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Kemi Badenoch: ‘Never again’ is a promise we must truly keep

The Leader of the Opposition writes for the JC ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day

By Kemi Badenoch

1 min read

A white candle with a Star of David stands next to scattered black stars on a gray surface, representing Holocaust memorial (Getty Images)

17/01/2025. Auschwitz, Poland. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria Starmer visit Auschwitz. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

By Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer: I will deliver the National Holocaust Memorial

1 min read

By Elisa Bray

Thank you for the offer, President Trump – but as a British Jew my home is Britain

3 min read

A black cab and a red London bus passes beneath Union flags in central London, on April 30, 2023 (Image: Getty)

By Maureen Lipman

Mayor Khan’t, as I call him, has been the worst antagonist by far

4 min read

By David Harris

Holocaust memory is failing – and antisemitism is rising across the West

4 min read

By Miranda Levy

Why are the celebrities I used to love suddenly so anti, well… me?

4 min read

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By Jonathan Spyer

The West stays silent as its Kurdish allies face attacks by Syria’s ‘reformed’ Islamist government

Without pressure, we may see the wholesale destruction of the forces and the authority that paid the highest price to defeat ISIS. It is also likely to result in the freeing of thousands of jailed jihadis

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January 21, 2026 17:31

Kurds fleeing a government advance arrive in the Kurdish Syrian city of Qamishli on January 19, 2026. (Image: Getty)

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The radical lesson plans of NEU teachers that should worry the country

Asking pupils whether they would ‘fight back’ if they lived in Gaza or to ‘understand’ Hamas is not education but ideological instruction. Such activism harms children and poses a threat to society itself

2 min read

January 21, 2026 13:53

NEU General Secretary Daniel Kebede takes part in a pro-Palestine protest (Image: Getty)

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

This is the text of a speech delivered at the Holocaust Education Trust, warning that the distortion and inversion of the Holocaust is enabling a resurgence of antisemitism, with grave consequences for democratic societies

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January 21, 2026 12:45

How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

By Gio Esfandiary

This is Iran’s October 7 – and the West must act now

The response to the regime’s massacres must be concrete: severe sanctions, asset freezes, the closure of embassies and an end to the indulgent fiction that this is a normal state with which business can continue

2 min read

January 21, 2026 11:54

Image of what is believed to be the bodies of killed protestors at Kahrizak Forensic Medicine Centre, Tehran (Image: X)

By Karen Pollock

‘Never again’ is a more urgent message than ever

It is increasingly difficult to reconcile the language of remembrance with the reality facing Jewish communities today

2 min read

January 21, 2026 11:20

Holocaust Memorial Day is marked annually on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp (Getty Images)

By Keren David

How can the Beckhams defuse the Brooklyn broiges?

The world loves a celebrity family fall out. But the Beckham-Peltz predicament has lessons for us all – and can be solved

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January 20, 2026 11:17

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz renewed their vows after three years of marriage in a ceremony earlier this month, attended by 200 guests but excluding the Beckham family. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Balmain)

By Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag

‘No mainstream Orthodox rabbinic body anywhere recognises women as rabbis’

While women can take leadership roles in an Orthodox community, halachic boundaries remain, argues a veteran rabbi

3 min read

January 20, 2026 10:42

Breaking the mould: graduates of New York's Yeshivat Maharat, which ordains women as rabbis

By Sophie Dunoff

The stress of campus life is taking a profound toll on our children

Simply being Jewish on campus can be a source of constant, underlying anxiety – it should not be that way

3 min read

January 19, 2026 17:32

Edinburgh University activists took over the Old College quad in 2024, demanding that the institution divest from Israeli-linked companies (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Masih Alinejad exposed the UN’s moral bankruptcy in its silence on Iran

Her searing testimony at the Security Council stripped away decades of sanctimony, laying bare a United Nations that condemns Israel obsessively while averting its gaze from mass repression in the Islamic Republic

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January 19, 2026 11:09

Masih Alinejad, journalist and political dissident, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Iran at the UN headquarters on January 15, 2026 in New York. (Image: Getty)

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Kemi Badenoch: ‘Never again’ is a promise we must truly keep

Starmer: I will deliver the National Holocaust Memorial

Thank you for the offer, President Trump – but as a British Jew my home is Britain

Mayor Khan’t, as I call him, has been the worst antagonist by far

Holocaust memory is failing – and antisemitism is rising across the West

Why are the celebrities I used to love suddenly so anti, well… me?

Letters to the Editor, January 24 2026

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The West stays silent as its Kurdish allies face attacks by Syria’s ‘reformed’ Islamist government

The radical lesson plans of NEU teachers that should worry the country

How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

This is Iran’s October 7 – and the West must act now

‘Never again’ is a more urgent message than ever

How can the Beckhams defuse the Brooklyn broiges?

‘No mainstream Orthodox rabbinic body anywhere recognises women as rabbis’

The stress of campus life is taking a profound toll on our children

Masih Alinejad exposed the UN’s moral bankruptcy in its silence on Iran