Opinion

Twelve days of war: what did Israel achieve?

Israel decapitated the Iranian regime’s leadership and destroyed its most prized assets, but the ayatollahs remain in place

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

4 min read

This handout satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on June 22, 2025, shows Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), northeast of the city of Qom, after US strikes on the site. President Donald Trump said US air strikes early on June 22 "totally obliterated" Iran's main nuclear sites, as Washington joined Israel's war with Tehran in a flashpoint moment for the Middle East. (Photo by Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/ SATELLITE IMAGE ©2025 MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - THE WATERMARK MAY NOT BE REMOVED/CROPPED

To the backdrop of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan leads the chant of 'Death to the IDF' at the Glastonbury festival (Image: Getty).

By The JC Leader

Glastonbury and the BBC must answer for platforming anti-Israel hate

3 min read

Bob Vylan frontman Bobby Vylan led a Glastonbury crowd in chants of 'death, death to the IDF' (Image: Getty)

Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury’s death cult: When ‘progressive’ Britain turns its back on Jews

By Hen Mazzig

4 min read

Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street (Image: Getty).

Parliament

On welfare reform, as on Israel, is Starmer being bossed around by his backbenchers?

By Lorin Bell-Cross

5 min read

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After the strikes: The six steps to fully dismantle Iran’s nuclear programme

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Palestinians clear burnt belongings in their house after a reported attack overnight by Israelis from a nearby settlement (Getty Images)

Settlers

Settler violence is corrosive to the soul of Israel – It must be confronted

But we must not lose sight of the fact that Jihadism and Arab rejectionism are the true enemies that squat at the heart of this conflict

By Jake Wallis Simons

4 min read

By Arsen Ostrovsky

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

They struck Iran’s nuclear programme not only in defence of their own countries, but in protection of the free world. Indeed, not since 1940, has so much been owed by so many to so few

3 min read

US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on April 07, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been set back by years

Israel and the US hold the upper hand after the bold strikes on Iran

4 min read

IN FLIGHT, UNITED STATES: A B-2 Stealth Bomber flies towards a refuel stop with an KC10 refueling jet as part of Global Power Launch training mission out of Whiteman Air Force Base, Home of the 509th Bomb Wing and all US B-2 Stealth Bombers 30 October, 2002 some where over Missouri. The US will deploy B2 Stealth bombers closer to the Gulf region to increase the US firepower there amid mounting pressure on Iraq. AFP PHOTO / TIM SLOAN (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

By Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Khomeini’s war: Sunni Islamists taught Shia Iran to hate Israel

The ayatollahs adopted the Muslim Brotherhood’s worldview to make the destruction of the Jewish state the regime’s holy cause. The Shia leadership in Najaf now has the chance to return the Shia world to pacifism

3 min read

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini (l), smiles at something Yasser Arafat is saying February 18, 1979 in Tehran, Iran. The Ayatollah's son has his hand on Arafat's shoulder. (Image: Alamy)

Leaders

Never again is now: Trump bombs Iran’s path to another Holocaust

The President strikes a severe blow to Iran’s nuclear programme. As always when Israel is involved, a strange coalition of bedfellows unites to criticise US military action

By The JC Leader

3 min read

Following the announcement that the US bombed nuclear sites in Iran, President Donald Trump addresses the nation alongside US Vice President JD Vance (L), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (2nd R) and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R), from the White House on June 21, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

The paradox of preemption is that the very success of such an operation conceals the scale of the danger it prevented

3 min read

Smoke rises from a location targeted in Israel's wave of strikes on Tehran, Iran, on early morning of June 13, 2025. (Imaghe: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Trump could be about to cut a bad nuclear deal just as a weak Iran closes in on the bomb

Such an agreement would risk trading fleeting calm for long-term peril

3 min read

Iranian protesters hold placards outside the Omani embassy hosting a fifth round of nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, in Rome on May 23, 2025. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

If Israel is maligned as uniquely evil; Jews will never be safe

The idea that one can demonise and dehumanise Israel and Zionism – both central to modern Jewish identity – without targeting Jews defies reality and rests on a linguistic sleight of hand

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Opinion

Twelve days of war: what did Israel achieve?

Glastonbury and the BBC must answer for platforming anti-Israel hate

Glastonbury’s death cult: When ‘progressive’ Britain turns its back on Jews

On welfare reform, as on Israel, is Starmer being bossed around by his backbenchers?

Latest from opinion

After the strikes: The six steps to fully dismantle Iran’s nuclear programme

Settler violence is corrosive to the soul of Israel – It must be confronted

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been set back by years

Khomeini’s war: Sunni Islamists taught Shia Iran to hate Israel

Leaders

Never again is now: Trump bombs Iran’s path to another Holocaust

Israel may have done the world an incalculable service – but do not expect many thank-yous

Trump could be about to cut a bad nuclear deal just as a weak Iran closes in on the bomb

If Israel is maligned as uniquely evil; Jews will never be safe

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