Britain’s arms crackdown on Israel has come at a dreadful time
The Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is a moderate man and chooses his words carefully. So his statement about David Lammy’s…
Israel’s strikes on Lebanon bring Jerusalem one step closer to regional dominance
As the dust literally settles across southern Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli airstrikes, we are starting to see…
Is the West finally seeing through Hamas’s lies?
On Saturday, when Israel attacked the al-Taba’een Hamas command centre in Gaza City, jihadi propagandists swung into action straight away.…
The far-right threat to Israel’s democracy is growing
Israel is the only meaningful democracy in the Middle East. This is as true today as it was last week.…
Why should Israel tolerate Hezbollah’s deadly rocket attacks?
The slaughter of a dozen child footballers on Sunday came as a startling sign that the situation in northern Israel…
After Biden, the deluge
Remember that $230 million ‘humanitarian pier’ that the Americans moored off the coast of Gaza? It was announced with great…
Hamas looks like it’s lost its mastermind
If the Pimpernel was damned and elusive, he had nothing on Mohammed al-Masri, the head of Hamas’s military wing. The…
Why Jews returned to Labour
Two weeks before the general election, the Jewish Chronicle commissioned a Survation poll to map the voting intentions of British…
Israel can no longer avoid a clash with its ultra-Orthodox citizens
In the imagination of the world, there could be nobody more Jewish than the ultra-Orthodox. With their black hats, sidecurls…
Joe Biden has failed Israel
Another week, another confirmation that when it comes to jihadism, the Biden administration’s foreign policy occupies the nexus between incompetence…
Egypt has questions to answer over Rafah
Why have all eyes been on Rafah? We have been led to believe that the intense focus on a town…
Ebrahim Raisi’s successor could be worse
It is doubtful that Ebrahim Raisi, the ‘butcher of Tehran’, would have experienced a moral epiphany had he been shown…
Israel’s Rafah operation is tragically necessary
There is, as Ecclesiastes reminded us, a time for war and a time for peace. In its 76-year history, Israel…
Sunak has no excuse to not proscribe the IRGC
Lord Renwick, the Labour peer and former Foreign Office mandarin, used to say that young diplomats of a certain breeding…
Hamas has all but won
It would be hard to imagine that almost exactly six months after October 7, I would find myself saying this,…
Is London the ‘most anti-Semitic city in the West’?
The last time I saw Amichai Chikli, he was struggling to put on a suit jacket at the Israeli embassy…
Biden’s Rafah plan will only help Hamas
The fathers, brothers and sons who are risking their lives for their country do not want to go into Rafah,…
Will we ever learn the lessons of the Holocaust?
As a child, I had to wash my hands before I was shown books of photographs depicting the ghettos and…
Israel shows why conscription works
Take a step back and it’s a no-brainer: If you want a healthy society, you need a spirit of unity.…
Why the West should target Iran as well as the Houthis
Peace cannot always be won by peaceful means. This is a truth that is as tragic as it is perennial.…
Israel is heading for war with Hezbollah
Saleh al-Arouri may have been a senior member of the Palestinian group Hamas, but the drone strike that brought his…
Hamas is trying to go global
For some years, there has been speculation in security circles about what will replace Islamic State. The terror group was…
It’s no surprise Palestine marches have drained the Met’s coffers
Much has been made of the supposedly peaceful nature of the weekly Palestine marches. But public order comes at a…
The stakes are high at London’s anti-Semitism march
Whether Muslim, Jewish, Christian or atheist – and whatever your nationality – there is ample reason to stand up to…
A ceasefire leaves Israel in a dangerous position
A four-day pause and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners. Seen from London or New York, this seems like a…
