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On UK recognition of a Palestinian state
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Diane Abbott unhelpfully doubles down on her comments regarding the differences between anti-Black, anti-Jewish and anti-Traveller racism. On the one hand she is correct, unless you are visibly Jewish (ie Charedi or wearing a kippah), or indeed a Jew of colour, walking down the street, you are

Home SecretaryYvette Cooper has announced new laws to prevent intimidating protests near to synagogues and religious buildings www.jewishnews.co.uk/uk-announces...

Tut, tut Greens www.jewishnews.co.uk/greens-accus...

Good to hear Sadiq Khan extend an invitation to US president elect Donald Trump to come to London next year. And to join him on a visit to Friday prayers at a Mosque or to Shabbat services at a synagogue, or to a Hindu temple to help him see the true diversity of the UK's capital

Dog love.

UK could enforce ICC Netanyahu arrest warrant if ratified by independent domestic court www.jewishnews.co.uk/uk-to-decide...

Corbyn more outspoken today than he was after Salisbury, it appears

Which surely raises Qs as to why it wasn’t put to bed earlier by Labour? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tories...

Every community has its own ugly internal slurs. The word ‘kapo’ - used once to describe those Jews who collaborated with Nazis in concentration camps but now unveiled by some in a modern context - is particularly ugly in mine.

Labour hitting back on Kemi Badenoch speech to farmers. “Let us not forget that it was Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives that forced over twelve thousand farmers and agricultural businesses out of business.
 They sold farmers out in trade deals, left them facing spiralling

Thoughtful Bettie.

More appalling scenes out of Gaza. The right to defeat Hamas, and Hezbollah is undeniable. The death of innocent civilians, including children is not. And will only lead to more hate, and more conflict in the future.

One of the two busts stolen from Manchester Uni and then 'beheaded' online by Palestine Action idiots now turns out not to be a former Israeli president, but that of Harold Baily Dixon, ex professor of chemistry at the uni, it now seems.

Excellent by Starmer over attempt to push him to describe Gaza as genocide. ‘It’d be wise to start a question like that by reference to what happened in Oct last year.” he tells MPs. ‘I’m well aware of the definition of genocide, that’s why I’ve never described this as & referred to it as genocide.’

Westminster sources describe glum looks of many on Tory benches in response to Kemi Badenoch's week 2 PMQs performance. "Makes you realise how competent Sunak actually was," says one. "Only got our members to thank for this," says another.