Starmer’s Palestine recognition ‘threat’ undermines the prospects for peaceIt is hard to imagine a more self-defeating foreign policy move. Promising statehood unless a ceasefire is reached all but guarantees that Hamas will keep rejecting the very truce Britain says it wantsBy The JC Leader3 min read
Sir Keir StarmerUK to recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel reaches Gaza ceasefireReform UK accuse the prime minister of handing a ‘propaganda victory’ to HamasBy Lorin Bell-Cross3 min read
Jewish celebritiesIsraeli actor Alon Aboutboul dies after collapsing on beachThe film star, famous for his roles in blockbusters such as The Dark knight Rises, has died aged 60 after collapsing on a beach in northern IsraelBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read
West BankActivist featured in No Other Land reportedly killed by sanctioned settlerThe team behind the Oscar-winning documentary claimed that Awdah Hathaleen was attacked by Yinon Levi, who was recently removed from the US sanctions listBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
FranceNetanyahu’s French lawyer allegedly targeted for assassinationOlivier Pardo told French authorities that a former convict admitted that he had been approached by Hezbollah operatives in Senegal to carry out the murderBy JC Reporter1 min read
By The JC LeaderIsrael’s intractable war in GazaWhile moral opinion is subjective, facts are not. Even committed Zionists must not let compassion cloud reality by accusing the Jewish state of crimes it clearly has not committed4 min read
Donald TrumpTrump says US to help with food distribution in GazaThe US President said there was ‘real starvation’ in the Strip during a press conference with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, apparently contradicting claims made by Israel’s Benjamin NetanyahuBy JC Reporter2 min read
Netanyahu ‘presented plan for Gaza siege’ at Israeli cabinet meetingOther reports suggested that anything from a ‘military occupation’ to ‘full annexation’ of the Strip were on the table if ceasefire negotiations collapse againBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read||July 29, 2025 13:07
Aid trucks reportedly looted while crossing from Egypt during first humanitarian pause in GazaThe IDF is halting operations in Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah and Gaza City between 10am and 8pm ‘every day until further notice’ to allow aid to be distributedBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read||July 29, 2025 10:36
By Stephen PollardThe numbers that shape Labour’s Middle East policy: 37, 73, 110The party’s sudden zeal for Palestinian statehood isn’t about foreign policy – it’s about vote counts. Muslim blocs in 110 key seats are calling the tune, and Wes Streeting knows it3 min read||July 29, 2025 10:21
Second child suffering from pre-existing condition used as evidence of Gaza starvationIsraeli authorities said that they had helped evacuate the boy to an Italian hospital, where he is now recoveringBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read||July 29, 2025 09:47
Netherlands sanctions far-right Israeli ministers over ‘calls for ethnic cleansing’ in GazaThe move was condemned by right-wing opposition figures as ‘hatred against Israel’By Jacob Jaffa2 min read||July 29, 2025 09:41
Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes claims Hitler ‘changed’ Jews and 'made us like him’The Campaign Against Antisemitism has called for the Harry Potter star to be stripped of her OBE and Bafta after she accused Israel of ‘doing exactly the same thing’ the Nazis did during the HolocaustBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||July 29, 2025 08:58
By Professor Melissa RaphaelWhen a Rabbinic rebuke can endanger Jewish livesWhen moral outrage outruns factual certainty, an attempt to save the good name of the Jewish people will have only furthered its destruction4 min read||July 28, 2025 16:10
By Saul SadkaHow the West prolonged Gaza’s misery in the name of virtueBy blaming the Jewish state alone for the food crisis and the ongoing war, European governments may have helped derail ceasefire talks and deepen Palestinian suffering3 min read||July 28, 2025 15:07
Starmer and Trump talk Gaza as Cabinet recalled for emergency meetingThe two leaders met at Trump’s golf course in Scotland, where the Prime Minister described the humanitarian situation in the Strip as ‘appalling’By Lorin Bell-Cross4 min read||July 28, 2025 14:26