Jewish News issue 985

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THE SHARPEST OPINIONS We’ve got the community’s top columnists See pages 12-14 ALAN JOHNSON

JENNI FRAZER

BRENDAN O’NEILL

NICK FERRARI DAVID HOROVITZ

BRITAIN’S BIGGEST JEWISH NEWSPAPER 12 January 2017

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No $#!£ Sherlock!

Six-month Al Jazeera sting on Israeli Embassy reveals these bombshells...

VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS As revelations go, it’s hardly Watergate. After six months of undercover filming, the world now knows the Israeli Embassy in London works to promote Israel in the UK; those with sympathy for Israel are not the biggest fans of an NUS president who speaks of a “Zionist-led media” and proIsrael groups have extensive contacts with the Israeli Embassy. Presumably future episodes of Al Jazeera’s undercover report The Lobby will reveal [with a suitably sinister soundtrack], that the Israeli ambassador enjoys Tony Page kosher meals at Board of Deputies dinners. Cards on the table: members of the Jewish News editorial team speak regularly to the Embassy, have visited the country and share many of its fears and concerns – but that doesn’t mean our criticism of the Labour leader Jeremy Continued on page 10

• SURPRISE!

Israel has friends in UK

• SHOCK!

Embassy promotes Israel

• HORROR!

Jewish students don’t like anti-Zionist NUS president

Above: The Israeli Embassy’s Shai Masot gives “secret” tips on setting up a lobby group; Labour Friends Of Israel chair Joan Ryan is filmed being told how to define anti-Semitism; “pro-Israel activist” Michael Rubin lets slip that providing alcohol gets people to turn up to an event.

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