Anglo-Israel Association

The Anglo-Israel Association (AIA) is a charity founded in 1949 by Sir Wyndham Deedes, a Zionist sympathiser, the year after the foundation of the state of Israel. According to its website the AIA has 3 main objectives:
1. To support educational programmes enabling the people of both countries to deepen their understanding of each other.
2. To promote a wider understanding of Israel in the UK.
3. To foster goodwill between the two countries. The Anglo-Israel Association, http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html, accessed 17 February 2014 
The AIA organises a wide range of activities ‘to promote education in particular and information in general about Israel.’ http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html accessed 17 February 2014 In the past, it has promoted talks by neo-conservative speaker Emanuele Ottolenghi and it has debated against the academic boycott of Israel. It has links with the Henry Jackson Society and the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
It is partially funded by foundations, including the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust and the Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, that are linked to Zionist and conservative think tanks.
==2023 relaunc==
:One of the UK’s longest established Israel friendship organisations, the Anglo-Israel Association, is set to relaunch its activities and has a new chief executive to spearhead its work. The CEO is American Josh London, whose wife is British. Said to have extensive contacts on the Washington “beltway” — the inner circle of political and security activity in the American capital — his mission in the UK is “to get work underway for a programme of AIA activity coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel”... Before arriving in the UK, Mr London spent nearly 20 years in the world of Washington, most recently as the director of government affairs for the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. He has also worked as a wine and spirits columnist for a variety of publications.
==Activities==
The AIA organises a wide range of activities ‘to promote education in particular and information in general about Israel.’http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html accessed 17 February 2014
===Ambassadors’ Round Table===
Since 2009 it has organised every year an Ambassadors roundtable on a specific topic, bringing together academics, MPS, diplomats and scientist from both Israel and Britain. The 4th Ambassadors' Roundtable was held on Renewable Technology on 16 October 2012 in the Great Gallery in Lancaster House. The conference, opened by AlA's Chairman Lord Bew, was chaired by Oliver Morton, senior Editor of The Economist and the keynote speech was given by Nick Butler, Professor and Chair of the Kings Policy Institute. The Opening Remarks were given by Matthew Gould, UK's Ambassador to Israel, and Daniel Taub, Ambassador of Israel to the UK.http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 17 February 2014 The Third Ambassadors’ Round Table held on the 3 November 2011 was titled ‘The Challenges and Opportunities of Moving from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: The UK and Israeli Perspective’. The Second Ambassadors Roundtable, held on Tuesday 26th October 2010 looked at problems and issues relating to media coverage of Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and wider Middle East and brought together a journalists, media commentators, scholars and parliamentarians from Israel and the UK. Present was also Nachman Shai MK, Kadima Party Member who commented:
::The conference was very important and focused on a very critical issue, how the media deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the way Israel is portrayed by the liberal press in Britain. We have a lot of questions on how the British media treats Israel and why Israel is treated differently. The conference delved into these issues and provided an excellent insight into these concerns.’http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 17 February 2014
===Annual Dinner===
Each year AIA holds an Annual Dinner attracting over 400 guests and supporters prominent in British society. The 2012 Annual Dinner hold at the Savoy Hotel generated an income of £55,781.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012 The guest speaker of the night was Major General Aharon Zeevi Farkash the former head of Israeli Military Intelligence. According to the AIA, website, Major Farkash’s main concern was that the West did not realise that its true enemy is Radical Sunni Islam.http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 19 February 2014 The Israeli Ambassador, Daniel Taub was also present.
