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Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Antisemitism is a national security threat

Jew-hatred is not merely a moral failing. It operates as a strategic weapon – one that corrodes alliance cohesion, weakens deterrence, and undermines the legitimacy on which American power rests

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

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Sebastian Gorka (r), National Security Council’s Senior Director for Counterterrorism, and Mike Doran, Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. (Image: Hudson Institute)
A mourner lights candles outside Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 17, 2025. (Image: Getty)
Shany Mor

By Shany Mor

The dishonest ‘complicity’ argument driving the obsession with Israel

By a moral sleight of hand, anti-Zionists turn selective outrage into virtue, while refusing to reckon with the antisemitic violence their activism may inspire

5 min read
Family members of victims react as they stand with other mourners near tributes in memory of those killed in the Bondi Beach terror attack. (Image: Getty)
Bernard-Henri Lévy

By Bernard-Henri Lévy

The intifada has been globalised

For what happened in Sydney could happen in any city in the world where one is still frivolous enough to believe that words are just words and that slogans bind only those who chant them

3 min read
A vigil at Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 16, 2025. (Image: Getty)
Jack Pinczewski

By Jack Pinczewski

Australian society has failed its Jews at every level

The offers of more security funding are beyond parody. There is no wall high enough to protect the community, for the true barriers to the outrage at Bondi are those built in the human mind

4 min read

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A menorah surrounded by flowers at the Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of the shooting at Bondi Beach (Photo: Getty Images)
Marc Cave

By Marc Cave

We need a new strategy to fight the ‘globalise the intifada’ murder campaign

Rebutting the lies told about Jews just doesn’t work, we need to define our own narrative

3 min read
People light chanukiah candles at the Bondi Pavillion in memory of the victims of the terror attack at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)
Sydney terror attack

Chanukah, freedom and the hysteria of a movement that sanctifies murder

We stagger on, unbowed. This is the message of this chag: light defeats darkness

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

1 min read
Fiyaz Mughal

By Fiyaz Mughal

My fellow Muslims must stand up to antisemitism

Even at a candle-lighting vigil commemorating those murdered in Sydney, British Jews faced abuse. The scale and intensity of what I saw shocked me

2 min read
(Image: Elliot Franks)
Zeddy Lawrence

By Zeddy Lawrence

From safe haven to fear: how Australia became a dangerous place for Jews

Instead of confronting post-October 7 antisemitism and nipping it in the bud, the government offered nothing but words

4 min read
Mourners gather at a tribute at the Bondi Pavillion in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)
Jonathan Sacerdoti

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Why did Bondi hero overshadow mass murder of Jews in the headlines?

Questions over media coverage linger even if there may have been good reasons for delay in saying attack was antisemitic

2 min read
Mourner at tribute to victims of the Bondi Beach attack (Photo by Izhar Khan/Getty Images)

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The JC Leader

From Bondi to Manchester: the cost of Western denial on antisemitism

Sydney lays bare the consequences of demonising Israel and shrinking from the fight against extremist ideology that now threatens Western societies themselves

By The JC Leader

2 min read
Police enforce a cordon after the terror attack on the Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Image: Getty)
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

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers keynote speech at annual LFI lunch (Photo: LFI)
The JC Leader

By 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

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

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Anti-Israel protest in front of St John’s Wood Synagogue (Image: X)

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The JC

Letters to the Editor, November 14 2025

By The JC

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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

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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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