Published: 7 April 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Apology to Jewish community is my ‘value statement’, new Labour leader Keir Starmer says (Jewish Chronicle)
He writes to groups including the Board of Deputies and JLC to arrange a meeting soon
New UK Labour chief sends condolences to Jewish community for high virus deaths (Times of Israel)
In one of his first acts as party leader, Keir Starmer offers assistance to community’s umbrella group amid COVID-19 toll, repeats vow to stamp out anti-Semitism
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White House disinvites artist who drew 'blatantly anti-Semitic' cartoon (Haaretz)
Trump administration revokes invitation it had extended to Ben Garrison, who portrayed US security officials being manipulated by George Soros and the Rothschilds
Coronavirus, the 'Soros bio-weapon': how far right anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are infecting mainstream politics (Haaretz)
As the coronavirus crisis spreads, white supremacists and far-right ‘influencers’ are repackaging old anti-Semitic tropes linking Jews to disease, profiteering and globalist plots - and mainstream politicians amplify them
Photo: Keir Starmer, January 5 (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
