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Shloimy with his Lego model of Golders Green (Photo: courtesy)

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Israel

Israeli Border Police suspend officer who threw stun grenade into Palestinian’s car and held door closed

By Jacob Jaffa

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Green Party

Zack Polanski abstains from vote praising bravery of Golders Green police

Green Party members refuse to back motion at London Assembly commending ‘courage and professionalism’ of Met officers who disarmed knifeman

By Jane Prinsley

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Israel

Beware at the beach: Israelis warned over arrival of venomous fish on coastline

By JC Reporter

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Green Party

Green politician and GP who praised ‘death to IDF’ chants being investigated by medical regulator

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Supreme Court President Isaac Amit during a hearing on petitions seeking to overturn the election of attorney Michael Rabello as State Comptroller on June 28, 2026 (Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Israel faces constitutional crisis as government vows to disobey Supreme Court ruling

By Melanie Swan

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Editor’s picks

Joy wins the day as Jewish bloc returns to Pride

Opinion: Netanyahu signals shift as Likud voters sour on Charedi draft evasion

Britain’s awful silence when Turkey calls Israel a ‘burden’ for humanity

Entebbe, 50 years on: IDF hero paralysed by bullet in raid relives operation he joined for an ‘interesting adventure’

Entebbe, 50 years on: Aged six, I saw my mother trembling – she refused to lie and said the hijackers want to kill us

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Adam Sandler

Mazel tov! Adam Sandler officiates at Taylor Swift’s wedding

Jewish funnyman tops bill at the showbiz nuptials of the year

By Jane Prinsley

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Travis Kelce kisses Taylor Swift during Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Iran

US intelligence suggested Iran’s missiles could reach London in future, claims prominent Senator

Louisiana Republican John Kennedy suggested that the threat of attacks on Europe was a motivating factor in President Trump’s decision to go to war

By Jacob Jaffa

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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) on the This Past Weekend podcast with Theo Von (YouTube/TheoVon)

US Politics

Anti-Israel socialist who called October 7 ‘inevitable consequence of apartheid’ wins Colorado primary

Melat Kiros unseated 15-term incumbent Representative Diana DeGette to clinch the Democratic nomination for Denver

By Andrew Bernard

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Democratic congressional candidate Melat Kiros speaks to supporters at an election-night watch party after winning the Colorado primary on June 30, 2026 (Getty Images)

US Politics

House blocks vote on amendment to halt US-Israeli defence integration

There was also no debate on a separate bill aimed at heavily reducing US funding to the IDF

By Jacob Jaffa

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Representative Thomas Massie gives his concession speech on May 19, 2026 in Hebron, Kentucky (Getty Images)

World news

Holocaust

‘Antisemitic’ pro-Gaza walk past Holocaust memorial stones in Berlin is scrapped

By Rob Hyde

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Gaza

Hamas dissolves Gaza government in preparation for peace plan handover

By Akiva van Koningsveld

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Handout screen grab from CCTV of Iran International journalist Pouria Zeraati running from a knife attack outside his home in Wimbledon on March 29 2024 (PA)

Court and Crime

Two men jailed for knife attack on anti-regime journalist ‘on behalf of Iran’

By JC Reporter

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Iran

Iranian foreign minister sits down with Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis at Ali Khamenei funeral

By JC Reporter

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Australia

Two arrested over mock drive-by shooting outside Sydney synagogue on Shabbat

By JC Reporter

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Media

Now under-fire UK channel airs matzah blood libel - but Ofcom still insist ‘We can’t do anything’

By Mark Wood

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Nova

‘I thought, let’s rebuild the festival and show the world what happened’ – the story behind the Nova Exhibition

Creators of the display bearing witness to horrors of October 7 speak to the JC as it nears the end of its stint in London

By Alma Green

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Interpol hunt female suspect over Monaco bomb attack on Jewish tycoon Will Iran’s Supreme Leader finally come out of hiding for funeral of his father?

