America

Lessons from history that tell us this Iran campaign isn’t over yet

Trump keeps saying a deal is imminent, but the shooting continues. This is how wars are fought in the Middle East and America has adapted how it fights. War proceeds by negotiation as well as force, and always by deception

By Dominic Green

4 min read

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists travelling on Air Force One on March 7, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

Chef-owner Raz Shabtai (CL) with the staff of Mutra in Miami, Florida (Instagram/MutraMiami)

Food

Kosher restaurant awarded Michelin star in world first

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Two women react as they leave a reunification center following the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego in southern California, May 18, 2026 (Credit: Zoë Meyers / AFP via Getty Images)

America

San Diego mosque shooters found to have Nazi stickers and symbols

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Victoria Derbyshire and Tucker Carlson on the BBC's flagship Sunday politics programme (Image: BBC/YouTube)

By Dominic Green

Trump disowned ‘kooky’ Tucker Carlson – only for the BBC to leap into the gutter for the conspiracist

3 min read

Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa houses the singer's extensive archive. (Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Bob Dylan Center)

America

Why Jewish families are flocking to make their home in the Midwest magnet Tulsa, Oklahoma

By Anthea Gerrie

3 min read

US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) and Vice President JD Vance (L) (Image: Getty)

By Dominic Green

The ‘stab in the back’ myth to blame Jews if the war goes badly

3 min read

British redcoat re-enactors fire a salvo as they take part in the tactical demonstration of Parker's Revenge during the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution in Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 2025. The event marks the 250th anniversary of the battle that immediately followed the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, at the start of the US Revolutionary War. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

By Zaki Cooper

The Exodus story inspired American independence

2 min read

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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

In the US, faithful Catholics are confronting antisemites in their midst

American Jews can feel heartened. The church and laypeople are fighting back on behalf of both communities, supporting Pope John Paul II’s ‘dearly beloved brothers’

3 min read

March 24, 2026 16:34

Archbishop Alexander King Sample of Portland, Oregon (Image: US Conference of Catholic Bishops/YouTube)

FBI investigating ex-counterterror chief Joe Kent over alleged leak

Kent’s resignation letter, which blamed the Iran War on the ‘powerful' Israel lobby, went viral earlier this week

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

March 19, 2026 15:08

Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joseph Kent, December 11, 2025 (Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

By Stephen Pollard

Joe Kent quits blaming Israel – his far-right links tell the real story

Now that he has turned himself into a poster boy for opponents of the Iran war, the media conveniently ignore the past of the former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center

3 min read

March 18, 2026 16:22

Joseph Ken testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee (Image: Getty)

Who were the seven top Iranian officials killed alongside Khamenei?

Iran’s supreme leader was killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday, bringing his nearly 40-year rule to an end

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

March 2, 2026 13:23

The IDF announces all senior terrorist leaders of Iran’s Axis of Terror have been eliminated (Credit: X)

‘Zionist Nazi b****’: California Jewish parents sue state over allegations of ‘persistent and pervasive’ antisemitism in public schools

Students reported their peers chanting ‘kill the Jews’ and physically assaulting Jewish classmates, as well as a teacher displaying antisemitic artwork

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

February 27, 2026 13:59

Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters face each other outside the Adas Torah Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles, June 23, 2024 (Credit: DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump administration sues UCLA claiming it created a ‘hostile environment’ for Jewish students

The legal action refers to the repeated Gaza protests that took place on campus

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

February 26, 2026 17:04

Police on bicycles patrol near the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) (Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Swiss bank ‘holds 900 undisclosed Nazi accounts’

The allegation emerged during a US probe into the Swiss bank’s relationship with the Third Reich

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

February 5, 2026 18:24

The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by US Senator Chuck Grassley (C), Republican from Iowa, holds a hearing regarding Nazis and Swiss Banks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 3, 2026 (Credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s personal lawyer proposes US provide asylum for British Jews

British-born Robert Garson says the UK is ‘no longer a safe place’ for Jews and offered to train ‘any Jewish person that wants to learn’ how to handle a firearm

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

January 19, 2026 12:20