Recent disclosures by the Zionist regime show that some 2,069 British nationals were serving in the IDF as of March 2025, according to Freedom of Information (FoI) requests submitted to the occupation forces (1,686 dual British-Israeli, plus 383 multinational). We cannot tell from the figures how many of these were already settler colonists and intend to stay in the colony, and how many will return or have returned to the UK. Presumably, those returning to the UK will number far fewer than 2,000, since many are known to have become permanently residents of the colony.
Additionally, the IDF figures only provide a snapshot, and do not tell us how many have served in the Jewish supremacist military either before or after March 2025. One way into the question of how many genocidaires are living in Britain is to ask how many current British residents were born in the Zionist colony. There is data on that, as we shall see.
Individuals in the UK Who Were Born in Occupied Palestine
England and Wales census data shows residents born in the Zionist settler colony nearly doubled in the decade after 2001. The 2001 census recorded 11,892 ‘Israeli-born’ people in Britain. By 2011, this reached 19,608. The 2021 census recorded 22,546 usual residents born in Israel in England and Wales, a jump of another 3,000 or so. Of course, in addition, many ‘Israelis’ who come to live in Britain were born in the UK, according to reports by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR). A JPR report estimates that by 2011, around 23% of Israelis coming to the UK had been born in the UK. Their analysis suggested that the total number of Israelis in the UK was 25,744, some 6,000 more than the ‘Israeli-born’ total. Extrapolating those figures would suggest that by 2021, the number was around 30,000.
Israelis are also brought to Britain by Zionist charities. The British Friends of Israeli War Disabled (BFIWD) invite wounded genocidaires for visits to the UK, with a focus on respite and rehabilitation for wounded IDF veterans. By 2022, BFIWD had brought around 5,000 genocide veterans to the UK over decades for therapeutic stays hosted by Zionist families. Smaller groups continue annually. Beit Halochem UK also brings veterans for visits (for example, 32 were brought to the UK in one 2025 London trip) and supplies guest speakers around the country. The speakers are wounded veterans who address UK synagogues and communities, including visits to primary and secondary schools, to promote racist ideas about ‘Israel’ and the Palestinian Resistance. No verified cumulative totals are published for UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (UK AWIS) or other charities.
‘Israeli’ citizens moving to the UK have driven much of the growth in the Israeli-born population in Britain. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics records substantial long-term emigration. The Zionists deprecate emigration with the term ‘yerida’, meaning descent, the opposite of ‘aliyah’, which means ‘ascent’ — their term to whitewash settler colonialism. In their view, evidently, colonisation is good, and ending colonisation is bad. In recent years, the following numbers of settlers have left the colony: approximately 56,000–59,400 in 2022, 82,800 in 2023, 82,700 in 2024, and 69,300 in 2025.
According to estimates from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), the UK accounts for around 7% of the global Israeli-born diaspora stock. Using this proportion as a rough proxy suggests that between 4,000 and 5,800 Israelis may have moved to Britain annually during this high-emigration period. This suggests a massive increase since 2021 with, on average, 4,900 arriving each year. By the end of 2025, this likely means that an additional 19,600 settlers arrived in the UK, taking the total to some 49,600, which is an increase over 2021 of 40% in four years.
UK data on citizens becoming settler colonists reveals actual yearly figures: 396 in 2023, approximately 700 in 2024, and 840 in 2025; this is a 19% rise, reportedly the highest increase in 40 years. The Institute for Jewish Policy Research reports that in the decade 2001–2011, more settlers arrived in Britain than British Jews became settler colonists, at a ratio of three to two. An average of 865 Israelis arrived annually, while 582 British Jews went to take part in the occupation of Palestine.
So, while there are also significant — if fewer — British-born Jews leaving the UK to become land thieves in Palestine, one effect of that tendency is to increase the proportion of British Jews who were born in Israel, and may still be, Israeli citizens.
