Originally published in the Jewish Weekly on June 19, 2025. By Steve Winston, Managing Director, National Jewish Assembly As air raid sirens echoed across Tel Aviv and Iranian nuclear facilities erupted in fire and smoke, Israel made one of the most consequential military decisions of our time. It struck at
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA), in partnership with the Henry Jackson Society and the Europe Israel Press Association, today held an emergency briefing in London to address the growing threat posed by Iran’s regional terror networks and the implications of the ongoing Israel-Iran war. The event featured expert analysis from
The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) condemns the BBC’s latest string of antisemitic failures, which expose a disgraceful pattern of editorial negligence, deliberate provocation, and a systemic lack of accountability in its Arabic-language service. Among the most egregious examples, a BBC Arabic video claimed that Jews spit on Christians as part
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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