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UN hands ICJ role to Jordanian envoy who said Israel is at war ‘with the people of Gaza’

Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud has previously described Israel’s war against Hamas as a ‘vicious attack against the protected population’ of the Strip

2 min read

May 28, 2025 17:23

Mahmoud Hmoud has been elected to serve on the ICJ despite his previous comments regarding Israel (Image: UN Photo/Loey Felipe)

Indonesia

Indonesia ‘ready to recognise Israel’ to ‘achieve true peace’

The majority-Muslim nation, which has been publicly hostile to Israel for years, conditioned the move on the equivalent recognition of a Palestinian state by Jerusalem

1 min read

May 28, 2025 15:52

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has said his country is 'ready to recognise Israel' if Jerusalem makes the equivalent gesture for a Palestinian state (Image: Getty)

pajes

Worried parents say children still don’t have a place at a Jewish school

PaJes tells parents to hold tight as more secondary spaces are set to open up between now and September

4 min read

May 28, 2025 15:39

Jewish families are concerned that their children might not get into a Jewish school. Stock image of a student (Getty)

Architecture

The architect bidding to rebuild Hamburg’s Bornplatz

Born in South Africa to a Jewish father and an Anglican mother, David Kohn brings his eclectic life experience into his work

5 min read

May 28, 2025 15:29

Hamburg's Bornplatz Synagogue, destroyed by the Nazis, is due to be rebuilt (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Antisemitism

Over 80 per cent of British Jews afraid to display their identity, antisemitism survey finds

The annual Jewish Landscape Report found that the UK’s diaspora is among those raising the most concerns about Jew-hate

1 min read

May 28, 2025 14:47

A new survey on global antisemitism found that 81 per cent of British Jews are afraid to publicly display their identity (Image: Getty)

If Israel is maligned as uniquely evil; Jews will never be safe

The idea that one can demonise and dehumanise Israel and Zionism – both central to modern Jewish identity – without targeting Jews defies reality and rests on a linguistic sleight of hand

3 min read

May 28, 2025 14:37

Washington DC

DC Jewish museum shooting victim laid to rest in Kansas

Members of the Jewish community of Overland Park remembered Sarah Milgrim as a compassionate ‘bridge builder’

1 min read

May 28, 2025 14:33

Hamas

Israel confirms death of Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar

His death leaves the group without a leader in Gaza and could spark a power struggle with the political leadership in Qatar

1 min read

May 28, 2025 14:33

Israel has confirmed the death of Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in a recent air strike in Gaza (Image: IDF)

President Macron’s surrender on the Gaza genocide lie

By treating a blood libel against Israel as a matter for future historians, the French president lent credibility to those who dress up antisemitism as virtue

3 min read

May 28, 2025 14:08

French President Emmanuel Macron (Image: Getty)

The UK’s Arab allies can’t wait for London to finally proscribe Tehran’s IRGC

For the security and well-being of the UK’s citizenry and democracy, the Labour government can ill-afford to wait any longer with confronting Iran’s terror army

3 min read

May 28, 2025 14:06

The government will effectively ban the IRGC with new legislation against hostile foreign states (Photo: Getty Images)

Hebrew

After 485 years, finally there’s a Jewish Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge

Aaron Koller from New York has been appointed to the historic role which was inaugurated by Henry VIII in 1540

6 min read

May 28, 2025 13:05

Aaron Koller will take over the role from his predecessor Professor Geoffrey Khan. (Photo courtesy of Shira Hecht-Koller)

ICC

ICC considering warrants against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir

Chief prosecutor Karim Khan was reportedly preparing to seek the far-right ministers’ arrests before he was suspended pending an investigation into allegations of sexual assault against him

2 min read

May 28, 2025 12:17