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To the servicemen who liberated Bergen-Belsen, my letter of gratitude

Eighty years on, we must remember and defend the greatness of a country that spent blood and treasure to fight for freedom

By Daniel Finkelstein

2 min read

The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945 (Getty)

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has been found to have included decade-old fatalities in its latest death toll data (Image: Getty)

By Salo Aizenberg

Hamas’ death toll figures are a sham – and now we have proof

4 min read

Members of the Revolutionary Communist Group demonstrate outside a Barclays bank (Credit: Revolutionary Communist Group/Instagram)

Demonstration

Anti-Guardian protesters label the paper an ‘apologist for Zionist genocide’

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Daniel Kebede (centre), general secretary of the National Education Union, attends a pro-Palestine march in central London in 2024 (Image: Alamy)

By Stephen Pollard

The radicals leading Britain’s teachers’ union

3 min read

Maldives

Maldives and Bangladesh implement anti-Israel passport rules in pro-Palestine ‘solidarity’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Hamas

Associated Press accused of continuing employment of Hamas-linked photographer years after being tipped off

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

Hostages

‘His face is no longer symmetrical’ – mother of hostage soldier on why Pesach brings particular pain

By Nicole Lampert

3 min read

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JC Israel Briefing Day 557: A new ceasefire proposal – but little relief for hostage families

Plus, a new political scandal grips Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

4 min read

April 15, 2025 08:32

Hostage campaigners have criticised a proposed ceasefire deal that would reportedly see only some of the captives freed from Gaza (Image: Flash90)

Exclusive: Foreign Secretary confirms Hamas’ status as terror group is ‘not for changing’ amid legal challenge

David Lammy criticised the ‘barbaric’ group for refusing to release its hostages and using civilians as human shields

By Lorin Bell-Cross & Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

April 11, 2025 16:07

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has told the JC that Hamas' designation as a proscribed terrorist group is 'not for changing' (Image: Getty)

There is no ‘should’ about visiting Israel, but this is why you might want to go…

On a trip to Israel’s north, I met struggling Jewish, Druze, Muslim and Christian business owners looking for support

By Josh Kaplan

2 min read

April 11, 2025 15:09

Palestinian shop owners getting ready for last month's Eid Al-Fitr holiday in Jerusalem's Old City

‘I’ve got a real, strong feeling about being Jewish’: Claude Littner on his Holocaust-surviving father, The Apprentice and Trump

Lord Sugar’s former on-screen aide tells the JC why he is teaming up with WIZO UK to find the next big names in business

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

April 11, 2025 11:15

Claude Littner, who became a media star after appearing on The Apprentice as Lord Sugar's right-hand man (Photo: The Apprentice/BBC)

Is Labour scared of Muslim voters?

The government has been accused of watering down investigations into grooming gangs – but Labour MPs spent far more time discussing Israel last week

By Lorin Bell-Cross

5 min read

April 11, 2025 10:05

Home Office Minister Jess Phillips (Image: Parliament TV)

JC Israel Briefing Day 553: Hostage returns ‘close’, claims Trump

Plus, Agam Berger’s touching account of Passover in captivity

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

April 11, 2025 08:13

US President Donald Trump has claimed that the return of the remaining hostages is 'close' (Image: Getty)

By Michael Thaidigsmann

Germany’s new coalition deal is disappointing for Israel and Jews

The gap between rhetoric and reality is especially stark when one compares the government programme to the election manifesto the centre right parties were elected on just two months ago

4 min read

April 10, 2025 16:19

Friedrich Merz, Germany's new chancellor s during an election campaign tour stop in February (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

By Daniel Taub

How to resolve disputes with empathy and stories – by a former peace negotiator

The world has changed since October 7, but we can disagree respectfully

3 min read

April 10, 2025 14:47

A protester holds reading "Coexist" during a demonstration in central London, on November 26, 2023, to protest against antisemitism (Getty)

London Green Party councillor shared posts calling Zionism ‘pure evil’ and comparing it to Nazism

Hau-Yu Tam also praised the lawyers trying to de-proscribe Hamas in the UK

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

April 10, 2025 13:28

Green councillor Hau-Yu Tam (centre) with the party's deputy leader Zack Polanksi (left)

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israel

To the servicemen who liberated Bergen-Belsen, my letter of gratitude

Hamas’ death toll figures are a sham – and now we have proof

Anti-Guardian protesters label the paper an ‘apologist for Zionist genocide’

The radicals leading Britain’s teachers’ union

Maldives and Bangladesh implement anti-Israel passport rules in pro-Palestine ‘solidarity’

Associated Press accused of continuing employment of Hamas-linked photographer years after being tipped off

‘His face is no longer symmetrical’ – mother of hostage soldier on why Pesach brings particular pain

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