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Miloon Kothari sent an apology letter to the head of the UN Human Rights Council, for statements made during a podcast with the anti-Zionist Mondoweiss site.

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Tory PM hopefuls – Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – have made a series of new pledges designed to win the support of party members from within the Jewish community in letters sent to the CFI organisation

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Makers of a film about the Holocaust hero are set to recreate the BBC1 scene where he came face to face with those he helped rescue – inviting their relatives to take part.

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Figures from Britain’s main Jewish security charity show a 43% decrease in hate incidents between January and June 2022

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The chief executive of the recently formed National Jewish Assembly responds to UK Israel tour leaders condemning overnight stays in the West Bank.

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Liverpool Labour MP Ian Bryne thanks the Jewish organisations who ‘ flagged this threat to me and to the counter terrorism unit in Parliament’

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Further delay announced in trial of alleged sex abuser Malka Leifer

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‘We must fix this for the settlers, soldiers and the Palestinians’

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Controversial Israeli group Breaking The Silence attracts increasing numbers of diaspora Jews onto its ‘occupation tour’ in West Bank cities like Hebron. Jewish News joined one.

Britain’s ‘threat’ to recognise Palestine if Israel annexed Jordan Valley

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Dozens of UK Israel tour leaders sign letter condemning use of rooms in settlements

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By Lee Harpin

Elaina Cohen, 62, a former adviser to Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Perry Barr, wins unfair dismissal claim, although tribunal dismisses claim she was victim of religious discrimination

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The case of an Orthodox Jewish man suffering paralysis are genetically linked to discoveries in London and Jerusalem, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative says

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