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MPs urge Birmingham’s Lib Dem council leader to end power-sharing deal with Greens over ‘Zionism is racism’ policy

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Jared Kushner: Israel's failed Doha strike on Hamas gave US leverage for Gaza deal

Washington turned the diplomatic fallout to its advantage, Donald Trump’s peace envoy son-in-law said

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Ed Miliband: I disagree with Chief Rabbi over impact of Israel sanctions on British Jews

Foreign secretary responds to Sir Ephraim Mirvis raising concern about measures announced yesterday by UK government

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Zack Polanski says he intends to stand as Green candidate in by-election

Jewish party leader puts hat in the ring to claim Sir Keir Starmer’s old seat in north London

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Exclusive: Cabinet Office official shared social media post wishing Netanyahu had died instead of Dolly Parton

The post also expressed a similar hope regarding US President Trump and told his supporters to ‘f*** all the way off’

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Ethical debates should be wary of straying into politics

British history discourages clerics from pronouncing on political rights and wrongs

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Labour insiders fear party’s top union funder will push anti-Israel policy

Motion calling for BDS measures and encouraging donations to Palestine Solidarity Campaign likely to be passed at this month’s conference

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Green’s London Assembly leader denies party is antisemitic in response to tough questions at JC hustings

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Mapped: the 1,300 councillors who ‘exploit sectarianism’ by signing Israel boycott pledge

Palestine Solidarity Campaign letter urges divestment despite government warning it may be unlawful

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MPs urge Birmingham’s Lib Dem council leader to end power-sharing deal with Greens over ‘Zionism is racism’ policy

Greens are no longer a party of peace after ‘Zionism is racism’ motion

Burnham backs national security adviser amid row over wife’s Palestine Action post

Fallout from Greens’ ‘Zionism is racism’ motion may be reshaping electoral calculus in British politics

Revealed: How extremists took over the Greens to impose an antizionist agenda

Rabbis should be able to speak their minds

Bring in ‘firewall’ against the Greens, Britain’s parties told

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