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Jacob Jaffa

Jacob Jaffa

Assistant News Editor

Jacob Jaffa is the JC's Assistant News Editor. His specialist topics include UK and US politics, the far-right and antisemitism in Europe. You can reach him on jjaffa@thejc.com

Latest from Jacob Jaffa

Music

London venue appalled by Primal Scream’s use of ‘antisemitic imagery’ during gig

The band displayed a Star of David entwined with a Nazi symbol during a performance of their song Swastika Eyes

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Primal Scream perform Swastika Eyes at the Camden Roundhouse on December 8, 2025 (Image: YouTube/JohnW)
Gazan journalist Anas al-Sharif (C), who was killed in an Israeli strike in August, embraces the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (IDF)

Most Gazan journalists killed by IDF had links to terror, new report claims

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Oil refinery and chemical plant in Haifa, Israel (Getty Images)

Netanyahu to sign ‘multi-billion dollar’ natural gas deal with Egypt

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Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich talks with a Charedi MK ahead of US President Trump's address to the Knesset on October 13, 2025 (Getty Images)

Religious Zionism expected to back revised Charedi draft bill

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Taiwan’s Deputy Foreign Minister made secret trip to Israel

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December 11, 2025 10:58
Taiwan's deputy foreign minister, François Wu (Natioanl Taiwan Normal University)

Hamas leader rules out ‘unacceptable’ disarmament as part of Gaza ceasefire

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December 11, 2025 10:19
Hamas leader Khaled Mashal in an interview with Al Jazeera on December 10, 2025 (Al Jazeera)

Senators urge Hegseth to consider religious exemption to military facial hair ban

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December 10, 2025 11:53
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth during a meeting with US President Trump and President Milei of Argentina in the Cabinet Room at the White House on October 14, 2025 (Getty Images)

US holds ‘fruitful’ talks with Turkey about prospective F-35 sales

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December 10, 2025 10:31
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II performs a display flight at Al-Maktoum International Airport during the Dubai Airshow 2025 in Dubai on November 17, 2025 (Getty Images)

Bolivia becomes latest country to renew diplomatic ties with Israel following Gaza ceasefire

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December 10, 2025 10:19
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (seated L) and Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Aramayo (seated R) sign an agreement to renew diplomatic ties between the two nations (X/GideonSa'ar)

Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel or Palestinian territories

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December 3, 2025 13:45
The entrance to the Guinness World of Records museum in Copenhagen, Denmark (Getty Images)

‘I choose life’: Ex hostage Alon Ohel reveals brutal treatment at the hands of Hamas captors

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December 3, 2025 11:13
Freed hostage Alon Ohel arrives home in Moshav Lavon, Israel, on October 24, 2025 (Flash90)

‘Small remains’ returned by Hamas not linked to either hostage still in Gaza

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December 3, 2025 11:04
(L-R) Sudthisak Rinthalak and Ran Gvili (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Three IDF soldiers wounded in West Bank knife and ramming attacks

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December 2, 2025 14:22
Israeli security forces near the site of a car ramming attack, near the West Bank city of Hebron, December 1, 2025 (Flash90)

Uefa held meetings with pro-Palestine campaigners ahead of vote on Israel ban despite Gaza ceasefire

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December 2, 2025 11:42
The Israeli national football team ahead their 2026 World Cup qualifier against Norway, in Debrecen, Hungary, on March 25, 2025 (Getty Images)

Israeli scientists make breakthrough in search for cells which could help us live to 120

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December 2, 2025 10:37
Professor Alon Monsonego (Ben-Gurion University)

Nazi camp doctor dubbed ‘Angel of Death’ owned medical lab while living openly in Argentina, new documents reveal

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December 1, 2025 14:20
(L-R) Josef Mengele circa 1940, before his involvement in the death camps, and Mengele photographed again around 1950, just after fleeing to Argentina (Getty Images)
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