Jake Wallis Simons

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

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

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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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, 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)

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

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

5 min read

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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

I was sceptical Starmer made Labour safe for Jews to return – sadly I was right

The prime minister appeared to back Israel after October 7, then buckled under pressure from backbenchers until it got to the point where he’s being literally congratulated by Hamas

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July 31, 2025 14:41

Sir Keir Starmer and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during a campaign speech on December 6, 2019 in London, England. (Image: Getty)

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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July 23, 2025 13:10

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

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

All three commissioners of the UNHRC’s “permanent inquiry” into Israel have abruptly quit after their colleague Albanese was hit with UN sanctions. If it was so easy to get rid of them, why wasn’t action taken sooner?

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July 17, 2025 12:52

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

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

It says much about Owen Jones and Cenk Uygur that both prefer to raise hell about the imagined crimes of Israel rather than acknowledge a group of European imams who met with President Herzog in Jerusalem to work for a better world

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July 9, 2025 14:18

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

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Jake Wallis Simons

Latest 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

More from Jake Wallis Simons

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

I was sceptical Starmer made Labour safe for Jews to return – sadly I was right

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

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

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