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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

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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)

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

By The JC Leader

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

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BBC Broadcasting House in London (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

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

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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)

By The JC Leader

People who wear Palestine Action T-shirts have no real idea what they are promoting

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By The JC Leader

Over 1,600 academics defend Israeli professor – could this be Britain’s turning point?

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By The JC Leader

Britain is surrendering to mob rule – with dire consequences for Jews and our liberal democracy

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By The JC Leader

US backing and Israeli force secured the Gaza deal

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Manchester’s synagogue attack must be a national wake-up call

This atrocity is the bitter fruit of a culture that demonises Israel and tolerates Jew-hatred. The community must stand united – government must finally act to confront it

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Armed police officers stand with their weapons inside a Police cordon near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following the terror attack. (Image: Getty)

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Israel’s victory deal could transform the region

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The recognition of a Palestinian state is a victory for Hamas and terrorism

Starmer’s policy rewards terror, makes peace more remote and prolongs the war – a folly driven by hysteria, whipped up by a relentless drumbeat of lies against Israel

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In dark times, the new year calls us to unity, faith and hope

The belief that tomorrow can be better and the duty to help make it so is Judaism’s gift to the world and our legacy

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The Merneptah stele which claimed that “Israel is laid waste” more than 3,000 years ago (Image: Wikimedia)

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Not the 1930s, but the 1230s: How medieval blood libels returned to poison our age

Nazism was top-down, a state machine of propaganda and genocide. What we see now is older, more insidious: grassroots libels, spread by self-anointed authorities

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Medieval blood libels have returned in modern form to poison our age (Image: X)

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The UK’s Israel policy ignores facts and history

This Labour government is not just abandoning Jerusalem. It is abandoning Britain’s Jewish community, already under pressure; the hostages still in captivity, and its very own Zionist tradition

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David Lammy, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, speaks to the media after addressing a conference on recognising Palestine on July 29, 2025 in New York City. (Image: Getty)

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There are no good options for Israel to free the hostages and defeat Hamas

Even if one accepts that the hostages must come first, the correct path forward is still far from obvious. The question remains: how best to bring them home?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2-L)) heads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. (Image: Getty)

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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)

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

Over the past two decades, Europe’s perverse incentives helped turn a peace overture into a prelude to the worst war of the Arab-Israeli conflict

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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)

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

Why would Hamas feel confident enough to release such unambiguous evidence of its own depravity? The answer is as simple as it is damning: because they’ve learned they can get away with it

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Evyatar David was emaciated in the latest Hamas hostage video

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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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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)

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

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

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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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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).

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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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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)

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