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Nuremberg

‘It changed my understanding of the trials’ – Natalie Livingstone tells the story behind The Nuremberg Women at JC event

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Shafiq Rahman has admitted racially aggravated assault (X/Shomrim)

Court and Crime

Man admits racial assault after accusing Orthodox Jew of ‘killing babies’

By Stanley Murphy-Johns

2 min read

Nova

Nova Exhibition coming to London in May

Proceeds from the exhibition will support the healing journey of The Nova Music Festival survivors and bereaved families

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

US President Donald Trump (Image: Getty)

Operation Roaring Lion

Trump cancels envoys’ trip to Pakistan after Iranian delegation leaves

By JC Reporter

1 min read

A Metropolitan Police lantern outside Charing Cross police station on October 02, 2025 (Getty Images)

Crime

Man arrested on terror charges over spate of attacks on Jewish community

1 min read

KeshetUK

Jewish bloc returns to London Pride after two years of cancellation

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha’s husband Mark Adderley suspended from Green Party after comments criticised as ‘antisemitic’

Israel through my lens

As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

National Holocaust Museum announces major Google partnership

Nice Jewish boy Tom Brook celebrates 50 years as BBC’s film guru

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Donald Trump

Trump unharmed after shots fired at Washington dinner

The US President was rushed out of the event as suspect is in custody

By JC Reporter

1 min read

President Donald Trump at a White House press conference following the shooting incident (Image: White House/X)

Lebanon

Lebanon ceasefire extended for three weeks

US President Trump confirmed the move, despite Hezbollah continuing to launch rockets at northern Israel

By Jacob Jaffa and Melanie Swan

1 min read

US President Trump waves to the media after walking off Air Force One at Miami International Airport on April 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

Anti-Zionism

Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas claims ‘privileged’ Zionists ‘talk like black people during slavery’

The rocker also compared Hamas’ October 7 attack to a list of ‘rebellions’ throughout history

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

US singer/songwriter Julian Casablancas performs on the Coachella stage during the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on April 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Trump extends Iran ceasefire indefinitely

The US president said the truce would allow Tehran’s ‘fractured’ regime tod evelop a ‘unified proposal’ to end the war

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

US President Trump speaks in the Oval Office after signing an Executive Order April 18, 2026 (Getty Images)

World news

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on April 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

UAE

Israel sent Iron Dome to UAE during Iran War

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noël Barrot speaks to journalists during his visit to the Faculty of Law and Political Science to meet with students in Montpellier, southern France, on April 17, 2026 (Getty Images)

European Union

EU to impose sanctions on West Bank settlers, says French FM

1 min read

Israel will not be considered for the top prizes at this years Venice Biennale (Picture: Getty)

Art

Venice Biennale jury says Israel will not be considered for top prizes

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

Members of the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment carry the coffin of late French Unifil peacekeeper Sergeant-Major Florian Montorio during a tribute ceremony at the military barracks in Montauban, southwestern France, on April 23, 2026 (Getty Images)

Lebanon

Hezbollah attack on Unifil peacekeepers leaves two French soldiers dead

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Hungary

Hungary will arrest Netanyahu if he visits, says new PM

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Gaza

Board of Peace confirms Hamas disarmament talks have stalled

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Lebanon

IDF replaces Jesus statue smashed by soldier in Lebanon

The suspected culprit has been jailed, while he and five others are facing further disciplinary action after the incident was condemned by government ministers

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Second round of Israel-Lebanon talks set for Washington Two IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon despite ceasefire

UK News

Palestine Action

Legal intervention by Jewish leaders in Palestine Action case rejected by Court of Appeal

Revelation comes ahead of this week’s hearing to decide legality of proscribing group

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Locals inspecting the damage after a Jewish property business in Stamford Hill was attacked (Supplied)

Education

EXCLUSIVE: Immanuel College saved from closure thanks to 11th-hour rescue plan

Delight after parents’ action group swoop in with £12.7m funding pledge

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

Immanuel College, in Hertfordshire, is to close at the end of this academic year

Board of Deputies

Community to unite at ‘extinguish antisemitism’ march in central London on May 10

The march has been organised as the public reels from a spate of violent attacks on synagogues

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

The protest advert (Image: X/ Board of Deputies)

owen jones

Owen Jones shares claim IDF is training dogs to rape Palestinians

Israeli embassy spokesman Alex Gandler called the left-wing commentator a ‘snake oil salesman’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

IDF soldiers with dogs (Image: Getty Images)

Opinion

March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

When that happens, it will be up to us to make sure they are still understood, still told properly, and still felt in the way they deserve to be. That is what this experience left me with

By Lottie Cannon

3 min read

The author (third from left) at the March of the Living (Image: courtesy of Lottie Cannon)

By Agnieszka Markiewicz

Poland’s fraught reckoning with its complex past towards Jews takes a dark turn

As in the rest of the world, the Hamas attack on Israel has triggered an unprecedented wave of antisemitism. What makes the situation here distinct, is the weight of history

4 min read

By Stephen Pollard

How Labour is helping antisemitism flourish in Britain

The government is casting Israel as a rogue state, fostering a climate where some see Jew hate as a legitimate response to a demonised Israel

5 min read

By Nick Cohen

Zack Polanski is pandering to the antisemitic mob instead of finding the courage to take it on

We are seeing something very dark, the notion that Jew-hatred is a diabolical Jewish conspiracy, a ruse that cunning Jews play on gentiles to generate sympathy and justify the persecution of legitimate critics of Israel

4 min read

By Jake Wallis Simons

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain

Shame on the media, the international institutions and activists, whether on social media or in the real world, who have so obsessively given new life to this age-old expression of hatred

2 min read

By Tanya Gold

How to talk to antisemites – or, even better, how to ignore them

She was reading The Librarian of Auschwitz because, she said, she ‘loved’ reading about the Holocaust

4 min read

By Stephen Daisley

Jews are the biggest bad-asses to ever walk the Earth

Flipping an old question on its head: why doesn’t everyone love this awesome tribe of innovators, artists, original Bible scribes, survivors, defiers of pharaohs and revivers of a nation?

3 min read