Ken Livingstone

The comprehensive election defeat of Britain’s left-wing Labour Party has been hailed in Israel as a “milestone in the fight against hatred” after its leadership was accused of years of tepid inaction against antisemitism in its ranks.

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone told a meeting of hard-left Labour Party activists “lies and smears” are being used to destroy leader Jeremy Corbyn.

A newspaper handed out at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool carries a front page story likening the Jewish state of Israel to Nazi Germany.

The leftist ruling body of Britain’s Labour Party has voted not to adopt the international definition of anti-Semitism in its code of conduct, bringing relations between the Jewish community and the party to a new low since socialist Jeremy Corbyn became leader.

Holocaust denial should be covered by free speech guarantees, an activist told a Labour Party conference fringe event on Monday while another speaker called for Jewish and pro-Israel groups to be expelled from the party.

LONDON (AFP) – Outspoken former London mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday suggested that one of the causes of Venezuela’s current crisis was that former president Hugo Chavez “didn’t kill all the oligarchs”.

A Labour mayor and parliamentary candidate could be facing legal action from Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi after accusing him on Twitter of selling Israel oil purchased from Islamic State.

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has ordered yet another disciplinary hearing for Ken Livingstone in the latest chapter of the party’s long-running anti-Semitism row.

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has been suspended by the Labour Party for one year after a disciplinary hearing found he had brought the party into disrepute over past comments about anti-Semitism, Hitler, and Zionism.

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone will know on Tuesday whether he still has a future in the UK Labour Party when a disciplinary hearing sparked by comments he made about Hitler resumes.

Jewish Labour MPs have reacted angrily to claims that allegations of anti-Semitism in the party are “exaggerated” and have been selectively “weaponised” in an attempt to undermine leader Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has rejected an invitation from Labour’s sister party in Israel to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, citing a busy schedule for the snub.

Britain’s opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said he regrets supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, and that comments by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone asserting that Hitler supported Zionism were “wrong.”

The Campaign Against Antisemitism has warned that British Jews will continue to “worry” about their future in Britain, following Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s appearance yesterday in front of a Parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism. Mr. Corbyn’s leadership has been dogged by

A press conference called to announce that an inquiry has found the Labour Party is “not overrun” by anti-Semitism has prompted fresh allegations of anti-Semitism within the party, after its leader Jeremy Corbyn compared the Israeli government to Islamic State,

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn wrote his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, on Thursday, turning down his invitation to come to Israel.

Ken Livingstone’s way back into the Labour fold has been revealed following the part-publication of the party’s report into allegations of anti-Semitism in the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC). As Breitbart London previously reported, the investigation of the OULC was commissioned after Alex

Haaretz reports: Sadiq Khan, who was sworn in as London’s first Muslim mayor last week, reiterated plans to lead a trade delegation to Israel.

A Labour Party MP has been revealed as proposing a Labour Government could make an historical apology for the creation of the modern State of Israel in 1948. According to the Mail on Sunday, Ealing MP Rupa Huq (pictured) made the comments

The Times of Israel reports: Former London mayor Ken Livingstone on Wednesday called the creation of Israel “fundamentally wrong,” and “a great catastrophe.” The existence of the Jewish state in the Middle East, he said, could ultimately lead to nuclear war.

Senior Labour figures have been accused of spreading the “insidious virus of anti-Semitism” by Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis. Calling on the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn to take “decisive action,” Rabbi Mirvis further criticised those within the party who have suggested

The BBC reports: Ex-Labour MP Naz Shah has “stood aside” from the Commons Home Affairs select committee “until further notice”.

TEL AVIV – Former London mayor Ken Livingstone abused the memory of the Holocaust for his own political needs, Israeli MK Merav Michaeli said on Sunday.

Charles Moore analyses Sadiq Khan’s comments about Labour’s anti-Semitism problem in The Telegraph: He’s an artful one, Sadiq Khan. Labour’s London mayoral candidate told the Observer: “I accept that the comments that Ken Livingstone has made make it more difficult

TEL AVIV – Anti-Semitism sweeping Britain’s Labour party has “crossed a red line” and British leadership must condemn it, Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev said on Sunday to the BBC.

Peter Hitchens has shared his views on Ken Livingstone in the Mail on Sunday: I have known and disagreed with Ken Livingstone for nearly 40 years. I especially loathe his slippery excuse-making for the IRA, and I think he has done

The Guardian reports: Ken Livingstone persists in mangling facts to suit his argument in his continued attempt to defend his comments on Hitler and Zionism.

The British Labour Party has commissioned an independent inquiry into anti-Semitism within it ranks, leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed. The announcement follows a turbulent week in which two prominent members were suspended over anti-Semitic comments, and the party was accused

Britain’s Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn on Friday faced intense pressure over alleged anti-Semitism in his party less than a week before his leadership is tested by local elections. Corbyn announced an independent review into racism after senior party member

Leading ‘Remain’ campaigner Ken Livingstone has been suspended from the Labour Party after making offensive comments about Hitler and Zionism. The former London Mayor appeared on BBC London earlier today to defend Naz Shah, the Labour MP for Bradford West

The corrosive power of anti-Semitism is something Europe is forgetting at its peril, a Jewish leader has warned, adding that its symptoms are intolerance, prejudice and hatred specifically “aimed at Jews.”

Margaret Thatcher feared an Asian uprising if Irish nationalists were granted changes in the way Northern Ireland and its institutions were run. In talks with the then Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald in the run up to the 1984 Anglo-Irish agreement,