Middle East

Jewish communal leaders press Middle East minister over lack of IRGC ban

The Board and Jewish Leadership Council also expressed concern over the way in which the government advanced its recognition of Palestinian statehood

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Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer (Photo: Jewish Labour Movement).

Residents carry their belongings as they flee Aleppo's Ashrafieh Kurdish neighbourhood on January 7, 2026 (Getty Images)

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Syria announces ceasefire in Aleppo after clashes with Kurdish forces see thousands flee

By Jacob Jaffa

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Bar-On and other Mena members at the Middle East Forum, September, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Peace Process

‘You can’t just wait for stability’: the Israeli working with Iranians and Qataris to build a start-up region

By Jane Prinsley

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(Illustrative) Prince Albert Of Monaco speaks during his visit to The Oxford Union on February 6, 2017 (Getty Images)

Israel

Oxford Union ‘labels Israel greater threat to regional stability’ than Iran

By Jamie Shapiro

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Bahrain

Bahraini ambassador defends normalisation of relations with Israel amid Gaza ‘genocide’ calls

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Drugs

Could psychedelics offer a key to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

By Eliana Jordan

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Board of Deputies

ANALYSIS: The consensus view — Rosenberg lays out the Board’s stance on the Middle East

By Simon Rocker

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Saudi ‘optimistic’ about securing Trump backing for Palestine recognition this week

A fresh proposal from Riyadh would see the unprecedented diplomatic shift tied to the end of the Gaza War and normalisation with Israel

By Jacob Jaffa

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May 12, 2025 10:15

Saudi officials are reportedly optimistic that Donald Trump will back Palestinian recognition during his regional tour this week (Pictured: Trump meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in 2018; Image: Getty)

‘I can’t discuss Israel with my anti-Zionist kids – it’s pointless.’

Meet the Jewish parents whose families have split since October 7

By Karen Glaser

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April 9, 2025 16:08

A Jewish Voice for Peace protest against Israel (Getty)

What the massive build-up of US military assets in the Middle East really means

Bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities is very much on the table, but it is not necessarily the endgame, analysts say

By Israel Kasnett

6 min read

April 6, 2025 09:55

An S-200 surface-to-air missile system on display in Iran (Image: Getty)

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Silence over jihadi butchery in Syria tells you all you need to know about the West’s distorted view of the Middle East

Islamist fighters have been torturing and massacring civilians

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March 11, 2025 08:46

Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government ride in the back of a vehicle moving along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran establishes new terror group in Syria to halt post-Assad ‘occupation’

Tehran has seen its terror axis in the region devastated by the fall of the regime in Damascus and the war in Lebanon

By JC Reporter

1 min read

March 5, 2025 14:33

Iran has reportedly established a new terror group in Syria following the fall of Assad. (Pictured: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah ALI Khamenei greets a gathering personnel from the Iranian Army, Air Force and Air Defence Force; Image: Alamy)

Israel’s new US ambassador suggests Saudi normalisation on the brink

Yechiel Leiter, who began his new appointment on Friday, hinted that a breakthrough in relations with the Gulf state could be on the horizon

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

January 28, 2025 17:27

Yechiel Leiter has hinted that Israeli-Saudi normalisation is be 'closer than ever' (Image: X/Yechiel Leiter)

Why Lebanon's new president represents yet another blow to Hezbollah and Iran

Joseph Aoun is backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia – and has pledged to dismantle Hezbollah’s military wing

By Yoni Ben Menachem

2 min read

January 14, 2025 10:52

Newly elected Lebanese president Joseph Aoun reviews an honour guard upon his arrival at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, on Jan. 9, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Middle East Minister refuses to apologise for comments about Israeli ambassador

Hamish Falconer: it was clear that I wasn’t commenting on Hotovely personally in Parliament last week

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

January 13, 2025 12:09

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer MP (left) with LFI chair Jon Pearce (Photo: Labour Friends of Israel)

By Jonathan Spyer

As Iranian power recedes, Turkey and its Sunni allies are filling the vacuum

2025 could be a year of tremendous uncertainty in the Middle East

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January 8, 2025 12:32

As Iranian power recedes, Turkey and its Sunni allies are filling the vacuum

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Middle East

Jewish communal leaders press Middle East minister over lack of IRGC ban

Syria announces ceasefire in Aleppo after clashes with Kurdish forces see thousands flee

‘You can’t just wait for stability’: the Israeli working with Iranians and Qataris to build a start-up region

Oxford Union ‘labels Israel greater threat to regional stability’ than Iran

Bahraini ambassador defends normalisation of relations with Israel amid Gaza ‘genocide’ calls

Could psychedelics offer a key to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

ANALYSIS: The consensus view — Rosenberg lays out the Board’s stance on the Middle East

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