Yvette Cooper

Israel’s Lebanon strikes ‘deeply damaging’, says Foreign Secretary

Yvette Cooper calls for Lebanon truce amid rising casualties and fears for Middle East stability

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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper speaks during the annual Easter banquet at Mansion House on April 9, 2026 in London (Getty Images)

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Sa’ar ‘expressed concern’ over UK antisemitism in call with Foreign Secretary

By Jacob Jaffa

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Foreign Secretary holds call with Israeli counterpart

By Jane Prinsley

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gestures as he delivers a statement (Credit: Jordan Pettitt - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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Government U-turns on allowing American access to British bases

By Jane Prinsley

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A woman holds up a sign that reads "anti-semitism kills" between police officers as people take part in a Chanukah candle-lighting organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Chabad Lubavitch in Parliament Square in central London on December 15, 2025 in honour of victims of the mass shooting at a Jewish gathering in Australia (Getty Images)

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UK Government to launch antisemitism ‘action plan’ within days, minister confirms

By Jane Prinsley

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Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer attends West London Synagogue service in wake of Manchester shul stabbing

By JC Reporter

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A heckler waving a Palestine flag who interrupted Rachel Reeves' (Image: YouTube screengrab)

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Labour conference passes ‘Israel genocide’ motion that does not mention Hamas

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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There is a global consensus on ending the war in Gaza, says Yvette Cooper

President Trump’s envoy has reportedly approved plan that would see early return of hostages

By JC Reporter

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September 28, 2025 10:37

Yvette Cooper in the House of Commons (Image: House of Commons).

By Stephen Pollard

Yvette Cooper’s ahistorical assertions expose the fatuity behind recognising Palestine

In her first major speech, the Foreign Secretary misrepresented the past to defend a policy that contradicts the concept of land for peace and the idea of negotiations towards a two-state solution

3 min read

September 25, 2025 12:22

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper attends a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestinian statehood (Image: Getty)

By Nick Cohen

Israel’s leaders demean the fight against antisemitism

When Benjamin Netanyahu accuses anyone who dares to criticise him of pouring “fuel on an antisemitic fire” or “abandoning Jews,” I know that the hyperbole hides a power grab

3 min read

September 11, 2025 11:02

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene of a shooting at the Ramot Junction in East Jerusalem on September 8, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Not the 1930s, but the 1230s: How medieval blood libels returned to poison our age

Nazism was top-down, a state machine of propaganda and genocide. What we see now is older, more insidious: grassroots libels, spread by self-anointed authorities

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September 10, 2025 11:02

Medieval blood libels have returned in modern form to poison our age (Image: X)

Lammy: ‘UK does not believe Israel is committing genocide’

A former attorney-general called on the government to ‘abandon its harmful plan to recognise a Palestinian state’ in the wake of the reported admission

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

September 9, 2025 08:55

Former Foreign Secretary David Lammy reportedly told a backbencher that the UK does not believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Home Secretary confirms UK will take in refugees from Gaza

Yvette Cooper said the government was working to bring over injured children and their family members, as well as a number of students on scholarships

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

September 2, 2025 09:52

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

The prime minister was challenged at a meeting of Labour’s governing body about the move to ban the group under the Terrorism Act

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

August 7, 2025 13:53

Protesters show a banner reading 'We are all Palestine Action' during a Palestine Action demonstration at Trafalgar Square on June 23, 2025 in London, England. (Getty Images)

Spike in UK antisemitic hate incidents coincided with Bob Vylan Glastonbury chant, CST figures show

The rap outfit’s notorious call for ‘death to the IDF’ was broadcast live on the BBC in June

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

August 6, 2025 05:00

Pascal Robinson-Foster of Bob Vylan achieved widespread notoriety thanks to his Glastonbury performance (Photo: Getty)

Palestine Action granted permission to judicially review proscription as terror group

The government moved to ban the group following its activists’ break-in at RAF Brize Norton in June

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

July 30, 2025 15:28

Palestine Action has allegedly set up a new recruitment website in the wake of its proscription under UK counter-terror laws (Image: Getty)

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Yvette Cooper

Israel’s Lebanon strikes ‘deeply damaging’, says Foreign Secretary

Sa’ar ‘expressed concern’ over UK antisemitism in call with Foreign Secretary

Foreign Secretary holds call with Israeli counterpart

Government U-turns on allowing American access to British bases

UK Government to launch antisemitism ‘action plan’ within days, minister confirms

Keir Starmer attends West London Synagogue service in wake of Manchester shul stabbing

Labour conference passes ‘Israel genocide’ motion that does not mention Hamas

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