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Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin is the Director of Labour Friends of Israel.
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Michael Rubin

Israel’s Emergency Budget Shows Netanyahu’s Weaknesses

For the first time in Israel’s history, this week the government passed a budget in election year. Passage of the bill avoided immediately triggering elections and now means they will take place closer to the October deadline. The NIS 850.6 billion (approximately £203.5bn) spending package is unprecedented in scale. Not

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Michael Rubin

It’s Time for Netanyahu To Go

The Netanyahu government has been a disaster – for Israel and its security, for the Palestinians, and for the prospects of a wider regional peace. It is time for it to go and for Israel to have the new leadership its people want and deserve. The 7 October atrocities –

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Michael Rubin

The EHRC report and antisemitism with Dena Ryness and Michael Rubin

https://media.acast.com/progressivebritain/theehrcreportandantisemitismwithdenarynessandmichaelrubin/media.mp3   For the last five years, Jewish Labour members had been told by many within the party that the issue of antisemitism was manufactured and exaggerated. The EHRC report into institutional racism in the Labour party acted as a vindication for those members and for others in the Labour

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