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Which is the real Shabana Mahmood?

The new home secretary’s history of anti-Israel activism has prompted concern in the community – but insiders say she has battled antisemitism and Muslim extremism

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

September 10, 2025 13:18

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 5: Newly appointed UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood leaves Number 10 Downing Street as Keir Starmer holds a cabinet reshuffle after the resignation of Angela Rayner, on September 5, 2025 in London, England. Housing Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has resigned after the Prime Minister's Ethics Advisor, Sir Laurie Magnus, found that although Rayner had "acted with integrity" she had broken the ministerial code after underpaying stamp duty tax of Â£40,000 on her new home in Hove. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

By Jake Wallis Simons

The Green-Green alliance – Britain’s new natural home for the radical fringes

How can a Jewish political leader, even one of an irredeemably hard-left persuasion, act as the midwife to one of the darkest political forces facing British Jews today?

3 min read

September 4, 2025 16:00

By Andrew Fox

Labour’s latest blunder on Israel imperils Britain’s security

By barring officials from Jerusalem from a major UK arms fair, the government undermines vital defence ties and jeopardises access to some of the world’s most battle-tested technologies

3 min read

September 1, 2025 12:38

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is shown a Hawk T2, the RAF's premier fast jet trainer, during a visit to RAF Valley, ahead of Armed Forces Day on June 28. (Image: Getty)

Labour voters ‘overwhelmingly’ back proscription of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps

UK Labour voters strongly support banning the Iranian militia, as Australia acts on the group after disclosing links to terror attacks on the Jewish community.

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

August 26, 2025 10:38

Three quarters of Labour voters view the IRGC as a threat to Britain’s national security (Image: Getty)

One in four Labour members would consider joining Corbyn and Sultana's new party

Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn appeared to depart from Zarah Sultana’s stance on Zionism in a new interview

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

August 22, 2025 11:15

Jeremy Corbyn (Pictured addressing Gaza protesters) appeared to disapprove of comments made by his 'Your Party' co-leader Zarah Sultana, (Getty Images)

By Kemi Badenoch

Starmer’s decision to reward Hamas with statehood emboldens extremists and betrays Britain

The PM’s grandstanding on Palestinian statehood exposes a deep rot at the heart of government

3 min read

August 22, 2025 09:54

A group of peers, including some of the UK's foremost legal minds, has suggested that the UK's recognition of Palestine may breach international law (Image: Getty)

David Lammy attacks latest settlement plan as a ‘stake through the heart of the two-state solution’

The Israeli government has green-lit a housing development in the West Bank that would cut off the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem

By Jesse Wolfsthal

1 min read

August 21, 2025 09:55

Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, David Lammy, arrives at 10 Downing Street (Image: Getty)

Preston council invites Hebron mayor – a convicted terrorist – to deliver address

Local Jewish community had already severed ties with council following its decision to launch a ‘friendship’ initiative with Hebron

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

August 21, 2025 09:21

The ruling Labour group at Preston City Council has been embroiled in scandal following leaked WhatsApp messages

By Stephen Pollard

Zarah Sultana’s ‘lesson’ from Corbynism? He was too hidebound by the notion of antisemitism

Her response is revealing because it shows that the new party will seek to outdo even Corbyn’s Labour in its attitude to Israel – and, yes, to Jews

3 min read

August 19, 2025 09:09

Zarah Sultana at an anti-Israel protest in 2023 (Image: Alamy)

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UK politicians hailing Mamdani ignoring ‘alarm’ raised by US Jews, claims CAA

‘I won’t be known as the Baroness Lovell Cocks!’

The Blackshirts are back – this time round, though, the fascists are Islamofascists

The former firefighter and key Corbyn ally said he won’t hesitate to act against left-wing antisemitism

Labour’s genocide vote shows the irrelevance of far left activism

Leicester MP says IDF has ‘blood-soaked tentacles’

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