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Jeremy Corbyn ‘ignored direct pleas’ from Jewish MPs over Labour antisemitism, former party chair reveals

Lord Cryer: ‘There are elements in the British left who are apologists for clerical fascists’

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Lord Cryer (right) appears on the Politics Inside Out podcast hosted by former Labour MPs Gloria De Piero and Jonathan Ashworth

A picket line by the University and College Union (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

University staff union slammed for failing to back Israeli lecturer ‘threatened with beheading’

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IRGC parade in Tehran on January 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Government announces sanctions against Iranian businessman who financed IRGC

1 min read

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

‘Scale of destruction in Gaza is unimaginable’, Starmer tells MPs

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Chants about ‘Zionist scum’ at ‘anti-racist’ rally won’t be investigated, Met Police say

An east London march against the far-right saw men clad in black chanting anti-Israel slogans

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October 29, 2025 12:33

Some of the men pictured at them - there is no suggestion they participated in these chants

Sarah Sackman: ‘Ambient antisemitism’ has taken over parts of British cultural life

The justice minister and Finchley and Golders Green MP, who is Jewish, gave the JC an exclusive interview

5 min read

October 28, 2025 10:44

Justice Minister Sarah Sackman, MP for Finchley and Golders Green (Image: Sarah Sackman).

Labour MP pictured clapping Zarah Sultana calling Zionism a ‘racist supremacist ideology’

The Independent MP was speaking at a rally by campaign group Stand up to Racism

3 min read

October 27, 2025 11:58

(R-L) Independent MP Zarah Sultana, Labour MP Bell Riberio-Addy, Labour MP Apsana Begum, PSC Director Ben Jamal (Image: Zarah Sultana/X).

Badenoch: Expel and revoke visas of ‘modern-day brownshirts’ who bully Israeli professor at City University

The Conservative Party leader spoke to the JC in a visit to Menorah Primary School in Golders Green

4 min read

October 23, 2025 18:52

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party conference at Manchester Central Convention Complex on October 08, 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

‘A direct threat to the UK and Israel’: MPs call for tougher action against Iran at ‘kamikaze drone’ display

Parliamentarians told the JC that the use of the unmanned aircraft in Ukraine should be a wake-up call for all Western governments

3 min read

October 23, 2025 13:24

An Iranian drone on display in Parliament (Image: David Taylor MP/X)

Met accused of ‘two-tier policing’ after blocking march to ‘reclaim Whitechapel from Islamists’ due to ‘community concerns’

A planned counter-protest saw large crowds of black-clad Muslim protestors chant Arabic slogans and wave Palestine flags

4 min read

October 22, 2025 12:25

UKIP supporters in Glasgow calling for 'mass deportations' (Image: Getty)

Revealed: Anti-Israel views of ‘safety’ committee members who banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans

Labour’s Waseem Zaffar and Lib Dem Mumtaz Hussain both favoured excluding the Israeli team altogether

5 min read

October 21, 2025 16:22

Waseem Zaffar MBE (left) and Mumtaz Hussain and Villa Park stadium ahead of a match (Images: Getty, X)

Culture secretary suggests pro-Gaza MP is ‘behaving in a way that is antisemitic’ over Maccabi fan ban

Lisa Nandy slammed MPs who suggested that all of the club’s fans, who have been banned from attending an upcoming match against Aston Villa, were hooligans

4 min read

October 21, 2025 11:13

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy in the Commons (Image: Parliament TV).

Jewish groups welcome government plan to tackle ‘out of control’ NHS antisemitism

The prime minister has commissioned Lord Mann to review antisemitism and racism in the health service

2 min read

October 17, 2025 12:38

Prime Minister Keir Starmer (C) accompanied by Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (R) visits a healthcare provider in Surrey (Image: Getty).

Emily Damari ‘shocked to my core’ over ‘disgusting’ decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa match

‘This is like putting a big sign on the outside of a stadium saying, ‘no Jews allowed’’

5 min read

October 17, 2025 11:30

British-Israeli ex-hostage Emily Damari said: 'I was released from Hamas captivity in January and I am a die hard fan of Maccabi Tel Aviv.'

Starmer: Sadiq Khan is wrong, ‘from the river to the sea’ is an antisemitic chant

The prime minister and the home secretary visited CST in North London

6 min read

October 16, 2025 13:17

Shabana Mahmood (3L) and Mark Gardner (R) listen as Keir Starmer speaks to members of the Jewish community at the Community Security Trust (Photo by Carlos Jasso - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy plans crackdown on extremist preachers

Government reportedly concerned that Islamists are exploiting their positions in charities to spread extremism

2 min read

October 14, 2025 10:10

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Jeremy Corbyn ‘ignored direct pleas’ from Jewish MPs over Labour antisemitism, former party chair reveals

University staff union slammed for failing to back Israeli lecturer ‘threatened with beheading’

Government announces sanctions against Iranian businessman who financed IRGC

‘Scale of destruction in Gaza is unimaginable’, Starmer tells MPs

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Chants about ‘Zionist scum’ at ‘anti-racist’ rally won’t be investigated, Met Police say

Sarah Sackman: ‘Ambient antisemitism’ has taken over parts of British cultural life

Labour MP pictured clapping Zarah Sultana calling Zionism a ‘racist supremacist ideology’

Badenoch: Expel and revoke visas of ‘modern-day brownshirts’ who bully Israeli professor at City University

‘A direct threat to the UK and Israel’: MPs call for tougher action against Iran at ‘kamikaze drone’ display

Met accused of ‘two-tier policing’ after blocking march to ‘reclaim Whitechapel from Islamists’ due to ‘community concerns’

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Culture secretary suggests pro-Gaza MP is ‘behaving in a way that is antisemitic’ over Maccabi fan ban

Jewish groups welcome government plan to tackle ‘out of control’ NHS antisemitism

Emily Damari ‘shocked to my core’ over ‘disgusting’ decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa match

Starmer: Sadiq Khan is wrong, ‘from the river to the sea’ is an antisemitic chant

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy plans crackdown on extremist preachers