The footage emerging from Iran – scant as it is, due to the regime’s imposed blackout on communications – is gut-wrenching. Security forces firing on unarmed protesters; rows of black bodybags, with screaming relatives scouring morgues for loved ones. As violence to suppress the protests escalates and with the death toll reportedly having surpassed 500 […]
Two years ago today, on October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed into southern Israel, murdering, raping, torturing and abducting men, women and children. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Yet before Israel had even buried its dead, a different kind of assault began on Jews – not in the Middle East, […]
When British politicians defend recognising a Palestinian state, they present it as the pragmatic, humane way out of a long-running border dispute. But this framing misreads what the Palestinian national movement has actually been about. When five Arab nations declared war on Israel immediately after it was established in 1948, they assured the Arabs living […]
Last night, Israel launched a audacious series of airstrikes against Iran, code-named Operation Rising Lion, targeting nuclear facilities. Among the targets were the Natanz enrichment facility, ballistic missile sites and senior military officials. The operation, meticulously planned by the Israel Defence Forces and the Mossad – Israel’s intelligence agency – marks a significant escalation in […]
Shortly after Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, the former leader of Hezbollah, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, revealed that Nasrallah’s bunker, located under a hospital in Beirut, held half a billion dollars in cash and gold. Over the past year and a half, Israel has gone to great efforts to significantly […]
The statement by Security Minister Dan Jarvis on Tuesday, that Iran, a state sponsor of international terrorism, will be placed on the enhanced tier of the new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, is welcome – but it is not nearly comprehensive enough to tackle the Iranian threat in its entirety. Placing Iran, including the Iranian Revolutionary […]
Last week, former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers gave a stark warning. He cautioned that Hamas and Hezbollah could shift their focus from fighting Israel, to international acts of terrorism, therefore increasing threat levels in the UK. The ability of both terror groups to threaten Israel has been greatly diminished by effective Israeli warfare. Frustrated […]
Last year, on October 8, I walked past a group of anti-Israel protesters on my way into the Labour Party conference. This was before Israel had acted against Hamas in Gaza and the terrible details of the October 7 massacre – the torture, rapes, beheadings and cold-blooded killing of children and elderly people – had […]