===Speakers’ Programme===
From 2006 to 2010, the AIA organised a programme of regular speaking tours every two years by Prof Shai Feldman of Brandeis Univeity. He was formerly Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. The center's current director, General Amos Yadlin the former head of Israeli Military Intelligence and deputy commander of the Israeli Air ForceMaj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, INSS, accessed 19 August 2014, gave a round table briefing in 2012 for the AIA on 'The Security Challenges of the State of Israel in the 21st Century with a focus on the Iranian Nuclear Threat'Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012
Feldman presently serves on the Board of Directors of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2009 Feldman received from AIA £33,604 in 2009 and £81,556 in 2010.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2009 It is not clear if this money went all to Friedman or also for general organisation expenses. In 2012, Feldman gave lectures at the Conservative Middle East Council, Henry Jackson Society and the Israel Diaspora Trust.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012
In 2010, AIA started a collaboration with Prof. Benny Morris from Ben Gurion University and Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2010 In 2011 Benny Morris gave lectures sponsored by AIA at the London School of Economics and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 19 Fberuary 2014
Ottolenghi has written op-eds for the National Review, New York Sun, Jerusalem Post, the Guardian, mostly focusing on Israel and Iran. He claimed in 2003 in The Guardian that ‘anti-zionism is anti-semitism’, writing: 'by negating Zionism, by claiming that Zionism equals racism, goes further and denies the Jews the right to identify, understand and imagine themselves - and consequently behave as - a nation. Anti-Zionists deny Jews a right that they all too readily bestow on others, first of all Palestinians.'Emanuele Ottolenghi, 'Anti Zionism is anti-semitism', http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/29/comment, The Guardian, 29 November 2003 accessed 19 February 2014
He has appeared twice at the UK House of Commons invited by the Henry Jackson Society and on both occasions he pushed for attacks/ sanctions against Iran.The latest Henry Jackson Society was with Ottolenghi as main speaker was on 1 November 2011. The previous appearance was 6 February 2008. In 2011 Ottolenghi also spoke at Pembroke College (Cambridge), Lincoln College (Oxford) and at the University of York.
AIA sponsored the programme ‘Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects’, a series of lectures, workshops and conferences at the University of Oxford. Other supporters of the programme are The Rothschild Foundation Europe, Lewis Family Charitable Trust and The Porter Foundation.http://talks.ox.ac.uk/show/index/1011 accessed 14 February 2014 The Lewis Family Charitable Trust also funds the AIA.
===AIA/Sternberg Award===
The AIA/Sternberg is an annual award given for lasting contribution to the furtherance of good relations between Britain and Israel’.http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 20 February 2014 The prize has a value of £1000. Recipients to date:
*Moshe and Hannah Raviv. Moshe Raviv was ambassador to Israel from 1993 to 1997. He is the author of 'Israel at Fifty: Five Decades of Struggle for Peace'.https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/moshe-raviv/israel-at-fifty/ accessed 21 February 2014
*Lady Sainsbury and Patricia Park
*Canon Andrew White
*Lady Cocks
*Sir Patrick Moberly and Lilian Hochhauser. Moberly was Ambassador to Israel, from 1981 to1984, and then continued as Ambassador to South Africa from 1984 to 1988.
*2012 winner: David Pryce-Jones.http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/ambassadors%20brochure.pdf accessed 19 February 2014 Born on 15 February 1936 Vienna, Austria) Jones is a conservative British author and commentator. In his 1989 book The Closed Circle, Pryce-Jones examined what he considered to be the reasons for the backward state of the Arab world. A review described the book as more of an 'indictment' than an examination of the Arab world. Pryce-Jones considers as a negative factor in Arab society the influence of Islam, which hinders efforts to build a Western style society where the family and clan are not the dominant political unit. 3 In his acceptance speech for the award he stated:
:Throughout the continent, the lingering death of the basic instinct of self-preservation is in complete political, intellectual and emotional opposition to Israel’s will to survive. The vilification and criminalisation of Israel for defending itself has the further consequence of making Jews out to be destroyers of the peace, and that is an indispensable step in normalising the 1930s and the Holocaust. Israel is currently presented by Islamism and its supporters with a test greater than any other in the state’s history, but it has the life-force to deal with whatever materialises.http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/david%20pryce.pdf accessed 21 February 2014
===Scholarships===
21 scholarships were granted in 2012.http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/david%20pryce.pdf accessed 21 February 2014 In 2011, Daniel Hochhauser, vice chairman of AIA, debated against the academic boycott of Israel in an event at LSE.
