4 d. ago Police fear Maccabi Tel Aviv fans WILL attend Aston Villa game and brace for pro

MIKE KEEGAN: Police are on a double alert for pro-Israel protests and the prospect of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans securing tickets for their Europa League match at Aston Villa next month.

Sport

8 d. ago Is it wrong to ban Israeli fans from Aston Villa game for security reasons?

A BACKLASH is growing after Israeli fans were banned from an upcoming Aston Villa game because it's a "high security risk". The Europa League match in Birmingham on November 6 comes as Israeli fans are targeted by protests whenever they play away from home. Pro-Palestine protests erupted outside the national side’s match against Italy on Tuesday and...

Politics

9 d. ago Police remove firearms from the family home of an Oxford University student who was arrested for 'inciting racial hatred' after he led chants of 'put the Zios in the ground'

Firearms and ammunition were seized at the family home of anti-Israeli protester Sam Williams today. Uniformed officers arrived at the quiet cul-de-sac in Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, around lunchtime.

Events

9 d. ago The bizarre Chicago ‘rat hole’ tourist attraction may not be what it seems

The landmark gained widespread attention early last year after comedian Winslow Dumaine shared a photo

Politics

1 week ago ‘We’re ripping ourselves to shreds’: with dance music bitterly divided, how far should cultural boycotts go?

Some artists and audiences are boycotting Boiler Room and other events over its parent company’s links with Israel – creating fierce debate about the best way to protest and how to remain uncompromisedThose attending Boiler Room’s two-day festival in London’s Burgess Park in August may have noticed a troubling message spray-painted on the site’s perimeter fence: “Boiler Room is owned by Israeli arms investors.” In nearby Brockwell Park, which hosted Field Day, Cross the Tracks and Mighty Hoopla – three festivals belonging to the same group as Boiler Room – graffiti depicted a bomb with the letters “KKR” emblazoned on it.In June 2024, the controversial private equity giant KKR acquired Superstruct Entertainment, the company that owns these four festivals and tens of others, many of which were the subjects of boycotts by artists this summer. That’s because KKR has considerable business interests in Israel, including investments in Axel Springer SE, a German media company that runs cla...

Culture

1 week ago Trump's peace deal speech to Israeli parliament is halted by screaming protesters

President Donald Trump's speech to the Israeli parliament was interrupted by screaming protesters on Monday morning.

Politics

1 week ago As Israelis nervously await the release of loved ones, sick mob chants 'Death to the IDF'... while supporters of Britain's Jews are arrested

Pro-Palestine protesters shouted 'death, death to the IDF' yesterday as desperate Israeli families waited to be reunited with their kidnapped loved ones.

Events

2 w. ago Tight security and political tension hang over key Norway v Israel World Cup qualifier

The hosts in Oslo are closing in on qualification but the politics surrounding their visitors’ presence casts a shadow over the footballIt will be the most high-security sports event in Norway since the Winter Olympics in 1994. Anti-terror measures are in place throughout Oslo; a no-fly zone will be implemented in the skies above Ullevi Stadion and through all the tension it could be easy to forget that the national team are within touching distance of a first World Cup appearance for 27 years. Beating Israel would put them on the verge but the visitors’ presence has added multiple layers of complexity and controversy.That will be clear on Saturday afternoon, when a crowd of several thousand is expected to march peacefully from the centre of Oslo to a stage set up near the ground. It has been organised by the Palestine Committee in Norway under the slogan “Red card for Israel” and other bodies will be holding their own protests too. Outside Grønland metro station, posters of unclear...

