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HANSARD Antisemitic OffencesThank you, Ms Vaz, for your chairpersonship. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich East (Nicola Richards) for raising this important issue. I thank all those…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Antisemitic OffencesI hope the hon. Lady will allow me to use her as a conduit to the Minister. She is talking about people holding particular views, and I mentioned the Institute for Jewish Policy…09 Jan 2024HANSARDIsrael and PalestineWhat have we learned since we last met? We have learned that Hamas are using North Korean weapons. We have heard of further examples of gender-based violence, we have heard…08 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS Winter UpdateThe shadow Secretary of State seemed to forget the 50,000 hospital beds that Labour closed when they were in government—the thousands of mental health beds and the large number of…08 Jan 2024HANSARDIsrael and GazaThere is nothing morally courageous about arguing for the people who committed the atrocities on 7 October—the rapists and murderers who crossed into Israel on that day—to remain…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseHannukah semeach, Mr Speaker. This evening, of course, is the last evening on which Jews will light their hannukiah. It is normally the time of year for joy, but for many Jews we…14 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael-Hamas War: DiplomacyI am sure that the Minister will want to condemn the gratuitous signs of antisemitism that we saw on the streets again this weekend, which led to Karen Pollock from the Holocaust…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. May I say “Chag Hanukkah sameach” to you, as Jews celebrate Hanukkah at this time? But we are celebrating Hanukkah,…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineI thank the hon. Gentleman. I meant since the events of 7 October. I am not sure whether anybody else has had the opportunity to spend time in the communities that were attacked…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineThe question that the hon. Member should be asking is, what is the long-term strategy of the—11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineThe hon. Member has had his intervention. He does not get to shout from a sedentary position again; he gets to listen to the response. That is the polite way in which debates…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineNo, I will not give way at the moment. It was like something I have never seen and will never forget. We heard about and saw the most horrific destruction carried out by those…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineAfter I have spoken, presumably. I think I am the only Back Bencher speaking on the Government side, Sir Mark, so most of this debate will be dominated by the Opposition parties.11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineThank you, Sir Mark. I thank you for your protection. People may not want to hear it, but it is important that these things are put on record, so that, when we are asked to take a…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineThe hon. Gentleman is making a relatively even-handed speech and I would not quite say that I disagree, but as he knows, the consequence of previous ceasefires was the continued…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineI am the only Conservative Member on this side of the Chamber, so hopefully I can be indulged a little. I hope the hon. Gentleman was not trying to draw any equivalence between…11 Dec 2023HANSARDAntisemitism2. What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of antisemitism.04 Dec 2023HANSARDAntisemitismDespite the first-hand accounts of survivors such as Yoni Saadon and organisations such as ZAKA—whose members collected the bodies following the Palestinian terror attack of 7…04 Dec 2023HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian SituationThe idea that settlements are the reason there is not a two-state solution is just complete and utter tosh. The reason there is not a two-state solution is that Hamas seek the…04 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and Hamas: Humanitarian PauseThree weeks ago today, my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Dr Offord) and I were at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where we saw and heard things we will never forget, and where the smell of…27 Nov 2023