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  • Another report of antisemitism at the BBC, this time from the Telegraph: A whistleblower has said anti-Semitism at the BBC has become “normalised” and accused the broadcaster of failing to take seriously repeated claims of anti-Semitic behaviour and attitudes within the organisation. The experienced member of staff, who is Jewish, said they had been forced…

  • On display in Print Sales at the Photographers' Gallery, Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson: Driven by a sense of extreme urgency, he left the paper to focus on documenting the Arctic’s untold stories before they disappear. Hunting communities in the Arctic are integral to the cultural and social fabric of the North. Having passed down centuries-old…

  • There's no other topic that people are so willing to be intellectually dishonest about as this one https://t.co/lI7pDvHXNt — Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) November 30, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js WaPo article here. Her Wikipedia entry: Sally Jenkins (born October 11, 1960) is an American sports columnist and feature writer for The Washington Post, and author. She was previously…

  • Today, Russia and Al-Assad’s army are bombing Aleppo. Let’s not forget that Assad is already responsible for around 500,000 deaths in the Syrian civil war. So, how many protests do you think we’ll see on university campuses? pic.twitter.com/5AAIgUN7VA — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 30, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

  • What's going on in Scotland, at the Supreme Court hearing on woman's rights? Hannah Barnes at the New Statesman has been following the labyrynthine proceedings: Unlike the scores of women who gathered this week in Courtroom 1 of the UK Supreme Court in Westminster – there were so many that they had to be herded…

  • It’s not progressive to medicalize gender non-conforming youth…. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/oJJmEhDBQ1 — LGBT Courage Coalition (@LGBT_Courage) November 29, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

  • From NK News: Russia’s defense chief arrived in North Korea on Friday for talks with the country’s top military and political brass, as DPRK troops fight for Moscow in its conflict with Ukraine. Meanwhile: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol met a visiting Ukrainian delegation on Wednesday and discussed joint efforts to counter North Korean military…

  • This is the moment when Israeli Arab Yoseph Haddad was thrown out of the Oxford Union after people stamped on the photo of Israeli Arabs who are being held hostage. This is what he writes: ‘I’ll tell you more about what happened at Oxford when I confronted these liars and I’ll… pic.twitter.com/XiIrfYBJe8 — Nicole Lampert…

  • A good article in the Times from Michael Coren, an Anglican priest: The only way to the truth,” said the Catholic American novelist Flannery O’Connor, “is through blasphemy.” Could someone please send her books to Sir Keir Starmer, because his response to the Labour MP Tahir Ali this week was as puny as it was…

  • It takes guts even just to enter a rally celebrating intifadas and calling for Israel's destruction. But to hold up a poster that shatters the core belief of those who call for embargoes and boycotts takes audacity, too. Kurpa from Our Fight has enormous quantities of both. pic.twitter.com/rmP1ludQrH — OurFightUk (@OurFightUk) November 28, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js