Keir Starmer, the leader of the United Kingdom s Labour Party, delivers an Easter message on his Twitter account on April 2, 2021. | Keir Starmer/Twitter
Sir. Keir Starmer, leader of the U.K. s Labour Party, was forced to apologize for visiting a church on Good Friday that critics have attacked as being “anti-LGBT” for adhering to biblical sexual ethics.
In a since-deleted video, Starmer praised Jesus House for All the Nations on Friday as being a wonderful example of a church serving its community during the coronavirus pandemic, including acting as a vaccination center and running a food bank.
“I recently visited @JesusHouseUK to hear about their crucial work in the community,” Starmer announced in a tweet that has also been deleted. “Churches across the country have played such a vital role in the fight against the virus. I hope everyone has a good, restful and safe Easter weekend.”
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Apr. 7, 2021 10:11 AM
The past few years have seen a growing tempest swirl around the so-called International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, definition of antisemitism.
The IHRA definition, which had been adopted by dozens of countries and countless universities, associations, labor unions and NGOs, was considered controversial in some quarters for allegedly chilling criticism of Israel by labeling it antisemitism.
While the IHRA confirmed that criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic, critics contended that its language was too vague and prone to abuse.
Why did a Massachusetts Nurses Association official appear at an event sponsored by the Morning Star in Britain?
Nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts are in their fifth week of their open-ended strike. The 700 nurses, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), are fighting for safe staffing ratios at the hospital in the face of vicious attacks on their conditions by the owner of St. Vincent, multibillion-dollar Tenet Healthcare.
The nurses’ strike is one of the largest workers struggles currently taking place in the US, alongside the strike of mine workers at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama and the Columbia University graduate students strike in New York City. However, the unions in these struggles the MNA at St. Vincent, the United Mine Workers at Warrior Met Coal, the United Auto Workers at Columbia have worked to isolate their memberships from workers facing the same fight in defense of jobs and working conditions, and against deplorable working c
Keir Starmer, the leader of the United Kingdom s Labour Party, delivers an Easter message on his Twitter account on April 2, 2021. | Keir Starmer/Twitter
Sir. Keir Starmer, leader of the U.K. s Labour Party, was forced to apologize for visiting a church on Good Friday that critics have attacked as being “anti-LGBT” for adhering to biblical sexual ethics.
In a since-deleted video, Starmer praised Jesus House for All the Nations on Friday as being a wonderful example of a church serving its community during the coronavirus pandemic, including acting as a vaccination center and running a food bank.
“I recently visited @JesusHouseUK to hear about their crucial work in the community,” Starmer announced in a tweet that has also been deleted. “Churches across the country have played such a vital role in the fight against the virus. I hope everyone has a good, restful and safe Easter weekend.”
Keir Starmer, the leader of the United Kingdom s Labour Party, delivers an Easter message on his Twitter account on April 2, 2021. | Keir Starmer/Twitter
Sir. Keir Starmer, leader of the U.K. s Labour Party, was forced to apologize for visiting a church on Good Friday that critics have attacked as being “anti-LGBT” for adhering to biblical sexual ethics.
In a since-deleted video, Starmer praised Jesus House for All the Nations on Friday as being a wonderful example of a church serving its community during the coronavirus pandemic, including acting as a vaccination center and running a food bank.
“I recently visited @JesusHouseUK to hear about their crucial work in the community,” Starmer announced in a tweet that has also been deleted. “Churches across the country have played such a vital role in the fight against the virus. I hope everyone has a good, restful and safe Easter weekend.”