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Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard

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

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Nice singing, shame about almost everything else

Aigul Akhmetshina is magnificent, but as for the production...

By Stephen Pollard

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Nice singing, shame about almost everything else

Over 100,000 people are expected to attend an anti-Israel march through central London on Saturday November 25 (Photo: Henry Nicholls/AFP)

Where's the march for Israel after Iran attack? We’re waiting...

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Students from Muhammadiyah University protest in Surabaya, East Java province on 7 November 2023, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants. (Photo by JUNI KRISWANTO/AFP via Getty Images)

How Israel secured diplomatic relations with Indonesia

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A pro-Palestine protest leaves the Department of Business and Trade in Old Admiralty Building, central London. ,The protest organised by London for a Free Palestine is calling for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Picture date: Thursday March 28, 2024.

If civil servants can’t follow the policies of government, they shouldn’t be in their job

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Beware the perils of naive interfaith

Too often our approach is dominated by credulousness, and that is where the problems start

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April 4, 2024 11:50

Ramadan lights on Oxford street in central London, UK

Only science fiction explains the UN’s parallel universe

Netflix’s new series, 3 Body Problem, provides an insight into how Israel’s Gaza operations are perceived.

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April 3, 2024 07:49

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Married At First Sight Australia review: Love IS a drug – and I’m hopelessly addicted

This programme has destroyed my life. I’m hooked, and powerless to resist its allure

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March 22, 2024 13:04

Hitched: Married at First Sight Australia couple Cassandra Allen and Tristan Black at their betrothal (Photo: Channel 4)

‘Islamophobia’ is being used by Islamists to control debate

It is entirely right to call out anti-Muslim hatred, but the concept of ‘Islamophobia’ was created in Iran to silence any critique as racist

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March 6, 2024 16:56

Kemi Badenoch: Entirely right to reject 'Islamophobia' (Photo by Henry Nicholls - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Revealed: Civil service ‘diversity tsar’ campaigned for Galloway

Mohammed Shafiq gave speech alongside Gaza George ahead of by-election

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March 6, 2024 16:52

Revealed: Civil service ‘diversity tsar’ campaigned for Galloway

UN has been captured by enemies of democracy

The worst autocracies tend to hate Israel the most. Unfortunately, they are in the majority

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March 5, 2024 15:18

A picture taken on November 27, 2023 shows a heavily damaged UNWRA school after Israeli strikes in the village of Khuzaa, near Abasan east of Khan Yunis near the border fence between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

The curious case of ahistorical historian William Dalrymple

Dalrymple is no idiot, which means that what he posts matters

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February 28, 2024 12:20

Historian William Dalrymple is speaking at a session during the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on February 3, 2024. (Photo by Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto)

The Speaker’s capitulation to the ‘Free Palestine’ mob is a dark day for democracy

Instead of arresting them we appease them – and so the threat grows

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February 22, 2024 12:03

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wave Palestinian flags and hold placards as they protest in Parliament Square in London on February 21, 2024, during an Opposition Day motion in the the House of Commons calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

The best moments from the last 20 years of Curb Your Enthusiasm

As the show returns for its final season, Stephen Pollard picks his favourite episodes from the last 12 series of the most Jewish of all TV comedies

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February 2, 2024 16:06

The best moments from the last 20 years of Curb Your Enthusiasm

How TikTok is turning young minds against Israel and the West

Older people have little conception of the influence of the platform – and through it the toxic Chinese Communist Party – on a younger generation

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February 1, 2024 11:09

How TikTok is turning young minds against Israel and the West

Is there a more gifted composer than Thomas Ades?

From intimate chamber to large scale opera and concertos, this composer has the rare ability to make contemporary music acclaimed by critics and audiences alike

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January 26, 2024 12:26

Thomas Adés Photo: Marco Borggreve

The Israel haters should learn from Thomas Hand’s moral clarity

His remarkable interview with Piers Morgan is compelling viewing

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January 16, 2024 13:32

Thomas Hand at a press conference at the Israeli embassy in London on 20 November 20, 2023. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

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