Neatly combining two of today's posts – on the Phoenix Cinema showing that Israeli film, and the BBC's institutional bias against Israel – this from the Telegraph: The BBC has come under fire for describing a pro-Palestine protest outside a London cinema showing a film about the Oct 7 attacks as a “vigil”. A demonstration…

Here we go again. Jennifer Sieland at Reduxx: A man who identifies as a woman has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting multiple young boys. In their statement on the sentence, Lancashire Police declined to use pronouns for Joanne Evans, while local media referred to him as…

Back north of the border, with Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS) – which is, as Magi Gibson notes, “one of Scotland’s leading and most powerful publicly-funded literary organisations”. Under Resources on their website they have a document (pdf) on Supporting Trans Writers. For bookshops: don’t sell TERF books/platform TERF authors. Don’t expect trans booksellers to sell…

Following Danny Cohen's blistering attack on the BBC's Gaza coverage earlier this week, here's Ian Austin in the JC – The BBC’s mistakes are an institutional problem: I have spent decades defending the BBC. I always believed it to be the best broadcaster in the world, with the best journalists and the most rigorous standards.…

The JC on last night in East Finchley: The Jewish community reclaimed the streets tonight as over 2,000 people demonstrated outside the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley north-west London to show solidarity with its decision to screen an Israeli documentary about the October 7 terrorist attacks. In the past week, there had been a widely…

"What makes males a greater risk?" Gosh. Kathleen Stock puts up with it in America: We live in an age when some of our most brilliant minds have to waste their time explaining to people things like “why males don’t belong in women’s prisons” and “why males don’t belong in women’s sports.” My patience for…

A new video has been released by the parents of female Israeli soldiers kidnapped from a military base during the October 7 attack by Hamas, as a “last resort” to pressure the Israeli government to negotiate a hostage deal. It shows the women, handcuffed and terrified, being abused by their kidnappers. Now that the new…

The short documentary film Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre, is showing tonight at The Phoenix in East Finchley: This devastating massacre shocked the world with its extremely graphically violent images. The horrific scenes of hundreds of Hamas terrorists breaking through the border, fully armed, riding ISIS-like pickup trucks and motorcycles through the desert and in…

From Gender Clinic News: The safety of an unknown number of teenage girls given testosterone by Australian gender clinics is in question following an extraordinary UK court case involving a 15-year-old girl thought to be at risk of sudden death because of a “dangerously high” dose of this cross-sex hormone drug. England’s High Court heard…

From Joe Lockard, associate professor of English at Arizona State University: Calls for the elimination of the Jewish homeland, Israel, or the deprivation of an equal Palestinian right to self-determination are equally abominable. It is exactly this eliminationism that gained voice at our university and many others where protesters chanted, “From the river to the…