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Counter-terror officers warn hostile states are using children as proxies to target Britain and Jewish communities. Photo: Wikipedia

July 10, 2026, 10:45 am

Teenagers as young as 15 being arrested in hostile state probes, police say

Counter-terror police warn Iran, Russia and China are exploiting vulnerable young people to carry out hostile acts in Britain

By JN Reporter

July 3, 2026, 3:12 pm

Jewish woman receives life sentence for murdering husband in Prestwich home

Daryl Berman must serve at least 12 years after being convicted of fatally stabbing her husband, David, with a vegetable knife

By Annabel Sinclair

CCTV footage of the stabbing in Golders Green

April 29, 2026, 4:11 pm

After another Golders Green attack, British Jews need more than just words

Following the Golders Green stabbings, Hen Mazzig calls for action rather than repeated political condemnation

By Hen Mazzig

A woman wearing wings stands above the crowd during a protest rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday Jan 31 2026. Tens of thousands of Arab and Jewish protesters turned out in Tel Aviv Saturday night for a massive rally, accusing the government of neglecting its Arab citizens and allowing violence to run rampant in the community. Photo by Eyal Warshavsky

February 2, 2026, 11:51 am

Jews and Arabs protest together against Israeli government inaction on crime

More than 250 Israeli Arabs have been killed in the last year as part of an ongoing crimewave - the government and police have been accused of doing little in response

By JN Reporter

Undated handout photo issued by Counter Terror Policing North East of the bedroom in the home in Northumberland of a 16-year-old boy accused of plotting a terror attack on local synagogues.

January 16, 2026, 10:31 am

Boy accused of terror plot wrote some at his school ‘should be shot’, court told

Court hears teenage terror suspect wrote violent fantasies about shooting classmates in journal recovered by police

By Jewish News Reporter

David Berman (Credit: Greater Manchester Police)

December 22, 2025, 1:03 pm

Jewish wife murder trial collapses after jury deadlock over Prestwich pensioner’s death

Prosecutors given time to consider retrial after panel fails to reach verdict in stabbing case

By Annabel Sinclair

December 10, 2025, 2:33 pm

Wife on trial for murdering Jewish husband at Prestwich home, court hears

Prosecutors allege Daryl Berman fatally stabbed her husband David after nearly 30 years of marriage

By Annabel Sinclair

Police officers remove a demonstrator outside the Ministry of Justice during a protest in support of the banned group Palestine Action. Credit: Dawn News

November 21, 2025, 11:15 am

47 arrested at London demo as court hears claims of Palestine Action plot against British Jews

Dozens were detained outside the Ministry of Justice as legal proceedings continue over claims the banned group plotted actions targeting British Jews

By Jewish News Reporter

Undated handout photo issued by Crown Prosecution Office of Howard Phillips, 66, who has been jailed at Winchester Crown Court for seven years for assisting a foreign intelligence service after he was convicted of trying to spy for what he believed to be Russian intelligence service agents. Issue date: Friday November 7, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: CPS/PA Wire

NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

November 7, 2025, 4:38 pm

Jewish ‘fantasist’ jailed for seven years for attempting to help ‘Russian agents’

Howard Phillips, from Harlow, intended to help two apparent Russian agents called “Sasha” and “Dima”, including by passing on personal information about Sir Grant Shapps

By Jewish News Reporter

Yvette Cooper with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

March 13, 2024, 10:35 am

Labour plan to make police log non-crime incidents of antisemitism to track extremists

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper says the move would enable police to better map antisemitic and anti-Muslim abuse

By Lee Harpin

Sadiq Khan, centre, with Cllr Anne Clarke, left, Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe, centre left, deputy mayor Sophie Linden, right, Barnet Council leader Barry Rawlings, end right.

December 17, 2022, 4:23 pm

Sadiq Khan ‘well aware of community’s trauma’ over unpunished hate crime

Mayor of London says changes brought in by new Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley include putting victims first, investigating crime thoroughly and 'getting the basics of policing right'

By Lee Harpin

James Allchurch leaving Swansea Crown Court, Wednesday June 29, 2022, where he accused of setting up a "highly racist" and "highly antisemitic" podcast station called Radio Aryan.

June 30, 2022, 10:48 am

Man goes on trial accused of distributing ‘racist and antisemitic’ podcasts

James Allchurch, 50, appeared at Swansea Crown Court on Wednesday accused of 15 counts of distributing a sound recording stirring up racial hatred.

By Jewish News Reporter

Police officers escort a 19-year-old British woman, center, from the Famagusta court in town of Paralimni, Cyprus, Monday, July 29, 2019. She was later cleared of lying about the attack. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

June 16, 2022, 10:19 am

British woman cleared of lying over gang rape takes case to European Court

Cypriot authorities have failed to open fresh investigation into alleged 2019 attack in Ayia Napa by group of Israeli men

April 19, 2022, 11:51 am

Teen due in court charged with assaulting strictly-Orthodox shop owners

Malachi Thorpe, 18, allegedly attacked Israel Grossman and Erwin Ginsberg on the evening of 27 January.

By Jewish News Reporter

July 23, 2020, 1:02 pm

Peter James crime novel Looking Good Dead adapted for the stage

The story, part of James' popular Roy Grace series, revolves around a man who witnesses a vicious murder, placing his family in grave danger

By Francine Wolfisz

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