Beyond Terror and Martyrdom by Gilles Kepel
The Case Against Israel’s Enemies by Alan Dershowitz

The leader of Norway's Progress Party, Siv Jensen, has a good chance of winning next year's election. In an interview with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, she explains her views; Bruce Bawer explains the background to her meteoric career

‘I have finished yet another round of talks at universities. I am both impressed and disheartened’

‘Obama will try to succeed in the Middle East where Clinton and Bush failed’

The West has adopted a disturbingly complacent attitude towards those who consistently advocate a "world without Israel"

The story of al-Qaeda's lost leader, Abdullah Azzam, illuminates the murderous nature of global jihad

‘The notion that talking to the enemy avoids war—a position otherwise known as appeasement—is a dangerous fallacy’

‘Obama would be an American, not European, president, and Livni would be an Israeli leader, not a Brussels bureaucrat’

‘To realise that Syria deserved the cold shoulder did not require the life of a prime minister’

‘If we do not act, we face a nuclear-armed Iran or a new Middle East confrontation’