Academia

jewish studies

Jewish studies scholar awarded major academic prize worth nearly £700,000

David Nirenberg, author of Anti-Judaism, is one of this year’s recipients of the Balzan Prize

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

Prizewinning: David Nirenberg (photo: Sameer A Khan/Wikimedia Commons)

Southport

Royal Geographical Society publishes paper linking Southport ‘anti-Muslim pogroms’ to ‘Zionist financiers’

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

The 'Britain Stands With British Jews' rally at Downing Street in London, May 10, 2026 (Credit: Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Antisemitism

British Jews have lost trust in all major UK institutions, new study finds

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Torah

The ex-Aish rabbi who opened up a universe of knowledge

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

Michael Ben-Gad (centre) and Louis Danker in conversation with the JC (Photo: Ben Castiel)

Academia

Students and academic staff face purity test over views on Gaza, professor warns

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

By Maarten Boudry

Europe’s silenced scholars: the forced Gaza genocide ‘consensus’

7 min read

Protesters disrupt Michael Ben-Gad's lecture

By Ian Pace

The targeting of Israeli Professor Michael Ben-Gad: Britain’s academic freedom crisis

4 min read

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Anti-Zionism in academia could leave Israel Studies ‘homeless’, new report warns

Dr Sara Yael Hirschhorn spoke to the JC about her mission to get students to engage with the Israel-Palestine conflict beyond the limits of TikTok videos, hashtags, and political propaganda

By Amelie Botbol

3 min read

July 16, 2025 16:50

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Columbia University campus to mark one year of the war between Hamas and Israel in New York City on October 7, 2024. (Photo by kena betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

What kind of country has Britain become?

The normalisation of Jew-hatred among the British middle class is an assault on the very foundations of our civilisation.

3 min read

July 15, 2025 16:51

What kind of country has Britain become?

Who is the Irish student who took on a furious anti-Israel crowd at an Ilan Pappé lecture?

Jamie O Mahony has been seen in a viral clip facing down an angry backlash after his pro-Israel comments

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

July 8, 2025 11:56

Jamie O Mahony held onto his Israeli flag when a university staff member lunged towards him to grab it during an Ilan Pappé lecture (Photo: X screenshot)

By Evaldas Barstys

If you do not conform to ‘anti-Zionism’ on campus, you become an outcast

Jewish students shouldn’t have to fight for the same respect and safety that others take for granted

1 min read

March 5, 2025 10:33

Pro-Gaza activists have been accused of stealing sensitive documents from the University of Cambridge (Getty Images)

By Stephen Pollard

LSE is telling Jewish students: we do not care about you

Defending an organisation that is committed to the elimination not just of Israel but of every Jew is surely a form of targeted harassment of Jewish students

2 min read

March 5, 2025 10:20