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Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard

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

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Stephen Pollard

Israel’s PR problem is much bigger than biased BBC coverage

The wider mindset which dubs Israel a rogue state is a problem which editorial changes can’t fix

By Stephen Pollard

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Anti Israel protestors are just part of the country's PR problem (Getty)

Palestinian families leaving the eastern sector of the Gaza Strip on the border with Israel following the Israeli airstrikes early on Tuesday morning (Photo: Getty Images)

Hamas knew the consequences of not releasing the hostages – and now it is paying the price

2 min read

Sir Keir Starmer in Parliament (Image: Parliament TV).

Labour is indulging Muslim extremism, and Starmer won’t stop it

3 min read

Ehud Olmert showing the map he presented to Mahmoud Abbas detailing prospective borders in 2008, and which was rejected

Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October review: ‘highly recommended’

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LSE is telling Jewish students: we do not care about you

Defending an organisation that is committed to the elimination not just of Israel but of every Jew is surely a form of targeted harassment of Jewish students

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March 5, 2025 10:20

Pro-Palestine students and protesters demonstrate outside the London School of Economics (Getty)

In the new world order, Europe needs Israel

Trump’s backing for Putin on Ukraine has changed everything

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February 26, 2025 13:17

Donald Trump has called for Israel to resume its war in Gaza if all the hostages are not freed by Saturday (Image: Getty)

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

Stephen Pollard reviews Peter Beinart’s new book Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza

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February 20, 2025 12:14

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

A blasphemy law by the back door is bad news for all of us

Burning sacred texts is a horrible act, but should it be against the law, however offensive?

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February 19, 2025 09:22

Counter-demonstrators and police officers are seen at the Gustav Adolfs Torg square in Malmo, Sweden, on May 3, 2024, on the occasion of a public gathering where the organizers intend to burn a Koran one day before the start of the Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city. (Photo by Johan Nilsson/TT / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JOHAN NILSSON/TT/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Why can’t the BBC tell the difference between hostages and prisoners?

The BBC is peddling exactly the propaganda narrative Hamas wants

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February 10, 2025 16:09

People escort a released prisoner through a large crowd in Ramallah, West Bank on February 8, 2025. (Photo by MOSAB SHAWER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

If you really care about the hostages Sir Keir, stop funding Unrwa

Emily Damari told our prime minister that she was held in an Unrwa building. But we still give them taxpayers’ money

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February 4, 2025 14:17

Released hostage Emily Damari and her mother Mandy spoke to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Friday morning (Photo: Emily Cohen)

This columnist is derided and even hated, but she is usually right

In her latest polemic Melanie Phillips takes on the ruin of Western civilisation

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January 31, 2025 08:59

Vital voice: Melanie Phillips and her new book

This is a terrible time for Jews, but it’s not a rerun of the 1930s

It matters that we live at a time and in a place where the head of state commemorates the Shoah

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January 29, 2025 10:33

Protesters at a "rally for Palestine" on January 18 in London (Getty Images)

The picture of Hamas surrounding the hostages says everything

You’d think the sight of terrorists harassing young women would be enough to give their Western supporters pause

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January 20, 2025 11:52

The handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Saraya Square in western Gaza City on January 19 (Getty Images)

Saturday’s march shows that it’s really about Jews, not Palestinians

The march is going ahead despite the ceasefire deal – and I would bet my mortgage that the hate will be more vitriolic than ever

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January 16, 2025 12:23

Demonstrators in London last March (Getty Images)

Whatever we do, the media will not stop propaganda on Gaza

Sadly, the new report on Gaza casualty figures will not change the narrative

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December 17, 2024 11:02

A new report by the Henry Jackson Society claims to have found significant errors in the Gaza health ministry's casualty figures. (Photo by YAHYA HASSOUNA/AFP via Getty Images)

ICC’s arrest warrants expose the West’s inability to defend the values on which freedom and democracy are built

The glue that binds international bodies together is what used to be called the delegitimisation of Israel, but is now easier to refer to simply as Jew hate

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November 24, 2024 10:40

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