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Golders Green attacks turn next week’s elections into a test of Britain’s resolve on antisemitism

Voters now have a chance to stand with the Jewish community by rejecting sectarian candidates campaigning on hostility to Israel, who inflame rather than inform, and who divide rather than govern

By The JC Leader

3 min read

A Police forensics officer photographs the crime scene in Golders Green on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty)

Cole Tomas Allen (Image: Truth Social/Wikipedia)

By Dominic Green

Go to university in the US and what will you learn? Israel, capitalism and your nation are evil

3 min read

By Nicholas Lezard

‘Self-hating Jew’ is something of a misnomer – they think very highly of themselves indeed

4 min read

Police cordon in the Golders Green neighbourhood of north London, on April 29, 2026, after two people were stabbed, and a suspect arrested. (Image: Getty)

Golders Green stabbing

Anti-racists march for Palestine every week. Where are they when Jews are hunted on British streets?

By Fiyaz Mughal

2 min read

By Ahron Asher Moss

Soon I’ll be in Israel, a war zone, worrying for my family’s safety in Starmer’s Britain

2 min read

By Stephen Pollard

After Golders Green, I feel anger at a government that has bitterly failed British Jews

2 min read

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

Italy’s left-wing Nazis who call Jews ‘failed soap bars’

4 min read

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The real story of the Iran war: the strengthening of the Israel-Gulf alliance

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As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

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March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

When that happens, it will be up to us to make sure they are still understood, still told properly, and still felt in the way they deserve to be. That is what this experience left me with

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Poland’s fraught reckoning with its complex past towards Jews takes a dark turn

As in the rest of the world, the Hamas attack on Israel has triggered an unprecedented wave of antisemitism. What makes the situation here distinct, is the weight of history

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April 24, 2026 14:28

New plaques near a Polish monument to the wartime Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbours. The plaques question the official findings and claim that "the crime was committed by a German pacification unit" instead of local Poles. (Image: Getty)

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How Labour is helping antisemitism flourish in Britain

The government is casting Israel as a rogue state, fostering a climate where some see Jew hate as a legitimate response to a demonised Israel

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April 24, 2026 11:46

Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot lifts the plaque of the Palestinian embassy as First Minister of Scotland John Swinney (r) and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East Hamish Falconer (l) watch during the flag-raising ceremony to mark UK's recognition of a Palestinian state on September 22, 2025 in London (Image: Getty)

By Nick Cohen

Zack Polanski is pandering to the antisemitic mob instead of finding the courage to take it on

We are seeing something very dark, the notion that Jew-hatred is a diabolical Jewish conspiracy, a ruse that cunning Jews play on gentiles to generate sympathy and justify the persecution of legitimate critics of Israel

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April 23, 2026 16:12

Leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski (Image: Getty)

By Jake Wallis Simons

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain

Shame on the media, the international institutions and activists, whether on social media or in the real world, who have so obsessively given new life to this age-old expression of hatred

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April 23, 2026 15:06

Simon of Trent blood libel (Image: Wikipedia)

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Golders Green attacks turn next week’s elections into a test of Britain’s resolve on antisemitism

Go to university in the US and what will you learn? Israel, capitalism and your nation are evil

‘Self-hating Jew’ is something of a misnomer – they think very highly of themselves indeed

Anti-racists march for Palestine every week. Where are they when Jews are hunted on British streets?

Soon I’ll be in Israel, a war zone, worrying for my family’s safety in Starmer’s Britain

After Golders Green, I feel anger at a government that has bitterly failed British Jews

Italy’s left-wing Nazis who call Jews ‘failed soap bars’

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Letters to the Editor, May 1 2026

The real story of the Iran war: the strengthening of the Israel-Gulf alliance

How antisemitism, fear and intolerance grip Britain’s art world

As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

Poland’s fraught reckoning with its complex past towards Jews takes a dark turn

How Labour is helping antisemitism flourish in Britain

Zack Polanski is pandering to the antisemitic mob instead of finding the courage to take it on

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain