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Labour adopts new anti-Semitism definition
After months of acrimony, Labour’s leadership has backed down, as the party’s ruling body adopted the international Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s full definition of anti-Semitism, including all its examples – along with a statement declaring it would not undermine any freedom of speech on Israel or Palestinian rights.
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FactCheck: Jeremy Corbyn and the wreath row
The controversy centres on one question: did Jeremy Corbyn lay a wreath on the graves of individuals linked to the Black September terror group?
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Rashida Tlaib interview on Palestine, Trump’s America and becoming the first Muslim congresswoman
She says Americans are disconnected, not divided, and Israelis and Palestinians have more in common than they think. Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is now the Democratic party candidate for Michigan’s 13th district, a story hailed as the epitome of the American dream.
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Ahed Tamimi on her months inside an Israeli Prison
The seventeen-year-old spent eight months in jail and was released this week to a hero’s welcome and praise from the Palestinian President. A regular child protester Ahed was arrested after being filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her home on the same day a teenage relative had been injured by what’s thought to have been an Israeli plastic bullet.
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The only woman photojournalist on the Gaza frontline
A 21-year-old Palestinian medic has been killed in Gaza today near the Israeli border. She is reported to have been shot in the chest, with dozens of other people injured by live fire. In recent weeks more than a hundred Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops, including two journalists. Despite the dangers, one woman has…
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How Channel 4 News has shone a light on the issue of immigration and deportation over the last decade
Immigration, and our attitude to it, has rarely been out of the headlines, as these revelatory Channel 4 News reports by Simon Israel from the last decade show.
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Support in Israel for Gaza military operation
While hundreds of Palestinians are mourning their dead, life for most Israelis has largely been unaffected by the Gaza protests. And support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline stance against unrest in the enclave remains strong.
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US blames Hamas for Gaza violence
The UN Security Council has held an emergency meeting following the deadly violence in Gaza which coincided with America opening its new embassy in Israel in Jerusalem. US Ambassador Nikki Haley said it would be a mistake to blame the deaths on the embassy moving from Tel Aviv to the city which Palestinians view as…
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Israel condemned for Gaza killings
Palestinian authorities reported that two more people died under the fire of the Israeli military on the Gaza border with Israel, bringing the total number of fatalities to 62 since yesterday. Many more remain critically injured in hospital. There is mounting international condemnation of Israel’s use of force, with the United Nations calling it an…
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Bloodshed at Gaza’s border – Israeli gunfire leads to dozens dead
Over 50 people were killed – several of them children – and many hundreds injured, as Palestinian protesters were met with live rounds fired by Israeli troops.
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Al-Shabaka’s Nadia Hijab: ‘Gaza is a cage that is worse than a British prison’
Nadia Hijab is co-founder and president the Palestinian think-tank Al-Shabaka.
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Ivanka Trump arrives in Israel ahead of U.S. embassy move
Donald Trump sent his daughter and son-in-law today, while he appeared on video, to celebrate the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. No other countries have their embassies in Jerusalem with diplomats kept an hour away in Tel Aviv – so as not to show support for rival claims to the Holy City. And…
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Abu Shusha: 70 years after Israel
On Monday it will be the 70th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. But a day later Palestinians observe Nakba, in which they commemorates the loss of their homes and the beginning of the first Arab-Israeli War. The word means catastrophe. Close to a million Palestinians fled from their homes in the…
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Gaza suicide crisis: ‘We’re dead already’
In Gaza, over 40 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured by Israeli gunfire in the last few weeks as protesters demanded the right to return to the lands many were forced to leave 70 years ago. The UN says Gaza will be “unliveable” by 2020, or sooner. And such are the declining levels of…
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Is Iran really ‘the world’s leading state sponsor of terror’?
President Trump has claimed that Iran is the world’s “leading state sponsor of terror”. But is that fair? Before he became president, Trump said the “world’s biggest funder of terrorism” was Saudi Arabia – not Iran. So is his latest claim is just political rhetoric?
