Belgian MEP Assita Kanko, yesterday: Wow. Watch this.@Assita_Kanko just dropped the Mic big time at the European Parliament. Assita was born a Muslim and has been fighting against Radical Islam and Terrorism for a long time. We need more Assitas in this world.pic.twitter.com/Pr3sHSgKOT — Kosher🎗🧡 (@K0sher_C0ckney) October 7, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Melanie Phillips in the Times on the need to confront the theocrats in Tehran: Is the end game approaching with the Islamic Republic of Iran? Ever since this revolutionary regime came to power in 1979, it has waged war against the West. It repeatedly declares its intention to wipe Israel off the map, regularly screams…

Jack Delano, March 1943. "Vaughn, New Mexico. One of the 5000 Class Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad freight locomotives about to leave on the run to Clovis, New Mexico." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

This, from a couple of weeks back, is well worth a read. In an appreciation (not so much a review) of Adam Kirsch's book On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, Paul Berman discusses the current campus obsession with the demonisation of Israel and the valorisation of the Palestinian struggle. As originally conceived a couple…

Unlike sex, gender identity is neither scientifically observable nor testable. In spite of the million word salads attempting one, there's no stable definition of gender identity. The term is variously but not exclusively applied to an innate certainty that one is not the sex one… pic.twitter.com/IGOVVpIomb — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 7, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full…

Howard Jacobson at the JC on the aniiversary of Oct. 7th – ‘Politics stepped in where pity alone, at least for a while, should have spoken’: In its own way, the aftermath was, and remains, a second atrocity. To say this is to take nothing from the horror of the massacre itself. Finding language adequate…

It started on the morning of October 7.There’s been a year of gaslighting, denialism, hatred and war but let’s remember how it started. With thousands of terrorists and ordinary civilians invading Israel and murdering, kidnapping and raping civilians. This is a clip from a new… pic.twitter.com/P9LbusAtgc — Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) October 7, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full…

An interesting look at how well-funded smear campaigns are being used to discredit the Cass Review in the US – notably the smearing of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) by the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC). Amongst other revelations: SPLC describe SEGM as a hate group for (in part) taking $400k from…

Etan Smallman in the Telegraph on the blacklisting of gender-critical voices in the arts: Social media mobs can be spotted at 50 paces. But across the arts, a more insidious phenomenon is being reported – a secret blacklisting for having expressed views deemed to offend the consensus of the “community of the good”. Overnight, gigs…

Jack Delano, March 1943. "Kiowa, Kansas. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail detector car. These cars are actually traveling scientific instruments, which not only detect faulty rails but also record the place and extent of the defect." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano, Office of War Information]