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Hans-Jakob Schindler

Hamas is a terror threat to Europe – it’s high time to act

We need to disrupt more effectively its financial structures, both those across the continent as well as those located in the territory of our NATO ally Turkey

By Hans-Jakob Schindler

3 min read

Hamas in Gaza (Image: Gaza)

Netta Barzilai aka Netta representing Israel in her winning performance at Eurovision 2018. (Image: Getty)

Stephen Daisley

By Stephen Daisley

The one Israel boycott I back is Eurovision. The contest is trash

I’m a passionate Zionist. But a man has his limits, and while I’ll gladly defend checkpoints, settlements and exploding pagers, I draw the line at Netta Barzilai impersonating a chicken

4 min read

Nova survivor Yuval Raphael sings for Israel at Eurovision final in Switzerland in May (Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images)

Fraser Nelson

By Fraser Nelson

Who but Israel could stage Eurovision in the Middle East? Ask the voting public

Misguided purity code of European broadcasters who have pulled out does not represent their viewers

4 min read

Holocaust Survivor Sami Steigmann is photographed in his home on December 9, 2024 in New York. Steigmann was born on December 21, 1939 in Czernovitz, Bukovina region, Romania. From 1941 through 1944, he was with his parents in the Ukraine at Mogilev-Podolsky, a labor camp in an area called Transnistria. Being too young to work, Sami was subjected to Nazi medical experimentation in his early years. The camp was liberated by the Red Army and his family was deported by the Romanians. Thirty five of his paternal family members as well as many other relatives were murdered by the Nazis. Today, he lives under the poverty line relying on direct financial aid of The Blue Card and continues his work as a motivational speaker and educator. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Melissa Langsam Braunstein

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The New York school that silenced a Holocaust survivor

The school reportedly has a ‘social activism’ unit that features a module titled ‘Fashion as Activism’, which ‘explicitly includes the keffiyeh’

3 min read

Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Rachel Reeves: the Zionist minister in a Labour government turning on Israel

The Chancellor is sound as they come on the Jewish state. But she is a member of a cabinet that has not merely fed the anti-Zionist narrative but has allowed antisemitism itself to flourish

4 min read

Luke Akehurst

By Luke Akehurst

The chancellor’s speech showed that Labour’s tradition of support for Israel is alive and well

Luke Akehurst MP: Labour will defeat the poison of anti-Zionist antisemitism

2 min read

Leon de Winter

By Leon de Winter

What drives the Eurovision boycott over the Jewish state is something old and dark

Apparently, the innocent Dutch viewers must be shielded from contamination by the wicked Israeli soul

3 min read

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Maureen Lipman

By Maureen Lipman

As I walked past the Kibbutz Be’eri blast holes, I wished Dawn French had been alongside me

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Israeli innovation is the best answer to the boycotters

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The libel of bleeding kids for matzos was a stroke of PR genius

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By Mattie Heaven

The extremism I saw destroy Iran is taking root in Britain

I know what happens when intimidation smothers democracy and antisemitism rises. If we want our children to inherit the UK we love, we must act before the radicals rewrite it in their image

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Rob Rinder

Turn up the Jewish music – it matters now more than ever

We can’t let the endless Oy Veys drown out the part of our identity that is joyous, creative and alive, which is why I agreed to become the chair of JMI

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The Maccabi ban is a warning to Britain about mob rule

When the state is seen to yield, extremists do not moderate – they escalate

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