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Stacey Solomon, pictured presenting her BBC One show Stacey Solomon's Crafty Christmas, has topped a poll (Photo:BBC)

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Police officers gather in Trafalgar Square ahead of a planned protest in support of Palestine Action on October 4, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

By Gill Levy

As an ex-policeman, I know exactly why it took dead Jews for the force to act against the hate mob

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A mourner arrives at Matilda's funeral carrying balloons bearing the 10-year-old's name, and in the shape of a bumblebee, a nod to her middle name, Bee (Photo: Getty)

Sydney terror attack

Balloons and bumblebee stickers: Matilda, 10, remembered as funerals held for Bondi victims

Matilda’s aunt urged the world to ‘spread happiness and love’ to honour her niece

By Daniel Ben-David

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Alan Levy from Heaton Park synagogue in Westminster Hall (Image: Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester/X)

Chanukah

Heaton Park survivor slams ‘platitudes and inactivity’ among politicians on antisemitism

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Sydney terror attack

Bondi shooter trained ‘how to hunt’ at local gun club prior to terror attack

By Jacob Jaffa

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Celebrating Chanukah with Chabad of Solihull, Rabbi Yehuda and Rebbetzin Dinie Pink, and Mayor of Solihull Annette Mackenzie and the Mayor of West Midlands Richard Parker

Sydney terror attack

‘As darkness shows its face again, we increase the light. We do not step back from Jewish life’

By Rabbi Yehuda Pink

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Beyond Borehamwood: Where are British Jews moving to?

Thank socialism for our Chanukah doughnuts

Timeline of terror: How a scene of family joy at Bondi turned to horror

How to talk to your children about the Sydney terror attack, according to mental health experts

Hundreds dance beneath Europe’s largest menorah in Trafalgar Square

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Latest US News

‘Philosemite’ Trump laments decline of ‘powerful Jewish lobby’ in Washington

The term ‘Jewish lobby’ is widely understood to be derogatory, though Trump apparently employed it in an effort to be complimentary

By Andrew Bernard

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Donald Trump holds up a kippah with a picture of himself after he was shot and word 'Fight' at the 2025 White House Chanukah party (Photo: Getty)

Palestinian Authority

US expands travel ban to Palestinian Authority passport holders

Those travelling from the West Bank will face significant entry restrictions, while other nations like Syria have been hit with a total prohibition

By Jacob Jaffa

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The Palestinian authority passport travel document, for Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories for the purpose of international travel, issued since April 1995 for people of Palestine

New York

‘My heart dropped’: New York couple find ‘free Palestine’ note in Chanukah gift from Bloomingdale’s

The store has apologised, offered a refund and opened an investigation

By Siam Goorwich

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A New York couple shared their shock at finding a "Free Palestine" note in a Chanukah gift ordered from Bloomingdale's (Picture: TikTok/ @andrewej5)

Boston

Nuclear scientist shot dead at Massachusetts home

US police launch homicide investigation after Nuno Loureiro dies from gunshot

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Award-winning scientist Nuno Loureiro died from gunshot wounds inflicted at his home on Monday (Photo: MIT/Jake Belcher)

World news

Manchester Jewish Museum

Manchester Jewish artist unveils new work to promote ‘harmony and cohesiveness’

By Gaby Wine

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JW3 Chief Executive Ray Simonson and Marcel Knobil removing padlocks on the Lovelock Bridge at JW3 (Credit: JW3)

Hostages

British Jewish communal leaders rejoice at return of the hostages

By Daniel Ben-David

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Police walk past floral tributes left at the promenade of Bondi Beach in Sydney (Picture: Getty)

Australia

Armed police in Sydney detain seven men in dramatic operation

By Siam Goorwich

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Adam Smyth was a passionate Liverpool fan (Photo: X)

Sydney terror attack

‘You’ll never walk alone’: Liverpool FC fan mourned after Sydney terror attack

By Katie Grant

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People visit a memorial at Bondi Pavilion before a candlelight vigil at Bondi Beach on December 16, 2025 in Sydney, Australia (Getty Images)

Sydney terror attack

Australia to tighten hate speech laws following Bondi massacre

By Jacob Jaffa

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14-year-old Chaya was visited in hospital by United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma Unit volunteers (Picture: United Hatzalah of Israel/ Instagram)

Sydney terror attack

‘A young Jewish heroine’: Jewish teen recovering in hospital after being shot shielding two young children from Bondi attack

By Siam Goorwich

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Sydney terror attack

People participate in a candlelight vigil at Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach, December 16, 2025 (Credit: Audrey Richardson/Getty Images)

Murdered British rabbi’s two-month-old baby was hit in Bondi terror attack

Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s son was struck by shrapnel and remains in hospital

By Daniel Ben-David

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Jewish bakery in Sydney facing ‘ceaseless’ antisemitism closes amid safety fears Bondi shooter charged with 59 offences, including committing act of terrorism

UK News

Antisemitism

Ofcom told to act against online hate in government antisemitism action plan

Newly published raft of measures to protect Jewish community also covers security, education and NHS

By Jane Prinsley

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A new 14-page government report has brought together work across the UK to help combat antisemitism (Photo: Getty)

Metropolitan Police

Two arrested in London over ‘globalise the intifada’ chant

Pressure mounts on other forces to adopt ban on calls for intifada

By Jane Prinsley

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BBC

‘Disgraceful’ BBC article describes intifada as a ‘largely unarmed uprising’

Corporation then edits piece to suggest intifada could be seen as ‘a call for peaceful resistance to Israel's occupation’

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

BBC Broadcasting House in London (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Hezbollah

Two Londoners in court charged with attending terrorist training in Lebanon

The two dual British-Lebanese nationals stood beside four guards in court while their wives sat in the public gallery

By Pol Allingham and Jordan Reynolds

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A traditional police lantern, on display outside a police station in central London, England (Image: Getty)

Opinion

Tucker Carlson claims Israel is a burden on the US. It reveals profound strategic ignorance

The security mechanism with the Jewish state directly serves the American interest and, in practice, saves American lives, soldiers and civilians alike

By Mike Doran

6 min read

Israeli F-35i and F-15i aircraft fly alongside a US B-52 strategic bomber in a joint military exercise (Image: IDF)

By Stephen Daisley

Jews had to die, repeatedly, before the UK acted on ‘globalise the intifada’

In Britain, and not only Britain, solidarity with the community tends to be post-mortem

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By Maureen Lipman

There I was, childishly delighted to drink my own face

In the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem I was presented with a cappuccino with my likeness on it. In froth. Don’t ask me how they did it or why I was singled out for special treatment

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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Antisemitism is a national security threat

Jew-hatred is not merely a moral failing. It operates as a strategic weapon – one that corrodes alliance cohesion, weakens deterrence, and undermines the legitimacy on which American power rests

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By Shany Mor

The dishonest ‘complicity’ argument driving the obsession with Israel

By a moral sleight of hand, anti-Zionists turn selective outrage into virtue, while refusing to reckon with the antisemitic violence their activism may inspire

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By Bernard-Henri Lévy

The intifada has been globalised

For what happened in Sydney could happen in any city in the world where one is still frivolous enough to believe that words are just words and that slogans bind only those who chant them

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By Jack Pinczewski

Australian society has failed its Jews at every level

The offers of more security funding are beyond parody. There is no wall high enough to protect the community, for the true barriers to the outrage at Bondi are those built in the human mind

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