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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.

Senior members of Britain’s opposition Labour Party have said they will boycott any state visit by Donald Trump to the UK.

Yvette Cooper has announced that MPs will look into how social media companies can censor a “tide of hate”, and strongly implied that freedom of speech should mean freedom from criticism in remarks ahead of a new inquiry into “hate crime”.

A pro-Palestinian group funded a 2009 visit by Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader of the U.K. Labour Party, to Syria, where he met with President Bashar Assad, English-language reports said this week.

Britain’s Labour Party’s conference has played host to the foreign-funded Hope Not Hate group, which has said Labour must start talking to “racist” working class people if the party wants to defeat the UK Independence Party.

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.

A Labour councillor in Scotland has been suspended after allegedly referring to LGBT people as “deviants”. Tom McAughtrie, who has served as a councillor in the Labour party for more than 30 years in Dumfries and Galloway, has been placed

(AFP) – The embattled leader of Britain’s Labour party could lose his parliamentary seat in a shake-up set to reduce the number of lawmakers, according to plans unveiled on Tuesday. The possible impact on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s political career

A claim that a traditional Hebrew greeting for Passover was removed from a message by UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn because of the fear it might look “Zionist” has been rejected by the party.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn has called for an end to after-work drinks, claiming the practice discriminates against women.

Metropolitan Police counter terrorism command is providing special protection to Labour MP Ruth Smeeth after she was the subject of an anti-Semitic and homophobic online rant.

(REUTERS) – Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing head of Britain’s opposition Labour party, is set to win a leadership race with even more support than when he was first elected last year, according to a YouGov poll in The Times on Wednesday.

(AFP) – Voting will begin Monday to decide if veteran leftist Jeremy Corbyn will remain leader of Britain’s Labour party, with an ill-tempered campaign deepening divisions that threaten the party’s future. Ballots and online voting forms were due to be

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will share a speaking platform with a blogger who once called for a Jewish journalist in Israel to have his throat cut.

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has an inner circle that can only be compared to Nazi stormtroopers, a Jewish party donor said on Sunday.

Labour MPs and feminist organisations have called on Theresa May to suspend Philip Davies after it emerged the Tory MP gave a speech pointing out how the UK justice system favours women. Jeremy Corbyn is among the voices demanding Mr Davies

Jeremy Corbyn, the embattled leader of the opposition UK Labour Party, has been accused of accepting campaign funds from a group with links to the Hamas terrorist organisation.

A senior Labour MP has called for male migrants coming from Syria to the UK to receive formal lessons to prevent against sexual assault. She added that British men also need the classes, which would “provide information on how they should interact with women”.

A Labour councillor has said he will report a former Yorkshire mayor to the police for liking “racist” tweets. George McManus said tweets sent and ‘liked’ by Heather Venter would “cause racial and religious hatred” and that they were “designed

Jeremy Corbyn wants to “destroy” Labour and turn it into the Socialist Workers Party, a senior peer has claimed. Labour peer Lord West said the country needs a strong opposition to counter the Conservative government, and believes Jeremy Corbyn is more interested

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.”

A female Labour MP has reportedly been shot and stabbed during a constituency surgery in Yorkshire. Jo Cox, 41, is said to have been attacked by a man in Birstall near Leeds.

The Times of Israel reports: A Labour activist who was suspended from the British party for claiming that Jews were “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade” has been readmitted to its ranks.

The Guardian reports: Jeremy Corbyn faced fresh criticism over his handling of anti-Semitism allegations after Labour’s sister party in Israel said it had had no reply to a letter its leader sent to him a month ago expressing dismay and inviting him to Jerusalem to see the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.

The Times of Israel reports: British Jewish groups and lawmakers have called on the Labour Party to suspend a member of the European Parliament who compared Israel to the Nazis.

London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, attended an annual memorial to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first official act in office on Sunday.

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

Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked challenged British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to crack down hard on Wednesday after fresh allegations of anti-Semitism in its ranks. “Mr. Corbyn must clarify that anti-Semitic comments are not within legitimate political debate, and

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

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel’s opposition Labor party said on Tuesday that it was weighing severing ties with its British counterpart after fresh allegations of anti-Semitism in its ranks.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Recent revelations of anti-Semitism among British Labour MPs and officials show the extent to which radical Islam has made inroads in Europe, Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said Monday.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Another three Labour Party members were suspended Monday after posting anti-Israel messages on social media, continuing a rash of damning revelations that has placed Jeremy Corbyn’s movement under scrutiny for widespread anti-Semitism.

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.

The Times of Israel reports: British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn rebuffed calls Sunday to denounce contacts with terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, while declaring that his party is against anti-Semitism, amid a roiling scandal over accusations of widespread anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiments among Labourites.

The Times of Israel reports: Amid an ongoing row over anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour Party, a Jewish member of parliament from the party published a series of tweets and private messages she received online in recent years which highlight the disturbing level of abuse endured by Jewish politicians in the United Kingdom.