Steve Winston, at The Blogs

Steve Winston

Executive Director of the Zionist Federation of UK & Ireland

Jun 18, 2021, 7:17 PM

What happens in Israel does not stay in Israel.

Many British Jews, will have been conflicted by recent developments in Israel, and in the UK, and the effect of one on the other. Most human beings will be deeply troubled by the inequalities, plight and living conditions of Arab...

Jun 8, 2021, 6:43 PM

The Zionist Federation: Onwards and upwards!

The Zionist Federation is 122 years old. When it was formed, Queen Victoria, Empress of India, still had two more years on the throne and Sunderland AFC were a dominant football force. Having survived this long as the umbrella body...

May 16, 2021, 8:55 PM

An open Letter To Those Using Social Media To Demonise Israel

Note: This blog entry was written by a A 24-year old Brit in Tel Aviv who wishes to remain anonymous. The Zionist Federation are proud to publish it on their behalf. While I’ve been spending my life in and out...

Nov 9, 2020, 3:12 PM

What the UK didn’t say at the UN Security Council

Just two weeks ago, on Monday 26th October 2020, Ambassador Jonathan Allen, UK Chargé d’Affaires to the UN, delivered his statement at the UN Security Council (UNSC) briefing on the situation in the Middle East. I am a proud British...

Sep 29, 2020, 3:04 PM

Using the settlements to whitewash terrorism

Credit: The Telegraph
Image shows an Israeli settlement and rocket fire from Gaza

Last Thursday, 24th September, the outgoing Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Palestine and MP for Aberavon, Stephen Kinnock, led a debate in the House of Commons on the issue of “annexation” vis a vis Israel. Watching the debate,...

About Me

Steve is the Managing Dorector of the National jewish Assembly in the UK. Born in the UK, Steve spent 6 formative years of his childhood with his parents and sister in the Jewish community of Pretoria, South Africa. During high school in the UK, Steve served on the Executive Committee of his local chapter of BBYO as their Jewish Education Officer and after completing his A-Levels, spent a year in Israel on Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael. After 22 years of a successful career in architecture working on projects across the globe, Steve became involved with the Zionist Federation of the UK and Ireland, serving first as its Campaigns Officer and later, as its Executive Director where he led lobbying efforts that generated parliamentary debates around the incitement in Palestinian textbooks, as well as encouraging a change in the UK’s voting pattern on anti-Israel resolutions at the UN.

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