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Israeli bobsledder Adam Edelman (Image: Getty Images)

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Jo Purvis

Legendary DJ who hosted wheelchair discos in her care home dies aged 104

By Alma Green

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Tracy-Ann Oberman

Tracy-Ann Oberman ‘honoured’ to receive MBE for work combating antisemitism

‘The King was really lovely. He said how important it was that the Holocaust is never forgotten,’ Oberman said

By Jamie Shapiro

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Adam Mitula (Image: Facebook/ Adam Mitula)

Reform UK

Matt Goodwin’s Reform UK campaign manager said he ‘would never touch a Jewish woman’

By Jamie Shapiro

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Israel

IDF chief condemns ‘intolerable reality’ after female soldiers chased by Charedi rioters in Bnei Brak

By Jacob Jaffa

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A masked pro-Palestinian demonstrator pictured in Toronto in August 2025 (Photo: Flash90)

Canada

Canadian anti-Zionists launch campaign to shut down Jewish summer camps

By Siam Goorwich

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Two-tier outcomes: Why British Jews no longer trust the criminal justice system

Inside the Birmingham launch of the ‘Anti-Zionist Movement’

The JC Blind Date: ‘After I said I don’t eat non-kosher meat, he ordered a lamb shank’

The American rabbi tasked with taking on global antisemitism

‘We’re ready,’ says ambulance chief as threat of Iranian attack puts Israel on high alert

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Iran

Second round of US-Iran talks set to begin in Geneva

President Trump has confirmed he will be ‘indirectly’ involved in the negotiations this time around, but did not specify exactly what his role would be

By Jacob Jaffa

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Protesters hold placards and portraits as they demonstrate in front of the United Nations' office ahead of indirect nuclear talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva on February 17, 2026 (Getty Images)

United States

Jew-hatred ‘running amok’ in Britain, claims US antisemitism envoy

Yehuda Kaploun has just finished a two-day fact-finding visit to the UK

By Siam Goorwich

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Yehuda Kaploun in his official photograph as the US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism (Picture: US State Department)

Iran

Trump ‘insisted’ Iran talks continue in White House meeting with Netanyahu

The US president said he held out hope that a diplomatic deal with the Islamic regime could be ‘consummated’

By Jacob Jaffa

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President Trump meets Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House on February 11, 2026 (GPO)

Nicola Peltz

Jewish billionaire Nelson Peltz advises Nicola and Brooklyn to ‘stay out of the press’ amid Beckham feud

Peltz’s remark comes amid the ongoing feud between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents

By Jamie Shapiro

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Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz renewed their vows after three years of marriage in a ceremony earlier this month, attended by 200 guests but excluding the Beckham family. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Balmain)

World news

Members of the press view Pablo Picasso's Guernica painting during the presentation of the exhibition 'Pity and Terror in Picasso: The Path to Guernica' at the Museo Reina Sofia

Spain

Madrid art museum faces lawsuit for ‘ejecting three Jewish women’

By JC Reporter

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Iran

Fresh wave of protests break out in Iran amid international solidarity rallies

By Jacob Jaffa

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Silver medalist Scotty James of Team Australia poses for a photo during the medal ceremony for the men's snowboard halfpipe on day seven of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow Park on February 13, 2026 (Getty Images)

Winter Olympics

Jewish-Australian snowboarder takes home silver medal on the halfpipe

By Ben Conway

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A court sketch of the accused, Naveed Akram, appearing wearing a prison-issue sweatshirt via video link in court (Photo: Rocco Fazzari/AFP/Getty)

Australia

Bondi Beach terror attack suspect appears in Sydney court

By JC Reporter

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Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the murder of Ilan Halimi, a French Jew who was abducted, tortured and murdered by a gang of criminals (Photo: Flash90)

France

More than 50% of religiously motivated hate crimes in France targeted Jews in 2025

By Canaan Lidor

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Dana Eden attends Apple TV+'s 'Tehran' Season 2 Premiere at The Robin Williams Center on May 04, 2022 in New York City (Getty Images)

