Jake Wallis Simons

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

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

The Jews will survive the West’s betrayal – the real question is, will the West?

Could the civilisation that gave the world the industrial revolution, modern medicine, the Enlightenment, liberal democracy, Beethoven, Brahms and the Beatles, really be contemplating terminal decline?

7 min read

The photo session for the Beatles Abbey Road album cover, on August 8, 1969 (Image: Wikipedia)

The BBC has finally upheld a complaint – astonishingly, it’s for alleged pro-Israel bias

2 min read

Yalda Hakim and Tucker Carlson (Image: Sky News)

The Sky News interview with Tucker Carlson is a horseshoe of betrayal

3 min read

US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in France on June 17, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

Trump’s Iran deal has led Israel and the US to the very brink of disaster

3 min read

‘Anyone who doesn’t like our alliance with Israel can mind their own business!’ Somaliland’s president tells the JC

Jake Wallis Simons reports from the Islamic country in the Horn of Africa with an unlikely but thriving friendship with Jerusalem

6 min read

May 27, 2026 13:36

President Hargeisa is interviewed by Jake Wallis Simons

Bafta for Gaza: Britain’s media elites help fuel the jihadi propaganda campaign against Israel

The wilder the accusations against the Jewish state, the more likely you are to be showered with awards

2 min read

May 11, 2026 17:30

(Left to right) Ben De Pear, Ramita Navai, Karim Shah, Melanie Quigley and Menna Hijazi, 2026 winners of the Current Affairs Award for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (Image: Alamy)

The success of the Greens is another kick in the teeth for Britain’s Jews

Antisemites are going to antisemite, but the sorry truth is that most people would rather turn a blind eye to bigotry than place themselves in the uncomfortable position of confronting it

3 min read

May 8, 2026 15:25

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, congratulates Zoë Garbett after her election as mayor for Hackney (Image: Getty)

Who’s to blame for antisemitism? The Jews, of course

That’s the clear and ancient message of a former ambassador’s letter to The Times this weekend.

4 min read

May 4, 2026 11:24

Police in Golders Green at the scene of the stabbing on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty)

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain

Shame on the media, the international institutions and activists, whether on social media or in the real world, who have so obsessively given new life to this age-old expression of hatred

2 min read

April 23, 2026 16:06

Simon of Trent blood libel (Image: Wikipedia)

Theroux’s settler doc wins – predictably, Israelophobia pays

The BPG, a group of journalists, critics and other media insiders, was always bound to conform to the trend. Whenever Jews are upset by something, the industry rallies round and doubles down

2 min read

March 19, 2026 17:52

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

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

The sight of Foreign Office officials celebrating the Islamic Republic’s revolution at its London embassy – alongside Britain’s failure to proscribe the IRGC – reveals a dangerous softness towards Tehran

4 min read

March 16, 2026 12:15

Al Quds Day rally on March 15, 2026 in London (Image: Getty)

Visiting the Kyiv synagogue where Jewish life continues under fire

The rabbi of the Ukrainian capital’s Brodsky Synagogue spends half the year on the frontline, encouraging troops

5 min read

March 11, 2026 10:01

Rabbi David Millman in. the shul in Kyiv

All eyes on Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s secretive nuclear site that may not be long for this world

So far, it has escaped Israeli and American bombs… but the smart money is on the site becoming a smouldering crater in the near future

4 min read

March 4, 2026 11:57

Pickaxe Mountain seen in a satellite image taken on February 10, 2026 (Google Earth)

What Israel’s return of Ran Gvili reveals about Jewish peoplehood

The hostages are home, both living and dead. At heart, it is about family. We feel each other’s pain, grieve each other’s losses, do our best to support each other however we can

2 min read

January 27, 2026 14:35

Israelis light the 8th candle of Hannukah in Hostage Square holding placards bearing the face of Ran Gvili in Tel Aviv on December 21, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Masih Alinejad exposed the UN’s moral bankruptcy in its silence on Iran

Her searing testimony at the Security Council stripped away decades of sanctimony, laying bare a United Nations that condemns Israel obsessively while averting its gaze from mass repression in the Islamic Republic

3 min read

January 19, 2026 11:09

Masih Alinejad, journalist and political dissident, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Iran at the UN headquarters on January 15, 2026 in New York. (Image: Getty)

West Midlands Police chief must go – but it won’t stop the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain

Once Craig Guildford and his team go, they’ll simply be replaced by officials equally paralysed by fear of Islamophobia and blind to Islamist manipulation

5 min read

January 8, 2026 18:08

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Jake Wallis Simons

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

The Jews will survive the West’s betrayal – the real question is, will the West?

The BBC has finally upheld a complaint – astonishingly, it’s for alleged pro-Israel bias

The Sky News interview with Tucker Carlson is a horseshoe of betrayal

Trump’s Iran deal has led Israel and the US to the very brink of disaster

More from Jake Wallis Simons

‘Anyone who doesn’t like our alliance with Israel can mind their own business!’ Somaliland’s president tells the JC

Bafta for Gaza: Britain’s media elites help fuel the jihadi propaganda campaign against Israel

The success of the Greens is another kick in the teeth for Britain’s Jews

Who’s to blame for antisemitism? The Jews, of course

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain

Theroux’s settler doc wins – predictably, Israelophobia pays

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

Visiting the Kyiv synagogue where Jewish life continues under fire

All eyes on Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s secretive nuclear site that may not be long for this world

What Israel’s return of Ran Gvili reveals about Jewish peoplehood

Masih Alinejad exposed the UN’s moral bankruptcy in its silence on Iran

West Midlands Police chief must go – but it won’t stop the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain