Simon Israel

Simon Israel is a retired experienced broadcast journalist who has spent more than 20 years as a correspondent for Channel 4 News. In that time he’s won 9 awards. His career has involved coverage of the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian war and the assassination of Rajiv Ghandi. He led the home affairs team at C4N which specialised in reporting on UK immigration issues from rocketing asylum applications and the wrongful convictions of those jailed for entering with false documents, to the consequences of the ‘hostile environment’, and to the more recent Windrush scandal. He also spent many months in Africa working for an NGO during the first years of the Somalian civil war and the conflict in Southern Sudan. He is a member of a Commission on Political Power and a patron of Restorative Justice for All (RJ4ALL).