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Baroness Anderson, Mike Katz and Miriam Mirwitch at a JLM Chanukah event (pic Ian Vogler)
January 7, 2025, 1:11 pm
Attorney General to be asked about Government’s Israel stance at JLM conference appearance
Sunday's Jewish Labour Movement event features 50 panels, filled with ministers, leading arts world figures, journalists, and grassroots activists
By Lee Harpin
Palestine demo by actvists in Liverpool urging Labour to take tougher stance on Israel
September 21, 2024, 2:39 pm
Anti-Israel activists hold ‘genocide’ demo outside Labour conference
Labour MP Kim Johnson is greeted with cries of 'resign' by pro-Palestine activists after addressing them at a demo, led by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, ahead of the party conference in Liverpool
By Lee Harpin
Wes Streeting in conversation with Henry Zeffman at JLM conference Photo Ian Vogler
January 2, 2024, 1:23 pm
JLM to stage conference in ‘pivotal year for both Jewish community and Labour’
In a general election year Labour have committed big names to speak at JLM's One Day Conference on January 14th
By Lee Harpin
David Starkey speaks at NatCon
May 17, 2023, 2:53 pm
Downing Street says ministers ‘free to decide which events to speak at’
Rishi Sunak's deputy spokesperson confirmed he did not agree with views such as those expressed by David Starkey in relation to the Holocaust at the NatCon conference
By Lee Harpin
Previous NUS conference in Harrogate
March 15, 2023, 2:11 pm
NUS conference opens with apology to Jewish students
NUS leaders tell Jewish students 'You have been let down by the very organisation that you should have been able to trust the most'
By Lee Harpin
Lloyd Duddridge is captured on BBC News leafleting delegates at this year's Labour conference in Liverpool
September 29, 2022, 4:00 pm
The former Maccabi cricketer leading the fightback in Labour against Momentum
Lloyd Duddridge, national organiser of the pro-Keir Starmer Labour To Win group and ex Chigwell and Hainault batsman, says one of the reasons he took up the political role was 'I needed to play my part in fighting the stain of antisemitism in Labour'
By Lee Harpin
Labour leader Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive in Liverpool for the start of the party's 2022 annual conference
September 25, 2022, 12:52 pm
Anti-Israel motions off the agenda at Labour’s annual conference
Labour NEC member Luke Akehurst confirms 'not a single CLP has submitted a motion' on Israel and the Palestinians for debate at the Liverpool conference in contrast to the fanatical pro-Palestinian mood of the Jeremy Corbyn era
By Lee Harpin
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (Photo credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)
June 30, 2022, 1:04 pm
Chief Rabbi Mirvis among the participants at religious freedom conference
International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief takes place in London next week, with Liz Truss joining 500 delegates.
By Lee Harpin
J27E44 Liverpool, UK. 25th Apr 2017. Social workers 100 mile anti-austerity march reaches Liverpool. Social workers have reached Liverpools Pier Head following a seven day, 100 mile walk from Birmingham to protest against austerity. Film director Ken Loach has endorsed the Boot Out Austerity campaign, saying: Austerity is causing chaos in the lives of so many, and this needs to be confronted. Credit: Simon Hadley/Alamy Live News
June 17, 2022, 1:28 pm
Social worker conference skips vote on ‘uncomfortable’ antisemitism motion
British Association of Social Workers (BASW) conference cancels Friday's vote as Jewish professional admits; 'Today caused untold stress and worry'
By Lee Harpin
Israeli and British flags
December 13, 2021, 4:00 pm
UJS passes motion ‘ensuring representation’ for ‘40% of UK Jews who aren’t Zionists’
EXCLUSIVE: Union of Jewish Students motion passed by a narrow margin following vote among one thousand delegates at annual conference.
By Lee Harpin
Zack Polanski
October 25, 2021, 3:36 pm
Greens vote to adopt two ‘contradictory’ definitions of anti-Jewish racism
At the Green Party autumn conference a motion including both the IHRA definition and the Jerusalem Declaration is adopted by party - who also maintain their pro-BDS position
By Lee Harpin
Tony Greenstein
September 26, 2021, 8:52 pm
LBC political editor ‘assaulted’ by ‘notorious antisemite’ at Labour conference
Theo Usherwood "forcibly removed" from a Jewish Voice for Labour event listed in the conference guide, entitled: ‘Labour in crisis: Tackling racism in the party'.
By Adam Decker
February 4, 2017, 8:03 pm
Russian Chief Rabbi at Windsor Limmud conference
Hundreds of Russian-speaking Jews from across Europe are spending the weekend in the UK for the first event of its kind.
By JTA
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