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Manchester’s synagogue attack must be a national wake-up call

This atrocity is the bitter fruit of a culture that demonises Israel and tolerates Jew-hatred. The community must stand united – government must finally act to confront it

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Armed police officers stand with their weapons inside a Police cordon near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following the terror attack. (Image: Getty)

Trump greets Netanyahu as he arrives at the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Israel’s victory deal could transform the region

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The recognition of a Palestinian state is a victory for Hamas and terrorism

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The Merneptah stele which claimed that “Israel is laid waste” more than 3,000 years ago (Image: Wikimedia)

In dark times, the new year calls us to unity, faith and hope

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Not the 1930s, but the 1230s: How medieval blood libels returned to poison our age

Nazism was top-down, a state machine of propaganda and genocide. What we see now is older, more insidious: grassroots libels, spread by self-anointed authorities

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September 10, 2025 11:02

Medieval blood libels have returned in modern form to poison our age (Image: X)

The UK’s Israel policy ignores facts and history

This Labour government is not just abandoning Jerusalem. It is abandoning Britain’s Jewish community, already under pressure; the hostages still in captivity, and its very own Zionist tradition

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September 4, 2025 11:29

David Lammy, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, speaks to the media after addressing a conference on recognising Palestine on July 29, 2025 in New York City. (Image: Getty)

There are no good options for Israel to free the hostages and defeat Hamas

Even if one accepts that the hostages must come first, the correct path forward is still far from obvious. The question remains: how best to bring them home?

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August 28, 2025 13:53

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2-L)) heads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. (Image: Getty)

The Leeds rally is a warning to the Jewish community and to all of society

When the limits of public speech are determined not by elected officials, courts and police but by how many extremists are willing to shout, menace and threaten, we are no longer governed by democratic institutions but by mob rule

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August 20, 2025 08:18

Dr Rameh Aladwan addressed the crowd while wearing a T-shirt which read "'Anti-Semite Semite Club" (Image: News Now Yorkshire/ YouTube)

Twenty years since Israel pulled out of Gaza – how Western folly fuelled the current bloodshed

Over the past two decades, Europe’s perverse incentives helped turn a peace overture into a prelude to the worst war of the Arab-Israeli conflict

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August 12, 2025 10:03

Israeli security forces drag a resisting Jewish settler onto a bus during the forced evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom, in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 18, 2005. (Image: Getty)

Starved Israeli hostages don’t fit the script – so they didn’t make the front page

Why would Hamas feel confident enough to release such unambiguous evidence of its own depravity? The answer is as simple as it is damning: because they’ve learned they can get away with it

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August 4, 2025 15:23

Evyatar David was emaciated in the latest Hamas hostage video

Starmer’s Palestine recognition ‘threat’ undermines the prospects for peace

It is hard to imagine a more self-defeating foreign policy move. Promising statehood unless a ceasefire is reached all but guarantees that Hamas will keep rejecting the very truce Britain says it wants

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July 30, 2025 09:20

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces plans to recognise a Palestinian state at No. 10 Downing Street on July 29, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Israel’s intractable war in Gaza

While moral opinion is subjective, facts are not. Even committed Zionists must not let compassion cloud reality by accusing the Jewish state of crimes it clearly has not committed

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July 29, 2025 14:27

An Israeli tanks passes near a banner with photos of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Europe fails to stand up for the Druze in Syria and falls for Hamas propaganda

The widening strategic disconnect between Israel and many Western governments – and the inability even to agree on basic facts – is a deeply troubling development

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July 23, 2025 13:26

Smoke rises in the distance as Bedouin and other fighters gather in the city of Sweida in southern Syria's Druze majority province on July 19, 2025. (Image: Getty)

What kind of country has Britain become?

The normalisation of Jew-hatred among the British middle class is an assault on the very foundations of our civilisation.

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July 15, 2025 15:51

What kind of country has Britain become?

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

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July 9, 2025 14:30