.@Isaac_Herzog: "Nobody expressed the best of the British and Jewish spirit more eloquently than the late, great @rabbisacks. His brilliance of mind enriched the Jewish world, and indeed the whole world. How I miss his magically soft and wise voice!"
Israel's first lady, Michal Herzog also writes in this week's Jewish News, reflecting on the way engagement with the British Jewish community has prepared her for the role.
"No school in the world can prepare one for this precious responsibility. But my experience working with some of British Jewry’s most wonderful philanthropists on social projects in Israel has strengthened my sense of purpose in my role as First Lady." jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/michal-herzog-…
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We reveal @zarahsultana's involvement with the Warwick student Labour club, which denounced the EHRC's antisemitism report, defended last week's intimidation of Israel's "fascist'' envoy and supports the abolition of prisons and police
The MP was at an anti-police protest demo in Coventry with student supporters, including Nazifa Zaman, Warwick Labour Society’s comms officer, who is also elected to the national committee of the @nusuk.
When the damning EHRC report into Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism was announced in October 2020 the response from the Warwick University Labour Society was to post the claim:
“Jewish comrades' oppression” had been “exploited for political gain.”
.@BoardofDeputies President Marie van der Zyl has accused deputy Raymond Solomon, of attempting to “minimise the racist dimension” of the murder of the black American #GeorgeFloyd after appearing to question his killer’s motive.
Cases involved verbal, written and online abuse, with one categorised as an assault – a Jewish student at @unibirmingham, who was physically attacked in their accommodation.
According to @CST_UK, of 11 at @BristolUni, all but one took place in February when sacked professor, David Miller, made remarks which led to his eventual dismissal.
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.“
Exclusive: Organisers say 100,000 attended protest against #Israel targeting #Hamas terrorists - during which demonstrators made antisemitic chants, compared Zionism to Nazism and ripped up Israeli flags.
Former Labour leader @jeremycorbyn addressed the demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in London today, alongside MPs Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana as well as rapper Lowkey