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Two Jewish men in hospital after Golders Green knife attack

A 45-year-old man was arrested after being tasered as he tried to stab police officers

3 min read

Two Jewish men in hospital after Golders Green knife attack

CCTV appears to shows moment Golders Green knifeman launches attacks on Jewish bystanders

Two men, one in his 70s and one in his 30s, are in stable condition in hospital, while a 45-year-old man was arrested at the scene.

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Still image from CCTV appearing to show the Golders Green attack unfolding

‘He had hate in his eyes’ – Shomrim volunteers subdued Golders Green attacker

Ben Grossnass, who was on the scene for Shomrim, told reporters how the stabbing spree unfolded

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

A police cordon in the Golders Green neighbourhood following a stabbing attack on April 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

We are with you at this difficult time, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tells British Jews

The mother of Hamas October 7 victim Hersh also hailed the support shown by the UK community over his capture and eventual murder

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

We are with you at this difficult time, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tells British Jews

Israeli soldiers stand near an Iron Dome battery near the border with the Gaza Strip on April 17, 2024 (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

The real story of the Iran war: the strengthening of the Israel-Gulf alliance

3 min read

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 13: Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey speaks during a major new policy announcement on January 13, 2026 in London, England. The Liberal Democrats are outlining a £1.5bn plan that includes a promise to end to 12-hour A&E wait times. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Politics

‘I’m shocked by Zack Polanski talking about Jewish perception of unsafety. It flies in the face of reality,’ says Lib Dem leader

By Charlotte Henry

4 min read

Green Party

EXCLUSIVE: If Zack Polanski gets into power I may move to Israel, says relative

Warning over Green leader’s ‘dangerous’ rhetoric comes as party expected to make huge gains in May 7 local elections

By Lorin Bell-Cross

6 min read

King Charles

King Charles ‘agrees’ Iran should not have nuclear weapons, claims Trump

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Germany

Syrian accused of plot to stab Jews and detonate bomb in Berlin suicide attack

By Rob Hyde

1 min read

Ayelet Zussman (Image: Israeli Gymnastics Association)

Sport

They floored the world! Israeli coach hails gymnasts after miracle of Baku

By Yoav Borowitz

3 min read

Watch live tonight: Major parties to Face The Voters in JC livestream event ahead of local elections

‘The world is a better place for having different types of brains’

London Marathon 2026 roundup: fundraisers run up a big cheque for Jewish charities

Jewish artists face a ‘wave of boycotts’, new report finds

Famesick review: Lena Dunham bares her soul on a pitiful cycle of fame, abuse, drugs and self-harm

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Iran

Rubio rejects latest Iran ceasefire proposal

The reported deal would have seen the Strait of Hormuz reopen, but a delay in talks on nuclear limitations

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the State Department on April 24, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Iran offers to reopen Hormuz, but no nuclear talks yet

The measures were reportedly part of Tehran’s latest proposal to end the war with the US, despite talks breaking down over the weekend

By Jacob Jaffa and Melanie Swan

1 min read

US forces patrol the Arabian Sea as part of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on April 20, 2026 (US Navy/Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

Trump cancels envoys’ trip to Pakistan after Iranian delegation leaves

US president says Iran offered a better proposal that still falls short minutes after he aborted the planned flight of Witkoff and Kushner to Islamabad

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Donald Trump

Trump unharmed after shots fired at Washington dinner

The US President was rushed out of the event as suspect is in custody

By JC Reporter

1 min read

President Donald Trump at a White House press conference following the shooting incident (Image: White House/X)

World news

Mourners pay a floral tribute to Bondi Beach shooting victims at the Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 15, 2025. A father-and-son team toting long-barrelled guns shot and killed 15 people including a 10-year-old girl at Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 14, with authorities labelling it an antisemitic terrorist attack on a Jewish festival. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP via Getty Images)

Australia

Bondi victim benefit concert cancelled after Greek choir votes against singing with Jewish group

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Holocaust survivors

Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist Edith Eger dies aged 98

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the press at an informal meeting of European Union leaders on April 23, 2026, in Ayia Napa, Cyprus (Getty Images)

