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Never Again

How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself

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Never Again

By: Jake Wallis Simons
Narrated by: Jake Wallis Simons, Jake Wallis Simons Ltd
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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©2025 Jake Wallis Simons Ltd Judaism Politics & Government Middle East Iran Liberalism Socialism Social justice Middle Ages

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Critic reviews

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 (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. It's that fundamental (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 and weakening our resolve in dealing with today's threats (Kemi Badenoch)
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 (Daniel Hannan)
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? (Andrew Roberts)
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 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 (Bernard-Henri Lévy)
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 (Allison Pearson)
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Packed full of facts clearly explaining how we find ourselves in the midst of this unbelievable and terrifying situation. I will be giving this book to everyone at Christmas if i don’t cave in and offer it sooner! This book clearly and eloquently explains what I know to be true but I couldn’t have backed it up with facts as the author has. Essential reading. For everyone. Especially non Jews.

The truth!!!

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Explains clearly with facts and names. An unbiased account of everything that is happening to Western civilisation and the return of the oldest hatred; the insidious historical and present day factors; the destabling actors, the evil ideoligists, and how they have combined to create the evil behemoth that those sane amongst us are experiencing today. I recommend everyone reads/listens to this book to further educate yourself and blow away any doubt or assumptions about atrocities both past and recent and what is happening to our young people as s they blindly and obediently follow and believe what they gave been taught in our institutions. Clearly and beautifully narrated by the author.

A Must Listen/Read. Fascinating and Informative.

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An excellent, well researched argument that the West in general and U.K. in particular are making political decisions that have not been thought through and will prove to be very damaging.

Thoughtful and Terrifying

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Israelophobia is an excellent dissemination of the modern iteration of antisemitism. Never Again is a perfect contextualisation of the that book, post October 7th. Two excellent books written with gritty reality and also sophisticated concepts.

Excellent book

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