Stephen Pollard

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

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

Iran's Ayatollah Khameini (Getty Images)

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

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Stopping Iran’s bomb? Unforgivable

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

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Lord Hermer’s dangerous mistakes

From inappropriate Nazi comparisons to Israel boycotts, the Attorney General, clearly a very intelligent man, often lacks basic judgment

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June 4, 2025 15:46

Attorney General Lord Hermer (Image: Getty)

Kemi Badenoch and the lost art of telling the truth

The Tory leader couldn’t have been clearer: ‘If Hamas is praising your actions, you’ve probably done something wrong’

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May 28, 2025 09:30

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch (Image: Getty)

The killings of Yaron and Sarah are what ‘globalise the intifada’ really means

All over the world violent antisemitism is being tolerated and encouraged

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May 22, 2025 14:03

A man draped in the Israeli flag, bearing a cross and the name "Jesus" at its center, gestures as Metropolitan Police officers secure the area outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead late Wednesday, May 21, outside a Jewish museum in Washington by a gunman who shouted "free Palestine," authorities said, with US officials and Israeli diplomats expressing shock and outrage over the killings. (Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP) (Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

What the haters get wrong about Israel’s Eurovision vote

They think they’re the majority. They’re not.

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May 19, 2025 13:51

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - MAY 17: Yuval Raphael representing Israel performs on stage during the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest Opening Ceremony at St. Jakobshalle on May 17, 2025 in Basel, Switzerland. (Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images)

If you want to understand how Qatar gets away with it: follow the money

It’s all publicly available, and it tells a clear story

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May 14, 2025 16:57

US President Donald Trump and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani during a business deal signing ceremony at the Royal Palace in Doha (Image: Getty)

Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House: ‘Wagner played to perfection’

Australian Jewish director Barrie Kosky whips up a perfect storm of brilliance in what is arguably the greatest opera ever written

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May 8, 2025 18:46

Bullseye: the singers in this production of Wagner's Die Walküre not only sound wonderful, they can also act

The new campus normal: harass the Jews, protect the mob

A new report reveals how UK universities are failing Jewish students. The push needs to be to require them to use the existing legal framework to act.

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May 8, 2025 15:22

A student highlighting kidnapped Israelis stlll being held in Gaza stands next to an encampent of pro-Palestinian protesters at Manchester University on May 08, 2024. (Image: Getty)

Sectarian politics in the UK could go mainstream

Calling them ‘Gaza independents’ obscures the truth: they are pushing a Muslim political agenda

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May 6, 2025 17:19

Sign outside a British polling station for voting during an election

Emily Damari is one of our own – Spurs should roll out the red carpet for her

The heroic former hostage will be in London to see her lifelong team take on Crystal Palace, but there has been too little fanfare from the club she loves

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April 30, 2025 17:02

Emily Damari with her Spurs scarf following her release from Gaza

Another day, another antisemite on BBC Arabic

So used are we now to the Corporation employing rabid Jew haters that no one even bats an eye anymore when it emerges that one of its regular contributors is a Hitler fanboy

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April 29, 2025 16:12