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Baroness Ruth Deech
November 14, 2025, 10:41 am
Deech questions Palestinian refugee status and calls for UN relief agency to be disbanded
Crossbench peer Baroness Deech is an outspoken critic of Palestinian statehood
By Lee Harpin
Artist's impression issued by the UK Holocaust Memorial showing the aerial view of the proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London. The London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust is opposed to a new UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre being built in Victoria Tower Gardens, a small triangular Grade II-listed park next to Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. Issue date: Tuesday February 22, 2022.
March 11, 2025, 1:11 pm
OPINION: A barmitzvah, two survivors and the unbreakable chain of memory
As personal recall fades, physical memorials will become ever more important
By Alex Brummer
Lord Cameron and Baroness Deech were at odds on Wednesday in the Lords
September 5, 2024, 9:32 am
Cameron defends Holocaust memorial location as ‘unapologetic national statement’
As legislation gets its second Lords reading Baroness Deech tables an amendment expressing regret at the location, cost and design, and she and others speak of security concerns
By Jewish News Reporter
UNRWA sign in Jerusalem, 2007
March 8, 2024, 10:45 am
End of UNRWA would be the beginning of peace, peers told
Crossbencher Baroness Deech tells House of Lords the Palestinian aid agency is 'the problem, not the solution'
By Jewish News Reporter
MP Robert Jenrick (right), with the late Holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott and his grandson Reuben at Victoria Gardens in Westminster in July 2021.
May 12, 2023, 5:42 pm
OPINION: It’s high time we sorted out this memorial muddle
"If ever this project comes to fruition, there will be no survivors left to see it," writes Jenni Frazer on London's proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre
By Jenni Frazer
MP Robert Jenrick (right), with the late Holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott and his grandson Reuben at Victoria Gardens in Westminster in July 2021.
March 15, 2023, 4:28 pm
‘Vast majority’ of Holocaust survivors back Westminster memorial, says Sir Ben Helfgott
"There is no obligation on those of us who survived the Holocaust to share identical opinions on all issues," says Shoah iconic survivor and president of the 45 Aid Society
By Lee Harpin
MP Robert Jenrick (right), with the late Holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott and his grandson Reuben at Victoria Gardens in Westminster in July 2021.
January 25, 2023, 12:27 pm
Prime Minister confirms government WILL legislate for Holocaust Memorial in Westminster
Rishi Sunak announces plans to go-ahead with controversial £100 million project ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day.
By Lee Harpin
Reporting of Israel and the Middle East, by the BBC has sparked anger.
December 14, 2022, 2:24 pm
Jewish community ‘misled’ over BBC ‘parliamentary inquiry’
So-called “parliamentary investigation” announced by a group of peers into the broadcaster's reporting of issues around Jews and Israel has been roundly condemned for being powerless and disingenuous.
By Lee Harpin
Baroness Ruth Deech
January 10, 2022, 4:10 pm
Campaigners attack ‘shameful’ dismissal of Poland’s Jewish envoy
Figures in Poland, Britain and the United States are among those to have criticised the decision to fire Jaroslaw Marek Nowak
By Jewish News Reporter
Prof David Miller
October 8, 2021, 12:09 pm
Peer complains to BBC over ‘biased’ reporting of Bristol’s David Miller sacking
Baroness Deech criticised the BBC for "inaccurate" reporting of the case after it suggested Miller had been sacked for his stance on Israel.
By Josh Salisbury
From the WebAugust 20, 2021, 3:03 pm
JN Podcast Special: We need to talk about Poland
Guests including professor Jan Grabowski, Lord Pickles, Nadav Eyal and Baroness Deech discuss the diplomatic spat over Poland's restitution law
Unchaining agunot, women trapped in marriages and unable to divorce (Photo by Jackson Simmer on Unsplash via Jewish News)
February 3, 2021, 12:33 pm
‘We must end the stain on our faith of wives trapped in failed marriages’
Cross-party peers explain why they are trying to help a tragic minority of chained wives
By Baroness Altmann, Baroness Deech, Lord Mendelsohn and Lord Palmer
A muslim is praying before the demonstration in solidarity with the Uyghurs, started in Amsterdam, on December 29th, 2019. (Photo by Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto)
October 1, 2020, 11:10 am
150 MPs and peers back Jewish News Uyghur campaign
Petition, which will be handed to Downing Street next week, calls for sanctions over China's brutal treatment of its Muslim minority.
By Justin Cohen
A Board of Deputies plenary, with President Marie van der Zyl (second left)
May 15, 2020, 12:22 pm
Baroness Deech: Why I support the Board’s decision not to comment on annexation
Baroness Deech writes to the president of the Board as the communal row over calls to condemn Israel's plans continues
By Ruth Deech
Proposed design of Westminster Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens
November 13, 2019, 1:39 pm
Peer says community ‘steamrollered’ into backing Westminster Shoah memorial
Baroness Deech also voices concern over 'day trips to Auschwitz' during JW3 panel to mark the 81st anniversary of Kristallnacht, appearing alongside Robert Rinder and Rachel Riley
By Jenni Frazer
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