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Lorin Bell-Cross

Lorin Bell-Cross

Political Correspondent

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Pro-Palestine activists chanted ‘Nazi scum, off our streets’ at Israelis at union conference

The Histadrut’s Avital Shapira told the JC she wouldn’t be silenced by anti-Israel ‘fanatics’

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Protesters against the Histadrut's presence at a trade union conference in Belfast (Image: Peter Lerner/X).

Lord Pickles signing the Holocaust Educational Trust's book of commitment (Image: X)

Lord Pickles: We aren’t prepared for the impact on Holocaust education of there being no survivors

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Francesca Albanese has admitted that the UN 'displays some bias' against Israel (Image: Getty)

Labour MP: No place for Albanese’s ‘abhorrent’ comments on the world stage

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Turkish president Recep Erdogan called for the destruction of Israel during an Eid speech (Image: Getty)

Downing Street condemns Erdogan’s call to ‘destroy’ Israel

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What is the F-35 fighter jet and why are pro-Palestine protesters targeting it?

The combat aircraft programme has been exempted from the UK’s limited arms sales ban

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March 28, 2025 17:15

IAF F-35 stealth fighter aircraft fly in Israeli airspace. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Farage vows no repeat of antisemitic candidate scandal as Reform vetting now ‘tougher than Labour or Tories’

The MP for Clacton also predicted that there would be between 20-30 pro-Gaza MPs at the next election and derided his Conservative opponents as ‘boring old b*******’

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March 28, 2025 11:47

Nigel Farage has pledged there will be no repeat of the scandal of antisemitic candidates that dogged Reform UK at the last election (Image: Getty)

Jewish groups welcome new measures to protect shuls from aggressive demonstrations

Yvette Cooper made the announcement at CST’s annual dinner last night

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March 27, 2025 11:51

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (Image: Blake Ezra Photography 2024/CST)

MPs ‘accused Jewish community of lying’ over Palestine protest, says Antisemitism Policy Trust CEO

Danny Stone accused members including Jeremy Corbyn and Green co-leader Carla Denyer of minimising Jewish concerns.

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March 26, 2025 17:31

Antisemitism Policy Trust CEO Danny Stone (left) and CST's Jonny Newton (right) giving evidence to Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee (Image: Parliament TV).

LFI chair becomes first British MP to fly directly from Israel to UAE

The group has called on government to create ‘special envoy’ to the Abraham Accords

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March 26, 2025 11:50

LFI Chair Jon Pearce MP with Israel's President Isaac Herzog (Image: Labour Friends of Israel).

Iran is a ‘threat’ to British Jews, cautions former MI6 chief

Sir Richard Dearlove said he doesn’t understand why the IRGC hadn’t been proscribed

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March 21, 2025 12:58

Former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove (Image: Getty).

Government to review award given to ‘interfaith’ charity after JC exposé

Officials at the charity shared images evoking the blood libel and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany

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March 20, 2025 15:40

Government to review award given to ‘interfaith’ charity after JC exposé

Defence minister backs ‘important’ and ‘strategic’ UK-Israel defence partnership

The government faced calls to cut security ties with the Jewish state

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March 19, 2025 14:35

Defence Minister Luke Pollard (Image: Parliament TV)

Zarah Sultana’s chances of regaining Labour whip diminished after Albanese meeting

The Board of Deputies had previously called for Francesca Albanese’s dismissal after she backed David Miller

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March 18, 2025 16:50

UN official Francesca Albanese (left) with suspended Labour MP Zarah Sultana (right), (Image: Zarah Sultana/X).

Downing Street rejects David Lammy’s claim that Israel has breached international law

No 10 spokesperson: ‘the government is not an international court’

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March 18, 2025 15:24

David Lammy (Getty)

October 7 was second deadliest foreign terror attack since 9/11, says new parliamentary report

Author Lord Roberts compared those who minimise Hamas’s atrocities to Holocaust deniers

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March 18, 2025 07:00

A woman mourns at the site of the Nova Festival (Getty)

Green co-leader ‘delighted’ to take part in event with ex-candidate who compared Netanyahu to Hitler

The Green Party has also refused to discipline a Bristol councillor who shared Hamas video

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March 13, 2025 21:48

Carla Denyer (second left), Naseem Talukdar and Lord Kamall (right) in the House of Lords (Image: Naseem Talukdar/X).

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