Stephen Pollard

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

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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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Matt Wrack with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on June 15, 2017 in London (Image: Getty)

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)

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

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Alasdair Buch, Lisa-Anne Wood and Sebastien Torkia on stage in That Bastard, Puccini! (Photo: David Monteith-Hodge)

That Bastard, Puccini! review: ‘grips from start to finish’★★★★★

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British actress Juliet Stevenson at a protest for Just Stop Oil (Getty)

Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

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Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition threatens free speech and security

Anti-Muslim hate is vile and must be fought. But a sweeping definition of Islamophobia risks silencing criticism of Islamism – undermining free expression and aiding extremists

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July 10, 2025 12:42

Launch of the report Islamophobia Defined with a working definition of Islamophobia by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims on November 27, 2018. (Image: All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims)

The door opened by October 7 directly led to Glastonbury platforming hate

The taboo around antisemitism that has existed since 1945, appears to be breaking down

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July 1, 2025 12:28

To the backdrop of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan performs on the West Holts Stage on the fourth day of the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm in the village of Pilton in Somerset, south-west England, on June 28, 2025. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

From Trafalgar to Tehran: How October 7 unmasked the enemies within

The Hamas massacres transformed not only the region but also Britain. It revealed not just the brutality of our enemies abroad, but the unsettling number of their sympathisers at home

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June 22, 2025 11:28

Protest in London on June 21, 2025 (Image: Nicole Lampert)

If you march in support of Iran’s brutal regime, you show us who you are

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June 15, 2025 12:13

Iran's Ayatollah Khameini (Getty Images)

Stopping Iran’s bomb? Unforgivable

While Tehran edges closer to nuclear weapons, the ‘useful experts’ blame Israel for acting

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June 13, 2025 12:44

The BBC can’t stop acting as a Hamas propaganda machine

From uncritically publishing statements from terrorist-run offices to a 5,000 word polemic against Israel, Auntie’s Gaza coverage reveals not bias but a broken editorial culture

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June 9, 2025 13:17