“We should be concerned also about the rise in islamophobia,” says Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Politicians urge zero tolerance – but there’s a gap between law and enforcement. If the Met can arrest 155 anti-lockdown protestors, why can’t it do the same to pro-Hamas ringleaders?
But many London Jews find it is too soon to speak of the horrific events in Israel, and are filled with sombre forebodings.
If an organisation whose response to recent events is a protest outside the Israeli embassy isn’t proscribed by Labour, the only question is: why not?
One has to be consistent. Either one is for cancel culture or one is against it. And an MP being prevented from fighting the next election over an idiotic letter, however offensive its contents, strikes me as an open and shut case of it.
If she does do it, Starmer is unlikely to reverse it. But the Government should be clear what the UK gains from the gesture.
She has become the classic Golden Age detective novelist. But that was not her world, nor that of her readers.
Zahawi must act to prevent “ideological race materials” being rolled out in schools by left-wing councils and others.
But beware, Prime Minister: there is no divine right of parties any more than there was a divine right of kings.
I’m haunted by how media propagation of tribalism in Rwanda helped to desensitise people – and was followed by genocide.
Ministers believe that the present legal framework isn’t fit for purpose if prosecutions of returning terrorists are to be successful.
The right to it must be championed even when – no: especially when – remarks are made that we find reprehensible.
I couldn’t believe that Susan had lived through so much – but felt that she had no choice to protest against the same hatred over 70 years later.
“Britain would not be Britain without its Jewish community, and we will stand with you and celebrate with you all the year round.”
Just before I penned this article, a father of two children who attend a Jewish school spoke to me about the agonising conversation he had been having with his wife about whether it was safe to send them in.