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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.

jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/lisa-nandy-int… In a wide-ranging interview, the shadow foreign secretary discloses new plans to visit the Jewish state.

She also explains why she defends Israeli envoy @TzipiHotovely's right to speak - while having ‘robust’ exchanges with her on policy.

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JN INVESTIGATION:

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

jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/labour-group-l… 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.

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🇬🇧🇮🇱 🗣 // Israel's President, @Isaac_Herzog writes in Jewish News ahead of his visit to the UK:

"...This visit to Britain is in many ways a homecoming, because my family’s story is interwoven with the story of Britain and its Jewish community.

jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/president-isaa… .@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!"

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.@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.

jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/deputy-questio… He asked @BoDPres "to kindly share the evidence that the Board has to justify the word ‘racist’", when referring to the motivation behind the killing.

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.@BristolUni and @warwickuni are named and shamed this week as the universities with the most antisemitic incidents during the last academic year.

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

jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/bristol-and-wa… 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.

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🇬🇧🇮🇱 // 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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@Keir_Starmer
@_LFI 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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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.

jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jew-taunting-a… Watch the moment a demonstrator rips up an Israeli flag in the heart of London's #FreePalaestine protest:

https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1393581938703839233

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