The reality of how the IHRA definition of antisemitism got into the NHS: in December 2024 Wes Streeting, then Health Secretary, met the Board of Deputies of British Jews about antisemitism in the NHS, and the Jewish Medical Association, which had prepared its demands with the Board, asked him for IHRA. Ten months later he asked NHS England to adopt it, and it did the next day.
Unfortunately, the IHRA definition is built around Israel. Seven of its eleven examples are about Israel, and one of them says comparing Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is antisemitic. A policy that cannot differentiate between Jewish people and an apartheid state only benefits the apartheid state, by conflating the two and misrepresenting real antisemitism. In the NHS it came with a push to stop nurses and doctors wearing a Palestine badge, and a stream of complaints against them.
So we dug into who asked for it, who wrote the review that followed, and who paid them.
What we found:
- They asked for IHRA, and got it. The Health Secretary met the Board of Deputies on 10 December 2024 "To discuss antisemitism in the NHS". The Jewish Medical Association says its asks that month included IHRA and keeping "symbols, posters, signs, clothing" out of the NHS. On 16 October 2025 Streeting asked NHS England to adopt IHRA, and it did the next day.
- Both groups are tied to Israel by their own rules. The Board of Deputies' constitution commits it to "advance Israel's security, welfare and standing". The Jewish Medical Association was registered as the Israel Medical Association British Fellowship, and its charitable aims make it "the link association" with the Israel Medical Association.
- The reviewer had just chaired the Board of Deputies' own commission. Lord Mann co-chaired the Board's Commission on Antisemitism, which in July 2025 called for antisemitism training in every NHS trust and a ban on staff "attire" that undermines trust. Three months later Streeting handed him the NHS review. When it came out, the Board said it "reinforce[s]" the commission's recommendations.
- The government pays a charity to staff Lord Mann, and it ran the review. The Antisemitism Policy Trust has had £420,000 in four uncompeted government grants since 2021 to run his office. It provided the review's secretariat, the review recommends the trust's own guide to IHRA, and the trust sells antisemitism training, as the review tells the NHS to train all 1.5 million staff on antisemitism.
- The same donor has funded both men. Sir Trevor Chinn, a member of the executive committee of the pro-Israel lobby group BICOM, has given Streeting £33,250 in registered donations since 2021, two of them while he was Health Secretary. He gave £5,000 to Lord Mann's local Labour party in 2017 and was listed in 2022 and 2023 as a funder of Mann's antisemitism work through Mann's company.
- Israel and its lobby paid for their trips. Labour Friends of Israel paid £4,700 for Streeting's trip to Israel in 2022. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid for Mann's trip to Jerusalem in 2013.
- None of Mann's 36 recommendations tells the NHS to adopt IHRA. NHS England still asked every NHS organisation to confirm by 31 July 2026 whether it had, and the government says NHS England has no plans to consult or publish an impact assessment.
Who asked for IHRA
Wes Streeting became Health Secretary in July 2024. On 10 December 2024 he met the Board of Deputies of British Jews. His department's record of ministers' meetings gives the purpose as "To discuss antisemitism in the NHS".
The Jewish Medical Association says it prepared its asks with the Board of Deputies and put them to Streeting at a meeting that month. Its newsletter lists them. One is IHRA:
“A single accepted authoritative definition of antisemitism (IHRA working definition), which has been adopted already widely by public sector bodies, and has a legal basis, must be recognised”
Jewish Medical Association, Update, December 2024, December 2024Read the original
The next ask on the list is about what staff wear: "In-line with the NHS constitution, politics must be kept out of the NHS. This includes, but is not limited to symbols, posters, signs, clothing, workplace meetings and clinical meetings, and speech."
The Jewish Medical Association grew out of the Israel Medical Association's British branch. The charity was registered in 1975 as the Israel Medical Association British Fellowship, and its charitable aims still include "Acting as the link association between UK Jewish doctors, dentists, and associated health care professionals, and the Israel Medical Association".
The Board of Deputies, which Streeting met that December, has Israel in its constitution. Clause 3 lists what the Board shall do, and (d) reads:
“Take such appropriate action as lies within its power to advance Israel's security, welfare and standing.”
