Why are the celebrities I used to love suddenly so anti, well… me?

From Annie Lennox to Roger Waters, it’s hard not to take pro-Palestine activism personally. Thank God for Quentin Tarantino

Letters to the Editor, January 24 2026

The West stays silent as its Kurdish allies face attacks by Syria’s ‘reformed’ Islamist government

Without pressure, we may see the wholesale destruction of the forces and the authority that paid the highest price to defeat ISIS. It is also likely to result in the freeing of thousands of jailed jihadis

The radical lesson plans of NEU teachers that should worry the country

Asking pupils whether they would ‘fight back’ if they lived in Gaza or to ‘understand’ Hamas is not education but ideological instruction. Such activism harms children and poses a threat to society itself

How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

This is the text of a speech delivered at the Holocaust Education Trust, warning that the distortion and inversion of the Holocaust is enabling a resurgence of antisemitism, with grave consequences for democratic societies

This is Iran’s October 7 – and the West must act now

The response to the regime’s massacres must be concrete: severe sanctions, asset freezes, the closure of embassies and an end to the indulgent fiction that this is a normal state with which business can continue

‘Never again’ is a more urgent message than ever

It is increasingly difficult to reconcile the language of remembrance with the reality facing Jewish communities today

How can the Beckhams defuse the Brooklyn broiges?

The world loves a celebrity family fall out. But the Beckham-Peltz predicament has lessons for us all – and can be solved

‘No mainstream Orthodox rabbinic body anywhere recognises women as rabbis’

While women can take leadership roles in an Orthodox community, halachic boundaries remain, argues a veteran rabbi