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Members of the Jewish community comfort each other following a deadly terror attack during Yom Kippur services at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, northern England, October 2, 2025. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
October 13, 2026, 1:03 am
Anti-Jewish hate crimes rise 10% in England and Wales, according to government data
Home Office figures show Jews and Muslims most targeted in religiously motivated hate crimes, with 3,162 incidents targeting Jewish community between March 2025 and March 2026
By Lianne Kolirin
Britain’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski attends a Green Party conference in Brighton, Britain, October 2, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
October 8, 2026, 5:21 pm
‘Moment of truth’: UK’s Jewish, anti-Israel Green Party leader faces key electoral test in London
Zack Polanski is at a political crossroads as voters in central London go to the polls for a special election during a week in which his party declared ‘Zionism is racism’
By Robert Philpot
A photograph shows the visitors’ entrance to the British consulate in East Jerusalem after the signs were removed on October 8, 2026. (John Wessels/AFP)
October 8, 2026, 11:32 am
Israel, UK announce last-minute deal that downgrades East Jerusalem consulate
Foreign Minister Sa’ar says move a response to settlement sanctions; UK counterpart Miliband insists Israel doesn’t have right to close office, but says he won’t take reciprocal action
By Lazar Berman and Reuters
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Science Minister Gila Gamliel, Settlements Minister Orit Strock, and other dignitaries inaugurate two new settlements in the southern West Bank region, September 27, 2026. (Eitam Shalem)
September 28, 2026, 7:40 pm
Two new West Bank settlements inaugurated with cabinet ministers on hand
Makeda and Karmei Yehudah in the southern West Bank are already populated, while residents of Meged and Maale Einav in the same region will move in soon
By Jeremy Sharon
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on the second day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, northwest England, on September 28, 2026. (Oli SCARFF/AFP)
September 28, 2026, 6:07 pm
UK’s FM Miliband boasts that sanctions on settlers have spurred global action
Foreign secretary tells delighted Labour party confab that government approach to Israel has ‘mobilized international community,’ calls Gaza a ‘stain on conscience of the world’
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meet on the UN General Assembly sidelines on September 25, 2026. (Screen capture/X)
September 25, 2026, 4:09 pm
Miliband tells Iranian counterpart that Tehran-linked threats on UK soil won’t be tolerated
Foreign secretary raises security of British Jews in talks with Araghchi; pair also discuss Middle East war and reopening Strait of Hormuz; Iran pushes back against European ‘interference’
By Reuters
New buildings at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
September 15, 2026, 6:11 pm
Aimed at settlements, UK sanctions could put entire Israeli economy at risk
Trade ban threatens to unleash a Pandora’s box of boycotts around world, with businesses, banks and others staying away from all of Israel rather than trying to untangle penalties
By Sharon Wrobel
A man works on a fence at a Palestinian-Bedouin family’s house to try to prevent attacks from Israeli settlers on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Taybeh, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
September 10, 2026, 2:44 pm
Progressive UK rabbis say West Bank sanctions necessary to combat settler violence
Welcoming measures, several religious leaders denounce ‘repugnant’ violence as counter to Jewish values, in contrast to UK’s chief rabbi, who called announcement a ‘dark day’
By Michael Horovitz
A view of the entrance to the British Consulate in East Jerusalem, September 9, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 9, 2026, 10:57 pm
UK official says behavior of next Israeli government could affect scope of West Bank sanctions
Source says ‘undecided’ if Jewish areas in East Jerusalem will be included in trade ban; settler business owners warn sanctions could force closures, harm Palestinian workers
By Nava Freiberg, Reuters and ToI Staff
From left, Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Sugiono and United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar pose for a group photo prior their meeting to discuss the ceasefire and next steps for Gaza, in Istanbul, Turkey, November 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
September 9, 2026, 8:53 pm
8 Muslim states, including UAE, call for countries to follow UK in sanctioning settlements
Joint statement also calls to implement Trump’s plan for Gaza and reiterates demand for Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital, saying it’s only ‘viable path’ to peace
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Children stand outside a mosque that was burned during an attack by Israeli settlers early in the morning in the West Bank village of Qusra, July 26, 2026. On its wall, Hebrew graffiti reads 'Revenge Benayahu,' referring to an Israeli settlement security squad member killed during clashes with Palestinians in the village of Tell a week before. (AP/Leo Correa)
September 9, 2026, 5:46 pm
This New Year, let’s start to restore the Israel that is a light unto the nations
We shouldn’t need Ed Miliband — way off with some parts of his critique but spot on with others — to remind us that indulging deadly settler violence against Palestinian civilians is shameful
By David Horovitz
In this video grab taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) via the Parliament TV website in the House of Commons on September 8, 2026, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on an import ban of goods from West Bank settlements. (PRU/AFP)
September 9, 2026, 5:14 pm
Failing to act in the West Bank or in the West, Israel brought UK’s sanctions upon itself
Netanyahu’s government could have done more to head off the move announced by the UK’s foreign secretary. Instead it let London go the way of Dublin and Madrid
By Lazar Berman
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband addresses the House of Commons, announcing a ban on all dealings with settlements, September 8, 2026.(House of Commons handout)
September 8, 2026, 9:19 pm
Full speech: Ed Miliband says entire occupation unlawful, slams ‘settler terrorists’ and Israeli government that indulges them
British foreign secretary stresses his own Jewish heritage as he expresses ‘shame’ over what has unfolded in Palestine, alleges ‘ethnic cleansing,’ bans dealings with settlements
In this video grab taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) via the Parliament TV website in the House of Commons on September 8, 2026, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on an import ban of goods from West Bank settlements. (PRU/AFP)
September 8, 2026, 9:19 pm
Denouncing ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank, UK announces ban on all dealings with settlements
Sa’ar, responding to ‘outrageous’ move echoed by 11 countries, says Israel won’t bow to ‘jihadists, Islamists, antisemites, far-leftists and wokes,’ shutters UK consulate in Jerusalem
By Nava Freiberg, Jeremy Sharon, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
People attend cornerstone-laying ceremony for a new settlement named Doran in the Mount Hebron region of the West Bank, June 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 8, 2026, 2:43 am
Britain set to declare trade ban with West Bank settlements on Tuesday amid E1 dispute
Measures could also target companies involved in settlement construction; Smotrich calls to expel UK ambassador, Ben Gvir urges recognition of Falkland Islands as Argentinian
By ToI Staff
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