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Lisa Nandy condemns blood-dripping Star of David outside Labour conference

Culture secretary's comments come as Deputy Prime Minister Lucy Powell warns antisemitism is ‘getting out of control’

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Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband speaks during day two of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool on September 28, 2026 (Image: Getty)

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Police officers arrest a protester during a demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action outside the conference venue on the first day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool on September 27, 2026 (Getty Images)

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More than 150 arrested at pro-Palestine Action protest outside Labour conference

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Netanyahu has damaged the country’s global standing for years to come, Israeli opposition figure tells Labour conference

Fringe event also sees LFI honorary parliamentary chair Mark Sewards call for harsher punishment against MP who urged military action against Jewish state

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Labour conference avoids ‘divisive’ Gaza debate amid calls for government to label Israel’s actions ‘genocide’

Party members voted to prioritise other topics for discussion, such as housing and knife crime

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Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham addresses a crowd at the annual Labour party conference on September 26, 2026 in Liverpool, England. (Image: Getty Images)

Baroness Hodge: I proudly wear my star of David because I’m not going to hide my identity

The Labour grandee speaks to the JC ahead of the release of her memoir, Battleaxe

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Over the course of her career Dame Margaret Hodge has famously battled the BNP and confronted Jeremy Corbyn for presiding over an antisemitic Labour Party (Photo: Getty)

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A Yom Kippur unlike any in living memory

Heaton Park showed British Jewry at its best: courage, solidarity and defiance. The attacker sought to terrorise Jews out of public life – he failed

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Warning for Labour MP who called for UK military action against Israel was not enough, says Jewish group

Tahir Ali later retracted his comments and ‘apologised unreservedly’

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September 16, 2026 16:03

Labour MP calls for UK ‘military action’ against Israel

Several parliamentarians also demanded the government introduce more anti-Israel measures following the imposition of sanctions on West Bank settlements last week

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Farage hints at reversing Labour’s Israel sanctions

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during the Reform UK National Conference, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Picture date: Saturday September 5, 2026. (Image: Will Colebourne/PA Wire)

Left-wing Labour factions push conference motion demanding Gaza ‘genocide’ recognition and Israel arms embargo

Their demands also include an end to US use of British military bases for the Iran War

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Protesters take part in a 'National Palestine Demonstration' ahead of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, north-west England, on September 27, 2025. (Getty Images)

Exclusive: Burnham gave government job to MP who accused Israel of ‘deliberately exterminating’ Gazans

Steve Witherden, who acts as parliamentary private secretary to the new energy secretary, is associated with Labour’s far-left Socialist Campaign Group faction

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August 7, 2026 14:12

Labour MPs (from CL) Kim Johnson, Neil Duncan-Jordan and Steve Witherden on Westminster Bridge during a pro-Palestine protest on June 4, 2025 (Getty Images)

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Labour Party

Lisa Nandy condemns blood-dripping Star of David outside Labour conference

Burnham backs Miliband and says Labour will be ‘principled’ in pursuing a two-state solution

Britain’s upside-down approach to Islamism, Iran, and Israel is putting us all in danger

Miliband’s dangerous anti-Israel rhetoric

Bahraini ambassador urges crackdown on IRGC financing and UK-based charities

‘This is Palestine’s South Africa moment’: Palestinian ambassador praises Miliband’s ‘historic’ sanctions

More than 150 arrested at pro-Palestine Action protest outside Labour conference

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