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Syrian security forces redeploy to Druze city as Israel resumes airstrikes after Bedouin attacks

A renewed offensive by Bedouin fighters appears to have breached a US-backed ceasefire within 24 hours

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July 18, 2025 11:36

Syrian security forces are redeploying to Sweida after a fresh round of Israeli airstrikes (Image: Getty)

Courts

Mohammed Hijab encourages violence and has the reputation he deserves, says lawyer for Douglas Murray

Muslim influencer is ‘even worse than the person presented in ‘ Murray’s article’, lawyer tells libel trial

4 min read

July 18, 2025 11:24

Mohammed Hijab posted a video of his Leicester address to his YouTube channel and is now suing a newspaper columnist who claimed he was inciting racial hatred during the 2022 riots.

How Jewish is?

How Jewish is Pete Davidson?

The comedian is expecting his first child and community magazine Kveller has reported that he plans to be a ‘Jewish dad’

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July 18, 2025 10:59

Pete Davidson is expecting his first child and is reportedly planning to be a 'Jewish dad' (Image: Getty)

The massacre of the Druze is a moral test: Israel acted, the world failed

The international community cannot continue treating President al-Sharra as a legitimate partner, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities that are being committing in Sweida

3 min read

July 18, 2025 10:52

Fighters from Bedouin tribes gather near a burning building in the Druze village of al-Mazraa in Syria's southern Sweida governorate (Image: Getty)

Books

The Jewish Literary Foundation launches a new prize for translated works

The winning translator will receive a £3,000 cash award and be invited to speak at Jewish Book Week 2026

1 min read

July 18, 2025 10:40

The prize is open to translators worldwide (Image: Getty)

Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott suspended from Labour after doubling down on suggestion Jews don’t experience racism

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP will not sit as an independent after standing by comments her own party leader described as ‘antisemitic’

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July 18, 2025 10:21

Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Party after saying she did not regret suggesting that Jews do not experience racism in 2023 (Image: Getty)

Jewish status

The Who is a Jew conundrum that Israel continues to dodge

The latest attempt to restrict the Law of Return won’t be the last

4 min read

July 18, 2025 09:00

Trying to tighten the borders of Jewish identity: former Israeli deputy minister Avi Maoz of the nationalist religious party Noam (Flash90)

Eden Primary

Mazel Tov! Eden celebrates its bnei mitzvah

The Muswell Hill one-form entry school is a tight-knit community

2 min read

July 18, 2025 08:31

The pupils are blessed under a hand-made tallit during a ceremony as Eden Primary School celebrates its bnei mitzvah (Photo: Eden Primary)

Calendar

Shabbat times from July 18 to July 25

Shabbat times for the week

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July 17, 2025 19:42

Travel

Time stands still in these woodland hills

If you want to return from your holiday feeling less tired than when you left, head to Malvern in Worcestershire. The spa town also boasts more Jewish history than you might expect

4 min read

July 17, 2025 19:20

HIAS+JCORE

Teacher and campaigner honoured for work with refugees and asylum seekers

Deborah Koder and Abdullahi Yussuf received the HIAS+JCORE Dubs Awards

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July 17, 2025 17:50

Deborah Koder and Abdullahi Yussuf, winners of the Lord Dubs Awards, at the HIAS+JCORE annual event (Photo: Gaby Wine)

Obituary

Ralph Blumenau, history teacher dies aged 100

Refugee who became a ‘brilliant and inspiring’ history teacher at Malvern College

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July 17, 2025 17:07

Ralph Blumenau, history teacher dies aged 100

Druze

Who are the Druze and why is Israel defending them?

The long persecuted minority has been at the centre of a recent bout of sectarian violence in Syria, which saw the IDF bomb Damascus in support of the community

2 min read

July 17, 2025 15:52

The Druze have existed for over a millennium (Image: Getty)

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

As Hillel Neuer dryly put it: ‘It’s really important that we are clear that BBC News has a pro-terrorist wing, and a completely separate wing that are just idiots’

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July 17, 2025 15:07