Jacob Jaffa

Assistant News Editor

Jacob Jaffa is the JC's Assistant News Editor. His specialist topics include UK and US politics, the far-right and antisemitism in Europe. You can reach him on jjaffa@thejc.com

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Sport

How the world’s most popular wrestling championship ended up in a Tel Aviv shopping centre

The belt was contested by megastars like Rick Rude and Jerry Lawler during the sport’s cultural heyday and its lineage maps the tragic history of its founding family

By Jacob Jaffa

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Kevin and Kerry Von Erich tussle over the WCCW Heavyweight Championship (Image: Reddit)

A group of prominent Jewish media figures have signed a letter to the BBC expressing concern over a recent documentary about Gaza (Image: Getty)

Dozens of Jewish media figures sign letter questioning BBC over ‘propaganda’ documentary

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Howard Lutnick has been confirmed as US Secretary of Commerce (Image: Getty)

Who is Howard Lutnick, the ‘abandoned’ orphan with the fate of the global economy in his hands?

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Hamas has reportedly confirmed that the Bibas children will be among the deceased hostages returned to Israel this week (Image: Getty)

Hamas claims Bibas children’s bodies will be among four returned this week

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More from Jacob Jaffa

Names of six alive hostages to be freed this week confirmed by families

The announcement seemingly reveals the fate of a further eight hostages, including the Bibas children.

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February 18, 2025 10:13

A Hamas official has said that there is a 'high chance' that six hostages will be released on Saturday (Image: Getty)

Hamas will ‘accept PA governing Gaza’ under ceasefire deal

A spokesman for the terror group also called October 7 a ‘historic success’ and indicated that the subsequent war could have been even more widespread

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February 17, 2025 10:58

Hamas has indicated that it would allow the PA to govern Gaza under the ceasefire deal (Image: Getty)

Albanese admits that UN ‘displays some bias’ against Israel in stormy TV interview

The top UN official said that accusations of antisemitism against her were orchestrated by Israel’s ‘squads of minions’ and indicated that she did not believe comparisons of Israel and Nazi Germany were antisemitic

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February 14, 2025 14:20

Francesca Albanese has admitted that the UN 'displays some bias' against Israel (Image: Getty)

Two arrested in Israeli raids on East Jerusalem bookshops

Police have accused the shops’ owners of ‘incitement and support for terrorism’ but critics have claimed that the arrests were unjustified

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February 10, 2025 16:08

Israeli Police have raided two bookshops in East Jerusalem and arrested the owners (Image: Iyad Muna/CNN)

PA to end controversial ‘pay to slay’ programme

The fund could be reformed to remove the incentive for terrorists to commit violent crimes

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February 10, 2025 14:42

PA President Mahmoud Abbas has signed a decree to end the controversial 'pay to slay' scheme (Image: Getty)

Hamas names hostages for release following Gaza aid row delay

The announcement has deepened concern for the welfare of the Bibas children, who remain in Gaza

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February 7, 2025 16:18

Hamas has named the three hostages set for release tomorrow as Or Levy, Ohad Ben-Ami and Eliyahu Sharabi (Image: Getty)

Trump is not the friend Jews need

The US President just laid out – and appeared to row back on – a roadmap for ethnic cleansing

2 min read

February 6, 2025 12:14

Trump's Gaza plan may never happen, but it should prompt a shudder from Jews the world over

Saudi Arabia rules out Israel normalisation under Trump Gaza plan

The Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry has seemingly made an agreement conditional on a two-state solution

1 min read

February 5, 2025 12:38

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has confirmed that the Kingdom will not normalise relations with Israel until a Palestinian state is established in response to US President Trump's Gaza plan (Image: Getty)

Update: Hostage releases completed as Keith Siegel freed in Gaza City

Siegel, as well as Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas, was forced to participate in another sick ceremony before being handed over to the Red Cross

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February 1, 2025 08:20

Keith Siegel's release means all three Israeli hostages expected today have now been freed (Image: Getty)

Hamas names three hostages to be released tomorrow as Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas

The announcement deepens concern over the fate of the Bibas children

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January 31, 2025 09:57

(L-R) Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas have been listed for release from Gaza tomorrow (Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

RFK Jr denies claim he said Covid was ‘targeted’ to ‘spare Jews’ in confirmation hearing

The prospective Health Secretary faced questions about comments he made when he was a presidential candidate

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January 30, 2025 15:44

RFK Jr denied that he had claimed Covid-19 was 'ethnically targeted' during a torrid Senate confirmation hearing (Image: C-Span)

Smotrich working on ‘operational plan’ to resettle displaced Palestinians outside of Gaza

The far-right minister said he is trying to turn the idea outlined by US President Trump into concrete policy

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January 27, 2025 16:21

Far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich confirmed he is working on an 'operational plan' to resettle some Palestinians from Gaza to countries like Jordan and Egypt (Image: Getty)

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