Never Again: How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself

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 LEVY 'Jake Wallis Simons is a brave and brilliant writer who can be trusted to bring rar

About the Author :
Jake Wallis Simons is a Daily Telegraph columnist, broadcaster and foreign correspondent. He was formerly editor of the Jewish Chronicle. His podcast The Brink, which he presents with the former parachute regiment officer and Middle East analyst Andrew Fox, contains extended versions of the interviews in this book, including conversations with Douglas Murray, Tom Holland, Sir Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, Bernard-Henri Levy, Ed Husain and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. His prophetic Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It came out exactly a month before 7 October 2023 and was the Daily Telegraph book of the year. Jake has reported from all over the world for the Fleet Street press and has presented numerous documentaries for the BBC, appearing regularly on Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent. He has also written four novels.

Review :
Essential reading and an urgent and chastening warning to our leaders and voters. This important book chronicles how illiberal, intolerant, authoritarian activism, often linked to a menu of ideologies such as decolonialism and antiIsraelism, are threats to liberal democracy itself 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. It's that fundamental A compelling and timely call to fight for our Western values A timely diagnosis that captures the flawed mindset that is undermining the confidence of the West and weakening our resolve in dealing with today's threats This is much more than a book about the travails of Israel or the suddenly fashionable prejudices against Jews. It is a book about Western civilisation, the highest and freest form of social organisation since we discovered farming. It is a book about the self-recrimination that infects that civilisation, and that often manifests itself as antisemitism. And it is a book about how to recover our confidence. All recounted in a civil, Scrutonian and occasionally elegiac tone by a man who has lived the story he is telling This book is a searing indictment that must be heeded before it is too late. It is well written, deeply documented and reflects a brave and sane voice in a debate all too often shorn of either. As a Gentile, I felt hot with shame reading it, asking myself: when will the West finally wake up? 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 A critical and lucid book that should be required reading as our societies navigate today's dangerous waters of extremism. As the world's oldest hatred mutates into anti-Zionism and accelerates around the world, and there is a betrayal of reason and universal values in the West, Jake Wallis Simons unravels what went wrong, and offers answers about how moral inversions may be remedied and a collective moral compass found again. An essential book for our troubling times With the West cut adrift from its foundational values, it falls to the Jews, a "seismic people", to feel the tremors of the coming earthquake. In this thrillingly good and timely book, Jake Wallis Simons provides an acute analysis of what ails us and issues an urgent rallying cry to the "sensible, complacent majority" to rediscover what it was our forefathers died for and to fight for it once again with all our might and love. In short: Be more Israel! I felt a whole lot better after reading this book A must-read for scholars, activists and concerned citizens alike. Jake Wallis Simons makes crystal clear that the resurgence of antisemitism we are currently witnessing is here not only to annihilate the Jews. Simultaneously, it is here to destroy the West. If met with more complacency, it may very well succeed Bang on Jake Wallis Simons's new book provides an absorbing and detailed examination of how this disturbing new form of anti-Semitism has arisen A superb distillation of the many varying issues facing both the West and the Jews . . . This is a book for our times