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Israel refuses to renew UN humanitarian chief’s visa over ‘biased and hostile conduct’

Jonathan Whittall will leave the country ‘in the near future’ and will not be able to return unless a future application is approved, Israeli officials confirmed

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Israel has declined to renew the visa of Jonathan Whittall, head of the UN's humanitarian office in Jerusalem (Image: X/@UNOCHA_ar)

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)

Fania Oz-Salzberger

By Fania Oz-Salzberger

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

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The bodies of victims in a hospital yard in the devastated Druze-majority city of Sweida, July 17, 2025. Residents were shocked by the bodies littering the streets next to looted shops and burned homes following the withdrawal of Syrian government forces. (Image: Getty)

Kobi Michael

By Kobi Michael

Israel between loyalty toward the Druze and detente in Syria

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Israel has confirmed that it will reactivate a single electrical line into Gaza to power the Strip's only seawater desalination plant (Image: Getty)

Israel to reconnect Gaza power supply four months after cutting it off

By Akiva van Koningsveld

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Syrian security forces are redeploying to Sweida after a fresh round of Israeli airstrikes (Image: Getty)

Syrian security forces redeploy to Druze city as Israel resumes airstrikes after Bedouin attacks

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Fighters from Bedouin tribes gather near a burning building in the Druze village of al-Mazraa in Syria's southern Sweida governorate (Image: Getty)

Arsen Ostrovsky

By Arsen Ostrovsky

The massacre of the Druze is a moral test: Israel acted, the world failed

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

Who are the Druze and why is Israel defending them?

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

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Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

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

As Hillel Neuer dryly put it: ‘It’s really important that we are clear that BBC News has a pro-terrorist wing, and a completely separate wing that are just idiots’

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July 17, 2025 14:07

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)

Jake Wallis Simons

By Jake Wallis Simons

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

All three commissioners of the UNHRC’s “permanent inquiry” into Israel have abruptly quit after their colleague Albanese was hit with UN sanctions. If it was so easy to get rid of them, why wasn’t action taken sooner?

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July 17, 2025 12:52

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

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

The religious party objects to the Israeli government’s plans to draft haredim

By Jamie Shapiro

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July 16, 2025 16:53

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri with Benjamin Netanyahu (Image: Getty)

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

‘The European Union will keep a close watch on how Israel implements this common understanding and the pledges,’ the EU's top diplomat said

By Yossi Lempkowicz

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July 16, 2025 16:01

The EU Commission (Getty)

Maurice Helfgott

By Maurice Helfgott

British Jews unite to help people both in Israel and Gaza

Backed by the UK community and in coordination with Israeli authorities, World Jewish Relief provides vital humanitarian assistance to both sides of the conflict

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July 16, 2025 10:58

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)

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

Newly opened (or relocated) this year these are the cream of Tel Aviv’s crop

By Victoria Prever

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July 16, 2025 10:24

Photo: Ariel Efron

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

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July 16, 2025 09:46

Bob Vylan at Glastonbury (Getty)

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

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July 16, 2025 09:25

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

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.

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July 15, 2025 13:55

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

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