Israel Hamas War 2023

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

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

Manchester University student union members wear masks and keffiyehs while it deliberates a motion on 'Solidarity with Palestine'

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Manchester student union objects to Jewish students request for union to not glorify terrorism

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Burnley

How Israel’s war against Hamas poisoned the politics of one English town

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Protesters call for an hostage deal with Hamas in Tel Aviv on the fourth night of Chanukah (Photo: Getty Images)

Israel Hamas War 2023

Families’ anguish as Hamas releases list of 34 hostages to be potentially released

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Pro-Palestine activists protested outside the JW3 cultural centre during a conference featuring former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert (Photo: X)

JW3

Israel suspends funding to Haaretz after publisher describes terrorists as ‘freedom fighters’

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

Sally Rooney attends the 2019 Costa Book Awards held at Quaglino's on January 29, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)

Israel

Over 1,000 authors including Sally Rooney sign ‘discriminatory’ boycott letter

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

Israel Hamas war 2023

Who was Yahya Sinwar, the last Hamas leader standing?

By Josh Kaplan

5 min read

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The hospital that learnt how to care for hostages back from hell in Gaza

Sheba Medical Centre had to come up with its own protocols and best practices to receive and treat returning hostages

By Amelie Botbol

3 min read

October 15, 2024 13:37

Dr Itai Pessach, director of the Children’s Hospital at Sheba Medical Centre

Government extremism adviser expresses concern at ‘levels of criminality’ at Palestine protests

Lord Walney has rebuffed reports that he has been dismissed from his role

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

October 9, 2024 12:30

Lord Walney, the government's adviser on political violence and disruption, speaking before the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee. Credit: London Assembly

We can’t forget how the world responded to October 7 – some gasped in horror, others partied

The JC looks at how the world reacted to the pogrom in the hours and days that followed

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

October 1, 2024 13:21

Iranian pro-government supporters celebrate the Hamas attack on Israel with fireworks and by waving a Palestinian flag in Palestine Square in Tehran on October 7. Hundreds of pro-government Iranians demonstrated in Palestine Square in Tehran to show their support for Hamas and the Palestinian resistance. (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

By Yaakov Katz

Israel must not forget Gaza and the hostages as it fights Hezbollah

Fighting on two fronts is no easy feat, but it is essential if we are to free the remaining hostages

3 min read

September 25, 2024 08:42

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the eastern areas of Baalbeck in the Bekaa valley on September 23, 2024. Israeli air strikes killed 274 people, including 21 children, in south Lebanon on September 23, the Lebanese health minister said, in by far the deadliest cross-border escalation since war erupted in Gaza on October 7. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Herzog unveils October 7 war memorial in Jerusalem

The monument is the first in the capital to commemorate both the victims of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre and IDF soldiers who fell in the past year

By JC Reporter

1 min read

September 23, 2024 08:19

Herzog unveils October 7 war memorial in Jerusalem

US gives up hope of ceasefire deal before November elections

American officials have admitted the sides are still too far apart

By JC Reporter

2 min read

September 22, 2024 12:17

Israelis protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv for the immediate release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza (Flash90)

By Stephen Pollard

If Ukraine must be allowed to fight, why isn’t Israel?

Ukraine is a vital strategic interest for the West. So, too, is Israel. But while we are rightly keen to give Ukraine the tools to do the job for us, we punish Israel for daring to fight Islamists

3 min read

September 16, 2024 11:38

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/AFP via Getty Images)

By Daniel Finkelstein

With Hamas, freeing the hostages will not be the endgame

Awful as Israel’s dilemma now is, history has shown repeatedly that ceding to Hamas’ demands will simply prompt it to take more captives and commit more atrocities

2 min read

September 4, 2024 09:33

Israelis holding photographs of abducted and missing family members protest outside the Knesset (Photo by Yonatan Sindeli/Flash90)

Hamas leader calls for more suicide attacks in the West Bank and Israel

Khaled Mashaal, who represents Hamas abroad said he wanted to increase ‘martyrdom operations’ against Israelis

By JC Reporter

2 min read

August 29, 2024 08:53

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Israel Hamas War 2023

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

Manchester student union objects to Jewish students request for union to not glorify terrorism

How Israel’s war against Hamas poisoned the politics of one English town

Families’ anguish as Hamas releases list of 34 hostages to be potentially released

Israel suspends funding to Haaretz after publisher describes terrorists as ‘freedom fighters’

Over 1,000 authors including Sally Rooney sign ‘discriminatory’ boycott letter

Who was Yahya Sinwar, the last Hamas leader standing?

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