UK drops nomination of pro-Khalistan leader to House of Lords ahead of Boris Johnson s India visit
UK drops nomination of pro-Khalistan leader to House of Lords ahead of Boris Johnson s India visit
While the pro-Khalistan Labour party leader s name was cleared by the appointments commission, India Today TV has learnt that he would have been in the House of Lords if not for the last-minute pressure from the Indian community in the UK.
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UPDATED: December 24, 2020 18:02 IST
Dabinderjit Singh Sidhu, Principle Advisor to the Sikh Federation, addressing the meeting, describing how Sikhs are portrayed in the media.
In a major turn of events, UK Labour leader Keir Starmer who nominated Dabinderjit Singh Sidhu to the House of Lords (HOL) later withdrew the nomination despite the fact that Sidhu’s name was vetted and approved by the appointments commission.
Observers say EU-funded review of Palestinian textbooks reeks of incompetence, concealment
December 25, 2020
(JNS) In a ground-breaking move and in response to the lack of change in the Palestinian Authority school curriculum and the continued insertion of anti-Semitism, hate and incitement to violence and martyrdom in its textbooks, the Norwegian parliament endorsed a cut last week in aid to the P.A.
In 2018, the United Kingdom commissioned a report on Palestinian textbooks from the Germany-based Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, which then published a report that was found to be riddled with mistakes. The European Union then decided to commission another report, due.
British-Pakistani Becomes Youngest Member of Opposition in House of Lords
The Co-founder and National Coordinator of Labour Friends of Kashmir, Wajid Khan, has been appointed as a Member of the British House of Lords.
The British citizen of Pakistani origin is the youngest member of the Opposition in the House of Lords elected from Burnley, Lancashire.
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He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England (European Constituency) from 2017 to 2019 and has served in Britain’s Foreign Affairs Committee and Human Rights Committee.
Khan, who has his roots in Kharian tehsil of district Gujrat, Pakistan, is known to be vocal on issues like fracking, climate change, gender equality, and human rights violations in Kashmir.
Gerald Kaufman, who died on February 26th 2017 at the age of 86, served as a member of Parliament for 47 continuous years and became the Father of the House of Commons. In his early years as an MP Kaufman was a strong supporter of the Israeli state and was a member of both Labour Friends of Israel and Poalei Zion, the British wing of the Israeli Labour Party. Tony Greenstein writes, “Perhaps the most fitting tribute to Gerald Kaufman that there can be was that he wasn’t a hypocrite. Kaufman had grown up with Labour Zionism and its myth of making the desert bloom, but unlike most supporters of Zionism in the Labour Party today, Gerald Kaufman was sincere in wanting to see a two-state solution. For him it wasn’t a convenient cover for an apartheid Greater Israel. Kaufman was quite sincere in his hostility to Israeli rule over millions of Palestinians and he didn’t hesitate to speak out against the occupation and repression that it entailed.”
At the end of November Joshua Leifer, an Associate Editor of
Jewish Currents [
JC], wrote an article about the “tragedy” of Jeremy Corbyn. He did not seek the opinions of any Jewish victims of the “antisemitism” witchhunt in the Labour Party. As the first Jewish member of the party to be expelled I submitted a response.
At first I was simply ignored and after a reminder, Arielle Angel, Editor-in-chief, explained that it was a lack of resources that prevented them publishing my reply.
JC “simply do not have the bandwidth to publish full response articles to articles we’ve published”. So I am publishing my response here.