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A Basque police officer charges a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla upon their arrival at Bilbao airport on May 23, 2026. Police detained four people at Bilbao airport in northern Spain on May 23, 2026 following clashes that broke out after activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla returned home, officials said. (Photo by Idurre ETXABURU / AFP via Getty Images)

Gaza flotilla

Spanish police beat Palestine supporters at Bilbao Airport after condemning Israeli treatment of flotilla activists

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

Shavuot

Israeli soldiers sent more than 700,000 pieces of cheesecake for Shavuot

1 min read

Green Party

Green Party candidate who called Hatzola ambulance attack ‘false flag’ withdraws from by-election

Chris Kennedy pulled out of the race hours after being announced

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

US President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Israel-Iran War

Agreement with Iran ‘largely negotiated’, Trump says

3 min read

Green Party

‘Zionism is pure evil’ Green now responsible for ‘communities and inclusion’ in London council

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Iran

Ofsted admits error in criticising Charedi school for not teaching about same-sex parents

By Ali Hamedani

2 min read

L’chaim! How an award-winning Israeli whisky distillery bottled the Dead Sea

The Real Housewife who is ready for her next Jewish husband

Opinion: Ben-Gvir’s despicable taunting of detainees is not just to rile his base – he wants to isolate Israel and win votes

Opinion: When being Jewish in Britain, watching short films for Jewish culture month, felt, well...normal

Jewish authors celebrated in new Muswell Hill Shul mural

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Israel

Netanyahu to sue New York Times over rape dog article

The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that a defamation suit would be filed on behalf of the Israeli leader and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

The New York Times office building (Getty Images)

Jewish celebrities

‘King of Comics’ Jack Kirby honoured with NYC street named after him

The creator of Captain America is “widely recognised as the most prolific and arguably most important creator in the history of the comic book,” according to the Centre for Jewish History

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

2 min read

‘King of Comics’ Jack Kirby honoured with NYC street named after him

Entertainment

Prognosis: Negative – Unseen Larry David screenplay surfaces online after 43 years

The would-be film lent its title to a recurring gag about a fictional film on Seinfeld

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Larry David at the Emmy awards in 2018 (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

New York

New York school district pays $125k settlement after painting over pro-Palestine parking space mural

The district was sued by a teenage student, who alleged that it had infringed on her freedom of speech and inflicted ‘emotional trauma’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

World news

Guitarist Nick Valensi from the Strokes on the Coachella stage in April (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty)

Music

The Strokes’ Jewish guitarist takes ‘break’ after singer’s comments on privilege of ‘American Zionists’

By Mark Wood

1 min read

Israel

Slovenia’s expected change of prime minister set to improve relations with Israel

By Mark Wood

1 min read

Pro-Palestinian activists march as they take part in a protest on Nakba Day on May 15, 2026 in New York City (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)

demography

Post-October 7 hostility is making diaspora more Jewish, says leading demographer

By Simon Rocker

7 min read

The Netherlands

The Netherlands is no place for Jews, says Dutch Eurovision winner after retirement home cancels her concert

By Bart Schut

2 min read

Bezalel Smotrich

Arrest warrant for Smotrich sought at ICC, he claims

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Simone Veil (Image: European Commission)

Jewish Culture

New European prize launched for Jewish cultural projects

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Harry Styles

Harry Styles has one-word response to ‘long live Palestine’ heckle

Singer replied ‘correct’ to a heckler at his Amsterdam gig

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

San Diego mosque shooters found to have Nazi stickers and symbols Some watermelon slice symbols are examples of extremism, says German intelligence

UK News

Israel

Chief Rabbi blasts Ben-Gvir’s flotilla video as ‘affront to God’

Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the minister’s conduct was ‘the very antithesis of our core Jewish values and an awful Chillul Hashem’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Chief Rabbi blasts Ben-Gvir’s flotilla video as ‘affront to God’

Football

Speaking as a Jewish Gooner, I can assure you: I never lost faith

Arsene was our Abraham – but after 22 years, it’s Mikel who’s led us into the promised land

By Barry Frankfurt

3 min read

Barry Frankfurt celebrates with his children (from left) Libby, Noah and Yona

Maccabiah Games

Maccabi GB pulls junior athletes from Maccabiah Games in Israel this summer

A decision regarding the adult delegation will be made by June 15

By Ben Conway

2 min read

An opening ceremony at a previous Maccabiah Games at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium (Photo: Katz)

Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney translates newest novel to Hebrew with ‘BDS-compliant’ publisher

The Irish author previously said Israel’s cultural sector was ‘complicit in apartheid’

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Sally Rooney speaks onstage during the Hulu Panel at Winter TCA 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena, January 17, 2020 (Credit: Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu)

Opinion

The week that Benjamin Netanyahu became an international man of mystery

The revelation of a secret visit by the Israeli PM to the UAE during the Iran war has set tongues wagging – but what really happened?

By Natalie Lisbona

5 min read

The week that Benjamin Netanyahu became an international man of mystery

By Liel Leibovitz

The Reb in Chief for Yiddishkeit: Donald J Trump

The President issued a proclamation like none other: to make Shabbos great again. Our overpaid, sclerotic organisations reacted precisely as you’d expect – by doing absolutely nothing. But young Jews across the country went all-out for Shabbat

3 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Trials and tribulations of a Spurs fan in this nightmare season

I don’t hate Arsenal – my father taught me that we don’t hate our closest rival. Hate is the wrong word (that’s reserved for Chelsea). We loathe their smugness

2 min read

By Nicholas Lezard

George Orwell’s ‘Antisemitism in Britain’ has sadly aged very well

Anti-Jewish sentiment in this country has long carried a distinctly middle-class sense of virtue

3 min read

By David Harris

Mamdani’s twisted Nakba narrative fits the record of New York’s first anti-Israel mayor

Some Jews may still live in la-la land and pretend otherwise. And some bizarrely voted for him and continue to stand by his side

5 min read

By Dan Sacker

The King’s renewal of a covenant on the streets of Golders Green

The government must act far more forcefully against those who turn antisemitic hatred into action, even if that won’t address the ideology driving it. That requires a sustained commitment to the shared values, identity and responsibility that hold a society together

3 min read

By The JC Leader

Why was the Nakba march allowed to intimidate London’s Jews again?

When police escort protestors despite knowing in advance that antisemitic slogans are likely to appear, onlookers reasonably conclude that such rhetoric now lies within the boundaries of acceptable public discourse

2 min read