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When seen through Jewish eyes, the global future looks darker than it has for generations. Fuelled by venomous Israelophobia, violence against Jews, from Amsterdam to New York, from London to Melbourne, is back. Jews across the West are forced to hide their identities, while in the supposed safe haven of Israel they live under constant threat of rocket fire, shootings and stabbings. To make matters worse, in the United States and across Europe, digitally-fuelled nationalist chauvinism is on the march. It is no exaggeration to say that we are seeing the end of the golden age of post-war safety for Jews.This speaks volumes about the health of the West. Although Jews are among the first in the firing-line, liberal democracy itself is under threat from radicals on both sides of the political spectrum. Unforgivably, we have spent decades undermining our own values of patriotism and tradition, loyalty to peoplehood and homeland, a belief in borders and our peculiar religious and cultural sensibilities. These instincts, which had anchored human society since the dawn of history, were repressed in the name of Never Again; but they slowly gave birth to the opposite.Never Again? How the West betrayed the Jews and itself is an urgent new polemic from the author of the acclaimed Israelophobia, which discloses the social and historical causes of the maze of hostility in which Jews are now trapped. Charting the development of this dangerous cultural and geopolitical moment through a collapse in Western leadership since the Second World War, the award-winning columnist, broadcaster and foreign correspondent Jake Wallis Simons offers a searing analysis of the state of the West, arguing that we must remember our older values and stand up for them before it is too late.'Essential reading and an urgent and chastening warning to our leaders and voters' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'Nobody reading this book can be left in any doubt: the fight against the latest evil upsurge in antisemitism must be won to ensure Western civilisation has a future' ANDREW NEIL'A compelling and timely call to fight for our Western values' NIGEL FARAGE'A timely diagnosis that captures the flawed mindset that is undermining the confidence of the West' KEMI BADENOCH'A brave and sane voice in a debate all too often shorn of either' ANDREW ROBERTS'A book about how to recover our confidence . . . recounted in a civil, Scrutonian and occasionally elegiac tone by a man who has lived the story he is telling' DANIEL HANNAN'An essential book for our troubling times' BERNARD HENRI LÉVY'Jake Wallis Simons is a brave and brilliant writer who can be trusted to bring rare moral clarity to the most contested issues of our times' MICHAEL GOVE'A must-read for scholars, activists and concerned citizens alike' AYAAN HIRSI ALI'I felt a whole lot better after reading this book' ALLISON PEARSON'Bang on' BORIS JOHNSON'In Never Again?, Jake Wallis Simons shows how criticism of Israel often turns into open hatred of Jews. If you want to understand anti-Semitism in modern Britain, pick up this book' NEW STATESMAN

When seen through Jewish eyes, the global future looks darker than it has for generations. Fuelled by venomous Israelophobia, violence against Jews, from Amsterdam to New York, from London to Melbourne, is back. Jews across the West are forced to hide their identities, while in the supposed safe haven of Israel they live under constant threat of rocket fire, shootings and stabbings. To make matters worse, in the United States and across Europe, digitally-fuelled nationalist chauvinism is on the march. It is no exaggeration to say that we are seeing the end of the golden age of post-war safety for Jews.This speaks volumes about the health of the West. Although Jews are among the first in the firing-line, liberal democracy itself is under threat from radicals on both sides of the political spectrum. Unforgivably, we have spent decades undermining our own values of patriotism and tradition, loyalty to peoplehood and homeland, a belief in borders and our peculiar religious and cultural sensibilities. These instincts, which had anchored human society since the dawn of history, were repressed in the name of Never Again; but they slowly gave birth to the opposite.Never Again? How the West betrayed the Jews and itself is an urgent new polemic from the author of the acclaimed Israelophobia, which discloses the social and historical causes of the maze of hostility in which Jews are now trapped. Charting the development of this dangerous cultural and geopolitical moment through a collapse in Western leadership since the Second World War, the award-winning columnist, broadcaster and foreign correspondent Jake Wallis Simons offers a searing analysis of the state of the West, arguing that we must remember our older values and stand up for them before it is too late.'Essential reading and an urgent and chastening warning to our leaders and voters' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'Nobody reading this book can be left in any doubt: the fight against the latest evil upsurge in antisemitism must be won to ensure Western civilisation has a future' ANDREW NEIL'A compelling and timely call to fight for our Western values' NIGEL FARAGE'A timely diagnosis that captures the flawed mindset that is undermining the confidence of the West' KEMI BADENOCH'A brave and sane voice in a debate all too often shorn of either' ANDREW ROBERTS'A book about how to recover our confidence . . . recounted in a civil, Scrutonian and occasionally elegiac tone by a man who has lived the story he is telling' DANIEL HANNAN'An essential book for our troubling times' BERNARD HENRI L VY'Jake Wallis Simons is a brave and brilliant writer who can be trusted to bring rare moral clarity to the most contested issues of our times' MICHAEL GOVE'A must-read for scholars, activists and concerned citizens alike' AYAAN HIRSI ALI'I felt a whole lot better after reading this book' ALLISON PEARSON'Bang on' BORIS JOHNSON'In Never Again?, Jake Wallis Simons shows how criticism of Israel often turns into open hatred of Jews. If you want to understand anti-Semitism in modern Britain, pick up this book' NEW STATESMAN

