Jake Wallis Simons

Jake Wallis Simons was the editor of the Jewish Chronicle from 2021-2025

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

United Nations

The ‘14,000 dead babies’ smear shows how low Israel’s critics will sink

A UN claim that should have never been believed has spread all over the anti-Israel ecosystem

2 min read

Aid deliveries are set to resume in Gaza as Israel ends its two-month long blockade of the Strip (Image: Getty)

A Hamas fighter stands in front of a banner, bearing an altered portrait of Israel's Prime Minister and the Bibas family (Getty)

Israel’s war isn’t about ‘victimhood’, it’s about the moral imperative to destroy Hamas

3 min read

Kit Malthouse this week signed a letter calling on the UK government to recognise the State of Palestine (Getty images)

Tory push to recognise Palestine shows they’re not serious about winning

4 min read

Louis Theroux's documentary on the settlers on BBC 2 (BBC)

To demonstrate ‘impartiality’, the BBC shows the worst Jews they can find

4 min read

We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan

The mayor’s Eid message used the Sudan conflict as a cover for attacking Israel

3 min read

April 3, 2025 12:58

The rot runs deep at the BBC, but some training would be a start

It’s no surprise that corporation bosses turned down offers of education against antisemitism

3 min read

April 1, 2025 14:35

BBC director-general Tim Davie and (left) chairman Samir Shah face questions earlier this month at the Commons' Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee (screenshot: Parliament)

The unbearable lightness of Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell

Albanese was granted the soft treatment that her hosts would want if they were confronted with their involvement in the Iraq War

3 min read

March 25, 2025 16:19

Francesca Albanese claimed that allegation of antisemitism against her have been 'weaponised' to stifle her criticism of Israel (Image: The Rest is Politics)

Israel’s self-defence always offends more than the jihadi atrocities that triggered it

Hamas is not the IRA. This is a war that must be won

3 min read

March 20, 2025 17:19

Israeli troops gather standing atop a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip (Getty)

Silence over jihadi butchery in Syria tells you all you need to know about the West’s distorted view of the Middle East

Islamist fighters have been torturing and massacring civilians

4 min read

March 11, 2025 08:46

Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government ride in the back of a vehicle moving along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Why couldn’t London light up for the Bibas family?

Cities all over the world marked their tragic deaths, but Sadiq Khan’s London was a notable absence

2 min read

February 27, 2025 17:22

The Brandenburg Gate lit up for the Bibas family (Getty)

‘Unbalanced’ New York Times Israel coverage reflects the parallel reality we now live in

In Britain, we have our answer to The New York Times in the BBC

3 min read

February 13, 2025 17:21

Half of the articles centred around the Israel-Gaza conflict published in the New York Times failed to mention the hostages seized by Hamas, according to a study (Photo: Getty)

This was the year the Jews were told ‘the Holocaust is not about you’

Holocaust Memorial Day has been so debased that it is no longer fit for purpose

3 min read

January 29, 2025 17:52

President Higgins controversially addressing the Holocaust Memorial Day event in Dublin

The cruel theatre of Gaza shows how well Hamas understands psychology

While the West has ‘emotional empathy’, the jihadis have ‘cognitive empathy’. The results are deadly

3 min read

January 29, 2025 14:54

The cruel theatre of Gaza shows how well Hamas understands psychology

Is Ireland the most antisemitic country in the West?

The shameful manhandling of a Jewish woman at a Holocaust Memorial Day event is just Dublin’s latest disgrace

3 min read

January 27, 2025 16:09

Lior Tibet, a Shoah expert, is dragged out of a Holocaust Memorial Day event in Dublin

‘We must think globally to tackle antisemitism’ says US Jewish leader

Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, toured Europe to show solidarity

3 min read

December 17, 2024 10:48

Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, speaks at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv in 2023

With Assad gone, now is the time to bomb Iran’s nukes

If one message has emerged in intelligence circles in recent weeks it is that Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ is not all it was cracked up to be. The Ayatollah is sitting atop a papier mâché fort

4 min read

December 10, 2024 11:19

Is the Ayatollah sitting in a papier-mâché fort? (Photo: OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Jake Wallis Simons

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

The ‘14,000 dead babies’ smear shows how low Israel’s critics will sink

Israel’s war isn’t about ‘victimhood’, it’s about the moral imperative to destroy Hamas

Tory push to recognise Palestine shows they’re not serious about winning

To demonstrate ‘impartiality’, the BBC shows the worst Jews they can find

More from Jake Wallis Simons

We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan

The rot runs deep at the BBC, but some training would be a start

The unbearable lightness of Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell

Israel’s self-defence always offends more than the jihadi atrocities that triggered it

Silence over jihadi butchery in Syria tells you all you need to know about the West’s distorted view of the Middle East

Why couldn’t London light up for the Bibas family?

‘Unbalanced’ New York Times Israel coverage reflects the parallel reality we now live in

This was the year the Jews were told ‘the Holocaust is not about you’

The cruel theatre of Gaza shows how well Hamas understands psychology

Is Ireland the most antisemitic country in the West?

‘We must think globally to tackle antisemitism’ says US Jewish leader

With Assad gone, now is the time to bomb Iran’s nukes