From the JC: A news presenter for a French-Israeli TV channel has been ridiculed online for reporting a Telegram joke about a Mossad agent called ‘Eli Kopter’.  Daniel Haik, a political analyst for i24 Francais, the French language version of i24, an international 24-hour news channel based in Israel was being interviewed last night after…

Remember Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh, age 16,Publicly Hanged Till Death by lsIamic regime in Iran For Being Raped. She was punished by lsIamic sharia for being raped! pic.twitter.com/5gW62GaJpi — Azat Alsalem (@AzzatAlsaalem) May 20, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Atefeh was convicted for crimes against chastity after being raped repeatedly by Ali Darabi, an 51-year-old ex-revolutionary guard turned taxi…

More on the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre ruling, from Joan Smith at UnHerd: If you’re trying to get away with a lie, it had better be a big one. It’s something populist politicians understand very well, firing up supporters with outrageous claims designed to encourage their preexisting prejudices. One of the biggest, which is shamefully…

So farewell then, the Butcher of Tehran: The Islamic Republic's terror proxies Hamas and Hezbollah issued statements mourning Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials were also killed in the crash in the country’s northwestern East Azerbaijan province. “These leaders supported the…

Meanwhile, Labour keeps digging away at that trans hole. Clearly Anneliese Dodds learned nothing from her recent meeting with the LRB Alliance: Labour will make it easier to change gender and is considering allowing a single family doctor to sign off on the decision under plans to “simplify” the process. The party is considering how…

A victory at last against the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre and its head, Mridul Wadhwa – a trans woman appointed despite the job being advertised, for obvious reasons, as women only, and despite his lack of any GRC.  An employment judge has condemned a support service for rape victims and found that its chief executive…

Giving girls' prizes to boys and calling it progressive https://t.co/d5KaaTI3MH — Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) May 19, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Alex Massie in the Times: Vindication is a dish to be served at any temperature. As he counts his misfortunes from the backbenches, Humza Yousaf may at least reflect that he did his party, and his country, some service when he evicted the Scottish Green Party from government. If any fresh reminder were needed that…

Acclaimed novelist @SalmanRushdie to 🇩🇪 tabloid @BILD: "If there were a Palestinian state now, it would be ruled by Hamas and we would have a Taliban-like state. A satellite state of Iran. Is that what the progressives of the Western left want to create?" https://t.co/FJXyozwbc8 — Yaki Lopez 🎗️🇮🇱 (@YakiLopez) May 19, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Well…

We've seen before how the Met tackle Iranian dissidents at the Free Palestine marches – arresting anyone who dares challenge the Hamas-as-anti-imperialist-heroes line by pointing out that Hamas are, in fact, terrorists. Well, here we go again: This is footage which shows how the @metpoliceuk are falling over themselves to do the bidding of the…