===Wyndham Deedes Memorial Travel Scholarship===
The Anglo-Israel Association annually awards a limited number of travel scholarships to Israel. The objective of the awards is to enable graduates of British universities, who are normally resident in the UK to make an intensive study of some aspect, (sociological, scientific, cultural, economic, etc.) of life in Israel.http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/scholarships.html accessed 18 February 2014
===Kenneth Lindsay Scholarship Trust===
The Kenneth Lindsay Scholarship Trust awards grants to enable students from Israel to advance their education in any subject at universities and institutions of higher learning in the UK. The awards attempt to encourage close collaboration between individuals of both countries. .
==Funding==
The total fund balances of the AIA on 31 December 2012 were £683,306.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012 Of this amount, £577,880 belong to the MCA Endowment Fund, ‘a separate fund for the purpose of promoting education in particular and information in general about Israel’. The donor has specified that the capital, which is to be invested on professional advice in order to obtain the maximum long-term total return may be spent provided that ‘the total of income and realised and unrealised gains spent in any full financial year of the Association does not exceed 8% of the original grant of £523,000 at 31 December 2000’.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012
The current level of unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets is £120,251.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012
The total incoming resource in 2011 was £186,800 and £141,236 in 2012.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012 
In 2012, £51,387 came from donations. £55,781 came from the annual dinner, £2,210 from subscriptions, £6,000 from patrons and £23,374 from Investment income.
The total expenditure of the AIA in 2012 was £168,308. Of this sum, £104,742 was spent on 'Promoting education about Israel', £24,744 on the Ambassador Round Table, £10,425 on Meetings, Briefings & Conferences, £ 5,285 on clergy visits in Israel, £ 8,670 on AIA magazines, and £5000 on grants.Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012
2010
2011
2012
Total incoming resources
120,514
186,800
141,236 
Total resources expended
135,552
175,037
168,308
Fund balances
679,112
646,939
683,306
MCA FUND
569,914
517,368
577,880
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*The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust is a charity run by Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale, who served as Thatcher‘s chief of staff.http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26767 accessed 18 February 2014
Simon Wolfson, son of Charles Wolfson, is the chief executive of the clothing retailer Next and a Conservative life peer. He was named by the Daily Telegraph as the 37th most important British conservative in 2007.Amy Wilson, ‘Simon Wolfson: Next chief who saw slowdown coming’, The Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2009 He is married to Eleanor Shawcross who is an economic advisor to George Osborne. On 18 June 2010, Wolfson was created Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise, of Aspley Guise in the County of Bedfordshire, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 6 July 2010.House of Lords Business, 22 June 2010
The Charles Wolfson Trust was set up in 1960 to provide grants ‘with particular, but not exclusive, regard to the needs of the Jewish community’.Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April2009, p.3 The trust has funded right-wing think tanks including Civitas, Policy Exchanges, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Research Trust.Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April2007, p.23. In 2007 the trust donated £5,000 to the AIA.Ibid.
*G.R.P Charitable Trust In 2011 the Trust made donations totalling £168,900.00. The largest donations in the year were £50,000.00 to the Jerusalem Foundation, £25,000.00 to Traditional Alternatives Foundation, £15,000.00 to Youth Aliyah - Child Rescue, £14,000.00 to the Weizmann Institute Foundation and £10,000.00 each to the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the United Jewish Israel Appeal.THE G.R.P. CHARITABLE TRUST STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5 APRIL 2011,
p.2
It has made regular donations to AIA (£13,500 in 2009, £2,125.00 in 2011 and £2,000.00 in 2012).
*Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust The Lewis Family Charitable Trust, constituted in 1969, is almost entirely funded from the Lewis Trust Group, an investment company that operates retail stores, real estate and hotels.LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2012, p1
From 12 June 2008, the trust exists to implement the charitable intentions of the family of David Lewis. David Lewis (June 2 1924- August 12 2011) was also a key supporter of the Israel Centre for Social and Economic Progress, the country’s main free-market think tank, and of the Conservative Friends of Israel.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8702861/David-Lewis.html15 Aug 2011 accessed 17 February 2014
The Lewis Family Charitable Trust gave £10,000 to Policy Exchange in 2007/8, £20,000 in 2008/9 and £10,000 in 2009/10.Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 May 2010. It has also funded Palestinian Media Watch, the United Jewish Israel Appeal and the Zionist Federation. It donated $10,000 to AIA in 2008.Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 May 2008
*Stanley Kalms Foundation The main objectives of the Foundation are the ‘encouragement of orthodox Jewish education in the UK and in Israel and to be particularly involved in the granting of scholarships, fellowships and research grants. Other activities include support for the arts and medicine and other programmes both secular and religious.’THE STANLEY KALMS FOUNDATION TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS For the Year Ended
5 APRIL 2013 The Foundation was created by Lord and Lady Kalms by a Trust Deed on 4 July 1989.Ibid. Harold Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms, Kt, (born 21 November 1931) is the life president and former chairman of DSG International plc (formerly Dixons Group). Lord Kalms was treasurer of the Conservative Party 2001-3 and the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think tank from 1991 to 2001.http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-kalms/3668 accessed 17 February 2014
Lord Kalms attacked William Hague for his position on the Israel attack in Lebanon, calling him an ’ignorant armchair critic’ and that his remarks were ‘downright dangerous’http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2297096,00.html
The Foundation donated £5000 to AI in 20013.THE STANLEY KALMS FOUNDATION TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS For the Year Ended
5 APRIL 2013, p. 7
==People==
===Founder: Wyndham Deedes===
Sir Wyndham Deedes was born in Kent, England, in 1883. In 1915 he was a brigadier general in Cairo where he worked to secure Arab support against the Turks. Spencer Tucker, ’The Encyclopaedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History’ (ABC, 2008), p. 292 From 1920 to 1922 he served as chief secretary under High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. He strongly condemned the Arab riots of 1921 ans Deedes authorised the enlistment of Jewish volunteers to help defend Jaffa and Tel Aviv. He retired from military life in 1923 and moved to London, UK. In 1943 he founded the British Association for the Jewish National Home in Palestine. A year after the creation of the state of Israel in 1949 he formed the Anglo-Israel Association. He died in 1956.
Deedes was a deeply religious Christian and believed that the only way Christians could atone for their treatment towards the Jews was by working to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Ibid. In 1918 he met and became close friends with Chaim Weizmnann, a Zionist leader who later became the first president of Israel. Ibid. In 1926 Deedes was invited by the Executive of the Zionist Organisation of Poland for a two week tour. http://www.jta.org/1926/12/19/archive/polish-zionists-invite-sir-wyndham-deedes 
On March 14th 1927, Deedes and Weizmnann attended a banquet at the mount Royal Hotel in Canada to celebrate the opening of a local branch of Keren Hayoda, a Zionist fund-raising organisation.The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19270311&id=nY8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1WEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2761,2630523, 11 March 1927, accessed 17 February 2014 The same week the two friends also attended a lunch at the Commodore Hotel. According to the Jewish Daily Bulletin, Weizmann stated: ‘We Jews have no titles to confer. We have only one expression which may be properly applied to Sir Wyndham. He is one of the ‘Chassidei Umoth Ha’olam’ (Righteous men of the nations) and as such he will long be remembered.’Jewish Daily Bulletin, Sir Wyndham Deedes, Distinguished Visitor, is Feted by Zionists, http://pdfs.jta.org/1927/1927-03-21_722.pdf, accessed 17 February 2014 Wyndham also claimed his support for Zionism on the basis of moral and historical reasons, stating ‘I often fail to understand why some view Zionism as a purely national movement which is totally secular and is opposed to religion. So far as Jewish life goes, the national idea and religion are so closely interwoven that they are inseparable'.Ibid.
