Posts Tagged: UK antisemitism
UK Labour Party Student Group Launches New Antisemitism Education Program in Effort to Repair Relations With Jewish Community
The UK Labour Party's national student group is taking "practical steps" to repair its damaged relations with the Jewish community, the organizer of an initiative aimed at educating...
Report: Concern for Safety of Jewish Students Grows After Holocaust Denial Leaflets Appear on Campuses Across Britain
Concern for Jewish students in Britain is growing after leaflets calling the Holocaust the "greatest swindle of all time" were found on campuses across the country, the...
How Can We Overcome Baroness Jenny Tonge’s Antisemitism?
At the end of 2016, the Simon Wiesenthal Center released its annual list of global Top Ten Antisemitic and Anti-Israel incidents. Tragically, we could easily have posted...
Report: Jews in North West London Pelted With Eggs; Have Swastika-Decorated Brick Hurled Through Window During Shabbat
Jews in North West London suffered a spate of attacks over the Sabbath, the UK-based organization the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) reported on Sunday. According to...
British Songwriter Taken to Court for YouTube Ditty Poking Fun at ‘Lying’ (((Survivors))) With ‘Fake Tattoos,’ Tales of Nazi Lampshades Made Out of Jewish Skin
A British songwriter notorious for her anti-Israel social media posts, is being sued for her latest ditty, which pokes fun at the Holocaust and its "lying"...
British Government Adopts Official Definition of Antisemitism
JNS.org - British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that her government will adopt an official definition of antisemitism, while also calling it “disgusting” that antisemitic views are...
Campaigners Back British PM May’s Move to Adopt Official Antisemitism Definition
Campaigners have backed Theresa May's "ground-breaking" move to adopt an official definition of antisemitism in a bid to tackle hatred against Jews. The Conservative premier will...
Former British Soccer Exec on Trial for Violent Response to ‘Dirty Jew’ Epithet Pleads Innocent
A former British soccer executive accused of breaking the nose of a man who called him a "dirty Jew" professed innocence to the charge of assault, The...
British Report: Twitter Fails to Confront Users’ Antisemitic Abuse
JNS.org - A new report on antisemitism in the United Kingdom found that Twitter fails to properly handle abusive, antisemitic tweets from its users, British daily...
What Jeremy Corbyn’s Reelection Could Mean for Britain and Its Jews
Last month, the UK Labour Party reelected Jeremy Corbyn to be its leader. Corbyn, a vociferous supporter of the BDS Movement, Hezbollah and Hamas, is also a...
Reinstated Labour MP Denies Antisemitism, Acknowledges Use of Antisemitic Language
JNS.org - British Member of Parliament (MP) Naz Shah — who was suspended in April from the Labour Party for suggesting that Israel should be relocated...
UK’s Ken Livingstone Rejects Antisemitism a Month After Labour Scandal
JNS.org - Former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who controversially told BBC Radio in May that Hitler “was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up...
The Labour Party’s Denial of Antisemitism Will Be Its Undoing
Anyone who pays attention to current events in the UK will be aware that the Labour Party has been the center of much controversy. Even...
Anglo-Jewry Confronts Labour Antisemitic Surge
Ten years ago, I was accused of pandering to hysteria when I praised Melanie Phillips’ groundbreaking book, Londonistan, detailing the alarming growth of antisemitism in...
