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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak giving a press conference in Downing Street.
July 10, 2024, 2:25 pm
OPINION: Conservative support for Israel won’t diminish in opposition
The unrelenting nature of politics makes it hard to take stock but there is much CFI and Conservatives can be proud of, writes the chief exec of Conservative Friend of Israel
By James Gurd - Conservative Friends of Israel
July 10, 2024, 10:15 am
Meta to remove posts using ‘Zionist’ as antisemitic guise
The term ‘Zionist’ will be removed when they are found to: Invoke harmful antisemitic stereotypes, dehumanise Jews, call for harm towards Jews, or deny the existence of Zionists
By Jotam Confino
(L-r) A poster for Pomidor's exhibit, "Even Elephants Hold Elections," canceled by the London gallery Metamorphika on July 4, 2024, over an artist's social media posts mourning the victims of the Oct. 7 attacks; an image shared by Pomidor of the canceled exhibit. (Screenshots via Instagram)
July 9, 2024, 9:11 am
London gallery cancels Russian-Israeli artist’s anti-Putin show, objecting to her posts mourning Oct. 7
The artist, who goes by Maria, told the London Jewish Chronicle the gallery had received complaints about her social media posts: 'They said it was wrong that I support Israel'
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
Protesters outside Columbia University, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress)
July 9, 2024, 9:07 am
Columbia removes 3 deans over text exchange deriding concerns of campus antisemitism
A fourth dean who was involved in one of the text exchanges apologised and likewise acknowledged that the conversations “call to mind antisemitic tropes.”
By Luke Tress (JTA)
Or, a solider fighting in Gaza, displays a seder plate he found in the territory. (Courtesy of Or)
July 8, 2024, 9:21 am
Israeli soldiers are finding Judaica in Gaza — and trying to locate the items’ owners
Soldiers have found a wood laminate challah board framed with the biblical injunction to “remember the Shabbat” in gold lettering, in Hebrew and English.   
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
FILE FOOTAGE: French Jews demonstrate against antisemitism after the killing of three Jewish children by Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah.
July 3, 2024, 12:10 am
Paris Chief Rabbi: ‘There is no future for Jews in France’
'It is clear today that there is no future for Jews in France. I tell everyone who is young to go to Israel or a more secure country,' Grande Synagogue of Paris Chief Rabbi said
By JN
The interior of the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2016. (Screenshot via YouTube)
July 2, 2024, 10:13 am
7 Holocaust museums condemn vandalism against one of their own after police say it wasn’t a hate crime
The vandalism involved the phrase “Genocide in Gaza” being written over a photograph of a child Holocaust survivor.
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
Police officers remove ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking the road during a protest against military conscription outside the Israeli Supreme Court. Israel's Supreme Court hears on 02 June a response by the state over the ultra orthodox recruitment issue, after previously extending a deadline for the government to present a conscription plan for ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are traditionally exempt from military service. (Credit Image: © Saeed Qaq/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire) EDITORIAL USAGE ONLY! Not for Commercial USAGE!
July 2, 2024, 8:44 am
Thousands of ultra-orthodox protest looming army enlistment
Demonstrators also threw rocks at an ultra-orthodox minister's car as he drove past the really in Jerusalem
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Undated handout photo issued by the Church of Scotland of a piper during the unveiling of the Jane Haining memorials outside St Columba's Church of Scotland in Budapest. Photo: Barta Bálint/Church of Scotland/PA Wire
May 1, 2024, 9:00 am
Scot who refused to abandon schoolgirls to the Nazis honoured with new plaques
Jane Haining worked as a matron at the Scottish Mission School in the Hungarian capital from 1932 to 1944, before being arrested on charges that included working among Jews
By Nick Forbes (PA)
The postcards returned to Lublin in an April 2024 ceremony included ones addressed to its head, Rabbi Meir Schapiro. (Courtesy Monika Tarajko)
May 1, 2024, 8:47 am
A German soldier looted postcards from doomed Jews in Poland. 80 years later, his granddaughter brought them back
The documents have since been transferred to Lublin’s State Archive for professional preservation and will be available to view on request.
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
The Hyde Park memorial was hidden under tarpaulin over the weekend
April 29, 2024, 1:08 pm
‘Deeply troubling’: Yad Vashem condemns covering of Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park
That such a monument should be under attack – during pro-Palestine demonstrations – is a stain on our society, the centre in Jerusalem said
By JN Reporter
April 27, 2024, 3:40 pm
OPINION: Lessons in resilience from a nation in turmoil
Israelis know what justice demands: the total defeat of a monstrous, genocidal enemy that lusts for the blood of Israelis and victimises Palestinians.
By Jeremy Havardi
Police car on the street Paris
April 24, 2024, 1:16 pm
Man arrested on suspicion of rape and death treats against Jewish woman to ‘avenge Palestine’
Suspect reported to have sent a message to the Jewish woman's mother, saying: 'Good luck, you will never find your daughter, you will never see her again'
By JN Reporter
Israeli professor Shai Davidai outside Columbia University, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)
April 23, 2024, 10:09 am
Israeli professor barred from entering Columbia University campus
Shai Davidai tried enter the university’s main campus to hold a “peaceful sit in” in the area of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who have occupied the campus lawn since last week.
By Luke Tress (JTA)
Photo credit to: The Jewish Agency for Israel.
April 22, 2024, 4:42 pm
‘Praying for hostages’: 100 Jewish refugees from Ukraine hold special seder in Poland
'Our strength is in our unity. I am happy to see everyone here celebrating Passover and praying for the freedom of the Jewish people,' said Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland
By JN Reporter
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