In 2006, his nephew William Deedes wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph stating that ‘Muslims can never conform to our ways’.William Deedes, ‘Muslims can never conform to our ways' Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006
===Directors===
Directors of the Corporate Trustee registed at Companies House as the Anglo Israel Association Corporate Trustee (Company number 09898380)https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09898380/officers 
*Deirdre Michelle Beth, Role ACTIVE Director Date of birth May 1952 Appointed on 1 December 2019 Nationality British Country of residence United Kingdom Occupation Director 
*Richard Louis Bolchover Role ACTIVE Director Date of birth August 1960 Appointed on 2 December 2015 Nationality British Country of residence England Occupation Asset Management 
*Daniel Hochhauser Role ACTIVE Director Date of birth July 1957 Appointed on 2 December 2015 Nationality British Country of residence England Occupation Physician 
*Daniel Benjamin Kessler Role ACTIVE Director Date of birth July 1971 Appointed on 22 May 2017 Nationality British Country of residence United Kingdom Occupation Director 
*Adrian Grantley Reeve Role ACTIVE Director Date of birth January 1957 Appointed on 22 May 2017 Nationality British Country of residence England Occupation Director 
*Howard Keith Lewis Role RESIGNED Director Date of birth November 1951 Appointed on 2 December 2015 Resigned on 1 December 2019 Nationality British Country of residence United Kingdom Occupation Chartered Accountant 
===Circa 2023===
====Hon President====
He The Ambassador Of Israel
====Hon. Vice-Presidents====
Mr M Green | Mrs L Hochhauser, CBE | Mr J Marshall | Lady Sainsbury
Council Charity Trustee: 
The Sole Trustee Of The AIA Is The Corporate Trustee.
Directors of the Corporate Trustee: 
Mrs D Beth | Mr R Bolchover | Prof D Hochhauser | Mr D Kessler | Mr A Reeve
====Executive Committee====
The Current Membership Of The Executive Committee Has Expired And The Corporate Trustee Is Currently Reviewing And Updating The Governance Arrangements Of Aia, Including To Facilitate New Elections. This Section Will Be Updated Further In Due Course. In The Meantime, The Corporate Trustee Continues To Consult The Last-Elected Members Of The Executive Committee.
Trustees Of The Educational Trusts
Chair:
The Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale | Mr Martin Green | Professor Daniel Hochhauser
 Anglo-Israel Association Who we are. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 16 June 2023.
===Circa 2014===
====Hon. President====
The Ambassador of Israel.
====Hon. Vice-Presidents====
Mr M Green | Mrs L Hochhauser | Sir Michael Latham Dl | Mr J Marshall | Mr G R Pinto | Lady Sainsbury
====Council====
Chairman: Lady Sainsbury | Lady Anderson | Sir Andrew Burns Kcmg | The Earl Of Balfour | Mrs E Corob | Dame Vivien Duffield Dbe | Mr J M Greenwood | Mrs M Park | The Marquess Of Reading | The Viscount Samuel | Mr D Sumberg | The Lord Weidenfeld | The Rt Hon The Lord Woolf Pc | Mr A Yablon | 
====Executive Committee====
Chairman: The Lord Bew | Deputy Chairmen: Mr R Bolchover | Prof D Hochhauser | Hon Treasurer Mr H Lewis 
=====Committee=====
Mrs J Atkin | Ms B Dingle | Mr D Kessler | Mrs O Polizzi | Mr A Reeve | Dr A Sher | Mr B Streather | Mrs E Tarling | Mr T Vince | Executive Director: Mrs R Saunders
====Trustees Of The Educational Trusts====
Chair: The Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale | Professor V. Bogdanor Cbe Fba | Mr M Green | Professor D Hochhauser
Anglo_Israel Assocation Who we are, Accessed 18 August 2014. 
