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9 May 2025
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In a profoundly moving piece, the Telegraph's Allison Pearson recounts the desperate fight of Mandy Damari to free her daughter from Hamas, grappling with the failures of global diplomacy and the horror of living in limbo.
An Israeli author is suing for antisemitism after being detained at Luton Airport for wearing an "End Jew Hatred" T-shirt and carrying a poster promoting a talk on the October 7th attacks.
The arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant should be the last the International Criminal Court issues, says Stephen Daisley. The ICC must fall.
Arrest warrants have been issued for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court in a move condemned as an "assault on the universal right of self-defence".
A police raid on a pensioner for calling a Green Cabinet Minister a "moron" online has shone an overdue spotlight on Germany's repressive speech laws that ban insulting politicians, says Eugyppius.
UNRWA, whose staff were suspected of assisting in the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel, has been shortlisted for a Nobel Peace Prize. The 'peace' committee really does hate Israel that much.
At first, Muslim extremists in Gaza and elsewhere banned Pokémon as part of an alleged Jewish plot to undermine Islam. But more recently they embraced it for its propaganda value, says Steven Tucker.
Keir Starmer has written a piece for the Sunday Times commemorating the October 7th massacre. But there's just one crucial word missing from it, says Frederick Attenborough: Hamas. Why?
Israel invaded Lebanon this morning, its troops entering the hostile country to its north for the first time since the war of 2006. The Telegraph's Adrian Blomfield says it's starting to feel like all-out war.
As the anniversary of the October 7th massacre approaches, Nick Rendell gives a perspective on the scale of the deaths by showing that the number of 15-44 year-olds who died dwarfs weekly deaths over the past five years.
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