Jake Wallis Simons

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

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

Bafta for Gaza: Britain’s media elites help fuel the jihadi propaganda campaign against Israel

The wilder the accusations against the Jewish state, the more likely you are to be showered with awards

2 min read

(Left to right) Ben De Pear, Ramita Navai, Karim Shah, Melanie Quigley and Menna Hijazi, 2026 winners of the Current Affairs Award for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (Image: Alamy)

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, congratulates Zoë Garbett after her election as mayor for Hackney (Image: Getty)

The success of the Greens is another kick in the teeth for Britain’s Jews

3 min read

Police in Golders Green at the scene of the stabbing on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty)

Who’s to blame for antisemitism? The Jews, of course

4 min read

Simon of Trent blood libel (Image: Wikipedia)

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain

2 min read

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

March 19, 2026 17:52

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

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

The sight of Foreign Office officials celebrating the Islamic Republic’s revolution at its London embassy – alongside Britain’s failure to proscribe the IRGC – reveals a dangerous softness towards Tehran

4 min read

March 16, 2026 12:15

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

Visiting the Kyiv synagogue where Jewish life continues under fire

The rabbi of the Ukrainian capital’s Brodsky Synagogue spends half the year on the frontline, encouraging troops

5 min read

March 11, 2026 10:01

Rabbi David Millman in. the shul in Kyiv

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

So far, it has escaped Israeli and American bombs… but the smart money is on the site becoming a smouldering crater in the near future

4 min read

March 4, 2026 11:57

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

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

2 min read

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)

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Jake Wallis Simons

Latest from Jake Wallis Simons

Bafta for Gaza: Britain’s media elites help fuel the jihadi propaganda campaign against Israel

The success of the Greens is another kick in the teeth for Britain’s Jews

Who’s to blame for antisemitism? The Jews, of course

From medieval blood libels to ‘Israeli baby killers’ – how antisemitism endures in Britain

More 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

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