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Former USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith with survivor Edward Mosberg and Institute founder Steven Spielberg. Pic: USC Shoah Foundation

October 1, 2024, 4:23 pm

BBC accepts it failed to ‘continually challenge’ Tehran professor

Days after report criticises BBC treatment of Israel, Radio 4 interview airs in which Israel repeatedly accused of genocide

By Jenni Frazer

October 1, 2024, 11:20 am

Holocaust museum founder launches platform to commemorate 7 October

Mekimi will offer a variety of online resources for those caught up in the horrors

By Jenni Frazer

Keir Starmer appears on Nick Ferrari's LBC radio show

June 18, 2024, 11:43 am

Starmer: I’m not prepared to sit in LBC studio and judge Israel genocide claims

Labour leader says 'Israel, like every country, should be held to account' over Gaza genocide claims 'in the court of international law'

By Lee Harpin

Rahima Mahmut campaigns outside the Chinese embassy in London

April 11, 2024, 12:16 pm

‘Despite the millions in prison we Uyghur activists are tiny in number – we need more help’

With a special conference of the World Uyghur Congress taking place next week Jewish News hears from UK representative Rahima Mahmut about the urgent need for organisations to add to the pressure on China

By Lana Krine

March 25, 2024, 10:30 am

Literary magazine attacked over anti-Israel cover story

Hindu writer says Israel invoking Holocaust to cover up Gaza genocide

By Jenni Frazer

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis speaking during a vigil outside Downing Street, central London, for victims and hostages of Hamas attacks

January 22, 2024, 10:27 am

Mirvis says ‘genocide’ claim against Israel is ‘disingenuous misappropriation of the term’

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis writes that the use of the term genocide' was a 'moral inversion, which undermines the memory of the worst crimes in human history'

By JN Reporter

Professor Malcolm Shaw outlines Israel's defence against genocide charges

January 12, 2024, 1:01 pm

Gaza ‘is no genocide, South Africa tells half the story’, argues UK lawyer defending Israel

Apprearing before judges at the International Court of Justice to defend Israel, Professor Malcolm Shaw outlines why South Africa's charge of 'genocide' is false

By Lee Harpin

January 8, 2024, 10:44 pm

South Africa’s Israel genocide claim has no legal merit, UK former attorney general says

Sir Michael Ellis tells Commons that South Africa itself is in danger of becoming a 'terrorist proxy'

By Lee Harpin

A view of destroyed vehicles near the grounds of the Tribe of Nova music festival after Saturday’s deadly attack by Hamas (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images) via JTA

October 13, 2023, 9:03 am

Genocide of the Jews of Israel

'Now you know why we emphasize the necessity of teaching about the Holocaust. We were trying to prevent this', writes Stephen D Smith executive director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation

By Stephen D Smith

Police in riot gear outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, Merseyside (Peter Powell/PA)

February 27, 2023, 12:49 pm

‘Brutal’ lessons of Holocaust exposed amid fears for crisis-hit Europe

Eminent British historian Professor Dan Stone, author of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History, says the threat of genocide remains

By JN Reporter

March 14, 2022, 12:20 pm

Refugee crisis: Community offers ‘unique support’ to Ukrainian Holocaust survivors

Association of Jewish Refugees is providing support to survivors who find refuge in the UK and is calling on the government to “simplify the process" for fleeing refugees.

By Jenni Frazer

January 26, 2022, 10:39 pm

Sir Trevor McDonald, Stephen Fry and Freedom Choir join national Holocaust event

Sandy Toksvig to host online ceremony organised by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, culminating in a national moment of reflection

By Sabrina Miller

A man and his child holding a placard against China during the demonstration.
(Photo by Ana Fernandez / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

January 14, 2021, 10:41 pm

MPs call for political action against China over Uyghur persecution

Emergency meeting hosted by the Board of Deputies came ahead of a vote in the House of Commons next week that could impact on bilateral trade between London and Beijing.

By Ellie Jacobs

Director Heidi Ewing (left) and her film 'One Of Us'

October 25, 2017, 6:14 pm

Netflix film director sorry for saying Chasidic Jews were ‘loud and proud’ during Holocaust

Director Heidi Ewing apologises for remark made on chat show, claiming religious Jews died partially because they refused to 'blend in'

By JTA

January 26, 2017, 9:43 pm

Brendan Cox, widower of murdered MP: ‘Prejudice has grown under the surface for years”

Husband of Jo Cox, killed by white supremacist Thomas Mair last June, was speaking at The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch

By Francine Wolfisz

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