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Galloway was in Syria at the invitation of Parliament speaker Mahmoufd Abrash to deliver a lecture on "Justice in the new world order". (AP Photo Sana)" loading="lazy" title="Now deposed Syria President Bashar Assad, right, meets George Galloway in Damascus in 2005. Galloway was in Syria at the invitation of Parliament speaker Mahmoufd Abrash to deliver a lecture on "Justice in the new world order". 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(AP Photo InterVision)" title="In this image taken from video, pro-Palestinian supporters march with Palestinian flags near the Ajax stadium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo InterVision)" /></a> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="date">December 17, 2024, 7:35 pm</div> <div class="headline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-is-there-any-safe-haven-for-jews-today/"> OPINION: Is there any safe haven for Jews today? </a> </div> <div class="underline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-is-there-any-safe-haven-for-jews-today/">Even when deep tensions exist we must focus on the process of reconciliation, argues Rabbi Marc Schneier</a> </div> <div class="byline"> By <a title="Rabbi Marc Schneier" href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/rabbi-marc-schneier/">Rabbi Marc Schneier</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item template1 news"> <div class="media"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-unseen-economic-impact-of-current-events-on-jewish-life/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.jewishnews.co.uk/jewishnews/uploads/2023/03/Charity-coins-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Most recently, donations to the Community Security Trust rose from £7.8m for calendar year 2022, to £10m" loading="lazy" title="Most recently, donations to the Community Security Trust rose from £7.8m for calendar year 2022, to £10m" /></a> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="date">December 13, 2024, 11:13 am</div> <div class="headline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-unseen-economic-impact-of-current-events-on-jewish-life/"> OPINION: The unseen economic impact of current events on Jewish life </a> </div> <div class="underline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-unseen-economic-impact-of-current-events-on-jewish-life/">As British Jews rally to support Israel and global emergencies, local welfare and community services face funding shortfalls amid shifting charitable priorities</a> </div> <div class="byline"> By <a title="Dr Jonathan Boyd" href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/dr-jonathan-boyd/">Dr Jonathan Boyd</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item template1 news"> <div class="media"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-divided-kingdom-what-happened-to-free-speech/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.jewishnews.co.uk/jewishnews/uploads/2024/12/BHRPPX-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Cancel culture has silenced free speech in this country." loading="lazy" title="Cancel culture has silenced free speech in this country." /></a> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="date">December 12, 2024, 11:26 am</div> <div class="headline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-divided-kingdom-what-happened-to-free-speech/"> OPINION: Divided kingdom: what happened to free speech? </a> </div> <div class="underline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-divided-kingdom-what-happened-to-free-speech/">Once a bastion of debate, Britain now faces rising polarisation, stifled discourse and a dangerous culture of ideological conformity</a> </div> <div class="byline"> By <a title="Shimon Cohen" href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/shimon-cohen/">Shimon Cohen</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item template1 news"> <div class="media"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-wicked-and-malicious-galloway-may-be-but-i-never-had-him-down-as-nuts/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.jewishnews.co.uk/jewishnews/uploads/2024/12/2PE077J-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Now deposed Syria President Bashar Assad, right, meets George Galloway in Damascus in 2005. Galloway was in Syria at the invitation of Parliament speaker Mahmoufd Abrash to deliver a lecture on "Justice in the new world order". (AP Photo Sana)" loading="lazy" title="Now deposed Syria President Bashar Assad, right, meets George Galloway in Damascus in 2005. Galloway was in Syria at the invitation of Parliament speaker Mahmoufd Abrash to deliver a lecture on "Justice in the new world order". (AP Photo Sana)" /></a> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="date">December 12, 2024, 9:20 am</div> <div class="headline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-wicked-and-malicious-galloway-may-be-but-i-never-had-him-down-as-nuts/"> OPINION: Wicked and malicious Galloway may be, but I never had him down as nuts </a> </div> <div class="underline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-wicked-and-malicious-galloway-may-be-but-i-never-had-him-down-as-nuts/">...Until last weekend when he appeared to have gone full-tonto into looney 9/11 'troofer' land</a> </div> <div class="byline"> By <a title="John Ware" href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/john-ware/">John Ware</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item template1 news"> <div class="media"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-a-holocaust-survivors-story-transformed-my-life/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.jewishnews.co.uk/jewishnews/uploads/2024/12/D38F9R-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon (pictured) speaks at a Holocaust Memorial Day UK Commemoration event held in London" loading="lazy" title="Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon (pictured) speaks at a Holocaust Memorial Day UK Commemoration event held in London" /></a> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="date">December 11, 2024, 11:33 am</div> <div class="headline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-a-holocaust-survivors-story-transformed-my-life/"> OPINION: A Holocaust survivor’s story transformed my life </a> </div> <div class="underline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-a-holocaust-survivors-story-transformed-my-life/">Recent events reveal how deeply rooted and insidious antisemitism remains, writes Kirsty Young, chief of staff at the Holocaust Educational Trust</a> </div> <div class="byline"> By <a title="Kirsty Young" href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/kirsty-young/">Kirsty Young</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item template1 news"> <div class="media"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-media-obsession-with-gaza-fuels-backlash-against-jews/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.jewishnews.co.uk/jewishnews/uploads/2024/12/2YW9ABT-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Damascus, Syria. 10th Dec, 2024. A man burns a picture of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad close to Syria's border with Lebanon. Rebels launched a shock offensive across Syria in late November, ousting President Bashar al-Assad and ending more than half a century of the Assad family regime. (Credit Image: © Sally Hayden/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire) EDITORIAL USAGE ONLY! Not for Commercial USAGE! Credit: ZUMA Press Inc/Alamy Live News" loading="lazy" title="Damascus, Syria. 10th Dec, 2024. A man burns a picture of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad close to Syria's border with Lebanon. Rebels launched a shock offensive across Syria in late November, ousting President Bashar al-Assad and ending more than half a century of the Assad family regime. (Credit Image: © Sally Hayden/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire) EDITORIAL USAGE ONLY! Not for Commercial USAGE! Credit: ZUMA Press Inc/Alamy Live News" /></a> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="date">December 10, 2024, 2:20 pm</div> <div class="headline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-media-obsession-with-gaza-fuels-backlash-against-jews/"> OPINION: Media obsession with Gaza fuels backlash against Jews </a> </div> <div class="underline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-media-obsession-with-gaza-fuels-backlash-against-jews/">As atrocities in Syria and Sudan are overlooked, distorted coverage intensifies anti-Israel sentiment, echoing the darkest chapters of history</a> </div> <div class="byline"> By <a title="Alex Brummer" href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/alex-brummer/">Alex Brummer</a><span class="add-after"></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item template1 news"> <div class="media"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-this-chanukah-we-light-up-with-pride/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.jewishnews.co.uk/jewishnews/uploads/2022/12/Chanukah-2022-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Trafalgar Square lighting up for Chanukah last year" loading="lazy" title="Trafalgar Square lighting up for Chanukah last year" /></a> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="date">December 10, 2024, 11:36 am</div> <div class="headline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-this-chanukah-we-light-up-with-pride/"> OPINION: This Chanukah we light up with pride </a> </div> <div class="underline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-this-chanukah-we-light-up-with-pride/">JLC’s #LightWithPride campaign urges British Jews to stand tall against hate, celebrating resilience and identity in the face of mounting hostility</a> </div> <div class="byline"> By <a title="Claudia Mendoza" href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/claudia-mendoza/">Claudia Mendoza</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item template1 news"> <div class="media"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-assads-fall-is-a-blow-to-russian-and-iranian-autocracy/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.jewishnews.co.uk/jewishnews/uploads/2024/12/2YTXFG7-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, in the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)" loading="lazy" title="People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, in the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)" /></a> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="date">December 9, 2024, 4:59 pm</div> <div class="headline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-assads-fall-is-a-blow-to-russian-and-iranian-autocracy/"> OPINION: Assad’s fall is a blow to Russian and Iranian autocracy </a> </div> <div class="underline"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-assads-fall-is-a-blow-to-russian-and-iranian-autocracy/">End of decades of terror marks a turning point for Syria, as its allies reel from humiliating setbacks in their quest for dominance </a> </div> <div class="byline"> By <a title="Jeremy Havardi" href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/jeremy-havardi/">Jeremy Havardi</a><span class="add-after"></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item template1 news"> <div class="media"> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-golan-heights-back-in-the-crosshairs-as-assad-finally-falls/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.jewishnews.co.uk/jewishnews/uploads/2024/12/2YTXFG7-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, in the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)" loading="lazy" title="People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, in the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. 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