The point of modern Jew hatred is not to sound like the 1930s. It is to sound like politics. Today the slur is semantic. “Zio.” “Zionazi.” “Genocide apologist.” “Baby killer.” The move is to take the oldest accusation in the book, that Jews are uniquely malignant, and dress it up as political critique or commentary.…

The debate, on Saudi TV, does not go well: “A woman like this one, who interrupts men while they are talking, should be beaten right from the start.”

The UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories drops the mask. Yes, that’s the problem with the world today: the Jews.

“They’re tightly embracing each other, hair blowing in the wind, almost merging with the clouds behind them, and as a viewer we really get to become part of this intimate celebration both of their freedom to embrace out in the open and to challenge stereotypical gender roles.” What we have here, I believe, is a…

Under Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, one of the defining acts of genocide is: “Deliberately inflicting on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” Many Ukrainian cities – Kyiv foremost among them…

A tale for our times, from Mr Menno.

And maybe get every child who’s forced to wear a hijab to go without one for a while. Or doesn’t it work like that? At the risk of pointing out the blindingly obvious, the thing is that the hijab isn’t some neutral cultural artefact showing your identity, like wearing a cross or a star of…

Christina Lamb – It feels like humanity has died in Sudan. For a long time, Souad told no one why she cries in the night. “If you tell anyone what I did to you, I will kill you as I did others,” the fighter from the Rapid Support Forces had warned as he brandished a…

Alex Massie in the Times – Repellent policy on trans inmates shows SNP chooses men over women: I do not know why John Swinney and his government colleagues are so very keen to house male murderers in women’s prisons, but I do know this is a question the first minister should be asked every day…