Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is an extremist organization that celebrated 10/7; that demonstrated against NOVA; that mourned the death of Nasrallah. It has crossed lines that should never be crossed like openly aligning itself with foreign terrorist organizations that cry “Death to… pic.twitter.com/9dTf0277QD — Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) October 5, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: Within Our…

Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times: But over the past 12 months people have said things to me about Israel that felt as if they were squeezing my sciatic nerve. Not because I disagreed with them but because what they were saying was so — here comes the technical term — ignorant. And the worst…

Accusing Jews of spreading disease in medieval times, and of controlling world leaders in the 1930s, are two devices used to prepare the ground for, and justify, the killing of Jews. And here we are, in London, in 2024. October 7 will forever be a festival for these new Nazis. pic.twitter.com/rcCPXpXjBA — Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka)…

Bret Stephens has an NYT opinion piece (archived) on The Year American Jews Woke Up. The American Jewish saga has, of course, been one of astonishing success despite the setbacks, but in recent years the story's been changing, getting worse, getting darker. And then came October 7th: After Oct. 7, it became personal. It was…

Back to the excellent Café Royal Books, with photographer Robert Blomfield: [Photos © Cafe Royal Books/Robert Blomfield] Robert Blomfield previously: Sheffield 1960s Edinburgh in the 1960s

Helen Joyce, interviewed at Spiked, on the dangers of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones: There are some very real dangers for young children who are dissociating from their bodies. Going through puberty is distressing enough as it is, but it’s doubly distressing for children who dissociate from their bodies in this way. This might mean…

Here, a few weeks back – Pyongyang now Moscow's leading arms supplier. Now, in the Times: Half of the shells used by Russia — about three million a year — are being supplied by North Korea, according to western intelligence. President Putin travelled to Pyongyang earlier this year to sign a defence pact with Kim…

The pitiful state of the literary world – the latest in a continuing saga: Cheltenham Literature Festival has come under fire after issuing a warning notice to speakers comparing gender-critical views with racism and homophobia. The festival, which begins today, sent an email to people who are hosting talks at the event, asking them to…

Exactly backwards: 1) Palestinians have never aspired to self determination in their own state, not if it means living next to a Jewish state. Every time they faced a choice between having self determination in an Arab Palestine living next to a Jewish Israel, from 1937 to the… https://t.co/I3LrC0iy7C — Dr. Einat Wilf (@EinatWilf) October…

About 8 years ago, I had a conversation with a friend about a program saying experts were only "waiting" for the first global psychosis caused by the internet. They were sure it would happen, but not what form it would take. He now believes humans can change sex. — Sam Morgan (@CrunchAlias) October 4, 2024…