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Jane Prinsley

Jane Prinsley

Jane Prinsley is the Investigations Correspondent at the Jewish Chronicle. You can reach her at jprinsley@thejc.com

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Board meets BBC to issue demands for reforms to coverage of Israel

The Board has given the BBC until Pesach to address community concerns

By Jane Prinsley

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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 16: A member of the Jewish community holds a poster outside BBC Broadcasting House to demonstrate against the BBC's ongoing refusal to label Hamas as terrorists, on October 16, 2023 in London, England. The National Jewish Assembly is protesting at the BBC's refusal to label Hamas as terrorists and comes after the militant group's recent attacks on Israel. Hamas was prescribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK in March 2021 (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Posters accusing the CST of ‘betraying’ the Jewish community appeared in Golders Green on Friday morning following the arrest of five local teenagers on Purim

CST accused of ‘betraying’ community after Purim arrests

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JERUSALEM, UNSPECIFIED - MARCH 19: A protester wears a mask of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally against the Israeli government on March 19, 2025 in Jerusalem. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to dismiss the director of Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), Ronen Bar, citing "ongoing distrust" during a time of war after the internal security organisation responsible for monitoring Palestinian militant groups released a report acknowledging its failures in the October 7 attacks. The report also criticised Mr Netanyahu, stating that government policies contributed to the events. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israeli High Court issues injunction to stop firing of Shin Bet chief by Netanyahu cabinet

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The rally outside the BBC's London headquarters was organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (Photo: CAA)

BBC apologises to Israeli embassy after asking for anti-Netanyahu speaker

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Police arrest Hasmonean teens after ‘baying mob’ triggers Purim street chaos

But Met and CST accused of being ‘heavy-handed’ as rowdy youngsters held in cell on Thursday night

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March 20, 2025 12:57

Five teenagers aged 14 to 18 were arrested in Golders Green last Thursday during Purim festivities which one local described as a 'baying mob'

Yarden Bibas, Noa Argamani, and freed hostages accuse Israeli government of abandoning those left in Gaza

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March 18, 2025 17:58

Einav Zangauker (2L), the mother of Israeli Matan Zangauer held hostage with others in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, sits alongside supporters and relatives at the Gaza border near kibbutz Nir Oz on March 18, 2025, to protest Israel's strikes and demand preserving the truce and bringing the remaining hostages back with a deal. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

British Jews urged to join Israelis in protest against Netanyahu

Israelis protesters in London accuse Netanyahu of undermining democracy and threatening the lives of hostages

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March 18, 2025 15:59

A banner held by Israeli protesters outside the Israeli embassy in London called for a ceasefire and said "We are not our government". The group also demanded the release of the hsotages held by Hamas in Gaza (Photo: Yair Perry)

Jewish community in Glasgow fights back against cinema’s Coca-Cola boycott

BDS ‘amounts to discrimination’, say Jewish leaders as cinema prepares to vote on adopting the anti-Israel movement

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March 18, 2025 10:37

Glasgow Film Theatre stopped selling coca-cola after a campaign from staff members of Unite Union who demanded the cinema adopt BDS (Photo by Euan Cherry/Getty Images)

‘We want Hitler’ heard at council meeting

During stormy debate in Johannesburg council another local politician threatened to wear a shirt with the face of the Nazi tyrant

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March 17, 2025 16:44

A Johannesburg councillor invoked Hitler during an anti-Israel tirade at a meeting of the city council

Former High Sheriff claims Zionists shed ‘crocodile tears of antisemitism’

London Liveryman Nazir Jessa wrote about Israel as a ‘colonial country’ and shared posts from a LinkedIn user who repeatedly accused the Jewish state of being Nazi-like

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March 17, 2025 16:28

Nazir Jessa said claims of antisemitism were 'crocodile tears'

Chief Rabbi withdraws from Israeli antisemitism conference over far-right participation

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister had invited controversial figures from European political parties

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March 17, 2025 15:41

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has cancelled his participation at an Israeli government-organised conference on antisemitism over concerns about the attendance of far-right European politicians. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Purim in Stamford Hill: A riotous ritual of colour and dance

Clapton Common transforms for the yearly carnival celebration of Jewish survival

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March 16, 2025 10:23

Children in fancy dress for Purim in Stamford Hill (Omer Barr)

Police give up on hunt for pro-Palestine vandal who was filmed slashing Balfour painting

An activist attacked the 1914 painting hanging at Trinity College Cambridge in March last year

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March 13, 2025 15:48

A Palestine Action activist destroys a 1914 painting of Lord Balfour

Peter Sichel, the man who made Blue Nun a runaway success dies at 102

Remembering an extraordinary life spanning more than a century

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March 13, 2025 12:50

Former Jewish refugee, CIA official and wine merchant Peter Sichel at his home in Manhattan, NYC

British rabbis on Yachad trip say they were attacked by settlers on tour of West Bank

Twelve rabbis pelted with eggs and ‘rammed at’ by a pickup truck, according to Yachad

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March 13, 2025 12:11

A group of British rabbis on a tour of a village in the West Bank have claimed they were "rammed" at by an Israeli settler in a white pickup van

A life-affirming Jewish Book Week made space for debate... and dinner plans

London’s longest-running literary festival was packed with new ideas

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March 12, 2025 20:08

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