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One of the Hitler banners reported to have sprung up in cities around Iran (Image: X)

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One-state solutionist: Will Self and his new book

Books

Will Self: What inspired me to write this book? The Glasto crowd chanting ‘Death to the IDF’

By David Bennun

6 min read

Emily Damari has got engaged and launched a clothing line since her release (Picture: Shai Franco)

Hostages

Season of freedom: a heart-to-heart with four former hostages

From making a cup of tea to laughing out loud, Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher, Aviva Seigel and Danielle Aloni share how it feels to be free women back home in Israel

By Natalie Blenford

12 min read

Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Question on March 25, 2026 (Parliament TV)

Prime Minister's Questions

Starmer labels Israeli settlements ‘flagrant breach of international law’ and backs labelling of products

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Artificial Intelligence platform ChatGPT (Image: Getty Images)

Israel Iran War

Israeli brothers allegedly sold AI-generated fake files to Iranian agent

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

The scene after four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire next to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, on March 23, 2026, in the Golders Green area of London (Getty Images)

Hatzola ambulance attack

Two arrested over Golders Green Hatzola arson

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Volkswagen in talks to convert car factory into Iron Dome manufacturing hub

Strictly-Orthodox are the Israeli group least stressed by the war, study reveals

Maker of ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ celebrated her Oscar with Hollywood latke feast

Britain must finally proscribe Iran’s IRGC

Saudi Crown Prince pushing for US to continue Iran War

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Iran

Iran rejects US ceasefire plan

The Islamic Republic said it had not conducted negotiations with Washington, despite President Trump’s claim that it had agreed to his terms

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Iran

Trump claims Iran agreed to give up nuclear enrichment in ‘productive’ talks

The US president pushed back his threat to strike Iranian power plants by at least five days

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

US President Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 23, 2026 (Getty Images)

USA

New photos reveal destruction inside Temple Israel shul after Michigan terror attack

The synagogue said it decided to release the images ‘to take back control of our narrative’

By Ben Conway

3 min read

Inside Temple Israel Synagogue after the attack (Image: Emily Elconin)

Iran

Trump distances US from Israeli strikes on Iranian gas field

The president said there would be ‘no more attacks’ on the South Pars site unless Iran launched further aggression towards Qatar

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

US President Trump speaks to members of the media traveling on Air Force One en route to Miami on March 7, 2026 (Getty Images)

World news

Letter from Jerusalem

Even after sleepless weeks of nightly missile attacks by Iran, Israel remains determined

By Natalie Lisbona

4 min read

Trump shakes hands with Netanyahu during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

EXCLUSIVE: Trump and Netanyahu decided on war timing ‘in phone call two days before it began’

By Natalie Lisbona

1 min read

Commercial vessels in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz on March 22, 2026, in northern Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (Getty Images)

Iran

Iran agrees to partially reopen Strait of Hormuz

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Lebanon

Israel to occupy ‘security zone’ in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah threat neutralised

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

Police officers in Amsterdam (Getty Images)

The Netherlands

Dutch police foil synagogue attack as explosive found

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Iran

Iran says it has dedicated a missile to Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Fascism

Left: Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, and left: Tucker Carlson (Credit: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images and YouTube)

Tucker Carlson calls pro-Hitler Oswald Mosley one of Britain’s ‘great war heroes’

Mosley’s only crime, Carlson claimed, was being the leader of the ‘opposition party’ to Churchill

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

Newlywed Thai worker who came to Israel ‘with hope to make a good life’ killed by Iranian cluster bomb UAE shuts down ‘Iran-backed terror network’ after Gulf strikes

UK News

Suella Braverman

Britain has a fifth column says Suella Braverman on visit to Hatzola aftermath

Reform MP calls for IRGC to be banned after arson attack on Jewish charity ambulances

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Reform's Suella Braverman met with Hatzola volunteers at the scene of the arson attack in Golders Green

Reform UK

Reform mayoral candidate suspended after likening Jewish security group to ‘Islamists on horseback’

Shomrim president Rabbi Hershel Gluck described Chris Parry’s comments as ‘ignorant’

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Hatzola ambulance attack

Ed Balls condemned for ‘appalling’ question linking Hatzola arson with shadow minister’s comments on public Muslim prayer

The former children's minister suggested that Nick Timothy’s remarks demonstrated the same ‘kind of intolerance and divisiveness which is causing problems in the Jewish community’

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Ed Balls speaks onstage during the 'The Political Currency Podcast' panel discussion on day four of SXSW London 2025 at Christ Church Spitafields on June 05, 2025 (Getty Images)

Kent

Former attorney general accuses police of ‘bizarre inaction’ over ‘antisemitic’ art exhibition

Matthew Collings’ Drawings Against Genocide featured images of British politicians being paid by Israel, swastikas alongside the Star of David and a naked Benjamin Netanyahu performing ‘hypnotism’

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

An image from Matthew Collings' Drawings Against Genocide depicting Sotheby's auctioneers eating infants (Zoe Strimpel)

Opinion

Iran is a direct threat to Britain – it’s time to act like it

UK support – through basing, logistics and safeguarding maritime routes – is neither escalation nor a ‘favour’ to its principal ally. It is, rather, an exercise in self-interest

By The JC Leader

2 min read

Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier Mayuree Naree near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack (Image: AFP/Royal Thai Navy)

By Jonathan Spyer

Trump vs Islamic Republic: Who controls the escalation ladder?

