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The Maccabi ban is a warning to Britain about mob rule

When the state is seen to yield, extremists do not moderate – they escalate

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Supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv ahead of the match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024 / Netherlands OUT (Photo by JEROEN JUMELET/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-Israel protest in front of St John’s Wood Synagogue (Image: X)

The St John’s Wood debacle exposes a policing culture of capitulation to extremists

2 min read

Police outside the stadium prior to the match between Aston Villa FC and Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC at Villa Park . (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)

Kafkaesque smears against Maccabi fans cannot be allowed to rest

2 min read

BBC Broadcasting House in London (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

This platform for anti-Israel bias and extremists is now beyond salvation

2 min read

People who wear Palestine Action T-shirts have no real idea what they are promoting

The terror group represents a wider, ever-escalating threat to the Jewish community

1 min read

November 5, 2025 11:06

Protesters in London support a legal challenge to the Home Secretary's decision to proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror laws (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Over 1,600 academics defend Israeli professor – could this be Britain’s turning point?

This hatred of Israel, this attack on Jewish life, is not merely un-British – it is profoundly anti-British. The silent majority must now speak – it is the only way to defeat the extremists and preserve our values

2 min read

October 24, 2025 14:02

Storming City St George's, masked protesters called an Israeli professor a terrorist (Photo: Instagram)

Britain is surrendering to mob rule – with dire consequences for Jews and our liberal democracy

Antisemitism can no longer be treated as a sporadic outrage; it is a central challenge to Britain’s civic order, with significance far beyond the Jewish community

3 min read

October 21, 2025 16:11

Supporters with Palestinian flags take part in anti-Israel demonstration on the sideline of the UEFA Europa League football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024. (Image: Getty)

US backing for Israel freed the hostages. Can peace follow now?

With the hostages home, the path to Hamas’s irrelevance may at last come within reach

3 min read

October 13, 2025 17:11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset as US President Donald Trump listens on (Photo: Getty Images)

US backing and Israeli force secured the Gaza deal

The agreement could pave the way for wider regional peace, made possible by Trump’s backing and Israeli resolve – in contrast to Europe’s failed bid to pressure the victim into concessions

2 min read

October 9, 2025 09:21

Israelis celebrate the Gaza deal at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on October 9, 2025. (Image: Getty)

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

4 min read

October 3, 2025 14:18

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)

Israel’s victory deal could transform the region

Nearly two years after October 7, Israel and key Arab states have lined up behind a Trump-brokered Gaza plan – with Europe and Britain reduced to irrelevance and blood libels

3 min read

September 30, 2025 14:50

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

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

Starmer’s policy rewards terror, makes peace more remote and prolongs the war – a folly driven by hysteria, whipped up by a relentless drumbeat of lies against Israel

3 min read

September 22, 2025 12:22

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

The belief that tomorrow can be better and the duty to help make it so is Judaism’s gift to the world and our legacy

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September 18, 2025 15:16

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

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 12:02

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

4 min read

September 4, 2025 12:29

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?

2 min read

August 28, 2025 14:53

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)

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Latest from The JC Leader

The Maccabi ban is a warning to Britain about mob rule

The St John’s Wood debacle exposes a policing culture of capitulation to extremists

Kafkaesque smears against Maccabi fans cannot be allowed to rest

This platform for anti-Israel bias and extremists is now beyond salvation

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People who wear Palestine Action T-shirts have no real idea what they are promoting

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Britain is surrendering to mob rule – with dire consequences for Jews and our liberal democracy

US backing for Israel freed the hostages. Can peace follow now?

US backing and Israeli force secured the Gaza deal

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

Israel’s victory deal could transform the region

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