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Ellie Borhan

Iran’s regime-made ecological disaster and the threat to Europe

A failing state of 90 million people, running out of water and air, will produce mass migration, regional unrest and even more terror

By Ellie Borhan

3 min read
The dried-up riverbed of Zayanderud in Isfahan, Iran (Image: Getty)
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers keynote speech at annual LFI lunch (Photo: LFI)
The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

Rachel Reeves restores moral clarity on Israel

The Chancellor’s unapologetically Zionist speech – honest about Hamas’s October 7 atrocity, blunt about antisemitism, and courageous within her own Labour party – hints at a long overdue reset in the UK’s approach to Israel

2 min read
Will Benjamin Netanyahu (here pictured with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz) get a pardon? (Photo: Getty)
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, December 12 2025

4 min read
Hamas in Gaza (Image: Gaza)
Hans-Jakob Schindler

By Hans-Jakob Schindler

Hamas is a terror threat to Europe – it’s high time to act

We need to disrupt more effectively its financial structures, both those across the continent as well as those located in the territory of our NATO ally Turkey

3 min read

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Netta Barzilai aka Netta representing Israel in her winning performance at Eurovision 2018. (Image: Getty)
Stephen Daisley

By Stephen Daisley

The one Israel boycott I back is Eurovision. The contest is trash

I’m a passionate Zionist. But a man has his limits, and while I’ll gladly defend checkpoints, settlements and exploding pagers, I draw the line at Netta Barzilai impersonating a chicken

4 min read
Nova survivor Yuval Raphael sings for Israel at Eurovision final in Switzerland in May (Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images)
Eurovision Song Contest

Who but Israel could stage Eurovision in the Middle East? Ask the voting public

Misguided purity code of European broadcasters who have pulled out does not represent their viewers

By Fraser Nelson

4 min read
Melissa Langsam Braunstein

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The New York school that silenced a Holocaust survivor

The school reportedly has a ‘social activism’ unit that features a module titled ‘Fashion as Activism’, which ‘explicitly includes the keffiyeh’

3 min read
Holocaust Survivor Sami Steigmann is photographed in his home on December 9, 2024 in New York. Steigmann was born on December 21, 1939 in Czernovitz, Bukovina region, Romania. From 1941 through 1944, he was with his parents in the Ukraine at Mogilev-Podolsky, a labor camp in an area called Transnistria. Being too young to work, Sami was subjected to Nazi medical experimentation in his early years. The camp was liberated by the Red Army and his family was deported by the Romanians. Thirty five of his paternal family members as well as many other relatives were murdered by the Nazis. Today, he lives under the poverty line relying on direct financial aid of The Blue Card and continues his work as a motivational speaker and educator. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Rachel Reeves: the Zionist minister in a Labour government turning on Israel

The Chancellor is sound as they come on the Jewish state. But she is a member of a cabinet that has not merely fed the anti-Zionist narrative but has allowed antisemitism itself to flourish

4 min read
Sir Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves (R) and David Lammy (L)
Luke Akehurst

By Luke Akehurst

The chancellor’s speech showed that Labour’s tradition of support for Israel is alive and well

Luke Akehurst MP: Labour will defeat the poison of anti-Zionist antisemitism

2 min read
LFI (Labour Friends of Israel) Annual Lunch at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London, Great Britain 8th December 2025 Michael Rubin LFI director Mark Sewards MP LFI Parliamentary Chair Lord Iain McNicol of West Kilbride Tribute to Sir David Garrard Stuart Roden Introduction to Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP Chancellor Speech Adrian Cohen Vote of Thanks Photograph by Elliott Franks

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The JC Leader

The Maccabi ban is a warning to Britain about mob rule

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

By The JC Leader

1 min read
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)
The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

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

Jews are victimised twice: once by those who hate them, and again by a law enforcement model that rewards their civility with indifference

2 min read
Anti-Israel protest in front of St John’s Wood Synagogue (Image: X)
The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

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

2 min read
BBC Broadcasting House in London (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

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
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)

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The JC

Letters to the Editor, November 14 2025

By The JC

2 min read
Brothers Gali Berman and Ziv Berman who were held hostage in Gaza for more than 700 days celebrate at the Israeli Premier League match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv FC. (Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, October 10 2025

Readers – many non-Jewish – react to the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue on Yom Kippur

4 min read
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor September 12

2 min read
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, June 6 2025

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Bibas Family

Letters to the editor, 28th February 2025

Swiss cottage, Bibas family and non-Jewish allies

By The JC

3 min read
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, October 4 2024

Lebanon, Keir Starmer and East End synagogues

3 min read
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, September 20 2024

Abraham Accords, NEU and Bibi

2 min read
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