Board of Deputies of British Jews, Constitution, clause 3(d)Read the original
They kept coming back. In the summer of 2025 Streeting held a roundtable "To discuss Antisemitism in the Health System". Beside NHS England and the regulators, his department lists the Jewish Medical Association, the Antisemitism Policy Trust, the Community Security Trust and the Board of Deputies. On 5 May 2026, nine days before he resigned, he met the Jewish Medical Association, the Board of Deputies and Jewish Care with three hospital trusts.
On 16 October 2025 Streeting announced a review of antisemitism in the NHS and asked the NHS to adopt IHRA:
“The government is also asking NHS England to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and set clear expectations that every trust, integrated care board and arm’s length body does the same.”
Department of Health and Social Care, gov.uk, 16 October 2025Read the original
The same announcement quoted the Board of Deputies welcoming "particularly the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism". The next day NHS England wrote to every trust: "NHS England is formally and actively adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism."
Ten months after asking, the Jewish Medical Association had the definition it wanted, and the Board of Deputies was welcoming it.
The man he chose to write the review
In the same announcement Streeting handed the review to Lord Mann, the government's adviser on antisemitism. Mann had just finished another piece of work for the Board of Deputies.
In November 2024 the Board launched its own Commission on Antisemitism, co-chaired by Lord Mann and Dame Penny Mordaunt. Its report, in July 2025, called for antisemitism training in every NHS trust and said what health workers should and should not wear:
The Board of Deputies' commission, co-chaired by Mann
“Activities, associations and attire that undermine trust in the universality of the services they provide should not be permitted.”
Commission on Antisemitism, July 2025Read the original
Mann's review for the government
“the firm position of this review is that political identifiers do not have a place in the NHS, that is to say there should be a restriction on NHS staff from displaying political identifiers while at work.”
The Mann review, 4 June 2026Read the original
The commission's report also recommended "basic training on contemporary antisemitism carried out across every NHS Trust". The review recommends mandatory antisemitism training for every NHS trust's chair and chief executive within six months.
When the review came out, the Board of Deputies said so itself:
“Several recommendations in Lord Mann’s review reinforce those made in the 2025 report of the Board of Deputies Commission on Antisemitism, which Lord Mann chaired together with Dame Penny Mordaunt.”
Karen Newman, vice-president, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Board of Deputies, 4 June 2026Read the original
The government sent its review of the NHS to the man who had just chaired the Board of Deputies' commission, and the Board says his review reinforced its recommendations.
The Jewish Medical Association gave evidence too. The review records its request that "regulators receive advice in cases of alleged antisemitism from respected independent Jewish organisations", and thanks it by name.
The review names the slogans it means:
“To be more specific, saying ‘Free Palestine’ or ‘I love Israel’ are reasonable beliefs and expressions but the identification of such views or beliefs on public facing NHS owned profiles might, in of themselves, be a barrier to patients presenting.”
Lord Mann, The Mann review, 4 June 2026Read the original
Who staffs Lord Mann
Lord Mann is unpaid. The government pays a charity, the Antisemitism Policy Trust, to staff his office instead. He told the Home Affairs Committee in May 2026:
“My budget is £120,000 a year. Half of it goes on a staff member, but I can take someone on only a six or 12-month contract because I do not have a longer budget.”
Lord Mann, Home Affairs Committee, 14 May 2026Read the original
The trust's chief executive, Danny Stone, told the same committee: "We provide the secretariat to Lord Mann. It is an unpaid role. We get funding to staff that office."
Since 2021 the government has given the trust four grants titled "Secretariat for the Independent Antisemitism Adviser", £420,000 in all. None was competed. The record for the latest, £120,000 in November 2024, says "From An Open Call? No" and "General grants - Un-competed".
Mann did not register the staff the trust gives him. In 2024 the House of Lords standards commissioner found that "Lord Mann should have registered this as a sponsorship interest" and that he had broken the code of conduct, and the Conduct Committee told him to write a letter of apology. His register now carries it.
The trust ran the NHS review as well. The review thanks it in its acknowledgements:
“Particular thanks to the Antisemitism Policy Trust, who provided the secretariat for Lord Mann in his role as an independent government advisor on antisemitism, and for its support throughout this review.”
Lord Mann, The Mann review, 4 June 2026Read the original
The trust's own accounts say what that secretariat has been for. In 2020 and 2021 it reported:
“The Trust supported Lord Mann to deliver widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism across sport and the higher education sector and regularly reported to Government about his work.”
