Press watchdog still considering Scarfe cartoon

The Press Complaints Commission is still considering what, if any, action it will take over Gerald Scarfe's cartoon about Israel, nearly three months after it appeared in the Sunday Times.

The watchdog has resolved three complaints about the publication of a drawing depicting the Israeli Prime Minister wielding a bloodied knife over a wall dripping with blood on Holocaust Memorial Day.

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Polish embassy complaint over 'antisemitism' claims in Giles Coren's column

The Polish ambassador to the UK has expressed outrage over a column in The Times by Giles Coren poking fun at the country's attitude toward Jews.

Mr Coren, who is known for courting controversy in his columns, wrote the piece in Saturday's paper, ostensibly in response to the census findings that Polish is now England's second language.

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David Aaronovitch wins Comment award

David Aaronovitch has been named Commentariat of the Year at the annual Editorial Intelligence awards.

The Times columnist, who won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, was awatrded the prize at a ceremony on Wednesday evening.

He was shortlisted alongside his fellow Jewish Chronicle columnist Jonathan Freedland, who tweeted his congratulations.

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Jerusalem Report editor quits over budget demands

The British-born editor of the well-respected Jerusalem Report magazine has resigned and blamed unreasonable budget demands and from the publication's management.

Matthew Kalman, who was appointed editor of the bi-weekly magazine in January, said that he had refused to implement a 10 per cent budget cut demanded by the management.

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Over to basketball correspondent Gilad Shalit

It is any basketball fan's dream – to write a column about the sport's winners and losers for a national newspaper.

But for Gilad Shalit, it will also mark his first professional role after nearly six years as a prisoner of Hamas terrorists.

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Heroic acts of a favourite villain

There are certain sentences which just can't be uttered. You know the sort of thing. If a politician said that most voters are idiots, he'd quickly be an ex-politician; and a rabbi who said that his shul board should stick to selling shmutters would soon be looking for a new congregation.

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