Jake Wallis Simons

My @telegraph column this week: How the Saudis founded a “Muslim NATO” with Turkey and Pakistan, only to go crying to America when the Houthis got nasty telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/1…

Here’s a theory: Ed Miliband secretly wants Benjamin Netanyahu to win the upcoming Israeli election. Not because he admires the prime minister — perish the thought! — but because yet another Bibi government would give the foreign secretary exactly what he needs: a bogeyman to

Paloma Faith has a bedtime routine for her children. Bath, story, teeth, and then — every single night, to a nine-year-old, a six-year-old and a six-month-old baby — she sweetly whispers, “free Palestine”. The admission came in an interview with Channel 4’s Fourcast. The pop star

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Jesus wasn’t Jewish apparently. This is the “ambassador” for the “state” that Britain idiotically recognised. x.com/memrireports/s…

Hubris, the Greeks tell us, is always followed by nemesis. This government is about to discover the true significance of both words, and it won’t have long to wait. On Tuesday, Ed Miliband announced a trade ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, accusing Jewish

I was on the Stand Tall Israel podcast this week. We went quite deep into antisemitism, Israelophobia, and the power that flows from the theft of the term "Zionism". Check it out: youtu.be/L58_Fe5fO0I

New day, new low: A sitting Labour MP – not even a Green or “Gaza Independent” – got to his feet in the House of Commons yesterday and called for Britain to go to war with Israel. That’s right. The only democracy in the Middle East and he wants us to go to battle against it,

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What cold possibly go wrong? Meanwhile, your own backbenchers call for war with Israel x.com/wesstreeting/s…

You know the slogan that is about to become the Green Party’s flagship new policy, “Zionism is Racism”? The one that after several false starts, is expected to be made official at its Autumn conference? Well, it has a rather revealing history. In the spring, it failed to be

New York 1973, after Yom Kippur war broke out on October 6.

Two landlord hypocrites, the shorter of whom celebrated October 7 🤮

With apologies to Madonna, Fauda don’t preach. It just tells a compelling story, with Israeli and Arab characters both portrayed in all their human complexity, lights as well as darks, and lets the audience make up their minds. It’s what we used to call “art”, and it is the