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How unfree Qatar is shaping the free West in its own image

From campuses to media, Qatar has used its wealth to advance an Islamist agenda. The real issue isn’t that the tiny Gulf emirate is playing this game. It’s that we are

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Chequebook diplomacy: Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (second right) arriving in Baghdad ahead of the 34th Arab League summit last month (Image: Getty)

Smoke rises after a reported Israeli strike on a building used by Islamic Republic of Iran News Network, part of Iran's state TV broadcaster, on June 16, 2025 (Photo by Stringer/Getty Images)

Israel is poised to reshape and lead a new Middle East

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

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

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Protestors march down Regent Street demonstrating against military action in Gaza, August 2014. (Photo: Getty Images)

Israel’s isolation is not a new phenomenon – it follows an old pattern

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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

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June 1, 2025 12:17

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)

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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May 28, 2025 13:37

A vigil in Washington DC following the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy workers (Getty Images)

A gift to Hamas

Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions unless the Jewish state halts its military campaign. The jihadists in Gaza can’t believe their luck

3 min read

May 20, 2025 12:59

Backing Palestinian sovereignty now would reward and strengthen Hamas

To help build peace, the UK should focus on fostering Palestinian reforms: ending incitement and ‘pay-for-slay’ and replacing the cult of ‘resistance’ with a culture of coexistence

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May 14, 2025 08:55

Masked Palestinian militants stand next to one of the coffins on stage, with an altered portrait of Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu in the background, before handing over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. Hamas handed over on February 20 coffins believed to contain the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including those of the Bibas family who became symbols of the ordeal that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war began. The transfer of the bodies is the first by Hamas since its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war, and is taking place under a fragile ceasefire that has seen living hostages exchanged for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP) (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

They fought like lions in every theatre of this war – remembering the Jewish heroes of WW2

Around 1.5 million Jews took up arms against the Nazis. We must remember them to dispel the ugly myth that we went like sheep

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May 7, 2025 13:28

(l-r) Holocaust Memorial Day Trust CEO Olivia Marks-Woldman, D-Day veteran Mervyn Kersh and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust chair Laura Marks at the unveiling of the HMD 2025 impact report (Photo: HMDT)

Radicalism in our education unions has consequences – especially when it comes to Jews

At a time when too many pupils are failing, the NEU leadership is busy funding Gaza protests

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May 1, 2025 14:44

NEU General Secretary Daniel Kebede takes part in a pro-Palestine protest (Image: Getty)

Why were police protecting a hate march and not Jews?

In Southend protesters were allowed to intimidate a small community of worshippers during Passover

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April 23, 2025 10:59

Police speak to a counter protester during the Gaza march through Westcliff (Image: Alamy)

A Turkish-Sunni ring of fire looms – but Israel can prevent it with US help

Even as Israel remains locked in a struggle with Iran and its proxies, a more dangerous adversary could be emerging on its doorstep

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April 17, 2025 10:40

Turkey's growing influence in Syria should spark concern in Jerusalem and Washington alike (Image: Getty)

Only Western pressure can avert a nuclear Iran or war

The president himself warned with characteristic bluntness: If the regime does not make a deal, ‘there will be bombing’

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April 3, 2025 14:34

Only Western pressure can avert a nuclear Iran or war

With a genocidal enemy, diplomacy is not an option

Western leaders think Israel must be dragged back from the brink of victory and condemned to the purgatory of endless talks and conflict.

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March 27, 2025 11:11

Hamas fighters gather at the site of the handing over of Israeli hostages at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner release on February 22, 2025. (Photo: Getty Images)

Police must publish advice that led them to drop imam case

Voice of the JC: Danger does not have to rise to the level of terror to demand our authorities’ proper application of the law

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March 19, 2025 10:36

Police must publish advice that led them to drop imam case

Michael Higgins shamed his office and his country on Holocaust Memorial Day

The JC Leader, January 31 2025

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January 29, 2025 10:50

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Latest from The JC Leader

How unfree Qatar is shaping the free West in its own image

Israel is poised to reshape and lead a new Middle East

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

Israel’s isolation is not a new phenomenon – it follows an old pattern

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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

A gift to Hamas

Backing Palestinian sovereignty now would reward and strengthen Hamas

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Radicalism in our education unions has consequences – especially when it comes to Jews

Why were police protecting a hate march and not Jews?

A Turkish-Sunni ring of fire looms – but Israel can prevent it with US help

Only Western pressure can avert a nuclear Iran or war

With a genocidal enemy, diplomacy is not an option

Police must publish advice that led them to drop imam case

Michael Higgins shamed his office and his country on Holocaust Memorial Day