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Aliyah in wartime Israel: Building a new home, opening an English bookstore

From London curator to Tel Aviv entrepreneur, Michal Goldschmidt turned uncertainty into opportunity, opening Bookhaus during wartime and building a new community space for English readers.

APRIL 26, 2026|ByABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

BRITISH AUTHOR and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray gestures as he speaks on stage during an evening against the rise of anti-semitism in Europe, at the Theatre Antoine, in Paris on June 3, 2024.

Conservative British pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray joins Yeshiva University

Murray, who is not Jewish, was appointed as the inaugural President’s Professor of Practice, a role the university billed as bringing “a leading public intellectual into the academic setting."

JANUARY 29, 2026|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

People attend an anti-Israeli protest after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, June 20, 2025

Drunk on Jew-hatred, Iran’s horrors go unmentioned - opinion

Western outrage over Israel contrasts sharply with silence on Iran’s mass killings, exposing ideological bias and moral blindness.

JANUARY 16, 2026|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG

Samuel Williams, a student at Oxford University's Balliol College, was suspended by the university over the chant "put the Zios in the ground."

'Put the Zios in the ground’: Oxford University student charged for violent chant

Samuel Williams, 20, was originally arrested on October 15 after videos of him circulated online chanting, “Gaza, Gaza, make us proud; put the Zios in the ground.”

DECEMBER 16, 2025|ByMICHAEL STARR

Oxford University Press announces Word of the Year 2024

‘Brain rot’ is a noun defined as, “Supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material."

DECEMBER 3, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Oxford Union debate marred by heckling: 'Apartheid' Israel committing 'genocide'

The proposition that "Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide," passed 278-59 after a debate which saw opposition speakers jeered and shouted at.

DECEMBER 1, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR

TENTS ARE pitched outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, as students occupy parts of British campuses in support of Palestinians in Gaza, this week. Supporters of genocidal jihadist groups are spreading mayhem across the Western world, says the writer.

'Unbridled Jew-hatred': Yoseph Haddad kicked out of 'anti-Israel' Oxford Union debate

"I faced insults, boos, and threats during the confrontation, but there was one thing I wasn’t willing to tolerate—the disgrace of our hostages," Haddad said about what occurred.

DECEMBER 1, 2024ByKESHET NEEV

Footage of Yoseph Haddad being kicked out of the Oxford Union debate

Rhodes scholarship extends application deadline amid Israel conflict

Rhodes extends the deadline for Israeli applicants impacted by the war, offering two scholarships worth $320,000 each for study at Oxford.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

“These are not ordinary times”: Doron Weber, National Secretary for Rhodes Israel.

Fifth-century Persian gold coins unearthed in Turkey

A cache of fifth-century BC Persian gold coins was discovered in Notion, Turkey, revealing insights into ancient life and conflict.

AUGUST 8, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Bar Kochba Coins found in the Judean Desert.

Police arrest protesting students at Oxford University sit-in protest, protesters claim

British police arrested about a dozen Oxford University students during a pro-Palestinian sit-in, where protesters called for divestment from companies linked to Israel.

MAY 23, 2024ByREUTERS