'In Never Again?, Jake Wallis Simons shows how criticism of Israel often turns into open hatred of Jews. If you want to understand anti-Semitism in modern Britain, pick up this book' NEW STATESMAN'Essential reading and an urgent and chastening warning to our leaders and voters' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'A compelling and timely call to fight for our Western values' NIGEL FARAGEWhen seen through Jewish eyes, the future looks darker than it has for generations. Violence against Jews is back. From Amsterdam to New York, from London to Melbourne, Jews across the West are forced to hide their identities, while in the supposed safe haven of Israel they live under constant threat of rocket fire, shootings and stabbings. To make matters worse, in the United States and across Europe, nationalist chauvinism is on the march. It is no exaggeration to say that we are seeing the end of a period of relative safety for Jews. This urgent polemic anatomises the maze of contradictions in which the Jews and the West are trapped. Charting the development of this new phase of antisemitism since the Second World War, award-winning columnist, broadcaster and foreign correspondent Jake Wallis Simons offers a serious analysis of the state of the West, arguing that we must remember the values of past generations and stand up for them before it's too late. Now with a new foreword.'A must-read for scholars, activists and concerned citizens alike' AYAAN HIRSI ALI'I felt a whole lot better after reading this book' ALLISON PEARSON'Bang on' BORIS JOHNSON'Nobody reading this book can be left in any doubt: the fight against the latest evil upsurge in antisemitism must be won to ensure Western civilisation has a future' ANDREW NEIL'A brave and sane voice in a debate all too often shorn of either' ANDREW ROBERTS'A book about how to recover our confidence . . . recounted in a civil, Scrutonian and occasionally elegiac tone by a man who has lived the story he is telling' DANIEL HANNAN'An essential book for our troubling times' BERNARD HENRI LÉVY'A timely diagnosis that captures the flawed mindset that is undermining the confidence of the West' KEMI BADENOCH'Jake Wallis Simons is a brave and brilliant writer who can be trusted to bring rare moral clarity to the most contested issues of our times' MICHAEL GOVE

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny of Israel that so often veers into obsession and outright demonisation; and traces its origins from Medieval European and Stalinist antisemitism to the present day. It discusses why this nation is judged so differently from others in a supposedly rational and progressive era. A companion in some ways to David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count, it is a book that fascinatingly analyses the dark sides of our world today -political, national, cultural and digital - and exposes uncomfortable truths' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'"I can't be anti-Semitic: I have nothing against Jews individually, I only hate them by the country." Such is the delusion that Jake Wallis Simons sets out to discredit in this excellent and fearless book, dismantling its mendacities with a scholarly and logical thoroughness that makes you wonder if there will ever be an Israelophobe left standing again. Buy copies to distribute to your kindergarten groups and universities, anyway, just in case. And then buy another copy for yourself. It does the heart good to see one of the greatest expressions of collective animus exposed for the sanctimonious posturing it is. Israelophobia is a book we all need' HOWARD JACOBSON'Timely and important' TELEGRAPH'Fascinating' SPECTATORIn the Middle Ages, Jews were hated for their religion. In the twentieth century, they were hated because of their race. Today, Jews are hated for something else entirely, their nation-state of Israel. Antisemitism has morphed into something both ancient and modern: Israelophobia. But how did this transformation occur? And why?Award-winning journalist Jake Wallis Simons answers these questions, clarifying the line between criticism and hatred, exploring game-changing facts and exposing dangerous discourse.Urgent, incisive and deeply necessary, Israelophobia reveals why the Middle East's only democracy, which uniquely respects the rights of women and sexual and religious minorities, attracts such disproportionate levels of slander. Rather than defending Israel against all criticism, it argues for reasonable disagreement based on reality instead of bigotry.Through charting the history of Israelophobia - starting in Nazi Germany, travelling via the Kremlin to Tehran and along fibre optic cables to billions of screens - and using it to understand contemporary prejudice, this timely book will restore much-needed sanity to