British Jewry

British Museum delays Jewish Culture Month event after learning of planned protest

The British Museum postponed its Jewish Culture Month talk on Ancient Israel and Judah after learning some registered attendees intended to deliberately disrupt the event.

London, England, General view of the British Museum with visitors, Bloomsbury, March 2025.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir reacts as flotilla activists are detained by Israeli forces, in Ashdod Port, Israel, in this screen grab taken from a video released on May 20, 2026.

The city on a hill and the dignity of office - opinion

An Orthodox Jew walks near the scene where a man was arrested on Wednesday following a stabbing incident in which two Jewish men were wounded in the Golders Green area, which is home to a large Jewish population, in London, Britain, April 30, 2026.

'I will kill you Jews,' man jailed for shouting death threats at Jews in London

:ocal residents look on from outside a cordoned-off area in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London last month, following the stabbing of two people nearby.

'It's like the Holocaust': Golders Green gang-beating victim tells 'Post' - interview


Pro-Palestine mob protests 'Haaretz'-run event in London Jewish community center 

Protesters opposed the event despite it featuring many speakers who are critical of Israel.

Anti-Israel protest outside Jewish Community Center in London, 27 October 2024

UK group urges families to ‘save seat in sukkah’ for Gaza hostages, in new take on Jewish tradition

As Jews around the world prepare to celebrate the fall festival of Sukkot, the leading British Jewish organization is asking them to remember the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

 A man is seen constructing a sukkah for the Sukkot holiday.

UK tribunal rules anti-Zionist views are 'worthy of respect'

The tribunal ruled that the belief that Israel is committing apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”,

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Jordan Peterson’s blind spot: His own rhetoric undercuts his message - opinion

His portrayal of Jews as the archetypal successful minority feeds into the very antisemitic tropes he claims to combat.

 A BOY, wearing a kippah, holds the British flag at a march against antisemitism in London last November.

Israel expels British Jewish activist who tried to immigrate under Law of Return

Franks said he sees his politics as compatible with the Israeli identity he hopes to achieve. 

 Israeli security forces try to disperse Palestinian, left-wing Israeli and foreign activists, during a protest near the West Bank Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Yair in Masafer Yatta near Hebron on June 10, 2022.

'Great disgrace': High-profile British-Jewish journalists resign JC over scandal

Editor Jake Wallis Simons said he understood "why some columnists have decided to step back from the paper" and hoped that one day they would return."

 Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, David Baddiel, David Aaronovitch (illustration)

My war years: A British Jew remembers living during World War II - opinion

No one had the slightest premonition that within less than a year, Hitler’s forces would have conquered three-quarters of Europe, including France, and that Britain faced the risk of invasion.

 ‘THE EVACUATION Scheme in Britain, 1940’: London schoolchildren off to England’s West Country.

London Jewish community receives new bus line to protect it from antisemitic harassment

The number of antisemitic hate crime incidents in the city increased by 278.9% - with 2,068 offenses recorded in the 12 months to July, compared to the previous year.

A London bus is driven past The Royal Courts of Justice in London, Britain, July 30, 2019

BBC executive dismisses letter from Jewish staff highlighting systemic antisemitism at network

The letter provided examples of inaccuracy and bias in the BBC’s coverage of the war in Gaza and provided testimony from Jewish employees.

 British television executive Samir Shah, who has been chosen as the British government's preferred candidate to chair the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), arrives at the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, December 13, 2023.

Who'd have thought Jews would fear the far Left more than the Right? - opinion

Previously, Jews were sensitive to any whiff of right-wing xenophobia, even against other groups. But today, these communities have greater fear of hostility from surging Muslim communities.

 Marine Le Pen