More than half of the 45 mainstream Jewish schools in the UK say a core part of their mission is teaching children to “love Israel,” possibly breaching UK government rules against the promotion of partisan political views in schools. These schools also all organise regular trips to the apartheid state and invite occupation soldiers to speak to pupils, almost certainly breaching rules on political impartiality.

These findings come after a fraudulent report published last week by a UK government taskforce initiated a moral panic about antisemitism in British schools on the basis of just 29 affirmative responses. This tiny number, which should have discredited the report entirely, was omitted from all mainstream media coverage. Also omitted from media coverage of the report was the explicit admission, buried on page 30 of the report, that only anti-Israel attitudes, not anti-Jewish views, have risen in the UK. My identification of this admission has been widely picked up on social media.

The report was a barely concealed attempt to stifle pro-Palestine, anti-genocide views in schools, and to ensure children are instead brainwashed to support genocidal Zionism, as many Jewish children already are.

This brainwashing is extensive and targets tens of thousands of Jewish kids. According to my research, at least 25 of the 45 Jewish schools in the UK considered mainstream or modern Orthodox by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research are explicitly Zionist and heavily promote pro-Israel narratives and teaching. A creepily consistent theme is “love.” Many of these schools say their explicit goal is imbuing the children with “a love for Israel.” The schools in this list are a mix of primary schools (ages 4 to age 11) and secondary schools (ages 11 to 18).

The biggest school on the list, JFS (formerly the Jewish Free School), is a secondary teaching more than 2,100 pupils. It is the UK’s largest Jewish school and the largest Jewish school in Europe. It states on the “vision and values” section of its website that it teaches children “a love of the state of Israel.” In archived pages, the secondary school says that “Israel is at the heart of JFS.” The school runs an Israel Club where students and staff say they “celebrate their love for Israel” and “learn about Israeli culture, food and history.”

The school also organises two different trips to Israel for Year 9 students (14-year-olds). One is the two week “Taste of Israel” trip, the other, the Lev Programme, a three month immersion (indoctrination) into Israeli society. In October 2024 students received a presentation from an Israeli soldier where they were taught that the two sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict are “not the same.” Another archived page shows that in May of 2024 the school welcomed the former head of the Israeli military Aviv Kochavi, to speak to students. His talk was titled “The Moral Army.” Another archived page shows that JFS students wrote thank you letters to Brits serving for the occupying forces at the start of the Gaza genocide.