Opinion

Ireland’s shameful hypocrisy on the Islamic Republic

Many politicians and activists – north and south – default to a script so reflexively anti-American and anti-Israel, that they fail to see the depravity of the regime in Tehran

By Matthew Robinson

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Body bags outside a forensic medical centre in Tehran after the regime's deadly crackdown on protests in January, 2026 (Image: X)

An AI-generated 'rabbi' from an Instagram account that has since been removed (Image: Combat Antisemitism Movement)

By Charlotte Henry

How AI-generated ‘rabbis’ spread online antisemitism

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The Passion of Jesus at Trafalgar Square (Image: Wintershall/YouTube)

By Tanya Gold

A very British Passion play – polite legionnaires and trigger warnings for the crucifixion

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Green Party sign on a house in Denton, Greater Manchester, north-west England (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP via Getty Images)

By Anonymous

I’m visibly Jewish. A Green Party canvasser stood at my door and told me October 7 was a hoax

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Basij militants, wearing military uniforms, hold AK-47s and the flags of Hezbollah and Iran during a parade on January 10, 2025 (Getty Images)

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Revealed: Iranian regime’s secretive Wiki war to brainwash the world on Israel, Jews and Zionism

Lifting the lid on the Islamic Republic’s campaign to infiltrate the world’s digital-information ecosystem

By Ashley Rindsberg

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By Lorin Bell-Cross

Fear of a bloodbath in May has made Labour candidates lunge for the anti-Israel vote

As Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour plunges in opinion polls, no wonder some candidates desperately strive to reclaim followers from Greens and independents

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Polling station opens for voting for the Gorton And Denton by-election on February 26, 2026 in Manchester, which was won by the Green Party (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

By Nicholas Lezard

From IRA to Gaza: to be young again... and profoundly ignorant

I was the product of an elite school, and was an Exhibitioner (almost as good as a Scholar) at the finest college in the finest university in the world: and I knew nothing

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Tent encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters outside Cambridge's King's College on May 08, 2024 (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

The Iran campaign is Europe’s war as well

From missiles capable of reaching Paris, Berlin and presumably also London to terror plots, the Islamic Republic is a clear and present danger. And to jeopardize the transatlantic relationship is not strategic autonomy but strategic folly

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Missiles produced by Iran's armed forces are displayed during commemorations to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution on February 11, 2026 in Tehran (Image: Getty)

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To fight Jew hatred, the UK must fight antizionism

What has unfolded over the past two years is not simply criticism of Israel, nor even obsessive hostility

By The JC Leader

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The scene after four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire next to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, on March 23, 2026, in the Golders Green area of London (Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

Iran is a direct threat to Britain – it’s time to act like it

UK support – through basing, logistics and safeguarding maritime routes – is neither escalation nor a ‘favour’ to its principal ally. It is, rather, an exercise in self-interest

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Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier Mayuree Naree near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack (Image: AFP/Royal Thai Navy)

By The JC Leader

There is no ‘context’ for antisemitic terror

A society that begins to explain attacks on Jewish children has already taken several dangerous steps down the wrong path. The task is to confront such violence and the ideological climate helping to produce it

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