Mentions:
1: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) in the House, in which it can be made clear by all parties that the House will never compromise on British - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Government the opportunity to state again at the Dispatch Box that we will never compromise on the British - Speech Link
3: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) on the sad passing of Lord Hoyle, who was a much-loved icon of Warrington, and in wishing my fellow Jews - Speech Link
4: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) questions remain about the future of rail in the UK, including, of course, about the future of Great British - Speech Link
5: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Hajj begins in mid-June, when thousands of British Muslims will travel to Saudi Arabia for their pilgrimage - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) We have seen an Iranian journalist attacked on British soil, and we have seen an international vessel - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) It will be fantastic for British jobs here at home. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) That is the British approach. - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) There has to be a menu of options for what the British Government and the British people will do in assisting - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Just last week, I had an opportunity to be in Israel to visit the kibbutz where the people—innocent Jews—were - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord True (Con - Life peer) It is clear that Hamas cannot remain in charge in Gaza: the British Government have made that clear, - Speech Link
2: Lord True (Con - Life peer) It is the position of the British Government that Israel has every right to defend itself against the - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) However, can I ask specifically, first, about the 25 attempts over the past two years to kill British - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Lexden (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have issued guidance to public institutions and universities concerning security arrangements for the protection of historic portraits of past statesmen.
Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The vandalism against the portrait of A.J. Balfour at Trinity College, Cambridge, last month is rightly being investigated as a criminal act by Cambridgeshire Police. The shoddy sense of history by those who perpetrated and promoted it is also a reminder of the importance of historic portraits in improving our awareness and understanding of the past.
The famous declaration made by Balfour as Foreign Secretary in November 1917 made clear that ‘nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country’. At the time Balfour issued it, the man who had painted his portrait three years earlier, Philip de László, was (despite having become a British citizen, with the former Prime Minister as one of his sponsors) interned, having been arrested on suspicion of treason on account of letters he had written to family members in Austria. As the historian Giles MacDonogh has noted, it appears ‘the fact that de László was born of Jewish parents had some bearing on the case’; his interrogation by Special Branch dwelt on his Jewish ancestry, and an unsympathetic biography included in the recommendation from MI5 to the Home Secretary that he be interned noted that de László was the ‘son of a Jew tailor’. In May 1919, his case was raised in a debate in Your Lordships’ House; the following month, it was brought before the Certificates of Naturalisation (Revocation) Committee, which took just fifteen minutes to throw it out and exonerate him.
It is thanks to portraits like this that such fascinating insights into our past can be gleaned.
I have spoken to the Vice-Master of Trinity College following the attack, and hope that this magnificent portrait can be swiftly repaired and shared with students and visitors to the college for many years to come.
Apr. 03 2024
Source Page: Commission for Countering Extremism end of year report 2023 to 2024Found: additional legislation and the increasingly extreme rhetoric being aired in the UK around Israel and Jews
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Yesterday, the first airdrop of British aid by the Royal Air Force, with the support of Jordan, took - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) A British medical team and local staff were inside, who, since then, have received six explanations for - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Manchester airport yesterday when Border Force guards made it apparent that they do not want Israeli Jews - Speech Link
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic ResilienceFound: for the above reasons : “[There was] clear expression from the perpetrator that he was looking for Jews
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic ResilienceFound: Jews now avoid displaying outward signs of their Judaism in public – the highest figure recorded in
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic ResilienceFound: Much of this is summarised in a scoping review (British Academy, 2019).
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic ResilienceFound: Polling indicates that 69% of British Jews report being less likely to show visible signs of Judaism,