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UK imposes partial arms embargo on Israel

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The British government suspended some arms sales to the Israel Defense Forces on Monday, claiming there is a “clear risk” the weapons could be used by the Jewish state’s military to “commit or facilitate...

UK probing reported harassment of Oct. 7 survivors at Manchester Airport

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The United Kingdom is investigating a report that two survivors of the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7 were discriminated against upon their arrival at Manchester Airport on Sunday. British Home Secretary James...
IDF soldiers stumbled onto a well-kept graveyard of World War I soldiers. Credit: IDF Brigade 188.

IDF soldiers stumble upon World War I graveyard in Gaza

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Israeli soldiers made an unexpected historical detour while fighting in the Gaza Strip when they ran across a well-kept World War I British military cemetery. Adding to the surprise was that some of the graves...
From left: Nancy Robinette, Daniel Oreskes, Richard Masur, Ari Brand and Ethan Haberfield in “Prayer for the French Republic.” Credit: Courtesy.

Catch the Holocaust before it disappears

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If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
A satellite view of Alderney, the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA via Wikimedia Commons.

UK government reviewing number of deaths at Nazi camps on British soil

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The British government announced a landmark review last week into Nazi camp deaths on the island of Alderney, which the Germans occupied between 1940 and 1945. Officially, 389 marked graves have been found, but some estimates...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog with Prince Charles at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, England, Nov. 22, 2021. Photo by Koby Gideon/GPO.

King Charles to visit Israel

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Preparations are underway for newly crowned King Charles of England to become the first British sovereign to visit the Holy Land, British media reported on Sunday. “The preparation has been done by his team to...
Orde Wingate Square in Jerusalem. Villa Salameh (the Belgian Consulate) is at the left. Credit: Yoninah via Wikimedia Commons.

German official urged to resign after calling British officer Israeli ‘war criminal’

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A German official has been pressed to resign or be fired immediately for making accusations about a decorated World War II British Army hero and icon in Israel, reported Fox News. Michael Blume, commissioner against anti-Semitism...
University of Central Lancashire's Harris building, March 2, 2007. Credit: Felter via Wikimedia Commons.

British student under investigation for drawing of swastika

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The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston, England is investigating an incident in which a student had a swastika and a racial slur drawn on his chest during a drinking game. “At UCLan we...
From left: Holocaust survivors at Bergen-Belsen. Harry (Chaim) Olmer, Mala Tribich, Eve Kugler and Alfred Garwood. Photo by Sam Churchill.

March of the Living UK focuses on nuance as it brings delegation to Germany...

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GERMANY—The two provocateurs who approached the group at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany at the end of October knew what they were doing. What they probably didn’t realize was that they helped cement...
Illustrative photo of a judge. Credit: Zolnierek/Shutterstock.

British court sentences Holocaust denier to prison time for ‘baiting Jews’

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A woman in Britain said to be a virulent anti-Semite has been found guilty of spreading offensive messages and material over the Internet and was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison by a magistrate...