Stephen Pollard

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

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Spare us the pearl-clutching from broadcasters who fan the flames of antisemitism

The broadcasters bewailing the terror attack in Manchester are the very people who have portrayed Israel as uniquely evil

3 min read

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaks to the media outside the Heaton Park synagogue. (Photo: Getty Images)

Members of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester and Police officers following a stabbing and car attack on Yom Kippur, on October 2, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Manchester was always coming –authorities have let Jew-haters roam free

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Manchester was always coming –authorities let Jew-haters roam free

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Never Again by Jake Wallis Simons review: ‘A book for our times’

4 min read

Don’t make the mistake of dismissing Netanyahu as shallow caricature

However strongly one might disagree with his policies and behaviour in government, the Israeli PM has a serious and deep understanding of history, of strategy and of tactics

3 min read

September 30, 2025 12:32

US President Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the end of a joint news conference in the State Dining Room at the White House on September 29, 2025 (Image: Getty)

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

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September 25, 2025 13:22

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)

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

Even former UN general secreatary Ban Ki-moon has condemned the anti-Israel bias of the Human Rights Council

4 min read

September 18, 2025 13:22

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)

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

We have translated the Times columnist’s latest piece on Israel and Gaza so you don’t have to read it

2 min read

September 9, 2025 13:44

The march against antisemitism in London (Getty)

Starmer discusses statecraft with a leader who funds terrorists

Mahmoud Abbas’s trip to London comes as Starmer’s office refuses to confirm whether the PM will meet the Israeli president when he visits later this week

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September 8, 2025 14:59

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)

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

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September 5, 2025 10:17

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

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September 1, 2025 17:06

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

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August 19, 2025 10:09

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

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August 11, 2025 15:45

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

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July 29, 2025 11:21

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

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July 23, 2025 12:35

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’

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July 17, 2025 15:07

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)

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Stephen Pollard

Latest from Stephen Pollard

Spare us the pearl-clutching from broadcasters who fan the flames of antisemitism

Manchester was always coming –authorities have let Jew-haters roam free

Manchester was always coming –authorities let Jew-haters roam free

Never Again by Jake Wallis Simons review: ‘A book for our times’

More from Stephen Pollard

Don’t make the mistake of dismissing Netanyahu as shallow caricature

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

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