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David Berman (Credit: Greater Manchester Police)

March 20, 2026, 1:07 pm

Retrial date set in Jewish wife murder case after hung jury

Daryl Berman to face fresh murder trial in June after jury failed to reach verdict last year

By Annabel Sinclair

A man who punched a woman twice in the face during an antisemitic attack in West Sussex has been handed a suspended prison sentence at Worthing Magistrates' Court

March 19, 2026, 5:43 pm

Suspended sentence for man who punched woman in antisemitic Shoreham attack

Victim assaulted after attempting calm discussion at Gaza-related stall, court hears

By Annabel Sinclair

Crowds at the Manchester vigil hold a banner reading “No more words, we demand action” in pouring rain

March 17, 2026, 1:59 pm

Antisemitic hate crimes ‘less likely’ to reach court than anti-Muslim offences

Jewish victims face lower charge rates despite far higher per-capita targeting, new figures reveal

By Annabel Sinclair

February 5, 2026, 9:49 am

Man who wrote ‘kill jews’ on cell wall found guilty of hate crimes

Ibrahim Iqbal, 36, will be sentenced on February 16 at Leeds District Magistrates’ Court

By JN Reporter

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks with a member of the Jewish community at the scene near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, where two people died in a terror attack. Picture date: Friday October 3, 2025.

October 3, 2025, 12:08 pm

OPINION: Marches claiming to be about Gaza have turned British Jews into targets

Years of so-called solidarity marches have revealed themselves as something far darker, writes former MP for Hendon, Matthew Offord

By Matthew Offord

Placard referencing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Israel’s Operation Grim Beeper, held during a counter-protest in Swiss Cottage.
Photo Credit: The Telegraph

May 28, 2025, 2:27 pm

Jewish man arrested for offending terror supporters says raid traumatised fiancée

He was charged, prevented from picking up his mother for Shabbat and asked if he’d insulted 'pro-Hezbollah protesters'

By Annabel Sinclair

July 7, 2024, 10:53 am

Teenager who called Jews on a train ‘baby killers’ found guilty of racial harassment

Ilham Ahmed fined for abusing passengers who were returning from a march against antisemitism on a Thameslink train

By Michelle Rosenberg

December 1, 2022, 2:49 pm

OPINION: Dropping of case against Jew-baiters was suspect

Author and barrister David Wolchover questions the competence of the Crown Prosecution Service after its failure to charge those accused of taking part in the now infamous 'hate convoy'.

By David Wolchover

August 2, 2022, 6:24 pm

OPINION: Smoke and mirrors from the CPS cannot hide the truth

Gideon Falter, chief executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, responds to a piece in last week's Jewish News by the hate crime lead prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service.

By Gideon Falter

West Ham fans are facing a trial accused of directing chants towards a man in Orthodox Jewish dress while on a departing flight to a European match, 2021, (Twitter)

July 27, 2022, 4:09 pm

Prosecuting Jew hate: there are times when we didn’t make the right call, CPS admits

EXCLUSIIVE: After a notorious case involving an antisemitic football song was dropped, one senior leader tells Jewish News they want to learn more from the community

By Michael Daventry

Lionel Idan, the lead prosecutor for hate crime at the Crown Prosecution Service

July 27, 2022, 3:55 pm

OPINION: Our prosecutors are working with Jewish groups to fight antisemitism

Lionel Idan, the lead prosecutor for hate crime at the Crown Prosecution Service, says he wants to bring more hate crime offenders to justice

By Lionel Idan

The London Stadium at another West Ham game against European opposition in 2016

May 26, 2022, 3:59 pm

West Ham fan banned for three years for Nazi salute to Austrian club’s supporters

Hornchurch resident Daniel Garner, 26, claimed to be intoxicated but was told: 'Football fans should never have to tolerate abusive behaviour'

By Toby Porter

Caroline Flack with Eyal Booker on the left and with her friend Mollie Grosberg on the right

February 17, 2020, 4:03 pm

Eyal Booker, Jess Glynne and Stacey Solomon pay tribute to Caroline Flack

Jewish celebrities remember former Love Island and I’m A Celebrity host who took her own life in her flat in Stoke Newington on Saturday

By Francine Wolfisz

August 5, 2019, 10:26 am

Paedophile who abused boys at Carmel College has 19-year sentence halved

Court of Appeal has reduced Trevor Bolton's sentence to nine years, after he was sent to prison for crimes against students at the boarding school between 1968 and 1988

By Jewish News Reporter

September 4, 2018, 10:22 am

Committee to probe why there’s been no rise in hate crime prosecutions

Cross-party Women and Equalities Committee to grill senior police officers prosecutors and anti-Semitism experts on Wednesday

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