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Academic says calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ is ‘dehumanising’ at LSE book event

The contentious launch event for a book titled ‘Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters’ went ahead at LSE on Monday amid tense demonstrations

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March 11, 2025 14:17

Protesters gathered outside the event for 'Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters' at the London School of Economics on Monday.

YA books

‘Judaism gets how to keep people alive after they die’

YA author Gayle Forman on her latest book which explores a teenage death

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March 11, 2025 14:11

May memories be blessings: Gayle Forman and her latest book

Universities

Hundreds demonstrate outside LSE against ‘Understanding Hamas’ book launch

LSE governor Baroness Altmann said she is ‘ashamed’ that the university chose to host the book launch

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March 11, 2025 14:06

Pro-Israel and anti-Israel crowds demonstrate outside the entrance to the London School of Economics over the university hosting the launch of the controversial book 'Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters', March 10, 2025

Israel Tour

Number of young people going on tour this summer nearly doubles

Eight hundred teens sign up for post-16 ‘rite of passage’ Israel tour

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March 11, 2025 13:12

Canada

Trudeau successor’s views on Israel a mystery, say Canadian Jewish leaders

The former governor of the Bank of England was elected leader of Canada’s Liberal party and Prime Minister

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March 11, 2025 09:40

Canada's Liberal Leader and Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney speaks after being elected as the new Liberal Party leader, in Ottawa on March 9, 2025. Canada's Liberal Party overwhelmingly elected Mark Carney as its new leader and the country's next prime minister on March 9, 2025, tasking the former central banker with helming Ottawa's response to threats from US President Donald Trump. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

New York

Jewish judge temporarily blocks deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia protest leader

The leader of the New York university’s pro-Palestinian movement was detained by immigration officials last weekend

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March 11, 2025 09:27

Protestors gather to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil (Getty)

Israel Briefing

Israel Briefing Day 521: US tells Israel talks with Hamas won’t happen

Plus, Israel-US intelligence sharing reportedly at risk due to Trump’s Russia stance

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March 11, 2025 09:15

Protesters set a fire in front of the Ministry of Defence on March 8, 2025 in Tel Aviv (Getty)

Silence over jihadi butchery in Syria tells you all you need to know about the West’s distorted view of the Middle East

Islamist fighters have been torturing and massacring civilians

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March 11, 2025 08:46

Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government ride in the back of a vehicle moving along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

column

Mum, Dad, you ruined my childhood Purims!

If I’d come from a middle-class Jewish family with competitive parents, it would all been so different...

3 min read

March 10, 2025 18:12

One trick pony: Misha at Simon Marks Jewish Primary School and the getups she'd like to have worn

Hamas

LSE accused of platforming ‘Hamas propaganda’ by Israel’s UK ambassador over controversial book launch

Tzipi Hotovely accused the top university of promoting extremism

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March 10, 2025 17:13

Pro-Palestine protesters demonstrate outside the London School of Economics in 2024. On Monday, LSE's Middle East Centre will host a launch event for a book called "Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters". (Getty Images)

Israel-diaspora relations

New forum to tackle global Jewish challenges meets for the first time

The 150 delegates on the Voice of the People, convened by Israel’s President, held its inaugural meeting in Haifa

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March 10, 2025 16:47

Israel's president Isaac Herzog (top right) launches the new Voice of the People ahead of its first in-person conference in Haifa this month (photo: Facebook)

Purim Recipe

How to fold hamantaschen

The folding technique that gives hamantaschen their unique shape can be surprisingly tricky. We show you how it’s done, step-by-step

1 min read

March 10, 2025 15:20

Iran

Tehran regime will fall before UK proscribes IRGC, claims Iranian peace camp protester

Vahid Beheshti has spent more than two years camped outside the Foreign Office in an attempt to force officials to act

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March 10, 2025 14:47

Beheshti outside his peace camp on the steps of the Foreign Office

IDF

IDF appoints new chief spokesman

Ephraim Defrin is a veteran of the second Lebanon war

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March 10, 2025 14:34

Israel

Palestinian asylum seeker arrested by immigration officials

The man is being detained by immigration authorities

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March 10, 2025 12:52

H6F9G6 Home Office UK Visas and Immigration office sign Cardiff Wales UK

Twitter

Politician who questioned how many Jews were killed in Holocaust gets seat on Isle of Man Parliament

Gary Clueit also questioned whether Hamas kidnapped babies and suggested he enjoyed being called antisemitic

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March 10, 2025 12:16

A politician elected to the Isle of Man parliament described antisemitism as 'That warm feeling it gives you is just the piss running down your leg' and questioned the number of Jews killed in the Shoah

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