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Trump and Netanyahu played Iran by engaging in a good-cop, bad-cop strategy

Tehran clearly miscalculated. Its biggest blunder, perhaps, was to gamble its proxy assets before it needed them to shield its nuclear programme from Israel

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

3 min read

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office on April 7, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

Stopping Iran’s bomb? Unforgivable

3 min read

Iran

Why Israel attacked Iran

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

Smoke rises from a location targeted in Israel's wave of strikes on Tehran, Iran, on early morning of June 13, 2025. (Imaghe: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

3 min read

By Jake Wallis Simons

Sanction speech in the Jewish state, tolerate antisemitism all around it

4 min read

By Bart Schut

Dutch government collapse spells danger for Israel ties

3 min read

By Tanya Gold

France honours a long dead Jew as the living flee antisemitism

3 min read

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By Jonathan Harounoff

From Devil’s Island to Gaza: Lies, rage and late corrections no one reads

When it comes to Israeli wars, truth is often the first casualty

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Truth bomb: the Al-Ahli hospital car park after it was hit by a rocket in October 2023. The media rushed to blame Israel but it later emerged the missile was fired by Palestinians (Image: Alamy)

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From Durban to Geneva: How the global human rights industry turned on Israel

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UNhinged: the 2001 Durban conference kicked off a global campaign to isolate and demonise the Jewish state (Image: Getty)

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Much of the Western media is deeply biased and some flirts openly with antisemitism. But that does not absolve Israel of responsibility

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Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in court to testify in his corruption trial (Image: Flash90)

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A Jew in Malta muses on Dr Faustus, falcons and Warren the rabbit

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Ted Cruz renews bid to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terror group

The senator’s new bill revives a long-running debate: is the Brotherhood a terror threat hiding in plain sight – or too complex for a one-size-fits-all designation?

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US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Image: Getty)

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When Israel’s government uses extreme rhetoric, it tests the faith of its backers

Support for the Jewish state was once instinctive. But when its leaders flirt with extremism, even pragmatic Zionists must speak out

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Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir who was sanctioned by the UK government this week (Photo:Getty Images)

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Israel’s isolation is not a new phenomenon – it follows an old pattern

The accusations of genocide, the rush to judgment, the revisionism – none of it is unique to this war. Whatever legitimate questions one can raise about the Jewish state’s conduct, the script was written long ago

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Protestors march down Regent Street demonstrating against military action in Gaza, August 2014. (Photo: Getty Images)

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Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

From Dave Chappelle to Reginald D Hunter, comedians of the present love to deploy their art or its milieu to spit scorn and falsehoods at the Jewish state

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Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

By Stephen Pollard

The BBC can’t stop acting as a Hamas propaganda machine

From uncritically publishing statements from terrorist-run offices to a 5,000 word polemic against Israel, Auntie’s Gaza coverage reveals not bias but a broken editorial culture

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Trump and Netanyahu played Iran by engaging in a good-cop, bad-cop strategy

Stopping Iran’s bomb? Unforgivable

Why Israel attacked Iran

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

Sanction speech in the Jewish state, tolerate antisemitism all around it

Dutch government collapse spells danger for Israel ties

France honours a long dead Jew as the living flee antisemitism

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More from Opinion

From Devil’s Island to Gaza: Lies, rage and late corrections no one reads

From Durban to Geneva: How the global human rights industry turned on Israel

The missing front: How Netanyahu is bungling the war for legitimacy

A Jew in Malta muses on Dr Faustus, falcons and Warren the rabbit

Ted Cruz renews bid to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terror group

When Israel’s government uses extreme rhetoric, it tests the faith of its backers

Israel’s isolation is not a new phenomenon – it follows an old pattern

Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

The BBC can’t stop acting as a Hamas propaganda machine