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Stephen Fry and Miriam Margolyes among 200 public figures to call for Marwan Barghouti’s release

Barghouti was convicted by an Israeli court of involvement in deadly terror attacks but has been held up by many as a prospective unity candidate to lead a future Palestinian state

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December 3, 2025 17:02

Marwan Barghouti is led to a police vehicle on 29 September 2003 (Getty Images)

Calendar

Shabbat times from December 5 to December 12

Shabbat times for the week

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December 4, 2025 10:04

Shabbat times from December 5 to December 12

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Police integrity has been left in tatters by the Villa Park ban

Nick Timothy MP: ‘Are West Midlands Police capable of ensuring peace and order on the streets, without surrendering to the threats of activists and thugs?’

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December 4, 2025 10:19

Police outside the stadium prior to the match between Aston Villa FC and Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC at Villa Park . (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)

Green Party

Police urged to reveal what they knew about Green councillor who shared Hamas video

Abdul Malik admitted sharing a video by a spokesperson for the terrorist group, despite initially denying doing so

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April 16, 2025 10:55

Abdul Malik (right) poses with Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer

Lord Mann

Green Party ‘ignored warnings’ about inflammatory posts by elected councillors

Mothin Ali shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ after winning seat in Leeds

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May 6, 2024 11:43

Newly elected councillor Mothin Ali speaks after his election victory (Credit: X/Twitter)

Green Party

Police face ‘two-tier justice’ claims after Green councillor who shared Hamas video avoids sanction

Abdul Malik was reprimanded by a professional watchdog in his role as a magistrate but has not been dropped by the party or faced police action

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June 6, 2025 09:42

Green Party

Green Party stands by councillor who shared Hamas video

Abdul Malik campaigned alongside Green co-leader Carla Denyer but has since been found to have committed ‘serious misconduct’ in posting the clip

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February 27, 2025 17:50

Green Party

Are the Greens lying about council candidate’s ‘Israel must be eradicated’ post?

Screenshot suggests a Bristol candidate posted a Hamas video justifying the October 7 massacre

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May 1, 2024 17:01

Sidrah

Divided camps – this week’s parashah: Vayishlach

“Jacob was greatly frightened; in his anxiety, he divided the people with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps” Genesis 32:8

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December 4, 2025 12:09

Jacob's encounter with Esau, Simon de Vos, 1641 (Wikimedia Commons)

Netflix

Stranger Things defies the boycotters to become the biggest-ever Netflix season launch

The fifth season has attracted 59.6 million views in the first five days of its release

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December 4, 2025 12:20

Noah Schnapp attends a 'Stranger Things' Season 5 event in Berlin, November 18, 2025 (Credit: Sebastian Reuter/Getty Images for Netflix)

JMI

Rob Rinder appointed new chair of Jewish Music Institute

‘Our music can be a vessel to instil a renewed sense of pride’

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December 4, 2025 12:42

Turn up the Jewish music – it matters now more than ever

We can’t let the endless Oy Veys drown out the part of our identity that is joyous, creative and alive, which is why I agreed to become the chair of JMI

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December 4, 2025 14:46

Charity Commission

Charity Commission extends inquiry into Orthodox charities

The watchdog is investigating the cashing of cheques worth more than £20 million

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December 4, 2025 16:04

Theatre

Big laughs, bigger fangs – the reinvention of Dracula

Mock the Week and Whose Line is it Anyway? creator Dan Patterson on why he’s telling the horror novel through gags and…acapella

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December 4, 2025 16:04

IDF

History is made as Israeli batteries are deployed to protect Germany from Russian missiles

Germany has received Israel’s Arrow system in the first tranche of a $4bn defence deal

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December 4, 2025 16:16

The flags of Israel and Germany fly in front of the Arrow 3 shield system at the Annaburger Heide Air Base in Schoenewalde / Holzdorf, eastern Germany (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP via Getty Images)

The extremism I saw destroy Iran is taking root in Britain

I know what happens when intimidation smothers democracy and antisemitism rises. If we want our children to inherit the UK we love, we must act before the radicals rewrite it in their image

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December 4, 2025 16:26

Anti-Israel demonstrators protest in Parliament Square in London on February 21, 2024 (Image: Getty)

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