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Who are the Druze and why is Israel defending them?

The long persecuted minority has been at the centre of a recent bout of sectarian violence in Syria, which saw the IDF bomb Damascus in support of the community

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

The Druze have existed for over a millennium (Image: Getty)

Head of BBC News Deborah Turness poses for photographs at the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque, marking the home of BBC executive Grace Wyndham Goldie, one of the only female executives at the BBC in the 1930s. (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

2 min read

Navi Pillay, former chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Jake Wallis Simons

The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

3 min read

Shas

Israel’s Shas party leaves government over ‘persecution of yeshiva students’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

EU shelves anti-Israel measures after Brussels sees ‘positive signs’ in Gaza aid situation

By Yossi Lempkowicz

2 min read

Annabel, partner of Israeli army sergeant Shoham Menachem, killed in action the previous day in the Gaza Strip, mourns during the funeral at the Yardena Military Cemetery in the village of Yardena near Beit Shean in northern Israel on July 15, 2025. (Getty Images)

By Maurice Helfgott

British Jews unite to help people both in Israel and Gaza

3 min read

Tel Aviv food

Eight must-try restaurants to look out for in Tel Aviv in 2025

By Victoria Prever

4 min read

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By David Hirsh

In the UK, antisemitism is now mainstream. Is it reversible?

Once whispered on the fringes, antisemitism now parades through Britain’s institutions in plain sight from Goldsmiths to Glastonbury

4 min read

July 16, 2025 10:46

Netanyahu calls for calm as Israeli Druze flock into Syria amid sectarian violence

Defence Secretary Israel Katz has pledged to continue military action until security forces withdraw from the area

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

July 16, 2025 10:25

Israel has launched strikes against Syrian troops entering the Druze city of Sweida (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

UNIFIL is a complete failure and needs to leave Lebanon

A force that turns a blind eye to Hezbollah while tying the hands of the IDF does not help prevent war; it is a recipe for it.

4 min read

July 15, 2025 14:55

UNIFIL soldiers in the Hezbollah stronghold of South Lebanon (Getty)

‘We have the power to speak up’: Former Miss Israel Noa Cochva on the delights and dangers of her Zionist advocacy

The one time Miss Universe contestant also shared her condemnation of punk duo Bob Vylan’s chant of ‘death to the IDF’

By Amelie Botbol

3 min read

July 14, 2025 15:55

Former Miss Israel Noa Cochva has gained fame as a Zionist influencer (Image: Instagram/@noacochva)

Hamas terrorist who held Emily Damari hostage killed in Israeli airstrike

The IDF has confirmed the elimination of Nasr Ali Quneita, a participant in the October 7 massacre

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

July 14, 2025 15:55

The terrorist who held Emily Damari (centre) hostage was killed in an airstrike last month, the IDF has confirmed (Image: Flash90)

Anti-Israel activists raid kosher restaurant in Greece

The newly opened outlet was vandalised with graffiti and plastered with a post claiming that ‘all IDF soldiers are war criminals’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

July 14, 2025 14:21

A group of anti-Israel activists vandalised a kosher restaurant in Athens over the weekend (Image: Zvika Levinson)

US national ‘beaten to death’ by West Bank settlers, family says

Relatives of Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat have called on the US State Department to investigate his alleged murder

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

July 14, 2025 10:34

Saif Musallet was beaten to death during violent clashes with Israeli settlers in the West Bank, according to his family (Image: X/@ninaturner)

Israeli Guy Sasson becomes new Wimbledon champion in quad doubles

‘Representing Israel is one of the most important things to me’

By Ahron Asher Moss

1 min read

July 13, 2025 14:59

Guy Sasson of Israel (left) and Niels Vink of Netherlands pose for a photo with the quad wheelchair doubles trophies following victory against Donald Ramphadi of South Africa and Gregory Slade of Great (Photo: Getty Images)

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen, but how could anyone know such a thing?

3 min read

July 11, 2025 14:27

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen (Image: Flash90)

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Israel

Who are the Druze and why is Israel defending them?

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

Israel’s Shas party leaves government over ‘persecution of yeshiva students’

EU shelves anti-Israel measures after Brussels sees ‘positive signs’ in Gaza aid situation

British Jews unite to help people both in Israel and Gaza

Eight must-try restaurants to look out for in Tel Aviv in 2025

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