Britain can’t fight antisemitism without confronting its main driver: hatred of Israel

From false claims about ‘genocide’ to conspiracies about ‘Zionist control’, an old prejudice is being repackaged in the language of activism and human rights to legitimise hostility towards Jews

Go and see Paul Simon – an icon of New York’s Jewish golden age

If the time and place he was born into had been like today, we might never have heard of him. As if to underline the point, an organisation of ‘musicians and cultural workers’ is calling for a Eurovision boycott while Israel is included

We will never defeat political antisemitism if we deny it

If the industrial-scale demonisation of Jews and Israel – particularly pervasive on campuses – continues to be treated as legitimate discourse, this new virus will keep spreading while Britain congratulates itself on fighting it

‘It devastates us’: Families of October 7 victims react as full extent of horrors are revealed in historic report

Evidence and testimony gathered by commission catalogues shocking extent of savagery and sexual violence during attacks

Until the CPS can grasp the reality of antizionism, it will keep on failing Jews

The new antisemitism guidance is being billed as a major intervention. But the problem was never a lack of manuals for prosecutors – it was the repeated failure, since October 7, to prosecute blatant antisemitic offences properly, or at all

How the Bennett-Lapid alliance may lose the Israeli elections – and yet win

Political pacts may weaken individual parties, blur ideological lines, and disappoint at the ballot box, yet still reshape the political map in ways that determine who governs

Letters to the Editor, May 15 2026

The New York Times’ faux Eurovision scandal about Israel

There were indeed plenty of political manipulations which broke the song contest's clearly defined rules. But none of them came from the Jewish state

A rally against Jew-hate and sectarianism in Britain

The central question the protest raised was larger than antisemitism alone. It concerned whether the UK remains capable of sustaining a shared civic identity and the social cohesion of the country itself