK Labour party
If anyone is responsible for his party leader's rise to power, it's Orthodox-raised Jon Lansman, founder of Momentum. But being a far-left maverick doesn't always win friends
By Robert Philpot
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: Jews of Aden awaiting evacuation to Israel on November 1, 1949. (GPO/Public domain)
December 11, 2017, 1:44 pm
As Jews evacuated from Aden bloodbath, a daring mission to rescue a Torah scroll
On the 50th anniversary of the vicious pogrom, the mystery surrounding a salvaged Yemenite heirloom is solved as its hero's story is finally told
By Robert Philpot
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