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Jacob Jaffa

Jacob Jaffa

Jacob Jaffa is the JC's Digital 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

Israel ‘arming Druze militias’ in Syria after wave of sectarian attacks

Syrian security forces and Bedouin tribes massacred civilians in the southern city of Sweida in July amid fierce inter-ethnic clashes

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Syrian Druze fighters flash the victory sign as they ride in an armoured vehicle, after Syrian government forces pulled out of the southern Sweida governorate, on July 17, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Bury St Edmunds MP Dr Peter Prinsley (Image: YouTube/Welovebse)

Jewish MP among delegation blocked from entering Israel

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SushiDog founders Nick Goldstein (L) and Greg Ilsen (R) at one of their stores in September 2024 (Image: Mariam Osman)

The Immanuel boys building a UK sushi empire

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Pro-Palestine protestors block the road during Stage 21 of La Vuelta a España in Madrid on September 14, 2025 (Image: YouTube/FloBikes)

Final stage of La Vuelta cycling race cancelled amid pro-Palestine crowd protests

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Netanyahu denies intentionally prolonging Gaza War in rare long-form interview

The prime minister claimed that the presence of hostages and the malign influence of Iran are responsible for the apparent intractability of the conflict

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September 15, 2025 09:26

Prime Minister Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on August 10, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Man arrested in connection with faeces attacks against Golders Green Jewish sites

Seven community-linked properties, including synagogues, private homes and nurseries, were smeared with excrement in recent weeks

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September 12, 2025 14:58

A synagogue and nursery in Golders Green smeared with excrement on September 10 2025 (Image: Shomrim)

Dozens of Israeli actors hit by Iranian phishing scam

The victims were sent fake emails offering them a part in a new film

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September 12, 2025 10:44

Phishing scams involve the use of fake emails or texts to trick victims into handing over personal data (Image: Getty)

‘The Klan is actually a little better’ – Jerry Seinfeld compares ‘Free Palestine’ movement to KKK

The comedian was speaking at college event with a former hostage when he made the comments

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September 11, 2025 11:50

Jerry Seinfeld has been outspokenly pro-Israel since the Gaza war broke out in October 2023 (Image: Getty)

Israel hit Qatar after ‘scrapping Turkey strike due to Nato membership’

Pro-Hezbollah outlet Al-Akhbar reported that Israel changed its plans to assassinate Hamas leaders in order to avoid falling out with Washington

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September 11, 2025 11:48

A pedestrian looks at the site of an Israeli airstrike on a gathering of Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar on Septemer 9, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Netanyahu compares Doha strike to Bin Laden assassination in 9/11 memorial speech

The prime minister was speaking ahead of the 24th anniversary of the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks

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September 11, 2025 10:23

Prime Minister Netanyahu compared the strike on Hamas leaders in Doha to the assassination of Osama bin Laden (Image: GPO)

Another shul targeted in seventh antisemitic faeces attack

A series of Jewish sites have been smeared with excrement in recent weeks

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September 11, 2025 09:09

An eighth Jewish site in Golders Green has been smeared in excrement as part of a series of antisemitic attacks (Image: Shomrim)

Why can’t the BBC bring itself to call Hamas terrorists?

This week’s Jerusalem assailants were described as ‘gunmen’ and the only use of the word ‘terrorist’ was attributed as an Israeli claim

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September 10, 2025 16:00

The BBC did not label the Jerusalem mass shooting as a terrorist attack, instead attributing this as a claim made by Israeli officials (Image: Flash90)

Herzog to warn Starmer against ‘echoing Hamas propaganda’

The two leaders will meet later today as part of the Israeli president’s official visit to the UK

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September 10, 2025 15:10

President Isaac Herzog attends a ceremony held at a memorial site honouring the victims of the October 7th massacre in Kfar Aza, July 15, 2025 (Image: Flash90) כפר עזה

‘I f****** it’- Giles Coren apologises for article on ‘piddling’ antisemitism

The columnist compared ‘a bit of name-calling and some rude graffiti look’ to ‘the horrors visited upon Gaza’

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September 10, 2025 11:59

Giles Coren has apologised after referring to antisemitism as 'piddling' in a recent column (Image: John Nguyen/JNVisuals)

White House condemns Doha strike as Israeli ‘optimism’ fades

Latest reports suggest that officials in Jerusalem believe they may not have eliminated senior Hamas targets, despite earlier reports to the contrary

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September 10, 2025 10:15

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt expressed the Trump administration's displeasure at Israel's strike on Doha (Image: Getty)

Israeli-Russian student kidnapped in Iraq freed after two years

US President Trump claimed that Elizabeth Tsurkov had been tortured

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September 10, 2025 09:22

Israeli-Russian student Elizabeth Tsurkov has been freed two years after being kidnapped by an Iraqi militia (Image: X/@ARED_ALHOR)

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