Labour leader Sir @Keir_Starmer was forced to postpone a scheduled visit to Israel with shadow foreign secretary @lisanandy after he tested positive for Covid last month, Jewish News can reveal.
“@Keir_Starmer was also really keen to make the visit to Israel as well. One of the other things we have planned to do was to meet with young Israelis and Palestinians
“That generation, I think, often gets drowned out in the debate”
After expressing “heartbreak” over the murder of 26 year-old Eli Kay in Jerusalem on Sunday, Nandy said she wished to make it “absolutely clear” Labour under Starmer and herself had “no time for #Hamas.”
Earlier this month Nandy had been quick out of the blocks to condemn the small group of hardcore anti-Israel activists who had attempted to stop the Israeli ambassador from taking part in a debate on the LSE campus.
“I had seen the messages circulating on social media that were designed to frighten and intimidate her from being able to speak
“I’d also seen the images of her being chased to her car by a small number of people on the demo, with security having to act"
"People have every right to protest peacefully, but she (Hotovely) also has the right to speak without fearing violence or intimidation.
“But some of the people who praised me for saying this were the very same people who attacked me for going to the debate about #BDS.”
Nandy also responded to Starmer's speech to Labour Friends of Israel, in which he gave a damning critique of “anti-Zionist antisemitism”. She she “didn’t disagree with a word” he said.
On regaining the community's trust, she said “I think Keir has shown, especially with his work around antisemitism, and with the rule changes at conference that he is serious.
“I think we have come a long way in a short time."
"With no disrespect to Ed Miliband for the first time in decades I think we have a candidate who people can imagine becoming PM
“The public are entitled to look to us as a party that is serious about winning power & is relentless in our pursuit of power in order to change lives"
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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.”
.@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.
.@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