Alan Mendoza
Dr Alan Lawrence Mendoza (born 2 August 1978) is a co-founder and executive director of the Henry Jackson Society. He is also a former Conservative Party councillor in the London Borough of Brent.[1] In January 2015 he announced he would run as a Conservative Party candidate for Brent at the UK general election 2015. [2]
Education
Mendoza obtained a B.A. (Hons.) and M.Phil in history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and completed a Ph.D. at the same institution focusing on Anglo-American relations during the Bosnian War, 1992-1995.[3]
In his 2001 book on Bosnia, Unfinest Hour Brendan Simms credited Mendoza with sharing his expertise on American politics and transcripts of interviews with key figures in London and Washington.[4]
Career
Mendoza ran a contract publishing company for 10 years which specialised in producing publications for international organisations.[5]
Mendoza became co-president in 2000 of the Disraelian Union, which he describes as 'a political networking salon'.[6]
In February 2006, he was appointed executive director of the Henry Jackson Society.[6]
In April 2009, he became director of Worldview Strategy Ltd.[6]
Views
On Muslims and immigration
In June 2011, Alan Mendoza addressed AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the main pro-Israel lobbying group in the US, at a conference in Washington. He used the occasion to raise fears about Muslim demographic growth in Europe. ‘The European Muslim population has doubled in the past 30 years and is predicted to double again by 2040’, he said in a speech reported in the Washington Jewish Weekly, arguing that ‘For all the benefits that immigration has brought, it has been difficult for European countries to absorb immigrants into their society given their failure to integrate newcomers'.[7]
Register of interests
Mendoza's entry in the Brent Council register of interests notes that he is an executive director of the Henry Jackson Society and a director of Worldview Strategy Ltd. It also notes that he is 'a member or in a position of general control or management of the following bodies one of whose principal purposes include the influence of public opinion or policy':
- Conservative Party
- Conservative Councillors' Association
- Conservative Party Foreign Policy Forum
- The Disraelian Union
- Conservative Friends of Israel
- Atlantic Council of the UK [8]
Social media
Affiliations
- Henry Jackson Society - Co-Founder and Executive Director
- Disraelian Union - Co-Founder and Co-President
- The Centre for Strategic Analysis Ltd - Company director
- The Centre for Strategic Assessment Ltd - Company director
- Friends of Israel Initiative - Company director
- Worldview Strategy Ltd - Company director
- British American Project - Former company director[9]
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Transatlantic & International Security - Convenor
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security - Convenor
- Electric Infrastructure Security Council - Advisory Board member[5]
- Israel Diaspora Trust
- Jewish Leadership Council - employs his wife Claudia Mendoza as head of policy and research[10]
- Bright Blue advisory board
- Jewish National Fund UK
External resources
- Suzanne Pollak, At AIPAC conference, talk of Europe's anti-Israel stance, Washington Jewish Week, 3 June 2013.
Links to Israel and the IDF
Mendoza is a trustee of JNF Charitable Trust (charity 225910), appointed on 3 October 2018,[11] and Companies House lists him as a director of the charitable company (00355248) from 30 October 2018.[12]
| Charity | Role | From | To | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JNF Charitable Trust | Trustee | 3 October 2018 | – | [11][12] |
The grant tables in the accounts of JNF Charitable Trust record payments of about £430,000 in 2012–2020 to the Benji Hillman Foundation, which houses lone soldiers, and about £1.09 million in 2012–2020 to pre-army programmes including Derech Eretz and Haluzit; its 2025 report lists £92,131 to Beit Halochem UK, which funds centres for disabled veterans of the Israel Defense Forces. The accounts' project criteria state that projects "shall not support military activity".[13] In March 2025 the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians complained to the Charity Commission that grants totalling £3,333,000 in 2007–2023 had funded programmes linked to Israel's military.[14] His appointment came part-way through that 2012–2020 period.
Notes
- ↑ Alan Mendoza, CentreRight, ConservativeHome, accessed 13 April 2009.
- ↑ Alan Mendoza, Twitter account, accessed 14 January 2015
- ↑ Alan Mendoza, CentreRight, ConservativeHome, accessed 13 April 2009.
- ↑ Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia, Penguin, 2002.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.eiscouncil.com/English/About/about_board.asp?boardId=72 Dr Alan Mendoza, Electric infrastructure Security Council, accessed 9 April 2013.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Alan Mendoza, LinkedIn, accessed 9 April 2013.
- ↑ Suzanne Pollak,‘At AIPAC conference, talk of Europe’s anti-Israel stance’, Washington Jewish Week, 7 March 2013.
- ↑ Brent Council, Register of interests history, Councillor Alan Mendoza 03/05/2009 - 26/10/2009 [Accessed 15 October 2010]
- ↑ Alan Laurence Mendoza, company-director-check.co.uk, accessed 20 March 2013.
- ↑ Marcus Dysch, The best weapon against hate? Reasoned debate, Jewish Chronicle, 4 September 2014, accessed 17 September 2014
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Charity Commission, JNF Charitable Trust (225910) – trustees, Register of Charities, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Companies House, JNF CHARITABLE TRUST (00355248) – officers, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ Charity Commission, JNF Charitable Trust (225910): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026.
- ↑ International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (critical), JNF UK subject of complaint and request for Charity Commission investigation icjpalestine.com, 6 March 2025.