Retiring MP Dame Louise Ellman says Labour Party left her as she reveals she had useless meeting with Jeremy Corbyn to discuss antisemitism
Dame Louise Ellman MP, who recently resigned from the Labour Party over antisemitism, has said that the Labour Party left her rather than vice versa, as she announced that she will not stand for re-election. Dame Louise also revealed in an interview with the Jewish News that a few months ago Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn […]
History will judge Labour MPs who campaign to put an antisemite in charge of our country
It is no secret that Labour’s Parliamentary Party has always been at odds with its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and his inner circle. Their differences have been numerous and varied, but over time it was clear that his cultivation of antisemitism in the Labour Party was prominent among them. At first, Labour MPs tolerated these differences […]
Antisemitism features in Dame Margaret Hodge re-selection debate
Dame Margaret Hodge MP won re-selection as Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Barking on Monday in a local constituency meeting that featured troubling tropes and discussion of antisemitism. Among the grievances against Dame Margeret were that she was not sufficiently behind “our leader” Jeremy Corbyn, in whom she has previously moved a vote of no confidence. […]
Jewish student gets antisemitic abuse at Nottingham nightclub
A Jewish student at the University of Nottingham was accosted in the bathroom of the Ocean nightclub in Nottingham on Friday evening as an assailant yelled “no offence but f*** Israel and all of you Jew people”. The female assailant entered the toilet and told Reese Golding, a third-year student, that she was often mistaken […]
Jews almost four times more likely to be targets of hate crimes than other faith groups, CAA analysis of Home Office stats shows
An analysis by Campaign Against Antisemitism of new Home Office statistics shows that Jews are almost four times more likely to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group. Police forces across the country record hate crimes against Jews as religious hate crimes, and these records show that in the year 2018/19, a […]