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August 19, 2024, 12:57 pm

UK diplomat resigns over arms sales to Israel

Mark Smith says continued sales could mean Britain is complicit in war crimes

By Jenni Frazer

David Cameron addresses FCDO HMD reception

January 23, 2024, 2:36 pm

David Cameron: ‘After the horrors of 7 October we must renew our vow – never again’

Foreign secretary speaks of both the horrors of the Nazis and those of Hamas in a speech at the Foreign Office's Holocaust Memorial Day reception in partnership with the Israeli embassy

By Lee Harpin

Pic: Vahid Beheshti (centre, in green sweatshirt), Twitter screenshot, Vahid Beheshti account

January 5, 2024, 10:37 am

British Iranian urges use of pinpoint strikes to defeat regime

"You have an army of 80 million Iranians who are thirsty for freedom and democracy," human rights activist and dissident Vahid Beheshti tells Knesset

By Jenni Frazer

December 15, 2023, 12:11 pm

Israeli ambassador’s rejection of two-state solution disappointing, says Cameron

Tzipi Hotovely told Sky News "absolutely no" when asked whether Palestinians would have their own state in any peace deal

By JN Reporter

Lord Cameron meets with Benjamin Netanyahu

December 13, 2023, 5:59 pm

UK announces fresh Hamas sanctions as Sunak hints at Royal Navy role in Gaza aid

With Mahmoud Zahar, the Gaza-based co-founder of Hamas amongst those targeted, Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron says terror group "can have no future in Gaza"

By JN Reporter

Vahid Beheshti sits outside the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office in Westminster. Vahid is demanding that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran is placed on the list of international terrorist organisations.

August 8, 2023, 10:42 am

‘We’re seeing the end of the Iranian regime. Expect the final chapter’

British-Iranian hunger striker Vahid Beheshti delivers a message of hope on the 166th day of his sit-in protest outside the Foreign Office in Whitehall.

By Jenni Frazer

New UK ambassador to Israel Simon Walters

January 24, 2023, 12:34 am

New UK ambassador to Israel confirmed

Simon Walters has been confirmed as the replacement to the popular Neil Wigan OBE and will begin the UK ambassador to Israel role in August

By Lee Harpin

The West Bank settlement of Geva Binyamin, also known as Adam

January 18, 2021, 3:07 pm

UK urges Israel to halt plans to build 780 new settlement homes

Foreign Office is 'seriously concerned' by plans to construct homes in the West Bank, saying it 'risks undermining the physical viability of the two-state solution'

By Jewish News Reporter

May 1, 2019, 10:21 am

Meet Britain’s new Jewish envoy to Ukraine: ‘I feel I can play a positive role’

East End-born Melinda Simmons' appointment completes a unique triumvirate, with Ukraine now having a Jewish ambassador from the UK, Prime Minister and President

By Jenni Frazer

19 year-old Henry Miller was from Bristol

August 31, 2018, 11:42 am

Family relives ‘nightmare’ over son’s mystery drug death

Relatives of Jewish student Henry Miller reflect on agonising four-year wait to find out results of coroner's hearing.

Hugh Duggan and Erica Duggan petitioned the Foreign Office to put pressure on the German authorities to reopen the investigation into their son Jeremiah's death in March 2003.

March 20, 2018, 5:16 pm

Germany shuts probe into death of British Jewish man in ‘political cult’

Authorities wind up investigation into the circumstances of Jeremiah Duggan's death - after his body was found in 2003

By Jewish News Reporter

Boris Johnson speaking a the foreign office during the Holocaust Memorial Day event

January 28, 2018, 8:01 am

Diplomats pay tribute to philanthropist who helped save 12,000 Jews from Nazis

Top diplomats including Boris Johnson have heralded Otto Schiff's work saving victims of persecution during the Shoah

Israeli police clash detaining Palestinian protesters in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi el Joz, outside Jerusalem's Old City, following Friday prayers on July 21, 2017.

Photo by: JINIPIX

September 8, 2017, 3:56 pm

UK diplomats in Israel have been reporting home concerns about treatment of Palestinians

Officials have been sending memos back to London about Israel's 'worrying' use of detention methods and 'unjustified' use of deadly force

Tobias Ellwood MP speaking at the Jewish News UK-Israel Strategic Challenges Conference in Westminster (Marc Morris Photography)

December 1, 2016, 11:28 am

Tobias Ellwood: UK will take ‘measured approach’ for Balfour celebrations

The Middle East Minister said Britain should be aware of regional 'sensitivities' around the document, which stated British support for a Jewish homeland

By Jenni Frazer

July 13, 2016, 4:00 pm

Middle East minister: ‘Palestinian incitement has not gone unnoticed’

Tobias Ellwood said Ramallah had to make it clear that incitement "must be condemned"

By Jewish News Reporter

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