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Palestine Action granted permission to judicially review proscription as terror group

The government moved to ban the group following its activists’ break-in at RAF Brize Norton in June

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July 30, 2025 15:28

Palestine Action has allegedly set up a new recruitment website in the wake of its proscription under UK counter-terror laws (Image: Getty)

IDF releases video of alleged Hamas terrorists stealing aid from truck

The IDF yesterday released footage allegedly showing Hamas militants looting an aid truck that was bringing essentials into Gaza

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July 30, 2025 16:01

The footage allegedly shows Hamas terrorists looting the aid truck (Image: X/Israeli Defense Forces)

Israeli Politics

Far-right Israeli minister calls for hostages to be redesignated as ‘prisoners of war’ to prioritise ‘victory’ over Hamas

Amichai Eliyahu said the issue of the 50 captives still held by Hamas should be ‘dealt with at the end’ of the war

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July 30, 2025 14:33

Amichai Eliyahu has suggested that the Gaza hostages should be redesignated as 'prisoners of war' to prioritise 'victory' over Hamas (Image: Flash90)

Books

The World’s Game review: A guide for the perplexed on countering the false certainties of totalitarianism

Author Frederic Raphael argues that Judaism emerges as the only one of the three major religions to leave ‘middle ground... uncluttered by predetermined dogma’

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July 31, 2025 09:51

The World’s Game review: A guide for the perplexed on countering the false certainties of totalitarianism

Canada

Canada becomes third G7 nation to announce it will recognise Palestine at UN conference

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the decision was ‘predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms’

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July 31, 2025 09:40

Canada has announced it will recognise a Palestinian State at a UN General Assembly meeting in September (Image: Getty)

Salad

Simple Provençal panzanella salad

A delicious update on the Italian classic no waste recipe

July 31, 2025 08:51

Cook time: 20-25 minutes

Books

The Unworthy review: A story of boy criminals in Nazi-occupied Norway told with convincing verisimilitude

From the viewpoints of its three protagonists, ‘The Unworthy’ is a credible depiction of its tough working-class world

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July 31, 2025 10:08

The Unworthy review: A story of boy criminals in Nazi-occupied Norway told with convincing verisimilitude

Israel Gaza War

Can diplomacy bring the Israel Gaza war to an end?

Military analysts want to see more pressure brought on Hamas leaders in Qatar to admit that their rule is over

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July 31, 2025 11:06

James O'Brien

‘It's open season on the Jewish community’ say protestors outside LBC office

Demonstrators protested outside the Global headquarters after presenter James O’Brien read out an ‘antisemitic’ message from a listener

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July 31, 2025 11:07

‘It's open season on the Jewish community’ say protestors outside LBC office

Israel

UK recognition of Palestine could breach international law, senior lawyers warn

Forty members of the House of Lords, including some of the UK’s leading legal minds, have suggested the move may violate a 1933 treaty setting out the conditions for nationhood

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July 31, 2025 11:17