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At least 3 Brent councillors, including ex mayor, join rally ahead of council meeting backing BDS petition

September 20, 2024, 12:01 pm

Angry scenes as Brent Council hears anti-Israel ‘divest for Palestine’ petition

Brent and Harrow Palestine Solidarity Campaign petition calls for for council to divest from companies 'complicit in Israel's genocide and apartheid against Palestinians'

By Lee Harpin

July 6, 2024, 10:44 pm

Starmer appoints lawyer who opposed Gove’s anti-BDS bill as Attorney General

Richard Hermer KC, a member of Alyth Synagogue, has previously raised concerns about human rights abuses against Palestinians

By Lee Harpin

Micheal Gove speaks at JW3 on antisemitism

May 21, 2024, 12:47 pm

Michael Gove admits progress has ‘slowed’ for government’s anti-BDS bill

In speech on antisemitism, delivered at JW3, in North London, Michael Gove blames 'opposition peers' for slowing progress of anti-BDS through parliament

By Lee Harpin

Screenshot, Facebook, Tesco, Liverpool, February 2024

March 21, 2024, 10:58 am

Kosher food being ‘targeted by racists’, says Government’s antisemitism adviser

Former Labour MP Lord Mann says actions that remove the ability of Jewish people to access kosher food is attacking a 'fundamental freedom'

By JN Reporter

Angela Rayner MP at the Board of Deputies Chanukah Party

January 10, 2024, 11:18 am

Rayner and LFI lead renewed Labour attack on government’s ‘flawed’ anti-BDS bill

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Rayner and Labour Friends of Israel hit out at the government's 'flawed' Economic Activity of Public Bodies Bill ahead of its third reading in the Commons

By Lee Harpin

Demonstrators disrupting an event with Israeli speaker at UCL campus.

October 19, 2023, 9:26 pm

OPINION: Time to stand against institutions who refuse to stand on the right side of history

'We need to stop supporting them. We need to resign from their boards. We need to make it public where they stand', writes former chair of BICOM Edward Misrahi

By Edward Misrahi

September 28, 2023, 5:18 pm

Brent Labour councillors back down after seeking to defy Starmer with BDS motion

Draft motion backed by a number of Brent Labour Group councillors backs 'support of the right to boycott and divest' after highlighting 'abuses of rights and violations of international law, in occupied Palestine'

By Lee Harpin

September 15, 2023, 2:08 pm

INTERVIEW: Have we got Nas for you!

Arab-Israeli internet star Nuseir Yassin, who is known by his 60 million social media fans on Nas Daily, talks to Nicole Lampert about his Twitter bet on peace by 2030

By Nicole Lampert

September 7, 2023, 5:07 pm

Pro-Israel lawyer tells MPs it’s ‘sloppy thinking’ to speak of ‘illegal’ settlements in the West Bank

Jonathan Turner KC, CEO of UK Lawyers for Israel, was giving evidence to a parliamentary committee scrutinising the government's anti-Israel boycott legislation

By Lee Harpin

Russell Langer and Daniel Sugarman address parliamentary committee (pic Parliament TV)

September 6, 2023, 10:41 am

Board and JLC back government’s anti-boycott bill in front of parliamentary committee

Daniel Sugarman tells MPs the 'history of boycotts against Jews is a very painful one', while Russell Langer said the proposed anti-BDS bill 'will have a positive impact on communities here in the UK'

By Lee Harpin

Anthony Julius. (Screen capture: YouTube via Times of Israel)

July 13, 2023, 6:30 am

18 top lawyers criticise Jewish Chronicle over ‘dangerous and foolish’ attack on colleague

The distinguished group signed a letter accusing the newspaper of 'lazy' criticism of Richard Hermer KC, who advised Labour on the government's anti-BDS bill.

By Lee Harpin

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement wants to end international support for Israel.

July 11, 2023, 2:37 pm

OPINION: Time to finally bring pernicious BDS movement to heel

The long-awaited Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill is a deliberate and targeted response, writes James Gurd of Conservative Friends of Israel.

By James Gurd

A Jewish settler walks past Israeli settlement construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, near Jerusalem June 30, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

July 11, 2023, 11:19 am

James Cleverly ‘expressed concerns’ over anti-BDS bill

BBC report that letter sent to Downing St raised concerns Michael Gove's bill failed to distinguish between boycotts against Israel and those against settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories

By Lee Harpin

July 4, 2023, 12:34 am

Gove’s anti-BDS bill passes second reading in Commons, amid criticism from some MPs

Labour's Dame Margaret Hodge says the bill, which passed its second reading in the Commons, is 'using Jews as a pawn in the government's political game.'

By Lee Harpin

Pro-Palestinian protesters call for a boycott on Israeli goods in central London.

July 3, 2023, 11:02 am

Top lawyer warns Gove’s BDS bill has ‘profoundly detrimental impact’ on UK human rights stance

Richard Hermer KC, of Matrix Chambers, concludes the government's bill is 'appallingly badly drafted' and 'effectively equates the OPT (occupied Palestinian territories) with Israel itself'

By Lee Harpin

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