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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

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

2 min read

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

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

4 min read

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)

The UK’s Israel policy ignores facts and history

4 min read

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)

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

2 min read

August 20, 2025 09:18

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

3 min read

August 12, 2025 11:03

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

3 min read

August 4, 2025 16:23

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

3 min read

July 30, 2025 10:20

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

4 min read

July 29, 2025 15:27

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

3 min read

July 23, 2025 14:26

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.

3 min read

July 15, 2025 16:51

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

2 min read

July 9, 2025 15:30

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

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

This latest scandal is not a blunder. It is the result of a culture that treats the Jewish state as uniquely suspect

3 min read

July 2, 2025 14:21

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

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

After festivalgoers chanted ‘Death to the IDF,” Health Secretary Wes Streeting resorted to ‘whataboutism’, sending exactly the wrong message at the wrong time

3 min read

June 29, 2025 13:35

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).

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

The President strikes a severe blow to Iran’s nuclear programme. As always when Israel is involved, a strange coalition of bedfellows unites to criticise US military action

3 min read

June 22, 2025 13:55

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)

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The JC Leader

Latest from The JC Leader

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

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

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

The UK’s Israel policy ignores facts and history

More from The JC Leader

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

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

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

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

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

Israel’s intractable war in Gaza

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

What kind of country has Britain become?

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