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BREAKING: The Labour Party has said that power-sharing agreements with the Green Party will end unless local Greens explicitly reject their party's "Zionism is racism" policy The Labour Party has asked all Labour groups in power-sharing agreements with the Green Party to review their arrangements in local government after the prime minister's words at PMQs yesterday. Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party, said: “The Prime Minister has been completely clear: this policy is wrong and antisemitic, and has no place in British politics. “Where local Labour Parties currently have an arrangement with the Greens in local government, we expect their Green counterparts to make clear that they reject this position and to call on their national leadership to reconsider the policy. “We have asked local Green groups to respond as a matter of urgency. Where they are unable to provide that assurance, Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end. This isn’t an issue of party politics; it’s about doing what is right and upholding the values anyone holding public office should share. “The Labour Party fought hard to address antisemitism within our own party and ensure it had no place in our politics. We have a responsibility to uphold those same standards in our relationships with other parties.”

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Matthew Collings has given anti-Jewish hatred a platform before – and presented it as entertainment. That’s why it beggars belief that yet another exhibition by Mr Collings, under the title “Drawings Against Genocide”, is being hosted by a UK arts institution, given his history of recycling grotesque antisemitic tropes. The week-long exhibition is due to take place from 30th September to 7th October at @hARTslane in New Cross, London — a gallery operating from a building owned by Lewisham Council. hARTslane hosted Mr Collings in July as a speaker at an exhibition focused on “Free Speech in Palestine”. We previously flagged an exhibition of the same name by Mr Collings at Joseph Wales Studios, an independent gallery in Margate, Kent. What we found there was deeply disturbing. Among the works were: • A depiction of the French–Israeli owner of Sotherby’s auction house, with blood dripping from his mouth alongside the words “Hey look I’m selling a fantastic painting, while eating a baby alive”. The blood libel – in which Jews are accused of murdering infants in order to use their blood for ritualistic purposes – is a classic antisemitic trope which has been continually reworked into modern manifestations. • Several paintings referred to the 7th October Hamas massacre: one apparently bearing the words: “no evidence that sexual violence was used as a weapon on October 7,” and “no beheaded babies, no evidence of rapes.”. • Pieces depicting the British Prime Minister as slavishly following orders from the Jews or the Jewish state – yet another classic trope. • Paintings juxtaposing stars of David – the best-known symbol of Judaism and the emblem of the state of Israel – with Nazi imagery. Given this history, it is difficult to believe that the chosen date for the exhibition to finish its run is a coincidence. Should the same antisemitic tropes reappear, closing on the third anniversary of the brutal 7th October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel would be an affront to British Jews. To add insult to injury, HARTslane Gallery has publicly rejected the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism, characterising its “enforcement” in the art sector as a symptom of “increasing state repression on free speech”. This stands in direct contravention of Lewisham Council’s adoption of the Definition in 2019. Knowing what his last exhibition contained, we are deeply concerned that he is being given a platform to showcase his work in a building owned by Lewisham Council – particularly at a time when Jewish communities across Britain are facing unprecedented levels of violence. We will be writing to @LewishamCouncil to ensure it upholds its responsibility to take its own commitments to combating antisemitism seriously.