Never Again

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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 Levy 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 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 -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali Bang on -- Boris Johnson Jake Wallis Simons's new book provides an absorbing and detailed examination of how this disturbing new form of anti-Semitism has arisen * Daily Telegraph * A superb distillation of the many varying issues facing both the West and the Jews . . . This is a book for our times * Jewish Chronicle * 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 *