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LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 20: Andy Burnham delivers his inaugural speech as UK's new Prime Minister. The Member of Parliament for Makerfield becomes the UK's 59th Prime Minister, succeeding Sir Keir Starmer who resigned in June. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
July 21, 2026, 6:01 pm
Where does Andy Burnham, the new British prime minister, stand on Israel and antisemitism?
The Labour politician has been increasingly critical of Israel over time.
By Kelly Hartog
Hasan Piker looks on as U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed delivers a stump speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 7, 2026. Piker, a popular Twitch streamer accused of antisemitism, prompted controversy for campaigning with El-Sayed. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)
June 1, 2026, 9:59 pm
Hasan Piker blames Israel after UK bars him from entry, citing ‘potential risk’
British Jewish groups applauded the government’s decision to bar Piker and his uncle Cenk Uygur.
By Kelly Hartog
The British Museum with visitors outside, Feb. 28, 2025. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
May 28, 2026, 1:36 pm
British Museum postpones a Jewish Culture Month lecture, citing ‘disruption’ concerns
The museum said it made the decision following discussions with “organisers and security partners.”
By Kelly Hartog
Golders Green Synagogue (Photo by Erfurth, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
April 29, 2026, 11:51 am
2 Jewish men stabbed in London; PM Keir Starmer calls attack ‘utterly appalling’
Police said they were working to identify the nationality of the attacker, who was arrested on the scene.
By Philissa Cramer
Three men have been convicted in connection to a failed antisemitic terror plot in Manchester, England. (Greater Manchester Police)
December 24, 2025, 9:27 am
2 men found guilty in UK of plotting Islamic State-inspired antisemitic terror attack
Officials warned the attack could have been “one of the deadliest terrorist attacks to ever take place on UK soil.”
By Grace Gilson
Joseph Cohen (Photo courtesy of Joseph Cohen)
December 1, 2025, 11:26 am
Europe’s pro-Israel Jews are being driven out
Doxxing, street harassment and rising antisemitism are pushing advocates from Belgium, the U.K. and beyond to uproot their families and leave.
By Canaan Lidor
Pro-Palestinian students demonstrate at University College London, May 15, 2024. (Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
November 14, 2025, 3:32 pm
British university bars academic who repeated antisemitic libels in lecture to pro-Palestinian student group
“I am utterly appalled by these heinous antisemitic comments,” said the president of University College London.
By Philissa Cramer
Michael Ben-Gad speaks at the GBNews studio in London. U.K. on Oct. 27, 2025. (Photo credit: Screenshot from GBNews, via JNS)
October 28, 2025, 10:47 am
Activists rally behind Israeli academics facing threats abroad
Over 1,600 sign letter backing U.K. economist Michael Ben-Gad as Dutch colleague faces similar harassment in Rotterdam.
By Canaan Lidor
(L) Adrian Daulby and (R) Melvin Cravitz, killed Oct. 2, 2025, during a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, in undated photos (Greater Manchester Police/Facebook)
October 3, 2025, 1:54 pm
Anti-Israel rally organizers spurn UK police’s plea to shelve it after synagogue attack
Police say postponing Saturday’s London protest would let cops focus on securing Jewish, Muslim communities in wake of deadly Yom Kippur attack, but anti-Israel activists unmoved
By ToI Staff and Reuters
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney pose before the start of the G7 summit, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, June 15, 2025. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett/WPA Pool/Getty Images, via JNS)
September 21, 2025, 12:13 pm
UK, Canada, Australia recognize ‘State of Palestine’
The three nations' prime ministers stress commitment to two-state solution.
By JNS Staff
Hamas terrorists at the funeral of Hamas council member Ghazi Abu Tamaa, in Al-Hajj Musa Mosque in Khan Yunis in Gaza, Feb. 4, 2025. (Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90, via JNS)
September 15, 2025, 1:24 pm
BBC censures presenter for calling Hamas a ‘terror group’
The British public broadcaster said the phrase to describe the Palestinian Islamist group behind the Oct. 7 attacks violates its editorial guidelines.
By JNS Staff
A Palestinian masked child holds a rifle as he stands between two Hamas militants at the site where the bodies of four Israeli hostages were handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on Feb. 20, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images via JNS)
August 3, 2025, 7:57 pm
Hamas: Palestinian state recognition ‘fruits of Oct. 7’
Israeli FM Gideon Sa'ar to France, the U.K. and Canada: "If this is who applauds you, what does it say about you?"
By JNS
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a statement inside No. 10 Downing Street on the day the cabinet was recalled to discuss the situation in Gaza, on July 29, 2025 in London, England. (Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
July 30, 2025, 12:09 pm
UK will recognize Palestinian state if Israel does not end ‘appalling situation’ in Gaza
President Donald Trump said he had “no view” on potential U.K. recognition of a Palestinian state.
By Grace Gilson
Israeli President Isaac Herzog with then-Prince Charles at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, England, Nov. 22, 2021. (Photo by Koby Gideon/GPO)
May 2, 2025, 9:35 am
Our prayers remain with hostages, King Charles says in letter to Herzog
The U.K. head of state said London was "all too aware of the immense pain and suffering still being endured by those who remain hostage in Gaza."
By JNS Staff
Destruction at Kibbutz Nir Oz. (Photo by Oren Cohen.Destruction at Kibbutz Nir Oz. Photo by Oren Cohen)
March 19, 2025, 10:11 am
‘Incontrovertible proof’: UK report details Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7
Three-fourths of those murdered were civilians, with the ages ranging from a 14-hour-old Bedouin Israeli to a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor
By Joshua Marks
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