UK Politics

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Outcry, resignations, backtracking: Labour's floundering response to Israel's war crimes

The inside scoop on a chaotic three weeks for Starmer.

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7 Min
By: Kendall Gardner

Keir’s cowardice

Why are UK politicians afraid to call it what it is?

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4 Min
By: Ben Reiff

Igniting the tinderbox

Will Sunak pick up where Truss left off and move the UK embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?

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5 Min
By: Hugh Lovatt

Fighting philo-semitism

Liz Truss wants to claim 'Jewish values'. We should stop her.

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6 Min
By: Yirmeyahu Wedgewood

The unravelling of the anti-Left alliance

A Twitter spat reveals the breakdown of old allegiances.

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5 Min
By: Yirmeyahu Wedgewood

The left’s best weapon

Johnson is going down, and wants to take the left with him.

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5 Min
By: Ilyas Nagdee

Sisterly hatreds

Why are transphobes so often antisemitic?

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4 Min
By: Naomi Cohen

Why we’re still fighting antisemitism on the right’s terms

The controversy at the NUS shows we must fight antisemitism within a broader anti-racist struggle that combats the right’s attempts to rule through division.

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6 Min
By: Em Hilton

Stop calling Cummings a 'svengali' – and not just because it's an antisemitic trope

We’re raging against the man, not the machine.

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3 Min
By: Anya Metzer

Starmer is serious about antisemitism – but not other racisms, it seems

Starmer has adopted the Board of Deputies’ Ten Pledges and with them, the Board’s disregard for forms of racism beyond Jew-hatred.

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3 Min
By: Aron Keller

Coronavirus demands justice, not charity

‘North West London – COVID-19 Support For The Vulnerable’, one of the roughly 1,500 mutual aid groups established around the UK in the past fortnight, already has over 7,000 members. Each day, dozens offer and request alleviation of life under lockdown, with varying degrees of Jewishness. “My near

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5 Min
By: Vashti Editors

Boris Johnson’s BDS ban must be opposed – not least by British Jews

The law would forbid even boycotts focused solely on the occupation, thereby framing opposition to the occupation as opposition to Israel as a whole.

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5 Min
By: Tommer Spence

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