Joe Millis

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn laughs next to Jennie Formby at last year's conference in Brighton.

March 31, 2019, 4:50 pm

Top Corbyn aide blocked suspension of Labour member who was later arrested

Patricia Sheerin was one of three party members questioned by Scotland Yard earlier this month for 'publishing or distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred'

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Rachel Riley at the Holocaust Educational Trust Lord Merlyn-Rees event on 22 January 2019

March 31, 2019, 4:05 pm

Rachel Riley accused of ‘prostituting’ her Judaism in order to attack Corbyn

Suspended Labour member trolled Countdown on Twitter, saying what Israel does in the name of God is 'pure satanic'

By Joe Millis

Ken Livingstone at Church House, Westminster, London, for his disciplinary hearing where he faced a charge of engaging in conduct that was grossly detrimental to the party following his controversial comments about Adolf Hitler. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday March 30, 2017. Mr Livingstone was suspended in April last year after claiming that Hitler supported Zionism in the 1930s. See PA story POLITICS Livingstone. Photo credit should read: Lauren Hurley/PA Wire

March 31, 2019, 3:37 pm

Livingstone: Labour antisemitism row based on lies and smears

Former London mayor tells Corbynistas that smears are being promoted by 'ghastly old Blairites'

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March 21, 2019, 1:15 pm

OPINION: Why we must change the terminology of Jew-hatred

Joe Millis says words matter - and it's important to move away from the term 'antisemitism'

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A Board of Deputies plenary, with President Marie van der Zyl (second left)

March 14, 2019, 4:30 pm

OPINION: What is our communal leadership scared of?

Joe Millis reflects on the Board of Deputies' reluctance to condemn the far-right alliance struck by the Israeli government

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Jewish Labour Movement at Cable Street 80 event

March 11, 2019, 9:00 pm

Jewish Labour Movement suspends antisemitism training for party members

Move comes as Labour is investigated for institutional antisemitism and party ditches JLM as sole provider of training for university programme run by Chakrabarti report co-chair

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Jackie Walker (right) with Tony Greenstein (left) in front of a Momentum banner outside the Labour Party's HQ

March 10, 2019, 8:41 am

Jackie Walker had ‘legitimately held belief’ over playing down the Holocaust

Former Momentum vice-chair claimed Jews were chief financiers of the slave trade and that the African Holocaust was worse than the Nazis'

By Joe Millis

March 10, 2019, 8:08 am

Top Corbyn aide Seamas Milne ‘intervened’ to get antisemitism suspension lifted

Leader's director of strategy said Jeremy Corbyn "interested in this one" over suspension of Jewish anti-Zionist Glyn Secker

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Mark Regev and Tory MP Sam Gyimah at the opening of the London Stock Exchange in July 2018

March 7, 2019, 9:56 am

‘Future is bright’ for UK-Israel trade regardless of Brexit

Yariv Becher, Head of Economic and Trade Mission to the UK for the Israeli Embassy reflects on burgeoning bilateral ties

By Joe Millis

February 24, 2019, 6:46 pm

Freer welcomes review of Palestinian school textbooks

Israel claims Palestinian kids being taught to hate Jews, which goes against the UK's 'partnership principles'

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Students' Union, University of Essex, Colchester Campus

February 20, 2019, 11:38 pm

Essex students’ vote on whether a J-Soc is needed branded ‘simply shocking’

Student group also calls for action against lecturer who promoted antisemitism and Holocaust denial

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Anne Meadows (right) with Tory Chairman Brandon Lewis

February 20, 2019, 11:56 am

Brighton Labour councillor defects after ’18 months of antisemitism and abuse’

The chair of the council’s Housing and New Homes Committee, Anne Meadows, cites attacks she's suffered as she joins the Tories

By Joe Millis

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with Shadow Attorney General, Baroness Chakrabarti, who published a report into anti-Semitism in June 2016

Photo credit: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

February 17, 2019, 3:48 pm

A third of UK voters think Corbyn is an antisemite – poll

YouGov survey commissioned by Jewish Labour Movement suggests 60 percent believe leader's handling of Jew-hate in party has been 'incompetent'

By Joe Millis

Michael Dugher, who was a Labour member for 30 years and an MP for seven

February 16, 2019, 10:37 pm

Former Labour MP quits party after 30 years citing response to antisemitism

Ex-aide to Gordon Brown, Michael Dugher, admits to being close to tears over the way Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth have been treated

By Joe Millis

Victoria Tower Gardens in Westminster, London. Photo credit: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

February 12, 2019, 11:52 am

OPINION: Sorry, but Victoria Tower Gardens is NOT the place for a Shoah memorial

Joe MIllis reflects on the controversial proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre next to parliament

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