Oxford Union: Israel is a greater threat than Iran

The Oxford Union on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion declaring Israel a greater “threat to regional stability” than Iran following a debate between Hillel Neuer, the director of UN Watch, and Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian Authority prime minister, The Jewish Chronicle reported. Read more

Tel Aviv University economist among three Nobel Prize laureates sharing prize

Joel Mokyr, a Tel Aviv University scientist and dual citizen of Israel and the United States, on Monday won the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Philippe Aghion of the College de France and the INSEAD business school, and Peter Howitt, a professor emeritus of economics at Brown University. Read more

Ex-leader of UK Jews criticised for saying Gaza war ‘incompatible with Judaism’

Members of the British Jewish community are taking former Board of Deputies of British Jews president Marie van der Zyl to task over her statement that the war against Hamas in Gaza is “incompatible with the core values” of Judaism. Read more

Israeli rabbi marries off fallen son’s ex-fiancée

Nearly two years after Capt. Amitai Tzvi Granot was killed fighting Hezbollah terrorists in the Galilee; his father, Rabbi Tamir Granot, officiated on Monday at the wedding in Caesarea of Amitai Tzvi’s former fiancée, Roni. Read more

Report: IDF bans Chinese cars from bases to prevent data leaks

The Israel Defence Forces has banned all China-made vehicles on its bases out of concern for information security, Israel’s Army Radio reported on Tuesday. Read more

52 Jewish kids said taken off flight in Spain for singing in Hebrew

More than 50 French Jewish youths were removed from a Vueling flight in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday, allegedly for singing in Hebrew and following anti-Israel rhetoric directed at them by staff of the low-cost airline, according to Israel’s minister for combating antisemitism. Read more

Amsterdam concert hall offers a show to anti-Israel duo Bob Vylan

Paradiso, a feted concert hall in Amsterdam, announced on Wednesday it had offered a solo show to Bob Vylan, a British duo that recently highlighted the chant “Death to the IDF.” Read more

Herzog slams ‘genocidal’ Hamas at global summit on Holocaust

At an international meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday about Holocaust commemoration, Israeli President Isaac Herzog urged governments worldwide to help free the hostages in Gaza from “genocidal, jihadist” Hamas, as he termed the terrorist group. Read more

Douglas Murray: Israel can’t afford to leave Hamas in Gaza

Despite mounting international pressure and war costs, Israel cannot afford to end it war “with Hamas in power in any form,” British public intellectual Douglas Murray told JNS last week. Read more

Israeli FM: Guterres ‘personally accountable’ for UNRWA crimes

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar went on the offensive on Monday against the U.N., accusing it of antisemitism, complicity in terrorism, and anti-Israel bias with its legal action against Jerusalem over the UNRWA aid agency for Palestinians. Read more

Israeli official: We’re not downplaying Pope’s death

An Israeli official pushed back on Wednesday against claims that Israel was muting its reaction to the death of Pope Francis last week. Read more

Soccer star Haaland video chats with freed Israeli hostage

Omer Shem Tov, a former hostage of Hamas terrorists in Gaza, on Wednesday posted online a video of him speaking on the phone with Norwegian football star Erling Haaland. Read more

500 items uncovered at Auschwitz ahead of 80th anniversary

A Polish woman and her son last week turned over a cache of at least 500 objects recovered more than 80 years ago from the Auschwitz death camp, including a child’s ragdoll and a prisoner’s uniform. Read more

In Amsterdam, anti-Israel pogrom recalls pre-Holocaust era

Walking through the misty streets of Amsterdam on a cold November night, two young Jewish men feigned confidence and casual body language so as not to arouse the suspicion of dozens of antisemitic thugs looking for victims to assault. Read more