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Green council leader contributed to defeated Labour mayoral candidate’s controversial manifesto

James McAsh was a Corbyn-supporting councillor in Southwark and defected to Zack Polanski’s party earlier this year

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James McAsh, Green leader of Southwark Council (X)

Shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy speaking at Conservative Friends of Israel's annual lunch (Image: CFI).

Nick Timothy: Burnham is coward for refusing to say Israel is not committing genocide

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Labour MP for Hendon David Pinto-Duschinsky MP during prime minister's questions (Image: Parliament TV).

British Jews ‘living in fear’, Hendon MP tells PMQs

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Lara Bird taking her oath as she is sworn in as an MP on June 23, 2026 (ParliamentTV)

‘Gaza activist lawyer’ newly elected on SNP ticket accused of faking Scottish accent

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Burnham is ‘someone who will listen and who cares,’ says Jewish former special adviser

The former mayor of Greater Manchester looks set to appoint James Purnell, the erstwhile chair of Labour Friends of Israel, as his chief of staff

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June 24, 2026 11:19

King Charles speaks to Andy Burnham and Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis as he meets emergency service personnel at Greater Manchester Police Headquarters on October 20, 2025 (Getty Images)

Israel lobby petition ‘smacks of an antisemitic conspiracy’, MPs told

Parliamentarians ‘uneasy’ over calls for an inquiry into ‘influence on politics and democracy’ by supporters of ‘world’s only Jewish state’

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June 23, 2026 08:51

Labour minister James Frith spoke against the calls for an inquiry into 'pro-Israel lobbying activity in UK politics' (Image: Parliament TV).

Starmer hails ‘ripping out poison of antisemitism’ from Labour in resignation speech

The prime minister praised his wife, who is Jewish, as ‘a rock by my side through good times and bad’

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June 22, 2026 11:04

Sir Keir Starmer and his wife, Lady Victoria Starmer, on the steps of 10 Downing Street after his resignation speech on June 22, 2026 (PA)

Green activist group accuses party of ‘prioritising’ antisemitism over other forms of racism

A report by ‘Global Majority Greens’, which is backed by the party’s deputy leader, accuses its leadership of creating a ‘hierarchy of racism’

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June 18, 2026 16:25

Mothin Ali, Deputy Leader of the Green Party, delivers his speech on the second day of the Green Party Conference on October 04, 2025 in Bournemouth (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Give Starmer credit: tackling antisemitism within party let Labour take power, says LFI chair

Mark Sewards MP also defended Government’s decision to sanction far-right Israeli ministers speaking in JC interview

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June 18, 2026 11:17

Mark Sewards MP (fourth from the right) visiting Leeds Hillel House (Image: LFI)

Councils can’t boycott Israel without government’s permission, minister confirms

Shadow communities secretary James Cleverly asked if action would be taken against BDS policies in local government

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June 17, 2026 13:14

Activists from BDS hold a banner and a Palestinian flag as they attend a demonstration in Massy, near Paris, on May 28, 2025 (Getty Images)

Explosive dossier that reveals escalating row between Jewish group and pro-Palestinian Greens

Email correspondence obtained by JC documents how heated debate over ‘Zionism is racism’ motion led to Jews being held to account for Israel’s actions, sparking calls for an investigation by equalities watchdog

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June 17, 2026 06:00

Party MP's, members, activists and supporters gather on Bournemouth beach for a 'Red Line for Palestine' protest on the second day of the Green Party Conference, on October 04, 2025, in Bournemouth (Getty Images)

Liberate your minds from ‘supremacist grip of Zionism’, pro-Palestine Greens tell Jews

Bombshell dossier reveals Jewish group snubbed over mediation and told to apologise for Israel

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June 17, 2026 06:00

Liberate your minds from ‘supremacist grip of Zionism’, pro-Palestine Greens tell Jews

The Green Party could be in a worse position than Labour were under Jeremy Corbyn

Will these revelations lead to an investigation by the equalities watchdog?

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June 17, 2026 06:00

The Green Party could be in a worse position than Labour were under Jeremy Corbyn

Parliament’s ‘Israel lobby’ debate ‘falls within’ IHRA antisemitism definition, says Lord Pickles

Former Holocaust issues envoy warns Commons procedures are being ‘abused’ to legitimise known trope

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June 16, 2026 12:31

Tourists walk past the Houses of Parliament along Westminster Bridge on April 12, 2025 (Getty Images)

Defence minister blasts Birmingham Lib Dems for allying with Green deputy leader who called Hamas leaders martyrs

Birmingham MP Al Carns said Jewish families in the city ‘deserve an answer’ from the council

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June 11, 2026 11:09

Veterans minister Al Carns at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in 2024 (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Remember fury over Nick Clegg’s student fee U-turn? Now Lib Dems could face another backlash after pacts with Greens

JC political editor looks at the impact of Sir Ed Davey’s party finding new local council bedfellows

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June 10, 2026 17:35

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey in a wetsuit (Photo by Hugh Hastings/Getty Images)

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Green council leader contributed to defeated Labour mayoral candidate’s controversial manifesto

Nick Timothy: Burnham is coward for refusing to say Israel is not committing genocide

British Jews ‘living in fear’, Hendon MP tells PMQs

‘Gaza activist lawyer’ newly elected on SNP ticket accused of faking Scottish accent

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Green activist group accuses party of ‘prioritising’ antisemitism over other forms of racism

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Councils can’t boycott Israel without government’s permission, minister confirms

Explosive dossier that reveals escalating row between Jewish group and pro-Palestinian Greens

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The Green Party could be in a worse position than Labour were under Jeremy Corbyn

Parliament’s ‘Israel lobby’ debate ‘falls within’ IHRA antisemitism definition, says Lord Pickles

Defence minister blasts Birmingham Lib Dems for allying with Green deputy leader who called Hamas leaders martyrs

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