Stephen Pollard

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

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Books

‘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

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

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)

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

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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)

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

Saturday’s march shows that it’s really about Jews, not Palestinians

The march is going ahead despite the ceasefire deal – and I would bet my mortgage that the hate will be more vitriolic than ever

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January 16, 2025 12:23

Demonstrators in London last March (Getty Images)

Whatever we do, the media will not stop propaganda on Gaza

Sadly, the new report on Gaza casualty figures will not change the narrative

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December 17, 2024 11:02

A new report by the Henry Jackson Society claims to have found significant errors in the Gaza health ministry's casualty figures. (Photo by YAHYA HASSOUNA/AFP via Getty Images)

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

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November 24, 2024 10:40

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

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November 8, 2024 11:17

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

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

The rabble outside JW3 yesterday weren’t making the distinction between good and bad Jews because…why would they?

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October 28, 2024 12:21

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

Its coverage of the “money bunker” under the Al-Sahel Hospital is not just inept – it’s actually funny

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October 23, 2024 15:49

Al-Sahel Hospital main entrance (Getty Images)

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

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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

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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)

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Stephen Pollard

Latest from Stephen Pollard

‘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

More from Stephen Pollard

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

Saturday’s march shows that it’s really about Jews, not Palestinians

Whatever we do, the media will not stop propaganda on Gaza

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

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