By contrast, support for the two main parties has fallen below 60 per cent – the lowest combined level ever recorded
By Siam Goorwich
An extraordinary meeting of the council, called to discuss a motion to cut all ties with ‘Israel’s genocide’, led to an ‘inflamed’ debate
By Jamie Shapiro
The Green leader also described the Heaton Park terror attack as ‘horrific’
By Lorin Bell-Cross
Justin Webb challenged the leader on the Today programme over Mothin Ali’s suitability for office
The proposers claimed the current definitions – IHRA and Jerusalem Declaration – were being ‘weaponised’
Mothin Ali labelled Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch – forced into hiding after it emerged he had returned to Israel for reserve duty – a “creep” in a now-deleted video
The group’s founder insists Zionists are welcome in the party despite Mothin Ali defending the right of ‘indigenous people to fight back’ on the day of the Hamas attacks in Israel
By Jane Prinsley
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Lord Katz said he hoped Polanksi had ‘ the honesty to acknowledge this and not misuse his status’
Mothin Ali hailed October 7 as the end of ‘white supremacist European settler colonialism’
Mothin Ali supported the right of ‘indigenous people to fight back’ in the wake of the attack and dedicated his local election victory to ‘the people of Gaza’
By Jacob Jaffa
The former actor and hypnotherapist is the first Jewish leader of any major political party in the UK since Ed Miliband
The CST said the comments were ‘deeply offensive’ to Holocaust survivors and the Jewish community
Mothin Ali later apologised for ‘any upset my comments caused about the Gaza conflict’
Abdul Malik was reprimanded by a professional watchdog in his role as a magistrate but has not been dropped by the party or faced police action
Former defence secretary Grant Shapps said the ‘dangerously naive’ protest would undermine Nato