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The SNP’s posturing on Israel is pure Thick of It

The party’s cackhanded attempts to send a coherent signal about Gaza has made it a laughing stock

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh (Photo: Getty)

Former LFI Chair Steve McCabe (wearing light blue shirt) and Matthew Patrick MP (dark blue shirt) in the ruins of a building in Kibbutz Be'eri during a visit to Israel in March this year. Credit: Labour Friends of Israel

Labour Friends of Israel

New Labour MPs reveal how trips to Israel made the ‘horror’ of war hit home

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

An exhibit titled "Memories" commemorating terror victims at the United Nations in New York in 2024. Credit: United Nations Visitors Centre.

UN exhibition on terror victims completely ignores Israelis, says Israel’s ambassador

1 min read

Activists from Palestine Action Scotland on the roof of defence company Thales in Glasgow. Palestine Action Scotland/X.

Palestine Action

Palestine Action vandals handed five years of jail time

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

Gold medallist Israel's Tom Reuveny celebrates with his staff after the men's IQFoil windsurfing final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games sailing competition at the Roucas-Blanc Marina in Marseille on August 3, 2024. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

Paris Olympics 2024

‘The death threats made me want to win more’ says Israel’s only Olympic Gold medallist

By Amelie Botbol

3 min read

Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday amid rising tensions in the MIddle East. (Photo by Henry Nicholls - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Starmer express condolences to Netanyahu after body of British-Israeli hostage recovered by IDF

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

Houthi security forces at a pro-Palestine rally in July 2024 (photo: Getty Images)

Houthi terrorists planned attacks on Israeli ports and American ships

1 min read

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Suspended SNP politician defends comments that Israel has not committed genocide

Israel could have killed a lot more people, John Mason said

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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August 20, 2024 11:58

John Mason is 'considering' appealing against his SNP expulsion over Gaza genocide comments (Photo: X/Twitter)

Blinken calls on Hamas to accept ceasefire proposal agreed by Israel

This may be the last opportunity to free the hostages, US Secretary of State said

By Rosa Doherty

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August 20, 2024 10:07

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on previous trip to Israel in May this year (Photo Getty Images)

IDF recovers remains of six hostages murdered in Gaza, including British-Israeli Nadav Popplewell

The hostages were identified as Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtav, Chaim Peri and Alex Dancyg

By Joshua Marks

4 min read

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August 20, 2024 08:27

(left to right) Yoram Metzger; Yagev Buchshtab; Nadav Popplewell and Chaim Peri

Israeli paratrooper killed after misfire by IDF jet

Lt. Shahar Ben Nun, 21, was killed in the incident

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August 20, 2024 08:24

Lt. Shahar Ben Nun

Scottish government says it won’t meet Israeli officials

Statement comes as SNP MSP is suspended from party for saying Israel isn’t committing genocide

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

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August 19, 2024 16:12

Israel's deputy ambassador Daniela Grudsky (left) with Angus Robertson MSP (right), Scottish Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs & Culture. Credit: Daniela Grudsky/ Twitter

‘Every sentence’ of ICC Prosecutor’s allegations against Netanyahu and Gallant is untrue, says group of NGOs

NGOs say it would be a ‘disgraceful dereliction of duty’ if the ICC and its prosecutor ignores these crucial observations

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

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August 19, 2024 15:03

Karim Khan KC

Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Simon Sebag Montefiore taking apart William Dalrymple was a rewarding spectacle

It was like watching a panther dismember a goat

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August 19, 2024 14:49

William Dalrymple stands in the ruins of the "Zafar Mahal", the summer palace of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, in New Delhi. (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Foreign Office official quits over government’s refusal to ban arms sales to Israel

Labour MP urges government to impose an arms embargo

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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August 19, 2024 11:44

Foreign Office and Robert Clive Memorial seen from King Charles street in London

Hamas planned to dig up bodies of British war veterans in Gaza and keep them ‘hostage’

Hamas planned to use UK soldiers’ 100 year old remains as bargaining chip, document found by IDF suggests

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

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August 18, 2024 10:17

Gardeners tend to the lawn between the tombstones at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery - commonly known as the British War Cemetery and in which are interred the remains of 3217 Allied soldiers who died during World War I - in Gaza City on September 28, 2022. Just one month later, Hamas reportedly hatched a plan to take the interred soldiers hostage (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

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