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Bridget Phillipson speaks to JFS students
January 18, 2026, 11:04 am
Education Secretary vows: Antisemitism in schools ends on my watch
Bridget Phillipson announces formal review of antisemitism in Britain’s schools and colleges, after cancellation of a planned school visit by Jewish MP Damien Egan
By Jewish News Reporter
Young Muslims, given time off school to protest against Israel in Tower Hamlets
April 5, 2024, 10:45 am
Pupils wearing pro-Palestinian badges referred to counter-terror scheme – union
The number of referrals for pupils “showing solidarity with Palestine” to Prevent has risen, the National Education Union (NEU) has suggested.
By Jewish News Reporter
National Education Union protesters on Westminster Bridge.
March 30, 2024, 11:05 am
Union to debate circulating educational resources on Palestine and Israel
Delegates at the National Education Union (NEU) annual conference next week are due to vote on whether the union should support the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).
By Jewish News Reporter
PABest People attend a vigil for Ruth Perry outside the offices of Ofsted in Victoria, central London, after she took her own life while waiting for a negative Ofsted inspection report. Thursday March 23, 2023.
March 24, 2023, 1:14 pm
Former JFS headteacher speaks out amid calls for end to Ofsted inspections
Sir Michael Wilshaw tells BBC that doing away with the schools watchdog is problematic, as "a judgement of 'good' is what parents want to see."
By Michelle Rosenberg
The wild boar is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig.
January 5, 2023, 11:35 am
National Education Union magazine claims Israelis use ‘wild pigs’ to scare Palestinians
Member Mohammed Aziz wrote an article in the organisation's in-house title claiming settlers in the West Bank train the animals to scare their neighbours. NEU later removed the wild pig reference from the article
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Kevin Courtney and Ewa Jasiewicz 
July 13, 2021, 12:18 pm
Warsaw Ghetto desecrator did ‘very good job‘ on antisemitism training, insists union boss
National Education Union general secretary Kevin Courtney backs recruiting Ewa Jasiewicz in heated Select Committee exchange.
By Lee Harpin
Protest against Hewlett Packard over its contracts with Israel. Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
June 9, 2021, 6:16 pm
Hewlett-Packard says education union’s boycott based on a lie
EXCLUSIVE: Tech giant dismissed 'unfounded' claims it is profiting from 'Israel's oppression of Palestinians' as the National Education Union looks to remove HP products
By Lee Harpin
School children in a classroom. Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
June 1, 2021, 3:31 pm
‘Pupils competed to stick Palestine flags on me’, says tearful Jewish teacher
One teacher claims to have been singled out by pupils for harassment while others have left a teachers' union citing its stance on Israel.
By Jewish News Reporter
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) . Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
May 27, 2021, 12:20 pm
Education union ‘saddened’ by exodus of Jewish members
NEU releases statement after at least 25 teachers from Europe's largest Jewish secondary, JFS, quit amid the union's stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Lee Harpin
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) . Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
May 26, 2021, 9:39 am
JFS staff stage mass exodus of education union amid Israel, antisemitism stance
Exclusive: At least 25 members of the NEU have quit, with one former rep saying he 'had no choice' because the union 'isolated me as a Jewish, pro-Israel, teacher'
By Lee Harpin
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) . Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
May 19, 2021, 7:46 am
Jewish teachers quit union over chief’s Palestine rally speech
EXCLUSIVE: Dozens more are considering resigning, citing a long record of anti- Israel action by the National Education Union.
By Lee Harpin
Omar Barghouti (Source: Screenshot from Youtube interview with the Guardian)
September 20, 2019, 1:57 pm
BDS founder Omar Barghouti won’t attend Labour conference after visa delay
Anti-Israel activist was due to speak at a fringe event alongside Diane Abbott, Len McCluskey and Lisa Nandy, with his supporters branding the decision 'abnormal'
By Jewish News Reporter
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