Israel

Israeli far-right slam Bennett over claim West Bank zones could remain under Palestinian control

The former prime minister also condemned illegal settlement activity, but backed the construction of communities permitted under Israeli law

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in the southern Israeli city of Ofakim, June 23, 2026 (Flash90)

Parliament

Israel lobby petition ‘smacks of an antisemitic conspiracy’, MPs told

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury vows to help Palestinians get ‘freedom they deserve’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Pakistan's prime minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks next to U.S. vice president JD Vance and Qatar's prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani during the Lake Lucerne Summit on Sunday (Getty Images)

Israel

US and Iran agree roadmap for deal to end war

By JC Reporter

4 min read

United Nations

Jonathan Harounoff to step down as Israeli spokesman at UN

By Jacob Jaffa

4 min read

Israeli F-15 jets on their way to strike Iran (Image: Israeli Air Force)

By Kobi Michael

The Iran deal is neither a defeat for Israel nor a victory for the Islamic Republic

5 min read

Israel

Four IDF soldiers killed in southern Lebanon ‘security zone’

By Melanie Swan

2 min read

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A cocktail of anxiety and hope

Leading Israeli Reform theologian Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur, who is visiting the UK, speaks about the movement’s future and his recent book

By Simon Rocker

5 min read

June 19, 2026 09:58

Israel cuts ties with top EU diplomat over alleged ‘apartheid’ remarks

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused Kaja Kallas of ‘acting obsessively and with blatant unfairness toward the State of Israel’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 18, 2026 16:36

(L-R) Irish Finance Minister Simon Harris, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares Bueno and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the European Council in Brussels on November 11, 2025 (Getty Images)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Trump’s Iran deal has led Israel and the US to the very brink of disaster

By committing to withdraw all troops and lift sanctions in return for little more than a promise not to pursue nukes, the US president has emboldened the West’s enemies and set the stage for future confrontations

3 min read

June 18, 2026 16:31

US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in France on June 17, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

Green activist group accuses party of ‘prioritising’ antisemitism over other forms of racism

A report by ‘Global Majority Greens’, which is backed by the party’s deputy leader, accuses its leadership of creating a ‘hierarchy of racism’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

June 18, 2026 16:25

Mothin Ali, Deputy Leader of the Green Party, delivers his speech on the second day of the Green Party Conference on October 04, 2025 in Bournemouth (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Sally Rooney blames US and Israel for rise of ‘the far right and fascism’ in Europe

The Irish author also claimed Israel was doing ‘irreversible damage’ to the ‘foundations of international law and the multilateral world system’

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

June 18, 2026 16:20

Sally Rooney speaks onstage at the Winter TCA 2020 in Pasadena, California, January 17, 2020 (Credit: Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu)

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

Trump’s Iran deal is like offering Nazi Germany a Marshall Plan in 1944

As a candidate, he accurately dissected the disastrous nuclear deal the Obama administration had negotiated with Tehran. As a president, he has just done infinitely worse

4 min read

June 18, 2026 15:34

President Donald J. Trump signs the Iran Memorandum of Understanding at Versailles, France on June 17, 2026 (Image: White House)

NYT probes Israeli ‘rape dog’ claim author Nicholas Kristof for failing to disclose donors

Kristof, who was criticised by Israel over claims outlined in a recent opinion piece for the same paper, allegedly failed to make clear that individuals mentioned in other columns had supported his political campaign

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 18, 2026 15:31