Stephen Pollard

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

Latest from Stephen Pollard

The radicals leading Britain’s teachers’ union

The NEU’s growing alignment with hard-left causes and anti-Israel rhetoric risks turning classrooms into political battlegrounds

3 min read

Daniel Kebede (centre), general secretary of the National Education Union, attends a pro-Palestine march in central London in 2024 (Image: Alamy)

Baron Stanley Kalms died at 93 on 30 March, 2025. (Photo: Chris McAndrew/Parliament UK)

Stanley Kalms: one of the great success stories of the twentieth century

8 min read

Protesters gather for a "Stop The War Coalition" demonstration against Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon on October 5, 2024 in London, United Kingdom.

The silence of the so-called pro-Palestinian crowd

3 min read

Anti Israel protestors are just part of the country's PR problem (Getty)

Israel’s PR problem is much bigger than biased BBC coverage

3 min read

Hamas knew the consequences of not releasing the hostages – and now it is paying the price

Casualty figures in Gaza cited by the terrorist group are being quoted by media without caveats

2 min read

March 18, 2025 16:56

Palestinian families leaving the eastern sector of the Gaza Strip on the border with Israel following the Israeli airstrikes early on Tuesday morning (Photo: Getty Images)

Labour is indulging Muslim extremism, and Starmer won’t stop it

Sir Keir’s Ramadan reception last week featured an imam who celebrated October 7

3 min read

March 17, 2025 13:11

Sir Keir Starmer in Parliament (Image: Parliament TV).

Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October review: ‘highly recommended’

This documentary by film maker Norma Percy is proof that the BBC can make fair programmes about Israel when it wants to

3 min read

March 13, 2025 17:38

Ehud Olmert showing the map he presented to Mahmoud Abbas detailing prospective borders in 2008, and which was rejected

LSE is telling Jewish students: we do not care about you

Defending an organisation that is committed to the elimination not just of Israel but of every Jew is surely a form of targeted harassment of Jewish students

2 min read

March 5, 2025 10:20

Pro-Palestine students and protesters demonstrate outside the London School of Economics (Getty)

In the new world order, Europe needs Israel

Trump’s backing for Putin on Ukraine has changed everything

3 min read

February 26, 2025 13:17

Donald Trump has called for Israel to resume its war in Gaza if all the hostages are not freed by Saturday (Image: Getty)

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

Stephen Pollard reviews Peter Beinart’s new book Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza

3 min read

February 20, 2025 12:14

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

A blasphemy law by the back door is bad news for all of us

Burning sacred texts is a horrible act, but should it be against the law, however offensive?

3 min read

February 19, 2025 09:22

Counter-demonstrators and police officers are seen at the Gustav Adolfs Torg square in Malmo, Sweden, on May 3, 2024, on the occasion of a public gathering where the organizers intend to burn a Koran one day before the start of the Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city. (Photo by Johan Nilsson/TT / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JOHAN NILSSON/TT/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Why can’t the BBC tell the difference between hostages and prisoners?

The BBC is peddling exactly the propaganda narrative Hamas wants

2 min read

February 10, 2025 16:09

People escort a released prisoner through a large crowd in Ramallah, West Bank on February 8, 2025. (Photo by MOSAB SHAWER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

If you really care about the hostages Sir Keir, stop funding Unrwa

Emily Damari told our prime minister that she was held in an Unrwa building. But we still give them taxpayers’ money

3 min read

February 4, 2025 14:17

Released hostage Emily Damari and her mother Mandy spoke to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Friday morning (Photo: Emily Cohen)

This columnist is derided and even hated, but she is usually right

In her latest polemic Melanie Phillips takes on the ruin of Western civilisation

3 min read

January 31, 2025 08:59

Vital voice: Melanie Phillips and her new book

This is a terrible time for Jews, but it’s not a rerun of the 1930s

It matters that we live at a time and in a place where the head of state commemorates the Shoah

3 min read

January 29, 2025 10:33

Protesters at a "rally for Palestine" on January 18 in London (Getty Images)

The picture of Hamas surrounding the hostages says everything

You’d think the sight of terrorists harassing young women would be enough to give their Western supporters pause

2 min read

January 20, 2025 11:52

The handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Saraya Square in western Gaza City on January 19 (Getty Images)

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Stephen Pollard

Latest from Stephen Pollard

The radicals leading Britain’s teachers’ union

Stanley Kalms: one of the great success stories of the twentieth century

The silence of the so-called pro-Palestinian crowd

Israel’s PR problem is much bigger than biased BBC coverage

More from Stephen Pollard

Hamas knew the consequences of not releasing the hostages – and now it is paying the price

Labour is indulging Muslim extremism, and Starmer won’t stop it

Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October review: ‘highly recommended’

LSE is telling Jewish students: we do not care about you

In the new world order, Europe needs Israel

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

A blasphemy law by the back door is bad news for all of us

Why can’t the BBC tell the difference between hostages and prisoners?

If you really care about the hostages Sir Keir, stop funding Unrwa

This columnist is derided and even hated, but she is usually right

This is a terrible time for Jews, but it’s not a rerun of the 1930s

The picture of Hamas surrounding the hostages says everything