Tag: United Kingdom
UK academic is fired, in part for saying Jews are ‘cleverest people in world’
An engineering lecturer in the United Kingdom has been fired for making racial remarks, including saying Jews “are the cleverest people in the world” and had “a particular gift” for physics.
An employment tribunal this...
Labour Party to pay damages to whistleblowers who voiced anti-Semitic concerns
The Labour Party in the United Kingdom has agreed to pay substantial damages to seven former employees who sued for defamation after they raised concerns of anti-Semitism in the opposition party.
The whistleblowers—Louise Withers Green,...
UK Labour Party member apologizes for online anti-Semitic remarks
A senior member of the British Labour Party has apologized for anti-Semitic comments online prior to his current position.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle, 33, a shadow environment minister, made the remarks before becoming a member of Parliament...
Boris Johnson: London will not recognize Israeli sovereignty
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Israel not to extend its sovereignty to Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley in a front-page Hebrew op-ed published by Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot on Wednesday.
Calling himself a “passionate...
British education secretary ousted for sharing ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’
British Labour Party member Rebecca Long-Bailey was ousted on Thursday as shadow education secretary after sharing an “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory” on Twitter.
Long-Bailey, an ally of former U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was asked by...
Boris Johnson: Israel’s sovereignty plan breaches international law
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria constitutes a violation of international law.
Responding...
Tzipi Hotovely to become Israel’s new UK ambassador
Israeli Settlement Affairs Minister Tzipi Hotovely on Thursday announced her acceptance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer that she serve as Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.
This will enable Netanyahu to appoint Tzachi Hanegbi...
UK teen who had virtual ‘Friends’ bar mitzvah gets video visit from sitcom star
The first line in the opening theme song of the former TV sitcom “Friends” goes “so no one told you life was gonna be this way”—a sentiment many are feeling amid the coronavirus pandemic...
UK chief rabbi: ‘Synagogues will not open for a long time’
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis projected on Thursday that all houses of worship affiliated with the United Synagogue—the largest network of Orthodox communities in the United Kingdom—“will not open for a...
Online project in Britain sets up learning between students and Holocaust survivors
The United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum has launched an online program that allows schoolchildren at home during the coronavirus pandemic to ask questions to Holocaust survivors.
Connecting the survivors, many of whom are...