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Boy George

‘Let them hate me,’ says Boy George in swipe at critics

The Culture Club star revealed he had received threats for supporting Israel after the October 7 attack

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

Boy George representing San Marino at the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria on May 12, 2026. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP via Getty Images)

An Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopter (Picture: Getty Images)

IDF

Israel signs deal to buy 12 advanced Apache attack helicopters from US

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

A woman walks past the Colombian embassy in Jerusalem. Colombia officially opened its embassy on October 14 (Picture: Getty Images)

Israel

Colombia opens embassy in Jerusalem and restores trade deal with Israel

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Bernard-Henri Levy from the movie "The Will To See" poses for the photographer during the 16th Rome Film Festival on October 21, 2021 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for RFF)

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Israel and Ukraine battling for future of the West, warns Bernard Henri-Levy

By Daniel Schwammenthal

6 min read

Matthew Peterson speaking at the National Conservatism conference in Jerusalem (Image: National Conservatism/X)

By Dominic Green

The battle to keep the American right on Israel’s side

3 min read

Ironman

Israeli war veteran who lost leg in blast completes Ironman World Championship triathlon

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Israel

Boy, 14, killed on school hike when ‘unexploded Hezbollah bomb’ detonates in northern Israel

By JC Reporter

4 min read

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By Jake Wallis Simons

Ron Dermer calls it ‘fake-ocide’ – the poisonous lie to bring about Israel’s destruction

The suffering in Gaza is real but Hamas bears ultimate responsibility for it. The false charge that the Jewish state has committed the crime of crimes has become central to the dangerous argument that it is illegitimate at its core

5 min read

October 12, 2026 11:42

Ron Dermer (Image: State Department, Michael Gross, Wikipedia)

Abbas postpones Palestinian elections again, blaming Israel

PA president, whose mandate expired in 2009, delays first parliamentary vote in 20 years as Israeli foreign minister calls him a ‘corrupt dictator’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

October 11, 2026 12:11

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 9, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

Danish ex-foreign minister ‘shocked’ by Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay

Per Stig Møller says the former UN human rights chief advocated censorship during the Muhammad cartoons crisis

By JC Reporter

1 min read

October 11, 2026 11:03

By Stephen Pollard

Burnham calls out the Greens’ antizionism – but is his hostility to Israel much better?

While Polanski et al can only shout about the Jewish state, Labour can – and does – go after it. Isn’t the worse villain then the government that is actually sanctioning Jerusalem?

3 min read

October 9, 2026 14:45

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham (Image: Getty Images)

Israeli players may be barred from entering Malaysia for World Amateur Chess Championship next month

The country has barred Israeli citizens from entering for more than half a century

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

October 9, 2026 14:14

An Israeli man takes part in a chess competition in Tel Aviv, October 21, 2010 (Credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay who oversaw ‘Gaza genocide’ report wins Nobel Peace Prize

In her years at helm of UN Human Rights Council, the body delivered more resolutions condemning Israel than rest of the world combined

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

October 9, 2026 13:33

South African judge Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay, chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (Credit: Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Burnham urges Green leaders to reverse party’s support for anti-Zionism motion

PM says call for single Palestinian state in place of Israel was ‘wrong’ but did not rule out future coaltion with Greens

By JC Reporter

1 min read

October 9, 2026 10:58

Andy Burnham in Berlin on Thursday (photo: Getty Images)

The hardest bit of moving to Israel? The bureaucracy

In the first of a new column, Secret Olah (not her real name, obviously) looks forward to an exciting new life… beyond the paperwork

By Secret Olah

3 min read

October 9, 2026 10:25

The hardest bit of moving to Israel? The bureaucracy

UK diplomats in Jerusalem to ‘end Palestinian Authority contacts’

The JC understands that this change is part of an agreement under which Britain will retain a reduced presence in Jerusalem, easing tensions between the two countries

By JC Reporter

1 min read

October 8, 2026 15:53

British consulate in Jerusalem (Image: Getty Images)

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Israel

‘Let them hate me,’ says Boy George in swipe at critics

Israel signs deal to buy 12 advanced Apache attack helicopters from US

Colombia opens embassy in Jerusalem and restores trade deal with Israel

Israel and Ukraine battling for future of the West, warns Bernard Henri-Levy

The battle to keep the American right on Israel’s side

Israeli war veteran who lost leg in blast completes Ironman World Championship triathlon

Boy, 14, killed on school hike when ‘unexploded Hezbollah bomb’ detonates in northern Israel

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