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Charedi

Ten further Orthodox Jewish charities named by regulator investigating cashed cheques worth £22m

Nursery, girls’ school and food poverty charity under investigation

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September 1, 2025 15:10

The Charity Commision is investigating 105 charities believed to have issued and cashed cheques to a value of £22 million

Israel

Orthodox rabbis issue challenge to Israeli government over Gaza

British-linked religious figures join call for ‘moral clarity’ and criticism of Jewish extremism on West Bank

2 min read

August 21, 2025 16:04

Leading call for moral clarity: Rabbi Yosef Blau (photo: David Khabinsky/Yeshiva University)

Israel

Visibly Jewish family left distressed after Luton Airport subjected baby to ‘unnecessary’ security checks

The security officer was wearing a badge and bracelet displaying his apparent support of Palestine, apparently breaching uniform policy

2 min read

September 1, 2025 16:02

'We felt like targets,' the shaken mother said, 'We didn't deserve this'

Bournemouth

Man arrested after Jewish boy shot with an air rifle in Bournemouth

The victim, a teenager, was shot in the forehead last month

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September 1, 2025 16:12

There was a spate of antisemitic attacks in Bournemouth over the August Bank Holiday weekend (Image: Getty)

The UN severely underreports the amount of aid entering Gaza

UN figures exclude trucks arriving via the northern Erez crossing, airdrops, and private-sector deliveries not coordinated by UN agencies. COGAT counts everything

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September 1, 2025 10:08

Trucks loaded with aid enter Gaza through the Rafah Border Crossing on August 6, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Israel hits Houthis; critics lose grip on reality

For detractors like Mehdi Hasan and Cenk Uygur, even Islamist terrorists who have dragged their own country into a bloody civil war can be recast as a respectable government – so long as it helps them smear the Jewish state

3 min read

September 1, 2025 16:06

Funeral of Houthi leaders in Sanaa, Yemen, September 1 (Image: Getty)

Kneecap

Kneecap’s manager suggests October 7 was Israel’s ‘pretence for full ethnic cleansing’

The boss of the controversial band posted the conspiracy theory on social media

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September 2, 2025 10:34

Daniel Lambert (2nd from right) pictured here with Kneecap (Image: X/ Daniel Lambert)

Green Party

Zack Polanski elected Green Party’s first Jewish leader

The former actor and hypnotherapist is the first Jewish leader of any major political party in the UK since Ed Miliband

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September 2, 2025 10:39

Zack Polanski has been elected as the new leader of the Green Party (Image: Getty)

Downing Street

Downing Street defends appointment of former Columbia University chief who oversaw ‘ground zero for campus antisemitism’

Baroness Shafik was accused of ‘failing to protect Jewish students’ during her tenure at the New York college

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September 1, 2025 13:36

Former Columbia Univerity President Baroness Minouche Shafik has been appointed to a new role by Sir Keir Starmer. (Photo by Indy Scholtens/Getty Images)

Music

Coldplay fans boo Israeli women, leading to ‘dehumanising’ exchange on stage with Chris Martin

Martin awkwardly described the women as ‘equal humans’, before welcoming gig-goers from Palestine

2 min read

September 2, 2025 10:33

One of the women later revealed she briefly considered claiming she was from Malta to avoid the hostility she feared she might face (Photo: Getty)

review

The Smashing Machine review: A sweat-and-blood sports drama without the Rocky-style finale ★★★

Benny Safdie’s first solo project about MMA fighter Mark Kerr’s drug-addled ascent to early UFC fame simmers but never boils, despite Dwayne Johnson’s stand-out performance

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September 2, 2025 11:22

Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in 'The Smashing Machine'. (Photo: Cheryl Dunn/AP)

United Nations

British academic behind IPC famine report posted about ‘Gaza genocide’ three weeks after October 7

Senior UCL lecturer Andrew Seal also defended the Houthis over their attacks on shipping and opposed removing Hamas from power

5 min read

August 29, 2025 16:34

The IPC has declared a famine in Gaza City for the first time (Image: Getty)

shomrim

Man arrested after Orthodox women and child injured in Stamford Hill e-scooter ramming

Suspect allegedly shouted ‘f***ing Jews’ during assault that hospitalised a woman

1 min read

September 2, 2025 11:32

Police have arrested a suspect after a man was filmed ramming into strictly Orthodox members of the Stamford Hill community (Photo: Shomrim)

October 7

Memory squared – how our daily vigils in Brighton turned grief into hope

One of the organisers of the hostage vigils in Palmeira Square shares his recollections of the past two years

4 min read

September 2, 2025 11:45

Adam Ma'anit speaking at the final vigil for October 7 in Palmeira Square, Brighton (Photo: Sussex News/R James)

Green Party

Councillor who hailed ‘end of white settler colonialism’ on October 7 elected Green deputy leader

Mothin Ali supported the right of ‘indigenous people to fight back’ in the wake of the attack and dedicated his local election victory to ‘the people of Gaza’

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September 2, 2025 11:16

Mothin Ali has been elected as joint deputy leader of the Green Party (Image: X/@TheGreenParty)

Israeli Politics

Israeli Supreme Court orders government to reconsider firing of attorney-general

Justices urged ministers to reconsider the move ahead of a hearing in two weeks

2 min read

September 2, 2025 12:50

Israeli Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit (Image: Flash90)

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