Antisemitism Policy Trust, Trustees' report, 2020 and 2021Read the original
The NHS is now the next sector. The review points staff to the trust's own guide: "Helpful guides exist which set out further detailed examples, such as the Antisemitism Policy Trust’s A Guide to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism".
The trust also sells antisemitism training. Its 2024 accounts say "We ran six events for organisations in the health sector, reaching thousands of members of NHS Trusts across the country", and that year it set up a training company, now called Antisemitism Policy Trust Training Limited. The review recommends mandatory antisemitism training for all 1.5 million NHS staff, and for every trust's chair and chief executive within six months.
The Board of Deputies has money for the same work. In July 2026 it announced £1.5 million from the National Lottery Community Fund for a health project with the London Jewish Forum, tied to Lord Mann's review, to "Support evidence‑based training for health professionals".
Follow the money
Then we followed the money around the two men: who gave them money, who paid for their trips, and who the government pays to do the work. Every line on this map is a link a public record shows, and each one opens its source.
Who is around IHRA in the NHS, and who is paid
A network map of 22 people and organisations around the push for IHRA in the NHS and Lord Mann's review, and 38 links between them, each from a public record. Money links show amounts: £420,000 in uncompeted government grants to the Antisemitism Policy Trust to staff Lord Mann's office, £1.5 million from the National Lottery Community Fund to the Board of Deputies for health work, £33,250 from Sir Trevor Chinn to Wes Streeting, £5,000 from Chinn to Lord Mann's local party, £4,700 from Labour Friends of Israel for Streeting's trip to Israel, and £852.56 from Israel's foreign ministry for Mann's trip to Jerusalem. Role and lobbying links show who met Streeting, who shaped the review and who complained to NHS trusts. The same links are listed in the table below.
What the records show:
- The same donor gave money to the minister and to his adviser. Sir Trevor Chinn is a vice-president of the Jewish Leadership Council and "a member of the Executive Committee of BICOM", according to the council. In January 2025 Israel's president gave him the Presidential Medal of Honour. Streeting has registered six donations from him since 2021, £33,250 in all: £5,000 "To support campaigning in Ilford North" from January 2025 and £1,250 in March 2026, both while he was Health Secretary, and £12,000 in June 2026, a month before he became Defence Secretary. Chinn gave £5,000 to Lord Mann's local party in 2017, and Mann's Lords register listed him as a funder of Mann's antisemitism work through his company in 2022 and 2023.
- Labour Friends of Israel paid for Streeting's trip to Israel. It paid £4,700 for him and a member of staff to visit Israel in May 2022, when he was shadow health secretary. LFI calls him an "LFI Parliamentary Supporter". He wrote afterwards, in an article LFI republished: "Israel is 10 years ahead of the NHS. Its health service is digital while ours is stuck in analogue."
- Israel paid for Mann's trip to Jerusalem. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its London embassy paid £852.56 for him to speak at the ministry's Global Forum on Combating Antisemitism in May 2013.
- The charity at the roundtable funds Mann's company. The Community Security Trust sat at Streeting's roundtable on antisemitism in the health system and he went to its dinner in March 2026. Mann's Lords register lists the trust as a funder of his antisemitism work through his company, Suilven Communications. The GMC says it has worked with the trust on awareness of antisemitism among its staff.
- Public money pays for the adviser's office. The Antisemitism Policy Trust has had £420,000 in uncompeted grants since 2021 to run Mann's office. It also runs the secretariat of the parliamentary group against antisemitism that Mann chaired as an MP, where Streeting was one of the vice-chairs.
The minister who put IHRA into the NHS and the adviser who wrote the review have both had money from the same donor, who sits on the executive committee of a pro-Israel lobby group, and both had trips paid for by Israel or its lobby. The charity that runs the adviser's office is paid by the government without competition, ran the review, and sells the kind of training the review says every member of NHS staff must now have.
