I had been assuming that the appointment of an Islamist, Farah Ahmed, as an assistant research professor of education at Cambridge was down to the gullibility and plain idiocy of those same inclusivity-obsessed academics who appointed Jason Arday. But it’s worse than that. A lot worse. Andrew Gilligan’s latest at the Spectator: An academic project…

A Hillel Neuer thread on Yousif El Samhouri, UNRWA teacher and jihadi.

From the Times: A Scottish charity that appointed a trustee who resigned after claims that he was a fantasist who had used a fake aristocratic title and embellished his CV has been cleared of wrongdoing. LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS) told The Times that Timothy Westwood, who was appointed as its convener last year, had left his…

From the Times: Cambridge vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice is under fire. The vice-chancellor of Cambridge has announced a second investigation in two days after a torrid week for the university. It was already under fire for its handling of a row surrounding allegations of plagiarism by Jason Arday, its youngest black professor, who resigned last week. It…

Former Kuwaiti Minister of Information Sami Al-Nesf: Israel is the enemy of its immediate Arab neighbors, while the Gulf countries are harmed by Iran. We helped them against Israel, but they don’t help us against Iran.

This morning. Highgate, Hampstead, the Hill, Holly Village:

More on that NY Mag piece about the vibrant SWANA culture now supposedly gripping New York – here yesterday – from Liel Leibowitz at the Free Press: In her now-viral cover story for New York magazine, journalist Zaina Arafat—who was born and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., but identifies as SWANA, an acronym that previously stood for the…

Ali Omar Forozish has a long piece at Tablet Magazine on the illusion that’s driven US policy towards Iran ever since Jimmy Carter days – that of moderates v hard-liners. For a while it seemed that perhaps Trump had broken the template, but no: he’s now back reading from the same old script. Worth reading…