Opinion

Iran is a direct threat to Britain – it’s time to act like it

UK support – through basing, logistics and safeguarding maritime routes – is neither escalation nor a ‘favour’ to its principal ally. It is, rather, an exercise in self-interest

By The JC Leader

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Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier Mayuree Naree near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack (Image: AFP/Royal Thai Navy)

IRGC and Basij forces hold military manoeuvres in Tehran, January 10, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Dame Louise Ellman

Britain must finally proscribe Iran’s IRGC

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US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (L) take questions on Iran (Image: Getty)

By Jonathan Spyer

Trump vs Islamic Republic: Who controls the escalation ladder?

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Burnt Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green (Image: Getty Images)

By David Cohen

Echoes of the Blitz, triggered by a sickening attack on Golders Green

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The antisemitic arson attack on Hatzola is a test Britain cannot fail

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Britain's Health Secretary Wes Streeting (R) in Golders Green, London after Hatzola ambulances were set on fire overnight. (Image: Getty)

Hatzola ambulance attack

The despicable attack on Hatzola shows why antisemitism must be confonted head-on

The answer cannot simply be higher walls, thicker doors, more CCTV. We also have to deal with this hatred at its source

By Wes Streeting

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By Ben M. Freeman

The global war against the Jews

Across the world, communities face vandalism, arson, assaults, and threats. And yet, we are still here, an ancient people in a modern world, and our civilisation will endure

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Aerial view of four Hatzola ambulances set on fire next to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, on March 23, 2026 in Golders Green, London (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

The Hatzola attack and the normalisation of antisemitism in Britain

What is now happening, I believe, is a sort of reversion to the mean: for centuries open Jew hate was a reality, and that is what we are now returning to

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Hatzola ambulances set on fire in Golders Green (Image: X)

By Lorin Bell-Cross

Drive to reclaim Gaza vote may lie behind Labour calls for Nick Timothy’s sacking

What a party source claims is a ‘manufactured row’ comes after Gorton loss and ahead of feared local election drubbing

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There is no ‘context’ for antisemitic terror

A society that begins to explain attacks on Jewish children has already taken several dangerous steps down the wrong path. The task is to confront such violence and the ideological climate helping to produce it

By The JC Leader

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Belgian police man the perimeter around a synagogue after it was struck by a blast in Liege on March 9, 2026. (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

The Israel-US strikes against Iran are legal – and justified

Britain appears to have chosen an interpretation of the law that overlooks not only the national security interests of its allies, but also its own

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US President Donald with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Purim’s enduring lesson: strength, pride and the refusal to bow

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that the festival’s jollity exists so that we can live with the risks of being Jewish, ‘without being terrified, traumatised or intimidated’

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