A London mayoral candidate of Jewish background was accused of using racial profiling in sending targeted campaign letters to voters of Indian descent that some said played off stereotypes. Voters criticized Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith after his campaign team sent out letters this weekend endorsing him, signed by Prime Minister David Cameron, reports. Some recipients…
The board of the student union at the prestigious University College London passed a nonbinding motion endorsing the anti-Israel boycott movement. Student union officers on Wednesday passed the motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, by a vote of 14-4, The Jewish News of London reported. There were three abstentions. The measure…
An Uber driver who shouted anti-Semitic epithets at a bus driver in a haredi Orthodox neighborhood of London received a suspended prison sentence. Rashal Miah, 36, shouted that he would “kill all the Jews” after getting stuck in traffic in Stamford Hill, a haredi Orthodox neighborhood of London, in September, 2014. He also called the…
The removal of anti-Israel posters from London’s underground train network on Monday prompted sparring between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a political rival as to whose complaint to the British authorities had prompted the crackdown. A spokeswoman for Transport for London, the authority responsible for the underground ‘Tube’ network, said the ads had been…
Three men driving in a white pickup truck threw nitrous oxide canisters and yelled anti-Semitic slurs at three Orthodox Jews in London. The incident occurred in a north London shopping center Wednesday evening, according to The Standard. No injuries were reported. The men allegedly shouted “Hitler is on the way to you, Heil Hitler, Heil…
London Mayor Boris Johnson had two of his planned meetings in the West Bank cancelled after he criticized boycotts of Israel. Johnson was due to meet Wednesday in the West Bank with the Palestine Business Women’s Forum and a Palestinian youth group. Both meetings were cancelled after Johnson, who is on a three-day trade mission…
London Mayor Boris Johnson said in Tel Aviv that boycotting Israel is “foolish.” Johnson, of the Conservative Party, also said Monday that those who advocate such a move make up “a very small minority.” “I cannot think of anything more foolish” than to boycott “a country that when all is said and done is the…
(JTA) — A musical play based on the lives and careers of the influential hip-hop group The Beastie Boys is to open in London. “Licensed to Ill,” named after the group’s first album, is scheduled to run from Nov. 23 to Dec. 12 at the Camden People’s Theater. The three core members of The Beastie…
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