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Green Party posts ‘sectarian’ Urdu leaflets in Gorton and Denton calling on voters to ‘punish Labour for Gaza’

A Labour peer likened the party to Reform UK, accusing both of employing ‘easy, populist slogans’ but lacking ‘real answers’

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February 19, 2026 14:47

The Green Party leaflet posted to households in Gorton and Denton (Image: Tom Jones/X).

Birmingham

‘Muslims can’t be antisemitic’, claims pro-Gaza candidate after saying ‘Zionism’ wants to ‘rule everything’

‘People start calling me a conspiracy theorist when I say these kind of things’, Akhmed Yakoob said in a clip posted to social media

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February 19, 2026 14:38

Former pro-Gaza West Midlands mayoral contender Akhmed Yakoob (Image: X/Screengrab)

Food

‘I couldn’t eat the sweets I made, so I created a kosher brand’

Looking for top quality goodies for your mishloach manot? Try these two makers

3 min read

February 19, 2026 14:13

Nissim Nissim launched his kosher sweet range in December last year (Picture: GINNY TAHAN)

Emily Damari

Emily Damari visits Bondi Beach to meet survivor of Chanukah terror attack

The British Israeli hostage also ridiculed the ‘Queers for Palestine’ campaign as she recounted her experience of hiding her sexuality while in captivity

1 min read

February 19, 2026 14:13

Emily Damari visits Bondi Beach to meet survivor of Chanukah terror attack

Sidrah

Building a home: this week’s parashah, Terumah

“Make for Me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them” Exodus 25:8

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February 19, 2026 14:13

The Tabernacle in the wilderness (from the 1890 Holman Illustrated Bible/Wikimedia Commons)

The Lancet’s dubious Gaza casualty figures and the BBC’s selective scepticism

The corporation treats a report in a notoriously biased journal as settled fact but doubts Iranians counting their own dead

3 min read

February 19, 2026 14:00

West Bank

Smotrich calls on next government ‘encourage migration’ of Palestinians from the West Bank

Critics claim that the plan outlined by the Israeli finance minister amounts to a de facto annexation of the territory

1 min read

February 19, 2026 13:46

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty Images)

World Jewish Relief

King Charles pops in to refugee jobs fair at St James’s Palace

The employment event was supported by World Jewish Relief

2 min read

February 19, 2026 13:40

His Majesty The King meeting Sara, refugee and employee at PwC, at the Refugee Employment Network job fair (Photo: Ian Jones)

Calendar

Shabbat times for February 20 to February 27

Shabbat times for the week

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February 19, 2026 12:56

Shabbat times for February 20 to February 27

The antisemitic rot is creeping into the beautiful game

Football may have a proud story to tell in tackling racism. But when the prevailing culture is one of apathy or outright hostility towards Jews there is only so much the existing guardrails can do

3 min read

February 19, 2026 11:58

Anti-Israel protesters at the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel-Aviv match on November 06, 2025 in Birmingham (Image: Getty)

The United Synagogue

Western Marble Arch Shul leaders propose new rabbinic couple

Rabbi Pinchas and Rebbetzin Gila Hackenbroch are on the cards to join WMA shul after 18 years of service at Woodside Park synagogue

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February 19, 2026 11:40

Rabbi Pinchas and Rebbetzin Gila Hackenbroch (Photo: United Synagogue)

Gaza Board of Peace

Board of Peace set to hold first Washington summit today

World leaders and senior officials, including Sir Tony Blair, are expected to attend, though the UK and EU, as well as the Pope, will be notable absentees

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February 19, 2026 11:05

US President Trump (C) alongside (L-R) President of Paraguay Santiago Pena, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Shaikh Isa bin Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Bahrain's Minister of the Prime Minister's Court, Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif, President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani, Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, President of Argentina Javier Milei, and Prime Minister of Mongolia Gombojavyn Zandanshatar at the Board of Peace signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland on January 22, 2026 (Getty Images)

Israel

IDF names soldier killed in ‘friendly fire’ incident

Staff Sergeant Ofri Yafe was shot dead after another team from within his own unit mistook him and his comrades for enemy combatants

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February 19, 2026 10:38

CST

Inside the failed Isis–inspired plot to murder Manchester Jews

Counter-terror operation foiled plot to kill as many Jews as possible at Manchester rally against antisemitism

5 min read

February 19, 2026 10:34

Jailed: Walid Saadaoui, left, and Amar Hussein (Photo: CPS)

Psychology

Psychologists’ coalition opposes Jewish ethnic association because ‘most Jewish-Americans identify as white’

The Coalition of National Racial and Ethnic Psychological Associations said antisemitism is a form of religious, rather than racial, discrimination and that Jews are ‘not under-represented’ in their field

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February 19, 2026 10:29

The American Psychological Association (APA) headquarters in Washington DC (Wikipedia)

Board of Deputies

Gewolb and Newman to contest Board vice-presidency

Next month’s by-election will ensure a female presence on the Board’s officer team

1 min read

February 19, 2026 00:05

Vying for vice-presidency: Karen Newman (left) and Sheila Gewolb

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