Opinion

The Iran victory myth and the ceasefire of a battered regime

The military achievements against the Islamic Republic are staggering and by striking the Gulf states, Tehran has driving them closer to the US and Israel

By Stephen Pollard

4 min read

Rubble surrounds the site of an Iranian police facility, struck during the US-Israeli military campaign on March 4, 2026 in Tehran (Image: Getty)

Body bags outside a forensic medical centre in Tehran after the regime's deadly crackdown on protests in January, 2026 (Image: X)

By Matthew Robinson

Ireland’s shameful hypocrisy on the Islamic Republic

3 min read

An AI-generated 'rabbi' from an Instagram account that has since been removed (Image: Combat Antisemitism Movement)

By Charlotte Henry

How AI-generated ‘rabbis’ spread online antisemitism

3 min read

The Passion of Jesus at Trafalgar Square (Image: Wintershall/YouTube)

By Tanya Gold

A very British Passion play – polite legionnaires and trigger warnings for the crucifixion

4 min read

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I’m visibly Jewish. A Green Party canvasser stood at my door and told me October 7 was a hoax

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Mosley, Ye and Finsbury Park: a 90-year echo of hate

Revisiting the history of the British Union of Fascists, there are several familiar themes. Marching through Jewish areas is one, two-tier policing another

By Keren David

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By Ashley Rindsberg

Revealed: Iranian regime’s secretive Wiki war to brainwash the world on Israel, Jews and Zionism

Lifting the lid on the Islamic Republic’s campaign to infiltrate the world’s digital-information ecosystem

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Basij militants, wearing military uniforms, hold AK-47s and the flags of Hezbollah and Iran during a parade on January 10, 2025 (Getty Images)

By Lorin Bell-Cross

Fear of a bloodbath in May has made Labour candidates lunge for the anti-Israel vote

As Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour plunges in opinion polls, no wonder some candidates desperately strive to reclaim followers from Greens and independents

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Polling station opens for voting for the Gorton And Denton by-election on February 26, 2026 in Manchester, which was won by the Green Party (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

By Nicholas Lezard

From IRA to Gaza: to be young again... and profoundly ignorant

I was the product of an elite school, and was an Exhibitioner (almost as good as a Scholar) at the finest college in the finest university in the world: and I knew nothing

3 min read

Tent encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters outside Cambridge's King's College on May 08, 2024 (Image: Getty)

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Leaders

The Iran campaign is Europe’s war as well

From missiles capable of reaching Paris, Berlin and presumably also London to terror plots, the Islamic Republic is a clear and present danger. And to jeopardize the transatlantic relationship is not strategic autonomy but strategic folly

By The JC Leader

2 min read

Missiles produced by Iran's armed forces are displayed during commemorations to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution on February 11, 2026 in Tehran (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

To fight Jew hatred, the UK must fight antizionism

What has unfolded over the past two years is not simply criticism of Israel, nor even obsessive hostility

3 min read

The scene after four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire next to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, on March 23, 2026, in the Golders Green area of London (Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

Iran is a direct threat to Britain – it’s time to act like it

UK support – through basing, logistics and safeguarding maritime routes – is neither escalation nor a ‘favour’ to its principal ally. It is, rather, an exercise in self-interest

2 min read

Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier Mayuree Naree near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack (Image: AFP/Royal Thai Navy)

By The JC Leader

There is no ‘context’ for antisemitic terror

A society that begins to explain attacks on Jewish children has already taken several dangerous steps down the wrong path. The task is to confront such violence and the ideological climate helping to produce it

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Belgian police man the perimeter around a synagogue after it was struck by a blast in Liege on March 9, 2026. (Image: Getty)

Opinion

The Iran victory myth and the ceasefire of a battered regime

Ireland’s shameful hypocrisy on the Islamic Republic

How AI-generated ‘rabbis’ spread online antisemitism

A very British Passion play – polite legionnaires and trigger warnings for the crucifixion

Latest from opinion

I’m visibly Jewish. A Green Party canvasser stood at my door and told me October 7 was a hoax

Mosley, Ye and Finsbury Park: a 90-year echo of hate

Revealed: Iranian regime’s secretive Wiki war to brainwash the world on Israel, Jews and Zionism

Fear of a bloodbath in May has made Labour candidates lunge for the anti-Israel vote

From IRA to Gaza: to be young again... and profoundly ignorant

Support the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper

Leaders

The Iran campaign is Europe’s war as well

To fight Jew hatred, the UK must fight antizionism

Iran is a direct threat to Britain – it’s time to act like it

There is no ‘context’ for antisemitic terror

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