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Letter from Jerusalem

‘It devastates us’: Families of October 7 victims react as full extent of horrors are revealed in historic report

By Natalie Lisbona

6 min read

Portrait of a Young Girl by Toon Kelder (Image: X/ SotaNews)

Art

Painting stolen by Nazis found in home of SS commander’s granddaughter

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Pro-Palestine protestors outside Woolwich Crown Court on November 17, 2025 (Getty Images)

Palestine Action

Convicted Palestine Action activists could be sentenced as terrorists

The group were convicted of criminal damage earlier this month, but could face double the jail term for that offence

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

King Charles III sits with Queen Camilla in the House of Lords chamber during the State Opening of Parliament on May 13, 2026 (Getty Images)

IRGC

Legislation to proscribe IRGC confirmed in King’s Speech

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper speaks during a virtual summit at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London, April 2, 2026 (Credit: Leon Neal / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Iran

UK unveils new sanctions targeting Iran-backed criminal and financial networks

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

IRGC

Exclusive: British-Iranian lives in fear after suspected IRGC agent offered him £40,000 to murder UK journalist

By Ali Hamedani

5 min read

‘Dangerous era’ for UK politics after wave of conspiracy theorists elected across UK

The New York Times’ faux Eurovision scandal about Israel

The former cop who teaches world’s police about the Shoah

£7 million restoration plan announced for Lauderdale Road Synagogue

EU confirms sanctions against violent West Bank settlers

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New York

New York school district pays $125k settlement after painting over pro-Palestine parking space mural

The district was sued by a teenage student, who alleged that it had infringed on her freedom of speech and inflicted ‘emotional trauma’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

US Politics

White House Jewish event ending just before Shabbat a ‘sad oversight’, say invitees

‘It’s a rare misstep from the Trump administration that is usually better about including Orthodox Jews at their events,’ an invitee told JNS

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Exterior view of the White House in Washington DC (Getty Images)

Boulder attack

Man who firebombed Boulder pro-hostage march sentenced to life without parole

Mohamed Sabry Soliman was handed a 2,128-year prison term after pleading guilty to 100 charges, including first-degree murder

By Jonathan D Salant and Jessica Russack-Hoffman

3 min read

Mugshot of Mohamed Sabry Soliman (Boulder Police Department)

Los Angeles

LA Jewish groups criticise ‘woefully inadequate’ plea deal for man who killed pro-Israel protester

Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in relation to his fatal altercation with 69-year-old Paul Kessler in 2023

By Aaron Bandler

2 min read

Elena Colombo creates a Star of David at a makeshift memorial at the site of an altercation between Paul Kessler and Loay Alnaji on November 7, 2023, in Thousand Oaks, California (Getty Images)

World news

Iran

Our terror attacks on British Jews bring ‘political gains’, senior regime insider tells JC

By Ali Hamedani

3 min read

Left: Ric Esther Bienstock, and right: Pro-Palestinian student protestors participate in a walk-out on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), April 29, 2024 (Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Film

War? Ebola? No, campus anti-Israel protests are most dangerous story I’ve covered, says acclaimed filmmaker

By Daniel Ben-David

4 min read

A bus carrying Palestinians released from Israeli prisons under a Gaza ceasefire and hostage exchange deal on October 13, 2025 (Getty Images)

New York Times

Israel accuses New York Times of ‘blood libel’ over article alleging use of dogs to rape Palestinian detainees

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Israeli fighter F-16 jets perform an exhibition exercise during an Israeli Independence Day show (Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

Israel built ‘clandestine’ base in Iraq to support Tehran bombing campaign

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

The Aviva Stadium, venue for home fixtures of the Irish men's football team (photo: Getty Imahes)

Ireland

Irish footballers and celebrities sign open letter calling for cancellation of Israel matches

By Ben Conway

2 min read

Photographer Saher Alghorra (Credit: Instagram)

Gaza

Gazan photographer behind ‘starving’ boy picture wins Pulitzer Prize

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Letter from Jerusalem

Some Israelis fear Britain is finished – others plead: ‘Get your head out of the sand’

Amid shock over the Golders Green attack, Jerusalem officials and UK expats warn what must come next to defeat extremism

