Jake Wallis Simons

🚨 Announcement! Just after the Israeli election, @Mr_Andrew_Fox and I are coming to Jerusalem for a live recording of @The_Brink_ in collaboration with the estimable @havivrettiggur! To join us in the audience, link in first reply

The Palestine march vandalised the Battle of Britain memorial. Get it yet?

What is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world? According to YouGov’s polling, 95 per cent of Britons were unable to answer that simple question, with 42 per cent erroneously citing Gaza and 23 per cent mistakenly selecting Ukraine. At the last count, 70 per cent of the

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Who’s going to tell them that the UK buys weapons from Israel, not the other way round? x.com/pscupdates/sta…

My bet is that this government will lift the ban on Palestine Action. There is no announced decision, and ministers are still defending proscription in court. But listen to Ed Miliband. The language of retreat is already there. Asked in an LBC interview about supporters being

Yesterday morning, while everybody was thinking about other things, Houthi missiles slammed into King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. At least two aircraft were hit and three people were killed, among them a pilot for Saudia, the national airline. Debris from an

Ha. Good riddance, Slippery Zack. A party that has declared Zionism racist, and voted to replace Israel with “a single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine”, more than deserved a miserable morning. A big part of me – the emotional part, not the rational part

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Just a reminder that the British consulate in Jerusalem has been a hotbed of pro-Palestinian activism for years, staffed by diplomats who worked against the interests Israel. I know, because a little while back, I caught them at it. Here’s the story: jakewallissimons.substack.com/p/as-israel-cl… x.com/ed_miliband/st…

We always knew the BBC had a problem with Jews. It falsely claimed Israel had bombed the Al-Ahli hospital, livestreamed Bob Vylan chanting “death to the IDF”, broadcast a documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas minister, and blamed Jewish boys celebrating Chanukkah in London

Yesterday, Britain’s politicians remembered October 7. They adopted solemn turns of phrase, recorded sombre videos and affected to care about murdered Jews. Today, the anniversary is over, and we have learnt one thing: their words never meant anything. In a moment of inspiration

The hypocrisy of the government’s “two-statement solution”: demonising Israel on the one hand, expressing sorrow for October 7 on the other. Just don’t bother! My views:

There is something nauseating about watching British politicians perform their annual ritual of mourning October 7 while refusing to confront an awkward fact: their own Middle East policies have been welcomed by Hamas itself. Today, the prime minister declared: “We remember those

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Hamas has congratulated your government twice. You lobbied Starmer to recognise a State of Palestine while the hostages were in the tunnels. Not now Streeting. x.com/wesstreeting/s…

“Get over yourselves and move on.” So ran the post that Zack Polanski saw fit to like on social media after Caroline Lucas, his party’s best-known former leader, objected to the Greens deplorably declaring Zionism a form of racism. So far, only one Green has taken that advice.

🚨 New episode dropped! What happens when satirical site @TheMossadIL was contacted by the real Mossad? Fighting propaganda with satire. Great interview by @Mr_Andrew_Fox. Link in first reply!

Three years on, the West has apparently finished taking its lessons from October 7 and is running with them. Unfortunately, they are all the wrong ones. What has it learned? That Jews are baby-killers, bent on genocide. That the only obstacle to a two-state solution is the

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For this you missed the “Zionism is racism” vote? Muppet x.com/zackpolanski/s…

Let me get this straight. Russia, Iran and their proxies are firing missiles and drones in greater numbers than at any time in modern history. Britain has next to no missile defences on its own soil. And the one country on earth that has learnt to shoot these things down at scale

Why are we banging on about Israel again? With so much going wrong in Britain, why devote another minute to the Green Party’s obsession with Zionism? @JuliaHB1 put that question to me on TalkTV today. My answer was simple: we are talking about it because they won’t stop talking

Remember the hemp sandals? The flowery T-shirts? The hand-wringing? The sense that the Greens are kindly people who worry slightly too much about compost? Me neither. After its conference in Brighton voted yesterday to treat Zionism “as any other form of racism”, we need to be