Jamie Shapiro

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Jamie Shapiro is a reporter for the Jewish Chronicle focusing on international conflicts and crime. You can reach him at jshapiro@thejc.com

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Court and Crime

Pro-Palestine protesters found guilty of damaging factory linked to Israel

Three activists targeted Pearson Engineering in Newcastle last year

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Armstrong Works - the Pearson factory in newcastle (Image: Armstrong Works)

Distorted solar panels on buildings in footage purporting to show Tel Aviv under bombardment indicate the footage is fake (Photo: X/ @QalaatM)

Iran war: X cracks down on users who post ‘trivial and misleading’ AI content

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The Iranian air base which was targetted by the IDF (Image: X/IDF Online)

Watch: IDF strikes Iranian soldiers operating air defence unit

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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gives a press conference at the Pentagon on March 4, 2026 (YouTube/ABCNews)

US eliminates IRGC commander behind Trump assassination plot

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Welsh billionaire Michael Moritz mulls German citizenship as ‘insurance policy’ amid surging antisemitism

UK has become ‘an uncomfortable place for Jews’, the philanthropist said

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March 4, 2026 11:49

Numerous members of Michael Moritz's wider family were killed in the Shoah (Photo: Getty)

Israel spent years hacking ‘nearly every traffic camera in Tehran’ in run-up to strike on Khamenei

Intelligence agents ‘knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem’ long before Saturday’s hit

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March 3, 2026 17:03

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Isralei airstrike (Photo: Getty)

Watch: IDF troops in Lebanon read the Megillah for Purim

Israeli soldiers were filmed marking Purim on the front line

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March 3, 2026 12:08

IDF troops on the border of Lebanon (Image: Getty Images)

Bernard Lewis, Jewish founder of River Island, dies aged 100

The retail mogul, who attended JFS in the 1930s and 40s, had an 80-year-long career in the industry

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March 2, 2026 16:27

Bernard Lewis, pictured in 1983 (Courtesy)

Israel in talks with Gulf states after Iran strikes civilian areas

The UAE has already announced it is closing its embassy in Tehran, while Saudi Arabia said it was open to ‘responding to the aggression’ to the Islamic Republic’s attacks

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March 2, 2026 14:26

An intercepted Iranian missile falls into the sea near Dubai's Palm Jumeirah archipelago on March 1, 2026 (Getty Images)

‘Thank you Israel,’ chant thousands of Iranian dissidents in London

People danced, uncorked Champagne and raised the pre-Islamic Revolution flag to celebrate the Israel-US campaign against the dictatorship

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March 2, 2026 12:33

Iranians gathered in Westminster on Day two of Iran war (Image: Elliott Franks)

More Americans will ‘likely’ die as Iran War continues, says Trump

The US president indicated that the fighting could continue for weeks, saying: ‘It’s always been a four-week process

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March 2, 2026 11:40

US President Donald Trump (C) oversees 'Operation Epic Fury' with (L-R) Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles at Mar-a-Lago on February 28, 2026 in Palm Beach, Florida (Getty Images)

‘I cried, I cheered and I cried again’: London’s Iranians and Jews share hope and joy

Celebrations in the capital over death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

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March 1, 2026 15:10

Iranians and Jews celebrating in London (Image: Instagram/@lidz89)

Paris Jewish family allowed to keep their mezuzah after being told to take it down

Property management company Century 21 faced a backlash after it sent a letter to the family that included a legal threat

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February 27, 2026 17:09

The family was told to remove their mezuzah within 15 days or face legal action (Image: Combat Antisemitism Movement)

Man arrested after Churchill statue vandalised with Hamas triangle

Pro-Palestine group Free the Filton 24 has claimed responsibility for the damage and the Metropolitan Police is investigating

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February 27, 2026 15:27

The defaced Winston Churchill statue in Westminster (Image: X/ King Jay)

Saudi Arabia’s ‘last Jew’ dies aged 82

David Shuker was born in the Saudi city of Najran but moved to Israel to flee persecution in the mid 1900s

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February 27, 2026 11:05

David Shuker speaking on Channel 13 (Image: Channel 13)

Anti-Israel climate in Mamdani’s New York a warning to all Jews, says antisemitism expert

‘Darker forces – Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood’ helped fuel the radicalisation of US campuses and wider public life, David Harris tells JC audience

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February 26, 2026 16:40

David Harris speaking at South Hampstead Synagogue at JC event (With courtesy)

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Jamie Shapiro

Latest from Jamie Shapiro

Pro-Palestine protesters found guilty of damaging factory linked to Israel

Iran war: X cracks down on users who post ‘trivial and misleading’ AI content

Watch: IDF strikes Iranian soldiers operating air defence unit

US eliminates IRGC commander behind Trump assassination plot

More from Jamie Shapiro

Welsh billionaire Michael Moritz mulls German citizenship as ‘insurance policy’ amid surging antisemitism

Israel spent years hacking ‘nearly every traffic camera in Tehran’ in run-up to strike on Khamenei

Watch: IDF troops in Lebanon read the Megillah for Purim

Bernard Lewis, Jewish founder of River Island, dies aged 100

Israel in talks with Gulf states after Iran strikes civilian areas

‘Thank you Israel,’ chant thousands of Iranian dissidents in London

More Americans will ‘likely’ die as Iran War continues, says Trump

‘I cried, I cheered and I cried again’: London’s Iranians and Jews share hope and joy

Paris Jewish family allowed to keep their mezuzah after being told to take it down

Man arrested after Churchill statue vandalised with Hamas triangle

Saudi Arabia’s ‘last Jew’ dies aged 82

Anti-Israel climate in Mamdani’s New York a warning to all Jews, says antisemitism expert