===Circa 2012===
====Officers (as of December 2012)====
*P. Bew(Chairman)|Mr M. Green (Vice-President)|Martin Green (Vice-President)|Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)|Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)|Sir Michael Latham (Vice-President)|Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council)|Mr G.R. Pinto (Vice-President)|MrJ. Marshall (Vice-President)|Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer)
====Executive Committee (Trustees)====
Mrs J. Atkin | Paul Bew (Chairman) | Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman) | Dr M. Brearley | Mr A. Diamond | Miss B. Dingle |Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer) | Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman) | Mr A. Reeve | William Shawcross (resigned 4 October 2012) | Dr A. Sher | Mrs E. Tarling | Mr T. Vince | Mrs O. Polizzi
===Circa 2011===
====Officers====
The Lord Bew (Chairman from 16 February 2011) | Sir Andrew Burns KCMG (Chairman until 15 February 2011) | Mr M. Green (Vice-President) | Mrs L. Hochhauser (Vice-President) | Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman) | Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman) | Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council) | Mr G.R. Pinto (Vice-President) | Mr J. Marshall (Vice-President) | Mr J. Nedas FCA (Hon Treasurer until 4 April 2011) | Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer from 4 April 2011)Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011, Anglo-Israel Association, accessed 10 March 2014.
====Executive Committee (Trustees)====
Mrs J. Atkin | The Lord Bew (Chairman from 16 February 2011) | Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman) | Dr M. Brearley | Mr A. Diamond | Miss B. Dingle (joined 25 January 2011) | Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer from 4 April 2011) | Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman) | Mr A. Reeve joined 25 January 2011 | Mr W. Shawcross joined 5 July 2011 | Dr A. Sher (joined 25 January 2011) | Mrs E. Tarling | Mr T. Vince | Mr G.A. Yablon (retired 5 July 2011).Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011, Anglo-Israel Association, accessed 10 March 2014.
*Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 22 Jan. 1950) is a Northern Irish historian. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991.Richards Huw, ‘Paul Bew: Belfast's history man’, The Guardian He was an unofficial adviser to the former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and they are both signatories of the Cambridge neoconservative think tank the Henry Jackson Society's Statement of Principles.Signatories to the Statement of Principles, http://henryjacksonsociety.org/about-the-society/signatories-to-the-statement-of-principles/ accessed 19 February 2014 Bew was appointed to the House of Lords as a Life Peer in February 2007 and sits as a cross bencher.http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-bew/3832 He has been chairman of AIA from February 2011. Bew has expressed praise for the Alliance for Middle East Peace, a group of over 70 leading non-governmental organizations working to foster reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. In a debate on the European Union’s role in the Middle East peace process in January 2014, Bew stated that:
::the EU should focus on what it does well—state-building and creating an environment in which Israelis and Palestinians feel comfortable in engaging with each other in areas of mutual benefit, such as water and energy. The EU currently funds the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology, and could do even more to help the high-tech companies and thousands of technology graduates in the Palestinian territories.HL Deb, 14 January 2014, c191
*Martin Green is Vice-President and was elected deputy Chairmen of the Executive Committee, AIA in 1994.The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/appointments-1438994.html,28 May 1994 accessed 17 February 2014
*Mrs Lilian Hochhauser is Vice President and was born in 1926 in the UK.https://www.duedil.com//director/901580298/lilian-hochhauser, accessed 17 February 2014
*Daniel Hochhauser is Kathleen Ferrier Professor of Medical Oncology at UCL. He is a consultant medical oncologist at UCLH specialising in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer. On Thursday 13 January 2011 he participated at LSE at an event around the following motion: 'This house believes in an academic boycott of Israel'. Hochauser argued against the academic boycott and the motion was defeated.http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2011/20110113t1800vOT.aspx accessed 17 February 2014 In November 2012 he wrote a negativity review for Jewish Chronicles of 'The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist' by Antony Lerman.Daniel Hochauser, Book Review, http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/90167/communal-courtier-controversy, The JC, November 9, 2012, accessed 19 February 2014 In 2005 he was a signatory to a letter against academic boycott that was published by The Guardian.In 2005 he was a signatory to a letter against academic boycott that was published by The Guardian.
