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Screen capture from video of a British five pound note featured wartime leader Winston Churchill, March 11, 2026. (Conservatives/X)
March 12, 2026, 3:58 pm
Outcry as Churchill and others set to be removed from UK banknotes
Bank of England says new bills will feature local wildlife instead of historical figures; critics scoff that man who led UK to victory in WWII will be replaced by ‘an otter’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Graffiti, including the words 'Free Palestine' and several inverted triangles -- a symbol used in Hamas propaganda to indicate an Israeli target -- is seen on a statue of Winston Churchill, in central London on February 27, 2026. (Brook Mitchell / AFP)
February 27, 2026, 4:17 pm
‘Zionist war criminal’: Anti-Israel activist vandalizes Churchill statue in London
Suspected perpetrator’s activist group says he came from Netherlands to support activists who broke into Elbit factory; graffiti includes inverted triangles used by Hamas
By Leon Kraiem
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) leave the State Dining Room of the White House after a press conference in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025, at which Trump set out a plan to end the war in Gaza. (Win McNamee / Getty Images via AFP)
February 12, 2026, 3:43 pm
Unpersuaded by Netanyahu, Trump insists on going ‘jaw-to-jaw’ with Iran and Hamas
Meeting in Washington, prime minister seemingly makes little headway with argument that talks with terror group and Tehran are futile and more military force is needed to achieve goals
By Lazar Berman
Winston Churchill in Downing Street giving his famous 'V' sign, 1943. (photo credit: Imperial War Museums/public domain)
June 4, 2023, 12:15 pm
Original Churchill World War II victory letter goes on sale for $200,000
Text written in May 1945 was signed by British prime minister, then copied and sent to his many fans
By Michael Horovitz
Franklin D. Roosevelt, flanked by Winston Churchill, right, and Joseph Stalin, sit on chairs outside the Russian embassy during their conference between November 28 and December 1, 1943, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)
February 4, 2023, 10:59 am
The (probable) Nazi plot to kill Churchill, FDR and Stalin all at once in Tehran
In their new book ‘The Nazi Conspiracy,’ political thriller writing duo Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch dig into a mysterious assassination attempt that some scholars deny to this day
By Rich Tenorio
British soldiers in Tobruk, Libya, surrendering to German forces on July 8, 1942. (AP Photo)
August 28, 2022, 10:23 pm
80 years ago, Nazis almost knocked Britain out of WWII to take the entire Mideast
In ‘1942: Britain at the Brink,’ historian Taylor Downing looks at bitter defeats for the UK that nearly threatened the empire, including Jews who took haven in Mandatory Palestine
By Rich Tenorio
From musician Sagi Zoref's electronic music videos using texts of famous speeches, some relating to racism in the 21st century (Courtesy Sagi Zoref)
June 24, 2020, 5:37 pm
Amid protests, Israeli musician offers prescient piece on race
Sagi Zoref began working on series focusing on famous speeches last year; his latest track on MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech comes at a poignant moment
By Jessica Steinberg
Protesters gather in Leeds, England, June 14, 2020, during a protest by Black Voices Matter. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)
June 15, 2020, 11:55 am
Johnson sets anti-racism panel; will defend Churchill statue ‘with every breath’
UK PM says new committee will review racial equality amid calls to confront country’s imperialist past in light of protests sparked by George Floyd’s death
By AP and ToI Staff
British police officers, left, scuffle with members of far-right groups protesting against a Black Lives Matter demonstration, in central London, June 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
June 13, 2020, 6:07 pm
Far-right activists clash with police in London despite warnings by authorities
Demonstrators rally in Parliament Square, say they want to protect monuments targeted by anti-racism protesters; Black Lives Matter backers call off planned dueling demonstration
By AP and ToI Staff
Maverick historian John Lukacs. (YouTube screenshot)
May 6, 2019, 9:59 pm
John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian and Holocaust survivor, dies at 95
A biographer of Winston Churchill, the Hungarian-born scholar lamented the erosion of ‘civilization and culture of the past 500 years, European and Western’
By Hillel Italie
Sir Winston Churchill bites at one of his famous big cigars as he takes leave of prime minister Sir Anthony Eden after lunch at 10 Downing Street in London on Nov. 22, 1955 (AP Photo)
September 10, 2018, 5:20 pm
Mi5 used mice to test Churchill’s cigars for Nazi poison, new book says
During WWII Victor Rothschild, member of famous Jewish family, would also X-ray boxes gifted to British leader to check for explosives
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Orthodox Union in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Courtesy)
May 14, 2018, 2:15 pm
Israel’s justice minister calls Trump the ‘Churchill of the 21st century’
As US moves its embassy to Jerusalem, Ayelet Shaked says president ‘reversed Chamberlain’s policy of capitulation’
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill on a visit to the British Mandate of Palestine in March 1921, nearly three decades before it became the Jewish state. (Churchill Museum)
November 1, 2017, 11:03 am
Ahead of Balfour 100, UK enshrines Churchill’s headstrong case for Israel
A new permanent exhibition highlights the British PM’s unflinching support for the Jewish state — even under heavy pressure from his government
By Robert Philpot
This auction item is a cigar once smoked by then-British prime minister Winston Churchill. Churchill's half-smoked cigar, from a 1947 trip to Paris, sold for just over $12,000 during an online auction. (RR Auction photo via AP)
October 15, 2017, 7:23 pm
Half-smoked Winston Churchill cigar sells for $12,000
Anonymous Florida collector buys 10-centimeter cigar (partially) enjoyed 70 years ago by British PM during trip to Paris
By AP
Bernie Sanders speaking to a crowd of supporters at a Democratic unity rally in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 21, 2017. (George Frey/Getty Images, via JTA)
September 22, 2017, 2:56 am
Sanders: Diplomacy, human rights must drive US world affairs
Vermont independent chides President Trump on proposed foreign aid cuts as well as handling of North Korea, Iran and terrorism
By AP
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