Jamie Shapiro

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Jamie Shapiro is a reporter for the Jewish Chronicle focusing on civil upheaval and conflict. You can reach him at jshapiro@thejc.com

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Palestinian doctors and nurses killed by Israel revealed to be terror fighters

A medical ethics watchdog mourned the deaths of paediatric nurses who made weapons and midwife group heads who fought for Hamas

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(Illustratie) Hamas fighters in Gaza (Getty Images)

‘I wish she could be here to meet them’: Amy Winehouse rehab centre saving lives ten years on from singer’s death

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Ranelagh Ultimate playing a game in Germany in June (Image: Instagram/ Ranelagh Ultimate)

Irish frisbee team demand Israel is banned from world championships

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Ashok Kumar (Image: Birkbeck, University of London)

Green Party to consider motion to oppose IRGC proscription

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Son of Putin’s ‘number one enemy’ Bill Browder sanctioned by Russia after exposing crypto laundering scam

Alexander Browder found himself in the Kremlin’s sights after exposing ‘illegal’ cryptocurrency transactions funding Moscow’s war in Ukraine

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June 5, 2026 14:28

Alexander Browder in Parliament with Baroness Hodge at the launch of his report on Russian cryptocurrency laundering (X/AlexanderBrowder)

Maureen Lipman forced to hire security guards for theatre tour after being targeted by pro-Palestine protests

Activists were condemned for depicting the decorated actor with devil horns and a pitchfork

1 min read

June 5, 2026 12:09

Rula Lenska and Dame Maureen Lipman arrive for the Requiem Mass service at Westminster Cathedral on September 16, 2025 (Getty Images)

Former prisoner of Iran regime helps set up group calling for UK proscription of IRGC

Campaign advocating urgent action is backed by Lord Walney and will host parliamentary event later this month

3 min read

June 3, 2026 11:24

Nasrin Roshan, one of the founders of Ban IRGC, was jailed for years in Iran

Golders Green kosher cafe giving free drinks to the CST and police to say ‘thank you for keeping us safe’

Beit Cafe’s owner, Emi Shamir says ‘they deserve a nice cold drink when they come in’

1 min read

May 28, 2026 16:57

Free drinks poster at Beit Cafe (Image: Emi Shamir)

Helen Mirren heckled as ‘evil Zionist b****’ in public street by anti-Israel agitator

Mirren has been a long-time friend to the Jewish state and lived on a kibbutz in her youth

1 min read

May 28, 2026 16:45

Helen Mirren verbally abused in London (Image: X/ Heidi Bachram)

Britain’s largest teaching union surveys 10,000 members on antisemitism in schools

Some teachers, though, told the JC that the poll itself made them feel ‘gaslit’

3 min read

May 28, 2026 15:53

Schoolchildren walking down a corridor (Image: Getty Images)

Polish tax protestor faces up to five years in prison over Auschwitz gate replica

The man, known as Marius P, erected the structure as part of a demonstration outside a tax office in Germany

1 min read

May 28, 2026 13:46

The original gates of Auschwitz (Image: Getty Images)

Rome Pride bans Italy’s only Jewish LGBT group from attending unless it ‘condemns’ Israel

Organisers claimed Keshet Italia had failed to ‘distance itself from the ongoing genocide’

1 min read

May 28, 2026 11:35

Rome Pride in 2019 (Image: Getty Images)

UN adds Israel to ‘blacklist’ of countries that commit sexual violence in conflict zones

The county’s ambassador to the UN has said that it is a ‘political decision’ which is ‘disconnected from reality’

1 min read

May 28, 2026 11:34

Four Israeli soldiers, illustrative purposes only (Image: Getty Images)

Police say huge blaze at Kosher Kingdom in Golders Green is ‘not suspicious’

Electrical fault believed to be the cause of massive fire at Europe’s largest kosher supermarket

3 min read

May 27, 2026 08:46

Massive blaze rips through Kosher Kingdom

‘Vive la cinéma!’ Barbra Streisand wins honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival

The award-winning Jewish actor accepted the lifetime achievement award via a video address

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May 26, 2026 17:30

Barbra Streisand on a video address at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival (Image: Getty Images)

Hanging effigy of ‘Jew’ at Montreal rally branded ‘disgusting’ and ‘antisemitic’

Elsewhere in Canada, posters of a missing Jewish teenager were torn down in a ‘cruel’ act

1 min read

May 26, 2026 16:21

A still from the footage that appears to show the effigy of a Jewish figure being hung (Photo: X)

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Jamie Shapiro

Latest from Jamie Shapiro

Palestinian doctors and nurses killed by Israel revealed to be terror fighters

‘I wish she could be here to meet them’: Amy Winehouse rehab centre saving lives ten years on from singer’s death

Irish frisbee team demand Israel is banned from world championships

Green Party to consider motion to oppose IRGC proscription

More from Jamie Shapiro

Son of Putin’s ‘number one enemy’ Bill Browder sanctioned by Russia after exposing crypto laundering scam

Maureen Lipman forced to hire security guards for theatre tour after being targeted by pro-Palestine protests

Former prisoner of Iran regime helps set up group calling for UK proscription of IRGC

Golders Green kosher cafe giving free drinks to the CST and police to say ‘thank you for keeping us safe’

Helen Mirren heckled as ‘evil Zionist b****’ in public street by anti-Israel agitator

Britain’s largest teaching union surveys 10,000 members on antisemitism in schools

Polish tax protestor faces up to five years in prison over Auschwitz gate replica

Rome Pride bans Italy’s only Jewish LGBT group from attending unless it ‘condemns’ Israel

UN adds Israel to ‘blacklist’ of countries that commit sexual violence in conflict zones

Police say huge blaze at Kosher Kingdom in Golders Green is ‘not suspicious’

‘Vive la cinéma!’ Barbra Streisand wins honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival

Hanging effigy of ‘Jew’ at Montreal rally branded ‘disgusting’ and ‘antisemitic’