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The numbers just don’t support the UN-backed Gaza famine report

The IPC bent thresholds, ignored half the evidence and relied on assumptions, turning a situation of undeniable hardship into a claim of catastrophic collapse that the data simply does not support

By Mark Zlochin

4 min read

Trucks loaded with aid enter Gaza through the Rafah Border Crossing on August 6, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Protesters gather with signs and Israeli flags during a demonstration organised by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 calling for action to secure their release and a ceasefire in the war against Hamas in Tel Aviv on August 26, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

By Benny Gantz

Why I’m calling for a temporary ‘hostage redemption government’ in Israel

3 min read

A group of peers, including some of the UK's foremost legal minds, has suggested that the UK's recognition of Palestine may breach international law (Image: Getty)

By Kemi Badenoch

Starmer’s decision to reward Hamas with statehood emboldens extremists and betrays Britain

3 min read

File photo of a Vueling Airlines flight (Getty)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Flying to Spain might yet get safer for Jews

3 min read

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By Jane Tobin-Green

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By Jonathan Harounoff

3 min read

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The Leeds rally is a warning to the Jewish community and to all of society

When the limits of public speech are determined not by elected officials, courts and police but by how many extremists are willing to shout, menace and threaten, we are no longer governed by democratic institutions but by mob rule

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August 20, 2025 08:18

Dr Rameh Aladwan addressed the crowd while wearing a T-shirt which read "'Anti-Semite Semite Club" (Image: News Now Yorkshire/ YouTube)

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A glimmer of hope at Oxford amid endemic antisemitism across British campuses

The new Tikvah Scholarships at St Anne’s College – funded by non-Jewish charity LUCK – send a powerful message to Jews and Israelis: you belong here and you are wanted. Other universities must also grasp this opportunity

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August 19, 2025 11:04

Pro-Palestine encampment set up by student activists in front of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on May 6, 2024

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Zarah Sultana’s ‘lesson’ from Corbynism? He was too hidebound by the notion of antisemitism

Her response is revealing because it shows that the new party will seek to outdo even Corbyn’s Labour in its attitude to Israel – and, yes, to Jews

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August 19, 2025 09:09

Zarah Sultana at an anti-Israel protest in 2023 (Image: Alamy)

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How popular culture erases the Jews from the Holocaust

The most celebrated Shoah fictions focus on the rare rescuers, fictional non-Jewish victims or sympathetic perpetrators. But you cannot love Jews if you refuse to understand what happened to them, and why

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August 18, 2025 14:52

Scene from the movie Schindler's List. Liam Neeson (centre) as Oscar Schindler who 'enjoyed the war'. (Credit: Universal Pictures)

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How the West is amplifying Hamas propaganda

Our tendency to side with our enemies is all very well when it is limited to denigrating our history or paying reparations, but it is an entirely different matter when it comes to supporting those who will behead us

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August 18, 2025 11:42

Anas al-Sharif (left), the Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel and identified by the IDF as a Hamas operative, pictured with Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of October 7 (Image: IDF)

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The Jewish press chose one minute of drama over 674 days of pure agony for the hostages

At a march for the starving captives in Gaza, the media should have highlighted their suffering and the anguish of their families. Instead, they fixated on a fleeting moment – the interruption of two rabbis’ speeches

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August 18, 2025 10:50

Hostage families and supporters during a march to Downing Street on August 10, 2025 (Image: Getty)

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The Algerian Orwell in chains: How the West is abandoning Boualem Sansal

The fearless novelist is jailed for telling the truth about history, Jews and Islamism. Even though he’s a newly minted French citizen, France and Europe are looking the other way

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August 15, 2025 11:22

Frtanco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal poses during a photo session in Paris on September 4, 2015. (Image: Getty)

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The JC Debate: The Gaza pullout might look like a blunder, but the strategic reality backs it up

To remain Jewish, democratic, and secure, Israel must keep Gaza outside its borders while retaining the right to pre-emptive self-defence

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August 14, 2025 14:28

Dramatic exit: a bulldozer demolishes a house in an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip in August 2005 (Image: Getty)

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The JC Debate: How the Gaza disengagement and Oslo paved the road to October 7

Twenty years of illusions have gone up in flames and been washed away in rivers of blood. The only way to ensure that our children will never face another October 7 is to stand firm, reassert control on the ground, and rebuild our deterrence

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August 14, 2025 14:12

Unforeseen consequences: President Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Yitzahk Rabin at the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 (Image: Getty)

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The numbers just don’t support the UN-backed Gaza famine report

Why I’m calling for a temporary ‘hostage redemption government’ in Israel

Starmer’s decision to reward Hamas with statehood emboldens extremists and betrays Britain

Flying to Spain might yet get safer for Jews

Letters to the Editor August 22 2025

How can Judaism become more than just an identity?

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The Leeds rally is a warning to the Jewish community and to all of society

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Zarah Sultana’s ‘lesson’ from Corbynism? He was too hidebound by the notion of antisemitism

How popular culture erases the Jews from the Holocaust

How the West is amplifying Hamas propaganda

The Jewish press chose one minute of drama over 674 days of pure agony for the hostages

The Algerian Orwell in chains: How the West is abandoning Boualem Sansal

The JC Debate: The Gaza pullout might look like a blunder, but the strategic reality backs it up

The JC Debate: How the Gaza disengagement and Oslo paved the road to October 7