Stephen Pollard

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

Latest from Stephen Pollard

Buying London review: High-value homes with a very low denominator

This show is the streaming version of self-loathing and intellectual nausea, but the truth is I’d have watched all seven episodes even if the JC hadn’t made me

2 min read

Upsizing: Buying London estate agent Daniel Daggers (centre) sells exotic dreams to viewers from other time zones

Silence at 10:31pm, the exact one year anniversary of the deadly attack at Manchester Arena 22 May 2018. (Photo credit should read OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Discussing conspiracy theories without mentioning Islamism is like writing about Henry VIII without his wives

4 min read

Eden Golan celebrates after qualifying for the Eurovision final on Thursday night (Photo: Getty)

Eurovision’s message to the Israel haters: the world does not share your bigotry

2 min read

President Joe Biden (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Biden’s weapons threat has made peace less, not more, likely

3 min read

Chaim Wiezmann: ‘I am now convinced that without him there would be no state of Israel’

The brilliant chemist used acetone to advance Zionism in the same way Herzl used journalism, says the co-author of a magisterial new biography of the leader

5 min read

May 3, 2024 14:52

Forceful personality: Chaim Weizmann circa 1925

Unfrosted review: Seinfeld’s cereal classic snaps, crackles and pops

Jerry Seinfeld, the man who created and starred in one of the greatest TV comedies of all time, has now turned out an instant classic with his very first film

2 min read

May 2, 2024 19:00

Hugh Grant as Thurl in Unfrosted Credit: Netflix

Sadiq Khan’s apology to the Chief Rabbi shows he thinks we were all born yesterday

His constant warm words about the Jewish community are shown, yet again, to be meaningless by his slur against Sir Ephraim Mirvis

4 min read

April 26, 2024 12:35

London mayor Sadiq Khan (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Israel is now also a proxy for its Sunni Muslim neighbours

Israel responded to Iran’s attack not just on its own behalf but that of Arab states that also oppose Iran

3 min read

April 25, 2024 15:38

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after casting his ballots during the parliamentary and key clerical body elections at a polling station in Tehran on 1 March 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Nice singing, shame about almost everything else

Aigul Akhmetshina is magnificent, but as for the production...

2 min read

April 15, 2024 16:50

Nice singing, shame about almost everything else

Where's the march for Israel after Iran attack? We’re waiting...

After Iran launched hundreds of missile attacks against Israel, surely the marchers will know who to support?

2 min read

April 14, 2024 12:30

Over 100,000 people are expected to attend an anti-Israel march through central London on Saturday November 25 (Photo: Henry Nicholls/AFP)

How Israel secured diplomatic relations with Indonesia

The Abraham Accords opened the possibility of normalisation – and Israeli diplomacy then led to a breakthrough

3 min read

April 11, 2024 16:07

Students from Muhammadiyah University protest in Surabaya, East Java province on 7 November 2023, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants. (Photo by JUNI KRISWANTO/AFP via Getty Images)

If civil servants can’t follow the policies of government, they shouldn’t be in their job

It’s not for civil servants to decide what policies ministers are allowed to enact

1 min read

April 5, 2024 11:38

A pro-Palestine protest leaves the Department of Business and Trade in Old Admiralty Building, central London. ,The protest organised by London for a Free Palestine is calling for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Picture date: Thursday March 28, 2024.

Beware the perils of naive interfaith

Too often our approach is dominated by credulousness, and that is where the problems start

4 min read

April 4, 2024 12:50

Ramadan lights on Oxford street in central London, UK

Only science fiction explains the UN’s parallel universe

Netflix’s new series, 3 Body Problem, provides an insight into how Israel’s Gaza operations are perceived.

4 min read

April 3, 2024 08:49

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner as Spock and Kirk in Star Trek episode 'Mirror, Mirror'

Married At First Sight Australia review: Love IS a drug – and I’m hopelessly addicted

This programme has destroyed my life. I’m hooked, and powerless to resist its allure

2 min read

March 22, 2024 13:04

Hitched: Married at First Sight Australia couple Cassandra Allen and Tristan Black at their betrothal (Photo: Channel 4)

‘Islamophobia’ is being used by Islamists to control debate

It is entirely right to call out anti-Muslim hatred, but the concept of ‘Islamophobia’ was created in Iran to silence any critique as racist

4 min read

March 6, 2024 16:56

Kemi Badenoch: Entirely right to reject 'Islamophobia' (Photo by Henry Nicholls - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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Stephen Pollard

Latest from Stephen Pollard

Buying London review: High-value homes with a very low denominator

Discussing conspiracy theories without mentioning Islamism is like writing about Henry VIII without his wives

Eurovision’s message to the Israel haters: the world does not share your bigotry

Biden’s weapons threat has made peace less, not more, likely

More from Stephen Pollard

Chaim Wiezmann: ‘I am now convinced that without him there would be no state of Israel’

Unfrosted review: Seinfeld’s cereal classic snaps, crackles and pops

Sadiq Khan’s apology to the Chief Rabbi shows he thinks we were all born yesterday

Israel is now also a proxy for its Sunni Muslim neighbours

Nice singing, shame about almost everything else

Where's the march for Israel after Iran attack? We’re waiting...

How Israel secured diplomatic relations with Indonesia

If civil servants can’t follow the policies of government, they shouldn’t be in their job

Beware the perils of naive interfaith

Only science fiction explains the UN’s parallel universe

Married At First Sight Australia review: Love IS a drug – and I’m hopelessly addicted

‘Islamophobia’ is being used by Islamists to control debate