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Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard was the editor of the Jewish Chronicle from 2008-2021

Latest from Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard

Postmodernism and moral relativism have led us to disaster

The recent CAA poll findings about young adults’ attitudes to Israel and Hamas are shocking but entirely unsurprising

By Stephen Pollard

3 min read

From Saturday's march (Campaign Against Antisemitism)

'Stop The War Coalition' Demonstration in London on Saturday October 5 (Getty Images)

The October 7 pogrom changed what it means to be a British Jew

4 min read

Mishal Husain

Pro-Hezbollah professor tells BBC that ‘chosen people’ seek to colonise the ‘whole region’. Thank you very much, says BBC

3 min read

Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Rabbi Noah in Nobody Wants This. (Photo: Netflix)

Nobody Wants This review: The premise is stupid, but I quite enjoyed the show

2 min read

More from Stephen Pollard

If Ukraine must be allowed to fight, why isn’t Israel?

Ukraine is a vital strategic interest for the West. So, too, is Israel. But while we are rightly keen to give Ukraine the tools to do the job for us, we punish Israel for daring to fight Islamists

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September 16, 2024 11:38

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/AFP via Getty Images)

For the Jew haters, even a new bus route is a sign of nefarious Jewish power

The 310 bus is, they say, really a Jewish plot to force Muslims to live as second class citizens

2 min read

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September 5, 2024 07:53

For the Jew haters, even a new bus route is a sign of nefarious Jewish power

Simon Sebag Montefiore taking apart William Dalrymple was a rewarding spectacle

It was like watching a panther dismember a goat

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August 19, 2024 14:49

William Dalrymple stands in the ruins of the "Zafar Mahal", the summer palace of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, in New Delhi. (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP via Getty Images)

The hypocrisy in reaction to the riots is striking

While those who attend the riots but don’t actually riot are rightly condemned, those who attend the hate marches alongside antisemites are described as “decent”

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August 5, 2024 14:23

Sunday's riot outside of the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Why Natalie Portman’s first TV drama left me bored senseless

It is packed to the rafters with Jewy things and it’s beautifully acted, so the JC’s editor-at-large should have loved it. I did not

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July 31, 2024 15:19

Nice acting, shame about the plot: Natalie Portman as a young and older Maddie Schwartz

For the BBC, Ismail Haniyeh was ‘moderate and pragmatic’, for the rest of us he was a monster

Why is the corporation incapable of describing him as what he was

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July 31, 2024 10:16

Assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Imagine if it had been The Jewish Vote rather than The Muslim Vote

Does anyone really think the reaction would just have been a shrug of the shoulders and a feeling that we should consider their grievances? There would, rightly, have been outrage

4 min read

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July 19, 2024 09:10

Jonathan Ashworth, who lost his Leicester South seat (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

This election makes Britain ever more vulnerable to sanitised Islamism

With so many small majorities, Labour MPs are set to lean towards the demands of The Muslim Vote

3 min read

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July 5, 2024 07:55

(Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Friday night dinner doesn’t make you a slacker

The Tory party offended us all by attacking Sir Keir Starmer for observing Jewish traditions

3 min read

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July 2, 2024 11:04

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps knows full well what trying to keep Friday night free for Shabbat means (Photo: Getty Images)

Last night’s debate will impact the Middle East as well as the US

The issue now is not whether Biden should be president for another term – it’s whether he should be president for the remainder of this term.

2 min read

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June 28, 2024 14:17

Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the CNN Presidential Debate (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Kid Sister, review: How not to write a comedy about Jews

I lost hours of my life this predictable, badly acted, and really very annoying series

3 min read

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June 26, 2024 10:43

Drivel: Simone Nathan and Roxie Mohebbi in Kid Sister

Labour’s plan to recognise Palestine is gesture politics of the worst kind

It makes a negotiated settlement less likely

2 min read

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June 7, 2024 10:03

Sir Keir Starmer (Photo by LEON NEAL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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