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Kate Osamor, the MP for Edmonton,
January 30, 2024, 5:45 pm
OPINION: If the Holocaust has a moral lesson, it’s don’t demonise Jews
Suspended Labour MP Kate Osamor's attempt to link Israel and the Nazis reflected an alarming resurgence of religious animosity reminiscent of medieval times.
By Alex Hearn
Dan Tomlinson, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Chipping Barnet
January 30, 2024, 10:21 am
OPINION: ‘We must continue to educate younger generations about the evil of antisemitism’
Reflections on Holocaust Memorial Day, by Dan Tomlinson, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Chipping Barnet
By Dan Tomlinson
Trevor Phillips questions Jonathan Reynolds over Kate Osamor's remarks
January 28, 2024, 12:48 pm
Labour frontbencher says whips discussing MP’s unacceptable Gaza HMD remarks
Confirmation from Jonathan Reynolds follows disgust at Kate Osamor's attempt to link Gaza with other genocides remembered on Holocaust Memorial Day
By Lee Harpin
Kate Osamor, the MP for Edmonton,
January 26, 2024, 7:47 pm
Disgust as Labour MP claims Holocaust Memorial Day should recognise ‘Gaza genocide’
Kate Osamor wrote to party members in her Edmonton constituency to say she was adding 'Gaza' to the list of 'recent genocides' she was remembering on Holocaust Memorial Day
By Lee Harpin
Palestine activists scream insults as Lambeth Council leader Claire Holland tells full meeting of this year's HMD commemorations
January 26, 2024, 2:53 pm
Sick ‘pro-Palestine’ activists heckle council leader as she outlines Holocaust memorial events
EXCLUSIVE Lambeth Council leader Claire Holland faced screams of 'Shame on you' from the public gallery as she spoke proudly of the borough's Holocaust Memorial Day events.
By Lee Harpin
The Reverend Canon Michael Smith, Acting Dean of York, helps light six hundred candles in the shape of the Star of David, in memory of more than 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis in the Second World War, in the Chapter House at York Minster in York, part of York Minster's commemoration for International Holocaust Day.
January 26, 2024, 7:55 am
Holocaust educators braced for ‘agonising’ weekend
Schools and offices scale back this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations over Gaza conflict
By Sarah Miller
Margaret Hodge opens HMD debate in Commons
January 25, 2024, 4:13 pm
Margaret Hodge urges UK to protect refugees as she opens Commons HMD debate
Labour veteran tells MPs 'how we treat those who escape persecution is central to the UK's reputation' as she speaks at HMD debate for a final time
By Lee Harpin
Pic: Sam Churchill and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
January 25, 2024, 11:48 am
We won’t ‘cower away and accept antisemitism’ PM pledges
Prime Minister and dignitaries join survivors of the Shoah and Rwandan genocides at Holocaust Memorial Day event in London's Guildhall
By Jenni Frazer
Speaker Lindsay Hoyle leads HMD event in parliament (pic UK parliament/Maria Unger)
January 23, 2024, 4:31 pm
Commons Speaker tells Westminster HMD event ‘We must call out hatred wherever it exists’
Sir Lindsay Hoyle led a special candle-lighting ceremony in Parliament to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
By Lee Harpin
David Cameron addresses FCDO HMD reception
January 23, 2024, 2:36 pm
David Cameron: ‘After the horrors of 7 October we must renew our vow – never again’
Foreign secretary speaks of both the horrors of the Nazis and those of Hamas in a speech at the Foreign Office's Holocaust Memorial Day reception in partnership with the Israeli embassy
By Lee Harpin
City Hall HMD event
January 22, 2024, 5:56 pm
Sadiq Khan tells City Hall HMD event this year’s service ‘feels more important than ever’
Mayor of London spoke at annual event held in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
By Lee Harpin
The Reverend Canon Michael Smith, Acting Dean of York, helps light six hundred candles in the shape of the Star of David, in memory of more than 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis in the Second World War, in the Chapter House at York Minster in York, part of York Minster's commemoration for International Holocaust Day. Picture date: Wednesday January 26, 2022.
January 22, 2024, 1:12 am
British Jews ‘caught in crossfire of public opinion this Holocaust Memorial Day’
Rabbi Jonathan Romain describes a 'really strange situation' where Jews are normally seen as victims when the world marks the annual commemoration of the Holocaust
By Jewish News Reporter
Holocaust survivor Alfred Huberman and his granddaughter Faye Huberman Holocaust memorial day 2009.
April 26, 2023, 10:00 am
OPINION: The Fragility Of Freedom – that’s the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2024 will also mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda.
By Olivia Marks-Woldman
Credit: Centre for German-Jewish studies, Twitter
January 30, 2023, 4:04 pm
Uni announces new 10-year fellowship programme for Jewish and Holocaust studies
Leading academics from universities around the world to take part at University of Sussex.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Jane Haining. Credit: PA
January 27, 2023, 4:11 pm
Auschwitz victim’s story to be taught in schools across Scotland
Given the choice to leave, missionary Jane Haining stayed with her Jewish students: "If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in darkness?”
By JN Reporter
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