This sounds all too plausible. From the JC: South Africa brought the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in return for bribes from Iran, a group of 160 lawyers has alleged. In a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the lawyers say that the ruling African National Congress…

Jo Bartosch at Spiked on the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre scandal: Do rape-crisis centres exist to support rape victims, or to validate the beliefs of gender ideologues? This was the question at the heart of a recent UK tribunal ruling…. It has long been clear that [Mridul] Wadhwa has put his trans activism ahead of…

Spain, Norway, and Ireland, inspired by the Hamas October 7th pogrom, say they will recognise a Palestinian state. Lovely. But will a Palestinian state recognise Israel? So you want to recognize the state of Palestine? By all means. Go ahead. Just make sure to note that since Palestine is a state, no-one living in it…

Kathleen Stock heads to Charleston House in deepest Sussex – once the country retreat of the Bloomsbury set – for Nicola Sturgeon, in her new-found role as brave survivor and post-political sage, in a "conversation with transgender author Juno Dawson": There is a mental delusion called Capgras Syndrome, during which a person becomes convinced that someone…

A Jewish professor retiring early because of antisemitism – from the Times of Israel: Prof. Barbara J. Risman never expected to retire early from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a place she’s called her “beloved academic home” for the past 17 years. A College of Arts & Sciences distinguished professor of sociology, Risman was…

New York, 1910. "Singer Tower from Liberty and Nassau streets." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company] The world's tallest building from 1908 to 1909, when it was surpassed by the Metropolitan Life tower. Controversially demolished in 1967, to make way for One Liberty Plaza.

It's often suggested that Israel just needs to do a better job of presenting its case to the world. The problem, as Richard Hanania argues in Tablet, goes a lot deeper than that: If one believes that Israel’s optics problems in the current war are the result of flawed public relations, consider how the nation…

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi leads a minute of silence for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian. Grossi referred to the "tragic news" of the incident. He made his remarks at the opening plenary at the International Conference on Nuclear Security. "Before we start with our work, important work…

Danny Cohen, a former BBC Television director, on the BBC's Gaza coverage: The BBC’s royal charter sets out five “public purposes”, the very first of which is a commitment to impartiality. Yet the Israel-Hamas war has seen the BBC fail to deliver on this crucial test on more occasions than can be explained away as…

"Mixed legacy". I guess they mean "on the one hand, he ordered the execution of men just for being gay but, on the other hand, he also authorised the beating and murder of young women who refused to wear their headscarves". So, yeah, "mixed". https://t.co/OttuVCXAq0 — Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) May 21, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The "work"…