Conservative Party

October 9, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Atoning for Britain’s colonialist past

By encouraging China’s colonialist present

September 5, 2024 | |

U.S. Reportedly Warned UK Against Arms Export Restrictions to Israel

Biden administration officials privately warned the United Kingdom against suspending arms exports to Israel over concerns that it could harm attempts to broker a ceasefire between...

July 26, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Worrying signals on the Middle East from Britain’s new Labour government

When it comes to Keir Starmer, there is no doubting his personal detestation of antisemitism and his determination to root it out of his party. Still, recent foreign-policy decisions sound alarms.

April 16, 2024 | |

UK Fails to Designate IRGC as Terror Group Despite Iranian Attack on Israel

The British government is resisting a campaign by key UK politicians to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. UK Prime Minister...

March 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Government Refuses to Ban Hezbollah, Rebuffs Israel and U.S.

The Merkel administration has also banned the website of the extremist left-wing group Indymedia and right-wing extremists entities over the years.

September 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Report: Britain slated to outlaw the entire terrorist entity Hezbollah

Britain banned Hezbollah’s military wing in 2008 because the Lebanese militia attacked UK soldiers in Iraq.

June 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Canada’s Parliament Rejects Diplomatic Relations with Iran

Liberal MPs from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party joined conservative lawmakers in the House of Commons last week to vote against the re-establishment of diplomatic relations...

June 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Hezbollah to be Outlawed in Britain

UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid plans later this year to outlaw Hezbollah in Britain, according to a report in the London-based Jewish Chronicle. Javid pledged to take “decisive acti...

March 1, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia |

The real roadblock to better relations is Tehran

The Islamic Republic of Iran must take delight in commentators in the West who advance the regime’s public relations agenda free of charge. Here in Canada, one analyst claims that...

October 21, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief

UK Blacklists Qatari for Terror Finance, Pledges Closer U.S. Coordination

Ten months after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned suspected terrorist financier Abdulrahman bin Omeir al-Nuaymi, th...

November 26, 2013 | Sheryl Saperia FDD Policy Brief |

Canada Stays Strong on Iran

Canada has taken a tough public stance regarding the interim deal reached between Iran and the P5+1 on Sunday. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird expressed great skepticism of Iran’s inten...

September 3, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

About That Special Relationship

Some are fretting about whether the special relationship that has bound the United States and the United Kingdom since World War II has been damaged by the House of Common’s vote against Br...

April 10, 2013 | James Kirchick Haaretz |

A Friendship Without Prejudice: Thatcher’s Kinship with Jews and Israel

Thatcher’s personal narrative of the determined outsider made good has clear Jewish resonances, and may explain her well-known affinity for Jews and her defense of Israel....

September 10, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Canada Branded the Iranian Regime as Terrorists

Prior to cutting diplomatic ties on Friday with Tehran, the administration of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had garnered the reputation among human rights NGOs and media commentators as...

May 3, 2012 | James Kirchick Tablet

London Jews’ Labour Problem

London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone—whose political future will be determined in today’s election against Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson—has a Jewish problem. He&rsqu...

March 20, 2012 | James Kirchick Foreign Policy

Hungary’s Pit Bull Prime Minister

How one of Europe’s most celebrated anti-communists become the bad boy of the continent.

December 19, 2011 | James Kirchick Tablet |

The Happy Warrior

My memories of Christopher Hitchens

February 15, 2005 | Tech Central Station

Opposition During Wartime

By: Andrew Apostolou. Opposing a government in wartime is proving to be a frustrating experience for the political enemies of president George W. Bush and prime minister Tony Bl...