“The Dangerous Game the UK Is Playing with Israel” with Jake Wallis Simons
The Dangerous Game the UK Is Playing with Israel
Since Andy Burnham became prime minister this summer, Britain has hardened its line on Israel: Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has announced sanctions targeting West Bank settlements and a ban on settlement goods, and Israel has answered by closing the UK consulate in Jerusalem. Jake Wallis Simons, Telegraph columnist and former editor of the Jewish Chronicle, will brief on the dangerous game London is playing with its ally: what is driving the shift, what it means for Britain’s security and trade ties with Israel, and what it says about the state of the West.
Jake Wallis Simons is a columnist, broadcaster, and foreign correspondent who writes for the Telegraph and the Jewish Chronicle, which he edited from 2021 to 2025. He cohosts The Brink podcast with Andrew Fox. As a reporter he covered the Islamic State attacks across Europe and stories from Zimbabwe to Venezuela, and he previously worked at the Sunday Telegraph and as associate global editor at the Daily Mail. He is the author of Israelophobia (2023) and Never Again? How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself (2025), as well as four novels.
