Trump’s Iran deal has led Israel and the US to the very brink of disaster

By committing to withdraw all troops and lift sanctions in return for little more than a promise not to pursue nukes, the US president has emboldened the West’s enemies and set the stage for future confrontations

Trump’s Iran deal is like offering Nazi Germany a Marshall Plan in 1944

As a candidate, he accurately dissected the disastrous nuclear deal the Obama administration had negotiated with Tehran. As a president, he has just done infinitely worse

The UK-backed Israel-Palestinian Peace Fund delivers rare good news to the Middle East

The initiative will support grassroots programmes, from youth leadership schemes to women’s economic empowerment projects, that strengthen ties between the two peoples and help lay the foundations for a future political process

The bigoted boycott of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is a betrayal of culture

If even one of the country’s most outspoken critics of the government and the Gaza war is deemed unacceptable simply because of his nationality, then the issue is no longer political disagreement. It becomes something much darker

Fury over stand-up’s mockery of Israel conspiracy theories is no laughing matter

With his admittedly crass dog rape joke, Elon Gold made it clear that the era of polite and flustered Jews eager to engage their detractors in civil conversation is over

The Iran deal is bad but Israel has, for now, created a safer Middle East

From Hamas and Hezbollah to Iran itself, the ‘ring of fire’ threatening the Jewish state has been significantly weakened. But Jerusalem must already be preparing for the next round

The ‘Greens for Palestine’ Papers make an inquiry unavoidable

Documents obtained by the JC show Jewish party members being held responsible for the actions of Israel and urged to liberate their minds ‘from the supremacist grip of Zionism’

Letters to the editor, June 19 2026

The Green Party could be in a worse position than Labour were under Jeremy Corbyn

Will these revelations lead to an investigation by the equalities watchdog?