by Steve Winston | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog
On July 7th 2021, Richard Burgon, MP for Leeds East, presented in Parliament his Israel Arms Trade (Prohibition) Bill which seeks to stop the British Government from authorising arms sales to Israel. Below is the Zionist Federation’s statement on this latest...
by Steve Winston | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog
Yesterday, the Zionist Federation hosted Emanuel Miller, Senior Analyst at HonestReporting, for a briefing on British media bias during and surrounding Operation Guardian of the Walls in Gaza during May. The ZF recently commissioned HonestReporting to conduct special...
by Steve Winston | Jun 23, 2021 | Blog
Following the long-awaited EU-commissioned report into the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum textbooks, ZF Acting Chair, Richard P Woolf’s statement follows: “The ZF welcomes the publication of the EU-commissioned George Eckert Institute report...
by Steve Winston | Jun 21, 2021 | Blog
Following today’s announcement from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office that the UK will not be attending the ‘Durban IV’ conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 2001 UN’s conference against racism which quickly...
by Steve Winston | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog
This week, in support of Jewish Zionist youth groups, and indeed all youth groups in the UK, ZF acting Chair Richard P Woolf wrote to Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, asking him to increase capacity for residential youth camps this...
by Steve Winston | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog
This blog is written by Barbara Goldberg, Chair of the Advocacy and Communications Committee of the National Council of the Zionist Federation of the UK and Ireland (ZF) Many British Jews, will have been conflicted by recent developments in Israel, and in the UK, and...