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Downing Street defends appointment of former Columbia University chief who oversaw ‘ground zero for campus antisemitism’

Baroness Shafik was accused of ‘failing to protect Jewish students’ during her tenure at the New York college

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Former Columbia Univerity President Baroness Minouche Shafik has been appointed to a new role by Sir Keir Starmer. (Photo by Indy Scholtens/Getty Images)

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)

By Kemi Badenoch

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

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Palestine Action are banned because they targeted Jewish businesses, Starmer tells Labour NEC

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

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Starmer says Hamas must have nothing to do with any future Palestinian state

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Starmer’s Palestine recognition plan under fire from some Labour MPs amid Hamas praise

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on March 26, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Gaza

Government set to allow 300 sick Gazans to come to UK and receive NHS treatment

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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The plight of Hamas hostage Avinatan Or, whose mother is a British citizen, was also raised during the session (Image: Alamy)

Hostages and Missing Families Forum UK

UK’s ‘vision for peace’ could now involve Hamas hostages rotting in tunnels, say lawyers

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

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By Jake Wallis Simons

I was sceptical Starmer made Labour safe for Jews to return – sadly I was right

The prime minister appeared to back Israel after October 7, then buckled under pressure from backbenchers until it got to the point where he’s being literally congratulated by Hamas

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July 31, 2025 15:41

Sir Keir Starmer and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during a campaign speech on December 6, 2019 in London, England. (Image: Getty)

Communal leaders demand clarity on hostages following Palestine recognition announcement

Both the Board of Deputies and the JLC urged the prime minister to refrain from recognition as long as Hamas holds captives in Gaza

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

July 31, 2025 13:48

UK recognition of Palestine could breach international law, senior lawyers warn

Forty 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 nationhood

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

July 31, 2025 12:17

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Getty)

UK recognition of Palestine: What has been announced and why?

Some Labour insiders have slammed the decision as ‘not morally defensible’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

5 min read

July 30, 2025 13:29

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer annpunces plans to recognise a Palestinian state at No. 10 Downing Street on July 29, 202. (Image: Getty)

‘Shame on you’: released British hostage Emily Damari accuses Starmer of ‘moral failure’ over Palestine recognition

Lawyers representing British hostage relatives and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum have both issued statements also condemning the government’s announcement

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

July 30, 2025 13:23

Former hostage Emily Damari and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Israel risks moving toward ‘pariah state status’ says Board president

Phil 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 statehood

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

July 30, 2025 12:02

Board President Phil Rosenberg has suggested that Israel risk becoming a 'pariah state' due to the humanitarian situation in Gaza (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Starmer’s Palestine recognition ‘threat’ undermines the prospects for peace

It 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 wants

3 min read

July 30, 2025 10:20

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces plans to recognise a Palestinian state at No. 10 Downing Street on July 29, 2025. (Image: Getty)

UK to recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel reaches Gaza ceasefire

Reform UK accuse the prime minister of handing a ‘propaganda victory’ to Hamas

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

July 29, 2025 17:33

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Toby Melville / POOL / AFP) (Photo by TOBY MELVILLE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Starmer and Trump talk Gaza as Cabinet recalled for emergency meeting

The 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-Cross

4 min read

July 28, 2025 15:26

US President Donald Trump gestures as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) and his wife Victoria Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf club (Image: Getty)

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Sir Keir Starmer

Downing Street defends appointment of former Columbia University chief who oversaw ‘ground zero for campus antisemitism’

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

Palestine Action are banned because they targeted Jewish businesses, Starmer tells Labour NEC

Starmer says Hamas must have nothing to do with any future Palestinian state

Starmer’s Palestine recognition plan under fire from some Labour MPs amid Hamas praise

Government set to allow 300 sick Gazans to come to UK and receive NHS treatment

UK’s ‘vision for peace’ could now involve Hamas hostages rotting in tunnels, say lawyers

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