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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
Israel’s messianic settler regime has moved beyond military containment to mass ethnic cleansing, making any two-state solution based on differential rights impossible — we must support the Palestinian demand for decolonisation, writes HUGH LANNING
Thousands fill London streets on 77th anniversary of catastrophe as the Co-op supermarket AGM votes to stop selling Israeli goods