Every link on the map
- Wes Streeting
To
Department of Health and Social CareWhat the record shows
Health SecretaryAmount (£)
When
5 July 2024 to 14 May 2026 - Wes Streeting
To
The Mann reviewWhat the record shows
Commissioned it, in the same announcement that asked the NHS to adopt IHRAAmount (£)
When
16 October 2025Source
- Department of Health and Social Care
To
NHS EnglandWhat the record shows
Asked NHS England and every arm's-length body to adopt IHRA, and every trust and integrated care board to do the sameAmount (£)
When
16 October 2025Source
- NHS England
To
NHS trustsWhat the record shows
Adopted IHRA and urged every NHS organisation to; then asked each one to confirm by 31 July 2026 whether it hadAmount (£)
When
17 October 2025 and 4 June 2026 - Lord Mann
To
The Mann reviewWhat the record shows
Wrote itAmount (£)
When
published 4 June 2026Source
- Department of Health and Social Care
To
The Mann reviewWhat the record shows
Accepted every recommendation addressed to the department and to NHS EnglandAmount (£)
When
4 June 2026Source
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
To
Antisemitism Policy TrustWhat the record shows
Four grants titled "Secretariat for the Independent Antisemitism Adviser". None was competedAmount (£)
420,000When
2021 to 2024Source
- Antisemitism Policy Trust
To
Lord MannWhat the record shows
Staffs his office with a full-time staff member paid from the government budget. In 2024 the Lords standards commissioner found he had broken the code by not registering itAmount (£)
When
since 2019 - Antisemitism Policy Trust
To
The Mann reviewWhat the record shows
Provided the review's secretariat. The review recommends the trust's own guide to IHRAAmount (£)
When
2025 to 2026Source
- Antisemitism Policy Trust
To
General Medical CouncilWhat the record shows
Developed "bespoke training offers" with the GMC and the Nursing and Midwifery CouncilAmount (£)
When
2025 to 2026Source
- Antisemitism Policy Trust
To
All-Party Parliamentary Group Against AntisemitismWhat the record shows
Runs its secretariatAmount (£)
When
current - Antisemitism Policy Trust
To
Wes StreetingWhat the record shows
At his roundtable "To discuss Antisemitism in the Health System"Amount (£)
When
July to September 2025 - Lord Mann
To
All-Party Parliamentary Group Against AntisemitismWhat the record shows
Chaired it as an MPAmount (£)
When
2015 register - Wes Streeting
To
All-Party Parliamentary Group Against AntisemitismWhat the record shows
One of its vice-chairsAmount (£)
When
2015 register - Board of Deputies of British Jews
To
Lord MannWhat the record shows
Mann co-chaired the Board's own Commission on Antisemitism, which called for antisemitism training in every NHS trust and for "attire" that undermines trust to be bannedAmount (£)
When
November 2024 to July 2025 - Board of Deputies of British Jews
To
The Mann reviewWhat the record shows
Says the review "reinforce[s]" the recommendations of the commission Mann co-chaired for itAmount (£)
When
4 June 2026 - Board of Deputies of British Jews
To
Wes StreetingWhat the record shows
Met him "To discuss antisemitism in the NHS", then sat at his roundtables on antisemitism in the health systemAmount (£)
When
10 December 2024, summer 2025 and 5 May 2026 - Jewish Medical Association
To
Wes StreetingWhat the record shows
Asked him for IHRA and for "symbols, posters, signs, clothing" to be kept out of the NHS, after preparing its asks with the Board of Deputies; then sat at his roundtablesAmount (£)
When
December 2024 to May 2026 - Jewish Medical Association
To
The Mann reviewWhat the record shows
Gave evidence and asked that regulators take advice on antisemitism from "respected independent Jewish organisations"Amount (£)
When
2025 to 2026Source
- Jewish Medical Association
To
Israel Medical AssociationWhat the record shows
Its charitable aims make it "the link association" with the Israel Medical Association. It was registered in 1975 as the Israel Medical Association British FellowshipAmount (£)
When
since 1975Source
- Jewish Medical Association
To
General Medical CouncilWhat the record shows
Says it has referred 28 doctors to the GMCAmount (£)
When
October 2023 to January 2025 - Community Security Trust
To
Wes StreetingWhat the record shows
At his roundtable on antisemitism in the health system. He attended its dinnerAmount (£)
When
summer 2025 and 23 March 2026 - Community Security Trust
To
Suilven Communications LtdWhat the record shows
Funds Lord Mann's antisemitism work through his company. The register names private individuals and trusts alongside itAmount (£)
When
current register - Community Security Trust
To
General Medical CouncilWhat the record shows
Worked with the GMC on awareness of antisemitismAmount (£)
When
2025 to 2026 - Lord Mann
