Daniella Peled is managing editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and has reported widely from across the Middle East.
The Iraqi-born ISIS leader, a scholar who spent four years in U.S. captivity, uses Islamic law to justify his ruthlessness, but he still enjoys soccer and fancy watches.
I expected some solidarity with fellow victims of a twentieth century European genocide. I found, instead, senior Israeli Holocaust experts happily co-opted into Serbian revisionism and denial. The reasons aren’t pretty
From Judas and his 30 pieces of silver to internet memes presenting avaricious Jewish bankers, anti-Semitic imagery linking Jews to money is nothing new. The ‘Jews, Money, Myth’ exhibition at London’s Jewish Museum is confronting the problem head-on
As a public figure, Oz was the ideal cipher on which outsiders could project their own ideas of a 'different Israel': philosophic, progressive, peace-seeking. But that idealistic dream, together with the two-state solution Oz tirelessly advocated, has long gone
Leslie Brent and Lord Alf Dubs among those urging government to take in more migrant children, like the 10,000 mainly young Jews who were saved from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940
‘Lots of things are corrosive to the soul right now in Labour, but to walk away feels like abandoning the community,’ says one left-wing activist, capturing the mood of many ahead of Tuesday’s party vote on adopting full anti-Semitism guidelines
When Gideon Levy dismisses anti-Semitism in Labour as 'Jewish-Israeli propaganda,' it's not only a betrayal of the truth and of UK Jews. It turns him into the mirror image of the Israeli leader he so despises
The fact that mainstream media outlets dismiss Hersh’s disgraceful apologetics as daft idiosyncrasy rather than what it is – fake news at its worst – is a sign, quite simply, of our utter moral failure on Syria
With rumors of a new election following the Conservative government’s latest Brexit crisis, weary British Jews are moving into damage limitation mode after Labour’s adoption of a looser, not tighter, definition of anti-Semitism
Prince Charles' presence helped the event seem more like an exercise in validation than a celebration of culture, but at least there were no angry protests by any side
When challenging anti-Semitism means you're plotting a coup and when backing humanitarian intervention makes you a warmonger: Inside the ideological farce of Britain’s Labour leadership
Gideon Rubin couldn’t believe it when his wife presented him with a copy of Hitler’s autobiography to help him on his latest work. It’s now the ‘black heart’ at the center of his new exhibition in London
Jewish organizations accuse Amnesty of stifling freedom of expression. Human rights group cites ‘significant concerns’ over participation of Hillel Neuer of UN Watch
U.K. Labour Party leader was also once chairman of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, one of Britain's most active pro-Palestinian groups
Bus shelter posters show 16-year-old activist confronting Israel soldier, in incident that led to her arrest on December 19 and subsequent indictment for assault
For the second year running a candidate touting something other than Zionism is trying her hand at engaging a broader student voice
The deputy leader of the Britain First group gained notoriety for brandishing a white cross and shouting abuse at a Muslim woman and her four young children at a rally
What links the boors in British politics and media weaponising what they call a sexual harassment 'witch-hunt' and the bigots weaponizing anti-Semitism 'smears'? That familiar ploy: victim-blaming
The one-woman show by a Labour activist – expelled from the party for anti-Semitism – staging her ‘lynching’ by ‘Zionists’ was as creepy as the crowd it attracted. The pathos, though, was unexpected
While some in the British far right display a bizarre support for Israel, National Action is unabashedly anti-Semitic and dangerous to both Jews and Muslims
Israel's very far from the most repressive Mideast state for media. So don't obstruct journalists' access for their own 'safety'– or turn them into political targets
Souad Mekhennet's 'I Was Told to Come Alone' is a very personal memoir – which at times reads like a fast-paced thriller – that tracks the development of Islamist terror since 9/11
Legal battle against BDS in the U.K. is like 'trying to shoot back against a juggernaut with a pea shooter,' says chair of U.K. Lawyers for Israel
Monday's vehicle-ramming incident outside Finsbury Park mosque came hours after numerous interfaith iftars across U.K
The attack on Muslim worshippers is unlikely to divide the UK's diverse communities, but it's highlighted the fact that Islamist terrorism is not the only threat the country faces
Whether May or Corbyn wins this week's general election, they'll interpret the series of recent terror attacks as having a decisive effect, but this will be a convenient fiction
It's hard to think of a clearer sign of the massive and rapid damage Trump has done to decades-old partnerships than Merkel's devastating speech
Trump condemns 'evil losers' behind attack ■ Netanyahu: Enlightened nations must cooperate to defeat terror ■ Man arrested in connection to attack, BBC reports
Incumbent premier Theresa May, a previous home secretary, has been focusing on 'strong and stable' leadership, while Corbyn might find himself at distinct disadvantage
Ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who has been accused of anti-Semitism since the early 1980s, has been suspended from the party for a year, but more punishment might be in store.