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The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

All three commissioners of the UNHRC’s “permanent inquiry” into Israel have abruptly quit after their colleague Albanese was hit with UN sanctions. If it was so easy to get rid of them, why wasn’t action taken sooner?

By Jake Wallis Simons

3 min read

Navi Pillay, former chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas and mourners attend the funeral of Al-Qassam fighters who were killed during the war between Israel and Hamas in the Al-Shati camp, in Gaza City, February 28, 2025. Photo by Khalil Kahlout/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** מלחמה חרבות ברזל הפסקת אש הלוויה חמאס חמושים

By Yaakov Lappin

Israel is arming the full spectrum of anti-Hamas resistance in Gaza – and the terror group looks rattled

4 min read

Mourners lights candles during a vigil outside of the White House for two Israeli embassy workers killed by a Pro-Palestine shooter (Getty)

By Hen Mazzig

Blaming Netanyahu for antisemitism is a dangerous cop-out

4 min read

Annabel, partner of Israeli army sergeant Shoham Menachem, killed in action the previous day in the Gaza Strip, mourns during the funeral at the Yardena Military Cemetery in the village of Yardena near Beit Shean in northern Israel on July 15, 2025. (Getty Images)

By Maurice Helfgott

British Jews unite to help people both in Israel and Gaza

3 min read

By Maureen Lipman

The headline said ‘Minorities win.’ Game, set, mind

4 min read

By David Hirsh

In the UK, antisemitism is now mainstream. Is it reversible?

4 min read

By The JC Leader

What kind of country has Britain become?

3 min read

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By Yaakov Katz

UNIFIL is a complete failure and needs to leave Lebanon

A force that turns a blind eye to Hezbollah while tying the hands of the IDF does not help prevent war; it is a recipe for it.

4 min read

July 15, 2025 13:55

UNIFIL soldiers in the Hezbollah stronghold of South Lebanon (Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

In an interview published last week, Juliet Stevenson and her husband are all too comfortable using their connection to the Holocaust to call Israel ‘genocidal’

4 min read

July 14, 2025 10:05

British actress Juliet Stevenson at a protest for Just Stop Oil (Getty)

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen, but how could anyone know such a thing?

3 min read

July 11, 2025 13:27

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen (Image: Flash90)

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Pro-Gaza MPs comparing Israel to Nazis brought shame onto Parliament

To weaponise the most painful events in Jewish history, to which some Jews alive today are witnesses, is to play with fire.

By Dave Rich

2 min read

July 11, 2025 11:50

Adnan Hussain MP (Image: Parliament TV).

By Stephen Pollard

Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition threatens free speech and security

Anti-Muslim hate is vile and must be fought. But a sweeping definition of Islamophobia risks silencing criticism of Islamism – undermining free expression and aiding extremists

5 min read

July 10, 2025 11:42

Launch of the report Islamophobia Defined with a working definition of Islamophobia by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims on November 27, 2018. (Image: All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims)

By Phil Rosenberg

As British Jews, we must be prepared for unpredictable politics

Phil Rosenberg on how the Board of Deputies is responding to the ever-changing political environment

2 min read

July 10, 2025 10:02

By The JC Leader

Labour has taken a stand with Palestine Action – it must not stop here

If Labour is serious about rebuilding its relationship with Britain’s Jews, it ought to follow through with more concrete steps to show it understands both the scale of the threat and the depth of the Jewish community’s concerns

2 min read

July 9, 2025 14:30

Palestine Action has allegedly set up a new recruitment website in the wake of its proscription under UK counter-terror laws (Image: Getty)

By Jake Wallis Simons

There’s nothing anti-Zionists dislike more than Muslims who want peace with Israel

It says much about Owen Jones and Cenk Uygur that both prefer to raise hell about the imagined crimes of Israel rather than acknowledge a group of European imams who met with President Herzog in Jerusalem to work for a better world

2 min read

July 9, 2025 14:18

Israeli President Isaac Herzog (centre, blue tie) meets with a delegation of European imams in Jerusalem (Image: President's House)

By Rabbi Charley Baginsky

The conversation about Israel our community cannot avoid

We refuse to accept that we must choose between the pain we carry as British Jews and our deep compassion for the suffering of others

3 min read

July 9, 2025 12:47

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The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

Israel is arming the full spectrum of anti-Hamas resistance in Gaza – and the terror group looks rattled

Blaming Netanyahu for antisemitism is a dangerous cop-out

British Jews unite to help people both in Israel and Gaza

The headline said ‘Minorities win.’ Game, set, mind

In the UK, antisemitism is now mainstream. Is it reversible?

What kind of country has Britain become?

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UNIFIL is a complete failure and needs to leave Lebanon

Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

Pro-Gaza MPs comparing Israel to Nazis brought shame onto Parliament

Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition threatens free speech and security

As British Jews, we must be prepared for unpredictable politics

Labour has taken a stand with Palestine Action – it must not stop here

There’s nothing anti-Zionists dislike more than Muslims who want peace with Israel

The conversation about Israel our community cannot avoid