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Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn

The British Labour Party is facing fresh accusations of covering up anti-Semitism after the party revealed it had received 673 allegations of anti-Jewish hate by its members during the past 10 months, leading to only 12 individuals being expelled, The BBC reported on Monday. The party’s General Secretary, Jennie Formby,...

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Neo-Nazis in Budapest

Jewish leaders have blasted the failure of Hungarian authorities to stop a Neo-Nazi rally, which took place last Saturday in Budapest and saw some 2,800 far-right extremists bearing swastikas and other fascist symbols marching through the capital, The Jerusalem Post reported. In a statement on Tuesday, Former Israeli Defense Minister...

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The French Interior Ministry announced on Monday that the number of anti-Semitic acts in the country soared in 2018, jumping a whopping 74% compared to the previous year, France24 News reported. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner decried the “poison” of hate that is seeping into French society as he revealed that...

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Sing out! In the same spirit that only a few weeks ago launched a thousand images documenting Israel’s history for free use, the National Library of Israel, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Sport, and the Digital Finjan project, have announced the release of Shiri, a mobile phone...

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The growing hostility of the progressive community toward the existence of Israel has become “profoundly unsettling” to American Jews, Bret Stephens wrote in a column for The New York Times published Friday. Stephens recalled a number of recent incidents that showed the growing acceptance of the “radical left’s militant hostility...

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Iran

At a celebration of the 40th anniversary of his nation’s Islamic revolution, a general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), threatened the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa with destruction, CBS News reported Monday. In an interview with the state-run IRNA news agency, Gen. Yadollah Javani, the deputy...

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Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is back to business as usual when it comes to bashing Israel. First, a little background is in order. Ten years ago, Whitson traveled to Saudi Arabia to raise money for HRW. Speaking nary a word about the Saudis’ brutal oppression of...

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Virgin Atlantic has announced it will soon fly between London Heathrow and Ben Gurion airport, Jewish News reported on Sunday. The five-hour route will operate daily using Airbus A330-300 aircraft. Tel Aviv will be connected from Heathrow starting September 25, with tickets going on sale beginning February 25. The airline will...

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Adding to her anti-Israel portfolio, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was slammed on Sunday by members of both parties for suggesting that Jewish money was behind American elected officials’ support for Israel, The Times of Israel reported. Omar, who serves on the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee, was responding on Twitter...

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The passing of the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act in the Senate on Tuesday “will make America and the world safer,” Josh Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, said in an op-ed published in The Hill on Saturday. Block argued that the bipartisan nature of the...

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