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Halt UK funding to Palestinian Authority, say MPs after report shows curricula promote violence

His comments come as parliamentarians from across the house have urged the government to suspend support for the Palestinian Authority (PA) after a new report found that educational materials used in ...
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Hamas is looking at the 60,000 dead and the Western hatred of Israel and thinking: job done

With the terror group having survived the war, another meeting with the US in the bag and Israel-hate peaking in the West, Hamas sees the last two years as a success ...
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Rupa Huq blames a right-wing ‘cabal’ for the BBC’s left-wing bias scandal – naturally

It's painful to watch how the Labour MP manages to turn reality on its head. It seems, the only acceptable political views to hold are those which she holds ...
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Israeli actor Shira Haas cast in Netflix adaptation of Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil

The series, based on Levin’s 1976 novel, follows Holocaust survivor turned Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann as he tracks down fugitive war criminals ...
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‘I always felt Jewish – I was thrilled to find out I actually am’: Meet the Jews who are finding their way home to Jewishness

With their Jewish roots hidden for generations, these are the people rediscovering – and embracing – their Jewish identities in adulthood ...
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Shabana Mahmood reveals she was labelled an ‘infidel’ by Gaza campaigners

The home secretary has revealed that she was labelled an “infidel” by Gaza campaigners during the 2024 general election campaign. Shabana Mahmood made the admission to the BBC’s Nick Robinson on his ...
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Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watch

Claude Lanzmann’s epic reshaped how the Holocaust is remembered. He built his film not on archives but on silence – the terrible absence left by the dead ...
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Gustav Klimt portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for £180m at Sotheby’s

A portrait by Gustav Klimt of an Austrian-Jewish society lady has been sold at auction at Sotheby’s in New York for a near-record-breaking price of $236.4m (£179m). The painting of Elisabeth Lederer ...
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Nearly half of Britons believe the UK is ‘an unsafe place for Jewish people’

Overall, 45 per cent of Britons surveyed believe the UK is now either a very or mostly unsafe place for Jews, polling has found ...
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It’s probably easier to point out great lyricists who weren’t Jewish

From Irving Berlin down through to Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan and my own favourites, Dory Previn and Leonard Cohen, all have the same ethnicity. I’m exaggerating… please don’t write in.
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How Italy became the dark heart of European anti-Zionism

Israeli PhD candidate and researcher in Naples, none of this surprised me. When I first arrived in December 2024, I was met with “Intifada until victory” painted on the main doors of one of the ...
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Britain should follow Germany and resume all arms exports to Israel

The weapons sale suspension was neither just nor justified. It’s high time to repair our relationship with an ally critical to our security – and potentially even more vital in missile defence ...