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Ed Miliband speaks during day two of the Labour Party Conference at Liverpool Experience Campus on September 28, 2026 (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

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Merton College deed of sale (Image: Aish.com)

By Tanya Gold

Opinion: Tracing Oxford’s hidden Jewish past along Deadman’s Walk

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Armed police maintain roadblocks and security checks around RAF Fairford on September 28, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Iranian-British national arrested over suspected RAF Fairford plot

By Jacob Jaffa

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An El Al aircraft sits on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on March 23, 2026 (Getty Images)

Flydubai terror attack

El Al launches repatriation flights for Israelis stranded by Flydubai terror attack at £188 a ticket

By Hayley Cregor

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New York

NY Jewish groups highlight lack of focus on antizionist violence in Mamdani’s new antisemitism strategy

By Hayley Cregor

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel warned Britain about pending Iranian attack before ‘they slapped sanctions on us,’ claims Netanyahu

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Opinion

Herzog nominates Israeli Flydubai passengers for civilian heroism award over foiled terror attack

Stephen Pollard

What the terror scare on the Dubai–Tel Aviv flight showed about the power of the Abraham Accords

Jake Wallis Simons

How Israel’s history forged a nation of heroes

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Flydubai terror attack

Flydubai pilot who ‘tried to bring down plane’ was a ‘terrorist or a whackjob,’ claims Trump

Israeli authorities have branded the incident an ‘attempted jihadist terror attack’

By Hayley Cregor

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US President Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on September 30, 2026 (Getty Images)

USA

US Government sues Ohio healthcare firms after doctor fired ‘for being Jewish’

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges that the surgeon ‘faced a barrage of comments in the workplace blaming the Jews’ for October 7

By Hayley Cregor

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Andrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC (YouTube/FortuneConversations)

Marco Rubio

RAF Fairford suspected terror plot involved ‘a foreign actor’, claims Marco Rubio

Five suspects, all British nationals in their 20s, have been released on bail

By JC Reporter

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a multilateral meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council during the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York City on September 22, 2026 (Getty Images)

Terrorism

More than a quarter of Muslim Americans think ‘Israel or Zionists’ were behind 9/11, new study finds

Only 23 per cent attributed the attack to al-Qaeda, compared to 62 per cent of the general population

By Max Salt

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Smoke pours from the World Trade Center in New York City after it was hit by two planes on September 11, 2001 (Getty Images)

World News

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a pager as he speaks during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on September 24, 2026. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

Letter from Jerusalem

‘Israel will win – we have no choice’: A message of defiance and veiled warning to Iran on the UN world stage

By Natalie Lisbona

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A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag inside a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto campus on May 2, 2024 (Getty Images)

Canada

Toronto student groups to hold vigil ‘honouring martyrs’ on October 7 anniversary

By Hayley Cregor

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Flydubai Flight 1073 on the tarmac at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk, Saudia Arabia (X/AmitSegal)

Flydubai terror attack

Netanyahu: Too early to say whether Iran was involved in Flydubai attack

By Melanie Swan

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Chanukah

Must-have Chanukah Barbie sold out just days after launch

By Max Salt

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Benjamin Netanyahu hugs Yaniv Hayun at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 (Photo..Kobi Gideon (GPO)/Prime Minister of Israel's Office/X)

Flydubai terror attack

‘I put flight attacker in a chokehold, pulled up the controls and stopped the plane diving’, says brave passenger

By JC Reporter

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(Illustrative) A Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 performs a display flight at Al-Maktoum International Airport in Dubai on November 17, 2025 (Getty Images)

Flydubai terror attack

‘Off-duty British pilot helped rescue plane after cockpit stabbing’

By JC Reporter

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Timeline of the events that occurred on Flydubai flight FZ1073 on 30/09/26

Terrorist attack

Timeline of events on Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight FZ1073

The pilot is believed to have been stabbed mid-flight and the plane was landed by two passengers

By Jamie Shapiro

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UK News

October 7 anniversary

Local DJ preparing one-off show to mark third anniversary of October 7

Neville Fox will play an hour of songs which represent ‘everything that's happened in the last three years’

By Ben Conway

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Neville Fox at his DJ decks (Photo: courtesy)

World Jewish Relief

World Jewish Relief Ukraine partner employee loses home in attack, but survives – along with five rescue cats

Galina Protzenko and her husband’s apartment in Sumy was destroyed by a Russian glide bomb

By Hayley Cregor

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Galina Protzenko with her rescue cats (Photo: World Jewish Relief/courtesy)

Esther Rantzen

Esther Rantzen remembered for reuniting Kindertransport refugees with rescuer

In 1988, the That’s Life! presenter reunited Sir Nicholas Winton, dubbed the ‘British Oskar Schindler’ with some of the 669 children whose lives he saved

By JC Reporter

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Dame Esther Rantzen arrives to attend a service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of late British singer Dame Vera Lynn at Westminster Abbey on March 21, 2022 (Getty Images)

Battle of Cable Street

Oi Va Voi prepares to kick off Cable Street 90

Starting tonight, the Board of Deputies has put together 11 days of music, art and discussion to mark 90 years since the Battle of Cable Street

By Hayley Cregor

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Opinion

The fallout from October 7 has eclipsed our sense of religious mission

At the core of our autumn festivals lies a call to universalism

By Rabbi Michael Pollak

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Rising hostility: anti-Israel protest in Sydney (Photo: Getty Images)

By Roger Macmillan

The Flydubai attack reveals the threat from within that airlines must confront

After 9/11, the industry learned to secure the cockpit against a threat from the cabin. It must now recognise that the person inside matters just as much and build a safety system that relies neither on luck nor on the bravery of a wounded captain and passengers

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By Jake Wallis Simons

The progressive gaslighting of Jews on both sides of the Atlantic

If we stay silent about how the demonisation of Israel fuels antisemitism, the vilification intensifies. If we object, we are accused of conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism

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By Elisa Bray

British Jews will not be silenced – exclude us and we will make our own way as we always have

Omitted from events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, the community organised a festival to celebrate our resilience and UK history

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