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Gordon Brown with Lady Sacks, and delivering the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Annual Memorial Lecture this week. Photograph: Yossi Abrams

March 28, 2024, 9:47 pm

Gordon Brown draws on close friendship with Rabbi Sacks in inaugural legacy lecture

Taking the theme Hope, Faith and Charity, the former prime minister uses the teachings of the late Chief Rabbi to put forward the idea that we can create a new age of hope

By Beatrice Sayers

March 20, 2024, 6:20 pm

Death threats force London Uni Israel society to cancel speaker event

EXCLUSIVE: British-Israeli IDF veteran Ely Lassman tells Jewish News he feared for his safety ahead of in-person event to discuss conflict resolution at King's College London

By Michelle Rosenberg

Protestors, some of whom were QAnon believers, storm Capitol Hill

April 29, 2021, 9:20 am

Shock report reveals Jews and Nazis marched under same banner at Capitol riot

Study from King’s College focusing on radicalisation outlines how activists were 'united around common narratives of anti-government and anti-Covid conspiracies'

By Lee Harpin

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September 21, 2020, 10:28 am

University team launches AI-driven approach to ‘decode’ online antisemitism

Kings College London has helped put together a team of discourse analysts, computational linguists and historians trying to develop a highly complex system to fight online hate

By Jewish News Reporter

June 3, 2020, 6:06 pm

Forty Under 40: Our top 10 take a bow!

From community leaders and political activists, to LGBT and mental health campaigners, TV hosts and top legal minds, we identify those set to shape the community for years to come!

Screenshot from StandWithUS UK's twitter, which shows anti-Israel activists at the University of Warwick

November 19, 2019, 4:27 pm

BDS activists disrupt talk by ex-IDF officer who gave thousands of Syrians help

Students heard chanting at KCL and Warwick University as Lt. Col. Eyal Dror set to speak about helping thousands of Syrians

By Jewish News Reporter

Mars rover unveiled in honour of Rosalind Franklin

August 9, 2019, 11:08 am

Mars Rover named after Jewish scientist Rosalind Franklin nears completion

Craft for joint European-Russian mission is in its final stages of construction, ahead of voyage to look for signs of life on the red planet

By Jewish News Reporter

Alice Shalvi as she donated her archive to Israel's National Library. Credit Hanan Cohen National Library of Israel

June 12, 2019, 4:42 pm

Alice Shalvi among 240 Jewish and Israeli academics protesting German BDS law

German-born British activist who topped Jewish News' Aliyah 100 list, criticises controversial plan in Germany to equate boycotting Israel with antisemitism

By Jewish News Reporter

Professor Ed Byrne, principal of King’s College London

January 21, 2019, 10:07 pm

Principal of King’s College London brands Israel Apartheid Week ‘abhorrent’

Professor Ed Byrne, in address to Board of Deputies, speaks of strong personal and academic ties with Israeli institutions

By Jewish News Reporter

Birax conference saw professor Robert Winston take part

Photo credits: James Gifford-Mead

September 5, 2018, 5:35 pm

Almost 80 top Israeli scientists meet UK peers to share ageing knowledge

Two academic conferences held over three days at King's College London sees top researchers discuss greater collaboration

March 19, 2018, 4:29 pm

Students claim London uni ‘banned’ them from Israel event ‘without any clear reason’

Members of King's College London's Israel Society and Israeli students claim they were 'harassed' by university authorities

By Jewish News Reporter

Screenshot of a video showing the antifa protesters storming the stage and confronting the moderator

March 6, 2018, 12:52 pm

Masked mob storms university event with Israeli speaker

Protesters accused of using "jackbooted totalitarian tactics" to invade a debate as security guards reportedly hospitalised

By Jewish News Reporter

Anti-Israel Kings College protesters demonstrating against former Israeli deputy prime minister, Dan Meridor, who spoke at the university in February

Picture credit: The Pinsker Centre

February 28, 2018, 11:22 am

Jewish students may sue university union for promoting ‘Israel Apartheid Week’

Israel society threaten legal action against the Student Union at King’s College London for backing the “unlawful and anti-Semitic” event

By Jewish News Reporter

Demonstrators disrupting an event with Israeli speaker at UCL campus.

February 23, 2017, 10:16 am

University scraps Israel Apartheid Week, citing anti-Semitism

Following the Government’s adoption of a new definition of anti-Semitism, organisers of Israel Apartheid Week fear they could be breaking the law

By Jewish News Reporter

An anti-Israel protester waves a Palestinian flag through the window of the event at KLC with an Israeli speaker

August 24, 2016, 2:27 pm

Anti-Israel student guilty of King’s College assault

Politics graduate Ivana Bevilacqua was told to pay £100 to Jewish student Esther Endfield after knocking her phone from her hand whilst she filmed

By Jewish News Reporter

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