Israel

Ukraine threatens Israelis with sanctions over ‘stolen’ grain ship

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Pro-Palestine protest in Berlin (Image: Getty Images)

Germany

German state looks to make denial of Israel’s right to exist illegal

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on April 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

UAE

Israel sent Iron Dome to UAE during Iran War

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noël Barrot speaks to journalists during his visit to the Faculty of Law and Political Science to meet with students in Montpellier, southern France, on April 17, 2026 (Getty Images)

European Union

EU to impose sanctions on West Bank settlers, says French FM

1 min read

Lebanon

US President Trump waves to the media after walking off Air Force One at Miami International Airport on April 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

Lebanon ceasefire extended for three weeks

US President Trump confirmed the move, despite Hezbollah continuing to launch rockets at northern Israel

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Venice Biennale jury says Israel will not be considered for top prizes Hezbollah attack on Unifil peacekeepers leaves two French soldiers dead

UK News

Wales

Plaid Cymru candidate reshared post blaming Israel for October 7 attack

Another Welsh nationalist candidate described violence against the Jewish state as ‘resistance to colonialism’ and called Israel a ‘terrorist entity’

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

The Senedd, home of the National Assembly for Wales, in Cardiff, Wales. (Getty Images)

Israel

America’s ‘special relationship’ is with Israel not Britain, says UK ambassador

In a leaked recording, Sir Christian Turner said: ‘There is probably one country that has a special relationship with the United States – and that is probably Israel’

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Golders Green

Counter Terror Police investigating ‘arson attack’ on Golders Green memorial wall

The display, which remembers slain Iranian dissidents, stands approximately 100 metres from where the Hatzola ambulance arson attack happened in March

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Metropolitan Police (Image: Getty Images)

Iran

Iranian embassy in London calls on diaspora to ‘sacrifice their lives’ for regime

A Telegram post by the embassy, encouraging sign-ups to a ‘martyrdom’ scheme, read: ‘Let us all, to a man, give our bodies to be slain; for it is better than giving our country to the enemy’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Iranian embassy in London with police outside (Image: Getty Images)

Opinion

How antisemitism, fear and intolerance grip Britain’s art world

Our new report documents a cultural boycott crisis in the UK, with Jewish performers bearing the brunt. A separate toolkit provides practical steps to challenge it

By Rosie Kay

4 min read

By Keith Black

As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

How far should judges limit or intervene in the Home Secretary’s assessment of national security risks posed by groups creating terror on our streets?

3 min read

By Lottie Cannon

March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

When that happens, it will be up to us to make sure they are still understood, still told properly, and still felt in the way they deserve to be. That is what this experience left me with

3 min read

By Agnieszka Markiewicz

Poland’s fraught reckoning with its complex past towards Jews takes a dark turn

As in the rest of the world, the Hamas attack on Israel has triggered an unprecedented wave of antisemitism. What makes the situation here distinct, is the weight of history

4 min read

By Stephen Pollard

How Labour is helping antisemitism flourish in Britain

The government is casting Israel as a rogue state, fostering a climate where some see Jew hate as a legitimate response to a demonised Israel

5 min read

By Nick Cohen

Zack Polanski is pandering to the antisemitic mob instead of finding the courage to take it on

We are seeing something very dark, the notion that Jew-hatred is a diabolical Jewish conspiracy, a ruse that cunning Jews play on gentiles to generate sympathy and justify the persecution of legitimate critics of Israel

4 min read

By Jake Wallis Simons

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain

Shame on the media, the international institutions and activists, whether on social media or in the real world, who have so obsessively given new life to this age-old expression of hatred

2 min read

Israel

Israel through my lens

1 min read

Sobering times: the march against antisemitism in November 2023, and (right) Markham's new book

Books

The Melted Pot review: ‘Why has this intolerance been tolerated?’

