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Only Western pressure can avert a nuclear Iran or war

Donald Trump has redefined the US' goals when it comes to Iran (Image: Getty)

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

US policy toward the regime is: nuclear surrender or else

3 min read

UN sanctions could hold the key to stalling Iran's nuclear programme (Image: Getty)

By Gabriel Noronha

The UK and Europe must reinstate UN sanctions against Tehran

3 min read

Left to right: Vahid Beheshti, Dr Namdar Baghaei-Yazdi, Afshin Payravi

Iran

Meet the Iranians who long for peace with Israel

By Daniel Ben-David

5 min read

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Film

The film of Seven Jewish Children is as foul as the stage version

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

IDF

‘I’m a hundred per cent Charedi and a proud soldier for the IDF’

A new recruit of the Hasmonean Brigade for Israel’s strictly Orthodox community says he has no regrets

By Anonymous

4 min read

Second World War

‘Coco Chanel stole my aunt’s furniture’

A family history casts fresh light on the designer’s collaboration with the Nazis in wartime Paris

By John Jay

5 min read

By Jake Wallis Simons

The rot runs deep at the BBC, but some training would be a start

It’s no surprise that corporation bosses turned down offers of education against antisemitism

3 min read

Hamas

How Turkey became the ‘nerve centre’ for Hamas

Israel’s Shin Bet has uncovered a Hamas cell in Nablus run from Turkey

By Yaakov Lappin

4 min read

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Former diplomat claims UN is ‘haemorrhaging with antisemitism’

Robert Wood wished his successor luck in ridding the UN of Jew-hatred as he claimed it is ‘flowing through the veins’ of the institution

By Mike Wagenheim

3 min read

Robert Wood, former US deputy envoy to the UN, has claimed the institution is 'haemorraging with antisemitism' (Image: Getty)

Antisemitism on campus

Princeton University says federal grants have been frozen amid antisemitism probe

The move follows the suspension of funds to other high-profile institutions follow pro-Palestine campus protests last year

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Princeton University has had dozens of federal research grants frozen in connection with an investigation into alleged antisemitism at US colleges (Image: Getty)

Harvard

Nearly half of young Americans support Hamas, poll reveals

The number of 18 to 24-year-olds supporting the terrorist group against Israel has jumped over the past year

By Ellie Grant

2 min read

Hundreds turn out outside of a New York court to protest the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil (Image: Getty)

Antisemitism

Far-right podcaster calls for ‘final solution’ on deportation of US Jews

Stew Peters also called Israel a ‘paedophilic, homosexual, genocidal state’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

American podcaster Stew Peters called for the mass deportation of US Jews, terming it a 'final solution' (Image: X)

World news

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 27: International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan, attends a United Nations Security Council meeting on Sudan and South Sudan at the United Nations headquarters on January 27, 2025 in New York City. The UN Security Council met to receive the semi-annual briefing from the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan on the ICCâ€™s Darfur-related work. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

ICC

ICC chief Khan reportedly accused of retaliation for sexual misconduct allegation

By Ellie Grant

1 min read

Four Berlin residents are facing deportation over their alleged actions during pro-Palestine demonstrations in the city (Image: Getty)

Germany

Berlin residents face deportation from Germany following pro-Palestine protests

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Iran

What missile hardware does Iran have left?

By Yaakov Lappin

3 min read

Spain

Spain arrests alleged Hezbollah operatives

By JC Reporter

1 min read

A New York car wash has been accused of discriminating against Jewish customers by overcharging for Passover services (Image: Getty)

Antisemitism

New York car wash charged extra for Passover service because ‘their cars are so dirty’

By Vita Fellig

2 min read

Eli Sharvit has had his nomination to lead the Shin Bet withdrawn (Image: Flash90)

Israel

Netanyahu U-turns on appointment of new Shin Bet director

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Francesca Albanese

Labour MP: No place for Albanese’s ‘abhorrent’ comments on the world stage

David Taylor told the JC that the prospective renewal of her term as Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories ‘goes against everything the UN stands for’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Israeli and US strikes have ‘wiped out most of Houthis’ missiles’Marine Le Pen banned from running for office after embezzlement conviction

UK News

NHS

Gaza protesters rally for doctor who shared KKK video

Demonstrators rallied in London for Dr Swee Chai Ang after the BMA revoked a speaking invitation

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Dr Ang pictured in a refugee camp in Beirut in 1985.

Jewish dating

London Jews with ‘ridiculously high standards’ get a new dating app

In its first venture outside the US, the Lox Club launches in London next week

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

The Lox Club is a private, membership-based dating app for 'Jew-ish' people with high standards. (Courtesy of the Lox Club)

Sotheby's

Sotheby’s to unveil earliest known Kiddush cup in existence

The medieval artefact, which is inscribed with both Hebrew and Arabic, will be on display for a limited time before heading to auction

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

The Cup of Joy, a medieval Kiddush cup inscribed with both Hebrew and Arabic, is believed to be the oldest of its kind in existence. It will be on display at Sotheby's London from 25-29 April before going to auction in New York. (Photo: Sotheby's)

Ireland

Who are the Irish politicians who have gone full Houthi?

The former parliamentarians have a controversial history of anti-Western activism

By Daniel Ben-David

5 min read

Who are the Irish politicians who have gone full Houthi?

Opinion

The silence of the so-called pro-Palestinian crowd

To many activists marching every weekend in London, it appears the deaths of Gazans killed by Hamas are an irrelevance

By Stephen Pollard

3 min read

Protesters gather for a "Stop The War Coalition" demonstration against Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon on October 5, 2024 in London, United Kingdom.

By Kasra Aarabi

Iran’s Khameini will try to run down the nuclear clock

Amid domestic unrest over the economy and fury from the hard base, Iran may be prone to miscalculations, recklessness and strategic errors

5 min read

By Jake Wallis Simons

We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan

The mayor’s Eid message used the Sudan conflict as a cover for attacking Israel

3 min read

By Jacob Jaffa

Meet Randy Fine, the Jewish politician who may have changed the course of history

A single local election in Florida could reshape the face of America – and see corks popping in Jerusalem

3 min read

By Nicole Lampert

Gazans against Hamas are ignored by the West and betrayed by their leaders

I spoke to some of the anti-Hamas protesters – it’s time the world listened to them

4 min read

By Maureen Lipman

OK, so here’s my chicken soup secret

I’ve been teaching new friends to cook the Jewish way

4 min read

By The JC Leader

With a genocidal enemy, diplomacy is not an option

Western leaders think Israel must be dragged back from the brink of victory and condemned to the purgatory of endless talks and conflict.

3 min read

Life

The Most Precious of Cargoes review: “fairytales and the Holocaust can coexist”

By John Nathan

2 min read

Focus on the unremarkable: Rachel Seiffert and her latest novel

Books

The ordinary choices of ordinary people in post-war Germany

This is a remarkable novel about how everyday Europeans faced up to life as war drew to a close

By David Herman

3 min read

Seder

Seven stunning charoset recipes for Pesach

All delicious – which one will you choose?

By Victoria Prever

1 min read

Mental health

Adolescence shows we really need to step up and protect our children from smartphones

Meet Nova Eden, the “proudly Jewish” mother and children's mental health expert who has pioneered Barnet becoming the UK’s first smartphone-free borough

By Elisa Bray

6 min read