Sherelle Jacobs

Sherelle Emma Jacobs is a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph and has previously written for The Guardian.

Early life and education
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". Jacobs attended St Paul's Girls' School and read history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Career
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.

She appeared on the panel of the BBC's Question Time in November 2019 and on Any Questions? in May of the same year. Jacobs is a Brexit supporter and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star.

Jacobs is skeptical of the mainstream discourse on climate change, having called the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change a "post-truth scam", and the prevailing consensus on climate change "groupthinkishly unscientific.

In February 2019, Jacobs was criticised by Owen Jones for using the term "Cultural Marxism" in an editorial for the Daily Telegraph.

In April 2024, Jacobs argued that Israel's continued assault on Gaza was "existentially vital – for both Israel but (sic) the wider West".