This is Atefeh Sahaaleh, a sixteen-year-old Kurdish/Iranian girl executed for being raped for 3 years, raped so severely in prison that she couldn't walk. She took off her hijab in court and threw her shoes at the judge after realizing she was losing the case, and because of… pic.twitter.com/C8u9RZUemC — Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) February 13,…

If only those silly Afghani women and girls just had the sense to identify as men and boys. THE STATE OF THIS FROM @AmnestyUK pic.twitter.com/gUacj8Gk1d — Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) February 13, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Another one from Reduxx. A trans woman in Germany is making a nice living for himself by applying for jobs he's not qualified for and has no intention of taking up, then suing over discrimination. A trans-identified male in Dortmund, Germany, is facing scrutiny after winning over €250,000 over the course of 240 separate discrimination…

Norwegians eating their fermented herring on toast, or whatever it is they have for breakfast, will have been surprised to read in their morning paper of the case of a woman beating a man to death with a baseball bat. "Hey, that's unusual", they will have muttered to themselves (in Norwegian). But it's not quite…

Izabella Tabarovsky is a writer with a special interest in Soviet antizionism and contemporary left antisemitism. I've featured her a few times here. Her latest, at Tablet, recounts her depressing recent experience in Finland, where she was cancelled by two universities. Academics everywhere, it seems, harbour the same mix of progressive anti-Zionism and cowardice. The…

From the Jerusalem Post: The Hollywood premiere of Captain America: Brave New World on Tuesday was picketed by several dozen pro-Palestine protesters upset over the inclusion in the film of an Israeli superhero, Ruth Bat-Seraph, aka Sabra, played by Shira Haas, Variety reported. Sabra, in the original Marvel comics version, first appeared in the early…

The two Australian nurses who threatened to slaughter Israelis have been stood down. But these are just the ones bold enough to say it on camera. How many more think the same? pic.twitter.com/WeWYtBoTkR — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) February 12, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It sounds like they're saying they have killed Israeli patients. And by "Israeli" they…

Naomi Cunningham, Sandie Peggie's lawyer at the NHS Fife tribunal, gets to the heart of it: Ms Cunningham said: “What Sandie Peggie has done by withdrawing from changing room when you were there is opted out of immersive role play. That’s why you were angry with her.” She added: “I want to suggest that the…

Meanwhile, in Norwich: A Green councillor has been accused of calling a group of women holding a silent vigil for Afghan women and children "Nazis". Charlie Caine, a member of Norwich City Council, is said to have launched the verbal attack on the event outside the Forum. The vigil was organised by the Norwich Women's…

Further to that Kevin McKenna extract from The Herald on "why corporate power and public sector influence has swung behind the campaign for trans rights", here's James Marriott in the Times this morning, looking at the same phenomenon with a broader lens: International capitalism’s flirtation with the politics of the student union was always an…