Robert H. McNeill, May 1949. Washington, D.C. "Charles Farrar on Harley-Davidson motorcycle." [Photo: Shorpy/Robert H. McNeill]

Parastoo Ahmadi was arrested and interrogated for defying the ban on women singing. In a powerful act of solidarity, these sisters Samin and Behin Bolori risked arrest themselves to release this moving song to support Parastoo. If you want a glimpse of Iran without the Islamic… https://t.co/I25810vpeL pic.twitter.com/dDuoT3MhV1 — Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) December 15,…

If you re interested in why Ireland is so weirdly, unreasonably antisemitic and antiIsrael, here is some of the answer…. In 1997, I made a tv series @Channel4 about Ireland, Irish nationalism and antisemitism. It happened that my own family were Jewish immigrants to… — S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) December 16, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "If you…

Fathom again, and this from Charles Asher Small's essay on creating a Jewish consciousness: Just two generations ago, leading intellectuals in Nazi Europe—philosophers, biologists, and eugenicists, as well as theologians—defined the Jewish people as non-white, as an enemy that threatened the purity of the Aryan race. This racist antisemitism ultimately led to the Shoah, the systematic…

David Collier on this BBC report. Last night @bbcnews published an article on Syria. On the face it was written by @LucyWilliamson. The report is junk – even its opening line is deceptive – and the content paints Israel as irrational warmongers. All this is usual for the BBC – but look a little closer.…

For more detail on why Israel has closed its embassy in Dublin, this from Oliver Sears in Fathom is well worth a read – ‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland: In Ireland, my home for almost forty years, (I was born in London where I lived until I was 18) vehement opposition to Israel and…

🇮🇪 Irish Parliament, July 9, 1943: “How is it that we do not see any of these [Emergency Power] Acts directed against the Jews, who crucified Our Saviour 1900 years ago, and who are crucifying us every day in the week? There is one thing that Germany did, and that was to rout… — Hillel…

A BBC report: A former Lincolnshire Police worker has been accused of multiple firearms offences. Zoe Watts, who had worked as a police community support officer for more than eight years, was arrested after armed police were called to her home in Lincoln on Wednesday. She is charged with possessing a firearm when prohibited for…

Hornbeam trunks, Highgate Wood this morning:

There is something VERY strange about gender ideologue David Tennant. @RosieKayK2CO at @acadofideas. pic.twitter.com/iIaCjccNrx — Andrew Gold (@AndrewGold_ok) December 15, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js As Helen Joyce has pointed out, parents of "trans children" need to believe they did the right thing for their own sanity. Rosie Kay says it here: there can be nothing more horrifying…