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Do not equate Netanyahu with Hamas, Yair Golan aide tells Labour conference meeting

Jonathan Cummings was speaking at an event organised by Labour Friends of Israel that featured Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer

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Labour Friends of Israel panel (L-R): Damien Egan MP, Michael Stevens, Nivine Sandouka, Dr Jonathan Cummings, Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer MP. (Image: Josh Garfield/X).

A Labour Party conference delegate donning a keffiyeh (Image: YouTube/Labour Party).

Labour conference opens with calls to boycott Israel

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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (Image: Getty).

Exclusive: Scottish Labour say they would continue SNP boycott of Israeli officials while Gaza ‘genocide’ takes place

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Green deputy leader ‘personally caused harm and distress to my family’ former Leeds University rabbi says

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Starmer recognises Palestine despite last minute plea from hostage families

Jewish communal groups, the Conservatives and Reform UK have criticised the prime minister’s decision as a reward to terror that will undermine efforts to free the captives

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September 21, 2025 09:14

Sir Keir Starmer (right) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmood Abbas (Image: Getty).

We warned that the Gaza marches would incite hate – and we were right, says Reform deputy

Richard Tice said he would be visiting Israel later this month

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September 5, 2025 16:39

Deputy Leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, speaks during a press conference on September 1, 2025 (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

‘We have friends here’, Israel’s deputy ambassador tells Reform UK conference

Israeli hostage Evyatar David’s cousin addressed nearly 100 party members

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September 5, 2025 15:07

Israel's deputy ambassador Daniela Grudsky (centre) speaking alongside Evyatar David’s cousin Tamar Eshet (right) at Reform UK's conference in Birmingham.

Exclusive: Jewish Labour frontbencher says Green leader’s views on Zionism are ‘out of step’ with the community

Lord Katz said he hoped Polanksi had ‘ the honesty to acknowledge this and not misuse his status’

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September 4, 2025 12:29

Zack Polanski has been elected as the new leader of the Green Party (Image: Getty)

Greens unfit to hold any position of responsibility after electing extremist deputy leader, say critics

Mothin Ali hailed October 7 as the end of ‘white supremacist European settler colonialism’

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September 4, 2025 11:00

New Green deputy leader Mothin Ali (Image: Screenshot)

Prime Minister accuses Israel of creating ‘man-made famine’ in Gaza

Sir Keir Starmer also chastised the leader of the Liberal Democrats for boycotting the upcoming state banquet with President Trump

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September 3, 2025 14:16

Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions (Image: Parliament TV).

Labour MP claims Israel ‘killed Yemen’s prime minister’ in strike on Houthi cabinet

Kim Johnson was accused of neglecting ‘basic facts’ in apparently mixing up the militant group with the country’s recognised government

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September 3, 2025 11:02

Labour MP Kim Johnson (Image: Parliament TV).

Pro-Gaza MP compares Netanyahu to a ‘dog that has tasted blood’

Meanwhile, the Foreign Secretary denied that recognising a Palestinian state would be a reward for Hamas

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September 2, 2025 14:27

Home Secretary confirms UK will take in refugees from Gaza

Yvette Cooper said the government was working to bring over injured children and their family members, as well as a number of students on scholarships

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September 2, 2025 09:52

Yvette Cooper in the House of Commons (Image: House of Commons).

Corbyn and Sultana hit by fresh divisions over trans rights

Independent MP Adnan Hussain sparked a row with pro-trans campaigners after indicating support for the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the definition of the word “woman”

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September 2, 2025 09:24

Adnan Hussain MP (Image: Parliament TV).

Downing Street defends appointment of former Columbia University chief who oversaw ‘ground zero for campus antisemitism’

Baroness Shafik was accused of ‘failing to protect Jewish students’ during her tenure at the New York college

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September 1, 2025 13:36

Former Columbia Univerity President Baroness Minouche Shafik has been appointed to a new role by Sir Keir Starmer. (Photo by Indy Scholtens/Getty Images)

Gaza activists attack Corbyn after he refuses to say he is an anti-Zionist

It comes amid rumours of further division between the former Labour leader and Zarah Sultana, with whom he is seeking to set up a new party

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August 29, 2025 12:18

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (Picture: Getty)

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Do not equate Netanyahu with Hamas, Yair Golan aide tells Labour conference meeting

Labour conference opens with calls to boycott Israel

Exclusive: Scottish Labour say they would continue SNP boycott of Israeli officials while Gaza ‘genocide’ takes place

Green deputy leader ‘personally caused harm and distress to my family’ former Leeds University rabbi says

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Starmer recognises Palestine despite last minute plea from hostage families

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Greens unfit to hold any position of responsibility after electing extremist deputy leader, say critics

Prime Minister accuses Israel of creating ‘man-made famine’ in Gaza

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Home Secretary confirms UK will take in refugees from Gaza

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Downing Street defends appointment of former Columbia University chief who oversaw ‘ground zero for campus antisemitism’

Gaza activists attack Corbyn after he refuses to say he is an anti-Zionist