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Robert Jenrick. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

September 26, 2023, 11:37 am

Jenrick ‘snubs border controls meeting’ after row over ‘antisemitic’ report

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick reportedly refused to meet with chief inspector of borders after row over home office report which accused Israel of 'ethic cleansing' of Palestinians

By Lee Harpin

Rajesh Agrawal, Deputy Mayor of London for Business

September 21, 2023, 12:51 pm

London’s deputy mayor for business has big plans for Israel

Rajesh Agrawal has had a key role in the capital's administration for seven years. Now he wants to expand the capital’s business reach, he tells Candice Krieger

By Candice Krieger

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

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover. (PA)

March 22, 2023, 12:30 pm

OPINION: Overpaid pundit Lineker has debased vital debate

His sympathy for asylum seekers is to be admired. But Gary Lineker's ignorance in comparing events in the UK to 1930s Germany was unconscionable, writes Alex Brummer

By Alex Brummer

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the RNLI, following a small boat incident in the Channel after 27 people died yesterday in the worst-recorded migrant tragedy in the Channel. Picture date: Thursday November 25, 2021.

March 12, 2023, 10:27 am

OPINION: Migrants have always cast their eyes to the UK

Jewish News' historian Derek Taylor looks back and asks what we might learn from the migration of European Jews over the centuries.

By Derek Taylor

March 10, 2023, 5:20 pm

Gary Lineker taken off air from BBC presenter role at Match of the Day

The 62-year old refuses to apologise for his comments comparing UK immigration measures to 1930s Germany. Lineker's TV colleague Ian Wright has refused to appear on the show tomorrow in 'solidarity'.

By Michelle Rosenberg

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

Jewish refugee children unfurl the Zionist flag as they arrive at the Haifa port aboard Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship SS Franconia in 1945.
Credit; Central Zionist Archives

January 13, 2023, 11:05 am

How to find newly-released Israeli immigration records from 1919 onward

Nearly two million family history records available for free on Israel's version of Ellis Island database

By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)

Terminal 2 border force at Heathrow airport

October 21, 2022, 10:29 am

OPINION: From Flemings to Huguenots to Jews, the answer has been immigrants

Jewish News' historian Derek Taylor on how Britain has relied on open borders for centuries.

By Derek Taylor

Migrants being brought on shore by the border force at Dover (Jewish News)

April 21, 2022, 11:06 am

OPINION: Is it fair to deprive other immigrants of the chance our families were given?

it would be base ingratitude on my part, to approve of the people crossing the Channel being sent to Rwanda.

By Derek Taylor

Home Secretary Priti Patel signs agreement with the East African nation of Rwanda (Twitter)

April 19, 2022, 4:49 pm

Jewish leaders condemn Rwanda asylum plan

In an open letter to The Guardian, senior figures called the proposal "inhumane" and "cruel".

By Jenni Frazer

Home Secretary Priti Patel speaking at the Board of Deputies dinner in 2019

August 2, 2021, 5:12 pm

Board joins communal groups to raise ‘concerns’ over government asylum plans

Board of Deputies, Jewish Council for Racial Equality, Rene Cassin and World Jewish Relief issue joint statement

By Lee Harpin

The entrance gates to Auschwitz I, (Photo credit: Jemma Crew/PA Wire)

June 15, 2017, 11:08 am

Polish PM criticised for migrant comments at Auschwitz ceremony

Beata Szydlo makes controversial comment at the former Nazi camp, appearing to defend her anti-immigrant policies

With care staff from 71 countries, Britain’s EU exit poses a serious challenge to one of our biggest charities.

Photo credit: Blake Ezra Photography

March 16, 2017, 12:52 pm

What Brexit means for leading Jewish charity

As Parliament clears the way to leave the EU, Caron Kemp considers the consequences for Jewish Care, which employs staff from 71 countries

By Caron Kemp

October 10, 2016, 3:55 pm

UKIP select chasidic Manchester mayoral candidate

Shneur Odze was unveiled as the Eurosceptic party's hopeful to take charge of the northern city

By Stephen Oryszczuk

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