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Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard

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

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Stephen Pollard

The only issue has been when and where the first mob attack on Jews would happen

One of the most obvious lessons from history is that when verbal and written Jew hate is normalised, violence always follows

By Stephen Pollard

2 min read

Amsterdam's Anton de Komplein square ahead of the UEFA Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv (Getty Images)

The mob outside JW3 (Sandy Rashty)

Good Jew, Bad Jew – in the end we are all just Jews to the mob

2 min read

Al-Sahel Hospital main entrance (Getty Images)

The BBC’s credulous reporting of Hezbollah has become almost comical

3 min read

Emily Hand and her father Tom Hand for the Channel 4 documentary One Day in October. (Photo: Channel 4)

Why is the Guardian shocked that terrorists are portrayed as monsters?

3 min read

More from Stephen Pollard

Postmodernism and moral relativism have led us to disaster

The recent CAA poll findings about young adults’ attitudes to Israel and Hamas are shocking but entirely unsurprising

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October 7, 2024 13:38

From Saturday's march (Campaign Against Antisemitism)

The October 7 pogrom changed what it means to be a British Jew

What we do not yet know is how

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October 6, 2024 07:09

'Stop The War Coalition' Demonstration in London on Saturday October 5 (Getty Images)

Pro-Hezbollah professor tells BBC that ‘chosen people’ seek to colonise the ‘whole region’. Thank you very much, says BBC

When an Iranian professor was given airtime on the Today programme, Mishal Husain allowed him to spew out a vile rant

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October 1, 2024 12:42

Mishal Husain

Nobody Wants This review: The premise is stupid, but I quite enjoyed the show

The main characters are two-dimensional in this ‘rabbi rom-com for goys’ but worth watching for the excellent supporting cast

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September 26, 2024 16:21

Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Rabbi Noah in Nobody Wants This. (Photo: Netflix)

If Ukraine must be allowed to fight, why isn’t Israel?

Ukraine is a vital strategic interest for the West. So, too, is Israel. But while we are rightly keen to give Ukraine the tools to do the job for us, we punish Israel for daring to fight Islamists

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September 16, 2024 11:38

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/AFP via Getty Images)

For the Jew haters, even a new bus route is a sign of nefarious Jewish power

The 310 bus is, they say, really a Jewish plot to force Muslims to live as second class citizens

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September 5, 2024 07:53

For the Jew haters, even a new bus route is a sign of nefarious Jewish power

Simon Sebag Montefiore taking apart William Dalrymple was a rewarding spectacle

It was like watching a panther dismember a goat

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August 19, 2024 14:49

William Dalrymple stands in the ruins of the "Zafar Mahal", the summer palace of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, in New Delhi. (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP via Getty Images)

The hypocrisy in reaction to the riots is striking

While those who attend the riots but don’t actually riot are rightly condemned, those who attend the hate marches alongside antisemites are described as “decent”

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August 5, 2024 14:23

Sunday's riot outside of the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Why Natalie Portman’s first TV drama left me bored senseless

It is packed to the rafters with Jewy things and it’s beautifully acted, so the JC’s editor-at-large should have loved it. I did not

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July 31, 2024 15:19

Nice acting, shame about the plot: Natalie Portman as a young and older Maddie Schwartz

For the BBC, Ismail Haniyeh was ‘moderate and pragmatic’, for the rest of us he was a monster

Why is the corporation incapable of describing him as what he was

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July 31, 2024 10:16

Assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Imagine if it had been The Jewish Vote rather than The Muslim Vote

Does anyone really think the reaction would just have been a shrug of the shoulders and a feeling that we should consider their grievances? There would, rightly, have been outrage

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July 19, 2024 09:10

Jonathan Ashworth, who lost his Leicester South seat (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

This election makes Britain ever more vulnerable to sanitised Islamism

With so many small majorities, Labour MPs are set to lean towards the demands of The Muslim Vote

3 min read

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July 5, 2024 07:55

(Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

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