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Israel’s intractable war in Gaza

While moral opinion is subjective, facts are not. Even committed Zionists must not let compassion cloud reality by accusing the Jewish state of crimes it clearly has not committed

By The JC Leader

4 min read

An Israeli tanks passes near a banner with photos of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza (Image: Getty)

President Trump has said that the US will set up aid distribution centres in Gaza to deal with the 'real starvation' there (Image: Getty)

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Trump says US to help with food distribution in Gaza

By JC Reporter

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Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly presented a plan for a 'military occupation' of Gaza to his Security Cabinet yesterday (Image: Getty)

Israeli Politics

Netanyahu ‘presented plan for Gaza siege’ at Israeli cabinet meeting

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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Aid trucks reportedly looted while crossing from Egypt during first humanitarian pause in Gaza

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on March 26, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

The numbers that shape Labour’s Middle East policy: 37, 73, 110

3 min read

Osama Al-Rakab, 5, was evacuated to an Italian hospital with Israel's help (Image: COGAT)

Gaza

Second child suffering from pre-existing condition used as evidence of Gaza starvation

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Palestinians in Gaza push through a fence to receive a hot meal at a charity kitchen in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2025 (Photo AFP via Getty Images)

Progressive Judaism

‘Not in our name’: leaders of Progressive Judaism condemn Gaza war

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

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By Professor Melissa Raphael

When a Rabbinic rebuke can endanger Jewish lives

When moral outrage outruns factual certainty, an attempt to save the good name of the Jewish people will have only furthered its destruction

4 min read

July 28, 2025 16:10

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of the New North London Synagogue

By Saul Sadka

How the West prolonged Gaza’s misery in the name of virtue

By blaming the Jewish state alone for the food crisis and the ongoing war, European governments may have helped derail ceasefire talks and deepen Palestinian suffering

3 min read

July 28, 2025 15:07

Palestinian walk carrying sacks of flour near Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 27, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Starmer and Trump talk Gaza as Cabinet recalled for emergency meeting

The two leaders met at Trump’s golf course in Scotland, where the Prime Minister described the humanitarian situation in the Strip as ‘appalling’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

July 28, 2025 14:26

US President Donald Trump gestures as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) and his wife Victoria Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf club (Image: Getty)

Bob Geldof says all Israelis to blame for ‘famine’ in Gaza – and they should fill their cars with food and ‘drive through the border’

The singer-turned-activist told Sky News “we’re down to some base level of bestiality”

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

July 28, 2025 13:50

Bob Geldof has called for Israelis to "drive across the border" to deliver food to Gaza (Image: Getty)

By Dan Schueftan

Israel’s new doctrine in the north: from containment to coercion

Jerusalem’s offensives in Lebanon and Syria have upended old assumptions, weakening Iran’s axis and opening the door to a new regional balance

5 min read

July 28, 2025 11:13

An Israeli army Merkava main battle tank crosses the barbed-wire fence into the UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights near the UN Quneitra checkpoint on March 2, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Child ‘misleadingly’ presented as symbol of Gaza starvation ‘suffers from muscular disorder’

Media outlets that used the image have been accused of leaving out critical context

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

July 28, 2025 10:09

Images published widely in the media showing an apparently starving Gazan child have been criticised for allegedly lacking vital context about his medical status (Image: X/@CallumHoare_)

BBC ‘stands by’ Jeremy Bowen over claim there is ‘clear evidence’ of Israeli ‘war crimes’

The corporation seemed to suggest that the assertion, which was provided without attribution, was a ‘professional judgement’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

July 25, 2025 11:01

The BBC said it 'stands by' Jeremy Bowen after he claimed there was 'clear evidence' of Israeli war crimes (Image: Alamy)

Masorti rabbi leads open letter accusing Israel of ‘callous indifference to starvation’

More than 400 rabbis sign letter urging Israeli government to allow ‘international’ aid into Gaza, halt settler violence and pursue peace

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

July 25, 2025 10:52

People make their way along Al-Rashid Street in western Jabalia on July 22, 2025, after receiving humanitarian aid from an aid distribution point in the northern Gaza Strip. (Photo: Getty Images)

Netanyahu rebukes minister over claim Israel wants to ‘wipe out Gaza’

The prime minister said Amicha Eliyahu’s remarks do not reflect government policy

By Steve Linde

1 min read

July 25, 2025 10:18

Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly rebuked Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu for claiming that Israel is looking to 'wipe out Gaza' (Image: Flash90)

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Gaza

Israel’s intractable war in Gaza

Trump says US to help with food distribution in Gaza

Netanyahu ‘presented plan for Gaza siege’ at Israeli cabinet meeting

Aid trucks reportedly looted while crossing from Egypt during first humanitarian pause in Gaza

The numbers that shape Labour’s Middle East policy: 37, 73, 110

Second child suffering from pre-existing condition used as evidence of Gaza starvation

‘Not in our name’: leaders of Progressive Judaism condemn Gaza war

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