A pro-Hezbollah London teacher has pledged to turn children into 'soldiers' while venerating Iran’s Ayatollah. My @jewishchron.bsky.social investigation reveals shocking details from a Tooting school and mosque adorned with images of Iran’s leaders. The full story: www.thejc.com/news/uk/pro-...

Pro-Hezbollah teacher in London vows to make children holy warriors

Children are taught to venerate the Ayatollah at Islamic school near a south London synagogue

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I've often reported for @jewishchron.bsky.social on the Islamic Republic’s Ayatollah's influence on the UK. Now, a new campaign aims to make Britain a #KhameneiFreeZone. With cross-party support from MPs, will the government act to dismantle Khamenei's network? www.thejc.com/news/uk/make...

Make UK a ‘Khamenei-Free Zone’! Campaign launches outside Parliament

A van circled Westminster displaying anti-regime slogans as MPs pledged support

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This week I revealed that a school in Tower Hamlets had encouraged children to fast for Gaza. Last night, George Green's School cancelled their planned action, but one Jewish parent fears that children at the London school have already been politicised www.thejc.com/news/uk/lond...

London school cancels ‘fast for Gaza’

Amid concern for pupil welfare, school in London’s poorest borough drops proposal following JC’s reporting

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Jewish parents in Scotland have told me they are considering leaving the country due to antisemitism in schools. Some children have moved schools or begun homeschooling in response to incidents of abuse and exclusion. 🧵

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Cutting-edge reporting today! Did you know the yellow brick road is paved with Jewish stars, dancing through life, straight to the Emerald City?! 💚✨ (My main issue with Bluesky thus far is not enough #WickedMovie content on my algorithm. Bluesky admins plz take note!) www.thejc.com/news/usa/wic...

Wickedly Jewish! New musical movie is chock-a-block with talented Jewish stars

The Yellow Brick Road is paved with Jewish talent for one of this year’s biggest film releases

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Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

The one and only Robert Glasper #LondonJazzFestival, girls just wanna have fun you know

Fascinating to speak to Zur, an IDF soldier on the front lines since Oct 7, who has been protesting Netanyahu, a PM he no longer trusts to deliver Israel's war aims: 'This government is very dangerous. I’m most concerned by the ministers, they do not think rationally.' www.thejc.com/news/israel/...

The IDF soldier fresh from Gaza who is turning his anger on Netanyahu

‘Is Netanyahu too busy keeping his coalition instead of ending this war?’ the soldier asks

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‘When we're on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife.’ From Samantha Harvey’s perfectly formed, luminous Booker Prize-winning novel, Orbital.

During a Remembrance Sunday service at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin with the Irish President, an Anglican cleric accused Israel of deploying ‘master race in action’ and suggested Israelis believe themselves intrinsically more valuable than other groups. www.thejc.com/news/world/i...

Irish President attended service where cleric accused Israelis of deploying ‘master race’ theory

Jewish leaders condemn anti-Israel speech at cathedral Remembrance Day event

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In this week’s @jewishchron.bsky.social, the government’s adviser on political violence warns of copycat attacks in UK after Amsterdam violence. A ‘permissive environment for violent antisemitism’ has evolved in the UK, exacerbated by inadequate policing of Gaza protests, Lord Walney told me.

Looks like the party’s started over here... let’s give this thing a go!