Simon Sebag Montefiore

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How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

This is the text of a speech delivered at the Holocaust Education Trust, warning that the distortion and inversion of the Holocaust is enabling a resurgence of antisemitism, with grave consequences for democratic societies

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How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

People light chanukiah candles at the Bondi Pavillion in memory of the victims of the terror attack at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Chanukah, freedom and the hysteria of a movement that sanctifies murder

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PICTURE BY ROY LETKEY=PICTURED AT THERE HOME IN LONDON, SUSANNA GROSS

Remembering Susanna Gross, journalist and friend

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Members of the community comfort each other near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall (Getty Images)

Yesterday in Manchester, the intifada was globalised

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Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

The author of the million-copy bestselling biography of the Holy City writes an exclusive essay about the carve-ups of the past

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September 12, 2024 13:12

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

Jacob Rothschild created his own version of Englishness and Jewishness

He personified the humanist universalist spirit of generosity