Nike’s ‘Never again’ slogan is a disgrace
Fifty-six thousand runners completing the London Marathon yesterday may well have gasped the words ‘never again’ as they staggered across…
Renewing the promise of ‘never again’
What does it mean to say ‘never again’? It is etched into memorials, inscribed in textbooks, whispered in the shadows…
Parliament’s moral posturing on Israel is delusional
What’s the point of parliament’s foreign affairs committee holding mock-trial style hearings about Israel’s defensive war against Iranian-backed terror groups?…
Hamas is exploiting the freedoms it wants to destroy
In any sane world, it would be dismissed as grotesque fantasy: Hamas – the Iranian-backed terror group responsible for the…
Hamas has a history of using ambulances for war
Before the facts had even settled, western media outlets rendered their verdict: Israel was guilty. Guilty of deliberately targeting ambulances.…
Why did Israel block two British MPs at its border?
In 2008, under the UK’s Labour government, Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin – a Likud central committee member – was denied…
Sadiq Khan’s Eid message is a disgrace
London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan published a video online earlier this week to mark the Muslim festival of Eid. Released…
Why Israel is ramping up its war on terror
The war in Gaza has entered a more consequential and unforgiving phase. Early this morning, Palestinian sources reported that Israeli…
The truth about the Gaza protests
A series of striking videos have emerged from the Gaza Strip over the last week. Crowds of Palestinians, chanting slogans…
We need an inquiry into BBC Arabic
A peculiar incident occurred this month at an Israeli army base in the Negev: a wild caracal – a desert…
Who will stand up for Jews today?
Awoken by sirens wailing over large parts of central Israel last weekend, I pulled on whatever clothes I could find beside…
Israel’s Gaza campaign is far from over
The war in Gaza has resumed with a new intensity, but it would be a mistake to see this as…
Israel has ‘opened the gates of hell’ in Gaza
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Israel launched a surprise wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip, targeting key…
There is no more hiding from the chilling truth of 7 October
The 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report, chaired by Lord Andrew Roberts, has now been published. It provides a meticulously researched,…
Britain is facing a reckoning on anti-Semitism
It is difficult to fathom how an incident as horrifying as the kidnapping of Israeli musician Itay Kashti by three…
Why couldn’t this elite school cope with my talk on anti-Semitism?
Perhaps it is a rite of passage these days for a journalist to be cancelled. But I never expected that…
Why is the LSE hosting a Hamas book launch?
The London School of Economics’ decision to host the launch this week of Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters – a…
Will Hamas take Trump’s Gaza ultimatum seriously?
‘“Shalom Hamas” means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose.’ So began Donald Trump’s furious social media post, an ultimatum wrapped…
No Other Land isn’t what it seems
The Oscars, an institution that claims to celebrate artistic excellence, this week played a leading role in a sophisticated and…
The BBC can’t brush aside the Gaza documentary scandal
The BBC’s admission of serious editorial failures in its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone is not just a scandal – it…
The true meaning of Trump’s AI Gaza video
Donald Trump’s AI-generated vision of Gaza – complete with golden statues of himself, bearded belly dancers, and a triumphant song…
Who is responsible for the BBC’s Gaza documentary debacle?
In 2007, the BBC was engulfed in scandal for an embarrassing – if relatively trivial – misrepresentation of Queen Elizabeth…
The BBC’s Gaza documentary omitted something astonishing
The BBC’s documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone at first glance seemed to offer a raw and intimate portrayal of life…
Why do Australian doctors want to kill Israeli patients?
Imagine the uproar if a white Christian doctor refused to treat a Muslim Arab patient – or worse, boasted of…
The Middle East’s language wars
When the Middle East gets me down, I sometimes rewatch the video of Donald Trump announcing the death of ISIS…
