Israel and britain

Playing politics with security: Jerusalem must review UK privileges amid sanctions - editorial

Britain and Israel have genuine strategic interests in common even when their governments disagree sharply, but diplomatic relations require reciprocity.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2026|ByJPOST EDITORIAL

The Elizabeth Tower more commonly known as Big Ben is pictured during a near total solar eclipse, with more than 90 percent of the Sun blocked by the Moon across Britain, in central London on August 12, 2026.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband speaks at the House of Commons in London

Miliband invoked his 60 relatives murdered in the Holocaust, then announced sanctions on Israel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Husam Zomlot, head of the Palestinian Authority's mission to the United Kingdom, gestures during a ceremony after Britain announced on Sunday its recognition of a Palestinian state at the mission's headquarters in London, Britain, September 22, 2025; illustrative.

PA's UK Embassy praises Foreign Sec. Miliband's ban on trade with West Bank settlements

PA Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot praised Britain's settlement trade ban as a "turning point" and called for further sanctions, including an arms embargo on Israel.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2026|ByJAMES GENN

Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks during Ministerial Statement on Government Direction at the House of Commons in London

What Britain risks by treating Israeli intelligence as a bargaining chip - comment

London is banning trade with Israeli settlements. The secret Hezbollah case shows how much of the UK-Israel relationship the British public never sees.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2026|ByZVIKA KLEIN

At Knesset, British officials say they lead fight against antisemitism

Diaspora Ministry: UK still produces most antisemitic tweets.

JANUARY 4, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE

Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee hosts British officials at the Knesset on January 4, 2017

‘Et tu, Theresa’ – welcome to the two faces of Mrs. May

JANUARY 2, 2017ByHUGH ASH

Mind the gap year!

High-school graduates bring Israel to Jewish communities abroad.

DECEMBER 29, 2016ByCARMIT SAPIR WEITZ

Rael Goodman, the head of the Jewish Agency’s Delegation in the UK

Report: British intelligence spied on Israeli diplomats, IDF

The Le Monde report followed a previous publication based on documents stolen by Snowden dealing with spying by US and British intelligence on Israeli military aircraft.

DECEMBER 7, 2016ByJTA

Flags are seen above a souvenir kiosk near Big Ben clock at the Houses of Parliament in central London

Ongoing Israel-hatred in Trondheim

DECEMBER 5, 2016ByMANFRED GERSTENFELD

The Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, central Norway

British Jewry, intolerance against Orthodoxy and global religious extremism

Jonathan Arkush, leader of the main representative body of Britain’s Jews, sees good reason to be optimistic on the kingdom’s Jewish community.

DECEMBER 3, 2016ByTAMARA ZIEVE

Jonathan Arkush, president of the Board of Deputies

Jewish students at Cambridge allege cover-up of antisemitic attack

One of the students, identified as Shlomo Roiter-Jesner, 25, said that when the students at the bar noticed their kippot they got “more physical and more vocal.”

NOVEMBER 28, 2016ByJTA