Anti-Semitism

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will in a moment. In line with what Mr Speaker said earlier, I will take a few interventions, b...

I came across anti-Semitism when I used to live in Swansea, at the synagogue there, and I was abs...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight that, and I will come onto it later. I know that ...

In 15 or 16 countries across continental Europe, holocaust denial is a crime. In Germany, I belie...

We have no plans to review the law on this, because we also value freedom of speech, but of cours...

On a specific point, I reported a very clear anti-Semitic mural and image to Facebook, which came...

The hon. Gentleman is right to make that point, because there has been a lot more done in recent ...

Is my right hon. Friend surprised as I am that an Israeli Labour MP told me in Israel last week t...

My hon. Friend is right to highlight that. It is clear that, not just at home but abroad, there i...

rose—

I will take one more intervention, but then I must carry on.

My right hon. Friend will, of course, have received an increasing number of complaints from the J...

My hon. Friend will know that my Department, along with the Home Secretary and others, engages in...

Jeremy Corbyn has just been named. I am a new Member here. Is that something that is allowed in t...

I think the Secretary of State was quoting from a letter, but I hope Members are very aware that ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Did I hear correctly what the Speaker said in his intr...

What the Speaker said was that each Front-Bencher should speak for 20 minutes, including interven...

Speaking for the Government, I must say that there is clearly more to do, but I believe that we m...

Will the Secretary of State give way on that point?

I am sorry, but I must continue.

After all, the holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers...

Order. Because of the large number of colleagues who wish to contribute to the debate, I will be ...

This week, we have been reminded of some of the darkest days in human history as we commemorate t...

I completely associate myself with my hon. Friend’s last three or four sentences. I represent one...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and speed is obviously of the essence. We cannot allow any al...

I should like to make a little more progress.

As the Secretary of State said, the National ...

Hold on.

No political party has a monopoly on vice or virtue, but we will put our house in ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I assure him that the House will have recogni...

The hon. Gentleman knows that due process is going on and, as I have already said, the procedure ...

Let me be clear about this: Ken Livingstone claimed that Hitler was a Zionist. That is anti-Semit...

My hon. Friend makes his views very clear. I do not share Mr Livingstone’s views, which are abhor...

I will not give way as I want to make some progress, because many Members want to speak.

As...

I think we all know that one purpose of holocaust denial is to undermine the moral foundations up...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The holocaust was a dreadful chapter in our world’s his...

My hon. Friend is rightly focusing on the dangers of anti-Semitism and the nefarious activities o...

Absolutely. As I said earlier, anybody who denies that anti-Semitism exists on the left is not li...

Will the hon. Gentleman accept, however, that when people specifically target just the state of I...

And where it is clearly a cover for anti-Semitism, we have to call that out—let us be clear about...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will not now, as I need to draw my remarks to a close.

That peace will only come through ...

This is a difficult debate that I think many of us would wish it was not necessary to hold. Never...

Does the hon. Gentleman think it is appropriate for Members to use, for instance, the N-word? I c...

I condemn all forms of racism, but there is a danger in suggesting that anti-Semitism is somehow ...

Does my hon. Friend share my concern that we are seeing a particularly sharp increase in anti-Sem...

I unequivocally agree with my hon. Friend’s point.

Some appear to have persuaded themselves...

What a depressing issue to have to come to the House to debate. My hope, and the hope I am sure o...

To avoid any doubt about the message that we in this Chamber are sending today, does the hon. Gen...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. I am an openly gay man. I understand that that might sh...

But there is a connection.

I am not minded to take that intervention.

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will be charitable.

The difficulty is this: when one makes in this Chamber a criticism of the Government of Israel, a...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Of course it is right to be vigilant, as there...

Last year, I was in Harlow town centre at a street stall, as I usually am on Saturdays, to speak ...

My hon. Friend is from the Jewish community and I am not. Does he agree, though, that we all have...

