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BBC Verify is entitled to demand accountability from any army – but it must explain why the standard changes when Israel is involved

Why did the BBC not use our own armed forces as benchmark for assessing the IDF’s investigations?

3 min read

October 28, 2026 11:24

British Soldiers from the 5th Regiment of the Royal Artillery in Southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2007 (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

BBC Verify accused of ‘bad faith’ in its reporting on alleged IDF misconduct

Israeli military given just weeks to respond to queries on hundreds of incidents – while investigations into comparable cases in UK takes years

4 min read

October 28, 2026 11:00

The outside of a BBC building in central London (Picture: Getty Images)

diversity

Diversity, equity and inclusion office schemes are failing to protect Jewish workers, survey suggests

Study suggests inconsistency with policies dealing effectively with wider racism against other minorities

2 min read

October 28, 2026 10:51

Workplace schemes to promote diversity and inclusion may be failing Jewish employees a new study suggests (Getty Images)

Vegan recipe

Thai coconut milk soup with vegan chicken or tofu (tom kha ga)

This rich, warming soup is Thai comfort food in a bowl

October 28, 2026 10:44

Cook time: 25-30 mins

Coconut milk soup with vegan chicken or tofu: tom kha ga (Photo: Phil Bekker)

Netanyahu is down but not out – this is no time to bet against the comeback king

With 600,000 votes still uncounted and Bibi’s opposition facing a deep dilemma over how to form a governing bloc, Israel could yet see him back at the helm

2 min read

October 28, 2026 10:36

Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife and ministers at an election-night event in Jerusalem (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Israeli elections

Exclusive: UK-Israel relations won’t improve whatever the election result, former ambassador tells JC

Mark Regev predicted there could be a ‘short honeymoon’, but the underlying rift between Jerusalem and London will remain

4 min read

October 27, 2026 19:04

Former Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev at an election night event in Israel on October 27, 2026 (theJC)

Pro-Palestine

Camden Council investigating statue of convicted terrorist erected in Bloomsbury

Marwan Barghouti was convicted of murdering five people during the Second Intifada

1 min read

October 27, 2026 17:11

Statue of convicted Palestinain terrorist Marwan Barghouti at Palestine House (Instagram)

US Politics

Mandy Patinkin urges Jews to vote for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan midterms

‘Abdul isn’t the scary person his opponents want you to be afraid of,’ the Jewish actor and singer said

2 min read

October 27, 2026 17:01

Actor Mandy Patinkin sings during the ceremonial swearing in of Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s 112th mayor at City Hall (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

RAF Fairford

RAF Fairford ‘plot co-ordinated by handler working on behalf of Iran’

The handler, known as ‘Ali’, is also potentially connected to an incident at the Israeli embassy earlier this year, the court heard

2 min read

October 27, 2026 16:25

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, (left) and Nouman Essghir, 24, appearing in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. (Photo-Elizabeth Cook/Press Association)

Travel

‘We’re so lucky you’re all Israelis’, flight attendant tells passengers who helped man taken ill on jet

The man who collapsed, and the three who rushed to his aid, all turned out be from Israel

3 min read

October 27, 2026 15:44

An Austrian Airlines plane takes off from the Schwechat airport near Vienna, Austria, on June 4, 2026. (Photo by MAX SLOVENCIK / APA / AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli elections

‘This is tense. It really feels like lives are at stake in this election’

The JC speaks to campaigners and voters in liberal-leaning Tel Aviv

5 min read

October 27, 2026 15:39

Likud Party campaign posters showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the party's offices ahead of Israel's general elections (Credit: Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Fauda

We left out Gaza’s suffering because world needs to hear Israel’s experience of October 7, says Fauda co-creator

Avi Issacharoff said it was critical to communicate the Israeli story amid growing dominance of the Palestinian narrative in the West

3 min read

October 27, 2026 15:25

Fauda. (L to R) Lior Raz as Doron Kavillio Yaakov Zada-Daniel as Eli in Fauda. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

RAF Fairford

Counter terror chief defends decision to bail RAF Fairford ‘plot’ suspects

Two British nationals have now been charged and appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday

1 min read

October 27, 2026 15:15

Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor (L), head of Counter Terrorism Policing, speaks to the media outside New Scotland Yard in London on September 28, 2026. (Photo by Jessica HOWARD-JOHNSTON / AFP via Getty Images)

Green Party

MPs urge Birmingham’s Lib Dem council leader to end power-sharing deal with Greens over ‘Zionism is racism’ policy

In a letter to council leader Roger Harmer, the Labour MPs said the Green policy echoed language used by ‘terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah’

3 min read

October 27, 2026 13:58

Liberal Democrat party leader Sir Ed Davey with Roger Harmer campaigning in Birmingham (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Iraq

Jewish heritage museum opens in Baghdad

There were 90,000 Jews in Iraq in the early 20th century but now there are believed to be only be a handful

3 min read

October 27, 2026 13:45

Inside the newly-opened Jewish museum in Baghdad (Photo-Syriac Press/YouTube)

Music

Arab-Jewish ensemble of the Israel Philharmonic strikes a chord in Britain

Shesh Besh, an offshoot of the main orchestra, will perform in London and Oxford next month

4 min read

October 27, 2026 12:36

Music to my ears: (from left) Gilad Rivkin, Boaz Meirovich, Sami Kheshaiboun, Uri Arbel, Michael Maroun and Aziz Naddaf

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