Opinion

Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

In an interview published last week, Juliet Stevenson and her husband are all too comfortable using their connection to the Holocaust to call Israel ‘genocidal’

By Stephen Pollard

4 min read

British actress Juliet Stevenson at a protest for Just Stop Oil (Getty)

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen (Image: Flash90)

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

3 min read

Adnan Hussain MP (Image: Parliament TV).

Holocaust

Pro-Gaza MPs comparing Israel to Nazis brought shame onto Parliament

By Dave Rich

2 min read

Launch of the report Islamophobia Defined with a working definition of Islamophobia by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims on November 27, 2018. (Image: All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims)

By Stephen Pollard

Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition threatens free speech and security

4 min read

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By Phil Rosenberg

As British Jews, we must be prepared for unpredictable politics

2 min read

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

Labour

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

By The JC Leader

2 min read

By Jake Wallis Simons

There’s nothing anti-Zionists dislike more than Muslims who want peace with Israel

It says much about Owen Jones and Cenk Uygur that both prefer to raise hell about the imagined crimes of Israel rather than acknowledge a group of European imams who met with President Herzog in Jerusalem to work for a better world

2 min read

Israeli President Isaac Herzog (centre, blue tie) meets with a delegation of European imams in Jerusalem (Image: President's House)

By Rabbi Charley Baginsky

The conversation about Israel our community cannot avoid

We refuse to accept that we must choose between the pain we carry as British Jews and our deep compassion for the suffering of others

3 min read

By Daniel Mosseri

BDS goes local: Italy’s municipal front against Israel

While Rome stands with the Jewish state, local governments and cities fuel a rising wave of boycotts and protests

3 min read

Demonstrators hold placards depicting Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni during a protest in Milan. (Image: Getty)

Leaders

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

By The JC Leader

3 min read

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

By The JC Leader

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

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).

By The JC Leader

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

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)

By The JC Leader

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

3 min read

Opinion

Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

Pro-Gaza MPs comparing Israel to Nazis brought shame onto Parliament

Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition threatens free speech and security

Latest from opinion

As British Jews, we must be prepared for unpredictable politics

Labour has taken a stand with Palestine Action – it must not stop here

There’s nothing anti-Zionists dislike more than Muslims who want peace with Israel

The conversation about Israel our community cannot avoid

BDS goes local: Italy’s municipal front against Israel

Leaders

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

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

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