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The BBC will fail its final test if it marks its own homework

BBC Arabic should be a jewel in the corporation’s crown, but it has too often become a platform for extremism and antisemitism

By The JC Leader

1 min read

The outside of a BBC building in central London (Getty Images)

Outside the AZM meeting (Image: Gill Levy)

By Gill Levy

Inside the Birmingham launch of the ‘Anti-Zionist Movement’

3 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Are they the baddies? Green-backed Israel boycotts go door to door

3 min read

Reporter Marissa Lang, who was laid off from the Washington Post, speaks as Washington Post employees, along with supporters from the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, rally outside the Washington Post office building in Washington, DC, on Feburary 5, 2026. The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced major job cuts on February 4, saying that "painful" restructuring was needed at the storied newspaper. The Post, which gained legendary status when its reporting helped bring down president Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, will see "substantial" reductions in its newsroom, Executive Editor Matt Murray said. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)

By Stephen Daisley

From woke to broke: The Washington Post’s crisis should alarm the BBC and others

4 min read

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The American rabbi tasked with taking on global antisemitism

2 min read

By David Toube

Two-tier outcomes: Why British Jews no longer trust the criminal justice system

2 min read

By Arsen Ostrovsky

After Bondi, the anti-Israel protests against Herzog shame Australia

3 min read

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By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Prince William courts Saudi Arabia while Israel remains untouchable

It would be a striking gesture were the heir – or the King – to visit the Jewish state soon, signalling solidarity with a democracy facing multi-front threats, including from Iran. It would also acknowledge that those threats are aimed at Britain, too

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Prince William and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Image: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace)

By The JC Leader

Antisemitism is costing Britain investment and jobs

When anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are allowed to metastasise, they hollow out institutions, corrode democratic norms and ultimately make a society poorer – morally and materially

2 min read

February 12, 2026 16:06

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By Melanie Phillips

Bret Stephens is wrong. Jews can’t just turn inward and ignore antisemitism

We have a moral obligation to fight for our survival. We should be saying that Zionism is an inseparable part of Judaism, and so antizionism is an attempt to destroy not just Israel but Judaism itself

3 min read

February 12, 2026 15:45

By Maureen Lipman

The man who personally saved the lives of 1,000 musicians

Bronislaw Huberman was an infant prodigy who, by the time he was 12, had played Brahms on his violin… er… to Brahms.

4 min read

February 12, 2026 11:11

Arturo Toscanini and Bronislaw Huberman after the 1936 inaugural concert of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, later renamed Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Bondi Beach terror attack

‘Modern antisemitism strikes on our ability to live openly as Jews’

These remarks were delivered by the attorney general to the Great Synagogue in Sydney during his visit to Australia, where he paid tribute to the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack

By Lord Hermer

5 min read

February 12, 2026 10:28

Attorney General Richard Hermer KC pays his respects at the memorial at Bondi Beach (Image: AGO/X).

By Danny Stone

To shut down this pipeline of hate flowing into UK society, we must follow it to its source

Anitsemitism Policy Trust chief executive Danny Stone has a plan to stop the surge in vile racism online

2 min read

February 12, 2026 09:57

Nazi iconography is another key characteristic of the memes (APT)

By Chaya Chana Hughes

Epstein apologies expose the modern ‘sorry’: late, lawyered and empty

The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote that ‘teshuva, often translated as ‘repentance’, actually means ‘return’. Not merely a performance of regret, but a recommitting to our innate integrity

3 min read

February 11, 2026 17:59

A protest group called "Hot Mess" hold up signs of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Federal courthouse on July 8, 2019 in New York City. (Image: Getty)

By Louis Danker

‘City Action 4 Palestine’ is trying to cancel us. Our response is Jewish pride

This vocal but very small bunch of harassers can yell into the void all they like. We refuse to be intimidated and we won’t let them define our experience

2 min read

February 11, 2026 17:21