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School report: If we want better education, we need to do research

What works for one generation may not for the next, so we have to find out the best way to adapt

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June 8, 2025 10:08

School report: If we want better education, we need to do research

Etgar

The Etgar Quiz no 305

Try our weekly Jewish knowledge test

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June 8, 2025 10:05

Gaza

Gaza aid centre reopens after threats from Hamas left hundreds of thousands hungry yesterday

GHF said Hamas’s direct threats to its operations made it too dangerous to proceed with distributing aid on Saturday

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June 8, 2025 11:53

People carry boxes of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group that has bypassed the longstanding UN-led system in the territory, May 29, 2025 (Credit: EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas

Prominent spokesperson of Gaza Civil Defence exposed as an ‘active’ member of Hamas, according to IDF

The IDF claims to have uncovered at least three documents that prove ‘unequivocally’ that Mahmoud Zabar Tafesh Bassal is a member of the terrorist organisation

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June 8, 2025 11:37

Prominent spokesperson of Gaza Civil Defence exposed as an ‘active’ member of Hamas, according to IDF

Books

Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil review: ‘Tangled up in clues’

This new book about the search for the real Dylan could be more enlightening

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June 8, 2025 22:33

Enigmatic: Bob Dylan with singer-songwriter Joan Baez

Books

The Jewish Pedlar review: ‘Anglo-Jewry’s only mass murderer’

This is a fascinating account of a terrible murder by a Jewish pedlar in eighteenth century England and an excellent example of historian Tony Kushner’s important work documenting the life and culture of Jews in Britain

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June 8, 2025 19:38

The Jewish Pedlar review: ‘Anglo-Jewry’s only mass murderer’

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 612: IDF intercepts ‘freedom flotilla’

Plus, documents show Qatar funded Hamas weapons and disrupted peace plans

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June 9, 2025 08:26

A 'freedom flotilla' carrying activist Greta Thunberg was intercepted by the IDF this morning (Image: IDF)

October 7

Pro-Palestine activists ‘re-enact October 7’ during ‘resistance festival’

The bizarre street theatre performance seemingly showed the IDF exclusively killing civilians, while presenting Hamas as heroic

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June 9, 2025 09:46

A group of pro-Palestine activists in Belgium reportedly 're-enacted' October 7 (Image: Instagram/@festivalresistance)

Hamas

Footage shows Hamas command centre under UN-funded hospital where Sinwar was said to have died

The military released a video of its recovery of what it said was the terror’s chief’s remains after it was condemned by the UN for striking the site

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June 9, 2025 10:28

The body of Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar has been recovered by the IDF (Image: IDF)

Gary Lineker

Gary Lineker ‘not welcome’ at famous football writer’s memorial after ‘giving ammunition to antisemites’

The presenter’s social media post about Zionism ‘crossed a line’ said the son of late author Brian Glanville, as the row over former BBC pundit continues

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June 9, 2025 11:23

Gary Lineker has reportedly been barred from delivering a tribute to famous football writer friend, Brian Glanville, who died last month aged 93. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)

Israel

Greta says she was kidnapped, the Israeli navy hand out sandwiches

Ship of activists heading for Gaza intercepted by Israeli navy

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June 9, 2025 08:25

An Israeli soldier offers food and water to activist Greta Thunberg wearing a life jacket and frog hat aboard the intercepted Gaza-bound yacht. (Photo: Israel Foreign Ministry.

Wiley

Robbie Williams hosts antisemitic rapper Wiley on stage

Wiley was stripped of his MBE last year after posting a flurry of antisemitic social media posts in 2020

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June 9, 2025 13:38

Robbie Williams (centre) performing alongside antisemtic rapper Wiley (left) during the London leg of his Britpop tour on Saturday night (Image: TikTok)

The BBC can’t stop acting as a Hamas propaganda machine

From uncritically publishing statements from terrorist-run offices to a 5,000 word polemic against Israel, Auntie’s Gaza coverage reveals not bias but a broken editorial culture

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June 9, 2025 12:17