Will no one acknowledge how Mossad helps Britain?
Let’s imagine that an international jihadi network, with cells in London and Europe, had just been busted, with dramatic arrests…
Labour is coming for your bicycle
As the recently departed Norman Tebbit would attest, there has long been a connection between bicycles and jobs, particularly for…
What is Hamas doing at a five-star hotel in Cairo?
Imagine the horror of discovering that you have been rubbing shoulders with terrorists. No, I’m not talking about those gullible…
What is the West without the Jews?
To the studio! Podcasts, if you ask me, are the one good thing to have come out of the digital…
Even bike races aren’t safe from the Gaza mob
In a parallel universe, activists all over the world are rising up against the jihadi butchers who carried out the…
‘Trump’s America has made a suicidal choice’: An interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy is running on fumes. Plus ça change. “I slept as always last night, a few hours, with chemistry…
Israel faces an agonising decision
In those awful first weeks after 7 October, someone came up with a slogan that was taken as a rallying…
What happened to William Dalrymple?
At first impression, William Dalrymple is flying high. This patrician historian of British-Indian relations, who celebrates his sixtieth birthday this…
It’s no surprise so many British Jews are leaving for Israel
Some things may come as no surprise in theory but cause the heart to sink when they emerge as reality.…
Britain’s arms crackdown on Israel has come at a dreadful time
The Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is a moderate man and chooses his words carefully. So his statement about David Lammy’s…
Israel’s strikes on Lebanon bring Jerusalem one step closer to regional dominance
As the dust literally settles across southern Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli airstrikes, we are starting to see…
Is the West finally seeing through Hamas’s lies?
On Saturday, when Israel attacked the al-Taba’een Hamas command centre in Gaza City, jihadi propagandists swung into action straight away.…
The far-right threat to Israel’s democracy is growing
Israel is the only meaningful democracy in the Middle East. This is as true today as it was last week.…
Why should Israel tolerate Hezbollah’s deadly rocket attacks?
The slaughter of a dozen child footballers on Sunday came as a startling sign that the situation in northern Israel…
After Biden, the deluge
Remember that $230 million ‘humanitarian pier’ that the Americans moored off the coast of Gaza? It was announced with great…
Hamas looks like it’s lost its mastermind
If the Pimpernel was damned and elusive, he had nothing on Mohammed al-Masri, the head of Hamas’s military wing. The…
Why Jews returned to Labour
Two weeks before the general election, the Jewish Chronicle commissioned a Survation poll to map the voting intentions of British…
Israel can no longer avoid a clash with its ultra-Orthodox citizens
In the imagination of the world, there could be nobody more Jewish than the ultra-Orthodox. With their black hats, sidecurls…
Joe Biden has failed Israel
Another week, another confirmation that when it comes to jihadism, the Biden administration’s foreign policy occupies the nexus between incompetence…
Egypt has questions to answer over Rafah
Why have all eyes been on Rafah? We have been led to believe that the intense focus on a town…
Ebrahim Raisi’s successor could be worse
It is doubtful that Ebrahim Raisi, the ‘butcher of Tehran’, would have experienced a moral epiphany had he been shown…
Israel’s Rafah operation is tragically necessary
There is, as Ecclesiastes reminded us, a time for war and a time for peace. In its 76-year history, Israel…
Sunak has no excuse to not proscribe the IRGC
Lord Renwick, the Labour peer and former Foreign Office mandarin, used to say that young diplomats of a certain breeding…
Hamas has all but won
It would be hard to imagine that almost exactly six months after October 7, I would find myself saying this,…
Is London the ‘most anti-Semitic city in the West’?
The last time I saw Amichai Chikli, he was struggling to put on a suit jacket at the Israeli embassy…
