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1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Alex Hearn

   A year after Heaton Park, I’m not so sure this government has the back of British Jews - The Jewish Chronicle (opens the original)

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   Yom Kippur is looming, but this year it doesn’t feel the same. After the Heaton Park attack in Manchester this time last year, many British Jews will have a different feeling walking into synagogue. Nearly six in ten British Jews now try not to show any visible sign of their Judaism in public. Sixty-one per cent have considered leaving the country in the past two years, up from 50 per cent the year before. We only know any of this because a Jewish charity paid for the polling. The effects accumu

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2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Alex Hearn

   Restore Britain activists are coming after me – they’ll need to join the queue, behind the far left - The Jewish Chronicle (opens the original)

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   Restore Britain activists don’t like me. They’ll need to join the queue, behind the far left, who got there first. It is now so long that it must be snaking down streets and out of town. If anything it is encouraging. The two ends of the queue have more in common than either would admit. Neither can take criticism. Both descend on their critics en masse. And when their own words are put back to them, neither disowns them. They reach instead for a devious Jewish plot, and complain that they are t

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