My hon. Friend puts it exactly right and sums up, in essence, much of what will be debated today....

I beg the indulgence of the House to tell my story, which I hope will go some way to explain how ...

I just want to say on behalf of the House that we are all very glad that my hon. Friend is brave ...

I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention, and I will never stop speaking out about all forms o...

May I take this opportunity to put on the record my huge respect for my hon. Friend’s dignity in ...

I thank my hon. Friend for her solidarity, and I am grateful to colleagues who have stood by my s...

I suspect that I will not be getting a round of applause, but I have to say that it is a real ple...

On our recent visit to Israel, as my hon. Friend the Member for South East Cornwall (Mrs Murray) ...

Absolutely. The shadow Secretary of State was brilliant in much of what he said and I feel he bel...

My hon. Friend spoke eloquently in the holocaust debate about the abuse he received during the ge...

I will talk about those two cases in a moment. One of the individuals is currently on bail thanks...

Order. First, the hon. Gentleman is using the word “you”. He should not be doing that, as it impl...

I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker, but how can one possibly be moderate in one’s language when we ...

Order. The hon. Gentleman will be moderate.

Madam Deputy Speaker, we will have to beg to differ on whether or not one should challenge indivi...

When my family helped to form the Labour party in Leeds in 1906, they suffered terribly because o...

My hon. Friend is making an incredibly powerful speech, which I wholly associate myself with. Doe...

It is constant. This weekend in my constituency and last night in my constituency—it is constant....

I congratulate the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) on one of the most powerful speeches I h...

I am devastated that we are discussing this issue in this place. We should never have had to reac...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will.

I just wanted the hon. Lady to speak for a minute longer.

I thank the hon. Gentleman.

Over the past two years, however, I have experienced something ...

On behalf of all Members of the House, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend—we are enormously proud of...

I thank my hon. Friend.

To move on to my final piece of abuse:

“The gallows would be ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I have run out of time; I am sorry.

There is something more fundamental at stake here than ...

Order. I completely understand that colleagues have been very generous and that interventions hav...

I start by paying tribute to our colleagues, the hon. Members for Stoke-on-Trent North (Ruth Smee...

This week, which marks the 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell’s hateful “rivers of blood” speech, h...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. Does she agree that we need urgent legislation to shut ...

My hon. Friend is right that we need urgent legislation, but there needs to be a clear message fr...

I completely agree, but I have also seen such things from other groups. I have just seen a tweet ...

I have seen one shocking instance of that at a party meeting in the past year, but I have seen ac...

Order. I call Paul Masterton.

6.5 pm

East Renfrewshire is privileged to have the largest Jewish community in Scotland, and I take seri...

Does the hon. Gentleman, like me and other colleagues from Scotland, want to work towards a place...

Yes, I absolutely agree. We can show a real commitment to that on a cross-party basis, both throu...

I, like many Jews, love this country because of its tolerance and sense of fairness. We are proud...

Order. It is obvious that a lot of people want to speak and not everybody is going to have the op...

Evil happens when good people stand by and do nothing. There is evil running through and infiltra...

Anti-Semitism is a centuries-old virus that mutates but never goes away. As we have heard from my...

Very unusually, I shall allow the hon. Lady to finish her sentence.

The Labour party claims that it now recognises the problem; I will believe that when I see action...

Three minutes means three minutes; it says it on the clock.

6.19 pm

I feel deeply honoured to be able to speak in this debate.

Last week, I had the incredible ...

I was born in Egypt in the last year of the second world war as Jews were being exterminated in H...

I am not Jewish, but my wife’s family is. They helped to rescue people fleeing the Nazis in the y...

Susan Pollock was born in 1930 in Hungary. She was sent to Auschwitz as a teenager and, fortunate...

I am not an expert in these matters, but I was incredibly moved when I went to Israel for the fir...

I am grateful for the opportunity to make a short contribution to this quite remarkable debate.