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Keir Starmer, right, speaks to Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
June 19, 2026, 10:31 am
Special election win by Starmer rival could lead to UK PM’s fall: 5 key players and where they stand on Israel
Vote won by Andy Burnham seen as proxy battle over Labour’s future, with would-be successors in party positioning themselves to take a run at the premiership. But are they good for the Jews?
By Robert Philpot
Pro-Israel counter-protesters face the main protest against the Great Israeli Real Estate Event at Edgware United Synagogue on June 14, 2026 in London. (Denise Baker/Getty Images via JTA)
June 18, 2026, 12:37 pm
UK organizers of Israel real estate fair apologize after West Bank properties surface
Real estate agent says anti-Israel activists set her up by emailing requests for Ma’ale Adumim flyers, which she handed over ‘under the table’; 14 protesters arrested outside venue
By Kelly Hartog
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference with mayors of settlements in the West Bank, at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 9, 2026, 5:58 pm
Smotrich banned from France as 4 countries introduce new sanctions against settler violence
Britain says joint action with France, Canada, and Norway will target ‘networks financing and enabling settler attacks’; Israel hits back, saying move will increase antisemitism
By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies
Rabbi Charley Baginsky (right) and Rabbi Josh Levy on stage at a march for the release of hostages held in Gaza, in London, August 10, 2025. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 28, 2026, 5:44 pm
UK’s top 2 Progressive rabbis: Israel’s direction risks it becoming ‘incompatible with Jewish values’
Israeli government’s path ‘fractures our relationship with Israel,’ and criticizing it, far from disloyalty, is ‘a Jewish obligation,’ Rabbi Charley Baginsky says
By Zev Stub
UK Conservative Party MP Greg Smith at the Churchill War Rooms, in London, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
April 20, 2026, 1:55 pm
Iran ‘is our war,’ says UK lawmaker Greg Smith — contrary to PM Starmer’s claims
The new head of the Conservative Friends of Israel lambasts the Labour party’s handling of the US-Israel conflict with Iran, as antisemitism in Britain reaches ‘appalling’ levels
By Robert Philpot
Lebanese civil defense workers search for casualties in the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in central Beirut, Lebanon, on April 9, 2026. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
April 9, 2026, 12:36 pm
‘Unacceptable’: European countries slam IDF strikes on Hezbollah amid US-Iran truce
UK says it is ‘deeply troubled’ by Israeli attacks, France calls them ‘unacceptable’; Italy condemns ‘bombings on civilian population’
By Agencies
A motorist rides past the dummy models of Iranian missiles installed along the roadside at the Valiasr Square, in Tehran, Iran, on March 22, 2026. (AFP)
March 22, 2026, 3:11 pm
Amid Israeli warnings, UK minister says no proof Iran trying to hit Europe, doubts it can do so
Steve Reed also rejects claims that Britain has no defense against Iranian missiles; Netanyahu urges Europe to join war after Iran fired at remote US-UK Diego Garcia base and targeted Jerusalem holy sites, says Tehran has everyone in its sights
By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer poses for a selfie with Green Party leader Zack Polanski after winning the Gorton and Denton Parliamentary by-election, at Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, England, on February 27, 2026. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
February 27, 2026, 4:42 pm
UK Green Party’s election upset is a crippling blow to Labour – and a major boon to anti-Zionism
As ruling Labour comes in a dismal third in Manchester’s heavily Muslim district of Gorton and Denton, voters seem to heed the BDS-supporting Greens’ call to punish Starmer for supporting Gaza ‘genocide’
By Robert Philpot
Screen grab taken from the UK's Parliament TV of Chief Constable of West Midlands Police Craig Guildford giving evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on soccer policing, January 8, 2026. (House of Commons/PA Images via Getty Images)
January 16, 2026, 9:11 pm
UK regional police chief retires over ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
Craig Guildford to step down immediately, after home secretary said she had lost confidence in him due to his handling of the affair
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A view of Esh Kodesh, an Israeli outpost in the West Bank, on December 14, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
December 24, 2025, 9:55 pm
14 countries condemn Israeli approval of new West Bank settlements
France, Britain, Germany and others say authorization of 19 sites is illegal under international law, warn unilateral actions in West Bank could derail fragile Gaza ceasefire
By AFP and Jeremy Sharon
Anti-Israel demonstrators gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq is taking legal action against the Department for Business and Trade over several decisions, May 13, 2025. (Ben Whitley/PA via AP)
November 12, 2025, 4:27 pm
UK court: Palestinian NGO can’t appeal ruling that allows sale of F-35 parts to Israel
Al-Haq group sought to challenge exemption from partial arms embargo, which court said was for government to decide; Dutch court threw out similar case this month
By Reuters and ToI Staff
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in an image published on September 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 24, 2025, 2:26 pm
Palestinian rights group launches bid to prosecute British-Israeli IDF soldiers — report
Lawyers lodge request to summon individual to UK magistrates court, in effort to prosecute him and others under British law regulating enlistment into foreign armies
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A British soldier of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), makes a round on a watchtower in Menaka, Mali, on October 22, 2021. (Florent Vergnes/AFP)
October 22, 2025, 5:48 am
UK deploys small number of military officers to Israel following US request
British defense minister says contingent will play an ‘anchor role’ in joint US-led Gaza stabilization task force based at new Civil Military Coordination Center
By Agencies
A Maccabi Tel Aviv player kicks a ball during a match (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 21, 2025, 4:00 am
Maccabi Tel Aviv refuses away tickets for Aston Villa match, citing safety concerns
After local British authorities’ ban of supporters sparked uproar, soccer club says even if decision reversed, it will decline any allocation for fans
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A man claiming to be acting as a legal observer at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest is questioned by Metropolitan Police for allegedly violating the Public Order Act, in London, England, on August 29, 2025. (Telegraph screenshot)
October 19, 2025, 1:54 pm
UK man claims he was detained after Star of David ‘antagonized’ pro-Palestinian protesters
Footage shows detective questioning suspect over necklace; police say suspect violated order separating counterprotest from Jewish anti-Zionist group’s rally
By ToI Staff
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