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Trump says US to help with food distribution in Gaza

The US President said there was ‘real starvation’ in the Strip during a press conference with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, apparently contradicting claims made by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu

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July 29, 2025 14:37

President Trump has said that the US will set up aid distribution centres in Gaza to deal with the 'real starvation' there (Image: Getty)

Israeli Politics

Netanyahu ‘presented plan for Gaza siege’ at Israeli cabinet meeting

Other reports suggested that anything from a ‘military occupation’ to ‘full annexation’ of the Strip were on the table if ceasefire negotiations collapse again

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July 29, 2025 14:07

Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly presented a plan for a 'military occupation' of Gaza to his Security Cabinet yesterday (Image: Getty)

Nazi

Sydney Sweeney ‘great jeans’ American Eagle advert called ‘Nazi propaganda’

Critics of the advert claim it is advocating eugenics and is a dog whistle that promotes white supremacy

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July 29, 2025 14:05

A new advert for jeans featuring actor Sydney Sweeney has caused controversy online (Image: YouTube, American Eagle)

Obituary

Tom Lehrer, mathematician, songwriter and satirist, dies at 97

Lehrer’s sharp, pithy songs satirised contemporary culture and gripped audiences around the world, but he never wavered from his love for mathematics

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July 29, 2025 12:25

American satirical singer-songwriter, Tom Lehrer, pictured cutting a cake in the shape of a woman's hand backstage at the Palace Theatre in London on 13 May, 1959, has passed away at the age of 97. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Union of Jewish Students

UJS wins £1m government contract to lead campus antisemitism training

There has been a surge in antisemitic incidents on campus since October 7

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July 29, 2025 12:05

An Edinburgh University protest (Photo: Getty)

Pro-Palestine

Regina Spektor tells pro-Palestine heckler ‘you’re just yelling at a Jew’

The Jewish singer defiantly stood up to a number of disruptive audience members at her concert on Saturday

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July 29, 2025 11:38

Regina Spektor had her show disrupted by Palestine supporters but she didn't hold back in responding (Image: Getty)

Gaza

Aid trucks reportedly looted while crossing from Egypt during first humanitarian pause in Gaza

The IDF is halting operations in Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah and Gaza City between 10am and 8pm ‘every day until further notice’ to allow aid to be distributed

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July 29, 2025 11:36

Aid trucks entering Gaza from Egypt have reportedly been subject to significant looting during the first humanitarian pause in the fighting (Image: Getty)

S&P Sephardi Community

S&P Sephardi Community announces nomination of new senior rabbinic couple

Rabbi Dweck and his wife Margalit are stepping down to make aliyah

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July 29, 2025 11:24

The numbers that shape Labour’s Middle East policy: 37, 73, 110

The party’s sudden zeal for Palestinian statehood isn’t about foreign policy – it’s about vote counts. Muslim blocs in 110 key seats are calling the tune, and Wes Streeting knows it

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July 29, 2025 11:21

British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on March 26, 2025 (Image: Getty)

The Netherlands

Netherlands accuses Israel of trying to influence Dutch public opinion

A report listed the Jewish state alongside Russia, Turkey and Iran as countries that have sought to "to shape public opinion and political decision-making."

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July 29, 2025 10:53

Netanyahu with Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof

Gaza

Second child suffering from pre-existing condition used as evidence of Gaza starvation

Israeli authorities said that they had helped evacuate the boy to an Italian hospital, where he is now recovering

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July 29, 2025 10:47

Osama Al-Rakab, 5, was evacuated to an Italian hospital with Israel's help (Image: COGAT)

Maidenhead Synagogue

Ukrainian refugees thank Maidenhead Synagogue for their hospitality

Members of the shul opened their homes, provided English classes and donated bicycles

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July 29, 2025 10:47

Rabbi Jonathan Romain with (from left) the Ukrainian couple, Nicky & Nadia, he housed for 18 months. Pictured here with their daughter, Ljudmila, and their grandson, who were already living in the UK

Israel

Netherlands sanctions far-right Israeli ministers over ‘calls for ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza

The move was condemned by right-wing opposition figures as ‘hatred against Israel’

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July 29, 2025 10:41

The Netherlands has banned far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich (L) and Itamar Ben-Gvir (R) from entering the country over their alleged 'incitement' of settler violence in the West Bank and 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza (Image: Flash90)

Miriam Margolyes

Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes claims Hitler ‘changed’ Jews and 'made us like him’

The Campaign Against Antisemitism has called for the Harry Potter star to be stripped of her OBE and Bafta after she accused Israel of ‘doing exactly the same thing’ the Nazis did during the Holocaust

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July 29, 2025 09:58