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Former hostage reveals why she shook hands with Hamas militant at Red Cross handover

Yocheved Lifshitz shared further details about the encounter in an interview with Senior Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

By Greg Rose

1 min read

Yocheved Lifshitz (C), who was released by Hamas after 16 days in captivity (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

The exodus of Geert Wilders far-right party from the Dutch government could spell trouble for the nations relationship with Israel (Image: Getty)

By Bart Schut

Dutch government collapse spells danger for Israel ties

3 min read

Truth bomb: the Al-Ahli hospital car park after it was hit by a rocket in October 2023. The media rushed to blame Israel but it later emerged the missile was fired by Palestinians (Image: Alamy)

By Jonathan Harounoff

From Devil’s Island to Gaza: Lies, rage and late corrections no one reads

3 min read

UNhinged: the 2001 Durban conference kicked off a global campaign to isolate and demonise the Jewish state (Image: Getty)

By Gerald Steinberg

From Durban to Geneva: How the global human rights industry turned on Israel

3 min read

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in court to testify in his corruption trial (Image: Flash90)

By Yaakov Katz

The missing front: How Netanyahu is bungling the war for legitimacy

3 min read

Charity Commission

Charity Commission launches probe into British charity working with Hamas

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Hamas has reportedly killed five people in an attack on a bus carrying GHF aid workers (Image: Getty)

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Hamas kills five in attack on humanitarian bus, says Gaza aid firm

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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JC Israel Briefing Day 615: Will Israel pull the trigger on Iran?

Plus, Netanyahu evades coalition collapse

By Nathan Jeffay

2 min read

June 12, 2025 09:26

Israel is reportedly readying a solo military strike against Iran (Image: Getty)

By Daniel Finkelstein

When Israel’s government uses extreme rhetoric, it tests the faith of its backers

Support for the Jewish state was once instinctive. But when its leaders flirt with extremism, even pragmatic Zionists must speak out

2 min read

June 11, 2025 10:19

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir who was sanctioned by the UK government this week (Photo:Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

Israel’s isolation is not a new phenomenon – it follows an old pattern

The accusations of genocide, the rush to judgment, the revisionism – none of it is unique to this war. Whatever legitimate questions one can raise about the Jewish state’s conduct, the script was written long ago

3 min read

June 11, 2025 10:13

Protestors march down Regent Street demonstrating against military action in Gaza, August 2014. (Photo: Getty Images)

JC Israel Briefing Day 614: UK sanctions on Israeli ministers draw scorn from Washington

Plus, Palestinian State ‘not in our lifetime’, says Huckabee

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

June 11, 2025 09:28

The US has condemned UK sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich (R) and Itamar Ben-Gvir (L)

By Zoe Strimpel

Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

From Dave Chappelle to Reginald D Hunter, comedians of the present love to deploy their art or its milieu to spit scorn and falsehoods at the Jewish state

3 min read

June 11, 2025 09:07

Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

‘It’s so painful... it hurts all my body’: Man City boss Pep Guardiola delivers surprise speech on Gaza

The Premier League manager shared his thoughts on the Israel-Hamas war while accepting an honorary degree from The University of Manchester

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 10, 2025 16:56

Pep Guardiola gave a speech on Gaza while accepting a honorary degree from the University of Manchester (Image: Instagram/ Pep Guardiola/ University of Manchester)

UK sanctions far-right Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich for ‘incitement of West Bank violence’

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has condemned the move as ‘outrageous’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

June 10, 2025 14:07

The UK has sanctioned far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty)

UN accuses Israel of ‘extermination’ in Gaza over school strikes

A report from the global body’s inquiry into the Israel-Palestine conflict claimed that the Jewish State was engaged in a ‘concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

June 10, 2025 11:37

The UN has accused Israel of committing 'extermination' and trying to 'obliterate Palestinian life' in reference to IDF strikes on school facilities in Gaza (Pictured: The aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Yafa school building in Gaza City in April 2025; Image: Getty)

Civil servants told to consider resignation over concerns about ‘UK complicity’ in Gaza

More than 300 Foreign Office staff accused Israel of a ‘stark disregard’ for international law in a letter to the foreign secretary

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

June 10, 2025 10:47

Around 300 civil servants at the Foreign Office were told to consider resignation after signing a letter raising concern over the UK's 'complicity' in the Gaza War (Image: Getty)

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Former hostage reveals why she shook hands with Hamas militant at Red Cross handover

Dutch government collapse spells danger for Israel ties

From Devil’s Island to Gaza: Lies, rage and late corrections no one reads

From Durban to Geneva: How the global human rights industry turned on Israel

The missing front: How Netanyahu is bungling the war for legitimacy

Charity Commission launches probe into British charity working with Hamas

Hamas kills five in attack on humanitarian bus, says Gaza aid firm

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