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October 5, 2024, 11:05 am
House of Commons debate to mark anniversary of 7 October Hamas massacre
Jon Pearce, new parliamentary chair of Labour Friends of Israel, secures Westminster debate on Monday
By Lee Harpin
Protesters at the Royal Courts of Justice ahead of a hearing in February 2022 about the UK Holocaust Memorial
April 26, 2024, 9:08 am
MPs issue warning on Holocaust memorial project’s rising costs and security
Surprise at lack of consultation on choice of Westminster site where round-the-clock protection is likely to be required – at an unknown price, says select committee
By Beatrice Sayers
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Dr Martin Stern give evidence on Wednesday in the House of Commons
January 24, 2024, 11:31 pm
‘This is idiotic’: Holocaust survivors give evidence about proposed memorial
At a meeting of MPs on the Holocaust Memorial Bill select committee four survivors opposed to the project air their concerns alongside those of Baroness Deech and historian Sir Richard Evans
By Beatrice Sayers
The proposed memorial and an aerial view of Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster
January 24, 2024, 8:34 pm
VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS: Holocaust memorial is 10 years on the drawing board
MPs must heed the valid concerns of architects, a terrorism expert, the group Save Victoria Tower Gardens and four Shoah survivors, the eldest of them 98-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who have voiced their objections to current proposals for a memorial and learning centre
By Voice of the Jewish News
Nickie Aiken MP and Sir Peter Bottomley give evidence on Wednesday
January 19, 2024, 10:38 am
Holocaust Memorial Bill: objector compares strategy to Post Office stance on Horizon
Commons select committee hears evidence from opponents of government-backed legislation to clear restriction on building on Victoria Tower Gardens
By Beatrice Sayers
Sandys Row Synagogue (Credit: Deror avi)
January 10, 2024, 3:13 pm
Opinion: Why does Jewish history not count?
The contributions of the Jewish community to life in this country should be viewed from an historical context, not through the prism of the Israel-Hamas conflict, writes Colin Shindler
By Colin Shindler
London Lite campaign digital billboard
December 15, 2023, 11:53 am
MPs criticise advertising company after hostage awareness campaign dropped
London Lites pulled digital billboards six days into planned two-week campaign citing concerns for 'community safety'
By JN Reporter
2M4R51J Tehran, Tehran, Iran. 20th Dec, 2022. commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General HOSSEIN SALAMI (2L) and Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Quds Force, ESMAIL QAANI (2R) attend in a ceremony for commemorating death anniversary of an IRGC's Quds force commander in Tehran, December 20, 2022. (Credit Image: © Rouzbeh Fouladi via ZUMA Press Wire)
May 24, 2023, 9:02 am
Government tackled on failure to ban IRGC four months after Commons vote
Peers in Westminster have now called on the Government again to take action against the military body, which has been proscribed by allies such as the US.
By Abbie Llewelyn (PA)
Credit: ParliamentUK
February 6, 2023, 1:26 pm
OPINION: What was not said during Daniel’s appointment was significant
As a Charedi Jew becomes Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, how lucky we are that he is judged on merit, writes Vivian Wineman.
By Vivian Wineman
MPs observe a minute of silence in the House of Commons.
December 21, 2022, 5:17 pm
OPINION: A silent tribute – then action to stop hatred
Deeds, not words: the minute's silence for Holocaust victims in the House of Commons must lead to action against all atrocities, writes Laura Marks and Dame Margaret Hodge
By Dame Margaret Hodge and Laura Marks
MPs observe moments silence the Commons
December 15, 2022, 11:02 am
MPs fall silent marking the day 80 years ago when the Commons was told of the Holocaust
House falls quiet for “tribute to all those who suffered at the hands of the Nazis”, witnessed by seven survivors.
By Lee Harpin and PA
MPs observe a minute of silence in the House of Commons.
December 8, 2022, 8:21 am
House of Commons silence to echo across nation
A minute of quiet next Thursday will mark the day 80 years ago when a hushed House was told about Holocaust
By Lee Harpin
Stuart Diamond and Laura Marks (Mitzvah Day), Tulip Siddiq MP, Marie van der Zyl (Board of Deputies) and Milita Raymond and Max Elgot (The Passage). Photo: Yakir Zur
November 17, 2022, 11:01 am
MPs help Westminster homeless for unique Mitzvah Day project
This weekend's annual day of good deeds shows the best of our faith communities,' says Labour MP Tulip Siddiq.
Speaker John Bercow (Photo credit: House of Commons/PA Wire)
March 8, 2022, 12:18 pm
Former Commons Speaker John Bercow labelled ‘serial bully’ after independent inquiry
Panel upholds 21 out of 35 complaints made against him by former staff members of the first ever Jewish Speaker of the House of Commons
By Lee Harpin
Communities Secretary Michael Gove giving his keynote address during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Picture date: Monday October 4, 2021.
March 7, 2022, 4:57 pm
Gove equates BDS campaign with ‘evil of antisemitism’
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says Conservatives are bringing forward legislation to outlaw BDS at a local government level.
By Lee Harpin
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