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Jewish Chronicle Editor Stephen Pollard on Question Time: Why I like Rupert Murdoch
Stephen Pollard (born c. 1965) is a British author and journalist. He is the editor of The Jewish Chronicle.
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- Jewish Chronicle Editor Stephen Pollard on Question Time Why I like Rupert Murdoch
- Jewish Chronicle Editor Stephen Pollard On Anti Semitism Accusations In Labour Party
- Early life
- Career
- References
Jewish Chronicle Editor Stephen Pollard On Anti-Semitism Accusations In Labour Party
Early life
Stephen Pollard was born circa 1965. He was educated at John Lyon School and graduated from Mansfield College, Oxford where he graduated BA, later converted to MA by seniority.
Career
After early articles for the Fabian Review in 1993 (for example, "More Southern Discomfort", discussing ways by which the Labour Party could reform itself sufficiently to regain power), Stephen Pollard's career has seen a fair degree of political movement from left to right; he was formerly an advisor to anti-EU Labour politician Peter Shore. He was a journalist at the Daily Express as a journalist and leader-writer, Stephen Pollard left the paper for a time in 2001. However, following a reconciliation with Richard Desmond in mid 2009, Pollard has returned to writing articles for the Daily Express.
He is a former Chairman of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and a former president of the Centre for the New Europe, a free-market think tank based in Brussels. He has written columns for several publications, including The Times, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and also has maintained a blog.
He is an advocate of market-based public service reforms. He was one of the signatory founders, in 2005, of the Henry Jackson Society, which advocates a proactive approach to the spread of liberal democracy across the world. By 2006, he held the view that, in the "battle to save western civilisation", the "Left, in any recognisable form, is now the enemy". His biography of Labour Party politician David Blunkett, with the subject's involvement, was published in 2004.
In November 2008, Pollard became editor of The Jewish Chronicle. He is a frequent commentator on Israel. In his 2009 New York Times review of a book by Bruce Bawer, Pollard endorsed the notion that "liberal appeasement" is paving the way for a "replacement" of European civilization by radical Islamist ideology. Pollard has argued that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign has tipped over to antisemitism and the defence of attacks on Jews. Writing about the disruption of an appearance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on 1 September 2011 at the BBC Proms he asserted that the actions of pro-Palestinian activists had a "chilling air" reminiscent of "the way Nazi party members broke up meetings" in Weimar Germany.
In July 2012 Pollard alleged that a suicide bombing in Bulgaria received a lack of coverage in news media due to antisemitism.
In March 2017, Pollard argued that David Duke should be allowed to upload antisemitic videos on YouTube.