Sherelle Jacobs
Sherelle Emma Jacobs is a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph[1] and has previously written for The Guardian.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Jacobs was born in the London borough of Brent in 1988. Her mother was the daughter of a Wolverhampton steel worker and her father, who ran a card store, was an immigrant from Nigeria. Jacobs has said she is "from a family of working-class people whose lives were defined by their flunking of the 11 plus", and that her "white ancestors literally worked themselves to death in coal pits".[3] Jacobs attended St Paul's Girls' School[4] and read history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Career
[edit]Jacobs started her career working on the breaking news desk for Deutsche Welle in the German city of Bonn. Jacobs subsequently worked in Tunisia as a freelance journalist. While in Tunis, her journalistic interest was focused on the Arab Spring, its problems and the rise of Islamist extremism in the Maghreb.[5][6]
She appeared on the panel of the BBC's Question Time in November 2019 and on Any Questions? in May of the same year.[7][8] Jacobs is a Brexit supporter and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star.[9][10]
Jacobs is skeptical of the mainstream discourse on climate change, having called the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change a "post-truth scam",[11] and the prevailing consensus on climate change "groupthinkishly unscientific.[12]
In February 2019, Jacobs was criticised by Owen Jones[13] for using the term "Cultural Marxism" in an editorial for the Daily Telegraph.[14]
In April 2024, Jacobs argued that Israel's continued assault on Gaza was "existentially vital – for both Israel but (sic) the wider West".[15]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Sherelle Jacobs". The Telegraph. 25 June 2023.
- ^ "Sherelle Jacobs". The Guardian.
- ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (8 February 2018). "Rivers of Blood still wounds me. But I understand why my white family supported Enoch Powell". The Telegraph.
- ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (1 May 2018). "Justine Greening has got it wrong. We don't need to punish Etonians - we need more families like mine". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Sherelle Jacobs".
- ^ The Paths of the Arab Spring. World Politics Review. 4 June 2013. ISBN 9781939907110 – via Google Books.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Any Questions?, Sherelle Jacobs, Paul Mason, Gina Miller, Sir Anthony Seldon". BBC.
- ^ Hopkins, Daniel (21 November 2019). "Bolton's Question Time line-up announced". Bolton News. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Withers, Matt (21 November 2019). "Who is on the BBC Question Time panel tonight?". New European. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "TCW's Brexit Roll of Honour: The Telegraph's Sherelle Jacobs". 27 March 2019.
- ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (3 December 2019). "The UN's 'woke' climate change propaganda is an insult to science". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (2 January 2020). "Kowtowing to Stormzy and Greta Thunberg exposes our elite's lazy groupthink". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ^ Jones, Owen (28 March 2019). "Why we need to talk about the media's role in far-right radicalisation". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 May 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (27 February 2019). "There's only one way to win a culture war against the metropolitan elite". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (8 April 2024). "The West's cowardice over Israel is nothing short of abominable". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
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