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Leader of Dutch opposition Frans Timmermans says Israelis could lose Iron Dome because of Netanyahu’s actions

The leader of a leftwing alliance has said he would support Israelis losing protection from Iranian missiles as a consequence of voting for Netanyahu

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - JUNE 4: GroenLinks-PvdA faction leader Frans Timmermans attends a debate at the Dutch House of Representatives on June 4, 2025. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

Iran

Khamenei assassination is now ‘an objective’ of Israel’s war

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Dan Brotman in Beirut's Jewish cemetery in 2022, where he found graves dating as recently as 2018. (Photo courtesy of Dan Brotman)

Lebanon

‘I was detained in Lebanon just for being a Jewish tourist’

By Imogen Garfinkel

6 min read

Iran

Trump ‘approved plan’ to strike Iran unless eleventh-hour ceasefire agreed

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

Israeli-linked hackers claim $90m data theft from major Iranian cryptocurrency exchange

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

Son of Iranian Shah urges uprising against ‘collapsing’ Islamic regime

By JC Reporter

2 min read

US Politics

Trump ‘seriously considers’ Iran strikes as Israel eyes ‘regime change’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Israel has brought us hope for the end of this regime, say residents of Iran

A man in Tehran cycles past a poster of slain Iranian IRGC commander Gholam Ali Rashid (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel suing French government over ‘antisemitic’ Paris Air Show snub for defence firms

Israel is filing 'court petitions' against the French government after defence firms were blocked from displaying freely at the Paris Air Show this week (Image: X/@Amirmizroch)

Israeli-linked hackers hit ‘IRGC’s bank’ in major cyberattack

An Israeli-linked hacktivist group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on one of Iran's major banks, which it claimed was used by the IRGC (Image: Getty)

Trump hints at direct US involvement in Iran war amid sudden G7 exit

President Trump has seemingly been sending mixed messages over the prospect of direct US involvement in the Iran-Israel war (Image: Getty)

Iran ‘sends urgent message’ asking for end of war with Israel and renewal of nuclear talks

Israel

Israeli arms manufacturers blocked from displaying at Paris Air Show

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Iran

IDF destroyed 1/3 of Iran’s missile launchers after Tel Aviv strikes

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Sir Keir Starmer has announced that he is deploying military aircraft – including Typhoons and air-to-air refuelers – to the Middle East defend British interests amid the Israel-Iran conflict. (Getty Images)

Israel

UK deploying more RAF fighter jets to Middle East

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were supposed to co-chair the UN conference in New York. (Getty Images)

Israel

Macron’s two-state solution conference to be delayed after Israeli strikes on Iran

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

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Trump says he will decide whether to join war with Iran in ‘next two weeks’

US involvement in the war is considered necessary to destroy the remaining Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow

By JC Reporter

3 min read

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: U.S. President Donald Trump stops and talks to the media before he boards Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on June 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The President will attend the annual meeting of the Group of 7 nations, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States are taking place in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta, and will run until late Tuesday. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

New York

Who is Zohran Mamdani – the anti-Israel candidate for mayor of New York?

The 33-year-old, who has been backed by Bernie Sanders, is widely thought to be one of the frontrunners in the race to win the Democratic nomination

By JC Reporter

2 min read

New York City mayoral candidate and Democratic State Representative Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City (Image: Getty)

US Politics

Pentagon’s chief Israel planner sacked after ‘death cult’ comments

Colonel Nathan McCormack called the Jewish State America’s ‘worst ally’ and claimed its government was loaded with ‘Judeo-supremacist cronies’

By Andrew Bernard

2 min read

The Pentagon's chief Israel planner Colonel Nathan McCormack (left) has reportedly been sacked from his role after making incendiary posts about the Jewish State on social media (Image: Sergeant Kani Ronningen/US Army photo)

New York

Holocaust Museum accuses NY mayoral candidate of ‘exploiting’ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by comparing it to intifada

Zohran Mamdani tried to “sanitize ‘globalize the intifada’” in a way that is “especially offensive to survivors,” the museum said.

