AJEX remembers Jewish fallen CAA back Labour IRGC stance

Campaign Against Antisemitism has welcomed Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announcing a Labour Government will ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps terrorist group.

However, any ban to proscribe the IRGC cannot wait until a general election, observed the organisation. CAA continue to urge the government to proscribe the IRGC.

Cooper’s speech at the Royal United Services Institute this week came after the Government applied enhanced sanctions on Iran but failed to ban the state sponsored militant group. Cooper confirmed Labour will amend terror legislation to “ban hostile state-sponsored organisations” undermining national security.

“The UK faces continued challenges from Islamist and far right extremists, radicalised online, in prison or in the community,” she reportedly said. “At the moment the government is left having to use terrorism legislation to proscribe organisations,” Cooper noted. “The terrorism legislation doesn’t quite fit. We think there should be parallel legislation around state threats.”

CAA called on MPs earlier this year to back the government’s proposal to proscribe the IRGC under the Terrorism Act 2000.

CAA provided Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Security Minister Tom Tugendhat, and all MPs, a dossier on the IRGC, detailing antisemitism incidents and violence acts against Jewish people.

BY DAVID SAFFER

AJEX conducted a special service of remembrance at The Jewish War Memorial at Willesden Jewish Cemetery last Sunday.

The commemorative event paid tribute to the Jewish fallen of HM forces in both World Wars and honoured those who have no known graves.

Over 100 attendees remembered over 120,000 Jewish servicemen and women who served. The ceremony marked the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Holocaust victims and those persecuted by the Nazis.

AJEX National Chair, Dan Fox, and Rabbi Major Reuben Livingstone led the ceremony.

Mike Bluestone, AJEX Vice President, led the Exhortation and Melvyn Hartog the Kohima Epitaph.

His Majesty's Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, Robert Voss, delivered a poignant speech and was among wreath layers. Wreaths were also laid by Cllr Orleen Hylton, Mayor of Brent, Clive Boxer, Paul McCue of The Secret WW2 Learning Network, and Col Morrison.

Thirty cadets from the 205 Wembley Detachment paraded with AJEX standards. Richard Brett from JLGB joined the event as bugler.

After the ceremony participants moved to the Commonwealth War Graves Plot where Brian Bloom, AJEX JMA Vice President, led the laying of Magen David poppy markers. Markers were laid by young people present and cadets continuing the baton of remembrance.

The congregation were moved by recitals of poems delivered by Mei Sim Lai, London Borough of Brent, AJEX CEO Fiona Palmer, Jonathan Arkush, Krupesh Hirani, Barry Gardiner MP and veteran Mervyn Kersh. Willesden Cemetery was consecrated in 1873. At the turn of the 20th century it was home to memorial boards for Jews who died in the Boer Wars and later the fallen of the Great War.

In 1960, its front lawns became the site of the country’s first national Jewish War Memorial, alongside Commonwealth War Graves. Fox said: “Much has changed around us in 150 years but Jewish service to crown and country has remained steadfast and constant. The cenotaph is the perfect place to remember and thank those whose memory we honour.”

Colonel Morrison from the Australian Embassy unveiled new tokens dedicated to two men who fought in the First World War. The Willesden Cenotaph is the oldest war memorial for the Jewish community in the UK.

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