Category: Jewish
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Bridget Phillipson: I’m taking action over alarming rise in anti-Jewish hate in universities
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has confirmed that she has moved to “refocus” the body in charge of regulating higher education in the UK after she became “deeply troubled” by alarming evidence of the rise in antisemitism across… Continue Reading
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‘Every single day is a battle – our lives have just stopped’
“I can’t believe it’s been a year already… Everything is so painful…” Ayelet pauses, her composed veneer disguising acute grief. Voice cracking a little, she proceeds: “You must understand, our whole lives have been centred around… Continue Reading
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OPINION: How 7 October changed my perspective as a Palestinian from Gaza
In the painful year since the October 7 massacre in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and hundreds taken hostage, I have made more connections with Israelis and Jews as a Palestinian from Gaza than I have in the entirety of my life. I’m no… Continue Reading
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OPINION: Antisemitism is not a Jewish problem, it is a societal problem
The Jewish calendar is filled with days of remembrance, where we come together to reflect on tragedies that have shaped our people. From Yom HaShoah, when we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust,… Continue Reading
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SPECIAL REPORT: Axis of resistance versus light unto the nations – a battle for civilisation
Last week, listeners to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme heard a Tehran-based academic, Professor Mohammad Marandi, say that the current Israel regime “believes they are a chosen people. They have exceptional rights, and therefore they have… Continue Reading
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OPNION: Is it now time to clean house once and for all?
Where were you on 7 October 2023? For people of my age (47), it’s a question that sits alongside where you were on 9/11 and, for the truly aged, the Kennedy assassination. I was, perhaps fittingly, in the Middle East. I remember waking up and… Continue Reading
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At Oct. 7 memorial ceremonies across Israel, searing grief and political tensions are on full display
RE’IM, Israel – At the site of the Nova festival near the Gaza border, the families of some 360 people murdered there gathered in the early morning light to mark the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre. Part of the
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OPINION: A year after 7 October – when the hatred on campus unmasked itself
In September 2023, Jewish students across Europe, from Lisbon to Warsaw, could still navigate their university lives, though never without difficulty. Wearing a kippah, speaking Hebrew or displaying a Magen David was never without risk. There… Continue Reading
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Deported British Jew’s application for aliyah thwarted
A British Jew has arrived back in London from Israel, trying to make sense of his deportation after he applied to make aliyah. Leo Franks, who was born in London and who lived for a time in Israel with his family, is 25 and a graduate student at… Continue Reading
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Police investigating vandalism of Jewish memorial and support for Hezbollah
Police in the UK have launched a number of investigations following the vandalism of a Jewish memorial and shows of support for Hezbollah on the eve of October 7. Sussex Police confirmed it was looking into a video shared across social media… Continue Reading