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Israel to close British consulate in Jerusalem and ban Corbyn and Green MPs in response to Miliband settlement sanctions

All elected members of Zack Polanski’s party, as well as the former Labour leader and an anti-Israel lawyer, will be barred from entering the Jewish State

By JC Reporter

5 min read

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP via Getty Images)

Ed Miliband

Miliband accuses Israel of turning a blind eye to ‘ethnic cleansing’ as he introduces trade ban on settlement goods

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

Former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove (Image: Getty).

MI6

Former MI6 chief: Labour’s sanctions amount to virtue signalling that could harm UK-Israel security relationship

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham (Image: Getty Images)

By Kemi Badenoch

Labour’s anti-Israel obsession shows it hasn’t changed since Jeremy Corbyn was leader

3 min read

Israel

Huckabee warns UK of backlash against ‘irrational discrimination’ of settlement sanctions

By JC Reporter

4 min read

Andy Burnham

Downing Street rejects Mike Huckabee’s claim that Britain’s government ‘hates Jews’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

President Herzog

President Herzog slams ‘anarchist’ settlers amid surge in West Bank violence

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

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Board of Deputies rejects action against Yachad over support for Israel sanctions

Board president Phil Rosenberg said the body recognised political diversity in the community

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

September 6, 2026 15:52

Yachad executive director Hannah Weisfeld in meetings with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband (left) and Middle East minister Stephen Doughty (Photo: Facebook/Yachad)

Israel sanctions could threaten British security, shadow foreign secretary warns

Planned sanctions could impede our ability to prevent terror attacks, Tom Tugendhat has said

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

September 6, 2026 11:06

Shadow foreign secretary Tom Tugendhat said Israel has been integral to helping thwart 'a lot of' incidents in the UK (Photo: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Labour must listen to Jewish leaders about the dangers of sanctioning Israel

Repeated ministerial declarations that antisemitism has ‘no place’ in Britain ring increasingly hollow unless accompanied by an understanding of the environment in which contemporary antisemitism flourishes

2 min read

September 3, 2026 10:31

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband (Image: Office of the Chief Rabbi)

By Yaakov Katz

Netanyahu just condemned settler violence – now what will he do about it?

The question is not whether Israel’s security forces can identify the people behind these attacks. The question is whether they have been told to make it a priority

5 min read

September 1, 2026 14:52

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (Getty Images)

British activist ‘kidnapped’ by settlers to be deported back to UK

Finn Joughin was detained ‘on suspicion of performing an indecent act against a minor’, according to Israeli police, an allegation which his lawyer denies

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

September 1, 2026 14:36

British Jewish leaders warn trade sanctions against Israel could harm community and bilateral ties

Board of Deputies, JLC and Chief Rabbi say Labour’s planned measures risk fuelling antisemitism, emboldening extremists and encouraging a wider boycott movement

By JC Reporter

3 min read

August 31, 2026 08:55

A placard reading "Free Palestine, Boycott Israel" is held up among protesters carrying Palestinian flags (Image: Getty)

Former UK ambassador to Israel warns sanctions against settlements may backfire

Matthew Gould writes in Sunday Times to say measures may fuel sense of Israel being under siege and will alienate Knesset leaders across political mainstream

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

August 30, 2026 12:29

Then ambassador Matthew Gould visits the site where a rocket from the Gaza Strip landed in Be'er Sheva, Israel, March 2011 (Uriel Sinai/Getty)

West Bank law enforcement to shift from IDF to Israel Police

Defence Minister Israel Katz said the army was not ‘capable of handling the enforcement of civil issues’ amid the ‘welcome increase in the number of settlers’

By Gabrielle Apfel

1 min read

August 14, 2026 15:00

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz during a press conference in Athens, Greece, on January 20, 2026 (Getty Images)

IDF sends troops to break settler siege of West Bank village

Extremists have been blockading Qusra since Sunday, repelling evacuation attempts by the military

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

August 13, 2026 10:49

Israeli soldiers and settlers in the village of Qusra, West Bank, on August 12, 2026 (Getty Images)

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settlements

Israel to close British consulate in Jerusalem and ban Corbyn and Green MPs in response to Miliband settlement sanctions

Miliband accuses Israel of turning a blind eye to ‘ethnic cleansing’ as he introduces trade ban on settlement goods

Former MI6 chief: Labour’s sanctions amount to virtue signalling that could harm UK-Israel security relationship

Labour’s anti-Israel obsession shows it hasn’t changed since Jeremy Corbyn was leader

Huckabee warns UK of backlash against ‘irrational discrimination’ of settlement sanctions

Downing Street rejects Mike Huckabee’s claim that Britain’s government ‘hates Jews’

President Herzog slams ‘anarchist’ settlers amid surge in West Bank violence

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