By Natalie Lisbona

5 min read

Belgium indicts three mohalim in ‘illegal circumcision’ case Iranian regime celebrates stabbings of Jews in London as ‘revolutionary’ attack

UK News

Cornwall

Jews in Devon and Cornwall growing fearful of showing identity in public, say campaigners

Community organiser warns of ‘a kind of erasure of Jewish identity’ amid rising antisemitism

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Palestine Action

Palestine Action lawyer avoids contempt of court charge

Rajiv Menon was accused of misleading the jury, who failed to return a verdict in the initial trial, before the activist he defended was convicted at a retrial

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

JC Heroes

‘I come from a close-knit community, and I try to recreate that each day for our clients’

Sonya Levin, who has helped to organise a fashion show in aid of Homeless Action Barnet (HAB) tells the JC about a poncho made from an air mattress and a dress created from an emergency blanket

By Ben Conway

2 min read

Antisemitism on campus

Universities failing to protect pro-Israel students from hate

Calls for antizionism to be treated as a hate crime and parliamentary inquiry after publication of devastating report

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

Pro-Palestine protest outside the London School of Economics (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Opinion

We will never defeat political antisemitism if we deny it

If the industrial-scale demonisation of Jews and Israel – particularly pervasive on campuses – continues to be treated as legitimate discourse, this new virus will keep spreading while Britain congratulates itself on fighting it

By Isaac Zarfati

3 min read

A Gaza protest at Cambridge University (Image: Getty Images)

By Sir Michael Ellis

Until the CPS can grasp the reality of antizionism, it will keep on failing Jews

The new antisemitism guidance is being billed as a major intervention. But the problem was never a lack of manuals for prosecutors – it was the repeated failure, since October 7, to prosecute blatant antisemitic offences properly, or at all

4 min read

By Ashley Perry

How the Bennett-Lapid alliance may lose the Israeli elections – and yet win

Political pacts may weaken individual parties, blur ideological lines, and disappoint at the ballot box, yet still reshape the political map in ways that determine who governs

4 min read

By The JC Leader

A rally against Jew-hate and sectarianism in Britain

The central question the protest raised was larger than antisemitism alone. It concerned whether the UK remains capable of sustaining a shared civic identity and the social cohesion of the country itself

3 min read

By Dominic Green

The Israeli rape dog blood libel and how the New York Times has failed US liberal Jews

Ruth Wisse explained all this nearly a decade ago. Antisemitism and antizionism, she wrote, are “the organisation of politics against the Jews”

4 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Under any of Starmer’s mooted successors, Britain’s Israel policy can only go from bad to worse

The party’s attitude has shifted from previous governments treating the Jewish state as a key ally to viewing it as a reprobate state that must be brought to heel

4 min read

By Jake Wallis Simons

Bafta for Gaza: Britain’s media elites help fuel the jihadi propaganda campaign against Israel

The wilder the accusations against the Jewish state, the more likely you are to be showered with awards

2 min read

Sponsored

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By JWed

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Way Day vs Black Friday vs Prime Day: When do you find the best Wayfair deals?

By Rhys Hughes

3 min read

Formalising new family arrangements after divorce, with the child’s best interests at heart

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By Rhys Hughes

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By Martin Benjamin

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Life

Ferrero Rocher chocolate hazelnut no-bake cheesecake

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 1 hr 40 mins

Books

The Inspired review: ‘Reminds us that comfort can always be found in music’

James Inverne’s debut novel conveys the turmoil of a person under huge political pressure and is imbued with a musicality honed from decades of experience as a music journalist

By Ethan Daws

1 min read

Film

Mortal Kombat II review: Cage fights on repeat in silly game-to-screen re-bash ★★

How to describe this action fantasy iteration of the video game franchise? Fight, after fight, after fight, after….

