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

This hate campaign exposes a deeper rot in UK universities – beyond antisemitism – where rational inquiry yields to dogma and progressive orthodoxies must not be challenged

By Ian Pace

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Protesters disrupt Michael Ben-Gad's lecture

Israel's Legal Counsellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tal Becker, lawyer Malcolm Shaw, and Gilad Noam, Deputy Attorney-General for International Affairs, at the International Court of Justice hearing on the genocide case against Israel. (Image: Getty)

By Gary Cohen

The Gaza genocide libel: the Big Lie to delegitimise Israel

9 min read

The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell (Image: Getty)

By Nigel Biggar

Archbishop of York’s ‘genocidal acts’ charge against Israel is neither wise nor appropriate

4 min read

Wikipedia

Wikipedia co-founder personally intervenes over edits to ‘egregious’ Gaza ‘genocide’ article

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

Liberal Democrats

Ed Davey criticised for calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’ following controversial UN report

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Francesca Albanese, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a press conference by the Global Sumud Flotilla in Tunis on September 9, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Eugene Kontorovich

When international law becomes anti-Israel theatre

3 min read

Labour veteran Emily Thornberry (Photo: Getty Images)

Labour Party

Emily Thornberry says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

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Sadiq Khan criticised for labelling Gaza war a ‘genocide’

London Mayor slammed for comment following publication of contested UN report

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

September 18, 2025 11:38

WOLVERHAMPTON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 13: London mayor Sadiq Khan attends a meeting with Labour's mayors at the GTG training centre on May 13, 2024 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. The first meeting since local elections outlined the mayor's strategies for enhancing regional growth goals in Labour's devolution agenda. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

‘Independent’ UN panel accusing Israel of genocide has history of chilling remarks about Jews

The UN Human Rights Council has condemned Israel more times than it has censured Iran, Syria, and North Korea put together

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

September 17, 2025 08:30

Miloon Kothari (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)

By Alex Hearn

Britain knows Israel isn’t committing genocide –but lets the lie spread anyhow

By refusing to say so publicly, the government leaves the field open to MPs and activists who weaponise the charge against the Jewish state and stoke antisemitism

3 min read

September 16, 2025 11:01

Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper (L), Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (C) and Britain's former Foreign Secretary, now Secretary of State for Justice, David Lammy (Image: Getty)

Israeli officials hit back after UN inquiry says Gaza war amounts to genocide

The chair of the commission was previously accused of anti-Israel bias

By JC Reporter

2 min read

September 16, 2025 08:34

Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, South African judge Navi Pillay (Getty)

Lammy: ‘UK does not believe Israel is committing genocide’

A former attorney-general called on the government to ‘abandon its harmful plan to recognise a Palestinian state’ in the wake of the reported admission

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

September 9, 2025 08:55

Former Foreign Secretary David Lammy reportedly told a backbencher that the UK does not believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Body of ‘experts’ accusing Israel of genocide admits its members include activists and artists

Just 28 per cent of the roughly 500-strong body, which is open to anyone willing to pay a fee – voted in favor of the resolution charging Israel with the gravest war crimes

By Daniel Ben-David

5 min read

September 5, 2025 11:59

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid on their way to Gaza on August 30, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Alessandro Spinillo

The Genocide Scholars Association’s Gaza statement twists law and facts

The accusation against Israel collapses under scrutiny, muddling legal standards, factual errors and whitewashing Hamas’s war

7 min read

September 3, 2025 12:47

Palestinians flee northern Gaza following Israeli evacuation orders (Image: Getty)

Germany to intervene at ICJ in support of Israel

Government officials say they oppose the ‘political instrumentalisation’ of the Genocide Convention against the Jewish state

By Felix Pope

1 min read

January 12, 2024 16:58

President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) US lawyer Joan Donoghue (2R) confers with colleagues at the court in The Hague on January 12, 2024, (Photo by REMKO DE WAAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

UK says South Africa’s genocide case ‘endangers peace’

Sunak’s spokesman said the push to prosecute Israel was ‘completely wrong’

By David Rose

1 min read

January 11, 2024 17:16

President Joan Donoghue (C), and other judges in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) take their seats prior to the hearing on the genocide case against Israel, brought by South Africa, in The Hague on January 11, 2024. (Photo by REMKO DE WAAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

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Genocide

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

The Gaza genocide libel: the Big Lie to delegitimise Israel

Archbishop of York’s ‘genocidal acts’ charge against Israel is neither wise nor appropriate

Wikipedia co-founder personally intervenes over edits to ‘egregious’ Gaza ‘genocide’ article

Ed Davey criticised for calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’ following controversial UN report

When international law becomes anti-Israel theatre

Emily Thornberry says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

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