Birmingham Sets the Standard, Now Every University Must Follow
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) welcomes the decision by the University of Birmingham to suspend the Friends of Palestine society following a Nakba Day protest in which demonstrators chanted slogans including “Israel is a terror state” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied” – rhetoric that has become a hallmark of pro-Hamas agitation on […]
The UK Should Thank Israel, Not Lecture It, for Striking Iran’s Nuclear Threat
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) welcomes Israel’s bold and necessary strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and military leadership. Operation Rising Lion has delivered a powerful blow to the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism – a regime responsible for destabilising the region, threatening Israel’s existence, and fuelling global terror networks, including attacks on British soil. […]
UK Sanctions on Israeli Ministers a Performative Gesture to Appease Anti-Israel Mobs
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) condemns the UK government’s decision to impose sanctions on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich as an act of blatant political theatre – designed not to advance peace or justice, but to appease the increasingly vocal anti-Israel forces within British public life. This move reeks of inconsistency and selective […]
When Academics Embrace Terror
By Steve Winston, Managing Director, National Jewish Assembly. Originally published in the Jewish Weekly on 12 June 2025. A university lecturer in Britain has publicly declared himself “proud” to support the legal campaign to lift the UK’s ban on Hamas. That sentence alone should send shudders down the spine of any citizen who believes liberal democratic […]
NJA Condemns Corbyn’s Latest Anti-Israel Stunt as Pointless Political Theatre
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) condemns Jeremy Corbyn’s latest attempt to smear the UK’s relationship with Israel, following the passing of his Ten-Minute Rule Bill for an “independent public inquiry” into UK military co-operation with Israel. This tired and cynical effort is nothing more than political theatre. An inquiry was already conducted in December 2023, […]
Comedians Are Not Exempt From Responsibility
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) condemns the recent video posted by comedian Dawn French, which employed a mocking tone in reference to the atrocities of 7 October. The video, which was rightly deleted after widespread outcry, is a sobering reminder of how far the casual normalisation of antisemitism and trivialisation of Jewish suffering has permeated […]
NJA Slams FT Sanctions Push as Hypocrisy in Print
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) strongly condemns the Financial Times’ publication of Martin Sandbu’s column urging the EU to impose sweeping sanctions on Israel. The piece is not a reasoned policy argument – it is a reckless endorsement of collective punishment against the region’s only liberal democracy, cloaked in bureaucratic euphemism and moral pretence. Sandbu’s […]
NJA Condemns “Prayer for Gaza” in Commons: Sanctimony Disguised as Spirituality
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) is appalled by the decision of the Speaker’s Chaplain, Reverend Mark Birch, to insert a partisan reference to “Gaza” into the House of Commons’ morning prayers – an act that represents not spiritual leadership, but political virtue-signalling cloaked in clerical robes. That the Chaplain would invoke Gaza – and Gaza […]
Op-Ed: How the BBC Launders Anti-Israel Fake News
By Steve Winston, Managing Director, National Jewish Assembly There is a certain sanctimony that only a British institution can manage: a mixture of entitlement, self-regard, and the assumption of intellectual superiority. Nowhere is this more perfectly embodied than in the BBC – and nowhere is its moral collapse more evident than in its coverage of […]
Exam Board Caught Pushing Anti-Israel Narrative
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) expresses serious concern over reports that a GCSE English language paper, set by Pearson Edexcel, contained politically charged, anti-Israel material in the guise of literary content. The paper has since been withdrawn after UK Lawyers for Israel raised the alarm about its potential to penalise students expressing pro-Israel views. The […]