Is Donald Trump making the Middle East more dangerous?
The Middle East has entered a phase where events no longer necessarily resolve into outcomes. They pause, harden, and then…
The Middle East is once again in flux
The Middle East has long been organised around two competing logics: pragmatic alignment and ideological alignment. Before the 7 October…
Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s proxy war in Yemen
The escalation that emerged overnight in southern Yemen did not originate on the battlefield but in a relatively quiet logistical…
We need to talk about Islam
I did not come to Islam through theology. I came to it through fear, threat and hatred directed at me…
Why is Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s return a ‘top priority’ for Keir Starmer?
Apparently it has been a “top priority” for Keir Starmer and his government, since the moment they came to office,…
Iran has a ceaseless obsession with Israel
When Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Florida at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in a few days’ time, near the top of…
The police crackdown on ‘globalise the intifada’ chants is too little, too late
Protesters chanting ‘globalise the intifada’ will now be arrested, according to the heads of Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan…
Why won’t the West defend Jews?
Bondi Beach is not occupied territory. Yet a Jewish celebration there ended in blood. It is not within a military…
For Jews, the Bondi beach shooting is grimly recognisable
The attack at Bondi beach during a Hanukkah celebration, killing nine, has sent a fresh wave of horror through the…
Piers Morgan fell into Nick Fuentes’s trap
When Michael Gove introduced me to Piers Morgan last week at the Spectator Christmas reception, Morgan seized my hand and beamed,…
The BBC’s antisemitism training is an offensive parody
The BBC has unveiled its compulsory training course for all staff on how not to be racist to Jews. I…
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…
