From the JC: The Metropolitan Police have said that an imam who led a prayer for the destruction of Jewish homes "did not meet the threshold of a crime” in a decision that has baffled security experts. Just two weeks after Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel last year, a preacher at an east London mosque…

GOOD NEWS! Brave Iranian Ahoo Daryaei has been released from the hospital and reunited with her family. After publicly removing her clothes to protest the Islamic Republic regime, she was labeled mentally ill and forcibly confined to a psychiatric hospital. Protesting works!… pic.twitter.com/YdMR5Z4gET — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 20, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Robert Hutton at The Critic: Although farming is often reported to be in crisis, Britain is actually full of people who know how to make a fortune from it. Unfortunately, due to a tragedy of misallocation, all those people live in London and are busy on social media, and so the farming has to be…

After a war it's normally understood that the victor will determine the peace conditions. That may be a transfer of land, or reparations payments, but at the very minimum it requires the defeated party to abandon its aims and accept the victor's terms. Except for Israel, that is. Israel keeps winning wars, but the defeated…

John Vachon, March 1943. "Lynchburg, Virginia — railroad station." [Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

I hope people hear the word “kindness” and realize the kindness is very selective. The plea is blatant emotional manipulation: It means:* please “muster kindness” for the men and boys who want to compete in women’s and girls’ sport – and not for the women and girls who are… — Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth) November 19,…

Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx: An Argentinian man convicted of violence against women who was transferred into a women’s prison on the basis of his self-declared gender identity has raped and impregnated a female inmate while detained. Well, who could possibly have predicted that? Gabriel Fernández had been accused of violence by multiple former partners before…

Ireland once again – from the JC: An Irish publican has claimed his pub is enjoying “loads of business” after banning “Zionist” customers. The Celtic Marine Bar in Bundoran, a picturesque town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast popular with tourists, put up a sign last week week saying, “all Zionists are barred from The Celtic Marine…

Antisemitism (jew hatred) is real. I grew up in a Muslim country in North Africa. It is impossible to live as a Jew in Muslim countries. Jew hatred is taught in the streets, mosques and schools from a young age. Jew hatred is literally normalized in Muslim society. 😢 pic.twitter.com/vQXz1yvSYR — CanadianExMuslim ✌️ 🇨🇦 (@ExMuslimFreedom)…

Yesterday I mentioned China's deteriorating relations with North Korea – a result of Pyongyang's increasing cooperation with Moscow, and the sending of troops to fight in Ukraine – and suggested that this could be a useful lever for the US. Here's an editorial today in South Korea's Chosun Ilbo – China's inaction on N. Korean…