Stephen Pollard

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

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ICC’s arrest warrants expose the West’s inability to defend the values on which freedom and democracy are built

The glue that binds international bodies together is what used to be called the delegitimisation of Israel, but is now easier to refer to simply as Jew hate

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

2 min read

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

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

The paper’s review of October 7 documentary One Day in October is amoral in criticising the film for sympathising with the massacre victims

3 min read

October 10, 2024 10:12

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

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

3 min read

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

4 min read

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

3 min read

October 1, 2024 12:42

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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”

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

1 min read

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

4 min read

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)

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Stephen Pollard

Latest from Stephen Pollard

ICC’s arrest warrants expose the West’s inability to defend the values on which freedom and democracy are built

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

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

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

More from Stephen Pollard

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

Postmodernism and moral relativism have led us to disaster

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

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

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

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

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

The hypocrisy in reaction to the riots is striking

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

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

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