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Letters to the Editor, January 30 2026

How Britain can confront the antisemitism crisis

Arrest those inciting violence, restrict repeat protests, block extremist organisers and proscribe the IRGC – the practical steps needed to help protect Jewish life

Herzog declares crime wave in Arab-Israeli communities a ‘national emergency’

Another three people were murdered on Wednesday night in the second mass shooting of the week

‘The promise was kept’: IDF confirms elimination of Hamas commander who killed Noa Marciano

Marciano, aged just 19, was ‘brutally murdered’ in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital after being forced to record a propaganda video

Australian teen charged over death threats against Israeli president

Isaac Herzog is due to arrive in the country for an official visit on Sunday

US-Iran talks moved to Oman after Islamic Republic threatens pullout

The negotiations had been set to take place in Turkey, but a row over nuclear enrichment and escalating tensions saw them come close to collapsing

Heirs of Jewish art collector sue New York Met over ‘illegally acquired’ Pissarro painting

The descendants claim that Haystacks was sold under duress in Nazi-occupied France

Robert Kraft spends $15m on Super Bowl advert addressing antisemitism in the US

The Kraft Group CEO hopes to ignite conversations about Jew-hatred with the 30-second spot

Translation prize awarded to a British-Israeli

How October 7 brought this Schrödinger’s Jew to life

It makes the world a lot more interesting and complicated but, oy gevalt, it’s exhausting

What can we do about the rise in eating disorders in Jewish children?

Jews’ focus on food combined with the pressure to conform to idealised beauty standards is taking a terrible toll. Ahead of Children’s Mental Health Week, Gaby Koppel reports on a growing communal crisis

Send Help review: gruesomely enjoyable modern-day castaway tale ★★★★

The master-slave tables are turned upside down in this tropical island thriller

You can’t fight antisemitism – but you can fight antisemites

Far-right and far-left hatred, fuelled by resentment and envy, cannot be reasoned away. History shows only force, law and consequences ever stop those who target Jews

‘The sky is the limit’: Somaliland president set for trip to Israel to agree trade deal

The breakaway state, which Israel recognised formally last year, sits at a strategic pinch point at the mouth of the Red Sea

‘There has to be an emotional element when we are teaching the Holocaust’

Trump demands $1bn from Harvard in escalation of campus antisemitism dispute

This is the latest demand in a year-long feud with the Ivy League university over claims of antisemtisim