Gaza protestors, we learn, are descending on Chicago for the Democratic Convention next week. Many on the left seem to view this as a reasonable response to the Democrats' support for Israel, and in the noble tradition of left-wing protests against establishment policies. The gold standard here, I suppose, would be the 1968 protests against…

More on Arezoo Badri – previously here and here – from Iran International: The family of Arezou Badri, a 31-year-old woman shot by Iran’s police on July 22 for allegedly violating mandatory hijab laws, is under intense government pressure to withdraw their complaint. Badri, a mother of two, was left paralyzed after the shooting, an…

There've been a few like this already. London imam claims ‘Zionists’ were behind far-right riots: An imam at a London mosque led by an extremist preacher has claimed that Zionists were behind the recent hard-right riots. Ashraf Dabous, of the Lewisham Islamic Centre, said that riot participants were being “manipulated and misguided” so that supporters…

Another tale on gender woo, and its grip on the arts world. This time it's bookselling and publishing – but there's a twist. Nina Welsch at The Critic: Sound the klaxon, another woman has lost her job thanks to the gender wars. But in a major twist, the casualty this time was not someone from…

Jonny Best is a silent film pianist. A few years back he signed a letter in support of JK Rowling…. I had been accompanying silent films at the BFI Southbank cinemas for a year or so when the Rowling support letter was published. A day or two later, I saw there’d been a few tweets…

Josh Glancy in the Sunday Times talks to Nava and Zecharia Deutsch, Jewish chaplains at Leeds University – ‘We’re coming to kill you’: Jewish chaplains reveal campus threats – receiving 400 abusive calls in one night: Nava Deutsch was naive the first time one of the calls came in. She had no idea what was…

Mason stripped of SNP whip over 'unacceptable' Gaza posts. SNP MSP John Mason has been stripped of the party whip after "completely unacceptable" social media posts about the conflict in Gaza. Mr Mason said he was "disappointed" by his suspension, which came after he wrote on X that the country's actions in Gaza did not…

The regime in Iran shot her, leaving her blinded for peacefully protesting. Now, she stands as the voice of another Iranian woman, paralyzed by police for showing her hair.Thanks for your bravery @kosareftekharii #آرزو_بدری_کجاست#WhereIsArezoo pic.twitter.com/lTTytnxVtY — Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) August 16, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The story of Arezoo Badri here.

That Reginald D Hunter show at the Edinburgh Fringe has now been cancelled, after the hounding out of an Israeli couple at what the Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish called "the ugliest Fringe moment I’ve ever witnessed". Julie Burchill: The brave clown who speaks the truth and shames the devil is a showbiz tradition, from Charlie Chaplin…

Wow! Just watch it yourself to learn how to fight like an Iranian woman💪This video, shared by pro-regime accounts, is meant to instill fear, but how can one not be moved by the lion-hearted defiance of this woman against Iran’s Hijab Police? She boldly tells the enforcer, ‘You… pic.twitter.com/gLcHZ7INHU — Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) August…