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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales (Getty Images)

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The horseshoe politics of America is coming for the Jews

By Stephen Daisley

The horseshoe politics of America is coming for the Jews

4 min read

London, UK - People outside the main entrance to the BBC's headquarters, Broadcasting House in central London.

BBC

BBC accused of ‘pushing Hamas lies’ after whistleblower report found Gaza coverage ‘minimised Israeli suffering’

Claims against the Jewish state were allegedly ‘raced to air’ without adequate checks in order to ‘paint Israel as the aggressor’

By Jacob Jaffa

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Amiram Cooper (L) and Sahar Baruch (Image: Courtesy)

Hostages

Hamas releases bodies of hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Manchester

‘Kind, caring’ Melvin Cravitz died from multiple stab wounds inflicted during synagogue terror attack, inquest hears

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

Histadrut

Dozens of officials from Israel’s largest union arrested in undercover corruption sting

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Manchester rabbi: ‘Terrorist’s worldview was shaped by demonisation of Israel’

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Bibas family mural in Milan defaced for second time

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Roblox exposing young children to Nazi and jihadist propaganda, report finds

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Ben Winston to produce ‘epic’ LA Olympics opening ceremony spectacle

The Emmy award-winning producer will oversee the opening and closing ceremonies for LA28

By Hannah Sugars

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Ben Winston accepts the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) award at the 2024 Emmys (Photo: Getty)

Auschwitz

Bishop condemns ‘gates of Auschwitz’ float at school’s Halloween parade

The mock-up of the concentration camp entrance appeared on a float organised by a Catholic school in Pennsylvania

By JC Reporter

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The St Joseph Catholic School float at a Halloween parade in Hanover, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 2025 (Image: X)

Antisemitism

Self-proclaimed ‘Jew-hater’ jailed over assault at anti-Israel protest

Tarek Bazrouk was accused of targeting Jews at protests in the city over the course of 2024 and 2025

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Art

Jewish family sues NYC’s Met Museum over ‘secretly trafficked’ Nazi-looted van Gogh

The oil painting, called ‘Olive Picking’, was left behind when the Stern family fled Germany in the 1930s

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Olive Picking by Vincent van Gogh (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

World news

Manchester Jewish Museum

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

By Gaby Wine

1 min read

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

5 min read

Red hand painted on a building wall in the area where earlier the Paris Holocaust memorial was vandalised with the same prints (Photo: Getty)

France

Four Bulgarian men sentenced over Paris Holocaust memorial graffiti

By Hannah Sugars

1 min read

Limmud

Limmud Ukraine shows Jewish life is ‘unbreakable’

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

IDF Chief Cantor Shai Abramson (Image: YouTube/JBS)

Antisemitism

Amsterdam concert hall cancels Chanukah show because singer is IDF’s chief cantor

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Manilan Houle (R) studies Torah during his conversion course (JNS)

Judaism

Meet the Native American advocate converting to Orthodox Judaism

By Jessica Russack-Hoffman

2 min read

International Criminal Court

Karim Khan at a United Nations Security Council meeting in January, before he stepped down from his position as ICC prosecutor (Picture: Getty)

New details emerge of sexual abuse allegations against suspended ICC chief prosecutor

Karim Khan, who brought arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, is currently under investigation by a UN body following allegations by two women

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

Jamaica Chabad staff locked Torah scrolls in mikvah room to protect them from Hurricane Melissa Ben & Jerry’s co-founder claims parent company blocked development of ‘flavour for Palestine’

UK News

UK Jewish Film Festival 2025

Why is this UK Jewish Film Festival different from all other years?

Eliana Jordan speaks to the film-makers behind seven prize-winning shorts portraying weird and wonderful facets of everyday Jewish life in Britain

By Eliana Jordan

7 min read

Why is this UK Jewish Film Festival different from all other years?

Music

We can’t stop Bob Vylan concert from going ahead next week says Camden Council boss

‘No powers’ to prevent rap duo who led Glastonbury chant of ‘death to the IDF’ from playing at venue in Sir Keir Starmer constituency

By Jane Prinsley

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Controversy: Bob Vylan singer at Glastonbury earlier this year (credit: Getty)

Zionism

Anti-Israeli abuse thrown at Jews protesting Netanyahu’s government

The protest was arranged by the new left-wing Zionist group We Democracy to call for reform in the Knesset – it ended up being disrupted by pro-Palestinian passers-by

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

(Clockwise from L) The crowd gathered at the Israel SOS protest in Westminster, a speaker addressing the demonstration, and a passerby who was asked to leave after shouting anti-Israel slogans

Campus

Egyptian student who invaded City University lecture could be deported

Usama Ghanem could have visa revoked after leading chants of ‘terrorist off campus’

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

Ghanem; a poster targeting Ben-Gad and (right) the professor being confronted during his lecture

Opinion

The ‘Anti-Zionist’ mask is slipping; everyone can see it’s just antisemitism

Calling Tice and Gove 'Zionist slaves' reveals protestors' bigotry

By Nicole Lampert

3 min read

Michael Gove and Richard Tice at the March Against Antisemitism (alamy)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Meet the Democratic candidate with a Nazi tattoo on his chest

Left-wingers have rallied round to support Graham Platner and dismiss concern about his Totenkopf tattoo

3 min read

By Bart Schut

Dutch voters snub parties that tried to make Gaza the central issue

Jews and friends of Israel can breathe a sigh of relief as extremists lose out in general election

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By Sir Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer: my government will never let up in leading the fight against antisemitic hatred

The prime minister writes for the JC to reflect on the five year anniversary of the EHRC report that found Labour discriminated against Jewish members

3 min read

By Kasra Aarabi

Iran, Russia, China: the rising axis threatening Britain

A Shaheed drone on the Commons floor is a warning the UK can no longer afford to ignore. Tougher action against Tehran, Moscow and Beijing must follow

3 min read

By Maureen Lipman

Imagine if Jews had committed any of these bestial slaughters

The muted reaction to the return of the hostages begs the question of whether we have become immune to Islamist terror

4 min read

By Rabbi Noam Marans

Nostra Aetate should matter to Jews more than ever

The document of little over 1,000 words marked a tectonic shift in the thinking of the Catholic Church and helped dispel centuries of institutional antisemitism

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