Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard was the editor of the Jewish Chronicle from 2008-2021

Latest from Stephen Pollard

The Greens’ dangerous mainstreaming of sectarian Muslim politics

As troubling as the election irregularities in Gorton and Denton are, the real story is how the mobilisation of anti-Israel communities can shape British elections

3 min read

A Green Party leaflet in Urdu posted to households in Gorton and Denton calling on voters to 'punish Labour for Gaza' (Image: Tom Jones/X).

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in 2013 (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has built a career on the back of being an ‘anti-racist’. Say no more

2 min read

The Lancet’s dubious Gaza casualty figures and the BBC’s selective scepticism

3 min read

Are they the baddies? Green-backed Israel boycotts go door to door

3 min read

Thomas Frank is rightly sacked – but Spurs’ ‘real villains’ still run the club

We need a clear out of the executives as well as the board; we need new owners who understand the modern game

2 min read

February 11, 2026 15:30

Labour’s fear of upsetting Muslims is crippling Britain’s fight against Islamist extremism

In a sane world, the Home Office would elevate someone like Fiyaz Mughal – a Muslim campaigner against anti-Muslim bigotry – to speak out about Islamist extremism rather than trying to silence him

4 min read

February 9, 2026 11:27

Fiyaz Mughal (r) at a Chanukah candle-lighting vigil outside the Australian Embassy to commemorate the lives lost at the Bondi Beach terror attack. (Image: Elliot Franks)

From Pep Guardiola to Hugh Bonneville, celebrities are spreading falsehoods on Gaza

It’s a lot easier to spew out ignorant rubbish than to actually check the facts and risk not being able to launch a broadside against Israel

3 min read

February 5, 2026 16:17

Why the BBC is one of the most dangerously antisemitic organisations in the West

For the sheer audacity of the corporation’s deliberate decision to make its own contribution to wiping Jewish suffering from history, yesterday’s reporting of Holocaust Memorial Day surely tops everything

4 min read

January 28, 2026 14:45

Misan Harriman and the moral collapse of progressives over Iran and Israel

If your oppressors are murderous theocrats but your supporters include the ‘wrong’ people – that is Zionists – many on the left may cancel your cry for freedom

3 min read

January 12, 2026 12:56

The loony left’s moral collapse over Maduro

We had five years of Corbyn leading the Labour Party. And there he was yesterday doing the broadcasting round insisting that the deposed dictator was the legitimate leader of Venezuela

4 min read

January 6, 2026 11:01

The BBC’s silence on Iran’s protests is a scandal

The regime’s fall would reshape the world. Yet for Britain’s national broadcaster, the Guardian and their ideological fellow travellers, there is little to see

5 min read

January 2, 2026 14:59

Anti-regime protestors in Iran (Image: X)

This was the toughest year in living memory for UK Jews … and there is no sign of things improving in 2026

Horror of Heaton Park and cynical recognition of Palestine show how extremism and electoral expediency are likely to shape Britain for the worst

7 min read

December 30, 2025 15:39

A mob of anti-Israel demonstrators clad in black and covering their faces gathered outside Villa Park stadium (Image: Roland Leon)

Saudi Arabia deciding what’s a “normal country”? That’s comedy gold

Holding Israel to account only highlights its high standards of tolerance, diversity and equality – unlike the kingdom

3 min read

December 24, 2025 08:37

Prince Turki Al-Faisal said Israel must act like a "normal country" for Saudi Arabia to establish relations (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

New ‘Islamophobia’ definition will do nothing to stop hate crime and is fraught with danger

Latest draft presented by Dominic Grieve’s working group risks shutting down legitimate debate and will only empower extremists

7 min read

December 22, 2025 15:53

Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve heads up working group that drafted new definition (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Sydney terror deepens my doubts about the future of British Jews

I am sorry to sound so pessimistic but I see no other rational response than desolation at where we now are

2 min read

December 14, 2025 14:25

Police cars at the scene of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Image: Getty)

Rachel Reeves: the Zionist minister in a Labour government turning on Israel

The Chancellor is sound as they come on the Jewish state. But she is a member of a cabinet that has not merely fed the anti-Zionist narrative but has allowed antisemitism itself to flourish

4 min read

December 9, 2025 16:23

Sir Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves (R) and David Lammy (L)

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Stephen Pollard

Latest from Stephen Pollard

The Greens’ dangerous mainstreaming of sectarian Muslim politics

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has built a career on the back of being an ‘anti-racist’. Say no more

The Lancet’s dubious Gaza casualty figures and the BBC’s selective scepticism

Are they the baddies? Green-backed Israel boycotts go door to door

More from Stephen Pollard

Thomas Frank is rightly sacked – but Spurs’ ‘real villains’ still run the club

Labour’s fear of upsetting Muslims is crippling Britain’s fight against Islamist extremism

From Pep Guardiola to Hugh Bonneville, celebrities are spreading falsehoods on Gaza

Why the BBC is one of the most dangerously antisemitic organisations in the West

Misan Harriman and the moral collapse of progressives over Iran and Israel

The loony left’s moral collapse over Maduro

The BBC’s silence on Iran’s protests is a scandal

This was the toughest year in living memory for UK Jews … and there is no sign of things improving in 2026

Saudi Arabia deciding what’s a “normal country”? That’s comedy gold

New ‘Islamophobia’ definition will do nothing to stop hate crime and is fraught with danger

Sydney terror deepens my doubts about the future of British Jews

Rachel Reeves: the Zionist minister in a Labour government turning on Israel