The attempt of Oxford Union to destroy evidence of a crime committed at their chamber. -The Oxford Union debate audience was hand-picked by the Union Muslim president Ebrahim Osman to guarantee vote results that suited his personal political views. -The president of the… pic.twitter.com/8NMvktChZx — Mosab Hassan Yousef (@MosabHasanYOSEF) December 11, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text:…

Matt Broomfield yesterday: "Aleppo, the first city to fall to HTS’s blitzkrieg advance, was a former jewel in the Ottoman Empire’s crown. After its capture, the Turkish flag flew from the Aleppo citadel once more." Here's Turkish MP Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party which is currently in coalition with Erdoğan’s AKP party:…

"Jewish, Muslim, Christian, they're all here, they want to believe they have a space now…" Except they're not. In the 1940s, Syria's Jewish community was 40,000 strong. Today just an estimated 3 remain. Good luck finding a Jew in Syria for an interview. pic.twitter.com/v2awkxg5GD — Orly Goldschmidt 🎗️ (@Orlygoldschmidt) December 11, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

More from the Daily NK, this time on reactions within North Korea to South Korea's president Yoon and his abortive attempt to impose martial law. While high-ups in Pyongyang were aware of the situation, and kept the entire military on an emergency footing for around 18 hours after Yoon’s martial law declaration, the general public…

From the Daily NK: North Korea’s youth league chapter in Chongjin, North Hamgyong province, recently held a struggle session targeting young people with unauthorized hairstyles, Daily NK has learned. “The state permits ten hairstyles for men and 18 for women. After some youth began adopting non-socialist hairstyles in violation of these rules, the Chongjin chapter…

Matt Broomfield at UnHerd – Will Erdoğan crush the Syrian Kurds? Syria’s two million Kurds have every reason to loathe Bashar al-Assad. His Baathist regime long repressed their identity, and there are many Kurdish activists among the countless people emerging, dazed and stumbling, from the dictatorship’s dungeons. But even as Kurds danced and toppled statues,…

Syrian rebels have uncovered Assad’s stash of the infamous drug Captagon. Approximately 80% of this drug is manufactured in Syria and exported across the Middle East, serving as a major revenue source for the Assad regime, Hamas, and Hezbollah. Captagon is widely used by ISIS… pic.twitter.com/q2kPKwkFq3 — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) December 11, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full…

A couple of weeks back we had Labour MP Tahir Ali calling for a law to "prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of Abrahamic religions". Now it's cousin marriages – in defence of – from MP Iqbal Mohamed: An independent MP elected on a pro-Gaza stance has spoken against a proposed bill…

Another day, another antisemitic attack in Australia. A car was set on fire, and buildings were vandalized with anti-Israel messages in Sydney by what appears to be two individuals wearing face coverings and dark clothing. The attack took place in Woollahra, a suburb with a… pic.twitter.com/tuVII1hslQ — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) December 11, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "The…

The Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES) is under assault from Turkish-backed extremists – but no one's interested. israel's minor incursion into a buffer zone on the Golan, where no people live, is being portrayed as a major story; while Ankara attacking Tal Rifaat, Manbij and Kobani and killing civilians and displacing tens…