From the Times: Universities in Wyoming and Utah have joined an escalating boycott of a rival women’s volleyball team with a transgender player after interventions from Republican politicians. Teams from four universities in Wyoming, Utah and Idaho have forfeited games against San José State University, which counts Blaire Fleming, who identifies as a woman, among…

Nothing going on here. Just a BBC journalist leaving after 4.5 years – to become a professional pro-Palestinian propaganda agent. The fact this is such a natural and normal exchange – tells you everything you need to know about the current state of @bbcnews pic.twitter.com/lNedg1rQ1c — David Collier (@mishtal) October 4, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js See also…

For, shall we say, a less nuanced view than Freedland's, here's Douglas Murray in the Spectator: If you follow most of the British media, you may well think that the past year involves the following events: Israel attacked Hamas, Israel invaded Lebanon, Israel bombed Yemen. Oh and someone left a bomb in a room in…

A brave piece in, yes, the Guardian, from Jonathan Freedland: Here’s what I mean about those two different views of Israel. There’s the Israel you see on the news: the mighty bully, wildly lashing out at its neighbours, that, not content with turning much of Gaza into rubble, has now rolled its tanks into Lebanon…

The difference between Israel’s overall goal and the Jihadists overall goal is that Israel seeks to eliminate the terrorists trying to kill them, and the Jihadists goal is to kill the Jews (or at least destroy the Jewish state and subject the Jewish people to submission under… — Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن (@elicalebon)…

John Vachon, March 1943. "Bob Daugherty, a driver for the Associated Transport Company, at the wheel of a Brown truck on U.S. Highway Route 29 near Culpeper, Virginia." [Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

Off for a couple of days. Back Friday.

Hugo Rifkind at Jewish News – We expected sympathy to vanish but not this constant hate: I certainly remember knowing what was about to happen. I think everybody did. The day after, I was at the Cheltenham Festival on a panel and I said it out loud: that the wave of global sympathy Israel was…

After Siam Goorich on the "simpering terrorist sympathisers", here's Brendan O'Neill at Spiked: We are now in the truly surreal situation where privileged Westerners seem distressed over the death of Nasrallah while Muslims in Lebanon, Syria and Iran are dancing in celebration over it. Moneyed genderfluid kids on the manicured lawns of Columbia in NYC…

as they did this morning @BBCr4today asked the same Iranian Professor of English they habitually go to – actually a servile apologist for the misogynist-theocratic tyranny – what Iran might do and instead got his standard exterminationist antisemitic abuse about "Chosen People",… — Simon Schama (@simon_schama) October 1, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "standard exterminationist antisemitic abuse about…