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All eyes on Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s secretive nuclear site that may not be long for this world

So far, it has escaped Israeli and American bombs… but the smart money is on the site becoming a smouldering crater in the near future

By Jake Wallis Simons

4 min read

Pickaxe Mountain seen in a satellite image taken on February 10, 2026 (Google Earth)

US President Donald with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

The Israel-US strikes against Iran are legal – and justified

3 min read

Iain Dale and Zack Polanski onn LBC (Image: YouTube)

By Stephen Pollard

If the Greens’ YouGov surge is real, Britain is in deep trouble

5 min read

A drone strike ignited a fire at Dubai’s iconic Burj Al Arab hotel (Image: X)

By Marc J Sievers

How Iran’s missile strikes reunited Gulf states against Tehran

5 min read

By Jonathan Harounoff

Khamenei’s death: How the Islamic Republic’s fall could reshape the Middle East

4 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Joy and hope for people of Iran – but Keir Starmer has made Britain a spineless irrelevance

3 min read

By Lauren Dagan Amos

Modi in Jerusalem: India, Israel and the making of a strategic alliance

4 min read

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Anti-Zionism

When antizionism violates the US Civil Rights Act

The demonisation of Israel is an attack on a core component of mainstream Jewish identity. It is not debate – it is unlawful discrimination

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

3 min read

February 27, 2026 15:19

Protestors at Washington Square Park in New York on March 11, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

The Greens’ dangerous mainstreaming of sectarian Muslim politics

As troubling as the election irregularities in Gorton and Denton are, the real story is how the mobilisation of anti-Israel communities can shape British elections

3 min read

February 27, 2026 09:17

A Green Party leaflet in Urdu posted to households in Gorton and Denton calling on voters to 'punish Labour for Gaza' (Image: Tom Jones/X).

By Maureen Lipman

Our friends bear scars of more disc hits than Stevie Wonder

Some are anxious about forgetting words and some are visiting “Fall Clinics”. Some are faffing with hearing aids which require phone tapping

4 min read

February 26, 2026 16:06

By Jules Older

Is it bad for the Jews to keep asking ‘Is it bad for the Jews’?

My deeply unscientific research project into whether other ethnic minorities have similar anxieties

4 min read

February 26, 2026 14:27

Mel Brooks attends the 70th Bafta awards on February 12, 2017 (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Purim’s enduring lesson: strength, pride and the refusal to bow

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that the festival’s jollity exists so that we can live with the risks of being Jewish, ‘without being terrified, traumatised or intimidated’

2 min read

February 26, 2026 14:00

Jerusalem's Adloyada Purim parade, March 16, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Alex Hearn

The Hamas blueprint for October 7 that the world chose to ignore

The 2021 ‘Promise of the Hereafter’ conference sets out what would befall the survivors of a ‘defunct (Jewish) state’ – from death and expulsion to forced labour

3 min read

February 25, 2026 16:50

Memorial for the victims of the Hamas massacre at the Nova Music Festival (Image: Getty)

By Saul Sadka

Israel’s economic miracle forged and proven in war defies all predictions

The conflict that conventional wisdom insisted would weaken the Jewish state has instead hardened it – militarily indispensable, technologically pre-eminent, and demographically unlike any other developed nation

5 min read

February 25, 2026 15:08

By Stephen Pollard

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has built a career on the back of being an ‘anti-racist’. Say no more

The commentator’s remarks about Margaret Hodge and Michael Grade being an ‘uber-Zionists’ raise troubling questions about her views

2 min read

February 23, 2026 21:06

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in 2013 (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

For Senator Cruz, the fight against Jew-hatred is a fight for the soul of America

‘In the last year, I have seen more antisemitism on the right than at any time in my lifetime. I think it is a profound threat’

2 min read

February 23, 2026 15:09

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All eyes on Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s secretive nuclear site that may not be long for this world

The Israel-US strikes against Iran are legal – and justified

If the Greens’ YouGov surge is real, Britain is in deep trouble

How Iran’s missile strikes reunited Gulf states against Tehran

Khamenei’s death: How the Islamic Republic’s fall could reshape the Middle East

Joy and hope for people of Iran – but Keir Starmer has made Britain a spineless irrelevance

Modi in Jerusalem: India, Israel and the making of a strategic alliance

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When antizionism violates the US Civil Rights Act

The Greens’ dangerous mainstreaming of sectarian Muslim politics

Our friends bear scars of more disc hits than Stevie Wonder

Is it bad for the Jews to keep asking ‘Is it bad for the Jews’?

Purim’s enduring lesson: strength, pride and the refusal to bow

The Hamas blueprint for October 7 that the world chose to ignore

Israel’s economic miracle forged and proven in war defies all predictions

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has built a career on the back of being an ‘anti-racist’. Say no more

For Senator Cruz, the fight against Jew-hatred is a fight for the soul of America