Zionist Federation to host General Lord Richard Dannatt for its annual Balfour Lecture
The Zionist Federation is delighted to announce that General Lord Richard Dannatt will be addressing this year’s Annual Balfour Lecture on counter-terrorism, and addressing the relationship between Israel and Britain’s armed forces. General Lord Dannatt will be...
Press Release: ZF appoints new Executive Director
PRESS RELEASE 02/10/2019 For immediate release The Zionist Federation appoints new Executive Director. The Zionist Federation of the UK and Ireland is delighted to announce its appointment of a new Executive Director. Joshua Forman comes to the ZF from a successful 10...
Who is funding illegal Palestinian settlement in Area C?
Yesterday evening the ZF were delighted to partner with East Anglian Friends of Israel in Norwich, hosting award-winning investigative journalist and author, Edwin Black. Edwin specialises in the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East....
The UK and UNWRA – Funding Aid or Supporting Terror?
This week, the ZF hosted David Bedein, Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research and Bureau chief of the Israel Resource News Agency. One of the centres primary areas of focus of investigations is exposing UNRWA’s promotion of Antisemitism and incitement to...
Palestine Expo: The Hate Exposed
Last weekend the Friends of Al Aqsa organisation (FOA) hosted the Palestine Expo, an event billed as a “fun, family day out providing visitors with a unique immersive experience. Palestine Expo is a chance to bring people together to celebrate Palestine.” Sadly but...
Palestine Expo: Exposing the Hate
The ZF are working with grassroots activists to expose the true nature of the forthcoming 'Palestine Expo' scheduled for this weekend, the 6th and 7th July 2019 at Olympia in London. We have printed 1000 copies of a booklet which details the extent of demonisation and...
ZF statement on British Society of Middle Eastern Studies’ boycott resolution.
On Monday of this week, the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) passed a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The following is ZF Chairman Paul Charney's response, and we are in the process of taking this up further with BRISMES. "The...
An evening of all things Humus with Gil Hovav
This week, the legendary Israeli food critic and TV food personality Gil Hovav began his UK national tour in London organised by the WZO and ZF. Gil entertained the audience with stories about the Israeli fixation on humus, as well as how humus has been used as s...
Standing against hatred and terror
On Sunday 2ndJune 2019, the Zionist Federation (ZF) organised a static counter demo to the annual Al Quds Day “parade”, supported by the Board of Deputies, the Jewish Leadership Council, Sussex Friends of Israel, North West Friends of Israel, Israel Advocacy...
Welcoming Britain’s new Ambassador to Israel
On Tuesday evening, 4thJune, the Zionist Federation held a ‘meet and greet’ for the new British Ambassador to Israel, Neil Wigan. This will be Mr Wigan’s third ambassadorship, having served as British Ambassador to Somalia, from June 2013 to July 2015, and British...
Celebrating 71 years of modern Israel
Ha’kol ihiyeh be’seder / Everything will be ok. So it was sung and so it came to be. On Thursday 9th May, the ZF and JNF UK hosted London’s biggest celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut – Israel’s Independence Day. And everything was ok. In fact, everything was great. From...
Refuting the hate
On the 18th April, the Camden New Journal published a letter signed by members of the Camden Branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. The PSC, never ones to miss an opportunity to misrepresent and slander Israel, were bemoaning the fact that the JW3 centre...
