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Critics argue that the EU is applying a double standard against the Jewish state by, for the first time with any partner country, invoking a human rights clause to reassess their bilateral relationship

By JC Reporter

4 min read

The EU is currently reviewing its Association Agreement with Israel based on alleged human rights violations during the war in Gaza. (Getty Images)

Brits in Israel

UK scrambles to charter flights out of Israel as Brits complain about response from government

Brit stuck in Israel amid spiralling war call for Foreign Office to think of ‘more creative solutions’

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Citizens repatriated from Israel disembark a flight from Egypt at Figo Maduro airport in Lisbon on June 19, 2025. A Portuguese flight brought repatriated citizens of Portuguese, German, Israeli, Czech, Spanish, Austrian, Bulgarian, Argentine and Ukrainian nationality. Governments are evacuating thousands of their nationals caught up in the rapidly spiralling Israel-Iran conflict, after Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign on June 13, 2025 targeting Iran's nuclear and military facilities, sparking retaliation from Tehran. (Photo by MARIO CRUZ / AFP) (Photo by MARIO CRUZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

‘I feel more safe in Israel than anywhere else in the world’: Chief Rabbi speaks from Herzliya

Sir Ephraim Mirvis says attempts to draw equivalence between the Jewish State and Iran are ‘intolerable’

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

The Chief Rabbi has been sharing messages of hope from Israel, where he is stranded with thousands of other Brits as the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to strike the Jewish State (Photo: Screenshot/Facebook)

Israel-Iran War

Trump says he will decide whether to join war with Iran in ‘next two weeks’

US involvement in the war is considered necessary to destroy the remaining Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow

By Jewish News Syndicate

3 min read

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: U.S. President Donald Trump stops and talks to the media before he boards Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on June 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The President will attend the annual meeting of the Group of 7 nations, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States are taking place in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta, and will run until late Tuesday. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Israel Briefing

More than half of Iran’s missile launchers have been destroyed: JC Israel Briefing Day 623

Israeli security sources claim the covert Operation Narnia killed Iran’s ten most senior nuclear scientists while they slept last week.

By In Israel

3 min read

Iran

Lord Hermer ‘warned PM’ that UK involvement in Iran War ‘may be illegal’

Either way, the British government may face an awkward choice if the US decides to launch its own strikes on the Islamic Republic

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Israel

The day both my daughters went out to dance and never came back

Sigal Shteiner Manzuri’s two daughters were murdered at the music festival massacre on October 7, 2023

By Imogen Garfinkel

6 min read

Sigal with her daughters Norelle (left) and Roya (right), who were murdered at the Nova music festival on October 7. (Courtesy of Sigal Shteiner Manzuri)

US Politics

Pentagon’s chief Israel planner sacked after ‘death cult’ comments

Colonel Nathan McCormack called the Jewish State America’s ‘worst ally’ and claimed its government was loaded with ‘Judeo-supremacist cronies’

By Jewish News Syndicate

2 min read

The Pentagon's chief Israel planner Colonel Nathan McCormack (left) has reportedly been sacked from his role after making incendiary posts about the Jewish State on social media (Image: Sergeant Kani Ronningen/US Army photo)

Iran

Khamenei assassination is now ‘an objective’ of Israel’s war

Defence Minister Israel Katz said that the IDF is aiming to ‘prevent the existence’ of Iran’s supreme leader

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Iran

Trump ‘approved plan’ to strike Iran unless eleventh-hour ceasefire agreed

The president is reportedly ‘holding off’ in case Tehran agrees to give up its nuclear programme altogether

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

President Trump has reportedly 'approved' a plan for direct US strikes against Iran (Image: Getty)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 622: Iran hits Israeli hospital

Plus, UK sign off needed for US iran strikes

By In Israel

2 min read

Israel-Iran

Soroka hospital in Beersheva hit by Iranian ballistic missile

Six injured in other strikes by Iran this morning

By Jewish News Syndicate

2 min read

Israeli emergency services inspect a heavily damaged building at the site of an Iranian missile attack in Ramat Gan in central Israel (Getty Images)

Hostages

‘I feel like a mother to the soldiers who killed my son’

Iris Haim, the mother of former hostage, Yotam, who was killed after escaping captivity, was speaking in London

By Gaby Wine

9 min read

‘I feel like a mother to the soldiers who killed my son’

Israel

Foreign Office sent Brits stranded in Israel message about imaginary ‘charter flight’

The department insisted that no repatriation flights had been chartered and that the email was an ‘administrative error’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

The British government has evacuated the relatives of its embassy staff from Tel Aviv (Image: Getty)

Iran

Israeli military source claims Iran’s military leadership is ‘on the run’

"The Iranian military leadership is on the run," he says after the IDF killed Iran's new wartime chief of staff, Ali Shadmani.

By Jewish News Syndicate

3 min read

Iran

Israeli-linked hackers claim $90m data theft from major Iranian cryptocurrency exchange

The group, known as Predatory Sparrow, claimed they would release sensitive information in an attempt to get investors to pull their assets out of the system

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Israeli-linked hacker group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly stolen sensitive data from a major cryptocurrency exchange in Iran (Image: Getty)

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