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Labour has taken a stand with Palestine Action – it must not stop here

If Labour is serious about rebuilding its relationship with Britain’s Jews, it ought to follow through with more concrete steps to show it understands both the scale of the threat and the depth of the Jewish community’s concerns

2 min read

Palestine Action has allegedly set up a new recruitment website in the wake of its proscription under UK counter-terror laws (Image: Getty)

Thousands protest the BBC's refusal to label Hamas as terrorists, outside Broadcasting House in October 2023 (Image: Getty Images)

The anti-Israel BBC requires root-and-branch reform

3 min read

To the backdrop of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan leads the chant of 'Death to the IDF' at the Glastonbury festival (Image: Getty).

Glastonbury and the BBC must answer for platforming anti-Israel hate

3 min read

Following the announcement that the US bombed nuclear sites in Iran, President Donald Trump addresses the nation alongside US Vice President JD Vance (L), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (2nd R) and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R), from the White House on June 21, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Never again is now: Trump bombs Iran’s path to another Holocaust

3 min read

How unfree Qatar is shaping the free West in its own image

From campuses to media, Qatar has used its wealth to advance an Islamist agenda. The real issue isn’t that the tiny Gulf emirate is playing this game. It’s that we are

3 min read

June 19, 2025 15:15

Chequebook diplomacy: Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (second right) arriving in Baghdad ahead of the 34th Arab League summit last month (Image: Getty)

Israel is poised to reshape and lead a new Middle East

The collapse or crippling of the Islamic Republic would mark the death knell of Islamism as a global force

3 min read

June 17, 2025 14:41

Smoke rises after a reported Israeli strike on a building used by Islamic Republic of Iran News Network, part of Iran's state TV broadcaster, on June 16, 2025 (Photo by Stringer/Getty Images)

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

The paradox of preemption is that the very success of such an operation conceals the scale of the danger it prevented

3 min read

June 13, 2025 09:30

Smoke rises from a location targeted in Israel's wave of strikes on Tehran, Iran, on early morning of June 13, 2025. (Imaghe: Getty)

Israel’s isolation is not a new phenomenon – it follows an old pattern

The accusations of genocide, the rush to judgment, the revisionism – none of it is unique to this war. Whatever legitimate questions one can raise about the Jewish state’s conduct, the script was written long ago

3 min read

June 11, 2025 09:13

Protestors march down Regent Street demonstrating against military action in Gaza, August 2014. (Photo: Getty Images)

Trump could be about to cut a bad nuclear deal just as a weak Iran closes in on the bomb

Such an agreement would risk trading fleeting calm for long-term peril

3 min read

June 1, 2025 12:17

Iranian protesters hold placards outside the Omani embassy hosting a fifth round of nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, in Rome on May 23, 2025. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

If Israel is maligned as uniquely evil; Jews will never be safe

The idea that one can demonise and dehumanise Israel and Zionism – both central to modern Jewish identity – without targeting Jews defies reality and rests on a linguistic sleight of hand

3 min read

May 28, 2025 13:37

A vigil in Washington DC following the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy workers (Getty Images)

A gift to Hamas

Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions unless the Jewish state halts its military campaign. The jihadists in Gaza can’t believe their luck

3 min read

May 20, 2025 12:59

Backing Palestinian sovereignty now would reward and strengthen Hamas

To help build peace, the UK should focus on fostering Palestinian reforms: ending incitement and ‘pay-for-slay’ and replacing the cult of ‘resistance’ with a culture of coexistence

3 min read

May 14, 2025 08:55

Masked Palestinian militants stand next to one of the coffins on stage, with an altered portrait of Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu in the background, before handing over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. Hamas handed over on February 20 coffins believed to contain the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including those of the Bibas family who became symbols of the ordeal that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war began. The transfer of the bodies is the first by Hamas since its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war, and is taking place under a fragile ceasefire that has seen living hostages exchanged for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP) (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

They fought like lions in every theatre of this war – remembering the Jewish heroes of WW2

Around 1.5 million Jews took up arms against the Nazis. We must remember them to dispel the ugly myth that we went like sheep

3 min read

May 7, 2025 13:28

(l-r) Holocaust Memorial Day Trust CEO Olivia Marks-Woldman, D-Day veteran Mervyn Kersh and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust chair Laura Marks at the unveiling of the HMD 2025 impact report (Photo: HMDT)

Radicalism in our education unions has consequences – especially when it comes to Jews

At a time when too many pupils are failing, the NEU leadership is busy funding Gaza protests

3 min read

May 1, 2025 14:44

NEU General Secretary Daniel Kebede takes part in a pro-Palestine protest (Image: Getty)

Why were police protecting a hate march and not Jews?

In Southend protesters were allowed to intimidate a small community of worshippers during Passover

2 min read

April 23, 2025 10:59

Police speak to a counter protester during the Gaza march through Westcliff (Image: Alamy)

A Turkish-Sunni ring of fire looms – but Israel can prevent it with US help

Even as Israel remains locked in a struggle with Iran and its proxies, a more dangerous adversary could be emerging on its doorstep

3 min read

April 17, 2025 10:40

Turkey's growing influence in Syria should spark concern in Jerusalem and Washington alike (Image: Getty)

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Latest from The JC Leader

Labour has taken a stand with Palestine Action – it must not stop here

The anti-Israel BBC requires root-and-branch reform

Glastonbury and the BBC must answer for platforming anti-Israel hate

Never again is now: Trump bombs Iran’s path to another Holocaust

More from The JC Leader

How unfree Qatar is shaping the free West in its own image

Israel is poised to reshape and lead a new Middle East

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

Israel’s isolation is not a new phenomenon – it follows an old pattern

Trump could be about to cut a bad nuclear deal just as a weak Iran closes in on the bomb

If Israel is maligned as uniquely evil; Jews will never be safe

A gift to Hamas

Backing Palestinian sovereignty now would reward and strengthen Hamas

They fought like lions in every theatre of this war – remembering the Jewish heroes of WW2

Radicalism in our education unions has consequences – especially when it comes to Jews

Why were police protecting a hate march and not Jews?

A Turkish-Sunni ring of fire looms – but Israel can prevent it with US help