Sherelle Emma Jacobsis a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor atThe Daily Telegraph[1]and has previously written forThe Guardian.[2]
Early life and education
editJacobs was born in the London borough of Brent in 1988. Her mother was the daughter of aWolverhamptonsteel worker and her father, who ran a card store, was an immigrant fromNigeria.Jacobs has said she is "from a family of working-class people whose lives were defined by their flunking of the11 plus",and that her" white ancestors literally worked themselves to death in coal pits ".[3]Jacobs attendedSt Paul's Girls' School[4]and read history at theSchool of Oriental and African Studiesin London.
Career
editJacobs started her career working on the breaking news desk forDeutsche Wellein the German city ofBonn.Jacobs subsequently worked inTunisiaas a freelance journalist. While in Tunis, her journalistic interest was focused on theArab Spring,its problems and the rise ofIslamist extremismin theMaghreb.[5][6]
She appeared on the panel of the BBC'sQuestion Timein November 2019 and onAny Questions?in May of the same year.[7][8]Jacobs is aBrexitsupporter and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star.[9][10]
Jacobs is skeptical of the mainstream discourse onclimate change,having called the UNIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Changea "post-truth scam",[11]and the prevailing consensus on climate change "groupthinkishlyunscientific.[12]
In February 2019, Jacobs was criticised byOwen Jones[13]for using the term "Cultural Marxism"in an editorial for theDaily 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]
References
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.ISBN9781939907110– 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.Retrieved23 November2019.
- ^Withers, Matt (21 November 2019)."Who is on the BBC Question Time panel tonight?".New European.Retrieved23 November2019.
- ^"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.ISSN0307-1235.Retrieved3 December2019.
- ^Jacobs, Sherelle(2 January 2020)."Kowtowing to Stormzy and Greta Thunberg exposes our elite's lazy groupthink".Daily Telegraph.Retrieved10 April2024.
- ^Jones, Owen (28 March 2019)."Why we need to talk about the media's role in far-right radicalisation".The Guardian.Archivedfrom the original on 5 May 2020.Retrieved7 November2020.
- ^Jacobs, Sherelle(27 February 2019)."There's only one way to win a culture war against the metropolitan elite".Daily Telegraph.Retrieved14 June2021.
- ^Jacobs, Sherelle(8 April 2024)."The West's cowardice over Israel is nothing short of abominable".Daily Telegraph.Retrieved10 April2024.
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