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Sorry, Ed Sheeran had every reason to know about Macklemore’s anti-Israel vitriol

The red-headed crooner must have assumed that all that nice talk of unity no longer extended to Jews – which is precisely the message coming from so much of our toxic culture industries these days

By Liel Leibovitz

3 min read

Ed Sheeran (L) and Macklemore perform on September 20, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Image: Getty Images)

Israeli airstrike targeted a branch of the Al-Qard Al-Hasan finance group linked to Hezbollah in the southern city of Tyre on October 21, 2024 (Image: Getty)

By Tamir Morag

How Israel and the US have crippled Hezbollah’s financial backbone

7 min read

Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi and his wife are presented with The Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation by The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace on September 11, 2026. (Image: Neil Turner for Lambeth Palace)

By The JC Leader

The Church of England’s lapse of judgment

2 min read

Armed Police near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue following the terror attack on Yom Kippur, on October 2, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Keren David

Terror won’t scare us away from Jewish life – we’re too stubborn, resilient and contrary for that

3 min read

By The JC

‘Should we counter-boycott Macklemore at simchahs?’: Letters to the Editor, September 25 2026

4 min read

By Dov Forman

The genocide slur at my UCL graduation was bad enough – the applause was outright chilling

5 min read

By Moumen al-Natour

I’m from Gaza – peace will only come if we rid our mosques and schools of radicalism

2 min read

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By Stephen Pollard

Ed Miliband’s show of Jewish pride: Kicking Israel on Yom Kippur

Whether he is wrecking Britain’s alliance with its most important Middle Eastern ally or ordering a fruity vegan flapjack, our friends and foes alike must surely conclude that our Foreign Secretary is a bad joke

3 min read

September 22, 2026 17:02

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband (Image: X)

By Maureen Lipman

Read on for the best-laid plans of mice, men and Maureen

An actor named McCarthy withdrew from the reading because he could not countenance my political views. I couldn’t resist wondering whether this might be the “New McCarthyism”

4 min read

September 18, 2026 17:06

Joseph Welch (left) questioned by Senator Joe McCarthy (right) on June 9, 1954. (Image: Wikipedia)

By Harry Saul Markham

The campaign to ban kosher and halal slaughter hides a very dangerous agenda

This is less about animal welfare than making Britain inhospitable to anyone who isn’t white and Christian. More disturbing still is the silence of genuine animal-rights activists as their cause is hijacked

5 min read

September 18, 2026 14:19

Happy organic cows are released to graze out in fields (Photo: Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

A Yom Kippur unlike any in living memory

Heaton Park showed British Jewry at its best: courage, solidarity and defiance. The attacker sought to terrorise Jews out of public life – he failed

3 min read

September 18, 2026 12:42

Congregants of Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation comfort each other in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Yom Kippur (Photo: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

Why did the archbishop honour a cleric who called bin Laden ‘mujahid’? She worships at the shrine of Palestine

Sarah Mullally is no naif – and that is deeply concerning

3 min read

September 18, 2026 10:54

Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, his wife and Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury (Image: Lambeth Palace)

By Alex Hearn

A year after Heaton Park, I’m not so sure this government has the backs of British Jews

They may be building us higher walls but there is no electoral motivation for any politician to deal with what our community has to face

3 min read

September 18, 2026 07:35

Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband (Image: Parliament TV)

By David Bennun

We need to stand up for one another – because no one else will

It is both a moral imperative and a practical necessity. As the Charedi family temporarily living next door reminded me, they won’t stop with the obvious Jews

3 min read

September 17, 2026 16:04

Members of the Jewish community in the Stamford Hill area (Image: Getty Images)

By Elisa Bray

Yes, Ed Sheeran, gigs should be places of safety and sanctuary – and not anti-Israel rallies

Why is it no longer enough to be a musician and why must our pop stars bow to the expectation of the “Free Palestine” shouting left?

3 min read

September 17, 2026 14:58

Ed Sheeran said 'those who come to my shows do not expect a political forum' (Photo: Getty Images)

By Dominic Green

The Democrats are becoming the anti-Israel party – yet US Jews will still overwhelmingly vote for them

A Corbyn-style takeover is being driven by grad-school communists and Muslim Brotherhood front groups. In Michigan, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed rails against AIPAC and has campaigned with Hasan Piker, who once declared that ‘America deserved 9/11’

3 min read

September 17, 2026 12:37

Democratic candidate for US Senate Abdul El-Sayed on the campaign trail (Image: Getty Images)

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Sorry, Ed Sheeran had every reason to know about Macklemore’s anti-Israel vitriol

How Israel and the US have crippled Hezbollah’s financial backbone

The Church of England’s lapse of judgment

Terror won’t scare us away from Jewish life – we’re too stubborn, resilient and contrary for that

‘Should we counter-boycott Macklemore at simchahs?’: Letters to the Editor, September 25 2026

The genocide slur at my UCL graduation was bad enough – the applause was outright chilling

I’m from Gaza – peace will only come if we rid our mosques and schools of radicalism

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Ed Miliband’s show of Jewish pride: Kicking Israel on Yom Kippur

Read on for the best-laid plans of mice, men and Maureen

The campaign to ban kosher and halal slaughter hides a very dangerous agenda

A Yom Kippur unlike any in living memory

Why did the archbishop honour a cleric who called bin Laden ‘mujahid’? She worships at the shrine of Palestine

A year after Heaton Park, I’m not so sure this government has the backs of British Jews

We need to stand up for one another – because no one else will

Yes, Ed Sheeran, gigs should be places of safety and sanctuary – and not anti-Israel rallies

The Democrats are becoming the anti-Israel party – yet US Jews will still overwhelmingly vote for them