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

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)

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

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Evyatar David was emaciated in the latest Hamas hostage video

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

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

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

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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 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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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

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June 19, 2025 16:15

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

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June 17, 2025 15:41

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

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June 13, 2025 10:30

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

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June 11, 2025 10:13