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…
Biden’s Rafah plan will only help Hamas
The fathers, brothers and sons who are risking their lives for their country do not want to go into Rafah,…
Will we ever learn the lessons of the Holocaust?
As a child, I had to wash my hands before I was shown books of photographs depicting the ghettos and…
Israel shows why conscription works
Take a step back and it’s a no-brainer: If you want a healthy society, you need a spirit of unity.…
Why the West should target Iran as well as the Houthis
Peace cannot always be won by peaceful means. This is a truth that is as tragic as it is perennial.…
Israel is heading for war with Hezbollah
Saleh al-Arouri may have been a senior member of the Palestinian group Hamas, but the drone strike that brought his…
Hamas is trying to go global
For some years, there has been speculation in security circles about what will replace Islamic State. The terror group was…
It’s no surprise Palestine marches have drained the Met’s coffers
Much has been made of the supposedly peaceful nature of the weekly Palestine marches. But public order comes at a…
The stakes are high at London’s anti-Semitism march
Whether Muslim, Jewish, Christian or atheist – and whatever your nationality – there is ample reason to stand up to…
A ceasefire leaves Israel in a dangerous position
A four-day pause and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners. Seen from London or New York, this seems like a…
A potential hostage deal shows the weakness of Hamas
Details are sketchy and the deal is far from done, but all the signs are pointing towards a hostage agreement…
Hamas and the narcissism of the progressive left
A prominent member of Hamas’s political bureau has been causing something of a stir on the internet in recent days.…
Is Suella Braverman wrong about pro-Palestine ‘hate marches’?
Supporting the Palestinians is a reasonable thing to do. Flying their flag is not an act of hatred. Expressing sympathy…
Jews feel abandoned by the British left
Like 9/11, the massacre in southern Israel changed everything. From the great movements of Middle Eastern geopolitics and international alliances…
How the Arab world turned against Hamas
What do people think of Hamas? In recent days, this has been something of a vexed question for many in…
Calling a terrorist a terrorist
Last night, after a suspected Islamist fanatic gunned down two Swedish football fans in Brussels to ‘avenge Muslims’, the BBC…
Hamas is not long for this world
There was long been a swell of sympathy for Hamas in the West. A certain leader of the opposition, you…
For too long, the UN has been gripped by Israelophobia
It is something of an understatement to say that there has been no shortage of shocking posts on social media…
Why are Jews being blamed for Hamas’s attack on Israel?
‘Victim blaming’ is one of the sins that is most deplored by the social justice movement. When it comes to…
How Canada’s parliament ended up celebrating a former Nazi
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February last year. By the end of March, the streets of cities all over the…
London’s e-bikes are out of control
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rental electric bicycles are becoming a bit of a scourge in London. Unlike…
The police can’t be trusted to track our e-bikes
In more innocent times, I’d have responded to the news that police wished to fit tracking devices to electric bicycles…
Banning Iran’s IRGC makes more sense than cracking down on Wagner
Is the Wagner Group a terror threat to Britain? Until this morning, the thought had probably never occurred to most…
