Posts Tagged: UK Jews
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...
A UK Paper and ‘The Trouble With Jews Today’
In the run-up to the British general election, the UK media has, for the most part, been relatively sympathetic towards the Jewish community in the...
UK’s Prince Charles Hails ‘Special and Precious’ Ties With British Jews
At a Buckingham Palace gathering on Thursday, the UK’s Prince Charles hailed the “special and precious” connection between the royal family and British Jews. The pre-Hannukah...
On Top of the Brexit Crisis, Does Ireland Want to Awaken Ugly Memories of Antisemitism?
You might think that today’s Brexit worries would be enough to preoccupy Ireland’s government. Instead, the lower house of Ireland’s parliament has escalated the BDS...
Know Your Enemy: Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit Test
JNS.org - They used to call them “pea-soupers”: dense, choking fogs caused by smoke from burning coal that frequently enveloped London until the middle of...
Why the Rise of Political Antisemitism Is so Dangerous
The stakes have never been higher for the Jewish community in the UK. British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s relentless obsession with Israel has created...
