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Glastonbury and the BBC must answer for platforming anti-Israel hate

After festivalgoers chanted ‘Death to the IDF,” Health Secretary Wes Streeting resorted to ‘whataboutism’, sending exactly the wrong message at the wrong time

By The JC Leader

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To the backdrop of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan leads the chant of 'Death to the IDF' at the Glastonbury festival (Image: Getty).

IDF soldiers are seen operating in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, March 27, 2025. (Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

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Netanyahu condemns settler attack on soldiers

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

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Jordan refuses to play Israel in youth basketball World Cup

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

IDF home front command search and rescue units at the site of an Iranian missile impact in Beersheba (Image: IDF)

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Iran targeted ‘Israeli society itself’ in massive missile barrage

By Amelie Botbol

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President Trump has indicated that a Gaza ceasefire could be agreed within a week (Image: Getty)

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JC Israel Briefing Day 632: Gaza ceasefire could come within a week, Trump claims

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

New reports suggest that a Middle East mega-deal, including a Gaza ceasefire and expansion of the Abraham Accords, could be agreed in the coming weeks (Image: Getty)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 630: Mega‑deal for Gaza and more in works

By Nathan Jeffay

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Palestinians clear burnt belongings in their house after a reported attack overnight by Israelis from a nearby settlement (Getty Images)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Settler violence is corrosive to the soul of Israel – It must be confronted

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‘Mutual responsibility is very Jewish’: How the Kibbutz Movement is stepping up to help communities hit by Iran’s attacks

The group established a national emergency volunteer headquarters to help families displaced by the Islamic Republic’s missile campaign

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

June 26, 2025 11:40

Volunteers from across Israel's kibbutzim are dedicating their time to help re-house those displaced by Iran's missile attacks. (Photo courtesy of the Kibbutz Movement Rehabilitation Fund)

Inside the rehabilitation centre that is Israel ‘at its best’ where Muslims, Christians, and Jews work together like a family

The building was originally constructed in 1939 and today serves as the most advanced rehabilitation centre in the West Bank region

By Daniel Ben-David

6 min read

June 26, 2025 10:39

The Mount Scopus hospital and rehabilitation centre near Jerusalem

Iran steps up arrests and executions of alleged Israeli collaborators

Three people, accused of working for Mossad, have been hanged while around 700 have been detained in the latest security crackdown

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

June 26, 2025 10:38

Iranian security forces have arrested over 700 people and hanged three alleged Mossad agents in a new security crackdown (Image: Getty)

How Israel’s economy is fighting back after nearly two years of war

Fighting wars, especially using high-tech weaponry, is enormously expensive

By Alex Brummer

4 min read

June 26, 2025 10:33

An Iranian missile attack causes costly destruction in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan (Image: Getty)

American-Israeli rabbi and human rights campaigner ‘attacked by settlers’ in West Bank

Arik Ascherman said he was beaten with a rifle butt and a large club, breaking his neck and his back in two places

By Imogen Garfinkel

4 min read

June 26, 2025 10:32

Rabbi Arik Ascherman in hospital being treated for injuries after a confrontation in the West Bank. (Photo: Arik Ascherman)

British Medical Association condemned for making Jewish doctors feel ‘unsafe’ with disproportionate focus on Israel

All motions passed by the conference’s international section related to Gaza

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

June 26, 2025 09:16

A British Medical Association flag outside Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

JC Israel Briefing Day 629: Trump compares Iran strikes to Hiroshima bombing

Plus, the US president calls for end of Netanyahu’s ‘witch hunt’ corruption trial

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

June 26, 2025 09:05

Donald Trump compared the devastation of US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Image: Getty)

By Arsen Ostrovsky

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

They struck Iran’s nuclear programme not only in defence of their own countries, but in protection of the free world. Indeed, not since 1940, has so much been owed by so many to so few

3 min read

June 25, 2025 14:59

US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on April 07, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Co-op to stop stocking Israeli goods after pressure from activist members

The supermarket has banned goods from Russia, Iran Yemen and Israel, due to its ‘commitment to peace’

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

June 24, 2025 16:33

Members of the Co-op have submitted a motion calling for a boycott of Israeli products in its stores (Image: Getty)

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Glastonbury and the BBC must answer for platforming anti-Israel hate

Netanyahu condemns settler attack on soldiers

Jordan refuses to play Israel in youth basketball World Cup

Iran targeted ‘Israeli society itself’ in massive missile barrage

JC Israel Briefing Day 632: Gaza ceasefire could come within a week, Trump claims

JC Israel Briefing Day 630: Mega‑deal for Gaza and more in works

Settler violence is corrosive to the soul of Israel – It must be confronted

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