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The Irish and Gaza

How Ireland became Europe’s most anti-Israel island

10 min read

August 3, 2025 10:16

A flag showing solidarity between the Irish and Palestinians (Getty)

When a Rabbinic rebuke can endanger Jewish lives

When moral outrage outruns factual certainty, an attempt to save the good name of the Jewish people will have only furthered its destruction

4 min read

July 28, 2025 16:10

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of the New North London Synagogue

How the West handed Hamas a win and killed the ceasefire

Recognition of Palestine is supposed to bring peace. But cycles of violence aren’t normally broken by actions that incentivise more violence, and this symbolic action does little except that

4 min read

August 1, 2025 15:10

Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) greets President of France Emmanuel Macron at 10 Downing Street ahead of a France/UK Summit on July 10, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Gaza

Government set to allow 300 sick Gazans to come to UK and receive NHS treatment

Some Labour MPs have called on the government to create a bespoke refugee scheme for Palestinians

2 min read

August 3, 2025 11:39

British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on March 26, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Poland

Auschwitz Museum ban Israeli flags from IDF delegation

The group attempted to reason with staff at the death camp, but were forced to pack their flags away

2 min read

August 3, 2025 07:16

The March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 24, 2025 (Getty)

Gaza war

‘Hamas no longer poses a stratgeic threat’: Former security chiefs call for end of ‘futile’ Gaza War

‘This is leading the State of Israel to the loss of its security and identity,’ said former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon

1 min read

August 4, 2025 09:59

A number of former Israeli security chiefs have called for the end of the 'futile' Gaza War (Image: X/@UnaXeptable)

Steve Witkoff

US envoy Witkoff says there is ‘no starvation’ in Gaza following aid site visits

Washington’s man in the Middle East also said that returning the remaining hostages was a ‘sacred mission’ to President Trump

1 min read

August 4, 2025 09:19

US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff has said there is 'no starvation' in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Donald Trump

‘They’re in a war there’: Trump rejects claims of genocide in Gaza

The US president said the devastation of October 7 was ‘one of the worst [things] I’ve ever seen’

1 min read

August 4, 2025 10:27

President Trump has rejected claims that Israelis committing genocide in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Stamford Hill

Stamford Hill Chasidic leaders apologise to Downing Street over alleged harassment by Jewish Community Centre founder

The letter from UOHC leadership distancing themselves from Levi Schapiro follows an alleged complaint from the Prime Minister’s Office

2 min read

August 1, 2025 16:02

Jewish men walk along the street in the Stamford Hill, January 19, 2011 (Credit: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

AJC

AJC to donate £19,000 to help rebuild Gaza church damaged by IDF shrapnel

The advocacy group has said it will give the money to the Archdiocese of New York to help pay for repairs of Gaza’s Holy Family Church

1 min read

August 4, 2025 12:35

Three were killed and several were injured when stray ammunition struck Gaza's Holy Family Church (Image: Getty)

Itamar Ben-Gvir

Itamar Ben Gvir and Israeli government ministers lead ‘inflammatory’ prayers on Temple Mount

The visit came as police implemented new procedures allowing previously prohibited Jewish religious expression

1 min read

August 3, 2025 11:50

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen after a visit at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Old City, during the Tisha B’Av, August 3, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ביקור הר הבית מערבי איתמר בן גביר השר לביטחון לאומי תשעה באב

Healthcare

Dutch nurse investigated over posts saying she would kill ‘Zionist’ patients

Btissame Chait-Said denied harboring any anti-Jewish bias and claimed hackers hijacked three of her social media accounts.

1 min read

August 4, 2025 13:38

A nurse in the Netherlands is under investigation after posts on her social media account suggested she would like to kill 'Zionist' patients (Image: stock via Getty)

Iran

Iran holding 70-year-old Jewish-American jeweller captive following wartime crackdown

The man was visiting family in the country when he was reportedly abducted by security forces

1 min read

August 4, 2025 14:25

Iranians wave the flags of Iran and Palestine as they march during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians and in condemnation of Israel and the US in July (Image: Getty)

Haggadah

Museum announces profits from book on medieval Haggadah will go to Palestine

The rare manuscript, authored in the 14th Century, is on display in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

1 min read

August 4, 2025 13:47

The Sarajevo Haggadah was written in the 14th Century and smuggled out of Spain during the expulsion of its Jewish community (Image: Foundation for Jewish Culture)

measles

Hackney is battling a measles outbreak. Why aren’t Charedi families vaccinating their children?

The Charedi community is one of the most vaccine-hesitant in Europe

5 min read

August 4, 2025 10:28

Hackney has the lowest childhood MMR vaccination rate in the UK (Photo: Getty)

Australia

Sydney protesters chant ‘long live the intifada’ at anti-Israel march

Organised by the Palestine Action Group Sydney, the march followed calls by Hamas for global demonstrations marking the anniversary of the assassination of its former Ismail Haniyeh

2 min read

August 4, 2025 14:54

Protesters in Sydney reportedly chanted "long live the intifada", while others allegedly waved Hamas and Islamic State flags (Image: Getty)

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