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Exclusive: UK embassy in Greece faces questions over omission of rabbi from Remembrance service

Priests and an imam attended ceremony at cemetery in Athens where Jews are among service personnel buried

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Wreaths left at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Phaleron near Athens (UK Embassy/X)

Sheffield Town Hall in England, United Kingdom

Labour coalition in Sheffield collapses after JC reveals Green councillor’s damning posts

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Pro-Palestinian protesters in Birmingham before match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv last November (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty Images)

I helped expose Birmingham’s Maccabi scandal – the city’s latest anti-Israel antics don’t surprise me

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Birmingham City Council House, the city's seat of local government (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Exclusive: Labour urged to come clean on ‘sectarian’ Israel boycott motion in Birmingham

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Revealed: Labour’s ‘sectarian’ Gaza ads in by-election campaign to hold on to Sir Keir Starmer’s seat

Party accused of deploying tactics during Holborn and St Pancras campaign similar to those it criticised Greens for using

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November 10, 2026 13:01

Foreign secretary Ed Miliband featured prominently in some of the Facebook campaign posts (Getty Images)

Observer slammed for ‘sympathetic interview’ with Palestine Action founder

Labour MP David Taylor said the government was ‘completely right’ to attempt proscribe the group

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November 8, 2026 12:09

A protester holds a Palestinian flag outside the Supreme Court on November 5, 2026 (Getty Images)

France will use navy to defend Gaza flotillas ‘if necessary’ says left-wing presidential candidate

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: we will act head-on to help the Palestinians

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November 8, 2026 10:46

Leftist party La France Insoumise (LFI) candidate in France's 2027 presidential election Jean-Luc Melenchon delivers a speech on stage during the LFI's presidential convention to mark the publication of its government programme "L'Avenir en Commun" (A Shared Future), in Le Bourget, in the outskirts of Paris on November 7, 2026. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP via Getty Images)

Revealed: Aide to Shabana Mahmood backed ‘sectarian’ anti-Israel divestment motion

Marcus Bernasconi, who supported the move alongside other Labour councillors, is employed by the home secretary in her constituency office in Birmingham

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November 5, 2026 16:59

An aerial view of Birmingham City Council House in Victoria Square (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

‘Disgusting sectarianism’: Birmingham council slammed for anti-Israel divestment vote

Chants of ‘free Palestine’ erupted from the council chamber following the vote

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November 4, 2026 16:34

Exclusive: ‘We can’t ignore antisemitism on the Left,’ admits Business Secretary

Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds told the JC he was worried by the reaction of some left-wing commentators to the Bell Review into antisemitism in education

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November 2, 2026 12:03

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street on October 20, 2026 (Stefan Rousseau/Press Association)

BBC Verify accused of ‘bad faith’ in its reporting on alleged IDF misconduct

Israeli military given just weeks to respond to queries on hundreds of incidents – while investigations into comparable cases in UK takes years

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October 28, 2026 11:00

The outside of a BBC building in central London (Picture: Getty Images)

Exclusive: Green ‘anti-racism’ session told ‘international law protects armed resistance’ in question on Hamas

A speaker at the session also equated Zionism with racism and claimed the IHRA definition of antisemitism silenced Palestinian voices

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October 21, 2026 17:00

Stickers against fascism at the Green Party annual conference in Brighton on October 2, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

‘Hugely important’ summit on antisemitism in the workplace to be held by Lord Mann next week

‘We’re hoping that all established Jewish staff networks are represented’, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism told the JC

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October 21, 2026 12:15

Sir Ed Davey facing calls to rule out local council alliances between Liberal Democrats and Greens

The Liberal Democrat leader ruled out a pact with the Green Party nationally

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October 21, 2026 11:59

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey (Image: Getty).

Revealed: truth behind Green council’s October 7 deadline

How London Borough of Hackney gave date for consultation on ending its twinning arrangement with Israeli city of Haifa

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October 21, 2026 11:57

Green leader Zack Polansk congratulates Zoë Garbett as she is elected as Mayor for Hackney in May (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Fallout from Greens’ ‘Zionism is racism’ motion may be reshaping electoral calculus in British politics

Hours after Nigel Farage called for no pacts with Zack Polanski’s party, Andy Burnham promised action

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October 16, 2026 15:35

Losing support: Green Party leader Zack Polanski fails to claim Holborn and St Pancras from Labour at last week's by-election (Carl Court/Getty Images)

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Exclusive: UK embassy in Greece faces questions over omission of rabbi from Remembrance service

Labour coalition in Sheffield collapses after JC reveals Green councillor’s damning posts

I helped expose Birmingham’s Maccabi scandal – the city’s latest anti-Israel antics don’t surprise me

Exclusive: Labour urged to come clean on ‘sectarian’ Israel boycott motion in Birmingham

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