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Jake Wallis Simons

Jake Wallis Simons

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

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From Lammy to LBC: How Hamas propaganda has captured Britain’s discourse

It is essential that we begin to turn the tide of misinformation that is poisoning our culture. Not just for the sake of Jews and Israel, but also for the sake of the West

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Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, David Lammy (Image: Getty)

Navi Pillay, former chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Image: Getty)

The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

3 min read

Israeli President Isaac Herzog (centre, blue tie) meets with a delegation of European imams in Jerusalem (Image: President's House)

There’s nothing anti-Zionists dislike more than Muslims who want peace with Israel

2 min read

Palestinians clear burnt belongings in their house after a reported attack overnight by Israelis from a nearby settlement (Getty Images)

Settler violence is corrosive to the soul of Israel – It must be confronted

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Lord Hermer’s reported advice against UK strikes on Iran is a disgrace

The attorney general is living proof of how a dogmatic approach to ‘international law’ can be used to advance an ideological agenda

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June 19, 2025 16:17

Attorney General Lord Hermer has reportedly advised the prime minister that greater UK involvement in the Israel-Iran War 'may be illegal' (Image: Getty)

Sanction speech in the Jewish state, tolerate antisemitism all around it

While Lammy targets Israeli ministers, the UK turns a blind eye to open Jew hate from Muslim countries – revealing a foreign policy not exactly guided by principles

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June 12, 2025 15:18

Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, David Lammy, arrives at 10 Downing Street (Image: Getty)

Is there any point arguing with those that compare aid drops in Gaza to Auschwitz?

When commentators make these false comparisons, they’re showing us who they really are

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May 30, 2025 09:08

Gazans after receiving aid (Getty)

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

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May 21, 2025 12:52

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

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

Most of us want to see the war end, but Israel must be free to complete its mission

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May 16, 2025 09:10

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

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

Somehow, MPs have come to the conclusion that the Conservatives’ biggest problem is that they’re not sufficiently pro-Palestine

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May 8, 2025 10:29

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

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

Theroux’s settler documentary doesn’t illuminate – it rehearses the same old narrative

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April 29, 2025 11:43

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

We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan

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

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April 3, 2025 12:58

Sadiq Khan (Getty)

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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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