Never Again: How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself

by Jake Wallis Simons

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 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

Kindle Edition

Expected publication October 2, 2025

Reviews

[Paul Dawson · Rating 1 out of 5]

A book determined to make the world a worse and more divided place than it already is. Avoid. Simons is a fraud. A public school boy pretending to be an everyman. He is a bigoted and divisive figure bent on making us hate each other. Shame. He wants to drive UK support for the Netanyahu murder programme. Hell no. Who pays him to say this stuff? Simons is a toxic mouthpiece for the Israeli regime and their murderous grasping war. He is endorsed by Farage, Johnson, Gove, Badenok and all the culture war luminaries. Boycott. Simons has drunk all the Kool-Aid and now lures us to drink deep ourselves. Just say no.