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Robert Philpot
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves the stage after delivering an address at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 24, 2018. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images via JTA)
August 16, 2018, 3:23 pm
Shrugging off critics Trump-style, Corbyn withstands outrage, rises in polls
Despite furor over his stance on anti-Semitism, and new scandal about honoring terrorists, the UK's Israel-bashing, hard-left Labour chief is still potentially on course to be PM
By Robert Philpot
Seumas Milne speaks to an anti-Israel rally during 2014's Operation Protective Edge. (YouTube)
August 14, 2018, 11:42 am
The man behind the curtain in Corbyn’s Oz: A virulently anti-Israel spin doctor
One Labour insider says that because of top aide Seumas Milne, if the party came to power 'Israel would have to assume diplomatic relations were unofficially null and void'
By Robert Philpot
File: Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, after a memorial service to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence on April 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
August 6, 2018, 6:25 am
Do latest Corbyn disclosures show the rift in Labour now too wide to bridge?
As opposition leader's unapologetic supporters entrench themselves despite yet more anti-Semitism allegations, it's hard to see how his hard left and Labour's centrists can coexist
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative. From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany. (photo credit: German Federal Archives / Wikipedia)
August 5, 2018, 11:05 pm
How Britain’s Nazi-loving press baron made the case for Hitler
The Daily Mail was once the country's highest selling newspaper, but owner Lord Rothermere was more concerned with 'Bolshevik troublemakers' than an impending genocide
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn poses for photographers as he arrives to cast his vote for local council elections at a polling station in Holloway, London, May 3, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
July 18, 2018, 2:34 pm
Britain’s Labour adopts its own controversial definition of anti-Semitism
Defying the Jewish community, chief rabbi, and MPs, the new guidelines omit key references to Israel and can be used to get members under investigation for bigotry off the hook
By Robert Philpot
New British Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl. (Courtesy)
July 10, 2018, 1:35 am
British Jewry’s new leader puts her foot down on anti-Semitism
Newly appointed Board of Deputies head Marie van der Zyl isn't as brash as her predecessor when dealing with Israel's foes, but she's hardly short on guts
By Robert Philpot
British children's author and Holocaust survivor Judith Kerr. (Christoph Rieger/ Wikimedia Commons)
June 28, 2018, 3:02 pm
After fleeing Nazi Germany, Judith Kerr became Britain’s favorite storyteller
The daughter of an acclaimed Jewish essayist exiled from Berlin is now one of the world's most renowned children's authors, with a play opening on London's West End on June 28
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)
June 22, 2018, 11:47 am
UK’s Labour embroiled in new row over lawyer picked to probe anti-Semitism cases
Top Jewish attorney Gordon Nardell said to have links to party's hard-left leadership and members accused of bigotry, including founder of Facebook group with Holocaust deniers
By Robert Philpot
20th century writer G.K. Chesterton is up for canonization -- but critics say he espoused virulently anti-Semitic views. (Public domain)
June 15, 2018, 4:33 pm
Renowned British writer, a virulent anti-Semite, being considered for sainthood
Proposal for the canonization of author G.K. Chesterton has British Jews -- and some Catholics -- up in arms
By Robert Philpot
George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, at a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on April 27, 2017. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)
June 8, 2018, 1:33 pm
Billionaire George Soros tosses well-monied hat into Brexit ring
As he pushes for second referendum, suggestion that wealthy philanthropist is engaged in 'secret plot' to stop UK leaving EU provokes charges of anti-Semitic slurs
By Robert Philpot
Established in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew decorated with the Iron Cross in World War I, the Wiener Library in London is the world's oldest Holocaust museum. (Courtesy)
June 3, 2018, 10:06 am
You’ve probably never heard of the world’s oldest Holocaust museum
Founded in 1933, London's Wiener Library actively collected material in real time throughout WWII, later playing a key role in the Nuremberg, Eichmann and Irving trials
By Robert Philpot
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)
May 22, 2018, 3:45 pm
Ken Livingstone departs Labour, but may have the last laugh on British Jews
Despite his resignation from politics, the controversial former London mayor will see his hard-left ideology live on as the party continues to rally around Jeremy Corbyn
By Robert Philpot
Britain's newly appointed Home Secretary Sajid Javid leaves after a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
May 13, 2018, 11:01 am
Meet Sajid Javid, UK’s top Muslim, pro-Israel politician, who just may become PM
Born to Pakistani immigrants, the new home secretary is a passionate Israel supporter who is lauded by the Jewish community for fighting anti-Semitism and BDS
By Robert Philpot
A self-portrait by Isaac Rosenberg. (Public domain)
May 12, 2018, 8:52 am
The destitute UK Jew who became one of WWI’s greatest poets from the trenches
On the centennial of his violent death comes the story of Isaac Rosenberg, the son of penniless Lithuanian immigrants whose anti-war poems lit up the battlefield
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: Leader of Britain's Unite trade union Len McCluskey. (Public domain)
April 25, 2018, 9:52 pm
Top UK union boss accuses Labour MPs of ‘smearing’ Corbyn over anti-Semitism
Len McCluskey lashes out as 50 Labour MPs accompany Jewish MP Ruth Smeeth to face activist accused of anti-Semitism; he also accuses Israel's Labor party of 'disgusting libel'
By Robert Philpot
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