THE BBC REPORT IS OUT. After months of work, I have a lot to say. But, for now, I want to leave you with one of our key findings for BBC Arabic. I sampled 160 randomly selected interviewees. Of these, 45 had Reportable Affiliations [mostly to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic… — Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah)…

@fathomjournal is back in a few days after a summer break. Here is an excerpt from an upcoming article by @renegade_Kathy To @EinatWilf , the best definition of the Israel-Palestine conflict ever came from British former Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin—no friend of the Jews or… — Alan Johnson (@Fathom_Editor) September 9, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text:…

Paul Berman has a long piece at Quillette, originally written this spring and published in Liberties magazine, on Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism. A couple of extracts: The black perspective, then, in regard to Zionism—what was it? What should it have been? In recent decades, the black liberation…

A long read at Spiked from MattRidley, co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 – There is now very little doubt that Covid leaked from a lab: What was the worst industrial accident in history? Bhopal in India, where in 1984, at least 25,000 people died as a result of a leak…

England cricket takes a stand. England will not schedule a bilateral series against Afghanistan as long as the Taliban-ruled country continues to refuse to field a women’s team, according to chief executive Richard Gould. England have never played a bilateral series against Afghanistan and do not have one scheduled, but the two nations’ men’s teams…

Delighted to have been elected Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee @CommonsHealth. From GPs to dentists, maternity services to mental health there is much to do. The committee has a vital role to play scrutinising govt as it tackles these challenges. — Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ (@LaylaMoran) September 9, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js   I…

Extraordinary quote from Trevor Asserson following his review into BBC bias.. “After analysing 9 million words of content, we were wrong in our presumptions about the BBC being biased….It is astonishingly biased’. ‘As for BBC Arabic, it is out of control. The British public is… — Lance Forman (@LanceForman) September 9, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "The British…

Olga Deutsch in the JC on the malign influence of NGOs on the government's decision to impose a partial ban on arms exports to Israel: On October 18 2023, a coalition of activist NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), sent a letter to the then-Secretary of State for…

On the other hand the Labour government, to their credit, has been firm on the Cass Review, and the banning of puberty blockers. George Chesterton, in the Telegraph, heralds the changing mood – "After years of kowtowing to extreme ideology, Britain’s institutions are finally questioning some of the trans lobby’s most dangerous ideas": Aftershocks can…

Are we surprised? No, we are not surprised. Despite all the sex-realist noises coming from Labour prior to the election, they're now more interested in placating the trans lobby: The Government will not carry forward plans to rewrite the Equality Act 2010 that were aimed at protecting single-sex spaces, the Minister for Women and Equalities…