To
Suilven Communications LtdWhat the record shows
Sole director. Its objects are restricted to work on antisemitismAmount (£)
When
since February 2020Source
- Sir Trevor Chinn
To
Wes StreetingWhat the record shows
Six donations Streeting registered, two of them while he was Health Secretary and one of £12,000 a month before he became Defence SecretaryAmount (£)
33,250When
2021 to 2026 - Sir Trevor Chinn
To
Lord MannWhat the record shows
Donation to his local Labour partyAmount (£)
5,000When
2017 - Sir Trevor Chinn
To
Suilven Communications LtdWhat the record shows
Listed as a funder of Lord Mann's antisemitism work through his companyAmount (£)
When
2022 to 2023 - Sir Trevor Chinn
To
BICOMWhat the record shows
Member of its executive committee, according to the Jewish Leadership CouncilAmount (£)
When
current profile - State of Israel
To
Sir Trevor ChinnWhat the record shows
Israel's president gave him the Presidential Medal of Honour for "outstanding contributions to Israel and the Jewish people"Amount (£)
When
8 January 2025Source
- State of Israel
To
Lord MannWhat the record shows
Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid for his trip to Jerusalem to speak at its Global Forum on Combating AntisemitismAmount (£)
852.56When
28 to 31 May 2013 - Labour Friends of Israel
To
Wes StreetingWhat the record shows
Paid for his and a staff member's trip to Israel. He wrote afterwards that "Israel is 10 years ahead of the NHS"Amount (£)
4,700When
9 to 13 May 2022 - UK Lawyers for Israel
To
NHS trustsWhat the record shows
Complained to at least eight trusts about staff wearing Palestine badges, lanyards and flags, and about a consultant's speechAmount (£)
When
2024 to 2026 - UK Lawyers for Israel
To
Barts Health NHS TrustWhat the record shows
Barts banned political symbols after its complaints, according to UKLFIAmount (£)
When
March 2025 - UK Lawyers for Israel
To
General Medical CouncilWhat the record shows
Complaints that led to doctors being suspended, by its own accountAmount (£)
When
since October 2023 - UK Lawyers for Israel
To
Israel Medical AssociationWhat the record shows
Urged the World Medical Association not to suspend the Israel Medical AssociationAmount (£)
When
June 2026 - National Lottery Community Fund
To
Board of Deputies of British JewsWhat the record shows
For a five-year health project with the London Jewish Forum, tied to the Mann review, including "training for health professionals"Amount (£)
1,500,000When
July 2026 - Barts Health NHS Trust
To
Wes StreetingWhat the record shows
At his roundtable on antisemitism in the health systemAmount (£)
When
July to September 2025
| Wes Streeting | Department of Health and Social Care | Health Secretary | 5 July 2024 to 14 May 2026 | Parliament: Wes Streeting | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wes Streeting | The Mann review | Commissioned it, in the same announcement that asked the NHS to adopt IHRA | 16 October 2025 | gov.uk, 16 October 2025 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care | NHS England | Asked NHS England and every arm's-length body to adopt IHRA, and every trust and integrated care board to do the same | 16 October 2025 | gov.uk, 16 October 2025 | |
| NHS England | NHS trusts | Adopted IHRA and urged every NHS organisation to; then asked each one to confirm by 31 July 2026 whether it had | 17 October 2025 and 4 June 2026 | NHS England letter, October 2025 | |
| Lord Mann | The Mann review | Wrote it | published 4 June 2026 | The Mann review | |
| Department of Health and Social Care | The Mann review | Accepted every recommendation addressed to the department and to NHS England | 4 June 2026 | gov.uk, 4 June 2026 | |
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | Antisemitism Policy Trust | Four grants titled "Secretariat for the Independent Antisemitism Adviser". None was competed | 420,000 | 2021 to 2024 | 360Giving GrantNav |
| Antisemitism Policy Trust | Lord Mann | Staffs his office with a full-time staff member paid from the government budget. In 2024 the Lords standards commissioner found he had broken the code by not registering it | since 2019 | Lords register: Lord Mann | |
| Antisemitism Policy Trust | The Mann review | Provided the review's secretariat. The review recommends the trust's own guide to IHRA | 2025 to 2026 | The Mann review | |
| Antisemitism Policy Trust | General Medical Council | Developed "bespoke training offers" with the GMC and the Nursing and Midwifery Council | 2025 to 2026 | The Mann review | |
| Antisemitism Policy Trust | All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism | Runs its secretariat | current | Register of all-party groups, 2026 | |
