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Lord Alf Dubs
February 2, 2024, 7:16 pm
Labour peer who fled on Kindertransport makes emotional address to Parliament
Lord Dubs held back tears as he recalled his experience of travelling to the UK from Czechoslovakia aged six.
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs, Rabbi Gluck and representatives from the Jewish Council for Racial Equality at a demo in support of child refugee resettlement Credit: Dinendra Haria
July 12, 2023, 11:01 am
Lord Dubs: Jenrick order to paint over kids’ Disney mural in asylum centre a disgrace
Lord Dubs, who came to Britain as a child refugee after fleeing the Nazis, slams immigration minister Robert Jenrick after he ordered pictures of cartoons and animals at Dover asylum centre to be painted over
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
Lord Alf Dubs
March 24, 2021, 5:02 pm
Lord Dubs leads criticism of Priti Patel’s overhaul of asylum system
Refugee campaigner who fled the Nazis as a child accuses Priti Patel of fuelling criminality by removing legal routes to safety
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
October 20, 2020, 2:10 pm
Jewish groups ‘disappointed’ over removal of protection for child refugees
Amendment backed by Lord Alf Dubs, who came to Britain on the Kindertransport, was rejected by MPs, with the Jewish Council for Racial Equality branding the decision 'shameful'
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
October 6, 2020, 11:23 am
Lord Dubs helps inflict six Lords defeats on ‘shabby’ immigration legislation
Labour peer who came to the UK on the kindertransport sponsored a change to the bill to ensure continued help for unaccompanied child refugees
By Jack Mendel
Lord Alf Dubs
September 16, 2020, 5:10 pm
Lord Dubs urges UK to ‘do decent thing’ and allow EU children in care to stay
Peer who fled the Nazis on the kindertransport calls on the government to automatically grant EU children in care settled status in the UK when free movement ends
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
September 10, 2020, 11:52 am
Lord Dubs urges relaxation of restrictions on asylum seekers’ employment rights
Peer who fled the Nazis was among vocal critics of the government's policy towards refugees, saying a change would help integration and it was a 'matter of integrity'
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
August 19, 2020, 4:29 pm
Lord Dubs calls on UK to be more ‘sympathetic’ towards migrant children
The Labour peer, who fled the Nazis on the Kindertransport, called on home secretary to adopt a more welcoming stance towards migrants
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
April 7, 2020, 4:28 pm
Lord Dubs to cite Kindertransport journey in Easter message for Humanists
Czech-born Labour peer will tell prisoners how he escaped the Holocaust, referencing 'refugees today living in terrible conditions in the camps of Greece and northern France'
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
January 9, 2020, 2:24 pm
Lord Dubs urges challenge on government’s scrapping of child refugee pledge
Labour peer who came to the UK on the Kindertransport branded the outcome on Wednesday 'shocking', saying 'lone refugee children deserve our help'
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
October 7, 2019, 1:37 pm
British citizenship test questions do not reflect society, Lord Dubs claims
Questions posed to applicants 'do not on the whole seem to me to reflect the society we live in,' the Labour peer wrote
By Mathilde Frot
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Photo credit: Nick Ansell/PA Wire
June 28, 2019, 2:17 pm
Tom Watson is only shadow cabinet member to sign Chris Williamson letter
Labour's Deputy Leader joined over 100 party politicians in urging Jeremy Corbyn to intervene on the decision to readmit the controversial Derby North MP
By Mathilde Frot
Esther Freud, Zoe Wanamaker, Judith Kerr, Alf Dubs. Credit: Jillian Edelstein
May 23, 2019, 12:54 pm
Iconic portraits of Jewish refugees and descendants mark Refugee Week
Striking images from award-winning photographer Jillian Edelstein to be projected onto Tate and Southbank
Rabbi Harry Jacobi (right) and Lord Dubs (left) campaigning for refugees together
April 25, 2019, 4:20 pm
Lord Dubs pays tribute to Rabbi Jacobi as a ‘passionate advocate for refugees’
Labour peer heralds work of late Liberal Jewish leader and fellow Kinder, recalling their trip to the Calais Jungle in 2016
By Jack Mendel
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