Stephen Pollard

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

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Yvette Cooper’s ahistorical assertions expose the fatuity behind recognising Palestine

In her first major speech, the Foreign Secretary misrepresented the past to defend a policy that contradicts the concept of land for peace and the idea of negotiations towards a two-state solution

3 min read

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper attends a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestinian statehood (Image: Getty)

A diplomat observes the room a the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 9, 2024 (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

An ‘Israel genocide’ finding by a body dedicated to attacking Israel is not a finding

4 min read

The march against antisemitism in London (Getty)

Jews are getting what they deserve – isn’t that what you meant to say, Giles Coren?

2 min read

Starmer (R) meets Abbas at the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 25, 2024. (Photo by LEON NEAL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Starmer discusses statecraft with a leader who funds terrorists

2 min read

With Levy out, Tottenham has a chance to finally fulfill our potential

Daniel Levy’s stewardship of Tottenham was too careful and too cautious, but it wasn’t all bad

3 min read

September 5, 2025 09:17

Daniel Levy, the Jewish former chairman of Spurs (Getty)

Israel hits Houthis; critics lose grip on reality

For detractors like Mehdi Hasan and Cenk Uygur, even Islamist terrorists who have dragged their own country into a bloody civil war can be recast as a respectable government – so long as it helps them smear the Jewish state

3 min read

September 1, 2025 16:06

Funeral of Houthi leaders in Sanaa, Yemen, September 1 (Image: Getty)

Zarah Sultana’s ‘lesson’ from Corbynism? He was too hidebound by the notion of antisemitism

Her response is revealing because it shows that the new party will seek to outdo even Corbyn’s Labour in its attitude to Israel – and, yes, to Jews

3 min read

August 19, 2025 09:09

Zarah Sultana at an anti-Israel protest in 2023 (Image: Alamy)

Israel kills a terrorist and the British media goes into mourning

The IDF had plenty of proof that Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif was a Hamas fighter. But British journalists dismiss Israel’s arguments

3 min read

August 11, 2025 14:45

The IDF has claimed that Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terror cell in Gaza (Image: Getty)

The numbers that shape Labour’s Middle East policy: 37, 73, 110

The party’s sudden zeal for Palestinian statehood isn’t about foreign policy – it’s about vote counts. Muslim blocs in 110 key seats are calling the tune, and Wes Streeting knows it

3 min read

July 29, 2025 10:21

British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on March 26, 2025 (Image: Getty)

The union that discovered antisemitism – a year late and blind in one eye

After sitting on its own survey for 14 months, NASUWT highlights far right incidents and ignores Israel-related hate. Jews are, as ever, fodder for the hard left

3 min read

July 23, 2025 11:35

Matt Wrack with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on June 15, 2017 in London (Image: Getty)

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

As Hillel Neuer dryly put it: ‘It’s really important that we are clear that BBC News has a pro-terrorist wing, and a completely separate wing that are just idiots’

2 min read

July 17, 2025 14:07

Head of BBC News Deborah Turness poses for photographs at the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque, marking the home of BBC executive Grace Wyndham Goldie, one of the only female executives at the BBC in the 1930s. (Image: Getty)

That Bastard, Puccini! review: ‘grips from start to finish’★★★★★

James Inverne takes a forgotten piece of operatic history and turns it into an engrossing piece of theatre. You’ll love it even if you know nowt about Puccini

2 min read

July 17, 2025 12:49

Alasdair Buch, Lisa-Anne Wood and Sebastien Torkia on stage in That Bastard, Puccini! (Photo: David Monteith-Hodge)

Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

In an interview published last week, Juliet Stevenson and her husband are all too comfortable using their connection to the Holocaust to call Israel ‘genocidal’

4 min read

July 14, 2025 10:05

British actress Juliet Stevenson at a protest for Just Stop Oil (Getty)

Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition threatens free speech and security

Anti-Muslim hate is vile and must be fought. But a sweeping definition of Islamophobia risks silencing criticism of Islamism – undermining free expression and aiding extremists

5 min read

July 10, 2025 11:42

Launch of the report Islamophobia Defined with a working definition of Islamophobia by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims on November 27, 2018. (Image: All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims)

The door opened by October 7 directly led to Glastonbury platforming hate

The taboo around antisemitism that has existed since 1945, appears to be breaking down

3 min read

July 1, 2025 11:28

To the backdrop of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan performs on the West Holts Stage on the fourth day of the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm in the village of Pilton in Somerset, south-west England, on June 28, 2025. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

From Trafalgar to Tehran: How October 7 unmasked the enemies within

The Hamas massacres transformed not only the region but also Britain. It revealed not just the brutality of our enemies abroad, but the unsettling number of their sympathisers at home

3 min read

June 22, 2025 10:28

Protest in London on June 21, 2025 (Image: Nicole Lampert)

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Stephen Pollard

Latest from Stephen Pollard

Yvette Cooper’s ahistorical assertions expose the fatuity behind recognising Palestine

An ‘Israel genocide’ finding by a body dedicated to attacking Israel is not a finding

Jews are getting what they deserve – isn’t that what you meant to say, Giles Coren?

Starmer discusses statecraft with a leader who funds terrorists

More from Stephen Pollard

With Levy out, Tottenham has a chance to finally fulfill our potential

Israel hits Houthis; critics lose grip on reality

Zarah Sultana’s ‘lesson’ from Corbynism? He was too hidebound by the notion of antisemitism

Israel kills a terrorist and the British media goes into mourning

The numbers that shape Labour’s Middle East policy: 37, 73, 110

The union that discovered antisemitism – a year late and blind in one eye

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

That Bastard, Puccini! review: ‘grips from start to finish’★★★★★

Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition threatens free speech and security

The door opened by October 7 directly led to Glastonbury platforming hate

From Trafalgar to Tehran: How October 7 unmasked the enemies within