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My penalty for working for the JC: having to watch Gary Lineker

There are any number of podcasts more compelling than the Netflix programme The Rest is Football and they all share one advantage: none is fronted by a man who wants Israel expelled from international sport

Letters to the editor, June 12 2026

JC readers weighed in on education, Britain’s role helping Jews in the 1940s, Unison and antisemitism in football ahead of the World Cup – plus holograms, matchmaking, a royal bride and a lost airman

Letters to the editor. May 29 2026

Culture Secretary urged to investigate chair of Southbank Centre over ‘totally inappropriate’ conduct

Shadow minister Nigel Huddleston questions Misan Harriman’s ‘suitability’ for role

Bafta for Gaza: Britain’s media elites help fuel the jihadi propaganda campaign against Israel

The wilder the accusations against the Jewish state, the more likely you are to be showered with awards

Theroux’s settler doc wins – predictably, Israelophobia pays

The BPG, a group of journalists, critics and other media insiders, was always bound to conform to the trend. Whenever Jews are upset by something, the industry rallies round and doubles down

Letters to the Editor, March 13 2026

Intermarriage, conversion, football and Palestine

From Pep Guardiola to Hugh Bonneville, celebrities are spreading falsehoods on Gaza

It’s a lot easier to spew out ignorant rubbish than to actually check the facts and risk not being able to launch a broadside against Israel

Why are the celebrities I used to love suddenly so anti, well… me?

From Annie Lennox to Roger Waters, it’s hard not to take pro-Palestine activism personally. Thank God for Quentin Tarantino

Masih Alinejad exposed the UN’s moral bankruptcy in its silence on Iran

Her searing testimony at the Security Council stripped away decades of sanctimony, laying bare a United Nations that condemns Israel obsessively while averting its gaze from mass repression in the Islamic Republic

From stage to screen, the world now knows – the show must and will go on for proudly Jewish stars

2025 was a year of glittering prizes – but also when big names found the courage to speak out in defiance of the cancel brigade

Netflix criticised over £14m deal with Gary Lineker who quit BBC after Zionism rat post

The former England star has agreed to deliver a series of podcasts next year’s World Cup in north America

Netflix condemned for Gary Lineker deal after he quit BBC over sharing post about Zionism with rat image

Streaming giant gives former England star bumper pay day for World Cup coverage despite antisemitism controversy

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

Israeli lives don’t count: what the celebrity crusade for Barghouti says about our ‘elites’

A cast of household names, from Stephen Fry to Sting, demand the release of a man convicted of directing deadly terror attacks. I doubt any of them would ever work again if he had been convicted in the UK and his victims were British

Greta Thunberg did not claim IDF ‘torture’ during flotilla deportation hearing

A Turkish activist who was detained alongside the 22-year-old claimed she had been beaten, dragged by her hair and forced to kiss an Israeli flag