Richard Ferrer

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Richard Ferrer

Pro-Palestine yobs have sprayed red paint on an insurance company’s offices in the City of London. Members of protest group Palestine Action targeted Allianz Insurance offices in Gracechurch Street on Monday morning, scaling the building with a flag reading “Drop Elbit” and spraying the office with red paint. The group has repeatedly targeted Allianz, which it claims has links to the Israeli-based defence firm Elbit Systems.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Richard Ferrer

Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf resort has been vandalised by activists in response to the US president’s statements on Gaza. The golf course in South Ayrshire, owned by the US president, was targeted overnight, with activists painting Gaza Is Not For Sale in three-metre high letters on the lawn, and damaging the greens including the course’s most prestigious hole, used in Open Championships. Red spray paint was used to deface the elite club house at the 800-acre resort, on Friday night.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Richard Ferrer

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a new part of the immune system which provides researchers with a new place to look for antibiotics, according to a new study. Research published in the journal Nature says the development could help tackle the growing problem of superbugs which resist existing drugs. According to the study, researchers in Israel discovered a part of the body known to recycle proteins can also generate bacteria-killing chemicals.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Philissa Cramer |Richard Ferrer

A Florida editor says he was fired by his local paper, part of a national network, after he ran a cartoon that was critical of the death toll in the war in Gaza. Tony Doris says he was fired as editorial page editor at the Palm Beach Post in February after the paper, owned by the company Gannett, got blowback about the cartoon from local Jewish leaders.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Josh Glancy |Richard Ferrer

I’ve developed a strange obsession of late. Each weekend, when Hamas’s hostages have been released back to Israel, I sit on social media watching family reunion videos. Again and again and again. It began with the first group. Seeing Emily Damari back with her mother Mandy, who campaigned so relentlessly on her behalf. Making a “rock on” sign with her mangled, shot up hand, turning her injury into a symbol of defiance.