Israel
Jared Kushner’s international friendships with benefits
In 1998, the conservative intellectual and moralist Bill Bennett published a book, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault…
George Abaraonye deserves his downfall
Contrary to what I had expected, the Oxford Union president-elect, George Abaraonye, lost his vote of no confidence by a…
The westerners helping Hamas win the propaganda war
After two years of war, and despite Israel’s many successes on the battlefield, Hamas can also claim a kind of…
A sip of Israeli history
We were drinking Israeli wine as the talk ranged from frivolity to seriousness: from Donald Trump to the tragic paradoxes…
What is the West without the Jews?
To the studio! Podcasts, if you ask me, are the one good thing to have come out of the digital…
The increasing fear felt by Britain’s Jews
If you walked down the Strand in London on Tuesday this week you would have been greeted by hundreds of…
Will Israel always have America’s backing?
The views of today’s young Americans should concern Israelis, says Marc Lynch. With no memory of Israel’s foundations in 1948, they are considerably more pro-Palestinian than their parents
Do Palestinians want Hamas gone?
Discussion of Donald Trump’s peace proposal for Gaza revolves around one question: who is for it and who is against…
Keir Starmer’s Palestine doesn’t exist
King Cnut is misremembered as a deluded fool who tried to subdue the sea. In fact, he was a wise…
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…
Israel risks rewarding Hamas’s kidnapping
What weapon is stronger than F-16s, drones, targeted strikes, disciplined and war-hardened ground troops, and even nuclear weapons? Hostages. Despite…
What the media doesn’t tell us about Gaza
Sir Keir Starmer’s apparent justification for threatening to recognise a Palestinian state by September is pictures. ‘I think people are…
Portrait of the week: Recognition for Palestine, victory for the Lionesses and no name for Corbyn’s party
Home Britain will recognise Palestinian statehood in September, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, announced, ‘unless the Israeli government takes…
Israel has gone too far
If any other country in the Middle East had behaved as monstrously as Israel has in recent weeks, the jets…
Letters: The case for recognising Palestine
State of emergency Sir: As someone who spent time undertaking research in Israel and Egypt, living for almost a year…
The problems with a state of Palestine
France intends to recognise a state of Palestine at the United Nations, which I’m sure will be followed by UK…
Woke coke: would you drink Gaza Cola?
Andy Warhol believed that the greatness of America lay in how the richest consumers bought exactly the same things as…
The BBC Gaza documentary report is a cover-up
The BBC’s long-awaited editorial review of its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was published today. It reads not like a…
Trump could bomb Iran again
President Trump has already warned Tehran that he’ll be back if Iran tries to revive and advance its nuclear programme,…
On the Israel-Syria border, death is always close
Syria’s new president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, is desperate to stay on the sidelines of the Iran-Israel war. Most middle eastern states…
Come friendly bombs and fall on Iran
It is heartening to see the lefties out marching in defence of mullahs and their enlightened rule of Iran. The…
We should welcome regime change in Iran
On the first night of what Donald Trump has called the ‘12-day war’ between Israel and Iran, someone spray-painted a…
Let Kneecap play
During the Troubles, some 2,500 people were victims of kneecappings – punishment shootings, dished out by paramilitaries, for perceived crimes…
Israel’s attack on Iran has been planned for years
It was clear at the time that what happened on 7 October 2023 would change the Middle East. What was…
Letters: Israel’s attack on Iran was no surprise
Moral support Sir: All of Tim Shipman’s reasons for the PM’s reluctance to support Israel sound outwardly plausible, though, from…
