WH: Gaza 25/2/2024

yesterday evening (sunday 25th), 10.05-10.06pm, 10.08pm, 10.17-10.21pm, and 10.27-10.56pm, on bbc world service radio

westminster hour (presented by leila nathoo) leads with …

“Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated his determination to carry out a military offensive against Hamas in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, regardless whether or not a ceasefire deal is reached.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter paul adams

• robert buckland mp

• anna mcmorrin mp

• sarah olney mp.

• journalist ben riley-smith

• richard thomson mp

HC: Gaza 29/1/2024

monday 29th january, 77 minutes, on bbc parliament tv 

house of commons israel and gaza statement

“Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories”

speeches by … Andrew Mitchell (C) David Lammy (Lab) Alicia Kearns (C) Brendan O’Hara (SNP) Michael Ellis (C) Khalid Mahmood (Lab) Chris Grayling (C) Andy Slaughter (Lab) Vicky Ford (C) Joanna Cherry (SNP) Andrew Percy (C) Rushanara Ali (Lab) Tobias Ellwood (C) Liam Byrne (Lab) Edward Leigh (C) Jeremy Corbyn (Lab) Desmond Swayne (C) Imran Hussain (Lab) Flick Drummond (C) Seema Malhotra (Lab) Drew Hendry (SNP) Matthew Offord (C) Bob Blackman (Lab)

Jess Philllps (Lab) Greg Smith (C) John McDonnell (Lab) Alexander Stafford (C) Holly Lynch (Lab) Richard Fuller (C) Apsana Begum (Lab) Steve Double (C) Grahame Morris (Lab) Stella Creasy (Lab) Chris Law (SNP) Richard Burgon (Lab) Debbie Abrahams (Lab) Mohammad Yasin (Lab) Hywel Williams (PC) Andrew Gwynne (Lab) Claudia Webbe (Lab) Helen Hayes(Lab) Jeff Smith (Lab) Sarah Olney (LD) Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab) Zarah Sultana (Lab) Chris Stephens (SNP) Beth Winter (Lab)

(transcript at https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-01-29/debates/08A4F56A-BA86-4A9B-BAF8-854C100E498B/IsraelAndTheOccupiedPalestinianTerritories)

(if you missed it, available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001w09c/house-of-commons-israel-and-gaza-statement?page=2)

PL: Yiddish schools

this morning (sunday 12th), 10.19-10.28am, on bbc 2 tv 

politics live (presented by samantha simmonds) concludes with …

“Stamford Hill in North London is home to Europes’s largest Hasidic Jewish community. of around thirty thousand.

Thousands of local boys are taught in strictly orthodox schools.

They’re often taught primarily in Yiddish, in both Hasidic primaries and full-time religious schools.

There are apparently some concerns that a small proportion of boys attend unregistered schools, and leave unable to read or write English.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter helen drew 

• rabbi jonathan wittenberg 

• joel friedman, pinter trust 

• mayor philip glanville 

• sarah olney mp

• emma best lam 

(see also https://www.thejc.com/news/news/hands-off-our-yeshivot-or-well-leave-britain-warn-charedi-demonstrators-at-westminster-5BoaBl2KmQmWHdXscvfXEQ)

HC: Hamas banned

this afternoon (wednesday 24th), 3.23-4.50pm, on bbc parliament tv 

house of commons 24/11/2021 includes …

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism

“That the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2021, which was laid before this House on 19 November, be approved.“

speeches by … Damian Hinds (C) Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab) Robert Jenrick (C) Alyn Smith(SNP) Crispin Blunt (C) Wayne David (Lab) Andrew Percy (C) Hilary Benn (Lab) Sarah Olney (LD) Jim Shannon (DUP)

interventions by … Steve McCabe (Lab) Tom Hunt (C) Mark Harper (C) Jonathan Edwards (Ind) Seema Malhotra (Lab) Philippa Whitford (SNP) Stephen Hammond (C)

(transcript at https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-11-24/debates/575EBB10-93BA-4D8C-8806-7504B5200AF2/PreventionAndSuppressionOfTerrorism)

(for transcript of House of Lords debate the following day, 6.16-6.42pm, see https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-11-25/debates/BAEE761D-B6F5-42D1-8085-1AADA8C7B0F7/TerrorismAct2000(ProscribedOrganisations)(Amendment)(No3)Order2021)

(see also https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/proposals-to-outlaw-support-for-hamas-receives-backing-from-mps/ and https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/watch-tory-mp-says-hamas-ban-will-have-terrible-chilling-effect-on-gaza/)

(if you missed it, available from 1:20:23 to 2:47:00 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00120gl)