Tanya Gold’s review of the year: Gal Gadot honoured, and we might be spared Sally Rooney’s next novel – 2025 wasn’t all badLooking back over the year month by month, there were glimmers of hope amid the violence, terror and hateBy Tanya Gold 7 min read
AmericaTrump supporter Yehuda Kaploun appointed US envoy for combating antisemitismThe Chabad rabbi replaces Deborah Lipstadt as special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitismBy Jane Prinsley3 min read
AntisemitismOfcom told to act against online hate in government antisemitism action planNewly published raft of measures to protect Jewish community also covers security, education and NHSBy Jane Prinsley4 min read
By Melissa Langsam BraunsteinAntisemitism is a national security threatJew-hatred is not merely a moral failing. It operates as a strategic weapon – one that corrodes alliance cohesion, weakens deterrence, and undermines the legitimacy on which American power rests2 min read
By Shany MorThe dishonest ‘complicity’ argument driving the obsession with IsraelBy a moral sleight of hand, anti-Zionists turn selective outrage into virtue, while refusing to reckon with the antisemitic violence their activism may inspire5 min read
By Bernard-Henri LévyThe intifada has been globalisedFor what happened in Sydney could happen in any city in the world where one is still frivolous enough to believe that words are just words and that slogans bind only those who chant them3 min read
By Jack PinczewskiAustralian society has failed its Jews at every levelThe offers of more security funding are beyond parody. There is no wall high enough to protect the community, for the true barriers to the outrage at Bondi are those built in the human mind4 min read
Tightening gun laws a ‘diversion’ from fighting antisemitism in Australia, claims former prime ministerJohn Howard urged his successor, Anthony Albanese, to take more action against Jew-hate, as an official report on combating the problem continues to sit on the PM’s deskBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read||December 16, 2025 15:05
UK Government to launch antisemitism ‘action plan’ within days, minister confirmsCommunities Secretary Steve Reed told a Jewish Labour Movement gathering that the new strategy will leave ‘no stone unturned’By Jane Prinsley2 min read||December 16, 2025 13:27
J7 group of diaspora organisations call for more action on antisemitism during Australia tripThe umbrella organisation, of which the Board of Deputies is a member, represents some 90 per cent of the Jewish diaspora worldwideBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read||December 11, 2025 13:21
Herzog blasts Mamdani’s ‘outrageous’ rhetoric on IsraelRecent developments in New York City had ‘raised a red flag’, the Israeli president saidBy Siam Goorwich1 min read||December 9, 2025 11:00
Charedi councillor accuses Met of ‘two-tier’ policing after third antisemitic incident in three monthsMark Grosskopf, a councillor for South Tottenham, says repeated street abuse has left him anxious and questioning his safetyBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read||December 5, 2025 13:31
Man who sent ‘kill the Jews’ messages to MP jailed for eight weeksKevin Smith, 61, told a court he was drunk when he sent the messages to Jewish parliamentarian Alex SobelBy Dave Higgens3 min read||December 4, 2025 16:31
The non-Jewish Israel supporters who have lost friends over GazaEver wondered who would be today’s Righteous Among Nations? We talk to the steadfast allies who have fallen out with their nearest and dearest over the Jewish state’s war on HamasBy Nicole Lampert13 min read||December 3, 2025 16:26
Far-right Polish lawmaker says ‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’ in speech outside AuschwitzGrzegorz Braun has a history of hostility to Jews, from extinguishing Chanukah candles in the Polish parliament to claiming the gas chambers were “fake”By Jamie Shapiro1 min read||November 25, 2025 15:18
‘We had to do the job of the police’, says group that rushed to protect London shul from Gaza mobCommunity outrage over ‘total failure of policing policy’ after crowd chanting ‘baby killers’ swarm vicinity of synagogueBy Jamie Shapiro6 min read||November 24, 2025 14:56
