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Eurovision 2026

Israel didn’t win Eurovision – and I was relieved

We were all vying for Noam Bettan to do well, but the prospect of the stadium erupting into boos if he had triumphed would have been unbearable. Maybe next year, the world will be ready to see the Jewish state taking the trophy home again

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

Israeli singer Noam Bettan, who came second after his performance of the song 'Michelle' (Photo: Getty)

Noam Bettan performing Michelle with dancers and diamond-shaped prop in the final (Corinne Cumming/EBU)

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

That utterly bonkers, gloriously dreadful Eurovision where the audience just loves Israel

3 min read

The Knesset, Israel's parliament (Getty Images)

By Ashley Perry

Israel’s next election date may be decided by one man – and it’s not Netanyahu

4 min read

Boy George during the London Eurovision Party on April 19, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Sarah Tetteh

It’s no surprise Boy George stands with British Jews – and so do I

3 min read

By Alex Hearn

Fighting antisemitism was high up in the King’s Speech – but British Jews have heard promises before

4 min read

By Stephen Daisley

I’m a non-Jew who can’t pass a good broiges without sticking my nose in

4 min read

By Ashley Rindsberg

The ‘Israeli rape dogs’ blood libel fits a long, troubling tradition at The New York Times

6 min read

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By Lorin Bell-Cross

What is the record of Labour’s leadership contenders on the Jewish community and Israel?

The JC looks at the likely challengers to Sir Keir Starmer

11 min read

May 14, 2026 15:01

Health Secretary Wes Streeting on a hospital visit with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Getty Images)

By Stephen Pollard

How did we cope without Prince Harry’s wisdom on the Middle East, Anglo-Jewry and Judaism?

According to the Duke of Sussex, some of us have ‘mischaracterised’ anti-Israel protests. He doesn’t spell out how, but the only one way we are ever accused of ‘mischaracterising’ these protests is by pointing out their antisemitism

3 min read

May 14, 2026 14:30

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (Image: Getty Images)

By Charlotte Henry

Israel got talent – and most ordinary people just want to enjoy it

The hate-filled mob understands the power of culture, which is precisely why it does not want charming, gifted artists and athletes from the Jewish state performing abroad: it undermines their efforts to demonise the country

3 min read

May 14, 2026 12:41

Israeli singer Noam Bettan qualified for the grand final of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Michelle' (Image: Getty Images)

By Marc Goldberg

Britain can’t fight antisemitism without confronting its main driver: hatred of Israel

From false claims about ‘genocide’ to conspiracies about ‘Zionist control’, an old prejudice is being repackaged in the language of activism and human rights to legitimise hostility towards Jews

3 min read

May 14, 2026 10:49

By David Bennun

Go and see Paul Simon – an icon of New York’s Jewish golden age

If the time and place he was born into had been like today, we might never have heard of him. As if to underline the point, an organisation of ‘musicians and cultural workers’ is calling for a Eurovision boycott while Israel is included

3 min read

May 14, 2026 09:35

Go and see Paul Simon – an icon of New York’s Jewish golden age

By Isaac Zarfati

We will never defeat political antisemitism if we deny it

If the industrial-scale demonisation of Jews and Israel – particularly pervasive on campuses – continues to be treated as legitimate discourse, this new virus will keep spreading while Britain congratulates itself on fighting it

3 min read

May 13, 2026 16:42

A Gaza protest at Cambridge University (Image: Getty Images)

By Natalie Lisbona

‘It devastates us’: Families of October 7 victims react as full extent of horrors are revealed in historic report

Evidence and testimony gathered by commission catalogues shocking extent of savagery and sexual violence during attacks

6 min read

May 13, 2026 13:30

‘It devastates us’: Families of October 7 victims react as full extent of horrors are revealed in historic report

By Sir Michael Ellis

Until the CPS can grasp the reality of antizionism, it will keep on failing Jews

The new antisemitism guidance is being billed as a major intervention. But the problem was never a lack of manuals for prosecutors – it was the repeated failure, since October 7, to prosecute blatant antisemitic offences properly, or at all

4 min read

May 13, 2026 10:48

Palestinian flags outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, December 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Ashley Perry

How the Bennett-Lapid alliance may lose the Israeli elections – and yet win

Political pacts may weaken individual parties, blur ideological lines, and disappoint at the ballot box, yet still reshape the political map in ways that determine who governs

4 min read

May 13, 2026 10:13

Naftali Bennett (L) and his wife Gilat Bennett stand next to Lihi Lapid (2ndR), the wife of Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid (R), following the inaugural conference of their "Together - Under Bennett's Leadership" party on May 12, 2026. (Image: Getty)

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Israel didn’t win Eurovision – and I was relieved

That utterly bonkers, gloriously dreadful Eurovision where the audience just loves Israel

Israel’s next election date may be decided by one man – and it’s not Netanyahu

It’s no surprise Boy George stands with British Jews – and so do I

Fighting antisemitism was high up in the King’s Speech – but British Jews have heard promises before

I’m a non-Jew who can’t pass a good broiges without sticking my nose in

The ‘Israeli rape dogs’ blood libel fits a long, troubling tradition at The New York Times

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What is the record of Labour’s leadership contenders on the Jewish community and Israel?

How did we cope without Prince Harry’s wisdom on the Middle East, Anglo-Jewry and Judaism?

Israel got talent – and most ordinary people just want to enjoy it

Britain can’t fight antisemitism without confronting its main driver: hatred of Israel

Go and see Paul Simon – an icon of New York’s Jewish golden age

We will never defeat political antisemitism if we deny it

‘It devastates us’: Families of October 7 victims react as full extent of horrors are revealed in historic report

Until the CPS can grasp the reality of antizionism, it will keep on failing Jews

How the Bennett-Lapid alliance may lose the Israeli elections – and yet win