The Times of Israel: The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced this week that it had canceled its invitation to screen a documentary about the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, due to ostensible copyright concerns stemming from the fact that the filmmakers did not receive permission from the Hamas terrorists whose clips are featured in…

They still can't get it right – from the Telegraph: Sharron Davies, the Olympic swimming medallist, is to be made a Conservative peer after leading a campaign to ban transgender people from women’s sport. Not true. She hasn't campaigned against trans men – biological women – in women's sport. What she's campaigned against is transgender men in…

Oliver Brown in the Telegraph on Gary Lineker's selective outrage: “We can’t hear you, Uefa,” wrote Gary Lineker, outraged that European football’s governing body had not acknowledged the alleged circumstances of the death of Suleiman al-Obeid, aka the “Palestinian Pele”. According to the Palestine Football Association (PFA), the 41-year-old was killed while waiting for humanitarian…

Today's J&M isn't funny, but it's true (link below): pic.twitter.com/3jWfcniUYV — AuthorJ&M (@JandMo) August 13, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Story here.

From the Daily NK: North Korea sees South Korean young people’s lack of interest in reunification and their weaker sense of ethnic unity as a “strategic opportunity” and has launched comprehensive changes to its psychological warfare operations against the South. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has personally directed the Institute of Enemy State Studies…

More on the Polari Prize. This, from Allan Stratton at Quillete, is worth a read…Another Tiresome Trans-Activist Power Play: The best response to all this from Polari Prize officials would have been to say nothing, and simply let their original message stand as their final word. Unfortunately, that’s not what happened. While Boyne (rightly) remains…

Once again Scotland makes the news for all the wrong reasons. From the Times: Scotland’s national library banned a book about feminists’ fight against Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID law after staff complained its contents were “hate speech” comparable to racism. The National Library of Scotland (NLS) has been accused of a “shameful” capitulation to censorship…

One of the BBC’s most respected veteran journalists… pic.twitter.com/6YygkEUJaC — Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) August 12, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Not forgetting that many of these Al-Jazeera journalists, like Anas al-Sharif, are – surprise surprise – fully fledged Hamas members.

A JC leader marks twenty years since Israel pulled out of Gaza: Israel dismantled every settlement, removed every civilian and soldier, even its dead, and handed over one of the two territories the world insists should form a Palestinian state. By any measure, it was a textbook case of “ending the occupation”. Yet in the…

A BBC report: Thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work in slave-like conditions in Russia to fill a huge labour shortage exacerbated by Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the BBC has learned. Moscow has repeatedly turned to Pyongyang to help it fight the war, using its missiles, artillery shells and its soldiers. Now,…