From 2008 until December 2021, he was the editor of The Jewish Chronicle and remains a senior advisor and writer on the paper.
Pollard had what he calls a "normal, nominally orthodox north-west London Jewish upbringing".
In the early part of his career, Pollard was associated with the British left as a researcher for Labour MP Peter Shore[1] and working for the Fabian Society in 1993.
"[12] During his editorship, as of October 2020, the Press Complaints Commission and its successor IPSO made fourteen rulings against the paper.
[24] He believes that "the state has no business running schools or hospitals"[25] and "I object to the fact I have to pay for (the BBC)".
[29][30] Pollard was a signatory founder of the Henry Jackson Society, a neoconservative British foreign policy think tank.
[1] Pollard has called Amnesty International a "woke joke" and accused them of allying with "groups that lionise Islamist terrorists.