Lorin Bell-Cross

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Meet the ex-student trying to get the silent anti-extremist student majority to pipe up on Israel

The Pinsker Centre says students are keen to hear why Israel, like other nations, has the right to exist

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Pro-Palestine protestors stage a sit-in at Oxford University (Picture: Getty)

The Independent Alliance of 'pro-Gaza' MPs, which includes former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, failed to mention the hostages or Hamas in its statement on the ceasefire in Gaza (Picture: Getty)

Corbyn and pro-Gaza MPs fail to mention hostages, Hamas or October 7 in ceasefire statement

2 min read

Karen Pollock CBE speaking at a packed Holocaust Educational Trust event in Parliament. Credit: HET

Ministers hear survivor’s testimony in packed Holocaust Memorial event in Parliament

3 min read

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told MPs he was 'encouraged' by reports of progress on a hostage deal (Image: UK Parliament)

Starmer tells MPs he is ‘encouraged’ by Gaza ceasefire talks

3 min read

We will defy the police, say organisers of Saturday’s Gaza march

Protesters find support from 29 MPs, who are calling on the police to allow the march to wind up near a synagogue

3 min read

January 15, 2025 12:24

Ismail Patel announcing he would go on the march even if it means he 'goes to prison'

Revealed: MPs spend more time on average talking about Israel than any other foreign nation

Members spent nearly double the amount of time discussing the Gaza War compared to the alleged genocide in Sudan or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

3 min read

January 14, 2025 17:11

A pro-Palestinian supporter waves a Palestinian flag during a National March for Palestine in central London (Photo: Getty Images)

Meeting with mother of last British hostage ‘important’ ahead of possible deal, Lammy tells MPs

Ministers also faced questions about the sale of drones to Israel

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January 14, 2025 15:30

Foreign Secretary David Lammy (centre) with Emily Damari's mother Mandy (left) in Israel (Image: David Lammy).

Health Secretary Wes Streeting ‘shocked’ by NHS antisemitism

‘I've had enough people telling me that they feel unsafe to know that we need to act’ he said this week

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January 13, 2025 16:26

Health Secretary Wes Streeting talks at the Jewish Labour Movement conference (Image: Jewish Labour Movement/Ian Vogler).

Middle East Minister refuses to apologise for comments about Israeli ambassador

Hamish Falconer: it was clear that I wasn’t commenting on Hotovely personally in Parliament last week

3 min read

January 13, 2025 12:09

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer MP (left) with LFI chair Jon Pearce (Photo: Labour Friends of Israel)

Labour justice minister denies claims of two-tier policing in Britain

The MP for Finchley and Golders Green was speaking at a Jewish Labour Movement conference

2 min read

January 12, 2025 19:09

Justice Minister Sarah Sackman (right) with Lord Macdonald KC

Israel condemns British minister’s remarks about Israeli ambassador not being to the UK’s ‘taste’

Shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel called on Hamish Falconer to apologise

1 min read

January 9, 2025 17:42

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer. Credit: UK Parliament.

Charedi protesters denounce new Schools Bill as ‘persecution’

Department for Education say Bill ‘does not prevent parents securing a faith-based education’

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January 8, 2025 17:27

Charedi protest against the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

‘Antisemitism has no place in society’, Starmer tells PMQs

The prime minister repeated commitment to CST funding and Holocaust education

1 min read

January 8, 2025 14:13

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Parliament TV)

Government rules out expelling Israeli ambassador but says ‘she’s not to our taste politically’

Labour MPs overwhelmingly spoke critically of Israel in Parliament yesterday

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January 8, 2025 11:30

Government rules out expelling Israeli ambassador but says ‘she’s not to our taste politically’

‘Reform? What shul do you go to?’ Meet the British Jews drawn to Nigel Farage’s party

Meet the vocal minority of Jews supporting the upstart party

5 min read

January 7, 2025 17:05

Mark Shooter (right) with Reform UK member of the London Assembly at a Christmas party (Image: Mark Shooter).

Elon Musk shares clip by ‘pro-Hitler’ conspiracy theorist

Owner of X also expressed support for jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson

3 min read

January 7, 2025 09:07

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Meet the ex-student trying to get the silent anti-extremist student majority to pipe up on Israel

Corbyn and pro-Gaza MPs fail to mention hostages, Hamas or October 7 in ceasefire statement

Ministers hear survivor’s testimony in packed Holocaust Memorial event in Parliament

Starmer tells MPs he is ‘encouraged’ by Gaza ceasefire talks

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