Hackney votes to end 58-year Haifa twinning, citing “anti-racist values”

Hackney’s Green Party-led Council has voted to end its 58-year-old twin-city agreement with Haifa, a port city that “Israel” violently captured in 1948. Councillors have upheld the vote as a commitment in their May 2026 local elections manifesto. They have pledged to end the twinning arrangement at “the earliest possib

Hackney Council has begun the process of ending its 58-year twinning agreement with Israel's Haifa following the Green Party's election victory.