British Labour lawmaker who accused Israel envoy of dual loyalties gains senior posts
A British lawmaker who once accused a Jewish ambassador to Israel of dual loyalty will serve as a senior opposition leader.
A British lawmaker who once accused a Jewish ambassador to Israel of dual loyalty will serve as a senior opposition leader.
A Polish lawmaker from a political party with a strong anti-racism agenda said her party leader received a handwritten, anti-Semitic death threat whose author signed it “Sniper.”
Police in Britain are looking into complaints against a lawmaker who called for his constituency to be “declared an Israel-free zone.”
A British lawmaker was fired from his job working for a senior Conservative Party minister after attending a Nazi-themed party
A lawmaker from the haredi Orthodox Shas Party said Gilad Shalit should have spent his first Shabbat of freedom not at the beach but praying in synagogue.
A British lawmaker has apologized for insulting a fellow Jewish lawmaker and Labor Party member during a debate in the House of Commons. During a debate Wednesday on plans to change the law of universal jurisdiction, Gerald Kaufman turned to a lawmaker sitting next to him and said, \”Here we are, the Jews again,\” as pro-Israel lawmaker Louise Ellman rose to refute a claim by the Labor Party\’s Ann Clwyd that the lawmakers were trying to change the law — making it more difficult to issue an arrest warrant against a suspected international war criminal — to appease the Israeli government.
A conservative radio host suggested that he would work to unseat a Minnesota state senator who opposed a pastor\’s invocation in the statehouse for being nonsectarian.
Members of a Norwegian lawmaker\’s own party have called for his resignation after he publicly denied the Holocaust. Labor Party lawmaker Anders Mathisen reportedly told the Finnmarken newspaper that the Holocaust never happened and challenged readers to prove him wrong. “There is no evidence the gas chambers or mass graves existed,\” he told the newspaper, according to reports. \”Even reputable Holocaust historians have admitted it cannot be established.”
Ireland\’s only Jewish member of parliament was appointed to the country\’s Cabinet as the new government was sworn in. Alan Shatter was sworn in Wednesday as justice minister in a coalition of his center-right Fine Gael Party and the liberal Labor Party. He represents Dublin South, where most of Ireland\’s Jews live.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has joined a growing list of politicians calling for the resignation of a senior member of Parliament who questioned Israel\’s right to exist.\n