UK News

Courts

Two men who filmed antisemitic abuse of Jewish man for TikTok avoid jail

Adam Bedoui and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub were convicted of a hate crime and given a suspended prison term

By JC Reporter

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(L-R) Abdelkader Amir Bousloub and Adam Bedoui (Met Police)

Bob Vylan

Anti-Israel punk duo Bob Vylan suing BBC for libel over Glastonbury scandal coverage

The band’s frontman famously led a chant of ‘death to the IDF’ at the festival, which the former BBC director general labelled an ‘antisemitic broadcast’

By JC Reporter

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Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan crowdsurfs in front of the West Holts stage during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton. (Getty Images)

Court and Crime

Pensioner handed life sentence for husband’s murder

Daryl Berman had claimed that David, her husband of almost 30 years, had accidentally fallen on the knife while carrying a lunch tray

By Ian Leonard

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Wimbledon

Pro-Palestine watermelon symbol does not meet threshold for disruption, says Wimbledon director

Turkish world number 51 Zeynep Sonmez added a vibration dampener in the shape of the symbol to her racket, accusing tournament organisers of enforcing double standards on political expressions by players

By JC Reporter

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Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey plays a backhand against Ekaterina Alexandrova during the Ladies' Singles third round match at Wimbledon 2025 (Getty Images)

Opinion

When Gaza’s ‘dead journalists’ turn out to be terrorists, the media go quiet

The press has every right to investigate Israel’s conduct. It also has a duty to investigate how Palestinian terror groups manipulate the news – and for too long, the press vest was uncritically treated as proof of innocence

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Left: Committee to Protect Journalists lists Tarek Skheil as a media worker killed by the IDF. Right: Palestinian Islamic Jihad lists Tarek Skheil as a commander killed in action (Image: Salo Aizenberg/X)

By Mardo Soghom

Khamenei’s funeral was choreographed to signal revenge – not reconciliation

Mojtaba’s absence suggests the designated successor is dead. Without a Supreme Leader arbitrating among the regime's competing factions, the prospects for Tehran moderating its behaviour are slim

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By David Harris

It was a daring mission, even for the IDF: Entebbe 50 years on

Israel’s unmistakable message was that it would go to any lengths to protect the lives of its citizens and fellow Jews – and that the days of Jewish powerlessness were over

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By Zoe Strimpel

Britain’s increasingly ‘Israel-frei’ cultural festivals

The space for Jewish artists, especially if they are Zionist, is shrinking all the time. Nowhere is that clearer than at Edinburgh

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By Mark Zlochin

Why the Lancet study suggesting a far higher Gaza death toll is deeply flawed

This isn't some technical nitpicking for its own sake. What's at stake here is a dramatic claim that got treated as settled fact – cited, repeated, and stretched to cover fatalities it never actually measured

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By Nicholas Lezard

Using the ‘g-word’ about Israel is now a ubiquitous virtue signal

For pro-Palestine activists, the term ‘genocide’ has become a shibboleth: you have to say it or risk ostracism

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By Jonathan Boyd

We know too little about what reduces Jew-hatred. It’s urgent that we find out

What’s needed is a standing, cross-disciplinary team that brings together expertise in antisemitism and in a range of fields, from public policy and law to intelligence, theology, education and psychology

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Life

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By Katrina Meynink

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Ashkenazi food

Is this schnitzel a cut above the rest?

Tel Aviv’s hippest new restaurant sells just one thing: schnitzel for £22. It’s whipping up a media storm, but is it a must-visit this summer?

By Natalie Blenford

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Books

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’

The extraordinary story of how the Polish underground sent the world’s first cruise missile to UK scientists is superbly reconstructed by Guy Walters

By Robert Low

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London's calling: V2 rocket arriving at Trafalgar Square, London, in 1945

Theatre

London theatre to be renamed after late playwright Sir Tom Stoppard

West End theatre, The Duke of York, to be renamed in honour of the Czech-born writer who became the most acclaimed British dramatist of his generation

By JC Reporter

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