Further to my post last week, here's Alan Johnson on the obscenity of calling Israel "settler colonialist": 🧵Framing Israel as a ‘settler colonialism’ erases everything you need to know to understand the I-P conflict. Why? Because it ignores everything that distinguishes the Jewish return to Palestine from White European Settler Colonialism. Here are 4 key…

In the 1960s, Afghan women studied alongside men at Kabul University. Today, Afghanistan is the only country where girls’ education is illegal. It has been 705 days since the Taliban banned women from universities. pic.twitter.com/bP8oklPBsC — Habib Khan (@HabibKhanT) November 24, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

It takes a 16-year high school girl to explain to a room of adults why she and her classmates should not have to tolerate boys in their locker room. That’s where we are now. Can you imagine this a decade ago? Time to end the insanity.https://t.co/mgaT9qOxlv — Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) November 23, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Minor…

From the Telegraph: The British Transport Police (BTP) is facing legal action over new guidance that allows trans officers to strip-search women. Women’s rights campaigners have written to Chief Constable Lucy D’Orsi calling for the advice to be removed on the basis that it breaches human rights. They say they are willing to try to…

More autumn trees, including some of those dancing hornbeams: Highgate Wood was closed this morning because of the high winds, but Queen's Wood – other side of Muswell Hill Road – stayed open. Tougher trees.

Kara Dansky – Will the Democrats finally start listening to the TERFs? As a lifelong Democrat, staunch leftist, and radical feminist, I was not happy to see Donald Trump elected once more. But I was not surprised. Data showed that “the most frequent criticism among swing voters who broke for Trump” was that “Kamala Harris…

Amy Hamm at Reduxx: The mother of a young girl in British Columbia, Canada, is speaking out after a man in a pink, sparkly bikini — adorned with sparkles, frills and princess tiaras — was found showering in the female changing room of her local public pool. After reporting the man’s presence, she was told…

It’s scary, but this is why I needed eight bodyguards in Toronto, had to be whisked out of a lecture hall in Calgary from mobs crying Allahu Akbar, and Jews were told to leave a synagogue in Montreal by a side exit. The pro-Hamas derangement is fueling real violence. https://t.co/h4fZctXEpz — Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) November…

London plane trees in Finsbury Park this morning: [Click to enlarge]

This is unlawful. We crowdfunded to pay for an advice from a KC who confirmed it was an unlawful policy. The police consider themselves above and beyond the law. Dangerous times. https://t.co/5H70y1xMYj — WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) November 23, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js