| Antisemitism Policy Trust | Wes Streeting | At his roundtable "To discuss Antisemitism in the Health System" | July to September 2025 | DHSC ministerial meetings, Jul to Sep 2025 | |
| Lord Mann | All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism | Chaired it as an MP | 2015 register | Register of all-party groups, 2015 | |
| Wes Streeting | All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism | One of its vice-chairs | 2015 register | Register of all-party groups, 2015 | |
| Board of Deputies of British Jews | Lord Mann | Mann co-chaired the Board's own Commission on Antisemitism, which called for antisemitism training in every NHS trust and for "attire" that undermines trust to be banned | November 2024 to July 2025 | Commission on Antisemitism report | |
| Board of Deputies of British Jews | The Mann review | Says the review "reinforce[s]" the recommendations of the commission Mann co-chaired for it | 4 June 2026 | Board of Deputies, 4 June 2026 | |
| Board of Deputies of British Jews | Wes Streeting | Met him "To discuss antisemitism in the NHS", then sat at his roundtables on antisemitism in the health system | 10 December 2024, summer 2025 and 5 May 2026 | DHSC ministerial meetings, Oct to Dec 2024 | |
| Jewish Medical Association | Wes Streeting | Asked him for IHRA and for "symbols, posters, signs, clothing" to be kept out of the NHS, after preparing its asks with the Board of Deputies; then sat at his roundtables | December 2024 to May 2026 | Jewish Medical Association, December 2024 | |
| Jewish Medical Association | The Mann review | Gave evidence and asked that regulators take advice on antisemitism from "respected independent Jewish organisations" | 2025 to 2026 | The Mann review | |
| Jewish Medical Association | Israel Medical Association | Its charitable aims make it "the link association" with the Israel Medical Association. It was registered in 1975 as the Israel Medical Association British Fellowship | since 1975 | JMA charitable aims | |
| Jewish Medical Association | General Medical Council | Says it has referred 28 doctors to the GMC | October 2023 to January 2025 | JMA statement, January 2025 | |
| Community Security Trust | Wes Streeting | At his roundtable on antisemitism in the health system. He attended its dinner | summer 2025 and 23 March 2026 | DHSC ministerial meetings, Jul to Sep 2025 | |
| Community Security Trust | Suilven Communications Ltd | Funds Lord Mann's antisemitism work through his company. The register names private individuals and trusts alongside it | current register | Lords register: Lord Mann | |
| Community Security Trust | General Medical Council | Worked with the GMC on awareness of antisemitism | 2025 to 2026 | GMC council papers, February 2026 | |
| Lord Mann | Suilven Communications Ltd | Sole director. Its objects are restricted to work on antisemitism | since February 2020 | Companies House | |
| Sir Trevor Chinn | Wes Streeting | Six donations Streeting registered, two of them while he was Health Secretary and one of £12,000 a month before he became Defence Secretary | 33,250 | 2021 to 2026 | Commons register: Wes Streeting |
| Sir Trevor Chinn | Lord Mann | Donation to his local Labour party | 5,000 | 2017 | Commons register, July 2017 |
| Sir Trevor Chinn | Suilven Communications Ltd | Listed as a funder of Lord Mann's antisemitism work through his company | 2022 to 2023 | Lords register, December 2022 (archived) | |
| Sir Trevor Chinn | BICOM | Member of its executive committee, according to the Jewish Leadership Council | current profile | Jewish Leadership Council | |
| State of Israel | Sir Trevor Chinn | Israel's president gave him the Presidential Medal of Honour for "outstanding contributions to Israel and the Jewish people" | 8 January 2025 | JNS, 8 January 2025 | |
| State of Israel | Lord Mann | Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid for his trip to Jerusalem to speak at its Global Forum on Combating Antisemitism | 852.56 | 28 to 31 May 2013 | Commons register, July 2013 |
| Labour Friends of Israel | Wes Streeting | Paid for his and a staff member's trip to Israel. He wrote afterwards that "Israel is 10 years ahead of the NHS" | 4,700 | 9 to 13 May 2022 | Commons register, May 2022 |
| UK Lawyers for Israel | NHS trusts | Complained to at least eight trusts about staff wearing Palestine badges, lanyards and flags, and about a consultant's speech | 2024 to 2026 | UK Lawyers for Israel, 4 June 2026 | |
| UK Lawyers for Israel | Barts Health NHS Trust | Barts banned political symbols after its complaints, according to UKLFI | March 2025 | UK Lawyers for Israel, 4 June 2026 | |
| UK Lawyers for Israel | General Medical Council | Complaints that led to doctors being suspended, by its own account | since October 2023 | UK Lawyers for Israel, December 2024 | |
