Anyone who follows Israeli news knows that Haaretz is on the left. But this far left? At least three Israeli government ministries have announced they will be terminating all cooperation and advertising with Israel’s most prestigious left-wing newspaper after the group’s publisher accused Israel of “apartheid” and described Palestinian terrorists as “freedom fighters” during an event…

Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki at Fathom: The far-left and Islamist activists who are heading these sit ins, marches, and media platforms in non-Muslim countries in the name of global justice focus on Israel/Zionism as the source of global problems. The thesis is as follows: ‘Israel’, or ‘Global Zionism’, is at the centre of and exports every kind of injustice:…

Jonathan Kay has a long piece at Quillette on the women's college volleyball farce now playing out over in the western US. San José State University (SJSU) has a trans player – ie a man claiming to be a woman – on their team, and as a result five teams have now forfeited their games.…

A Halloween special from Stoke Newington's Abney Park Cemetery: As ever, click to enlarge.

For Ukraine, the problem of North Korean troops boosting the depleted Russian fighting force is obvious enough. For South Korea, it's the question of what North Korea gets in return.  Former White House senior adviser and CIA veteran Dennis Wilder highlighted the risks associated with North Korea’s potential acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines and ICBM re-entry…

From MEMRI TV: In his October 4, 2024 Friday sermon at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, which was aired on Nour Al-Sham TV (Syria), Sheikh Tawfiq Muhammad Sai'd Ramadhan Al-Bouti said that the Jews are "half-humans," treacherous in nature, that they killed the prophets, and tried to kill Jesus. He said that the "heroic…

Russell Lee, September 1938. "Interior views of barrooms. Decoration painted by itinerant artist in back room of bar. Raceland, Louisiana." [Photo: Shorpy/Russell Lee for the FSA]

Howard Jacobson in the Times: Art matters. That oughtn’t be a controversial thing to say. Indeed, even those who choose to boycott art must agree that art matters, or they wouldn’t take such pains to silence it. I am referring, of course, to the various attempts to shut down the making and distribution of art…

The October 7 terrorists were all UNRWA welfare recipients. Your taxes gave them the financial security to devote their lives to killing Jews. Stop this madness. pic.twitter.com/ax84hWYbXe — Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) October 30, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

More autumn colour, on the Heath and then The Hill, Hampstead, and finally at neo-gothic Holly Village, below Highgate Cemetery: