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CAA calls on new DEFRA Secretary George Eustice to distance himself from previous remarks on religious slaughter and reassure the Jewish community

Anticipating EHRC report, Labour moves to expel 25 members in one day, while news also emerges of yet another troubling figure vying to join Party’s ruling body

Labour leadership hustings for Jewish community sheds light on candidates’ records and positions on antisemitism

Recent developments in Labour’s leadership primary provide insight into how candidates might approach Party’s antisemitism crisis

Lord Mann says Jeremy Corbyn’s inaction led to growth of antisemitism and not enough people are challenging it

Dominic Raab’s meeting with antisemitic Malaysian Prime Minister is impossible to justify

“You did nothing” on antisemitism, says former MP Ruth Smeeth to Labour’s deputy leadership candidates in blistering attack at hustings

Poll shows nearly three quarters of Labour members think antisemitism in the Party was invented or wildly exaggerated but still thought leadership should have handled it better

John McDonnell’s Labour Representation Committee supporting formerly suspended councillor who talked about “Jew process” for seat on party’s ruling body

Deputy Leader of Green Party Amelia Womack apologises for antisemitic tweet

Daniel Kawczynski MP attends ‘national conservatism’ conference featuring controversial European politicians

Labour Party expels member who claimed Jewish TV personality Rachel Riley “prostituted your religion” and was “poisoning the memory of your ancestors”

CAA writes to John Bercow about his experiences of antisemitism in the Conservative Party

Sweden announces adoption of International Definition of Antisemitism

Jeremy Corbyn’s Chief of Staff Karie Murphy deemed “completely unfit” for peerage, but over allegations of bullying rather than Labour antisemitism

Conservative general election candidate who was suspended over antisemitism is still a councillor for the party in Aberdeen

Labour’s Afzal Khan claimed he was “mortified” for “accidentally” sharing antisemitic social media post but didn’t remove it for six months after apologising

Unite’s Len McCluskey continues to claim that Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents used antisemitism to undermine him

Local Palestine Solidarity Campaign branch sends Holocaust denial tweet on eve of Holocaust Memorial Day

Baroness Deech warns against “passive acts of commemoration” on Holocaust Memorial Day, urging political leaders to “commit to protecting” Jews

Uruguay announces adoption of International Definition of Antisemitism

Emily Thornberry tells Holocaust Memorial Day audience that Jeremy Corbyn “will always call out” racism, after Labour leader appears to back Rebecca Long-Bailey as successor

The Holocaust “makes us see how quickly political rhetoric and posturing can become murder,” says independent London Mayoral candidate Rory Stewart

All MPs sign up to International Definition of Antisemitism, except Labour’s Graham Stringer, Tahir Ali, Andy McDonald and Grahame Morris

Prime Minister Boris Johnson remembers the Holocaust: “The darkest of nights is never again allowed to fall upon the Jews of the world”

Andrew Percy, leader of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antisemitism, faults both major parties for “disgusting rise in antisemitic tropes”

Funding may be cut to universities and councils that refuse to adopt the International Definition of Antisemitism, Robert Jenrick announces on Holocaust Memorial Day

Jeremy Corbyn audaciously refers to “horrors of the past” in hollow comments in Parliament on the Holocaust

CAA congratulates Ian Austin on winning “Backbencher of the Year” award

Scandal erupts at pro-Corbyn MP Sam Tarry’s local branch, where senior JVL members who originally nominated him as Labour candidate submit an antisemitic motion which he fails to condemn

Mayor Sadiq Khan pledges £300,000 from London to help preserve Auschwitz camp, though concerns remain over his role campaigning for antisemitic Labour Party leader

Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives impassioned condemnation of the endurance of antisemitism in our time

Controversial new Labour MP Zarah Sultana embroiled in yet another scandal about Jews

Jeremy Corbyn’s nomination of his chief of staff Karie Murphy for a peerage is another insult to the Jewish community

Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy pledges to implement all EHRC recommendations and calls for suspension of activist Rachael Cousins

Italy announces adoption of the International Definition of Antisemitism

Further to CAA’s previous efforts to have Hizballah entirely proscribed as a terrorist group, HM Treasury to freeze all of its assets under terrorist financing rules

Labour withdraws Ofcom complaint about Panorama expose of Party’s antisemitism

Are they fit to lead? CAA compares Labour Party leadership contenders’ records on antisemitism

Jewish Voice for Labour activist who described Jewish organisations as being “in the gutter” to address Holocaust Memorial Day event organised by Socialist Workers Party

Lord Mann praises British electorate for rejecting “the extremism of antisemitism” in debut speech in House of Lords

Labour MP Bridget Phillipson says she felt “compromised” by staying in the party despite antisemitism, yet incidents of Jew-baiting among Labour activists continue

Labour leadership contender Jess Phillips suspends staffer accused of saying Israel “inflicting Holocaust conditions”

Local Labour branch accused of bullying Luciana Berger will now debate affiliation to the antisemitism-denial group, Jewish Voice for Labour

Former DPP Lord MacDonald QC describes Labour arrest cases, prompted by CAA and LBC, as “very extreme stuff” and “well capable of comprising a criminal offence”, as the Met awaits decision from CPS

Former Labour councillor and parliamentary candidate accuses Jewish MP Margaret Hodge of trading on the Holocaust and suggests former deputy leader Tom Watson was in the pay of Israel’s Likud Party

Former MP Anna Turley says Northern working-class voted to reject Labour antisemitism

Rebecca Long-Bailey showed “very little awareness” of issues important to Jewish community and defended Jeremy Corbyn over antisemitism claims

Cyprus becomes the latest country to adopt the International Definition of Antisemitism

Prime Minister uses Chanukah message to tell Jews “you have every decent person in this country fighting by your side” but Jeremy Corbyn fails to even mention Labour’s antisemitism and turns his message political

CAA’s Gideon Falter confronts Labour MP Afzal Khan at Chanukah party over historic antisemitic social media posts

Poll shows 39% of Brits believe Jeremy Corbyn is an antisemite and 47% believe Labour has an antisemitism problem

Chris Williamson says “manufactured antisemitism allegations” are part of “assault on our democracy” by a “hostile foreign government” to “normalise Zionism”

Labour staffers said to be planning industrial action over “institutional racism and mismanagement”

Ken Loach says claims about Jeremy Corbyn’s antisemitism are “lies” and defers to apparent JVL claim that antisemitism was “weaponised”

Conservative MPs Tom Tugendhat and Robert Largan reveal they faced antisemitic abuse during their successful general election campaigns

France’s leading left-wing politician, Jean-Luc Melenchon, calls Labour antisemitism claims “baseless” and suggests “Likud networks” were behind Jeremy Corbyn’s election defeat

CAA joins eighty-eight Lords in calling for Jenny Tonge to withdraw her disgraceful claim that the “pro-Israel lobby won our General Election by lying about Jeremy Corbyn”

Watch Michael Gove tell Jewish community “You should never have to live in fear again” as Britain rejects of politics of hate

CAA statement as British public resoundingly decides to stand with its Jewish community and reject antisemites

Diehard supporters of Jeremy Corbyn turn their attention to the world’s oldest scapegoat

Poll says 16% of 2017 Labour voters wavered this time because of antisemitism as another poll claims Labour’s leadership was the main issue driving ‘defection’

Barnet branch of National Education Union adopts International Definition of Antisemitism

“Let’s annihilate them all”: Leaked documents show rampant antisemitism in Labour and disciplinary processes unfit for purpose

Bristol councillor suspended amid antisemitism allegations

CAA investigators unearth shocking social media posts by former Labour candidate Jann Oliver who claimed to have stepped down “for personal reasons”

Some antisemitic Labour members got “lesser sanctions”, according to Channel 4, as it again disputes Corbyn’s claims about how the Party has dealt with antisemitism

Over one hundred Liverpudlians sign letter condemning antisemitism and the abandonment of the city’s two Jewish MPs

New Statesman declines to endorse Jeremy Corbyn over antisemitism

Labour’s Barry Gardiner denies Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic, merely critical of Israel’s politics

Lord Dyson says there is a “powerful case” that Jeremy Corbyn is an antisemite

Simon Wiesenthal Centre labels Jeremy Corbyn worst antisemite on the planet

Conservatives reportedly investigating three candidates over antisemitism claims

CAA releases case files showing Jeremy Corbyn personally responsible for 24 antisemitic incidents, four times more than all candidates for other major parties combined

Muted publicity for Jewish reception at Buckingham Palace shows that celebrating Jewish life in the UK has now become a political issue

Watch new video of Corbyn embracing radical antisemitic cleric Raed Salah after he was found to have disseminated antisemitic blood libel

SNP official tasked with investigating candidate who was suspended over antisemitism now resigns herself after calling Israel a “Nazi state”

French National Assembly adopts International Definition of Antisemitism

Ewa Jasiewicz, who vandalised the Warsaw Ghetto, now campaigns for Labour

Unite union’s Tony Woodhouse makes “juju” comment on Ivan Lewis’ Facebook account

Watch the Labour election advertisement that says every British minority is “worthy of equality” except the Jews

Conservative candidate suggested Jewish journalist had dual loyalty to Israel in past social media post

SNP drops candidate in key marginal seat over allegations of antisemitism

Labour candidate tells Jewish audience her Party has failed on antisemitism and doesn’t deserve their vote

Watch as Matt Hancock heckled at hustings for raising Labour antisemitism

CAA and KCL study finds far-left Jew-hatred has now overtaken far-right in Britain and two-thirds of Corbyn’s vanguard of strongest supporters hold antisemitic views

Video re-emerges of Corbyn saying BBC is biased towards saying “Israel has a right to exist”

Respected European Rabbi Menachem Margolin says Corbyn’s legacy is abhorrent to the Jews of Europe

Jeremy Corbyn’s tea companion Raed Salah convicted of incitement to terrorism

Scottish Labour reportedly drops candidate Safia Ali in Falkirk over antisemitic social media posts

Corbyn refuses to apologise to Jewish community for Labour antisemitism, and appears to admit Chakrabarti report was not independent

Corbyn shares platform with Labour candidates with troubling records on anti-Jewish racism as Labour launches race manifesto

Leader of Britain’s Sephardi Jewish community backs Chief Rabbi over Jeremy Corbyn

Archbishop of Canterbury backs Chief Rabbi over his comments about Jeremy Corbyn, warning “visible action” is needed, not just words

Chief Rabbi attacks Corbyn and calls on Britons to “vote with their conscience” in unprecedented intervention, saying “soul of our nation is at stake”

Labour’s race manifesto calls for reform of Equality and Human Rights Commission, despite being subject to investigation by EHRC after complaint by CAA

Brexit Party yet to drop candidate Marc Stanton who declared: “I sure as hell am antisemitic”

SNP councillor Frank Anderson suspended for three months after reportedly sharing antisemitic article on social media

Lib Dems dump candidate Waheed Rafiq who made antisemitic comments on social media

Labour assistant mayor reportedly suspended for sharing video featuring notorious antisemite David Duke

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