The Office for National Statistics’ Census 2021 shows that 287,360 people “identified as Jewish in England and Wales”. This was 0.5% of the usual resident population. In the rest of the ‘United Kingdom’, there are only a few Jews. In Scotland, there were 7,313 in 2022, which is 0.1345% of the Scottish population. In Northern Ireland, there were 439 in 2021, which is around 0.02%, though there was no option to choose Jewish by ‘ethnicity’ in Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the ‘UK’. So, Jews make up around 0.4% of the population in the UK. That makes a total of some 295,112 Jewish people in the UK.
Scotland’s Census 2022 tells us that some 552 Scottish residents were born in the settler colony, while the Northern Ireland census records another 99. This takes the total to 50,251 ‘Israeli-born’ or former settler colonists in the UK. That figure is equivalent to 17.03% of all Jews in the UK. In its 2015 report, the JPR concluded that ‘Jewish Israelis’ made up 6% of the British Jewish population. That is a massive increase of almost three-fold in a decade.
Many of the 2,000 British citizens serving in the genocide forces of the Zionist entity may have decided to stay and already have become permanent settler colonists. They are unlikely to return immediately.
So, there are perhaps 50,000 more ‘Israeli’ citizens walking the streets of the UK. There appear to be no reliable statistics regarding how many of these have served in the occupation forces, but if they are adults, it will be almost all of them. Some, of course, will have left the colony to avoid the draft, and some will be anti-Zionists of various sorts. Though, equally, the vast majority, like the majority of British-born Jews, are likely to be Zionists of one sort or another.
So, obviously, they should be taken into account. For example, some ‘Israeli-born’ British residents have subsequently involved themselves in serious public anti-Zionist campaigning, which can be evidenced. This would likely exempt them from their actions discussed here. Comrades like Prof Haim Breseeth, the author of a critical study of the IOF and a well-known activist in various anti-Zionist groups, is one example.
Similarly, consider activists like comrade Ronnie Barkan, who was a member of Palestine Action. On Nakba Day 2022, he participated in smashing up the UK headquarters of Israel-based Elbit Systems. Barkan has argued that if he was being very optimistic, he would say that are maybe 1,000 opponents of Zionism among Jews in occupied Palestine — which, he notes, is around 0.001% of the Jewish population. In the UK, this proportion would give a number of actual anti-Zionists totalling three. This would appear to be an underestimate!
Anecdotally, there are possibly several hundreds of such people, but who knows. There clearly are some ‘anti-Zionists’, however, who are more concerned about upsetting their family and friends than in acting materially to end Zionism. So, it would need to be a case by case examination.
For the rest, we need to do the following:
- Directly involve ourselves in research to find out who and where these people are, and investigate their involvement in genocide. Material should be produced in as ‘actionable’ a state as possible for lawyers, activists, and others.
- Pressure the police, intelligence services, and the political class to take action to hold the killers and genocidaires accountable. Declassified UK and the International Centre for Justice for the Palestinians have launched just such campaign, which is called Nobody Wants to Live Next to a War Criminal.
- Directly confront, with demonstrations, legal action, and/or direct action, those organisations involved in supporting the genocide which are located in the UK. Individuals who have directly participated in the genocide should be shunned. They and the organisations involved must have no peace until they are held accountable to the full force of the law for their alleged crimes.
While a recent opinion poll shows that 47% of British people favour fewer or no ‘Israeli’ immigrants, it is not clear that this is a sustainable solution. The question arises: are we asking for them to go back to being settler colonists in occupied Palestine? Well, the more that they leave, the fewer there are to fight and be defeated by the Palestinians and the Axis of Resistance. On the other hand, the more they are concentrated in occupied Palestine, the better, since this is the place they are most likely to be materially defeated. Whichever is the case, what is needed is a massive De-Zionisation programme, in which all genocidaires will need to be enrolled. Obviously, part of this will be a programme to eliminate the perhaps 3,000 Zionist organisation in the UK, to cut the roots from further Zionist radicalisation.
While 2,000 former occupation soldiers seems like a lot, the evidence here shows that they are only a fraction of the problem.
Cover image: Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, Jewish Chaplain at Leeds University, one of 50,000 ‘Israeli-born’ people living in Britain, in a leaked image showing him in occupied Palestine during the most recent phase of the genocide.
