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If police allow drawings depicting baby-eating Jews, how can they tackle Britain’s antisemitism crisis?

There are effective options under the law when ‘art’ crosses the line, even in our liberal democracy

By Sir Michael Ellis

3 min read

One of the drawings from the art exhibition in Margate

Police in Golders Green at the scene of the stabbing on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty)

By Lord Hannan

An eye-blink ago, Britain was a different nation. Now, Jews are no longer safe and civic order is fraying

3 min read

In a fast-changing political landscape, will this new party force Benjamin Netanyahu from office?

By Natalie Lisbona

In a fast-changing political landscape, will this new party force Benjamin Netanyahu from office?

5 min read

A Police forensics officer photographs the crime scene in Golders Green on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Golders Green attacks turn next week’s elections into a test of Britain’s resolve on antisemitism

3 min read

By Dominic Green

Go to university in the US and what will you learn? Israel, capitalism and your nation are evil

3 min read

By Nicholas Lezard

‘Self-hating Jew’ is something of a misnomer – they think very highly of themselves indeed

4 min read

Golders Green stabbing

Anti-racists march for Palestine every week. Where are they when Jews are hunted on British streets?

By Fiyaz Mughal

2 min read

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By Ahron Asher Moss

Soon I’ll be in Israel, a war zone, worrying for my family’s safety in Starmer’s Britain

If you are not Jewish, don’t let the silent majority remain silent. Speak out and call out what’s wrong. And if you succeed, there may still be a Jew or two here in the year 2050

2 min read

April 30, 2026 09:57

People stand by a Police cordon in the Golders Green neighbourhood of north London, on April 29, 2026, after two people were stabbed, and a suspect arrested. (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

After Golders Green, I feel anger at a government that has bitterly failed British Jews

Labour has spent two years portraying Israel as uniquely evil in the world and rewarding Hamas for its October 7 massacre by recognising a Palestinian state. What did they think would happen to our community?

2 min read

April 29, 2026 18:09

Still image from CCTV appearing to show the Golders Green attack unfolding

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

Italy’s left-wing Nazis who call Jews ‘failed soap bars’

At a Milan march celebrating the liberation from German occupiers and Italian fascists, those carrying the Israeli flag were surrounded, taunted, threatened, and ultimately forced out of the event. The mayor blamed the victims for provoking the incident

4 min read

April 29, 2026 16:13

On the edge of the march celebrating Italy's liberation from fascism, a group with the banners of the Jewish Brigade or brigata ebraica and the Israeli flag. (Image: Getty)

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Letters to the Editor, May 1 2026

Please don’t emigrate, says a non-Jewish reader

By The JC

4 min read

April 29, 2026 14:44

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage: a suitable JC columnist? (Image: Reform UK)

By Yaakov Katz

The real story of the Iran war: the strengthening of the Israel-Gulf alliance

The Iron Dome battery Jerusalem sent to the UAE, reportedly along with IDF troops, underscores a new reality. Arab countries understand there is only one country in the region that is both willing and capable of acting against a common threat

3 min read

April 29, 2026 12:51

Israeli soldiers stand near an Iron Dome battery near the border with the Gaza Strip on April 17, 2024 (Image: Getty)

By Rosie Kay

How antisemitism, fear and intolerance grip Britain’s art world

Our new report documents a cultural boycott crisis in the UK, with Jewish performers bearing the brunt. A separate toolkit provides practical steps to challenge it

4 min read

April 27, 2026 17:53

By Keith Black

As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

How far should judges limit or intervene in the Home Secretary’s assessment of national security risks posed by groups creating terror on our streets?

3 min read

April 26, 2026 10:49

Palestinian flags outside the Royal Courts of Justice (Image: Getty)

By Lottie Cannon

March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

When that happens, it will be up to us to make sure they are still understood, still told properly, and still felt in the way they deserve to be. That is what this experience left me with

3 min read

April 24, 2026 16:08

The author (third from left) at the March of the Living (Image: courtesy of Lottie Cannon)

By Agnieszka Markiewicz

Poland’s fraught reckoning with its complex past towards Jews takes a dark turn

As in the rest of the world, the Hamas attack on Israel has triggered an unprecedented wave of antisemitism. What makes the situation here distinct, is the weight of history

4 min read

April 24, 2026 15:28

New plaques near a Polish monument to the wartime Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbours. The plaques question the official findings and claim that "the crime was committed by a German pacification unit" instead of local Poles. (Image: Getty)

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If police allow drawings depicting baby-eating Jews, how can they tackle Britain’s antisemitism crisis?

An eye-blink ago, Britain was a different nation. Now, Jews are no longer safe and civic order is fraying

In a fast-changing political landscape, will this new party force Benjamin Netanyahu from office?

Golders Green attacks turn next week’s elections into a test of Britain’s resolve on antisemitism

Go to university in the US and what will you learn? Israel, capitalism and your nation are evil

‘Self-hating Jew’ is something of a misnomer – they think very highly of themselves indeed

Anti-racists march for Palestine every week. Where are they when Jews are hunted on British streets?

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Soon I’ll be in Israel, a war zone, worrying for my family’s safety in Starmer’s Britain

After Golders Green, I feel anger at a government that has bitterly failed British Jews

Italy’s left-wing Nazis who call Jews ‘failed soap bars’

Letters to the Editor, May 1 2026

The real story of the Iran war: the strengthening of the Israel-Gulf alliance

How antisemitism, fear and intolerance grip Britain’s art world

As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

Poland’s fraught reckoning with its complex past towards Jews takes a dark turn