Greece

Producer of Emmy-winning thriller ‘Tehran’ found dead in Athens hotel room

By Jacob Jaffa

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Jewish schools

Roedean School in Johannesburg (Image: Roedean School)

South African school apologises after refusing to play tennis match against Jewish pupils

Roedean in Johannesburg ‘stood up’ players at King David Linkfield earlier this month

By Jamie Shapiro

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Jewish comedian Sandra Bernhard cast in The White Lotus season four Melbourne University condemns ‘death to Herzog’ graffiti on campus building

UK News

Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn backed anti-Israel group going door to door to push boycott in Sheffield

Labour ex-leader’s support for campaign revealed as tactic also seen in Brighton and Bristol

By Jane Prinsley

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Activists going door to door in Sheffield to invite support for the boycott campaign (X)

Music

Jewish DJ, producer and UK hip hop pioneer Simon Harris dies aged 63

He made an indelible mark on the UK music scene over his 50-plus year career

By Siam Goorwich

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Pioneering Jewish music producer and DJ Simon Harris, pictured in 1988 (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)

Tony Blair

Tony Blair: Watching ‘Schindler’s List’ inspired my approach to politics

The former prime minister said the 1993 film taught him ‘you cannot be a bystander’

By Jamie Shapiro

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Sir Tony Blair claims Schindler's List helped to shape his politics (Images: Getty/IMDB)

Charities

Former Oxfam boss accuses charity of antisemitism over ‘disproportionate’ focus on Gaza

Dr Halima Begum, who left the charity in December, claimed there was pressure within the organisation to call the crisis a ‘genocide’

By Jamie Shapiro

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Dr Halima Begum who was CEO of Oxfam GB for a year-and-a-half (Image: CharitySoWhite)

Opinion

Are they the baddies? Green-backed Israel boycotts go door to door

The hate marches were a signal of where we were heading. Hunting down the addresses of those who refuse to blacklist the Jewish state shows that we have arrived

By Stephen Pollard

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By Stephen Daisley

From woke to broke: The Washington Post’s crisis should alarm the BBC and others

The former press giant’s fall illustrates how ‘journactivism’, most visibly on Israel, corrodes credibility and weakens the media’s democratic role

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By Arsen Ostrovsky

After Bondi, the anti-Israel protests against Herzog shame Australia

Do we allow the loudest and most extreme voices to dictate our national conversation? Or do we say “enough is enough” to those who spread hatred under the guise of activism?

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By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Prince William courts Saudi Arabia while Israel remains untouchable

It would be a striking gesture were the heir – or the King – to visit the Jewish state soon, signalling solidarity with a democracy facing multi-front threats, including from Iran. It would also acknowledge that those threats are aimed at Britain, too

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By The JC Leader

Antisemitism is costing Britain investment and jobs

When anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are allowed to metastasise, they hollow out institutions, corrode democratic norms and ultimately make a society poorer – morally and materially

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By Melanie Phillips

Bret Stephens is wrong. Jews can’t just turn inward and ignore antisemitism

We have a moral obligation to fight for our survival. We should be saying that Zionism is an inseparable part of Judaism, and so antizionism is an attempt to destroy not just Israel but Judaism itself

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By Maureen Lipman

The man who personally saved the lives of 1,000 musicians

Bronislaw Huberman was an infant prodigy who, by the time he was 12, had played Brahms on his violin… er… to Brahms.

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Life

My youth club leader Michael Moritz is now a billionaire (and, yes, I did predict he had a big future!)

By Gaby Koppel

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Framed horror: a scene from Here There Are Blueberries (Photo: David Cromer)

Theatre

Here There Are Blueberries review: ‘What makes a Nazi a Nazi?’ ★★★★★

This forensic Pultizer-finalist docu-play settles the question of what allows a person to perpetrate atrocity while enjoying the normal pleasures of life

By John Nathan

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Books

Sex, lies and terrorists

Ellie Levenson’s thriller is a twisty page-turner with an intriguing concept that grabs from the get-go

By Jennifer Lipman

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Books

There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a start

This rigorous guide works for Jewish readers trying to comprehend how this irrational madness is happening again, and for allies grappling with the question of why people hate Jews

By Nicole Lampert

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