Harry Saul Markham’s sure-footed exploration of the forces of extremism which threaten Britain, and its Jews in particular, will alarm moderates, but it also offers a way ahead

By Ben Felsenburg

1 min read

Books

Worlds Apart review: How a terrible childhood can last a lifetime

This is beautifully written and translated autofiction by an author desperate to make sense of her bleak start in life

2 min read

Worlds Apart review: How a terrible childhood can last a lifetime

Film

The Wizard of the Kremlin review: Magnificent Will gives us Berezovsky the man, not Boris the Jew ★★★★

This engrossing film about the oligarch behind Putin’s rise to power ignores his Jewishness, thankfully

By John Nathan

2 min read

Ladder of power: Jude Law (left) and Paul Dano in The Wizard of Kremlin

Israeli theatre

Between the River and the Sea review: An Israel far too complex for the keffiyeh-wearing hordes ★★★★

Yousef Sweid’s one-man autobiographical play dares to convey the nuance of an Israeli Arab’s experience of our times

By John Nathan

4 min read

JC recipes

Brunch

Wholemeal toast with hazelnut cocoa butter and baked apples

By Luigi Fontana

Cook time: 20-25 minutes

Coconut and lime are a match made in tropical heaven (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Passover bakes

Coconut and lime cake

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 70-90 minutes

Tu Bishvat

Spiced nuts, olives and raisins on hummus

By Georgia Freedman

1 min read

Cake

Prize-winning banana and chocolate cake

By Suzy Pelta

Cook time: 45-55 minutes

The Jewish Chronicle

Two Jewish men in hospital after Golders Green knife attack

CCTV appears to shows moment Golders Green knifeman launches attacks on Jewish bystanders

‘He had hate in his eyes’ – Shomrim volunteers subdued Golders Green attacker

We are with you at this difficult time, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tells British Jews

The real story of the Iran war: the strengthening of the Israel-Gulf alliance

‘I’m shocked by Zack Polanski talking about Jewish perception of unsafety. It flies in the face of reality,’ says Lib Dem leader

EXCLUSIVE: If Zack Polanski gets into power I may move to Israel, says relative

King Charles ‘agrees’ Iran should not have nuclear weapons, claims Trump

Syrian accused of plot to stab Jews and detonate bomb in Berlin suicide attack

They floored the world! Israeli coach hails gymnasts after miracle of Baku

Editor's Picks

Watch live tonight: Major parties to Face The Voters in JC livestream event ahead of local elections

‘The world is a better place for having different types of brains’

London Marathon 2026 roundup: fundraisers run up a big cheque for Jewish charities

Jewish artists face a ‘wave of boycotts’, new report finds

Famesick review: Lena Dunham bares her soul on a pitiful cycle of fame, abuse, drugs and self-harm

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Rubio rejects latest Iran ceasefire proposal

Iran offers to reopen Hormuz, but no nuclear talks yet

Trump cancels envoys’ trip to Pakistan after Iranian delegation leaves

Trump unharmed after shots fired at Washington dinner

World news

Bondi victim benefit concert cancelled after Greek choir votes against singing with Jewish group

Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist Edith Eger dies aged 98

Ukraine threatens Israelis with sanctions over ‘stolen’ grain ship

German state looks to make denial of Israel’s right to exist illegal

Israel sent Iron Dome to UAE during Iran War

EU to impose sanctions on West Bank settlers, says French FM

Lebanon ceasefire extended for three weeks

UK News

Plaid Cymru candidate reshared post blaming Israel for October 7 attack

America’s ‘special relationship’ is with Israel not Britain, says UK ambassador

Counter Terror Police investigating ‘arson attack’ on Golders Green memorial wall

Iranian embassy in London calls on diaspora to ‘sacrifice their lives’ for regime

Opinion

How antisemitism, fear and intolerance grip Britain’s art world

As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

Poland’s fraught reckoning with its complex past towards Jews takes a dark turn

How Labour is helping antisemitism flourish in Britain

Zack Polanski is pandering to the antisemitic mob instead of finding the courage to take it on

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain

Israel through my lens

The Melted Pot review: ‘Why has this intolerance been tolerated?’

Worlds Apart review: How a terrible childhood can last a lifetime

The Wizard of the Kremlin review: Magnificent Will gives us Berezovsky the man, not Boris the Jew ★★★★

Between the River and the Sea review: An Israel far too complex for the keffiyeh-wearing hordes ★★★★

JC recipes

Wholemeal toast with hazelnut cocoa butter and baked apples

Coconut and lime cake

Spiced nuts, olives and raisins on hummus

Prize-winning banana and chocolate cake