Daniel Ben-David

Daniel Ben-David is a senior reporter for the Jewish Chronicle. You can reach him at dbendavid@thejc.com

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Exclusive: Artist behind ‘antisemitic’ exhibition shared posts claiming Hamas had ‘nothing to apologise for’

Matthew Collings also shared the claim that the ‘Holocaust industry’ would collapse if people lost the ability to lie

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

Mayor of Bath, Dr Bharat Pankhania (Credit: mayorofbath.co.uk)

Bath mayor suspended after sharing claims Hatzola arson was ‘Israeli false flag’

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Former pro-Gaza West Midlands mayoral contender Akhmed Yakoob (Image: X/Screengrab)

Birmingham political activist caught on camera telling voters ‘Zionists control everything’

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IRGC/Basij parade in Tehran, January 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Former intelligence chiefs urge the government to proscribe the IRGC

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Bath mayor ‘incredibly apologetic’ after sharing claim Hatzola ambulance arson was ‘Israeli false flag’

Bharat Pankhania said in his inaugural mayoral speech that education is about thinking critically in a world of ‘deliberate manipulation and misinformation’

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March 26, 2026 14:24

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’

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March 24, 2026 19:01

Historic shuls given £140k National Lottery grant

The Foundation for Jewish Heritage will be overseeing the preservation programme

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March 24, 2026 17:27

Middle Street Synagogue (Photo: Foundation for Jewish Heritage)

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’

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March 24, 2026 14:49

Met chief confirms police investigating possible Iran link to Hatzola arson

‘The rapid growth in recent years of Iranian state threats is grave,’ said Sir Mark Rowley at the CST’s annual dinner

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March 24, 2026 14:05

(L-R) Sir Mark Rowley, Sir Gerald Ronson CBE, Matt Jukes, Mark Gardner MBE and Laurence Taylor attend the CST's annual dinner on March 23, 2026 (Credit: Blake Ezra)

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

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March 20, 2026 17:00

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

FBI investigating ex-counterterror chief Joe Kent over alleged leak

Kent’s resignation letter, which blamed the Iran War on the ‘powerful' Israel lobby, went viral earlier this week

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March 19, 2026 15:08

Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joseph Kent, December 11, 2025 (Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Woman who said Hamas was ‘fighting for freedom’ found not guilty of supporting a terror group

Jury at the trial at Bristol Crown Court unanimously acquitted Kwabena Devonish

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March 18, 2026 17:50

Kwabena Devonish speaking to a crowd in Cardiff, November 2023 (Credit: X)

October 7 report will remind ‘useful fools’ that Hamas started Gaza war

Lord Roberts’ report outlines in detail ‘one of the worst terror outrages in the annals of history’

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March 18, 2026 15:41

Armed Palestinians take control of an Israeli Merkava battle tank after crossing the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 (Getty Images)

Antisemitism is ‘running riot’ in UK, British October 7 survivor says

Anat Ron-Kendall was visiting her parents in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7 2023

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March 18, 2026 13:04

Anat Ron-Kendall, who lives in Oxford no longer feels safe in the UK (Photo: APPG on UK-Israel)

Guide launched to raise awareness of Jewish divorce refusal

Lord Mendelsohn made the announcement at the Jewish Women's Aid annual fundraising dinner

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March 18, 2026 11:20

(l-r) JWA CEO Sam Clifford, Lord Mendelsohn and JWA chair Joanne Black (Photo: Liz Isles Photography)

King’s College London opens probe after keffiyeh-clad student posts ‘antisemitic’ video targeting professors

KCL said it was appalled to learn of the ‘intimidatory’ video

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March 13, 2026 18:14

An alleged KCL student in a keffiyeh appears in a video posted by 'KCL Stands For Justice' (Credit: Instagram)

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Daniel Ben-David

Latest from Daniel Ben-David

Exclusive: Artist behind ‘antisemitic’ exhibition shared posts claiming Hamas had ‘nothing to apologise for’

Bath mayor suspended after sharing claims Hatzola arson was ‘Israeli false flag’

Birmingham political activist caught on camera telling voters ‘Zionists control everything’

Former intelligence chiefs urge the government to proscribe the IRGC

More from Daniel Ben-David

Bath mayor ‘incredibly apologetic’ after sharing claim Hatzola ambulance arson was ‘Israeli false flag’

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

Historic shuls given £140k National Lottery grant

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

Met chief confirms police investigating possible Iran link to Hatzola arson

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

FBI investigating ex-counterterror chief Joe Kent over alleged leak

Woman who said Hamas was ‘fighting for freedom’ found not guilty of supporting a terror group

October 7 report will remind ‘useful fools’ that Hamas started Gaza war

Antisemitism is ‘running riot’ in UK, British October 7 survivor says

Guide launched to raise awareness of Jewish divorce refusal

King’s College London opens probe after keffiyeh-clad student posts ‘antisemitic’ video targeting professors