Stephen Pollard

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

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

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

The picture of Hamas surrounding the hostages says everything

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Demonstrators in London last March (Getty Images)

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

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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)

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

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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

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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)

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

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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

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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

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September 16, 2024 11:38