Jake Wallis Simons

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

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

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

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

3 min read

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

The unbearable lightness of Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell

3 min read

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

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

3 min read

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)

From Dreyfus to Netanyahu, Jews have always faced trial by media

There are striking similarities in the complicity of the international press

4 min read

November 24, 2024 11:39

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged in Gaza (photo: Getty Images)

Revealed: Jay Rayner left Observer over ‘antisemites on Guardian staff’

The editor, Kath Viner, ‘likes to deny it’ and ‘has not had the courage to face them down,’ he wrote in a private Facebook post

2 min read

November 22, 2024 17:38

Writer Jay Rayner will leave the Observer in a couple of months' time and join the Financial Times as restaurant critic (Image: Getty)

It shouldn’t be our job to police the police

The Met is reviewing its decision to take no further action over an Imam who prayed for the destruction of Jewish homes – after JC reporting

3 min read

November 21, 2024 10:06

Police officers observe a pro-Israeli counter-demonstration in London (Photo by CARLOS JASSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli warplanes deliver night of clinical attacks on Iranian military targets

The IAF hit ballistic missile manufacturing sites and air defence batteries

1 min read

October 26, 2024 07:03

IAF F-35 stealth fighter aircraft. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

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Jake Wallis Simons

Latest 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

More from Jake Wallis Simons

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

From Dreyfus to Netanyahu, Jews have always faced trial by media

Revealed: Jay Rayner left Observer over ‘antisemites on Guardian staff’

It shouldn’t be our job to police the police

Israeli warplanes deliver night of clinical attacks on Iranian military targets