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Stephen Pollard

The Guardian, the BBC and the weaponisation of antisemitism against Nigel Farage

It’s an effort to cast the Reform UK leader as far right when he and his party are mainstream. He should be judged on his actions today, not on schoolboy insults from half a century ago

By Stephen Pollard

3 min read

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage (Image: Getty)

US President Donald Trump (Image: Getty)

Melissa Langsam Braunstein

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The US moves toward a reckoning with the Muslim Brotherhood

With Texas leading an unprecedented state-level terror designation and federal scrutiny intensifying, America is edging toward a decisive showdown with the Islamists and their network of affiliates

3 min read

Gaza protesters in the vicinity of the shul (Image: YouTube)

Ian Acheson

Why did the Met facilitate the synagogue protest? Because Jews behave

It is not acceptable that what we saw on Sunday, de facto impunity for hate-filled activists to frighten people at places of intense emotional significance to them, is the new benchmark for civility

3 min read

Anti-Israel protest in front of St John’s Wood Synagogue (Image: X)

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

The St John’s Wood debacle exposes a policing culture of capitulation to extremists

Jews are victimised twice: once by those who hate them, and again by a law enforcement model that rewards their civility with indifference

2 min read

Shachar Kleiman

By Shachar Kleiman

Hezbollah is only one rocket salvo away from the elimination of its last few senior commanders

Hezbollah is in a position of historic weakness and is trying to play the long game

2 min read

William Hague

By William Hague

As Oxford Chancellor, here’s my plan to confront extremism in UK and make free speech flourish

Lord Hague’s address to Oxford Chabad Society on antisemitism and free speech

17 min read

Melissa Langsam Braunstein

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The Democrats’ ominous anti-Zionist turn

AIPAC is increasingly becoming a lightning rod. The question is whether the party will allow its extremist fringe to define its position on Israel, or whether the silent majority will finally speak out

3 min read

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Ian Pace

The targeting of Israeli Professor Michael Ben-Gad: Britain’s academic freedom crisis

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Archbishop of York’s ‘genocidal acts’ charge against Israel is neither wise nor appropriate

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Hamas is looking at the 60,000 dead and the Western hatred of Israel and thinking: job done

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Rupa Huq blames a right-wing ‘cabal’ for the BBC’s left-wing bias scandal – naturally

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It’s probably easier to point out great lyricists who weren’t Jewish

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Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watch

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How the Gaza coverage hard-wired anti-Israel into AI

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