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Your must-see guide to Jewish Book Week - The Jewish Chronicle

1 month ago | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

The significance of Jewish Book Week’s opening-night event is conveyed by its title: Arts in the Age of Boycotts. The very fact that the biggest Jewish cultural event of the year begins by tackling cultural sanctions against Jewish artists and institutions speaks not just to widespread bigotry over the war against Hamas, but something deeper and, sadly, historically recurrent. But we begin in the recent past.
Shame on Islington North for falling for magic grandpa again

Jul 5, 2024 | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

So, the good people of Islington North have spoken. Just as Britain abandons Project Corbyn, the intelligentsia of Highbury Fields holds on – as Roger Waters once sang – to the dream. I have a confession. I was born in Islington and lived there for many years. And yes, I do feel more than a trickle of shame.
IDF admits to accidentally killing three Israeli hostages

Dec 15, 2023 | thejc.com | Josh Kaplan |Orlando Radice

The Israeli army has admitted IDF troops accidentally killed three hostages during combat in southern Gaza. According to a statement released by spokesman Daniel Hagari this evening: "During combat in Shejaiya, the IDF mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat. As a result, the troops fired toward them and they were killed. "During searches and checks in the area in which the incident occurred, a suspicion arose over the identities of the deceased.
Jewish children told ‘I’ll kill you murderers’ amid wave of violence and abuse in London

Dec 15, 2023 | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

UK Jewish children told ‘I’ll kill you murderers’ amid wave of violence and abuse in London Security group records spate of vile attacks and abuse against Jews in north London Jews in London’s Stamford Hill have been hit by a wave of sickening abuse in the past week.
Hamas brings in $1 billion a year - the same as Somalia’s national budget, say economists

Dec 11, 2023 | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

Western economists have estimated that before the war Hamas was bringing “at least” $1 billion a year into Gaza - similar to the national budget of Somalia, a country with a population that is seven times bigger. Of that revenue, around half – $500 million a year – was being made from the terror group’s investment and business portfolio.
Stamford Hill attack: Jewish woman ‘kicked unconscious’ as attackers ‘laughed’

Dec 8, 2023 | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

UK London Jewish woman is ‘kicked unconscious’ as attackers ‘laughed’ CCTV footage released of horrifying attack in Stamford Hill Shomrim, the Jewish security group, has released CCTV footage of a Jewish woman being kicked and beaten by two people on a dark street in Stamford Hill, north London.
At least 10 Israeli hostages were sexually abused in the tunnels, says doctor

Dec 8, 2023 | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

At least 10 of the Israeli hostages released by Hamas - both men and women - were sexually assaulted or abused while in captivity, an Israeli doctor has said. This view was corroborated by testimonies from released captives at a meeting on Tuesday that included the Israeli War Cabinet and family members of those still held in Gaza.
Greta Thunberg gave stage to activist who supported October 7 terror

Dec 6, 2023 | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

A keffiyeh-clad Greta Thunberg gave the stage at a climate rally on Sunday to a Palestinian activist who has previously supported the October 7 massacres. At one point during the address by Thunberg – who has been criticised for taking an “ill-informed, superficial” stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - one man grabbed the mic from her and told the crowd he had come for “for a climate demonstration, not a political view”.
Three more women accuse Daniel Korski of sexual misconduct

Dec 6, 2023 | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

Three more women have reportedly accused former government adviser Daniel Korski of sexual misconduct. Korski, who is Jewish, pulled out of the race for the Tory nomination for London mayor in June after TV producer Daisy Goodwin accused him of sexually assaulting her during a meeting in Downing Street a decade ago. This week, three other women spoke to the Financial Times with fresh allegations.
Hamas won’t free women who may reveal sex abuse in captivity, suggests US official

Dec 5, 2023 | thejc.com | Orlando Radice

A US State Department official has suggested that the reason the truce between Israel and Hamas fell apart was that the terrorists did not want released female prisoners revealing the sexual abuse they have faced in captivity. Under the terms of the truce, which collapsed last Friday, Hamas was to prioritise the release of children and non-IDF females.