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

Support for a two-state solution is a moral litmus test. Those who dodge, deflect, or deny the Jewish state’s legitimacy aren’t critics – they are would-be annihilators

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July 21, 2025 10:28

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)

By Kobi Michael

Israel between loyalty toward the Druze and detente in Syria

The Jewish state owes a debt to the Druze and a moral duty to stop the massacres – yet it must not jeopardise a fragile opening to the regime

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July 20, 2025 11:39

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)

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

A power line will be reactivated to serve a water treatment plant in the Strip

By Akiva van Koningsveld

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July 18, 2025 16:04

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

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

A renewed offensive by Bedouin fighters appears to have breached a US-backed ceasefire within 24 hours

By Jacob Jaffa

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July 18, 2025 11:36

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

By Arsen Ostrovsky

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

The international community cannot continue treating President al-Sharra as a legitimate partner, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities that are being committing in Sweida

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July 18, 2025 10:52

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

Who are the Druze and why is Israel defending them?

The long persecuted minority has been at the centre of a recent bout of sectarian violence in Syria, which saw the IDF bomb Damascus in support of the community

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

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July 17, 2025 15:52

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

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 15:07

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)

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 13:52

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 17:53

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

Britain and 28 other nations condemn ‘dangerous’ Israeli-backed Gaza aid scheme

White House confirms US did not approve Israel’s strikes on Syria

Inside the counter-protest: who are the people who give up their weekends to stand against the Gaza mob?

‘It's not within our power to decide the outcome of this conflict’: LFI’s new chair on facing down ‘division and hatred’ in Parliament and beyond

Two IDF soldiers arrested at Belgian music festival following ‘war crimes’ allegation

US congressional committee finds Biden administration let $900m go to anti-Netanyahu protests

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

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

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Britain and 28 other nations condemn ‘dangerous’ Israeli-backed Gaza aid scheme

White House confirms US did not approve Israel’s strikes on Syria

Inside the counter-protest: who are the people who give up their weekends to stand against the Gaza mob?

‘It's not within our power to decide the outcome of this conflict’: LFI’s new chair on facing down ‘division and hatred’ in Parliament and beyond

Two IDF soldiers arrested at Belgian music festival following ‘war crimes’ allegation

US congressional committee finds Biden administration let $900m go to anti-Netanyahu protests

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

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

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

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