Posts Tagged: Antisemitism in Labour Party
British Jews Are Too Eager to Embrace Starmer’s Still Dubious Labour Party
JNS.org - In both Britain and America, the Jewish community is increasingly badly served by leaders who seem less and less able to distinguish between...
Top UK Jewish Groups Blast Labour After MPs Take Part in Online Call With Members Expelled for Antisemitism
Top UK Jewish groups sharply criticized the Labour party on Thursday for failing to live up to its promises to root out antisemitism from its...
UK Labour Councillor Defends Antisemitic Twitter User Who Said Party ‘Now Under Zionist Control’
Despite efforts to mitigate the problem, the UK Labour party continues to grapple with antisemitism scandals, the latest concerning a former MP and current local...
Jeremy Corbyn in Historical Perspective
JNS.org - The era of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom mercifully came to an end last week, with...
New UK Labour Leader Outlines Concrete Steps to Fight Antisemitism in Party’s Ranks
The UK Labour party’s new leader pledged on Tuesday to step up efforts to fight antisemitism in its ranks and outlined several clear steps he...
Top UK Jewish Group Calls on Post-Corbyn Labour to ‘Work to Repair Itself’ From Antisemitism Scandals
As the UK Labour party gears up to elect a new leader, a top British Jewish organization called on it to work to reconcile with...
‘Anti-Zionism Has Become the New Antisemitism,’ British Cabinet Minister Michael Gove Says
"Anti-Zionism has become the new antisemitism," Britain’s Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove said on. The Jewish Chronicle reported that Gove -- a longtime member...
UK Prosecutors ‘Cannot Be Relied Upon to Bring Anti-Jewish Racists to Justice,’ Antisemitism Watchdog Charges
The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided to charge only one person from a group of Labour party activists accused of engaging in antisemitic...
Producer of BBC Expose of Labour Antisemitism Sues Party for Libel
The journalist who produced a television expose of UK Labour antisemitism is suing the party for libeling him in statements made after the broadcast. The Guardian...
Top UK Jewish Group Issues ‘Ten Pledges’ Labour Party Must Take to Regain Trust of British Jews
Britain's leading Jewish group announced on Sunday that it was issuing “Ten Pledges” the UK Labour party must take if it is to regain the...
UK Labour MP Files Complaint After Being Targeted With Antisemitic Abuse by Corbyn Backer
A prominent pro-Israel UK Labour MP has filed a complaint with her own party after being targeted online by an antisemitic Labour member. MP Rachel Reeves...
The Implications of the British Election for Jews and Israel
JNS.org - For Britain’s Jews, the Labour Party’s antisemitism crisis was a paramount issue. The crisis, which began with BDS in Labour groups on university...
Former British PM Blair Blasts Corbyn-Led Labour Party as ‘Glorified Protest Movement With Cult Trimmings’ After Electoral Drubbing
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair blasted his own Labour party on Wednesday, saying that the takeover of it in recent years by its far-left...
Two Dozen Prominent British Figures Sign Open Letter Urging Vote Against Labour Over Antisemitism Issue
Twenty-four top British writers, actors, activists, businesspeople, tech entrepreneurs and others have signed an open letter urging voters to not back the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour...
