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Leo Pearlman

Leo Pearlman

Leo Pearlman is the CEO of Fulwell Entertainment
The twin towers on September 11th 2001 (Creative Commons/Michael Foran)
August 12, 2026, 10:30 am
9/11: The Lesson We Forgot
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Leo Pearlman, who was in Manhattan when it happened, writes how the West remembers the horror, but not the warning
By Leo Pearlman
Boy George (Flickr/Paul Carless)
July 31, 2026, 3:55 pm
Shabbat Shalom: To Those Who Offer Hope
Hope has sustained the Jewish people for so long, not because our history has been easy, but because we refused to surrender it.
By Leo Pearlman
July 20, 2026: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers video calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "war criminal" but admits the city does not have the legal authority to arrest him. (NYC Mayor's Office)
July 24, 2026, 10:49 am
Zohran Mamdani’s Tisha B’Av contradiction
A fast day commemorating Jewish exile is an awkward thing to celebrate if you cannot admit where Jews were exiled from
By Leo Pearlman
Crowds gather outside the Schilderswijk Health Centre in The Hague after Morocco's World Cup defeat to France, where antisemitic chants were heard. Photo: X
July 19, 2026, 12:24 pm
This World Cup has united people in hatred and bigotry
For one month, football brought nations together. It also revealed what still unites them.
By Leo Pearlman
Andy Burnham at Ashton Town FC in Ashton-in-Makerfield, after winning the Makerfield by-election. Pic PA
July 10, 2026, 11:29 am
Why Andy Burnham started with Israel
His first major foreign policy statement wasn't really about the Middle East. It was about the coalition he needs to win power
By Leo Pearlman
A-police-officer-clears-the-way-for-rescued-Air-France-hostages-returning-from-Entebbe-Airport.
July 6, 2026, 9:43 am
Why Entebbe Wouldn’t be Celebrated Today
The world has gone from celebrating the rescue of Jews to questioning whether they should have been rescued at all
By Leo Pearlman
Ilana Gritzewsky (UN Watch)
July 3, 2026, 10:47 am
Shabbat Shalom: To Those Who Carried the Principles When Institutions Failed
For generations we believed that institutions would safeguard the principles upon which a civilised society depends. Increasingly, they have failed to do so
By Leo Pearlman
A fan holds a sign reading "YE IS NOT CRAZY" alongside a crossed-out Star of David as Kanye West performs at a concert in Tampa Bay
June 29, 2026, 4:08 pm
The moral operating system shaping our children should terrify us
A Kanye West concert exposed how inherited moral frameworks increasingly determine which hatred society chooses to condemn
By Leo Pearlman
Jewish and pro-Palestinian protest and counter protest over Israel Real Estate Fair, Edgware. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg 14th June 2026
June 19, 2026, 5:52 am
Shabbat Shalom: To Those Who Had the Courage to Say No
Courage matters. The courage to hold your ground when others demand you retreat, defend your identity when others seek to redefine it and remain visible when others want you to disappear.
By Leo Pearlman
Green Party leader Zack Polanski.
June 15, 2026, 11:31 am
The curse of the useful idiot
How a generation learned to mistake belonging for truth and why the price will be paid by everyone else
By Leo Pearlman
June 12, 2026, 4:24 pm
How hate and misinformation travels
From 'All Eyes on Rafah' to riots on British streets, amplification has become a substitute for understanding
By Leo Pearlman
Torah scroll (Photo by Tanner Mardis on Unsplash)
June 9, 2026, 9:29 am
A Scroll, A Street and a Promise
Less than two miles from where Jews were recently stabbed and Jewish ambulances were set alight, a community chose pride over fear
By Leo Pearlman
The Chief Rabbi addresses more than 1,000 pupils and teachers during Etgar 2026 at Wembley Stadium, celebrating Jewish learning and the programme's 15th anniversary. Photo: Annabel Sinclair
June 5, 2026, 9:45 am
Shabbat Shalom to those who stand taller
Jewish pride is not something to apologise for. Confidence is not arrogance.
By Leo Pearlman
Swastikas painted on a school sign in Newport, south Wales. Photo credit: Crown Prosecution Service/PA Wire
June 2, 2026, 10:38 am
Hate in schools has risen meteorically. What lessons are our children learning?
Children are not simply our future, they are our reflection. They absorb the values we model, the language we use, the behaviour we tolerate and the examples we set.
By Leo Pearlman
After posters of a missing Jewish girl in Toronto were ripped down, signs were put up to replace them
May 29, 2026, 10:58 am
A column condemning cowardice
If we allow cowardice to become our culture, then our culture itself becomes impossible to defend
By Leo Pearlman
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