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Misan Harriman and the moral collapse of progressives over Iran and Israel

If your oppressors are murderous theocrats but your supporters include the ‘wrong’ people – that is Zionists – many on the left may cancel your cry for freedom

By Stephen Pollard

3 min read

Protestors raise Iran’s pre-revolutionary flag of the Lion and the Sun in Khorramabad atop an Islamic Republic clerical statue. (Image: X)

By Afshin Payravi

Iranians are rising against the Islamic Republic’s war on their civilisation

3 min read

(L-R) Chiwetel Ejiofor, June Squibb, Erin Kellyman and Scarlett Johansson of "Eleanor the Great" during the Toronto International Film Festival on September 07, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Maureen Lipman

‘Eleanor’ wore its Jewishness lightly – a rarity in these times

4 min read

By Jake Wallis Simons

West Midlands Police chief must go – but it won’t stop the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain

5 min read

By Gideon Falter

UK must stop giving millions to the corrupted fiefdom of Unrwa

3 min read

By Daniel Finkelstein

The challenge to Jews from the US right has reached our shores

3 min read

By Gill Levy

West Midlands Police capitulated to antisemitism – a former Met officer’s verdict

4 min read

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By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Fear is cracking in Tehran as Trump’s global pressure meets street revolts

Iran’s internal drama unfolds against a backdrop of American action that is both unusually visible and deliberately unsettling

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By Khaled Hassan

Egypt is revising its peace agreement with Israel

Cairo sees Israel’s military presence the Philadelphi Corridor as a direct threat and is reducing cooperation with the Jewish state in most areas

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Athens on May 7, 2025 (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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January 7, 2026 13:59

Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as New York City's 112th mayor by New York Attorney General Letitia James (L) alongside his wife Rama Duwaji (R) in the former City Hall subway station on January 1, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Leonardo Coutinho

From IRGC to Russia: how Venezuela became a narco-terror hub for the West’s enemies

Caracas has become a platform for Iranian power projection; a safe haven for Hezbollah’s illicit operations; a laboratory for Russian regional influence; and a centre for the expansion of Chinese techno-financial power

4 min read

January 7, 2026 11:07

Former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (L) and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro shake hands during a joint press statement in Caracas, on June 12, 2023. (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

International order must be based in reality

Events in Venezuela, Somaliland and Iran have highlighted the growing tension between international law and a shifting world order

2 min read

January 7, 2026 09:27

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei (left), during a state television broadcast in June 2025, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro aboard the USS Iwo Jima after being seized by US forces in Caracas on January 3 (Getty Images/Truth Social)

By Stephen Pollard

The loony left’s moral collapse over Maduro

We had five years of Corbyn leading the Labour Party. And there he was yesterday doing the broadcasting round insisting that the deposed dictator was the legitimate leader of Venezuela

4 min read

January 6, 2026 11:01

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Guess who allegedly taught that Zionism is a mental illness? A leader in America’s top psychology body

Washington’s investigations into anti-Jewish discrimination have turned to the psychotherapy sector

3 min read

January 5, 2026 12:39

Students protest in support of Palestine and for free speech outside of the Columbia University campus (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

By Nimco Ali

My family suffered under cruel regime which opposed independent Somaliland – now I welcome Israel’s recognition

Move cements relationship between two states which share history and a future of hope and opportunity

4 min read

January 5, 2026 11:58

Flag of Somaliland flies in the capital Hargeisa (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

By Jacob Jaffa

Could Khameini be the next Maduro?

With the Venezuelan dictator seized and deposed, and the US escalating its rhetoric against Iran, the Islamic regime’s supreme leader finds himself in the hot seat

2 min read

January 5, 2026 10:55

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Misan Harriman and the moral collapse of progressives over Iran and Israel

Iranians are rising against the Islamic Republic’s war on their civilisation

‘Eleanor’ wore its Jewishness lightly – a rarity in these times

West Midlands Police chief must go – but it won’t stop the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain

UK must stop giving millions to the corrupted fiefdom of Unrwa

The challenge to Jews from the US right has reached our shores

West Midlands Police capitulated to antisemitism – a former Met officer’s verdict

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Fear is cracking in Tehran as Trump’s global pressure meets street revolts

Egypt is revising its peace agreement with Israel

Letters to the Editor, January 9 2026

From IRGC to Russia: how Venezuela became a narco-terror hub for the West’s enemies

International order must be based in reality

The loony left’s moral collapse over Maduro

Guess who allegedly taught that Zionism is a mental illness? A leader in America’s top psychology body

My family suffered under cruel regime which opposed independent Somaliland – now I welcome Israel’s recognition

Could Khameini be the next Maduro?