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Irshad Ahmed during a speech at a Pakistani cultural centre in January 2024. Credit: Screenshot/X
May 20, 2026, 12:12 pm
Labour MSP reportedly called for Israel’s ‘crushing defeat’ after 7 October attacks
Anas Sarwar questioned the Urdu translation of remarks criticised by Jewish community representatives
By Annabel Sinclair
Anas Sarwar after winning the Scottish Labour leadership contest. Picture date: Saturday February 27, 2021.
March 2, 2026, 12:16 pm
Scottish Labour leader’s father posts tribute to ‘martyr’ Ayatollah Khamenei
Mohammad Sarwar praised Iran’s supreme leader after he was killed in US and Israel-backed airstrikes
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
June 12, 2024, 9:10 am
Netanyahu is committing war crimes, says Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
At a BBC debate in Glasgow on Tuesday, Sarwar hits out at Israel's actions after being challenged by a member of the audience
Anas Sarwar and Jeremy Corbyn
January 11, 2022, 2:02 pm
Scottish Labour leader urges Corbyn to say sorry for ‘pain and anguish’ to community
Anas Sarwar made the plea after one of his own MSPs, Mercedes Villalba, called for the former leader to have the whip restored 'immediately'
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar in the Garden Lobby at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Picture date: Tuesday March 2, 2021.
March 3, 2021, 10:29 am
OPINION: In Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Jewish community has a friend
Danielle Bett, the JLC's Scotland manager, reflects on the new Scottish Labour leader's consistent support in the fight against antisemitism
By Danielle Bett
SCoJeC director Ephraim Borowski (left) signed the document backing greater co-operation with the Muslim community in Scotland
November 30, 2018, 11:22 am
Jewish and Muslim leaders in Scotland agree to expand cooperation
Muslim Council of Scotland and Scottish Council of Jewish Communities will work together more closely including setting up a ' faith-specific social care service'
MP Luciana Berger
September 4, 2018, 2:13 pm
Luciana Berger nominated for award recognising those fighting hate crime
Jewish Labour MP up for gong named in honour of the late Jo Cox MP, following her passionate speech in parliament against anti-Semitism
Former ambassador Mark Regev
May 19, 2017, 12:15 pm
Israeli envoy to UK given ‘very strong’ message by Scotland over Gaza
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said her Government pressed the case that the situation in the Palestinian enclave must end
By Jewish News Reporter
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