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Toronto film festival backtracks after banning October 7 film because Hamas didn’t give permission

The screening was reportedly cancelled after Hamas refused to grant the festival ‘legal clearance’ to use the videos its terrorists took of the massacres

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August 14, 2025 10:39

The Toronto International Film Festival has apologised after cancelling the screening of a documentary about the October 7 attacks (Image: Getty)

France

Paris air-traffic controller suspended over ‘Free Palestine’ message to El Al pilots

Separately, a French diplomat said his country was withholding visas for El Al security staff as payback for Israel's security checks of diplomatic personnel

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August 14, 2025 10:36

Channel Islands

Guernsey newsagent defends selling Nazi postcards

Shop owner tells JC that swastika card reminds people that “Guernsey suffered under the Nazis like the Jews”

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August 14, 2025 10:27

A postcard for sale at the Paper Box in Church Square featured a photograph of the German Occupation Museum and a swastika in one corner

Gaza

ActionAid removes false claim that more women and children killed in Gaza than ‘any other conflict in the last two decades’

The error was included on material for the fundraising group’s Gaza appeal

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August 14, 2025 10:25

Palestinian girls walk at a makeshift displacement camp set up amid building rubble in Gaza City in May (Photo: Getty)

October 7

Woman who worked in morgue on October 7 accuses Starmer of ‘torpedoing’ peace in Gaza

Shari Mendes, who was part of an IDF team that dealt with examining and identifying slain soldiers, was invited to the House of Lords a few months after October 7 to recount what she had witnessed

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August 13, 2025 17:16

The memorial site at Re'im parking lot, is dedicated to the victims of the Nova Festival massacre on October 7 (Image: KKL-JNF)

Israeli Dance Institute

Strictly fabulous! Israeli dance fans flock to UK camp

Participants flew in from 12 countries for the Machol Europa camp

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August 13, 2025 16:51

Strictly fabulous! Israeli dance fans flock to UK camp

Shield of David

Israel campaigner mobilises thousands through WhatsApp

Tabatha Caplan is the founder of the Shield of David advocacy group

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August 13, 2025 16:45

Edinburgh Fringe

Accordion Ryan’s Pop Bangers review: High-octane musical comedy like nothing you’ve ever seen before ★★★★

If pop music, klezmer, and Weird Al had a baby, it would be this Edinburgh Fringe show

2 min read

August 13, 2025 16:44

Ryan Simpson, otherwise known as Accordion Ryan, performs his wacky and wonderful show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (Photo: Tim Hughes)

Music

‘In the music industry, ADHD is my superpower’

Singer-songwriter Joe Taylor – AKA cozyjoe – and former JFS pupil speaks to the JC about how he is creating inclusive spaces for his fans

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August 13, 2025 16:35

cozyjoe (Joe Taylor) performing at the world-famous Cavern Club in Liverpool

Jewish celebrities

How Jewish is Scarlett Johansson?

Johansson has spoken publicly about her judaism several times including during a documentary in which she discovered her familial links to the Holocaust

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August 13, 2025 16:29

Scarlett Johansson has become the highest grossing actor of all time (Image: Getty)

Scouts

Iranian-linked children’s summer camp cancelled by Scouts over ‘safety risk’

Camp Wilayah’s booking was terminated after concerns were raised over charity’s posts supporting the Ayatollah

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August 13, 2025 16:08

The Scouts have cancelled a booking for Camp Wilayah, run by the Ahlulbayt Islamic Mission (Aim), which has posted in support for Iran's supreme leader (Photo: Facebook)

Nazis

British intelligence ‘suspected’ Rolex founder of being Nazi spy

Declassified documents suggested that Hans Wilsdorf was ‘well known for his strong Nazi sympathies’

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August 13, 2025 15:43

Declassified documents have reportedly revealed that British intelligence agencies suspected Rolex co-founder Hans Wilsdorf of being a Nazi spy (Image: Rolex)

Gaza

New report claims more journalists died in Gaza than in both world wars combined

The study, published by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, has been criticised for allegedly neglecting historical death tolls

2 min read

August 13, 2025 15:20

A new report has claimed that more journalists have been killed in the Gaza War than in both world wars combined (Image: Getty)

Ellie Goldstein

Jewish star Ellie Goldstein announced for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing

The pioneering model and actress will be the first person with Down’s syndrome to participate in a full series of Strictly

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August 13, 2025 14:00

Ellie Goldstein (Photo: Yvonne Goldstein)

Gaza

UN-backed watchdog lowers famine threshold in Gaza report

The move, as well as the addition of a new metric, will likely make it easier for the agency to declare a famine in the Strip compared to in other parts of the world

3 min read

August 13, 2025 13:26

The IPC has reportedly lowered its threshold to declare famine in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Bono just showed celebrities how to criticise Israel without crossing the line

The U2 frontman released a statement that, in a few paragraphs, managed what so many public figures fail to do

3 min read

August 13, 2025 12:44

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