Posts Tagged: UK Jews
UK Chief Rabbi Receives Knighthood in King Charles’s First New Year Honors List
Britain's chief rabbi was among several Jewish dignitaries to feature on the first New Year Honors list assembled by King Charles III, who ascended to...
Why Did BBC Chairman Meet an Accused Holocaust Denier to Seek Advice on Mideast Coverage?
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s envoy to the UK, Husam Zomlot, has been accused of denying the Holocaust; defending the PA’s “Pay-for-Slay” policy that gives financial...
Media Outlets Whitewash Jew-Hatred of UK Student Leader
In an April 20th Guardian article (“New NUS leader welcomes antisemitism inquiry, but fears for her safety”) Sally Weale, the outlet’s education correspondent, casts Shaima...
Jewish Groups Call for Expulsion of Far-Right Israeli MK Visiting Britain
A group of Jewish and Israel-focused organizations asked the United Kingdom's home secretary on Thursday to expel a far-right Israeli Knesset member who was visiting...
BBC Can’t Un-Ring the Bell of Smearing Victims of Antisemitic Attack
On January 8, the BBC News website reported that the many complaints it had received concerning reports put out over a month earlier, on December...
The BBC Proves That It’s ‘News You Can’t Trust’
Anyone visiting the BBC News website cannot fail to notice that Britain’s publicly-funded broadcaster likes to present itself as providing “news you can trust." However, the...
UK Paper: IHRA Antisemitism Definition ‘Silences Palestinians’
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, a group of “Palestinian university students from campuses across Australia” have warned that adopting the IHRA definition of...
Major UK Paper Publishes Another Call to End the Jewish State
For the second time in as many months, The Guardian has published an op-ed calling for an end to the Jewish state. The latest piece,...
New Book Explores UK-Jewish Relations Through Humor and Firsthand Experience
The Taming of the Jew, by Tuvia Tenenbom (Geffen Publishing, 2021). Prophecy is gone from Israel. We no longer hear vox dei, but only vox populi,...
New Book Gives a Colorful — and Sobering — Look at Antisemitism in the UK
The Taming of the Jew, by Tuvia Tenenbom (Geffen Publishing, 2021). In The Taming of the Jew, Tuvia Tenenbom recites his escapades running around the four nations...
Remembering Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Any Anglo Jew from the 1960s will be familiar with the “Jacobs Affair” that divided the Jewish community more than any other religious debate in...
UK Jewish Chronicle Owner Battles to Save Titles After Collapse
The owner of Britain's stricken Jewish Chronicle is battling to save a newspaper for the Jewish community by seeking to buy the assets of the title along with another...
English City of York to Commemorate Jewish Victims of Bloody 12th-Century Massacre
The city of York in England will next week commemorate 150 Jews who were murdered in an infamous massacre almost 900 years ago. The lantern-lit commemoration...
Debunking the Myth of a Jewish ‘Jack the Ripper’
In 1887, London celebrated Queen Victoria’s 50th Jubilee. In 1888, the impoverished East End -- home to as many as 100,000 Jews -- exploded in...
