Interviewed in the Times: Lydon is sceptical of the new wave of punk bands. “You could be influenced by my earlier work, but please don’t show any signs of imitating it,” he says. “You have to have your own ideas.” He finds Bob Vylan, the group who chanted, “Death to the IDF,” at Glastonbury, “rather…

They know best what’s good for us.

An interesting couple of reports from MEMRI. First up, a recent article in the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq, resurrecting the Protocols, on the Zionists’ wicked plot to take over the world: As Vasily Grossman said: ‘Tell me what you accuse the Jews of, and I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.’ Which brings us to…

Romi Gonen interviewed here. “I was going to be his sex slave for life”.

Full video here.

A look at the BBC’s anti-Israel bias at the Times of Israel, with former governor Ruth Deech: British parliamentarian Ruth Deech had a bird’s-eye view of the BBC’s attitude towards Israel when she served on its governing body 20 years ago during the Second Intifada and the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Then, as now, since…

Brendan O’Neill at Spiked: Jews are once again bearing the brunt of the West’s abandonment of its civilisational values. Just as they were the prime victims of the Nazis’ ruthless destruction of European civilisation, so they are now the collateral damage of the modern West’s craven cowardice in the face of the Islamo-left threat. The…

Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator on Iran’s ceaseless obsession with Israel: Iran’s conduct strips away any illusion about priorities. Even amid water shortages, electricity failures and economic contraction, the regime has channelled vast resources into instruments of attack. Mohammad Javad Zarif’s recent acknowledgement on Al Jazeera that roughly $500 billion was spent on the nuclear…