Zionism

The libel of bleeding kids for matzos was a stroke of PR genius

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

By Maureen Lipman

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A mediaeval depiction of the William of Norwich blood libel (Image: Jonny Weinberg)

(Clockwise from L) The crowd gathered at the Israel SOS protest in Westminster, a speaker addressing the demonstration, and a passerby who was asked to leave after shouting anti-Israel slogans

Zionism

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination commemorated by grassroots group in London

By Jamie Shapiro

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Zarah Sultana

Labour MP pictured clapping Zarah Sultana calling Zionism a ‘racist supremacist ideology’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. (Image: Getty)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The Republicans’ choice: Copy the Democrats or reject extremists?

2 min read

Unapologetically pro-Israel American rap star Azealia Banks spoke to the JC about why she is flying to Israel

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‘It’s f***ing epic’: Azealia Banks on touring Israel and why she loves Zionism and Jews

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

Participants of the inaugural Sephardic Rabbinic Conference in New York (Image: Avi Garson)

By Avi Garson

Sephardic rabbis unite at a perhaps historic conference to reclaim a classical tradition

3 min read

Bari Weiss speaks onstage during Book Club event With Peggy Noonan on November 19, 2024 in New York City. (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Daisley

Bari Weiss was meant to fade – instead, she’s taking over

4 min read

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Wikipedia to keep ‘ethnic cleansing’ definition of Zionism for a year after biased edit row

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

2 min read

September 5, 2025 11:06

A Wikipedia article effectively defining Zionism as favouring the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been locked from edits for a year (Image: Getty)

Gaza activists attack Corbyn after he refuses to say he is an anti-Zionist

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

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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August 29, 2025 13:18

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (Picture: Getty)

By The JC Leader

The Leeds rally is a warning to the Jewish community and to all of society

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

2 min read

August 20, 2025 09:18

Dr Rameh Aladwan addressed the crowd while wearing a T-shirt which read "'Anti-Semite Semite Club" (Image: News Now Yorkshire/ YouTube)

Is there a raison d’etre to diaspora life?

We speak to senior United Synagogue Rabbi Dr Michael Harris on the eve of his aliyah

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

August 17, 2025 10:18

Rabbi Dr Michael and Judith Harris at Hampstead Synagogue

Jewish LGBT+ group condemns London Trans+ Pride for banning Zionists from march

The organisation appeared to suggest an equivalence between supporting the State of Israel and such prejudices as ‘bigotry’, ‘racism’ and ‘misogyny’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

July 23, 2025 14:22

London Trans+ Pride has banned Zionists from its march this Saturday (Image: Getty)

By Fania Oz-Salzberger

How to spot an antisemite? Ask about Israel’s right to exist

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

4 min read

July 21, 2025 10:28

A pro-Palestinian activist holds a placard reading 'From the River to the Sea' during a National Day of Action for Palestine on September 7, 2024 in London. (Image: Getty)

Anti-Zionism in academia could leave Israel Studies ‘homeless’, new report warns

Dr Sara Yael Hirschhorn spoke to the JC about her mission to get students to engage with the Israel-Palestine conflict beyond the limits of TikTok videos, hashtags, and political propaganda

By Amelie Botbol

3 min read

July 16, 2025 16:50

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Columbia University campus to mark one year of the war between Hamas and Israel in New York City on October 7, 2024. (Photo by kena betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

‘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)

‘I’m an autistic, non-Jewish antisemitism warrior’

Charlie Keeble, 39, on why he fights the good fight and how being neurodiverse connects him to Jews

By Charlie Keeble

4 min read

June 16, 2025 14:03

Where you go, I go: Charlie Keeble at a recent rally against antisemitism on London's Waterloo Bridge

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Zionism

The libel of bleeding kids for matzos was a stroke of PR genius

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination commemorated by grassroots group in London

Labour MP pictured clapping Zarah Sultana calling Zionism a ‘racist supremacist ideology’

The Republicans’ choice: Copy the Democrats or reject extremists?

‘It’s f***ing epic’: Azealia Banks on touring Israel and why she loves Zionism and Jews

Sephardic rabbis unite at a perhaps historic conference to reclaim a classical tradition

Bari Weiss was meant to fade – instead, she’s taking over

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