Marc Weitzmann writes at Tablet Magazine on the fall of Europe, where antisemitism is once again becoming the new norm, driven by an increasingly militant Muslim influx. By focusing on three countries – France, Belgium, and the UK – he hopes to provide a warning to the US not to follow the same sorry route.…

Just days after UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Franceca Albanese said that humanity has a “common enemy” in Israel. I think we’re getting the picture here. Added:

From the BBC report on the Canadian shootings: At a news conference, RCMP North District Commander Chief Supt Ken Floyd confirmed the suspect was the same person police described in an earlier alert sent to local residents. That alert described a “female in a dress with brown hair” – but the person’s name or gender…

From the JC: A man who threw his 89-year-old Jewish neighbour from the 17th-floor of an apartment block in Lyon has been convicted of murder. Rachid Kheniche, 55, invited René Hadjadj to his apartment in May 2022 before trying to strangle his victim and throwing him over a balcony of the building where both men…

Another day, another Labour scandal: Lord Doyle, Sir Keir Starmer’s former director of communications, has been suspended from Labour’s parliamentary party over his links with a convicted sex offender. The peer said he would not take the Labour whip and apologised for his past association with Sean Morton, a former Labour councillor in Moray who…

From Reduxx: A young female athlete in Washington says she was unknowingly matched against a biological male in a girls wrestling competition. Kallie Keeler says that her opponent, who has now qualified for the state championships, had sexually assaulted her during the course of the match. Keeler, a 16-year-old sophomore at Rogers High School in…

We heard about the late drag queen Darren Moore a couple of years back, after he was found dead on a back street in Cardiff. On January 23, drag queen Aida H. Dee, the stage name of performer Sab Samuel, announced on Facebook that he was fundraising for the funeral costs of Darren Moore, a…

The Beeb again. Responding to a complaint that they’d used a lowercase ‘h’ for Holocaust, they replied, “There have been other holocausts.” From Jewish News: In its website report on Jewish survivors of Nazi atrocities meeting the King and Queen, the BBC wrote that: “Mala Tribich became the first holocaust survivor to address the cabinet,” adding…

A forgotten world. Photos found after the death of photographer Joyce Edwards. When filmmaker Derek Smith began sorting through the belongings of his friend Joyce Edwards after she died in 2023, he didn’t expect to uncover more than 100 rolls of unseen film. Edwards, who died just months before her 100th birthday, had quietly spent…