Jake Wallis Simons

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

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

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

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

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

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

4 min read

Rabbi David Millman in. the shul in Kyiv

Visiting the Kyiv synagogue where Jewish life continues under fire

5 min read

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

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

4 min read

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

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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

The year in review: Scandal rocked the BBC – but the bias that betrays licence fee-payers is unshakable

Misleading viewers over Donald Trump led the headlines, yet the Corporation’s failure to report objectively on Israel and Gaza was far worse

5 min read

December 22, 2025 12:35

ITV’s Breaking Ranks: The latest piece of genocide porn smearing the Jewish state

A documentary built around a carefully curated cast of Israeli progressives serves up yet another dose of pseudo-investigative TV – stripped of context and mainstream views – all designed to reassure Britain of what it already thinks about the IDF

3 min read

November 13, 2025 11:56

Israeli soldiers patrolling in Gaza (Image: Getty)

As Jews were herded into a caged court, Islamists bellowed ‘Allahu Akhbar’: Villa Park was a failure of British leadership

At the match in Birmingham last night, the police and government either failed to stop the mob or actively collaborated with them

2 min read

November 7, 2025 09:23

Maccabi fans inside the basketball court where they were ushered by police (Image: Roland Leon)

Ranting next to Bob Vylan about ‘aggressive’ Israeli Jews, Louis Theroux finally comes out of the closet

In his podcast with Bob Vylan, Theroux claimed that Jews in Israel – where the majority are not white – provide the ‘prototype’ for ‘white identitarians’

2 min read

October 21, 2025 13:39

Theroux during his podcast with Vylan (Image: YouTube)

Guess what, the deal to end the war has upset the ‘Gaza genocide’ mob

It is all very confusing – as if these people do not care about the Palestinians at all

1 min read

September 30, 2025 15:01

Jeremy Corbyn, who addressed the attendees in the opening moments of the Gaza Tribunal, has rejected Trump's Gaza plan (Image: Getty)

Thousands marched against antisemitism – and Starmer’s Labour was nowhere to be seen

The glaring absence of his government on Sunday rather calls his commitment – and, yet again, his trustworthiness – into question

2 min read

September 9, 2025 09:03

Protesters hold placards and wave flags during a 'march against antisemitism' demonstration in central London on September 7 (Image: Getty)

The Green-Green alliance – Britain’s new natural home for the radical fringes

How can a Jewish political leader, even one of an irredeemably hard-left persuasion, act as the midwife to one of the darkest political forces facing British Jews today?

3 min read

September 4, 2025 16:00

From ‘dee do dee’ to ‘death to the IDF’: how music festivals lost the plot

Once a place for harmless singalongs, Britain’s summer stages have become pulpits for political dogma – with Palestine the sermon of choice and the young, naïve and impressionable the captive congregation

3 min read

August 27, 2025 14:40

Rou Reynolds at the Reading Festival (Image: Jake Wallis Simons)

How the West is amplifying Hamas propaganda

Our tendency to side with our enemies is all very well when it is limited to denigrating our history or paying reparations, but it is an entirely different matter when it comes to supporting those who will behead us

2 min read

August 18, 2025 11:42

Anas al-Sharif (left), the Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel and identified by the IDF as a Hamas operative, pictured with Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of October 7 (Image: IDF)

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Jake Wallis Simons

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

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

More from Jake Wallis Simons

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

The year in review: Scandal rocked the BBC – but the bias that betrays licence fee-payers is unshakable

ITV’s Breaking Ranks: The latest piece of genocide porn smearing the Jewish state

As Jews were herded into a caged court, Islamists bellowed ‘Allahu Akhbar’: Villa Park was a failure of British leadership

Ranting next to Bob Vylan about ‘aggressive’ Israeli Jews, Louis Theroux finally comes out of the closet

Guess what, the deal to end the war has upset the ‘Gaza genocide’ mob

Thousands marched against antisemitism – and Starmer’s Labour was nowhere to be seen

The Green-Green alliance – Britain’s new natural home for the radical fringes

From ‘dee do dee’ to ‘death to the IDF’: how music festivals lost the plot

How the West is amplifying Hamas propaganda