🇬🇧🇮🇱 // Keir Starmer speaks at Labour Friends of Israel:

"Anti-Zionist antisemitism is the antithesis of the Labour tradition. It denies the Jewish people alone a right of self-determination"

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Starmer told LFI that anti-Zionist antisemitism "equates Zionism with racism, focusses obsessively on the world’s sole Jewish state and holds it to standards no other country is subjected.“

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.@Keir_Starmer paid tribute to his wife Victoria’s Jewish family as he admitted his work on tackling antisemitism was not complete

“We will not give up this fight against this kind of racism, bigotry, and hatred….until it is finally won".

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READ: @Keir_Starmer's keynote speech to @_LFI IN FULLL:

"The Labour party does not and will not support BDS.

"Its principles are wrong – targeting alone the world’s sole Jewish state.

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"We fully oppose and condemn illegal settlements, annexation and the eviction of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian territories.

"We believe that international law should be adhered to.

"But a policy of BDS would be counterproductive.

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"My resolve was hardened when @Baddiel gave me a copy of his brilliant book – “#JewsDontCount, which demonstrates so clearly how racism against Jews is held to a different standard from other kinds of racism."
"Just last week saw the @royalcourt theatre forced to change the name of a character that was blatantly racist stereotyping.

They called it “unconscious bias” which just isn’t good enough.
A bomb scare delayed the start of a Labour Friends of Israel lunch attended by communal leaders, Sir Keir Starmer, many Labour MPs, and Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely, it has been revealed:

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Specialist officers were called in to deal with parked vehicle outside Westminster Central Hall – but it emerged that the car was being rented... by Bedfordshire Police.

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There was 111 reported instances on UK campuses, up from 70 the previous year

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