Leo Pearlman

Leo Pearlman is the CEO of Fulwell Entertainment

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Ireland's national football team (right) gives the Nazi salute before a game in Bremen, Germany, 1939

September 29, 2026, 9:37 am

Ireland Won a Game of Football 3-0. It Lost Everything Else

Irish football has once again found a way to disgrace itself while believing it stands on principle

By Leo Pearlman

September 25, 2026, 4:29 pm

Our sukkah is open. No one gets to enter it by asking us to disappear

If someone insists that the Jewish homeland has no right to exist, surely that should be a red line for us. Dialogue is important - but it must have limits

By Leo Pearlman

September 22, 2026, 12:15 pm

Anti-Zionist Jews will always ultimately fail the purity tests their allies set them

Zack Polanski and the “suicidal naivety” that one more denunciation will finally be enough

By Leo Pearlman

Avi Issacharoff was in conversation with Brigit Grant. Photo: Shai Dolev

September 18, 2026, 11:28 am

The power of proud Jews both speaking out and listening

When we must use our voice, when others try to silence it, what can happen when we use it to tell our own stories and ultimately, when the most important thing we can do is listen.

By Leo Pearlman

September 11, 2026, 8:44 am

What the year ahead will bring – and what we should hope for

In 2024 we could see the direction of travel, but in 2026, I fear we are beginning to see the destination

By Leo Pearlman

Zack Polanski, Leader of the Green Party, at the BBC for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Credit: Mark Thomas/Alamy Live News

September 4, 2026, 4:15 pm

Polanski wants to be an MP. Don’t make the Corbyn mistake again

Holborn and St Pancras is more than a by-election. It is a test of whether those who recognise what is happening in British politics are actually prepared to do something about it

By Leo Pearlman

IsraAID workers in Morocco after an earthquake in September 2023

September 1, 2026, 11:02 am

Israel is the foremost practitioner of Tikkun Olam

When the earth shakes, the waters rise and buildings collapse, Israelis go. When people who may never have met a Jew need clean water, they go

By Leo Pearlman

A Chai pendant bearing the words ‘Am Yisrael Chai’ - ‘The people of Israel live’.
Photo Credit: Israeli Centre of Judaica

August 17, 2026, 7:12 pm

My son shouted ‘Am Yisrael Chai’ across a pool and I’ve never been prouder

An encounter with a French Jewish boy on holiday reminded one father what the three words are really meant to mean

By Leo Pearlman

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

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

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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

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

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