Israel has been featured on a quarterly report on Human Rights and Democracy by the British Foreign Office, alongside serial human rights offenders Iran, Bahrain and Belarus, as the foreign office identified the Jewish State as a "country of concern," making a special mention of the recent Gaza escalation, Israeli settlement policy, the Israel government withholding of Palestinian custom revenues and Hamas incitement.

After France, Spain said Wednesday it will back a Palestinian bid for enhanced UN status at the body’s General Assembly on Thursday.

As Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas arrived  in New York ahead of his appeal for UN non-member observer status later this week,  British daily The Daily Telegraph reported Monday Palestinian general delegate to the EU Leila Shahid as claiming Britain has “a historic responsibility” to support the Palestinian bid for statehood, due to its role as a former colonial power to the pre-Israel state.

Amidst a climate of silence which greeted news of Israel’s assassination of Hamas’ military head Ahmed Jabari Wednesday, British Foreign Minister William Hague spoke of his “grave concern” for the escalating situation in Gaza, for which he blamed Hamas for creating “an intolerable situation for Israeli civilians in southern Israel”.

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined with 200 students from England Thursday in visiting the grounds of former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, to mark the 100th tour of the camp by outreach organisation the Holocaust Educational Trust.

Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, broadcasted his annual Rosh Hashana address, in honour of the Jewish New Year, which starts Sunday at sundown, as he sought to reconcile the disparities between science and religion at a time when Jews “commemorate the creation of the universe and its God-given wonders”.

Britain's Foreign Minister William Hague has urged the European Union to place the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah on its list of "terrorist" organizations.

British daily The Guardian carried an in-depth report Thursday into a Peruvian extreme-right aspiring political party, whose leader openly admires Adolf Hitler and advocates the expulsion of Peru’s minority Jewish community.

Any larger city wants to be proud of their Jewish Museum. London, claiming to be the centre of the universe, had to have one as well.

Jewish leaders paid tribute to the Queen on the eve of her Jubilee celebrations this weekend in Great Britain. The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks heralded her “friendship across faiths” as he opened a debate on the role and contribution of faith communities in Britain and the Commonwealth in London’s House of Lords on Tuesday.