| UK Lawyers for Israel | Israel Medical Association | Urged the World Medical Association not to suspend the Israel Medical Association | June 2026 | UK Lawyers for Israel, June 2026 | |
| National Lottery Community Fund | Board of Deputies of British Jews | For a five-year health project with the London Jewish Forum, tied to the Mann review, including "training for health professionals" | 1,500,000 | July 2026 | Board of Deputies, 1 July 2026 |
| Barts Health NHS Trust | Wes Streeting | At his roundtable on antisemitism in the health system | July to September 2025 | DHSC ministerial meetings, Jul to Sep 2025 |
Download the data
- Links around IHRA in the NHSCSV, 38 rows
How we did this
How we built the map
Every line is a link a public record shows: the registers of interests of the Commons and the Lords, the Electoral Commission, the government's grants data, the Department of Health's records of ministers' meetings, charity and company records at the Charity Commission and Companies House, and the organisations' own pages. We read each record ourselves. Where a record gives no amount, the line has none. We found no payment for NHS antisemitism training to any of these organisations in the published spending of NHS England, which runs to September 2025, or of the Department of Health. Private donors to Jewish community charities are not on the map, and neither are the private individuals Lord Mann's register names beside the Community Security Trust, because nothing in the records ties them to IHRA in the NHS.
What it means for health workers
This lands on nurses, midwives and doctors.
UK Lawyers for Israel says on its own website: "UKLFI is an association of lawyers who support Israel using their legal skills." Since 2024 it has complained to at least eight NHS trusts about staff wearing Palestine badges, lanyards, flags and wristbands, about posters, and about a consultant's speech: Barts Health, Guy's and St Thomas', Imperial College Healthcare, University College London Hospitals, the Royal Free, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, King's College Hospital and West Hertfordshire.
At Barts Health, which runs the Royal London Hospital, it got what it wanted. In its own words:
“Following complaints submitted by UKLFI, Barts reviewed its dress code and subsequently introduced a policy prohibiting staff from displaying political symbols in the workplace.”
UK Lawyers for Israel, UK Lawyers for Israel, 4 June 2026Read the original
In June 2026 the same group wrote to the World Medical Association urging it not to suspend the Israel Medical Association. It asks the World Medical Association to protect the Israel Medical Association, and asks NHS trusts to stop British nurses wearing a Palestine badge.
The Jewish Medical Association reports doctors to their regulator. In a statement to the Board of Deputies' commission it said:
“Since October 2023, out of hundreds of cases brought to our attention by concerned doctors and others, JMA has referred 28 doctors to the GMC for conduct which is clearly antisemitic.”
Jewish Medical Association, Statement to the Commission on Antisemitism, January 2025Read the original
Most complaints like these go nowhere. The GMC told a Freedom of Information request in September 2026 that it received 831 complaints alleging antisemitism between January 2023 and July 2026, and closed 733 of them at triage.
None of Lord Mann's 36 recommendations tells the NHS to adopt IHRA. On the day the review came out, NHS England still asked every NHS organisation to report back:
“please can you confirm whether your organisation has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and the Government definition of anti-Muslim hostility. Please respond to this request, once for each organisation, by Friday 31 July 2026.”
Sir Jim Mackey and Danny Mortimer, NHS England, 4 June 2026Read the original
In August the government said NHS England, "Having already accepted its recommendations in full", has "no plans to consult, or publish an impact assessment" before putting them into its guidance to trusts. The British Medical Association wrote to NHS England in July that "there is no legally binding obligation on NHS organisations to adopt the definition", and asked it to pause.
Jewish patients and NHS staff who face real antisemitism deserve protection. Instead the NHS got a definition pushed by groups whose own rules tie them to Israel, a review written by the man who had just chaired one of those groups' commissions, an office run by a charity the government pays without competition, and money from the same BICOM committee member to both the minister and his adviser. The nurses and doctors wearing a Palestine badge are the ones being reported.
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