By John Nathan

1 min read

Mortal Kombat II. (Photo: Warner Bros Pictures)

Cheesecake

Dubai-style pistachio chocolate cheesecake

The winning flavour combination means this crunchy, showstopper delivers on every level

By Fabienne Viner-Luzzato

Cook time: 20 mins, plus 20 mins freezing/chilling

(Photo: Inbal Bar-Oz and Layla Freedman)

Children's books

Children’s books: 7-12 years

From a space-colonising dynasty to an ice-cream ambush, JC Life rounds up the best new titles for kids

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

JC recipes

Cheesecake

Miso burnt Basque cheesecake

By Brin Pirathapan

Cook time: 1 hr plus infusing, cooling and 6-8 hrs chilling

Healthy eating

Cashew nut and canellini bean tartine

By Denise Phillips

Cook time: No cooking!

Vegan

Herby lemon bean salad with asparagus and pumpkin seeds

By Denise Phillips

Cook time: 20 minutes

Israeli food

‘We’re trained to think about what is impossible – and then we try to do it’

By Ben Conway

3 min read

The Jewish Chronicle

‘It devastates us’: Families of October 7 victims react as full extent of horrors are revealed in historic report

Painting stolen by Nazis found in home of SS commander’s granddaughter

Convicted Palestine Action activists could be sentenced as terrorists

Legislation to proscribe IRGC confirmed in King’s Speech

UK unveils new sanctions targeting Iran-backed criminal and financial networks

Exclusive: British-Iranian lives in fear after suspected IRGC agent offered him £40,000 to murder UK journalist

Editor's Picks

‘Dangerous era’ for UK politics after wave of conspiracy theorists elected across UK

The New York Times’ faux Eurovision scandal about Israel

The former cop who teaches world’s police about the Shoah

£7 million restoration plan announced for Lauderdale Road Synagogue

EU confirms sanctions against violent West Bank settlers

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New York school district pays $125k settlement after painting over pro-Palestine parking space mural

White House Jewish event ending just before Shabbat a ‘sad oversight’, say invitees

Man who firebombed Boulder pro-hostage march sentenced to life without parole

LA Jewish groups criticise ‘woefully inadequate’ plea deal for man who killed pro-Israel protester

World news

Our terror attacks on British Jews bring ‘political gains’, senior regime insider tells JC

War? Ebola? No, campus anti-Israel protests are most dangerous story I’ve covered, says acclaimed filmmaker

Israel accuses New York Times of ‘blood libel’ over article alleging use of dogs to rape Palestinian detainees

Israel built ‘clandestine’ base in Iraq to support Tehran bombing campaign

Irish footballers and celebrities sign open letter calling for cancellation of Israel matches

Gazan photographer behind ‘starving’ boy picture wins Pulitzer Prize

Some Israelis fear Britain is finished – others plead: ‘Get your head out of the sand’

UK News

Jews in Devon and Cornwall growing fearful of showing identity in public, say campaigners

Palestine Action lawyer avoids contempt of court charge

‘I come from a close-knit community, and I try to recreate that each day for our clients’

Universities failing to protect pro-Israel students from hate

Opinion

We will never defeat political antisemitism if we deny it

Until the CPS can grasp the reality of antizionism, it will keep on failing Jews

How the Bennett-Lapid alliance may lose the Israeli elections – and yet win

A rally against Jew-hate and sectarianism in Britain

The Israeli rape dog blood libel and how the New York Times has failed US liberal Jews

Under any of Starmer’s mooted successors, Britain’s Israel policy can only go from bad to worse

Bafta for Gaza: Britain’s media elites help fuel the jihadi propaganda campaign against Israel

Sponsored

While dating swipes decrease, JWed.com marriages increase to record 4,100

Way Day vs Black Friday vs Prime Day: When do you find the best Wayfair deals?

A complete guide to divorce and child arrangements

Oscar-worthy residences

Life

Ferrero Rocher chocolate hazelnut no-bake cheesecake

The Inspired review: ‘Reminds us that comfort can always be found in music’

Mortal Kombat II review: Cage fights on repeat in silly game-to-screen re-bash ★★

Dubai-style pistachio chocolate cheesecake

Children’s books: 7-12 years

JC recipes

Miso burnt Basque cheesecake

Cashew nut and canellini bean tartine

Herby lemon bean salad with asparagus and pumpkin seeds

‘We’re trained to think about what is impossible – and then we try to do it’