Politics

2 w. ago ‘It feels like a dream’: protests come to end as Israelis sing in ‘hostages square’

After 733 days, news of agreement greeted with celebration in Tel Aviv and stickers saying: ‘They’re coming home’For 733 days, Israelis have come to Hostage Square in Tel Aviv with a yellow piece of tape on their shirts bearing the number of days since 251 hostages had been taken captive by Hamas-led militants. On Thursday, the yellow stickers remained but the tally was gone. In its place was a simple phrase: “They’re coming home.”For two years, protesters had occupied the square, which faces the Israeli military headquarters, with an encampment and held rallies demanding the hostages be returned from Gaza. The area – soon nicknamed Hostage Square – was filled with art installations, pictures of the hostages and an electronic screen counting the days and seconds that hostages had been in captivity. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Palestine protests live: University students begin demonstrations despite warnings on October 7 anniversary

A inter-university march through central London is taking place this afternoon

Events

2 w. ago Unmasked: PhD student who cut Israeli hostage ribbons as Starmer condemns October 7 anniversary protests

Nadia Yahlom, of London, used scissors to brazenly snip the memorial bands that the Jewish community had tied to railings in honour of the 251 people taken hostage by Hamas.

Events

2 w. ago Palestine protests live: Starmer labels university students’ march ‘un

A inter-university march through central London is taking place this afternoon

Society

2 w. ago Furious bystanders confront woman cutting down ribbons for Israeli hostages as Starmer condemns protests on October 7 anniversary

The young female was filmed armed with a pair of scissors which she uses to brazenly snip the memorial bands that have been tied to railings by the Jewish community.

Events

2 w. ago ‘A club nobody wanted to be a part of’: Families of Americans killed by Israel face uphill climb to justice

Dozens of American citizens have been killed by Hamas and Israel – but the US government has taken a very different approach to the latterWithin hours after they were told that Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi had been killed by an Israeli sniper while at a protest in the West Bank last year, her family was on a phone call with the parents of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza more than two decades ago.The families were introduced by a mutual contact in Washington state, where both Corrie and 26-year-old Eygi had lived. There were other parallels in their stories: Corrie was protesting against the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Rafah when a soldier drove over her; Eygi was at a protest against settlement expansion near Nablus. Both had traveled to the region with the International Solidarity Movement, a group that for years has brought foreign activists to stand with Palestinians against Israel’s occupation. An Israeli ...

Society

2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch condemns 'tolerance' of radical Islamism saying 'carnival of hatred' on Britain's streets must end

Opening Tory conference, Kemi Badenoch argued that protests amounting to 'carnivals of hatred' against Israel were being allowed on British streets.

Politics

2 w. ago ‘No one’s been willing to take a risk’: are Palestinian films still struggling to get seen?

As a genocide continues, the road to audiences has been smoother for Israeli films while Palestinians must get inventiveThis March, two documentaries on the aftermath of the 7 October 2023 attacks reached theaters within days of each other. One, called October 8, focused on the “emergence of antisemitism on college campuses, on social media and on the streets” after Hamas forces killed more than 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians. The film, executive-produced by Debra Messing, was widely released by Briarcliff Entertainment, a maverick distribution studio that has also handled Trump biopic The Apprentice and Jamal Khashoggi documentary The Dissident; Messing promoted the film on mainstream programs such as MSNBC’s Morning Joe. It ultimately grossed more than $1.3m domestically, a high total for a political documentary.The other film, The Encampments, faced a tougher road. A documentary on campus protests against Israel’s retaliatory destruction of Gaza, focusing...

Events

3 w. ago Spain, Italy and Portugal brace for mass protests against Israel's war in Gaza

Spain, Italy, and Portugal are preparing for mass protests against Israel's war in Gaza

Events

3 w. ago Global protests after all Gaza aid flotilla ships captured by Israeli military in ‘calculated act of intimidation’

Over 400 volunteers have been detained in the notorious Ketziot prison in the Negev desert

Events

3 w. ago Greta Thunberg Gaza flotilla live: Israel ‘finalising deportation’ as final vessel intercepted and global protests erupt

Solitary vessel was stopped 42 nautical miles from Gaza, in a move that organisers, state leaders, and rights groups have called ‘illegal’

Politics

3 w. ago Protests held in Manchester after Gaza aid flotilla seized by Israeli forces

A protest was held in the city centre today

Politics