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I swear by it: Darryl Christie (Photo: Gary Manhine)

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Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer attends Jewish students’ mock seder to hear about campus experiences

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Israel

Israelis preparing for Pesach targeted by Iran missile barrage

Escalation in air attacks by Islamic Republic appears to be timed for festival

By JC Reporter

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Hendon

MP voices disgust over ‘antisemitic’ rally in Hendon

By Jamie Shapiro

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US President Trump speaks to the media after departing Air Force One at Miami International Airport on March 27, 2026 (Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

US will end Iran War ‘very soon’ says Trump ahead of national address

By Jacob Jaffa

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Anti-Israel protests

Filton 24 activist charged after counter-terror arrest

By Daniel Ben-David

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Some of us are spending Passover apart – but we are a people still together

Zack Polanski – the useful court Jew

The Pitt review: ‘doesn’t entirely live up to the overheated hype, but it works’ ★★★★

The Exodus story inspired American independence

On a visit to Vienna with my baby son, the weight of fatherhood and family history suddenly hit me

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Operation Roaring Lion

Trump reportedly willing to end Iran War without opening Strait of Hormuz

The president is said to have come to the conclusion that any operation to unblock the vital maritime route would ‘push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks’

By Jacob Jaffa

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US President Trump speaks with members of the media aboard Air Force One on March 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

US planning ‘weeks of ground operations’ in Iran

The Pentagon is reportedly preparing to put American boots on the ground for the first time in the conflict, but will stop short of a full-scale invasion

By Jacob Jaffa

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A view of the Pentagon on December 13, 2024, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

Iran

Trump delays Iran power plant strikes for another 10 days

The US president claimed talks between the two sides were ‘going very well,’ but Tehran denied any negotiations were taking place

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

US President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 26, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Iran rejects US ceasefire plan

The Islamic Republic said it had not conducted negotiations with Washington, despite President Trump’s claim that it had agreed to his terms

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran on February 10, 2026 (Getty Images)

World news

Syria

Syria has stopped Iranian weapons reaching Hezbollah, claims Ahmed al-Sharaa

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Israeli President Herzog speaks to the media as he visits an area hit by a reported overnight Iranian strike in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2026 (Getty Images)

President Isaac Herzog

Herzog: settler violence ‘fuels hatred’ against Jews worldwide

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Lebanon

Four IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier 'Mayuree Naree' near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack (Photo by Handout / ROYAL THAI NAVY / AFP via Getty Images)

Letter from Jerusalem

Israel’s existential conflict may bring economic hardship but for Gulf states there’s no going back

By Natalie Lisbona

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A Palestinian boy walks past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on January 11, 2026. Banned from the Gaza Strip with 36 aid bodies, medical charity Doctors Without Borders said on January 10 it will have to end its operations there in March if Israel does not reverse its decision. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP via Getty Images)

Charities

Revealed: MSF accused by own staff of Israel ‘obsession’ that breaches pledge of neutrality

By Jane Prinsley

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An aerial-defense system fires interceptors at Iranian missiles over central Israel, Feb. 28, 2026 (Flash90)

Yemen

Yemen’s Houthis join war until ‘aggression’ against Iran stops

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Ayatollah Khameini

What is believed to be last picture of Ali Khamenei was originally posted on X by Press TV before being removed (Image: X/Open Source Intel)

Iran releases ‘last picture of Ali Khamenei’

The photograph is believed to have been taken the same day the late-supreme leader was killed

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

IRGC recruits child soldiers to operate Basij checkpoints targeted by Israel Rabbis join other faith leaders in signing letter opposing refugee reforms

UK News

Courts

Pro-Palestine organisers convicted of breaching protest conditions

Ben Jamal of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Christopher Nineham of the Stop the War Coalition announced their intention to appeal following the verdict

By Rosie Shead and Ellie Crabbe and Izzie Addison and Ellie Ng

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Chris Nineham, vice chair of Stop the War Coalition (L), and Ben Jamal, director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (R), outside Westminster Magistrates' Court on April 01, 2026 (Getty Images)

Hatzola ambulance attack

Three arrested in connection with Golders Green ambulance attack

All were detained on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life and are in custody

By JC Reporter

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The burnt wreckage of Hatzola ambulances next to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, on March 23, 2026, in Golders Green (Getty Images)

Kanye West

Ban Kanye West from Britain, says Jewish leader

Board of Deputies president Phil Rosenberg calls for rapper with ‘Heil Hitler’ song to be barred from entering UK

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Rapper Kanye West at the White House in Washington, DC in 2018 (Oliver Contreras - Pool/Getty Images)

Bath

Mayor of Bath resigns after sharing Hatzola attack ‘false flag’ conspiracy

Dr Bharat Pankhania had already resigned from his party and apologised for sharing the posts on X

By Jamie Shapiro

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Dr Bharat Pankhania (Image: Mayor of Bath)

Opinion

As Britain’s most senior Jewish police officer, I assure you the Met is doing all it can to keep the community safe

Our commitment is firm. To be more visible, more present and more proactive in confronting hate crime

By Ben Russell

3 min read

Police officers gather in Trafalgar Square ahead of a planned protest in support of Palestine Action on October 4, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s revolting celebration of death

Even if you think capital punishment is just and right, it is not something to revel in. Sanctifying life is the cord which runs through almost every aspect of Judaism

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By Alejandro Baer

From Franco’s legacy to Podemos: the roots of Spain’s extreme Israel hostility

The link between Madrid’s rhetoric and the unacknowledged undercurrents of the country’s antisemitism are difficult to ignore. The permanent withdrawal of the ambassador to Jerusalem crystallised this logic

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By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Press TV exposes Britain’s dangerous permissiveness toward extremism

The UK offers ideal conditions for state and non-state actors – from the Islamic Republic to the Muslim Brotherhood – to exploit liberal freedoms in order to undermine them

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By Dominic Green

The ‘stab in the back’ myth to blame Jews if the war goes badly

Never before have we seen so concerted an effort to declare a military campaign lost before it has started. A global influence operation, emanating from America’s enemies, is being used to split the US-Israel alliance

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