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EXCLUSIVE Ephraim Mirvis, The chief rabbi, has warned that Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism allegations makes him “unfit for high office”. Writing only in tomorrow’s Times he the “very soul of our nation is at stake” in next month’s general election
EXCLUSIVE: Here is Rabbi Mirvis’s unprecedented intervention in the election campaign thetimes.co.uk/article/ephrai…
"How far is too far?" thetimes.co.uk/article/ephrai…
Here's tomorrow's Times splash, including Labour's response to Ephraim Mirvis's article thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…
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Henry Zeffman
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I want to stay in the Common Market
I want to do whatever Europeans do
I want to be in the Common Market
I want to be in the Common Market
Number 2
Well what else could Nick do?
He said: "I'll see what I can do."
He came from Wales had a thirst for Brexit
Said he didn't want a referendum
That's where Nick
Caught his eye
Steve told Nick that his Dad's Neil Kinnock
Nick said "In that case I'll have a CFP opt-out"
Steve said "Fine"
And then in thirty seconds time he said:
I want to stay in the Common Market
I want to do whatever Europeans do
I want to be in the Common Market
I want to be in the Common Market
Number 2
Well what else could Nick do?
He said "I'll see what I can do."
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Henry Zeffman
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EXCLUSIVE: Government planning a "hardship fund" for no-deal Brexit

Here are only some of the "actions arising" from a meeting of the cabinet's no-deal preparedness committee earlier this month. Just direct quotes from the document circulated afterwards.

thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/n…
LOCAL RESILIENCE FORUMS, via the MINISTRY OF HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT to report on potential impacts, including any communities known to be geographically vulnerable to disruptions to food supplies.
HM TREASURY and the DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS to undertake work to consider mitigating consumer impacts of increases in cost of living through tax and benefits policy. This work should focus on consumer groups who would be particularly vulnerable to price increases.
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Henry Zeffman
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EXCLUSIVE: Ministers will have the power to overrule doctors’ prescriptions in case medicines run out after Brexit. Urgent government consultation launched on Tuesday, leaked to The Times

thetimes.co.uk/article/ab72c6…
Under the plans, ministers could tell pharmacies to give patients:
- a reduced quantity
- an alternative dosage
- a therapeutic equivalent
- a generic equivalent

How does the govt intend to take the power to do this? Remember Henry VIII powers from 2017? Yep. Using those.
Labour’s shadow health secretary @JonAshworth tells The Times: “If these plans were ever implemented they would represent an astonishing power grab by government ministers with some healthcare decisions being decided in Whitehall rather than the GP surgery.”
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MAAS
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At @MAAS_UK we are not party political.

We work with people from all political parties and none including @UKLabour, but we can't remain silent when it comes to #Antisemitism.

It is an absolutely awful to see @LouiseEllman being chased out of @UKLabour due to being Jewish. /1
@LouiseEllman dedicated a stellar Parliamentary career to her constituents and gave so much to the Labour Party.

Since 2015 she has faced a relentless campaign against her often showing itself in Antisemitic and misogynist abuse online. /2
@LouiseEllman bravely stayed in a party where the #Antisemitism has become so bad, the party is being investigated for institutionalised #Antisemitism.

Unsurprisingly @LouiseEllman could not recommend Jeremy Corbyn as PM and has made a hard decision to stand down as an MP. /3
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Gilead Ini
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What's the deal with with Jeremy Corbyn? For those who haven't followed the story, here's why so many people, and especially Jews, are concerned about the man who presided over the Labour antisemitism crisis. [A thread based on camera.org/article/jeremy…]
2/ Let's begin in January 2006—it's not the very beginning, but still a very good place to start. Not for the first time, Corbyn then campaigned for the release of two convicted terrorists who who set off a bomb at a London building HOUSING JEWISH CHARITIES and at the IL embassy.
3/ In 2009, #Corbyn warmly called Hezbollah "friends," described them as committed to "peace, social justice, and political justice," and called on people to support them. Hezbollah, a proscribed terror organization, inter alia had BOMBED AN ARGENTINA JEWISH CENTER, killing 85.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
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1. I didn't want to do this. I wanted to be patient and see if people got here on their own - but I can't take it anymore. I'm black and Jewish, and I'm sitting here nearly in tears - this is why. [a thread]

#antisemitism #Labour #Conservatives #ToriesOut
2. I've had fellow Jews tell me that I'm an idiot for supporting Labour. I've been told that Johnson's a better choice or "just as bad" & I've been laughed at. I've had to watch the Chief Rabbi celebrate Johnson's election and then have him ignore my letter asking for solidarity.
3. When I support Labour's positive and tangible attempts to reform, I've been called "deluded" or stupid. When I say how vital the party are for black Jews like me, I've been told the party can die for all people care. I felt invisible, erased, unheard, and worthless.
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(((Neil))) 👁‍🗨
@dungeekin
Really glad to see the Corbynistas taking the announcement of the @EHRC investigation into #LabourAntisemitism in such good grace..... Oh.
Because there's no Jew-hate in the Labour Party.

Oh.
Exoneration is just around the corner.

Oh.
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Andy Vineberg
@VoltileChemical
ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITIC. They've proven time and time again. They have collaborated with Nazis, fascists and anti-Semites of every stripe, most of the people who praise Hitler and the Holocaust also praise Israel, and the state reviles and oppresses Jews who aren't white Zionists
Israel supports Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They sell weapons to an army which includes the openly Nazi Azov Battalion. Israel is close allies with the Kiev regime which permits anti-Semitic rallies and which honours Ukrainian Nazi collaborators as heroes

bit.ly/2NJqhkj
In the 70s and 80s Israel armed and aided the military junta in Argentina which massacred Jews and harboured Nazis war criminals. Israel also armed and aided the Garcia Meza dictatorship in Bolivia, whose regime included Nazi fugitive Klaus Barbie
bit.ly/2N6IScF
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Adam Wagner
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I don't think this is fair. @SadiqKhan has been a stalwart ally of the Jewish community. His outreach, attending religious events, finding common ground is a model Corbyn could learn from. Khan prob has little influence with the Labour party in any case standard.co.uk/comment/commen…
If Corbyn is looking for a longer term solution to his issue with the Jewish community, he only needs to look to City Hall. Jewish community was skeptical of @SadiqKhan, no doubt because of his background (Jews are just as prone to prejudice as others) but he turned that around
He did it by reaching out, listening, attending communal events, not just with groups which he felt comfortable with but across the spectrum. He plays a central role in key areas of communal sensitivity such as Holocaust remembrance.
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