IsraelUK recognition of Palestine could breach international law, senior lawyers warnForty members of the House of Lords, including some of the UK’s leading legal minds, have suggested the move may violate a 1933 treaty setting out the conditions for nationhoodBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read
Sir Keir StarmerUK recognition of Palestine: What has been announced and why?Some Labour insiders have slammed the decision as ‘not morally defensible’By Lorin Bell-Cross5 min read
Hostages‘Shame on you’: released British hostage Emily Damari accuses Starmer of ‘moral failure’ over Palestine recognitionLawyers representing British hostage relatives and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum have both issued statements also condemning the government’s announcementBy Daniel Ben-David3 min read
Board of DeputiesIsrael risks moving toward ‘pariah state status’ says Board presidentPhil Rosenberg also called far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich ‘stains on Zionist project’ during an emergency meeting held after the UK government announced it would recognise Palestinian statehoodBy Jane Prinsley5 min read
By The JC LeaderStarmer’s Palestine recognition ‘threat’ undermines the prospects for peaceIt is hard to imagine a more self-defeating foreign policy move. Promising statehood unless a ceasefire is reached all but guarantees that Hamas will keep rejecting the very truce Britain says it wants3 min read
Sir Keir StarmerUK to recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel reaches Gaza ceasefireReform UK accuse the prime minister of handing a ‘propaganda victory’ to HamasBy Lorin Bell-Cross3 min read
Sir Keir StarmerStarmer and Trump talk Gaza as Cabinet recalled for emergency meetingThe two leaders met at Trump’s golf course in Scotland, where the Prime Minister described the humanitarian situation in the Strip as ‘appalling’By Lorin Bell-Cross4 min read
Starmer seemingly rejects French push for immediate Palestinian statehoodThe US and Israel have condemned President Macron’s announcement that Paris will recognise Palestine in SeptemberBy Lorin Bell-Cross4 min read||July 25, 2025 10:30
Sadiq Khan urges government to ‘immediately recognise Palestinian statehood’The prime has been under pressure from within Labour to take a more critical stance against IsraelBy Lorin Bell-Cross3 min read||July 23, 2025 13:44
Britain and 28 other nations condemn ‘dangerous’ Israeli-backed Gaza aid schemeMeanwhile, during a grilling by MPs, the prime minister said the UK would recognise a Palestinian state ‘as a contribution to the peace process’By Lorin Bell-Cross3 min read||July 22, 2025 09:36
Starmer declines to sanction Netanyahu over ‘appalling’ plan for Gaza ‘humanitarian city’The prime minister also called on Israel to open ‘full and transparent’ investigations into reports of civilian deathsBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read||July 16, 2025 11:42
Starmer prioritises Gaza ceasefire over Palestine recognitionFrench President Emmanuel Macron has been pushing for both countries to recognise a Palestinian stateBy Lorin Bell-Cross3 min read||July 11, 2025 08:51
By The JC LeaderLabour has taken a stand with Palestine Action – it must not stop hereIf Labour is serious about rebuilding its relationship with Britain’s Jews, it ought to follow through with more concrete steps to show it understands both the scale of the threat and the depth of the Jewish community’s concerns2 min read||July 9, 2025 14:30
More than half of British Jews say Labour has made the community less secure, new JC poll showsStarmer’s party now third in popularity behind the Conservatives and Reform UKBy Lorin Bell-Cross7 min read||July 9, 2025 14:16
On welfare reform, as on Israel, is Starmer being bossed around by his backbenchers?The Leader of the Opposition takes aim at the ‘three lawyers’ she says are driving government policyBy Lorin Bell-Cross5 min read||June 26, 2025 16:49
Prime minister Keir Starmer says Kneecap should not play at GlastonburyThe prime minister said it was ‘not appropriate’ that the contrversial band headline Britain’s largest music festivalBy Lorin Bell-Cross1 min read||June 22, 2025 12:36