Marwan Barghouti isn’t the ‘Palestinian Mandela’
Some scoffed when Donald Trump thought to tap Tony Blair’s decades of involvement in the Middle East for his future…
Nigel Farage must come clean about his Dulwich College schooldays
The allegations concerning Nigel Farage’s conduct as a schoolboy have returned with unusual force, not because the country is suddenly…
The revelations about what the Gaza hostages suffered are the most painful yet
The Israeli hostages recently freed from Gaza have begun to speak, and among the new revelations is that some were…
A lethal standoff is playing out deep beneath Gaza
In 1929, René Magritte painted a picture that has since become iconic in both art and philosophy. The Treachery of…
What Trump’s Gaza peace plan means for Israel
This may not be the conclusion Israel imagined when it launched its campaign in Gaza. Not all the hostage bodies…
The rot at the BBC runs far deeper than Tim Davie
The resignations at the top of the BBC mark a critical juncture for an institution long seen as a pillar…
The looming threat to Israel
In the aftermath of war, a new front opens. Not in the ruins of Gaza’s cities, but in the corridors…
Hamas’s return is revealing Gaza’s true colours
Remember that weird little Covid ritual of 2020, when every Thursday at 8pm people stepped out onto their doorsteps and…
Activist silence over Sudan speaks volumes
The city of El Fasher, long a symbolic and strategic stronghold in Darfur, has in recent days become the site…
Hamas is testing Israel’s patience
In the wake of yet another rupture in the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the region finds itself suspended…
Hamas’s hostage remains deception is a new low
The grotesque return of a body part falsely presented as one of Israel’s remaining hostages marks a new low in…
Dividing Gaza in two presents a fresh test for Israel
The war in Gaza has not ended; it has changed its shape. What began as a brutal confrontation has now…
The searing testimony of Eli Sharabi
Now that the remaining live hostages have been freed, and the remains of those killed are slowly being located and…
The Gaza ceasefire isn’t broken
The ceasefire in Gaza, barely settled just six days ago, has already been tested. Hamas was accused of violating the…
Thank God for Donald Trump
Imagine, for a moment, the world we narrowly escaped. A world in which Joe Biden, frail and fading, remained in…
The relief, joy and grief of Israel’s hostages’ homecoming
This morning in Israel began like no other: layered, dissonant, momentous. A collision of spectacle and salvation, of grief and…
The real Gaza deal unfolds in the next 72 hours
The machine is beginning to turn. The ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas, brokered with the direct involvement of President…
Can Trump’s Gaza peace deal last?
There is no office more burdened by impossible choices than that of the Israeli prime minister. When Benjamin Netanyahu steps…
The Manchester synagogue attack didn’t come from nowhere
It is still early in the investigation, and key details remain unconfirmed. But what is already known about this morning’s…
Palestinians must regret rejecting Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
In December 2024, Bill Clinton spoke with a candour that history affords. Reflecting on Camp David in 2000, he lamented…
Trump’s Gaza peace plan changes everything
In a moment of extraordinary geopolitical gravity, US president Donald Trump has unveiled a comprehensive plan to end the Gaza…
What will Keir Starmer’s Palestine declaration achieve?
Keir Starmer has justified Britain’s declaration of Palestinian statehood by insisting that it will keep open the path to a…
Where is the outrage over the aid trucks hijacked in Gaza?
Unicef has confirmed it in black and white: armed men in Gaza hijacked aid trucks at gunpoint, stealing ready-to-use therapeutic food meant…
Did Trump convince Starmer to see sense on Palestine?
As Donald Trump visited the United Kingdom this week, the press seized the opportunity to confront both him and Keir…
The truth about Britain’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march
On Saturday morning, I skipped synagogue and went to the Tommy Robinson march instead. By the time I arrived at…
