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Jake Wallis Simons

Jake Wallis Simons

Jake Wallis Simons was the editor of the Jewish Chronicle from 2021-2025

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Israel’s war isn’t about ‘victimhood’, it’s about the moral imperative to destroy Hamas

Most of us want to see the war end, but Israel must be free to complete its mission

3 min read

A Hamas fighter stands in front of a banner, bearing an altered portrait of Israel's Prime Minister and the Bibas family (Getty)

Kit Malthouse this week signed a letter calling on the UK government to recognise the State of Palestine (Getty images)

Tory push to recognise Palestine shows they’re not serious about winning

4 min read

Louis Theroux's documentary on the settlers on BBC 2 (BBC)

To demonstrate ‘impartiality’, the BBC shows the worst Jews they can find

4 min read

Sadiq Khan (Getty)

We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan

3 min read

The rot runs deep at the BBC, but some training would be a start

It’s no surprise that corporation bosses turned down offers of education against antisemitism

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April 1, 2025 15:35

BBC director-general Tim Davie and (left) chairman Samir Shah face questions earlier this month at the Commons' Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee (screenshot: Parliament)

The unbearable lightness of Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell

Albanese was granted the soft treatment that her hosts would want if they were confronted with their involvement in the Iraq War

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March 25, 2025 16:19

Francesca Albanese claimed that allegation of antisemitism against her have been 'weaponised' to stifle her criticism of Israel (Image: The Rest is Politics)

Israel’s self-defence always offends more than the jihadi atrocities that triggered it

Hamas is not the IRA. This is a war that must be won

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March 20, 2025 17:19

Israeli troops gather standing atop a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip (Getty)

Silence over jihadi butchery in Syria tells you all you need to know about the West’s distorted view of the Middle East

Islamist fighters have been torturing and massacring civilians

4 min read

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March 11, 2025 08:46

Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government ride in the back of a vehicle moving along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Why couldn’t London light up for the Bibas family?

Cities all over the world marked their tragic deaths, but Sadiq Khan’s London was a notable absence

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February 27, 2025 17:22

The Brandenburg Gate lit up for the Bibas family (Getty)

‘Unbalanced’ New York Times Israel coverage reflects the parallel reality we now live in

In Britain, we have our answer to The New York Times in the BBC

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February 13, 2025 17:21

Half of the articles centred around the Israel-Gaza conflict published in the New York Times failed to mention the hostages seized by Hamas, according to a study (Photo: Getty)

This was the year the Jews were told ‘the Holocaust is not about you’

Holocaust Memorial Day has been so debased that it is no longer fit for purpose

3 min read

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January 29, 2025 17:52

President Higgins controversially addressing the Holocaust Memorial Day event in Dublin

The cruel theatre of Gaza shows how well Hamas understands psychology

While the West has ‘emotional empathy’, the jihadis have ‘cognitive empathy’. The results are deadly

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January 29, 2025 14:54

The cruel theatre of Gaza shows how well Hamas understands psychology

Is Ireland the most antisemitic country in the West?

The shameful manhandling of a Jewish woman at a Holocaust Memorial Day event is just Dublin’s latest disgrace

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January 27, 2025 16:09

Lior Tibet, a Shoah expert, is dragged out of a Holocaust Memorial Day event in Dublin

‘We must think globally to tackle antisemitism’ says US Jewish leader

Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, toured Europe to show solidarity

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December 17, 2024 10:48

Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, speaks at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv in 2023

With Assad gone, now is the time to bomb Iran’s nukes

If one message has emerged in intelligence circles in recent weeks it is that Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ is not all it was cracked up to be. The Ayatollah is sitting atop a papier mâché fort

4 min read

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December 10, 2024 11:19

Is the Ayatollah sitting in a papier-mâché fort? (Photo: OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP via Getty Images)

From Dreyfus to Netanyahu, Jews have always faced trial by media

There are striking similarities in the complicity of the international press

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November 24, 2024 11:39

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged in Gaza (photo: Getty Images)

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