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…
The truth about the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march
On Saturday morning, I skipped synagogue and went to the Tommy Robinson march instead. By the time I arrived at…
Free speech should never be fatal
Charlie Kirk was not storming a government building. He was not brandishing a weapon. He was not even shouting. He…
Israel is right to strike Hamas’s leaders in Qatar
When the government of Qatar condemned the Israeli airstrike in Doha as a ‘cowardly’ act, it revealed less about the…
The Jerusalem massacre and the illusion of peace
You can tell a great deal about countries and people by how they react to a horrific act of terror.…
Rabbi Sacks’s legacy shines brighter than ever
When King Charles paid tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks following his death in 2020, he called him ‘a light…
Hamas will struggle to recover from the elimination of Abu Ubaida
Despite its extraordinary discipline and repeated battlefield successes over the past two years, Israel has been judged in many quarters…
Ed Davey’s pathetic Gaza boycott
Ed Davey has built an entire political career on pratfalls, water slides and staged wipe-outs, like a children’s entertainer who…
