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Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard was the editor of the Jewish Chronicle from 2008-2021

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Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House: ‘Wagner played to perfection’

Australian Jewish director Barrie Kosky whips up a perfect storm of brilliance in what is arguably the greatest opera ever written

By Stephen Pollard

2 min read

Bullseye: the singers in this production of Wagner's Die Walküre not only sound wonderful, they can also act

A student highlighting kidnapped Israelis stlll being held in Gaza stands next to an encampent of pro-Palestinian protesters at Manchester University on May 08, 2024. (Image: Getty)

The new campus normal: harass the Jews, protect the mob

5 min read

Sign outside a British polling station for voting during an election

Sectarian politics in the UK could go mainstream

4 min read

Emily Damari with her Spurs scarf following her release from Gaza

Emily Damari is one of our own – Spurs should roll out the red carpet for her

1 min read

More from Stephen Pollard

Another day, another antisemite on BBC Arabic

So used are we now to the Corporation employing rabid Jew haters that no one even bats an eye anymore when it emerges that one of its regular contributors is a Hitler fanboy

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April 29, 2025 15:12

Samer Elzaenen has repeatedly featured on BBC Arabic, but the Telegraph reported that he took to social media to call for Jews to be burnt 'like Hitler did'

The Gaza march that exposed Britain’s shameful disregard for Jews

There’s no place for antisemitism – except right here, right now, with the police watching

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April 22, 2025 15:58

Protesters at the Southend demo that passed through the Jewish area of Westcliff on Sea (Image: Alamy)

The radicals leading Britain’s teachers’ union

The NEU’s growing alignment with hard-left causes and anti-Israel rhetoric risks turning classrooms into political battlegrounds

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April 15, 2025 14:41

Daniel Kebede (centre), general secretary of the National Education Union, attends a pro-Palestine march in central London in 2024 (Image: Alamy)

Stanley Kalms: one of the great success stories of the twentieth century

A businessman who was a leader in the Jewish community and beyond

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April 8, 2025 13:20

Baron Stanley Kalms died at 93 on 30 March, 2025. (Photo: Chris McAndrew/Parliament UK)

The silence of the so-called pro-Palestinian crowd

To many activists marching every weekend in London, it appears the deaths of Gazans killed by Hamas are an irrelevance

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March 31, 2025 14:54

Protesters gather for a "Stop The War Coalition" demonstration against Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon on October 5, 2024 in London, United Kingdom.

Israel’s PR problem is much bigger than biased BBC coverage

The wider mindset which dubs Israel a rogue state is a problem which editorial changes can’t fix

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March 24, 2025 15:25

Anti Israel protestors are just part of the country's PR problem (Getty)

Hamas knew the consequences of not releasing the hostages – and now it is paying the price

Casualty figures in Gaza cited by the terrorist group are being quoted by media without caveats

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March 18, 2025 16:56

Palestinian families leaving the eastern sector of the Gaza Strip on the border with Israel following the Israeli airstrikes early on Tuesday morning (Photo: Getty Images)

Labour is indulging Muslim extremism, and Starmer won’t stop it

Sir Keir’s Ramadan reception last week featured an imam who celebrated October 7

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March 17, 2025 13:11

Sir Keir Starmer in Parliament (Image: Parliament TV).

Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October review: ‘highly recommended’

This documentary by film maker Norma Percy is proof that the BBC can make fair programmes about Israel when it wants to

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March 13, 2025 17:38

Ehud Olmert showing the map he presented to Mahmoud Abbas detailing prospective borders in 2008, and which was rejected

LSE is telling Jewish students: we do not care about you

Defending an organisation that is committed to the elimination not just of Israel but of every Jew is surely a form of targeted harassment of Jewish students

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March 5, 2025 10:20

Pro-Palestine students and protesters demonstrate outside the London School of Economics (Getty)

In the new world order, Europe needs Israel

Trump’s backing for Putin on Ukraine has changed everything

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February 26, 2025 13:17

Donald Trump has called for Israel to resume its war in Gaza if all the hostages are not freed by Saturday (Image: Getty)

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

Stephen Pollard reviews Peter Beinart’s new book Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza

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February 20, 2025 12:14

‘For Peter Beinart, focusing on the right of Jews to be secure from terrorists is immoral’

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