The Chancellor’s unapologetically Zionist speech – honest about Hamas’s October 7 atrocity, blunt about antisemitism, and courageous within her own Labour party – hints at a long overdue reset in the UK’s approach to Israel
By The JC Leader
By Luke Akehurst
Luke Akehurst MP: Labour will defeat the poison of anti-Zionist antisemitism
Landmark speech by chancellor is hailed as showing Labour support for Israel ‘alive and well’
By Lorin Bell-Cross
By Maureen Lipman
At this year’s Ajax parade, the words, ‘in these days of rising anti-Semitism’, were spoken more times, I suspect, than at past events
Members of We Democracy gathered in London on Sunday to remember the Israeli prime minister who was murdered in 1995
By Jamie Shapiro
The Independent MP was speaking at a rally by campaign group Stand up to Racism
By Melissa Langsam Braunstein
A racist Young Republican chat has triggered a fight on the US right: Should they pursue unity at any cost, or learn from the left’s collapse and reject radicals within their own camp
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‘Everyone has been on Israel’s d*** and talking s*** about Jews all summer, but nobody will talk to Jewish people’
By Jane Prinsley
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By Avi Garson
What made this gathering distinct was not only its geographic breadth, but the shared spirit: religious leaders grounded in tradition, intellectually open, proudly Zionist, and unafraid to engage with the complexities of the modern world
By Stephen Daisley
Driven from the New York Times, she built The Free Press into a powerhouse, challenged the legacy media on everything from Israel to free speech, and may soon rise to top ranks of CBS. For America’s progressive press, her comeback is the bitterest twist of all
The decision means that the platform’s article on Zionism will continue to suggest that the ideology inherently supports the expulsion of Palestinians
By Jacob Jaffa
It comes amid rumours of further division between the former Labour leader and Zarah Sultana, with whom he is seeking to set up a new party
When the limits of public speech are determined not by elected officials, courts and police but by how many extremists are willing to shout, menace and threaten, we are no longer governed by democratic institutions but by mob rule
We speak to senior United Synagogue Rabbi Dr Michael Harris on the eve of his aliyah
By Simon Rocker
The organisation appeared to suggest an equivalence between supporting the State of Israel and such prejudices as ‘bigotry’, ‘racism’ and ‘misogyny’
By Fania Oz-Salzberger
Support for a two-state solution is a moral litmus test. Those who dodge, deflect, or deny the Jewish state’s legitimacy aren’t critics – they are would-be annihilators