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Board of Deputies launches Jewish-Muslim ‘optimistic alliance’
Event featured the first official event of new Communities Minister Lord Wajid Khan
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Sarah Sackman pays tribute to Mike Freer in maiden speech
Three new Jewish MPs have also spoken in Parliament for the first time
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John Mann to continue as government adviser on antisemitism
He told the JC: ‘It is not the time to ease up on the work tackling antisemitism’
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New Attorney General: we will seek to promote international law
Alyth Synagogue member sworn in as new Law Officer
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Baroness Ruth Anderson appointed to government
Former Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) Parliamentary chair said she was ‘delighted’ to be appointed
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UK joins international condemnation of Israeli settlement expansion
G7 foreign ministers: Israeli settlements are ‘inconsistent with international law’
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Former Board of Deputies chief among new Jewish ministers in Starmer’s government
New MPs Sarah Sackman and Georgia Gould also appointed
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Under Labour, the debate on Israel is only just beginning
We will need to find a way to have a conversation both within the community and with the government about the Jewish state in which not all mainstream Jews take the same position
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Civil servants asked to consider Hamas as freedom fighters in King’s College course
Israel repeatedly named in counter-terror training as a ‘prime example’ of whether a state can commit terrorism
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The BBC should call Hamas terrorists says culture secretary at St John's Wood shul
Lucy Frazer told a solidarity service for Israel that the UK government stands with the Jewish community
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Top Rishi Sunak aide quits Downing Street after less than a year
Amber de Botton worked for the prime minister after a career as a broadcast journalist
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Grant Shapps becomes first Jewish defence secretary for nearly 30 years
The last Jew to hold the position was Malcolm Rifkind in 1995
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Taxpayer-funded group hosted talk by notorious anti-Zionist David Miller
The former sociologist spoke at a Hastings Commons owned space last month
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Grant Shapps: 'I was asked for 18 years worth of payslips just to open a bank account'
The Jewish cabinet minister revealed that he and his family have all had issues opening bank accounts in the wake of the Nigel Farage row
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Al-Qaeda and Isis are still major threat to Britain’s Jews, warn security experts
It comes as the government prepares to warn that terror groups are plotting atrocities in Britain
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Michael Gove to introduce anti-BDS Bill to parliament
The communities secretary said the anti-Israel movement leads to ‘appalling’ antisemitism
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