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PALESTINIAN ambassador to Britain Manuel Hassassian has urged Jeremy Corbyn not to “give in” on excluding certain examples of anti-semitism from Labour’s proposed code of conduct.
Mr Hassassian said Labour had “rightly judged” that the particularly contentious inclusion of “claiming Israel’s existence was a racist endeavour” as an example of anti-semitism “could be used as a tool to challenge criticism of nationalist tendencies and violations of human rights in Israel.”
He added that adopting such an example could “legitimise [Israel’s] prolonged occupation of the Palestinians rather than protecting Jews worldwide,”
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
ASSAF TALGAM talks to an Israeli Communist lawmaker about the need to use every tool of democratic and non-violent struggle; how Israeli society has changed since October 7 2023; and the persecution of the left in the parliamentary arena
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions