Tag: United Kingdom
Prince William touches down in Israel for first official visit
Prince William landed in Israel on Monday evening, where he was greeted by Israeli officials to mark the royal family’s first official visit to Israel.
William, who is second in line to the throne, is...
Britain: UN Human Rights Council must end its anti-Israel bias
The United Kingdom called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to ends its long-standing bias against Israel and drop the controversial agenda item singling out the Jewish state.
“We share the view that the dedicated...
Netanyahu asks for May’s help in ‘rolling back’ Iranian aggression in Mideast
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked for British Prime Minister Theresa May’s help in how to “roll back Iran’s aggression” in the Middle East.
Netanyahu told his British counterpart that he believes that there are...
‘Anti-Zionist and Jew:’ Behind Jeremy Corbyn’s apology
“I refuse to characterize as opinion,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in Anti-Semite and Jew, “a doctrine that is aimed directly at particular persons and that seeks to suppress their rights or to exterminate them.”
This was the...
Top European powers urge stronger Iran sanctions to strengthen nuclear deal
The United Kingdom, France and Germany are urging fellow European Union partners to back new sanctions on Iran in order to preserve the nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw...
Prince William to make first-ever official royal visit to Israel this summer
The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, will make an official trip to Israel, the first-ever by a member of the royal family, as part of a tour of the region this summer.
“The Duke of...
UK Neo-Nazi says he’s gay – and Jewish
For more than 40 years, Kevin Wilshaw was an active member of the neo-Nazi movement in the UK. But on Tuesday night, the ex-white supremacist said he is leaving the movement, he is gay,...
UK Christians and Jews celebrate 75 years of inter-faith relations
The Archbishop of Dublin, Michael Jackson, has used a speech to the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) to talk about how people encounter what he termed “the other.” Respect for the other was needed for...
Man who threatened shul-goers on Shabbat convicted of hate crime
A man who shouted “f*** you Jewish people” at strictly Orthodox worshippers walking to shul on Shabbat and told them he would “wipe them out” has been convicted of two counts of racially or...