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Israel’s new doctrine in the north: from containment to coercion

Jerusalem’s offensives in Lebanon and Syria have upended old assumptions, weakening Iran’s axis and opening the door to a new regional balance

5 min read

July 28, 2025 11:13

An Israeli army Merkava main battle tank crosses the barbed-wire fence into the UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights near the UN Quneitra checkpoint on March 2, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Dance

Dance review: National Ballet of Japan’s Giselle **** ‘The dancers in the corps are simply outstanding’

A production which puts the focus on the dancing

1 min read

July 28, 2025 11:18

Dance review: National Ballet of Japan’s Giselle **** ‘The dancers in the corps are simply outstanding’

Football

Meet Daniel Peretz, the Bayern Munich goalkeeper and half of Israel’s ‘Posh and Becks’ super couple

Daniel Peretz is engaged to Israeli pop star Noa Kirel and tells the JC about life as a football star in Germany

4 min read

July 28, 2025 11:21

2RPNAAY firo : 08/27/2023, football, soccer, 1st league, 1st Bundesliga, season 2023/2024, 2nd matchday, FC Bayern - FC Augsburg, Daniel Peretz, FC Bayern Munich, Bayern, FCB, Munich, girlfriend Noa Kirel, half figure,

Gaza

Child ‘misleadingly’ presented as symbol of Gaza starvation ‘suffers from muscular disorder’

Media outlets that used the image have been accused of leaving out critical context

2 min read

July 28, 2025 10:09

Images published widely in the media showing an apparently starving Gazan child have been criticised for allegedly lacking vital context about his medical status (Image: X/@CallumHoare_)

US Politics

California Republican candidate suggested Auschwitz as a solution to unemployment and praised rival as ‘Aryan super soldier’

Kyle Langford has previously called for Jews to ‘self-deport’ and ‘worship Jesus’

1 min read

July 28, 2025 13:12

Republican Kyle Langford described incumbent governor Gavin Newsom as an 'Aryan super soldier' with a 'beautiful white family' (Image: X/@KyleLangfordCA)

Gaza

Bob Geldof says all Israelis to blame for ‘famine’ in Gaza – and they should fill their cars with food and ‘drive through the border’

The singer-turned-activist told Sky News “we’re down to some base level of bestiality”

2 min read

July 28, 2025 13:50

Bob Geldof has called for Israelis to "drive across the border" to deliver food to Gaza (Image: Getty)

Austria

Israelis kicked out of restaurant and refused entry to campsite in Austria

Two separate incidents of Israelis facing discrimination in Austria, have surfaced in the past week

2 min read

July 28, 2025 14:00

Israelis kicked out of restaurant and refused entry to campsite in Austria

Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer and Trump talk Gaza as Cabinet recalled for emergency meeting

The two leaders met at Trump’s golf course in Scotland, where the Prime Minister described the humanitarian situation in the Strip as ‘appalling’

4 min read

July 28, 2025 14:26

US President Donald Trump gestures as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) and his wife Victoria Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf club (Image: Getty)

How the West prolonged Gaza’s misery in the name of virtue

By blaming the Jewish state alone for the food crisis and the ongoing war, European governments may have helped derail ceasefire talks and deepen Palestinian suffering

3 min read

July 28, 2025 15:07

Palestinian walk carrying sacks of flour near Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 27, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Australia

Australia tells universities they will face cuts if they fail to tackle antisemitism

Australia's special envoy to combat antisemitism has said anti-Jewish racism had become ‘normalised’ on campuses

1 min read

July 28, 2025 15:28

Worries have arisen that the report conflates pro-Palestine protests at universities with antisemitism (Image: Getty)

Progressive Judaism

‘Not in our name’: leaders of Progressive Judaism condemn Gaza war

Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy release statement saying it’s ‘nearly impossible’ to hold onto Zionist dream

3 min read

July 28, 2025 18:15

Palestinians in Gaza push through a fence to receive a hot meal at a charity kitchen in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2025 (Photo AFP via Getty Images)

Theatre

Cast announced for the London premiere of Jewish play The Wanderers

Two Jewish couples confront essential questions in award-winning playwright and screenwriter Anna Ziegler’s play

2 min read

July 28, 2025 16:24

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Chief Rabbi encourages donations to Gaza amid images of ‘terrible suffering’

Statement from religious leader comes after two Israeli human rights groups have accused the Jewish State of genocide in Gaza

3 min read

July 28, 2025 16:16

Lebanon

Revealed: radical Islamic cleric who sells ‘libido-boosting’ pills to run combat camp in the Peak District

‘Masculinity influencer’ Sayed Hussein Makke heaped praise on the late Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah

9 min read

July 28, 2025 15:03

Makke and (above him) his admiring post about Hassan Nasrallah. Other images show scenes from his combat camp (Images: Instagram / YouTube screenshots)

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’

2 min read

July 29, 2025 09:41

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)

Maidenhead Synagogue

Ukrainian refugees thank Maidenhead Synagogue for their hospitality

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

1 min read

July 29, 2025 09:47

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

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