*Richard Bolchover is an academic at the University of Oxford and author of ‘British Jewry and the Holocaust’, published in 1993.http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-british-history/british-jewry-and-holocaust, accessed 17 February 2014
*Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council). Lady Susan Sainsbury, was appointed as the new chairman of the Anglo-Israel Association in 2001. She is the wife of former Conservative minister Sir Timothy Sainsbury, who was also President of the Conservative Friends of Israel from 1997 until 2005.http://thepeerage.com/p20556.htm accessed 19 February 2014
*Mr G.R. Pinto (Vice-President). Mr George Richard Pinto was born in the UK in 1929 and has been the Director of Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies since 1991.3 In the third quarter of 2013 he donated £10,269 to the Conservative Party.Search the Money, ‘Conservative Party donors revealed for Q3 2013’, http://searchthemoney.com/blog/7 accessed 17 February 2014
*Mr J. Marshall (Vice-President). John Leslie Marshall (born August 19, 1940) is a British Conservative politician. He was MEP for London North from 1979 to 1989. John Marshall was Mayor of the London Borough of Barnet in the Municipal year 2008-2009. He was appointed vice president of AIA in 1994.Search the Money, ‘Conservative Party donors revealed for Q3 2013’, http://searchthemoney.com/blog/7 accessed 17 February 2014
*William Shawcross is (born 28 May 1946, Sussex) is the Chairman of the Charity Commission for England and Wales and a British writer and commentator.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/appointments-1438994.html4 Shawcross was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford. He was a member of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees's Informal Advisory Group from 1995 to 2000. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the BBC World Service Advisory Council. In 2008 he became a Patron of the Wiener Library and in 2011 he joined the board of the Anglo-Israel Association and was appointed to the board of the Henry Jackson Society.http://www.williamshawcross.com/index.php?page=cv accessed 17 February 2014 His daughter Eleanor from his second wife Michal Levin is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to George Osborne.Ane Merrick, ‘George Osborne aide too posh for future tory leader’, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osborne-aide-too-posh-for-future-tory-leader-8537668.html, The Independent, 17 March 2013, accessed 17 February 2014 She had previously worked on Boris Johnson's mayor campaign. Eleanor is married to Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, the chief executive of the clothing retailer Next and a Conservative life peer.Ibid. He is the son of former Next chairman David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, also a Conservative life peer. Shawcross resigned in 2012 from the AIA and Henry Jackson Society board to become Chair of the Charity Commission.
===Circa 1975===
*Baroness Elliot of Harwood became Chair of the Anglo-Israel Association in 1975
==Publications, Resources, Contact, Notes==
===Publications===
*Michael Latham Israel's Right to Live in Peace. Publisher, Anglo-Israel Association, 1985. Length, 8 pages.
*Michael Latham Enemies of Peace. Publisher, Anglo-Israel Association, 1986. Length, 7 pages.
===Resources===
*Jenni Frazer Washington insider leads Anglo-Israel Association relaunch - Josh London wants to revive activities of long-established friendship organisation in time for Israel's 75th birthday MARCH 29, 2023 11:13
===Contact===
:P.O. Box 47819 
:London NW11 7WD 
:Charity number 313523 
:Phone: 020 8458 1284 
:Fax: 020 8458 3484 
:Email: info@angloisraelassociation.com
:Web: angloisraelassociation.com/
===Notes===
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