Jake Wallis Simons

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

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

BBC’s selective outrage spotlights settler violence – while framing French protests as ‘mostly peaceful’

Too often the broadcaster’s big stories bear only a passing resemblance to the complicated historical truth

3 min read

Protesters wave a Palestinian flag during October demonstrations in Paris (Photo: Getty Images)

Ron Dermer (Image: State Department, Michael Gross, Wikipedia)

Ron Dermer calls it ‘fake-ocide’ – the poisonous lie to bring about Israel’s destruction

5 min read

Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize makes a mockery of the award for its embrace of anti-Israel bias

3 min read

Benjamin Netanyahu hugs Yaniv Hayun at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 (Photo: Kobi Gideon (GPO)/Prime Minister of Israel's Office/X)

How Israel’s history forged a nation of heroes

5 min read

The progressive gaslighting of Jews on both sides of the Atlantic

If we stay silent about how the demonisation of Israel fuels antisemitism, the vilification intensifies. If we object, we are accused of conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism

3 min read

September 30, 2026 17:25

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband (Image: X)

The West joins the UN’s anti-Israel hate fest

The grotesque lies, hyperbole and blood libels directed against the Jewish state that were once the preserve of despotic regimes have entered the European mainstream

4 min read

September 25, 2026 17:08

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a Middle East conference during the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2026 (Image: Getty)

Fauda’s truthful Gaza war drama trumps the blood libel of the Naza ‘documentary’

Unlike the film celebrated in Venice, the Netfix show makes nothing up – the actors were on the ground, the scenes are based closely upon reality and have been verified. It set out to entertain and did more for Israel’s case than its own government has managed since October 7

4 min read

September 14, 2026 16:26

Naza film poster (l), Fauda poster (Image: The Guardian, Netflix)

Hamas congratulates Labour – exposing the moral bankruptcy of the government’s Israel policy

Can Andy Burnham look the families of the victims of October 7 in the eye and say he did the right thing? Can Ed Miliband, who presented himself so transparently in the Commons as ‘a proud British Jew’?

3 min read

September 10, 2026 18:07

Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband (Image: Parliament TV)

Symbolic sanctions to appease ‘muppet’ backbenchers threaten a real-world crisis for Britain

Diplomats have admitted this move was all about optics – but it could yet trigger Burnham’s first serious Trumpian crisis

3 min read

September 8, 2026 11:47

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband departs after attending a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on September 8, 2026 (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP via Getty Images)

The UN leader lit a candle for a Hamas commander – the organisation is ‘no longer fit for purpose’

United Nations’ Secretary-General António Guterres was mourning Imad Yousif El Samhouri, who was filmed climbing out of the terror tunnels beneath Gaza and identified as a top terrorist. The institution’s collapse is now a realistic option

10 min read

August 26, 2026 15:33

António Gueterres and Annalena Baerbock light an “eternal flame” at the United Nations headquarters for Imad Yousif El Samhouri, right (Photo: UN Watch)

If the Chinese regime is funding pro-Gaza marches on London’s streets, democracy is at risk

Protest group Code Pink is under investigation by the US Congress, accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from a network linked to the Communist Party in Beijing

4 min read

August 19, 2026 13:09

Protesters march down Regent Street during the 'Ceasefire Now Stop The Genocide In Gaza' demonstration on February 3, 2024 (Image: Getty Images)

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

August 7, 2026 11:59

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

If Auntie could apply its newfound willingness to admit wrongdoing to its real failings – starting with its relentlessly negative coverage of the Jewish state – that would be genuine progress

2 min read

August 3, 2026 15:44

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

The more desperate legacy outlets get for audiences, the more closely they are aping the figures whose main contribution to our culture is to contaminate our lives with falsehood

3 min read

June 26, 2026 18:49

Yalda Hakim and Tucker Carlson (Image: Sky News)

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

By committing to withdraw all troops and lift sanctions in return for little more than a promise not to pursue nukes, the US president has emboldened the West’s enemies and set the stage for future confrontations

3 min read

June 18, 2026 16:31

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

‘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

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Jake Wallis Simons

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

BBC’s selective outrage spotlights settler violence – while framing French protests as ‘mostly peaceful’

Ron Dermer calls it ‘fake-ocide’ – the poisonous lie to bring about Israel’s destruction

Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize makes a mockery of the award for its embrace of anti-Israel bias

How Israel’s history forged a nation of heroes

More from Jake Wallis Simons

The progressive gaslighting of Jews on both sides of the Atlantic

The West joins the UN’s anti-Israel hate fest

Fauda’s truthful Gaza war drama trumps the blood libel of the Naza ‘documentary’

Hamas congratulates Labour – exposing the moral bankruptcy of the government’s Israel policy

Symbolic sanctions to appease ‘muppet’ backbenchers threaten a real-world crisis for Britain

The UN leader lit a candle for a Hamas commander – the organisation is ‘no longer fit for purpose’

If the Chinese regime is funding pro-Gaza marches on London’s streets, democracy is at risk

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

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