Jews

Why Greens vote is just the latest sign of rise of middle-class antisemitism Euan McColm

People hold a banner reading 'Globalise the Intifada is a call to murder Jews' at a protest in Golders Green, London, following the stabbing of two people in the area last month (Picture: Justin Tallis)

Why the fight against antisemitism is one all liberals must join Ian Johnston

People watch a social media video of the knife attack near the scene where two people were stabbed in the Golders Green area of London last month (Picture: Carl Court)

Polanski talking tripe about police who arrested Golders Green suspect Tom Wood

A young woman makes a simple point during a demonstration against antisemitism (Picture: Justin Tallis)

Why Jews, like all vulnerable minorities, need more than sympathy Joe Goldblatt

New South Wales premier Chris Minns visits Ahmed al Ahmed in hospital, after he was injured tackling one of the Bondi Beach terrorists (Picture: @ChrisMinnsMP/X)

How an immigrant denied Bondi Beach killers the spotlight they craved Scotsman comment

Flowers laid in memory of the victims of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday, in which 15 people, including a ten-year-old girl, were killed (Picture: David Gray)

Bondi Beach murders show importance of teaching children not to hate Joe Goldblatt

A vigil outside the Australian High Commission in central London, following the terrorist attack targeting a Jewish celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia

Jews 'contemplating leaving Scotland as they no longer feel welcome'

Scottish missionary teacher Jane Haining, pictured in happy times at Lake Balaton, Hungary, was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz-Birkenau because she refused to leave the Jewish children in her charge

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Palestine demos after synagogue attack look like victory parades Euan McColm

Police and security staff seen outside Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue after the Manchester terrorist attack (Picture: John Devlin)

Manchester terror attack shows importance of opposing prejudice Scotsman comment

Jews 'do not feel safe' in wake of Manchester synagogue attack

Falkirk's High Street hosted a peace rally as organisers stood in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The event was led by the Central Scotland Regional Equality Council, Al Masaar SCIO and Falkirk Central Mosque. Picture: Michael Gillen.

Swinney statement on Israel 'risks safety of Scottish Jews'

Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Readers' Letters: Time for Jews to intervene in Gaza

A protester lights a flare outside the Royal Courts of Justice as Palestine Action challenge proscription in a High Court hearing in London on 4 July. The ban, which critics have called draconian, will make it illegal to be a member of the group. (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Proscribing Palestine Action as terrorists is over the top

The right to protest has been turned into right to intimidate Euan McColm

People climb on the debris of an Iranian missile intercepted by Israel, near Arad, southern Israel, on 2 October

Why war between Israel and Iran now looks more likely than ever Paul Wilson

Supporters of a Pro-UK Rally endorsed by Tommy Robinson gather in George Square as activists from Stand Up to Racism Scotland also held a demonstration (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Two arrests as thousands oppose rally in Glasgow backed by Tommy Robinson

Reginald D Hunter embroiled in Fringe show anti-semitism row

A piper plays during the unveiling of the Jane Haining memorials outside St Columba's Church of Scotland in Budapest. Photo: Barta Bálint/Church of Scotland/PA Wire

Scot who refused to abandon schoolgirls to the Nazis honoured with new plaques

Gina Carano is filing a lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm following her sacking from popular TV series The Mandalorian. Cr. Getty Images.

Gina Carano to sue Disney after sacking as Elon Musk gets involved

Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson wants to see an independent Scotland in the EU (Picture: Ken Jack/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: Scotland’s future rests in being part of the UK, not EU

Tearing down posters of kidnapped Israeli children is morally repugnant Euan McColm

A Remembrance poppy wreath

Remembrance Day far is too close - Angus Robertson

This picture taken from video footage posted on the Telegram channel @askrasul shows law enforcement personnel marching past as protestors gather at an airport in Makhachkala, Russia, where a mob looking for Israelis and Jews gathered after rumours spread that a flight was arriving from Israel.

Israel urges Russia to 'maintain safety' after Dagestan airport mob incident

A lasting peace plan between Israel and Hamas representatives could end the ongoing deaths and violence

Scotsman Letters: Israel and Hamas must stop the killing and start talking

Palestinian women and children flee yesterday in the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip sparked by Hamas attacks on Israel last weekend (Picture: Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Hate and fear breed more hate and fear in Middle East

Denise Mina

Book review: Three Fires, by Denise Mina

Passover is a celebration in Judaism that commemorates the Hebrews' liberation from slavery in Egypt.

Passover 2023: What is it, how to say "Happy Passover", and what is Seder?

Jewish children were allowed to travel to the UK from Germany and Austria under the 'Kindertransport' scheme before the Second World War. Their parents were not (Picture: Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Illegal Migration Bill is a betrayal of UK’s duty to humanity – Scotsman comment

Tony Blair (pictured) and William Hague have called for the introduction of digital ID cards

Readers' letters: Digital ID cards are a charter for state snooping

A Bosnian woman cries over the newly dug graves of her two sons at a cemetery near Srebrenica in 2010, 15 years after nearly 8,000 Muslims were murdered (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Dangers posed by racism and prejudice are being overlooked – Christine Jardine

A Bosnian woman cries over the newly dug graves of her two sons at a cemetery near Srebrenica in 2010, 15 years after nearly 8,000 Muslims were murdered (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Dangers posed by racism and prejudice are being overlooked – Christine Jardine

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on the day it was liberated by Soviet soldiers, January 27, 1945 (Picture: Alexander Vorontsov/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Magic of 'ordinary people' can conquer hate that led to Holocaust

Moscow’s chief rabbi, Pinchas Goldschmidt, right, left Russia in July after the authorities put pressure on him to support the war in Ukraine. He did not (Picture: David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images)

Jews are leaving Russia again – is history repeating itself?

Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, speaks at a press conference ahead of the United Nations Security Council meeting at the United Nations in April.

Russian government official in Twitter spat over school's ‘Russification’

Jewish people celebrating Passover steer clear of bread for the duration of the festival to commemorate the fact that the Jews fleeing Egypt could not wait for their bread to rise. Instead, moderns observers eat unleavened bread, or 'matzah' as it is known – a cracker-like flatbread which is made from flour and water and is baked just long enough to prevent it from rising. Photo: stellalevi / Getty Images / Canva Pro.

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Stolpersteine project by German artist Gunter Demnig. Picture: Katja Demnig

‘The stories must not be lost’ - remembering those persecuted in the Holocaust

The gates at Auschwitz I camp. Picture: Dave Thompson/PA Wire

Experiences of antisemitism brought me closer to my family - Alexander Brown

Julián Fuks

Book review: Occupation, by Julián Fuks

Carano has been dropped by her representing agency and Disney, following her Instagram post

Gina Carano responds to being axed from The Mandalorian for 'abhorrent' views

Jewish school children gather and sit in fancy dress during a schools' annual Purim event (Photo: Shutterstock)

Jewish celebration Purim is here - here are its origins

Verger Jessica Cook lights six hundred candles set out on the floor in the form of the Star of David during a special event to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2018 in York Minster (Photo: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: what is it, and how to take part in lockdown
People have been urged to show their support of Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 by lighting remembrance candles in their window

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the party

Analysis: What next for Sir Keir Starmer after suspending Jeremy Corbyn?

Jeremyn Corbyn is an acute embarrassment to his party. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/Getty

Euan McColm: Labour will rue the day if it doesn’t get shot of Corbyn

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Labour party leader Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Question time (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London on April 29, 2020.

Here’s what Keir Starmer must do to live up to expectations - Euan McColm

Passover is an important festival in the Jewish calendar, with celebrations set to begin this week

Passover 2020: When the Jewish festival begins - and how UK lockdown could impac...

People visit the Hall of Names in Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum (Picture: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)

Amid rising anti-semitism, we must remember people like Holocaust victim Regine ...

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at the launch of the Labour Party race and faith manifesto at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, north London. PA Photo. Picture date: Tuesday November 26, 2019. See PA story POLITICS Election. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Jeremy Corbyn refuses to say sorry over ‘poison’ of antisemitism within Labour

Serial controversialist Peter Hitchens. Picture: Contributed.

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Lord Triesman

Labour's Lord Triesman quits party over 'institutional anti-Semitism'

George Galloway. Picture: PA

George Galloway rejects calls to apologise for 'anti-semitic' tweet

Jane Haining.

Book tells the full story of the woman whose heroism inspired Braes High film

Jane Haining assisted Hungarian women in securing jobs as domestic servants five years before she was taken to the Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp where she died in 1944

Scottish heroine helped women flee the Nazis

People wait outside a mosque in central Christchurch following the mass shooting (Picture: Mark Baker/AP)

Christchurch mass murderer and 9/11 terrorists are one and the same – leader com...

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