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Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool on September 29, 2026 (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

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Yaniv meets Benjamin Netanyahu (credit Raylan Givens/X)

Flydubai terror attack

‘I put flight attacker in a chokehold, pulled up the controls and stopped the plane diving’, says brave passenger

By JC Reporter

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Esther Rantzen at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in front of Buckingham Palace on June 5, 2022 (Photo: Getty Images)

Obituary

Obituary: Dame Esther Rantzen dies at 86

Journalist and television presenter who hosted the BBC series That's Life! for 21 years and founded the charities Childline and The Silver Line

By Elisa Bray

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Green leader Zack Polanski meets Londoners in April this year in the run-up to the next month's local elections (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Green Party

Green Party members could face racism complaints for belonging to synagogues

By Jane Prinsley

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Chanukah

Must-have Chanukah Barbie sold out just days after launch

By Max Salt

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A scene on board FlyDubai flight FZ103 this morning as the attack unfolded (X/AmitSegal)

Flydubai terror attack

Heroic passengers on Flydubai Tel Aviv plane prevented ‘major disaster’ by storming cockpit

By Jamie Shapiro

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British Jews will not be silenced – exclude us and we will make our own way as we always have

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USA

US Government sues Ohio healthcare firms after doctor fired ‘for being Jewish’

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges that the surgeon ‘faced a barrage of comments in the workplace blaming the Jews’ for October 7

By Hayley Cregor

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Andrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC (YouTube/FortuneConversations)

Marco Rubio

RAF Fairford suspected terror plot involved ‘a foreign actor’, claims Marco Rubio

Five suspects, all British nationals in their 20s, have been released on bail

By JC Reporter

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a multilateral meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council during the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York City on September 22, 2026 (Getty Images)

Terrorism

More than a quarter of Muslim Americans think ‘Israel or Zionists’ were behind 9/11, new study finds

Only 23 per cent attributed the attack to al-Qaeda, compared to 62 per cent of the general population

By Max Salt

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New York

Susan Sarandon arrested at anti-Netanyahu protest in New York

The actress was one of 103 protesters to be taken into custody as the Israeli PM addressed the UN General Assembly

By Jamie Shapiro

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Actor Susan Sarandon being arrested at pro-Palestine protest in New York City (Image: X/ WearThePeace)

World News

(Illustrative) A Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 performs a display flight at Al-Maktoum International Airport in Dubai on November 17, 2025 (Getty Images)

Flydubai terror attack

‘Off-duty British pilot helped rescue plane after cockpit stabbing’

By JC Reporter

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Timeline of the events that occurred on Flydubai flight FZ1073 on 30/09/26

Terrorist attack

Timeline of events on Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight FZ1073

By Jamie Shapiro

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A woman holding an umbrella attends a ceremony at the Babyn Yar memorial in Kyiv on September 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

Ukraine

Zelenskyy leads ceremony for 85th anniversary of Babyn Yar massacre

By Hayley Cregor

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Halloween

Zara criticised for selling ‘concentration camp-style’ Halloween costume in Europe

By Daniel Ben-David

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Flydubai Flight 1073 on the tarmac at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk, Saudia Arabia (X/AmitSegal)

Flydubai terror attack

Israeli authorities confirm Flydubai ‘hijack’ alert was ‘attempted jihadist terrorist attack’

By Jacob Jaffa

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Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson’s in the pink on the red carpet

By Max Salt

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US President Trump addresses the UN General Assembly in New York City on September 22, 2026 (Getty Images)

United Nations

Record number of states boycott UN event for 25th anniversary of ‘antisemitic’ Durban conference

The Israeli envoy to the global body said it must confront Jew-hate ‘with the same seriousness as every other form of racism’

By Rebecca Szlechter

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UK News

Battle of Cable Street

Oi Va Voi prepares to kick off Cable Street 90

The Board of Deputies has put together over a week of music, art and discussion to mark 90 years since the Battle of Cable Street

By Hayley Cregor

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The Little Princess Trust

Talulah prepares for her sixth big haircut to make wigs for kids

Talulah has Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome (WSS), which means her hair grows incredibly fast

By Hayley Cregor

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Talulah Gershon at a previous big haircut (Photo: courtesy)

City of London

Jewish businessman appointed as sheriff to Lord Mayor of City of London

Tim Levene is a long-standing member of the City Jewish Network and nominated Bevis Marks’ Rabbi Shalom Morris for the Freedom of the City award

By Hayley Cregor

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Tim Leven (CL) and Prem Goyal (CR) after being sworn in as sheriffs of the City of London (X/CityofLondon)

CST

Incidents of ‘extreme violence’ against Jews at university reported by CST for first time

Education Secretary Lucy Powell says the findings, which show a 14 per cent jump in cases of campus antisemitism in the last academic year, are ‘deeply troubling’

By Daniel Ben-David

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Flatmates of a Jewish student in Cardiff daubed 'Jude die' with a Star of David, scrawled in what appears to be blood, September 2024 (Credit: CST)

Opinion

Case of fake Palestinian is perfect example of middle class need to perform as an ‘oppressed minority’

The outing of Hannah Gann, who claimed to be Palestinian and Afro-Tunisian in order to pursue her anti-Israel activism, is a sign of the times

By Dominic Green

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By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Britain’s upside-down approach to Islamism, Iran, and Israel is putting us all in danger

We admit a Hamas bodyguard, lavish public money on the home of Abu Hamza’s wife, slam the Jewish state and exchange diplomatic niceties with Tehran. Britain’s priorities are not merely perverse, they are making us less safe

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By The JC Leader

Miliband’s dangerous anti-Israel rhetoric

Labour cannot be oblivious to the potentially dangerous passions it is stoking as Britain’s Jews endure an extraordinary surge in antisemitism since October 7

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By Philipp Peyman Engel

Germany’s academic centre for the denial of antisemitism

The institute at the Technical University of Berlin, tasked with studying Jew-hatred, has systematically ignored or relativised its manifestations within the Muslim community and on the left

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