Opinion

Responsible reporting on the real death toll in Gaza must start now

War is chaos, but careful and rigorous study and reporting of death tolls remain essential

By Gabriel Epstein

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Palestinians look for survivors in the rubble of the Shaheen family home, in the Saftawi neighbourhood, west of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, after it was targeted in an Israeli strike on June 9, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP) (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli paramedics and forces are on the scene where buildings are destroyed as a result of Iran's missile attack in Tel Aviv on June 22, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Shany Mor

When Israeli civilians die, human rights norms disappear

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Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union inspect the damage at Kafr Malik village in the West Bank, following an attack by Israeli settlers (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

The settler activists who attack the soldiers sent to protect them

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Protesters hold placards and wave Israeli flags as they take part in a demonstration "Rape is NOT resistance" outside the BBC headquarters, in London, on February 4, 2024 to bring attention to the plight of the kidnapped Israeli women in Gaza who have been held by Hamas for over 110 days. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

Letters

Letters to the Editor, July 4 2025

By The JC

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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

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New York

Zohran Mamdani and the Corbynisation of New York

He eats rice by hand to fake Third World authenticity. Identitarian theatrics, anti-Zionism, and socialism are coming to the world’s largest Jewish city

By Dominic Green

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By Maureen Lipman

Lipman and Bernstein. Do you believe in this combination?

Paying tribute to a musical great

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American composer Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990), 1963. (Photo by J. Wilds/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

The anti-Israel BBC requires root-and-branch reform

This latest scandal is not a blunder. It is the result of a culture that treats the Jewish state as uniquely suspect

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Thousands protest the BBC's refusal to label Hamas as terrorists, outside Broadcasting House in October 2023 (Image: Getty Images)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Christians unite for Israel at a summit with a very Jewish feel

Millions of Americans are members of Christians United for Israel, and their 20th annual summit emphasised their support for the Jewish community

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Israeli and American flags at the CUFI summit (Photo: CUFI)

Leaders

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

After festivalgoers chanted ‘Death to the IDF,” Health Secretary Wes Streeting resorted to ‘whataboutism’, sending exactly the wrong message at the wrong time

By The JC Leader

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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

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

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