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ISRAEL AT WAR

Ed Miliband ‘won cabinet revolt against PM’s plan to let US use UK bases’

Former Labour leader blocked Sir Keir Starmer’s proposal to give advance permission before campaign against Iran began, reports claim

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Ed Miliband attending a cabinet meeting in Downing Street (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

By Kasra Aarabi

To topple the Islamic Republic, dismantle the IRGC machinery of repression

There are about 200,000 highly radicalised and armed members that make up this core suppressive force, with at least 50,000 in Tehran alone

5 min read

Members of the Basij militia march in a parade at a Revolutionary Guards base in northeastern Tehran (Image: Getty)

Iran denies firing missile at Turkey after Nato interception

Azerbaijan has also summoned the Iranian envoy in Baku after drone strikes on its territory injured two people

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

People stand next to missile debris after it fell near Qamishli International Airport, near the Turkish border in the Qamishli district of Hasakah, Syria, March 4, 2026 (Getty Images)

US offers ‘extensive air cover’ for Kurds to seize parts of western Iran

The CIA is reportedly in ‘active talks’ with Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish militias about potential regime change.

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II jet performs a flyover on January 24, 2026, in Daytona Beach, Florida (Getty Images)

Secretary for Energy Security Ed Miliband (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

Ed Miliband’s toxic legacy: Syria, Corbyn and Britain’s retreat on Iran

3 min read

Documenting hate: Ethiopian-Israeli activist Ashager Araro

Our film October 8 was rejected by every major festival

By John Nathan

4 min read

Jewish Leadership Council

Parliament petition for inquiry into ‘pro-Israel lobbying’ should have been rejected, say Jewish leaders

Westminster debate may follow after 100,000 signatories threshold passed

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Germany

Community leaders give green light for German Jews to serve in army

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

A high speed train travelling between Jerusalem and Ben Gurion International Airport (Credit: AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Shabbat

Chief rabbis say plan to run trains from airport for repatriated Israelis ‘desecrates’ the Sabbath

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) talks to reporters ahead of a vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution that would have prevented President Donald Trump from continuing the military campaign against Iran (Getty Images)

USA

Senate vote to halt extension of Iran War fails

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

‘As a boy I didn’t know bagels were Jewish! Now I make the best challah’

Howard Jacobson: ‘October 7? It was as if permission had been given to do this to the Jews’

Israel opens Ben Gurion Airport to repatriation flights

If the Greens’ YouGov surge is real, Britain is in deep trouble

All eyes on Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s secretive nuclear site that may not be long for this world

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Operation Roaring Lion

US releases footage of sinking of Iran’s ‘prize’ warship in Indian Ocean

More than 140 people are believed dead after the attack off the coast of Sri Lanka

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom: US should reconsider military support for Israel under Netanyahu

The California governor is regarded as an early frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nomination

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

California governor Gavin Newsom (Photo: Getty)

Iran

US ‘in active talks’ with Iraqi Kurds over potential CIA-backed Iran regime change

American intelligence agencies are reportedly discussing arming Kurdish militias to facilitate regime change in the Islamic Republic

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

US Navy could be deployed to protect ships through Strait of Hormuz

President Trump also ordered a federal agency to provide insurance to commercial vessels passing through the vital trade route

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its associated strike group pictured in the Arabian Sea on February 2, 2026 (Getty Images)

1 min read

Letter from Jerusalem

When did Israel start planning Operation Roaring Lion? Go back to October 7

This week shows how the massacre that took place in Israel more than two years ago changed the Middle East forever – but not in the way Iran and Hamas had hoped for

By Natalie Lisbona

5 min read

British visitors to Israel stay longer than planned after outbreak of war Jewish Iranians in Israel long to visit their homeland

UK News

Stop the Hate

Iranian dissidents and Jewish allies plan counter-protest to pro-Islamic Republic event in London

Campaign group Stop The Hate organise rally to take place alongside Al Quds Day march

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Iranian dissidents in London on Sunday welcome US-Israel campaign against regime (Image: Elliott Franks)

Court and Crime

Pro-Palestine protesters found guilty of damaging factory linked to Israel

Three activists targeted Pearson Engineering in Newcastle last year

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Armstrong Works - the Pearson factory in newcastle (Image: Armstrong Works)

Education

Surging school antisemitism to be investigated by independent review

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson pledges commitment to tackling hate after incidents double since 2023

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson (Photo by James McCauley/Getty Images)

Iran

UK warship deployed to Cyprus after attack on RAF base

Helicopters with counter-drone capabilities and air defence destroyer HMS Dragon sent to Cyprus

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

HMS Dragon (pictured) has been deployed, Keir Starmer confirmed (Photo: Getty)

Opinion

I think my genes contain not one iota of athleticism

My own failure to compete was probably because my brother was so much better than me at everything, arguably, with the exception of my Eartha Kitt impersonation – or as he called it, my showing off – so I opted out

By Maureen Lipman

5 min read

Boxer Daniel Mendoza in an open air ring. (Image: Getty)

By Dominic Green

Starmer-Hermer legal posturing on Iran is government by Guardian editorial

The PM failed to take a stand, so we will fall. That was the week that was, and this is the UK that was

4 min read

By Yaakov Katz

How the Iran war forged the closest US-Israel alliance yet

Hundreds of aircraft flew side-by-side. They refuelled one another. They protected one another. This was not symbolic coordination. It was operational fusion

3 min read

By Stephen Daisley

How the BBC turned Palestinian adults into children – and erased Israeli kids

It matters if the corporation’s Arabic service has an institutional hostility to the Jewish state. It does untold harm to popular attitudes and crucial debates in the global public square

4 min read

By Daniela Grudsky Ekstein

Israel is determined to free the Middle East from Iran’s reign of terror

Divided democracies invite escalation, while unity can deter it. This is the time to stand together, for the people of the region, who deserve a future defined by dignity rather than fear

3 min read

By Yaakov Amidror

Inside Israel’s final campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran

The war is being fought in exceptionally close cooperation between the IDF and US forces. For the first time in the history of the Jewish state, a genuine military coalition has emerged

5 min read