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Yvette Cooper speaks at the JLM northern conference, alongside Luciana Berger

August 28, 2024, 4:59 pm

Home secretary set to strengthen hate crime laws to help tackle anti-Jewish hate

Yvette Cooper backs introduction of new guidance to police calling for antisemitic and anti-Muslim hatred that falls short of criminality to still be recorded

By Lee Harpin

Home Secretary James Cleverly in Golders Green for meeting and walkabout with communal leaders

January 28, 2024, 8:56 pm

Cleverly promises to crack down on hate ‘provocateurs’ at Palestine protests

EXCLUSIVE: Home secretary tells Jewish News 'the police and government are working at identifying and dealing with those provocateurs, those people who are driven by antisemitism'

By Lee Harpin and Jerry Lewis

Suella Braverman speaks at Tory Party conference

November 9, 2023, 10:48 am

Braverman sparks row with claim police tougher on the far-right than pro-Palestine ‘mobs’

Home secretary accuses force of being biased against far-right protesters while favouring groups such as Palestine Solidarity Campaign

By Lee Harpin

October 24, 2023, 9:57 am

Home Secretary grilled over ‘gaping chasm in the law’ on tackling antisemitic hate

Labour Friends of Israel says Sir Mark Rowley, now the Met Police commissioner, had raised concerns 2021 over 'gaping chasm in the law that allows hateful extremists to operate with impunity'

By Lee Harpin

October 3, 2023, 4:28 pm

Braverman defends mayoral candidate claiming she is victim of ‘character assassination’

Suella Braverman comes to the defence of Susan Hall over comments made about the Jewish community and Sadiq Khan in keynote speech at Tory conference

By Lee Harpin

Louise Ellman appearing in the 2019 documentary Forced Out and Whitewashed by Judith Ornstein, which tells the stories of people who had to leave the Labour Party because of antisemitism.

April 28, 2023, 9:49 am

Suella Braverman ‘demeaned’ herself by criticising the Board, says Ellman

Dame Louise Ellman has used a speech at a Board of Deputies meeting to criticise the Home Secretary over her decision to use a speech at a CST dinner to condemn the communal organisation

By Lee Harpin

Suella Braverman at Bushey United shul, 2023, for Yom HaShoah

April 19, 2023, 9:49 am

Suella Braverman commemorates Yom HaShoah at Bushey United Synagogue

Home Secretary amongst speakers at Hertordshire shul on 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

By Michelle Rosenberg

Suella Braverman addresses the CST dinner

March 30, 2023, 1:28 am

Home Secretary uses CST speech to criticise the Board

Suella Braverman says 'communal organisations must transcend lines of political difference if they are to legitimately remain representative of their diverse communities'

By Lee Harpin

Gerald Ronson, Suella-Braverman and Lloyd Dorfman.

March 29, 2023, 10:10 pm

Braverman confirms £1m funding boost for communal security in CST dinner speech

Home secretary also announces setting up of a 'police task force' to tackle antisemitic crime and violence

By Lee Harpin

Lord Dubs speaking at the launch of the Labour Party race and faith manifesto at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, north London.

February 2, 2023, 4:31 pm

Suella Braverman’s ‘invasion’ rhetoric is ‘personally upsetting’, says Labour peer

Lord Dubs fled the Nazis aboard the Kindertransport and describes Home Secretary's language as a low point of his parliamentary career

By JN Reporter

January 16, 2023, 3:16 pm

Downing Street fail to defend Home Secretary over migrant rhetoric

Rishi Sunak's spokesperson says UK has a 'proud record' of 'providing a safe haven to tens of thousands of people'

By Lee Harpin

Suella Braverman at home affairs select committee

January 14, 2023, 7:03 pm

Home Secretary challenged by Holocaust survivor over ‘invasion’ of migrants claims

Suella Braverman told Joan Salter MBE she 'won't apologise' for using terms the survivor said were used 'frequently to dehumanise and justify the murder of my family and millions of others'

By Lee Harpin

November 23, 2022, 3:04 pm

Home Secretary concerned over law enforcement in antisemitic crimes

Suella Braverman has told parliament's home affairs select committee she shares concerns over the failure to prosecute suspects in the May 2021 Palestine car convoy that shocked the community

By Lee Harpin

November 1, 2022, 10:33 am

Rabbi says Braverman’s migrant ‘invasion’ comments ‘make me feel pained as a Jew’

Rabbi David Mason joined Jewish lawyers and politicians in condemning home secretary Suella Braverman's language in the Commons including claims there was an 'invasion' of migrants

By Lee Harpin

October 26, 2022, 3:53 pm

Rabbi Romain defends home secretary Braverman as a ‘refreshing difference’

Maidenhead Synagogue's Jonathan Romain appeal on LBC to discuss the controversy over Suella Braverman's appointment and said it was 'absolutely true' the minister made a mistake, but she had 'owned up to it immediately...'

By Lee Harpin

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