Link to hypocrisy: https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/2114671771676824042

Link to BBC “facing backlash” https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/10/26/bbc-green-party-activist-free-rein/

And a reminder that these weaponized anitsemitism smears no matter how obviously bunk are absolutely abused by Labour to censor anyone opposing Israel.

The United Kingdom is leaning towards backing Emirati diplomat Lana Nusseibeh as secretary-general of the United Nations, Middle East Eye can reveal.

Nusseibeh’s candidacy has drawn controversy over the United Arab Emirates’ role in Sudan’s civil war, where it is accused of supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, whose mass killings UN investigators say bear the “hallmarks of genocide”. The UAE denies the allegations.

Her candidacy has also drawn criticism over the UAE’s close ties with Israel.

American forces in the Middle East are prepared to launch a major new military offensive against Iran within 96 hours of receiving an order from President Donald Trump, two U.S. officials told CNN in a report published Monday. The necessary forces are already deployed in the region, but Trump has not made a final decision on whether to authorize the operation.

The potential campaign would be considerably broader than the limited strikes carried out against Iranian military assets in recent months. U.S. Central Command and the Pentagon have developed an extensive list of possible targets, including nuclear facilities, military installations and energy infrastructure.

The number of Palestinians killed today in Israeli bombardments across Gaza has risen to seven, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

We reported earlier that five people had been killed in strikes across Gaza: two in Khan Younis city, and three in attacks around the Islamic University campus in northern Gaza City.

Now, Wafa says that figure has risen to seven, as it reports two more deaths and a number of people “critically wounded” following a drone strike in the al-Mazraa area, east of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Troops took over homes in the Khallat Manna and Dahiyat al-Zaytoun areas of southern Hebron to be used as barracks, official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, citing sources.

They also forced residents from homes in other neighborhoods and used the properties as observation posts, said sources.

The evictions follow the forced displacement of hundreds of families since Friday, amid extensive raids, road closures, and tight restrictions on movement.

Israeli gunfire kills a Palestinian young child in the Gaza Strip’s central city of Deir el-Balah.

The girl was reported dead after she was shot by Israeli forces positioned east of the city, a source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital told our colleagues on the ground.

Israeli troops have levelled a neighbourhood in Hebron, driving out hundreds of families in collective punishment for a militant attack on an army checkpoint outside the West Bank city, local Palestinian authorities said.

The Hebron municipality estimated that 35 hectares (86 acres) had been destroyed or marked for destruction and about 1,500 people had been evicted from their homes by Saturday afternoon in the district of Ein Deir Baha. The whole city of 250,000 people was sealed off by checkpoints on every point of entry.

Netanyahu said Israel would “act to destroy this place”. Smotrich who is standing for election in a smaller coalition party, had himself filmed wearing body armour in front of a Palestinian building being demolished. He said he had ordered “the immediate demolition of a wide row of illegal Arab structures adjacent to the attack site”.

Two gunmen shot and killed at least seven people and wounded 34 others in an attack on a church in Jordan’s Karak region on Friday, the Public Security Directorate said.

State-owned broadcaster Al-Mamlaka reported that the gunmen got out of a vehicle and opened fire during a funeral procession at Hamoud Church. Some of the wounded are in critical condition, the report said.

An eyewitness told the station that the gunmen, one carrying a rifle and another carrying a pistol, fired continuously for several minutes before fleeing the scene.

Between 150 and 200 people were inside and around the church at the time, according to the witness, who added that most of the victims were aged between 50 and 70.

A gunman has killed one person ⁠⁠and wounded five others, including a 12-year-old girl, in a possible Islamophobic “terrorist crime” in the Paris suburbs, authorities said.

An unidentified 39-year-old male suspect was taken into custody shortly after the attacks in the towns of Trappes and nearby La Verriere outside the capital on Friday.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the suspect fired at a children’s playground, a fuel station and a medical centre, the Reuters news agency reported. Three of the victims, including the 12-year-old girl, suffered life-threatening injuries, he said.

The Bell report itself says that “almost three in five (59 percent) who identify as Jewish” reported “having experienced antisemitism”. But where does this figure come from?

The report itself says that “a significant proportion of Jewish children are educated in Jewish schools.” It adds: “In the 1970s an estimated 20 percent of all school-aged Jewish children attended Jewish schools and this has risen to nearly 70 percent.”

Ninety-two Jewish students took part in the survey, out of 5,000 respondents. The report says: “It is important to note the data collected is not representative of all school and college students and a low sample size of 92 students who identify as Jewish should be treated with caution. Nevertheless, the conclusions still provide a valuable insight into students’ experience of antisemitism.”

The annex further notes: “These results are not representative of the entire student population as a significant number within this age group have not applied to study at university or college.”

Of the 92 Jewish students, 70 of them responded to a question about whether they have personally experienced or witnessed antisemitism. Twenty-nine Jewish students said they had experienced antisemitism, which equalled 41 percent of the Jewish respondents, not three in five, which would be 60 percent.

The survey found that 30 percent of students who did not identify as Jewish said they had personally experienced discrimination, bullying or harassment. Of these, 21 percent said this was due to their religion and 46 percent said it was due to their race or ethnicity.

The lead reviewer into antisemitism in British schools has previously been accused of singling out Muslim schools by suggesting they could potentially threaten Britain’s coherence as a nation, it has emerged.

Sir David Bell, who led the antisemitism review published this week, made the remarks in 2005 when he was the head of Ofsted, Britain’s schools regulator.

Meanwhile Iqbal Sacranie, then the secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “With only 3 percent of Muslim children attending Muslim faith schools, it is astonishing that they have been singled out in this way, especially when considering the fact that state-funded Muslim schools and many independents are now outperforming the state sector.”

Sacranie criticised Bell’s remarks, saying "we consider it highly irresponsible to suggest that the growth of Muslim faith schools poses a threat to ‘our coherence as a nation’.