Sir Keir Starmer

Israel strikes Iran

Starmer blasted for ‘appeasing’ Iran in response to Israeli strikes

‘Now is the time for restraint, calm and a return to diplomacy’, the prime minister said.

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street (Image: Getty).

Smoke rises from a location targeted in Israel's wave of strikes on Tehran, Iran, on early morning of June 13, 2025. (Imaghe: Getty)

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Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

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Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, David Lammy, arrives at 10 Downing Street (Image: Getty)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Sanction speech in the Jewish state, tolerate antisemitism all around it

4 min read

Prime Minister's Questions

Starmer refuses to call Gaza War ‘genocide’ despite Labour pressure at PMQs

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Sir Keir Stamer at PMQs (Image: UK Parliament)

Prime Minister's Questions

Starmer condemns ‘appalling’ Israeli military action in PMQs dominated by Gaza

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

British singer Dua Lipa is among 300 celebrities to call on the UK to end its 'complicity' in the 'horrors' of the Gaza War

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Dua Lipa and Benedict Cumberbatch among 300 celebrities to call for end of UK ‘complicity’ in Gaza ‘horrors’

By Imogen Garfinkel

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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch (Image: Getty)

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Kemi Badenoch and the lost art of telling the truth

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Former Supreme Court justices among 800 lawyers to call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza ‘genocide’

A letter sent to the prime minister to urged him to impose the measures to comply with ‘fundamental international legal obligations’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

May 27, 2025 11:23

Former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption is among 800 lawyers calling on the UK to impose sanctions on Israel (Image: Alamy)

UK threatens ‘concrete actions’ against Israel if it goes ahead with Gaza operation

Netanyahu says the statement with Canada and France ‘offers Hamas a huge prize for its genocidal attacks’

By JC Reporter

3 min read

May 20, 2025 08:42

Tougher immigration measures to stop Palestinians applying for asylum on Ukrainian visa scheme

The government revealed its immigration white paper on Monday

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

May 13, 2025 09:24

12/05/2025. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a press conference on migration in 9 Downing Street. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

By Stephen Pollard

The new campus normal: harass the Jews, protect the mob

A new report reveals how UK universities are failing Jewish students. The push needs to be to require them to use the existing legal framework to act.

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May 8, 2025 15:22

A student highlighting kidnapped Israelis stlll being held in Gaza stands next to an encampent of pro-Palestinian protesters at Manchester University on May 08, 2024. (Image: Getty)

Starmer honours Jewish veterans in VE Day column

The prime minister paid tribute to Stanley Fisher and Mervyn Kersch, who helped liberated Bergen-Belsen

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

May 8, 2025 12:23

Mervyn Kersh, the Jewish veteran who helped to liberate Belsen

Starmer shuts down pro-Gaza MP at PMQs: 'Most of what he says is simply not right'

The prime minister also said the situation in Gaza and the West Bank was ‘increasingly intolerable’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

May 7, 2025 14:38

By Kasra Aarabi

Why the UK must proscribe the IRGC before it’s too late

Proscription would have meaningful consequence on the IRGC’s ability to operate on British soil

3 min read

May 7, 2025 14:29

Iranian drone on display during manoeuvres in Tehran in January this year (Photo: Getty Images)

Downing Street claims no change in position on recognising Palestinian State following Lammy comments

The foreign secretary told a Lords committee yesterday: ‘We will prefer recognition as a part of a process to two states’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

May 1, 2025 14:25

David Lammy (left) with Palestinian PM Mohamed Mustafa (Image: UK Government).

By Sir Keir Starmer

I’ll fight the poison of antisemitism wherever I find it

The prime minister writes for the JC ahead of Yom Hashoah

2 min read

April 23, 2025 16:21

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife, Lady Victoria, during their visit to Auschwitz in January (Image: Getty)

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Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer blasted for ‘appeasing’ Iran in response to Israeli strikes

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

Sanction speech in the Jewish state, tolerate antisemitism all around it

Starmer refuses to call Gaza War ‘genocide’ despite Labour pressure at PMQs

Starmer condemns ‘appalling’ Israeli military action in PMQs dominated by Gaza

Dua Lipa and Benedict Cumberbatch among 300 celebrities to call for end of UK ‘complicity’ in Gaza ‘horrors’

Kemi Badenoch and the lost art of telling the truth

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