Now the Mail needs to find its courage and talk about trans-identifying men equally clearly. Otherwise it's blatantly obvious that this entire project is about giving men what they want at the expense of women — Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) September 26, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Cathleen Quinn is a political prisoner held by the state of CA for daring to say she didn’t feel safe being housed with intact men. She was 3 weeks away from her release. And the state revoked her parole. It’s important that folks understand Cathleen was punished so harshly… pic.twitter.com/na2SfEYkXT — WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) September 25,…

From the Jerusalem Post: Yariv Mozer, the director of We Will Dance Again, a documentary film about the Nova festival, said that he had to agree with the BBC to not describe Hamas as a terrorist organization if he wanted it to air, according to an interview he gave to The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. The…

For further confirmation that "Zionist" is now a way of saying "Jew" while trying to avoid accusations of antisemitism, at least in US academic circles, see this (via Jerry Coyne) from the Free Press – University Cancels Panel Because Author Is a ‘Zionist’: For the last seven years, the New York State Writers Institute has…

The people of Lebanon, Israel, and the world cannot afford a leader of the United Nations who would rather post platitudes on Twitter than enforce the UN Resolution that promised to disarm Hezbollah 18 years ago. — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 24, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js You have many thousands of UN soldiers in south Lebanon whose…

The North Korean rubbish ballons being sent over to the South, packed with anything up to and including human faeces, are getting more and more annoying – as, of course, intended. The South did return to the old loudspeaker broadcasts, halted since 2018, but they don't seem to be having any effect – if anything…

Suzanne Moore at the Labour conference is left doubtful that the government can be trusted to protect women's rights: This is the first year that the Labour Women’s Declaration (LWD) movement has been allowed into conference and it has a stall and some terrific events. The LWD believe that women and girls are subject to…

An entirely false narrative from @SkyNews.Whatever ones view of Israel and the Palestinians – mine is that whenever two republics can created safely beside each other so that both peoples can live in security and freedom can not be soon enough, long live Israel, long live… https://t.co/SucSl1Z4e7 — S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) September 24, 2024…

A mourning father – and a child with an itchy foot: Why would anyone abuse a child like this?Wait until the kid scratches his foot. pic.twitter.com/eqkeUbr9lZ — Simon Myerson KC 🎗️ (@SCynic1) September 23, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The Labour Party has always, historically, been solid in its support of Israel. This started to shift under Ed Miliband – eager to gain the Labour leadership over his brother by courting the left of the party – and then rapidly deteriorated under Jeremy Corbyn. Keir Starmer made it a key feature of his leadership…