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Sally Rooney, left, promotes her novel "Intermezzo" at London’s Southbank Centre, Sept. 25, 2024. Moderator Merve Emre is at right. (Faber & Faber via X)
October 15, 2026, 10:53 am
Sally Rooney’s publisher stops selling her books in Britain, citing ban on pro-Palestinian group she backs
Author agrees with the publisher’s decision, saying she is prepared to accept the consequences for supporting Palestine Action, a group proscribed as a terrorist organization.
By Lianne Kolirin
Green Party leader Zack Polanski with Ash Sarkar in 2025 (Photo by Cory Doctorow, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
October 5, 2026, 11:09 am
UK Jews ‘appalled’ as Green Party brands Zionism as racism, calls to erase Israel
Leading organizations describe the resolution as an ‘antisemitic platform’ and an ‘attack on the Jewish community'
By Zev Stub
A view over a new neighborhood in the Jewish settlement of Kedumim, in the West Bank on September 8, 2026 in Kedumim, West Bank. (Amir Levy/Getty Images)
September 9, 2026, 2:17 pm
UK, France, Canada to ban goods from Israeli settlements
Israel to retaliate by closing the British Consulate in Jerusalem.
By Tovah Lazaroff
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
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