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Joined September 2016
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Some 40,000 people rallied outside Downing Street today to call for the immediate return of the more than 120 hostages who still remain in Gaza, 240 days after they were taken captive by Hamas terrorists #bringthemhomenow @710humanchain @BoardofDeputies @bringhomenow
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🇮🇱 Asking Israelis to describe the election in one word... Today Israel is voting, so we asked people in Tel Aviv to briefly share their thoughts about what might happen. @DannyBenDavid
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🇮🇱 Why have the Arab parties been dubbed 'kingmakers' in this Israeli election? Daniel Ben-David @DannyBenDavid was on the ground in Yaffo, a mixed Jewish and Arab neighbourhood in south Tel Aviv, to find out why. There are more than a million Arab citizens of Israel eligible to vote - but they are not a single political constituency. They include Muslims, Christians, Druze and other communities, with different identities, political views and relationships to the state. In this election, there are two Arab groups predicted to win seats - the Joint List, an Arab-nationalist coalition of 3 different factions and the Ra'am party, an Islamist, socially conservative but pragmatic group. 🔗 Read Daniel's full piece online now
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🇬🇧 Aafaq Bookstore in Westminster, which is close to a synagogue, is selling a book that portrays Jews as inherently wicked and presents the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion as fact. The bookshop was the centre of controversy last month after selling copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Arabic. 🔗 Full story linked below
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🚨 The Cambridge Literary Festival has cancelled a standalone event with an author who supported the October 7 attack. The event, promoted as a “powerful and unmissable” hour with Randa Abdel-Fattah in which she was due to discuss her new novel, Discipline, had been scheduled for October 8, the day after the third anniversary of the massacre. Cambridge Literary Festival claimed the event had been cancelled for “operational reasons”. 🔗 Full story below
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🚨 Exclusive: British antisemitic influencer who blamed Israel for Berlin Pride attack exposed as convicted attempted robber The Saviour, whom the JC can identify as Josh Kent-Smith, was jailed for a year and nine months over his involvement in a robbery in 2019 In a post from 2024, Kent-Smith stated that, around the time he got out of prison, he began learning “the truth about what’s going on in this world”. Using the Saviour alias, he began to gain significant traction online following the October 7 terror attack, with most of his content focusing on the Gaza War and featuring him expressing his fervently anti-Israel views and promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. 🔗 Full story below by Danny Ben-David @DannyBenDavid
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His Majesty King Charles today met the two victims of last month’s Golders Green stabbing attack during a solidarity visit with the Jewish community, which concluded with the King receiving a freshly baked challah.
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After a wave of attacks targeting the Jewish community in recent weeks, around 20,000 Jewish people and allies gathered outside 10 Downing Street today to urge the government to take stronger action against antisemitism. Organised by @BoardofDeputies and @JLC_uk
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"We are with you" at this difficult time, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tells British Jews. Powerful words from the mother of Hamas October 7 victim, Hersh. She also hailed the support shown by the UK community over his capture and eventual murder. We stand together ❤️ 🫂 Follow The JC - stay connected 📰 Full story online
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EXCLUSIVE: The prime minister tells me the government intends to bring forward legislation in the next parliamentary session to proscribe the IRGC and other malign state actors
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His Majesty the King today hosted Shoah survivors and their families at Buckingham Palace to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Together, they viewed portraits of the survivors, commissioned by the King, which now hang permanently in the East Wing of the Palace @HMD_UK @RoyalFamily
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If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.
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The bravery of these people is astounding. They're light in what lately has felt like a very dark world.
The Lion of Iran has awakened. Iranians are rejecting Islam, the Islamic Republic, and Sharia Law en masse. I've never been more proud to be Iranian. ❤️
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Towering eight metres high and powered by 800 watts, Europe’s tallest menorah lit up the night sky above Trafalgar Square on Tuesday. Hundreds attended the festivities, organised by @JLC_uk
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Some 1000 or more Charedim protested outside the Israeli embassy in London today against the country's mandatory conscription for yeshiva students - many Charedi groups, including today’s, are opposed to the existence of the State of Israel itself until the arrival of the Messiah
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Maybe the five armed police officers deployed to arrest me could be freed from their duties with the comedy crackdown squad to have a look at this?
"Zionist scum! We will honour all our martyrs! From the river to the sea!" "Allahu akbar!" Today's "anti-racist" protest outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall, where they are daring to invoke Cable Street. That's some of the most grotesque perversion you will see in London, even...
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King Charles visiting Heaton Park Synagogue today in Manchester on a solidarity visit. The Monarch said the terror attack earlier this month that claimed the lives of two of its members was a ‘terrible shock’ and he expressed his ‘heartfelt condolences’ to the Jewish community.
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Manchester's Jewish community, days after unprecedented tragedy befell them, and allies came out in force today to commemorate the second anniversary of October 7 in Israel and to honour the memories of Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby, who were senselessly murdered on Yom Kippur
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