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

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IDF posts then deletes AI video telling Charedi draft dodgers how to avoid being stopped at the border

The army said ‘does not reflect’ its approach to recruitment and broke its rules regarding pre-election content

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Screenshot from a video posted by the IDF's Charedi Affairs account (X/DoronKadosh)

Bob Vylan singer Bobby Vylan on stage (Image: Getty Images)

Bob Vylan frontman to face ‘no further action’ over ‘death to IDF’ chant

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Muhammad Karim (R) and one of the posts made by Solid Mujahid (GnasherJew)

Exclusive: Consultant behind BBC Arabic rebrand sold pro-Hamas T-shirts

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Dolly Parton attends the 'Dolly Parton's Threads: My Songs In Symphony' world premiere at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 20, 2025 (Getty Images)

Dolly Parton’s Wikipedia page vandalised with swastika hours after her death

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Israeli Chief Rabbinate caps ketubah sums after grooms made pledges without ‘ability to pay’

Rabbi Kalman Meir Ber said overeager husbands promising ‘imaginary sums’ had undermined ‘the very halachic meaning of the document’

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August 24, 2026 14:38

A Jewish pre-marital agreement known as a ketubah (Getty Images)

Strictly-Orthodox Shas party ordered to remove election ad featuring IDF soldier

The party was accused of breaking rules banning the use of images of security service personnel in campaign materials

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August 24, 2026 12:21

Still image from the new Shas campaign ad (X/SamSokol)

Hasan Piker claims pro-Israel Jews are ‘making antisemitism worse’

The far-left streamer, who has campaigned with several Democratic candidates, suggested that Israel ‘will be seen as Jewish Isis’ in the future

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August 24, 2026 11:28

Hasan Piker attends a campaign rally for Wisconsin Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong on August 2, 2026 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Getty Images)

Gary Lineker shares video of ‘notorious’ antizionist comparing Zionism to Nazism

Tony Greenstein was speaking after being acquitted of inviting support for Hamas last week

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August 24, 2026 11:01

Former England footballer and TV presenter Gary Lineker (Credit: PA)

Met Police officer sacked after liking ‘disgusting’ antisemitic posts

PC Mohammed Nizam appeared to endorse claims that Jews exploit the Holocaust for sympathy, claiming he did so after images of the Gaza War impacted his mental health

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August 21, 2026 10:56

A Met Police car in London (Getty Images)

Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi given greater control over Shas party after ‘reconciliation’ with leader

Yitzhak Yosef and Aryeh Deri reportedly ‘ironed out their differences’ during a meeting, after which the rabbi appeared to soften his public stance on Charedi conscription

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August 20, 2026 16:42

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 07, 2025 (Flash90)

Election expert who claimed ‘antisemitism crisis’ was ‘invented by Zionist lobby’ elected to Green Party council responsible for ‘party wellbeing and strategy’

Eleanora Ní Chualáin, who runs Stats for Lefties, said she would use her position to defend party members ‘smeared by the feral Zionist press’

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August 19, 2026 16:37

Mamdani’s Israel comments ‘incited antisemitic violence’ claims US Jewish leader

Eric Fingerhut, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, claimed the New York mayor’s rhetoric has ‘hurt the Jewish community’

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August 19, 2026 16:22

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives for the annual New York State Financial Control Board meeting on August 12, 2026 (Getty Images)

IDF orders criminal investigation into death of Hind Rajab

The five-year-old was one of seven members of the same family killed when an Israeli tank allegedly opened fire on their car

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August 19, 2026 14:18

Hind Rajab (Palestinian Red Crescent Society)

Pro-Netanyahu TV network takes down report on former top IDF lawyer after confronting her neighbour by mistake

A reporter from Channel 14 thought he was interviewing Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who was involved in the leaking of footage showing the abuse of a prisoner at an Israeli detention facility

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August 18, 2026 15:19

Former IDF Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is released to house arrest outside the Neve Tirtza Women’s Prison in Ramla, November 7, 2025 (Flash90)

Grow your own milk: Israeli scientists engineer plants to create key dairy protein

The team at Hebrew University worked out how to derive beta-casein, which gives cheese its melting properties, which they say could eradicate the need for industrialised livestock farming

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August 17, 2026 16:46

Professor Oded Shoseyov at the E Tipu World Conference in New Zealand in 2023 (YouTube/E Tipu)

Cambridge vows to continue investing in IDF-linked firms

The university came under pressure to cut its financial ties to Israel from campus pro-Palestine protestors

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August 17, 2026 14:36

A pro-Palestine encampment outside King's College, Cambridge, on May 08, 2024 (Getty Images)

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Latest from Jacob Jaffa

IDF posts then deletes AI video telling Charedi draft dodgers how to avoid being stopped at the border

Bob Vylan frontman to face ‘no further action’ over ‘death to IDF’ chant

Exclusive: Consultant behind BBC Arabic rebrand sold pro-Hamas T-shirts

Dolly Parton’s Wikipedia page vandalised with swastika hours after her death

More from Jacob Jaffa

Israeli Chief Rabbinate caps ketubah sums after grooms made pledges without ‘ability to pay’

Strictly-Orthodox Shas party ordered to remove election ad featuring IDF soldier

Hasan Piker claims pro-Israel Jews are ‘making antisemitism worse’

Gary Lineker shares video of ‘notorious’ antizionist comparing Zionism to Nazism

Met Police officer sacked after liking ‘disgusting’ antisemitic posts

Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi given greater control over Shas party after ‘reconciliation’ with leader

Election expert who claimed ‘antisemitism crisis’ was ‘invented by Zionist lobby’ elected to Green Party council responsible for ‘party wellbeing and strategy’

Mamdani’s Israel comments ‘incited antisemitic violence’ claims US Jewish leader

IDF orders criminal investigation into death of Hind Rajab

Pro-Netanyahu TV network takes down report on former top IDF lawyer after confronting her neighbour by mistake

Grow your own milk: Israeli scientists engineer plants to create key dairy protein

Cambridge vows to continue investing in IDF-linked firms