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Lorin Bell-Cross

Lorin Bell-Cross

Political Correspondent

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PRO-PALESTINE DEMONSTRATIONS

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell questioned under caution by Met over Gaza protest

Police investigate claims organisers attempted to breach conditions imposed on protest

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Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been interviewed under police caution in relation to the pro-Palestine march on Saturday (Picture: Getty)

A parliamentary select committee has suggested that Israel could be guilty of a genocide in Gaza, outraging one of its members (Picture: Getty)

New parliamentary report suggesting Israel could be guilty of ‘genocide’ slammed by Labour MP

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Pro-Palestine protestors stage a sit-in at Oxford University (Picture: Getty)

Meet the ex-student trying to get the silent anti-extremist student majority to pipe up on Israel

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The Independent Alliance of 'pro-Gaza' MPs, which includes former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, failed to mention the hostages or Hamas in its statement on the ceasefire in Gaza (Picture: Getty)

Corbyn and pro-Gaza MPs fail to mention hostages, Hamas or October 7 in ceasefire statement

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Ministers hear survivor’s testimony in packed Holocaust Memorial event in Parliament

Parliament’s Speaker toured a cutting edge Holocaust exhibition in the heart of the parliamentary estate

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January 15, 2025 16:57

Karen Pollock CBE speaking at a packed Holocaust Educational Trust event in Parliament. Credit: HET

Starmer tells MPs he is ‘encouraged’ by Gaza ceasefire talks

Plight of hostage Avinatan Or, boyfriend of Noa Argamani, raised at PMQs

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January 15, 2025 15:36

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told MPs he was 'encouraged' by reports of progress on a hostage deal (Image: UK Parliament)

We will defy the police, say organisers of Saturday’s Gaza march

Protesters find support from 29 MPs, who are calling on the police to allow the march to wind up near a synagogue

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January 15, 2025 12:24

Ismail Patel announcing he would go on the march even if it means he 'goes to prison'

Revealed: MPs spend more time on average talking about Israel than any other foreign nation

Members spent nearly double the amount of time discussing the Gaza War compared to the alleged genocide in Sudan or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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January 14, 2025 17:11

A pro-Palestinian supporter waves a Palestinian flag during a National March for Palestine in central London (Photo: Getty Images)

Meeting with mother of last British hostage ‘important’ ahead of possible deal, Lammy tells MPs

Ministers also faced questions about the sale of drones to Israel

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January 14, 2025 15:30

Foreign Secretary David Lammy (centre) with Emily Damari's mother Mandy (left) in Israel (Image: David Lammy).

Health Secretary Wes Streeting ‘shocked’ by NHS antisemitism

‘I've had enough people telling me that they feel unsafe to know that we need to act’ he said this week

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January 13, 2025 16:26

Health Secretary Wes Streeting talks at the Jewish Labour Movement conference (Image: Jewish Labour Movement/Ian Vogler).

Middle East Minister refuses to apologise for comments about Israeli ambassador

Hamish Falconer: it was clear that I wasn’t commenting on Hotovely personally in Parliament last week

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January 13, 2025 12:09

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer MP (left) with LFI chair Jon Pearce (Photo: Labour Friends of Israel)

Labour justice minister denies claims of two-tier policing in Britain

The MP for Finchley and Golders Green was speaking at a Jewish Labour Movement conference

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January 12, 2025 19:09

Justice Minister Sarah Sackman (right) with Lord Macdonald KC

Israel condemns British minister’s remarks about Israeli ambassador not being to the UK’s ‘taste’

Shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel called on Hamish Falconer to apologise

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January 9, 2025 17:42

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer. Credit: UK Parliament.

Charedi protesters denounce new Schools Bill as ‘persecution’

Department for Education say Bill ‘does not prevent parents securing a faith-based education’

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January 8, 2025 17:27

Charedi protest against the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

‘Antisemitism has no place in society’, Starmer tells PMQs

The prime minister repeated commitment to CST funding and Holocaust education

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January 8, 2025 14:13

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Parliament TV)

Government rules out expelling Israeli ambassador but says ‘she’s not to our taste politically’

Labour MPs overwhelmingly spoke critically of Israel in Parliament yesterday

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January 8, 2025 11:30

Government rules out expelling Israeli ambassador but says ‘she’s not to our taste politically’

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