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Labour MP calls for UK ‘military action’ against Israel

Several parliamentarians also demanded the government introduce more anti-Israel measures following the imposition of sanctions on West Bank settlements last week

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Mayim Bialik attends the 'Father Mother Sister Brother' red carpet at the Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2025 (Getty Images)

Jewish celebrities

Thousands of public figures sign letter rejecting Gaza genocide ‘lie’

By Ella Bloom

1 min read

Naza film poster (l), Fauda poster (Image: The Guardian, Netflix)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Fauda’s truthful Gaza war drama trumps the blood libel of the Naza ‘documentary’

4 min read

Mansour Abbas of Ra'am holds a joint press conference with new party member Yoav Segalovich in Nazareth on August 31, 2026 (Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Likud files petition seeking to bar Arab parties from running in upcoming elections

By Hayley Cregor

1 min read

New York Times

New York Times’ reporting displayed ‘deep and systematic’ bias against Israel after October 7, study claims

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Maggie Gyllenhaal speaks on stage during the 2026 Closing Ceremony for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (Image: Getty Images)

IDF

Venice jury chair Maggie Gyllenhaal compares Gaza documentary to film about Holocaust

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides (L) and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (R) hold a joint press conference after a trilateral meeting in Jerusalem on December 22, 2025. (Image: Getty Images)

By Ashley Perry

Israel’s deepening partnership with Greece and Cyprus is reshaping the Eastern Mediterranean

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Gaza documentary that received ‘longest ever Venice ovation’ based on ‘completely false’ testimony, claims IDF

‘The film relies on anonymous testimonies from individuals whose identity cannot be verified, including whether they served in the IDF’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

September 14, 2026 11:16

Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor receive the Special Jury Prize for 'Naza' during the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival at the Venice Lido on September 12, 2026 (Getty Images)

Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies aged 107

Yehuda Aharon Widawski, his younger brother, and one uncle were the only members of their family to survive the Nazi extermination of Jews

By JC Reporter

1 min read

September 14, 2026 09:41

Yehuda Widawski arrives ar the entrance of Auschwitz-Birkenau for a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp on January 27, 2015 (Getty Images)

By Sharren Haskel

Britain may target Israeli settlements – but Palestinians will pay the price

Labour’s sanctions risk destroying well-paid jobs for Arabs in the West Bank, exposing UK companies to legal problems and handing Netanyahu an electoral gift

4 min read

September 14, 2026 08:16

Palestinian workers take a coffee break at an Israeli plastic factory at the Barkan Industrial Park near the West Bank settlement of Ariel. (Image: Getty Images)

By Christian Cantor

I hope Britain alters its path with Israel in the New Year

In his Rosh Hashanah message, Jerusalem’s Chargé d’Affaires to the UK looks to renew a partnership based on historic ties

4 min read

September 11, 2026 06:00

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband (Image: Parliament TV)

‘I was shot in the chest by an Arab sniper – then I vowed: I’m going to get Israel fit’

Adam Ezekial on how being hit by a bullet inspired him to set up a fitness programme

By John Jeffay

5 min read

September 10, 2026 17:23

Bouncing back: Adam Ezekial working out in the gym. Inset: the X-ray showing the bullet in his chest (Photo: John Jeffay)

Farage hints at reversing Labour’s Israel sanctions

The Reform UK leader spoke to Israel’s foreign minister

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

September 10, 2026 15:47

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during the Reform UK National Conference, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Picture date: Saturday September 5, 2026. (Image: Will Colebourne/PA Wire)

Exclusive: Israeli Jews praying at the Western Wall not unlawful, government tells JC

New legal position set out by Miliband when unveiling trade ban raised troubling questions

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

September 10, 2026 15:31

Israeli 80s-set drama Tell Me Everything sweeps awards at nation’s Oscars

Writer-director Moshe Rosenthal’s film becomes official entry for Academy Awards in Hollywood next year

By Ella Bloom

1 min read

September 10, 2026 14:20

Yair Mazor as Boaz in Tell Me Everything (Picture credit: Ziv Berkovich)

By Richard Tice

Labour and the Greens are engaged in an anti-Israel ‘race to the bottom’

Reform UK’s deputy leader blasts the government’s settlement sanctions and rhetoric on the Jewish state

2 min read

September 10, 2026 13:31

Prime Minister Andy Burnham during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons. (Image: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire).

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Labour MP calls for UK ‘military action’ against Israel

Thousands of public figures sign letter rejecting Gaza genocide ‘lie’

Fauda’s truthful Gaza war drama trumps the blood libel of the Naza ‘documentary’

Likud files petition seeking to bar Arab parties from running in upcoming elections

New York Times’ reporting displayed ‘deep and systematic’ bias against Israel after October 7, study claims

Venice jury chair Maggie Gyllenhaal compares Gaza documentary to film about Holocaust

Israel’s deepening partnership with Greece and Cyprus is reshaping the Eastern Mediterranean

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