By Josh Kaplan

2 min read

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 4: Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary Debate at NBC Studios on June 4, 2025 in New York City. Nine candidates are taking the stage for the first debate of the primary election for mayor. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)

World news

Hamas

‘Ghost of Al-Qassam’ with $750k bounty on his head named as new Hamas leader

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

Israeli military official on Iran: ‘We are prepared for this to keep going on for days’

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

Iran

Son of Iran’s last monarch calls for overthrow of Khameinei regime following Israel strikes

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

Israel launches major offensive against Iran’s nuclear programme, killing military chiefs

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

President Trump has confirmed that the US will withdraw some of its personnel from Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain amid the threat of an Israeli strike on Iran (Image: Getty)

Iran

Israel weighs Iran strike as US reduces Middle East presence

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

Who is Bradley Sherman, the Jewish husband of an Iranian princess?

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Rabbis

Gathering of top rabbis turned away from Bosnia after minister claimed it would ‘legitimise’ the ‘genocidal’ state of Israel

The politician appeared to conflate the purely religious event with political Zionism, claiming that the presence of the event would ‘justify genocide’

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

France should recognise Palestine to ‘appease’ Muslim voters, government report claims Brits ‘discussed poisoning Israelis’ at Portuguese music festival

UK News

I was 50 metres from an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv — there’s no doubt the regime is targeting civilians

If this is what they do with ballistic missiles, imagine what they would aim for with a nuclear bomb

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

People look up at the burning site of the blast (Photo: J Prinsley)

Israel Tours

Israel-Iran war forces Israel tours to be delayed

UJIA Israel Experience confirmed that new dates had been arranged for tours due to start on or before July 2

By Gaby Wine

1 min read

UJIA Israel Experience has announced that some tours will definitely be delayed amidst the continuation of the Israel-Iran war (Photo Getty Images)

Brent

Outrage in Brent over decision to twin London borough with Nablus in West Bank

Labour council voted for ‘cultural’ link to municipality described as ‘hotbed of anti-Jewish terrorism’

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

Brent Council, the home of Wembley Stadium, has voted to twin with the West Bank city of Nablus (Photo: Getty Images)

Iran

Lord Hermer ‘warned PM’ that UK involvement in Iran War ‘may be illegal’

Either way, the British government may face an awkward choice if the US decides to launch its own strikes on the Islamic Republic

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Attorney General Lord Hermer has reportedly advised the prime minister that greater UK involvement in the Israel-Iran War 'may be illegal' (Image: Getty)

Opinion

Lord Hermer’s reported advice against UK strikes on Iran is a disgrace

The attorney general is living proof of how a dogmatic approach to ‘international law’ can be used to advance an ideological agenda

By Jake Wallis Simons

3 min read

By The JC Leader

How unfree Qatar is shaping the free West in its own image

From campuses to media, Qatar has used its wealth to advance an Islamist agenda. The real issue isn’t that the tiny Gulf emirate is playing this game. It’s that we are

3 min read

By Jonathan Schanzer

Qatar’s money isn’t just dirty – it’s filthy

Accusations of bribery against the Gulf state are only part of the problem – the Qataris are jihadi financiers

3 min read

By Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Moderate Qatar? The Muslim Brotherhood patron nurtures the enemies of democracy

Qatar promotes itself as a modernising force. In reality, it is one of the leading sponsors of Islamist movements

3 min read

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Qatari money, priorities and interests are now woven into many US universities

Universities must reconsider their values, for the sake of America’s future

2 min read

By Dan Elbaum

Trump’s Truman Moment

When the history of Israel is written, they may stand side by side as two of the most consequential US leaders for the safety and security of the Jewish state

2 min read

By Maureen Lipman

Comedians rush in where wise men never go

Scratch a comedian and you will find an angry mind, and there are plenty of examples from the past and present day

4 min read

Life

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife review – her work, letters and shopping lists

By Monica Porter

3 min read

Books

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann review: ‘everyone is a collaborator’

This fictionalised portrait of Austrian film-maker GW Pabst and his moral struggles under the Nazis immerses us in a world thick with fear, corruption and self-deception

By David Bennun

1 min read

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