Given the yawning gap between US and Iranian positions, it is difficult to see how talks could bear fruit. Breaking Iran’s de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz will therefore likely require US action

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By David Cohen

Echoes of the Blitz, triggered by a sickening attack on Golders Green

For this writer in New Zealand, the Hatzola arson raised questions which shook his sense of what the ‘Old Country’ stands for

3 min read

By Jonathan Harounoff

The antisemitic arson attack on Hatzola is a test Britain cannot fail

Words of condemnation have and will of course come. But if this moment is to mean anything, it must mark a shift from language to action

3 min read

By Wes Streeting

The despicable attack on Hatzola shows why antisemitism must be confonted head-on

The answer cannot simply be higher walls, thicker doors, more CCTV. We also have to deal with this hatred at its source

1 min read

By Ben M. Freeman

The global war against the Jews

Across the world, communities face vandalism, arson, assaults, and threats. And yet, we are still here, an ancient people in a modern world, and our civilisation will endure

6 min read

By Stephen Pollard

The Hatzola attack and the normalisation of antisemitism in Britain

What is now happening, I believe, is a sort of reversion to the mean: for centuries open Jew hate was a reality, and that is what we are now returning to

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Eggstraordinary: Paul Kutchinsky with his diamond-encrusted creation

memoir

How I cracked the mystery of my father and the biggest jewelled egg in the world

By Serena Kutchinsky

6 min read

Opening night host Tina Fey Credit: Sky UK

Television

Saturday Night Live UK review: ‘It’s hard to judge the quality of the performers when the material is this bad’ ★

Even at the beginning, SNL was very hit and miss. The inaugural episode of the transatlantic spin-off is just…a miss

By Ben Felsenburg

2 min read

Pesach

Rice, dates and dressing up… welcome to my Iraqi seder

For those used to Ashkenazi traditions, an Iraqi-Jewish Seder brings a few surprises—and grains—to be jealous of

By Samantha Ellis

3 min read

Samantha Ellis revels in Iraqi delicacies for the Seder

Israeli theatre

What is it like to be a queer Palestinian?

Yael Breuer speaks to the Israeli playwright of a new drama about the precarious lives of LGBTQ+ Palestinians

By Yael Breuer

3 min read

Tomer Aldubi (left) with his producer Maera Daniel Hagage in Ohio in 2025

breast cancer

Why I won’t take a test to see if my breast cancer will return

Science doesn’t always have all the answers. It might tell you that you will die, but it can’t tell you how you should live

By Karen E H Skinazi

3 min read

How long will I live? How long is a piece of string?

JC recipes

The ultimate Peach brownies (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Pesach bake

Pesach chocolate brownies

By Fabienne Viner-Luzzato

Cook time: 30 minutes

Coconut and lime are a match made in tropical heaven (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Passover bakes

Pesach coconut and lime cake

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 70-90 minutes

Passover bakes

Perfect Pesach brunch bagels

By Nir Elkayam

A comfort classic that will happily wait for you to finish your Seder (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Passover recipe

Pesach fish pie

By Victoria Prever

Cook time: 1 hour

The Jewish Chronicle

Pro-Hitler banners threatening anti-regime protesters reported to appear across Iran

Will Self: What inspired me to write this book? The Glasto crowd chanting ‘Death to the IDF’

Season of freedom: a heart-to-heart with four former hostages

Starmer labels Israeli settlements ‘flagrant breach of international law’ and backs labelling of products

Israeli brothers allegedly sold AI-generated fake files to Iranian agent

Two arrested over Golders Green Hatzola arson

Editor's Picks

Volkswagen in talks to convert car factory into Iron Dome manufacturing hub

Strictly-Orthodox are the Israeli group least stressed by the war, study reveals

Maker of ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ celebrated her Oscar with Hollywood latke feast

Britain must finally proscribe Iran’s IRGC

Saudi Crown Prince pushing for US to continue Iran War

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Iran rejects US ceasefire plan

Trump claims Iran agreed to give up nuclear enrichment in ‘productive’ talks

New photos reveal destruction inside Temple Israel shul after Michigan terror attack

Trump distances US from Israeli strikes on Iranian gas field

World news

Even after sleepless weeks of nightly missile attacks by Iran, Israel remains determined

EXCLUSIVE: Trump and Netanyahu decided on war timing ‘in phone call two days before it began’

Iran agrees to partially reopen Strait of Hormuz

Israel to occupy ‘security zone’ in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah threat neutralised

Dutch police foil synagogue attack as explosive found

Iran says it has dedicated a missile to Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez

Tucker Carlson calls pro-Hitler Oswald Mosley one of Britain’s ‘great war heroes’

UK News

Britain has a fifth column says Suella Braverman on visit to Hatzola aftermath

Reform mayoral candidate suspended after likening Jewish security group to ‘Islamists on horseback’

Ed Balls condemned for ‘appalling’ question linking Hatzola arson with shadow minister’s comments on public Muslim prayer

Former attorney general accuses police of ‘bizarre inaction’ over ‘antisemitic’ art exhibition

Opinion

Iran is a direct threat to Britain – it’s time to act like it

Trump vs Islamic Republic: Who controls the escalation ladder?

Echoes of the Blitz, triggered by a sickening attack on Golders Green

The antisemitic arson attack on Hatzola is a test Britain cannot fail

The despicable attack on Hatzola shows why antisemitism must be confonted head-on

The global war against the Jews

The Hatzola attack and the normalisation of antisemitism in Britain

How I cracked the mystery of my father and the biggest jewelled egg in the world

Saturday Night Live UK review: ‘It’s hard to judge the quality of the performers when the material is this bad’ ★

Rice, dates and dressing up… welcome to my Iraqi seder

What is it like to be a queer Palestinian?

Why I won’t take a test to see if my breast cancer will return

JC recipes

Pesach chocolate brownies

Pesach coconut and lime cake

Perfect Pesach brunch bagels

Pesach fish pie