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In Israel, a long wait of hope and fear to see if their children will be freed from hell

Singing broke out on the streets of Tel Aviv last night as the first hostages arrived back home to Israel after seven weeks in the hell of Gaza.

The Solitary Lines That Stick

Sometimes a single sentence, buried like a gem in the hard grit of a poem, is all you need to keep in your head.

Why don’t celebrities care about the Israeli hostages?

The Chibok schoolgirls story caught on, and in short order almost every celebrity in the world got on board. It cohered around the hashtag ‘Bring Back Our Girls’.

Britain is the new capital of anti-Israel hate

As their country unites in the face of terrorist evil, ours is exposing a nasty and divided underbelly

I’ve seen Hamas’ brutality first hand in Gaza

At one hour’s notice the IDF yesterday morning gave permission for a small number of journalists to go into Gaza with them to see the full scale of the war that Israel is waging against the terrorists of Hamas.

On the ground inside Gaza, where Israel is trying to save civilians from Hamas

The world’s eyes are on the Shifa hospital in Gaza, and yesterday I got the closest any Western journalist has yet gotten to it.

The Singing Will Never Be Done

After surviving the worst of WWI in the trenches, Siegfried Sassoon wrote a poem to celebrate its glorious end.

Are you a creative or a destructive?

The cleverer young people want to live lives of hope, not demanding solutions, but finding them.

Why must Jews watch their backs as London mobs cheer?

What would it take for the complacent commentariat to finally wake up to this threat to Britain’s Jews

On visit to Israel, I have seen the horror that the world must not forget

It is the nature of the news cycle that huge things get passed over. But what happened just over a month ago in Israel should not be passed over. The scale and catastrophe of what happened is still becoming clear.

It’s time to cut our ties with Qatar

The UK is arguably not just flush with Qatari cash, but deeply, widely compromised by it. Naturally Qatar’s representatives put on a diplomatic non-terrorist-related front when they speak in London.

Faced with rise in Jewish hate, Kamala Harris tackles made-up ‘Islamphobia’

If you aren’t Jewish, then imagine for a moment that you are. And the fact that your people had just suffered the worst mass murder since the Holocaust.