This May and every May, Palestinians around the world mourn over 70 years of what they term “Zionist imperialism” and the “nakba” (catastrophe) they have endured. The prevailing narrative tells the story of “white” Jewish Europeans colonizing the land of the indigenous “brown”… pic.twitter.com/gSkA3BKriT — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 16, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: This…

Down the purity plughole. Exclusive: The Scottish Greens have expelled a number of members who declared "sex is a biological reality". An official complaint accused them of making the party less safe for trans and non-binary members. pic.twitter.com/fhaFjXkuHx — Holyrood magazine (@HolyroodDaily) May 16, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

If you enjoy vicious reviews – and who doesn't? – then this, from Tanya Gold in the JC, is well worth a read: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris’s 2018 novel about a Jew in Birkenau, has become a TV series because hunger for mainstream entertainment about the Shoah is insatiable. It is consoling –…

As Samuel Rubinstein argues, at UnHerd, the present emphasis at universities on social justice rather than the pursuit of truth and free enquiry has some unfortunate historical parallels: Columbia in 2024 is very far indeed from Heidelberg in 1933. Still, the history of the universities under Nazism, and of historians under Nazism in particular, gives…

And, on the subject of student demands, here's Michael Lind at Tablet: “The issue is not the issue.” This saying of the campus left is as true today as it was in the 1960s. Whatever the ostensible issue may be that provides the occasion for a nationwide wave of campus protests, the list of demands…

Canadian students demand the liberation of Palestine! A set of demands from the student union at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada (via Jerry Coyne): We demand: 1. Public disclosure of the entirety of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University investment portfolio. 2. Immediate divestment from all weapons manufacturing,…

Yes, that would be the Greens. From the JC: Three Green Party parliamentary candidates have shared incendiary material online including a video in which a woman claims “Zionists will drink the blood of Palestinians”, the JC can reveal. The disclosures, which follow a recent JC exposé of inflammatory posts by newly elected Green councillors, have heightened fears that the…

The descent of Owen Jones, pt. 73: Owen Jones platforming unsourced conspiracy theories that dehumanize Jews? Yes, that is utterly predictable. pic.twitter.com/3yAN0iwXCy — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 15, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Remember them, back in March? A women’s football competition has been branded “misogynist” after it was won by a team featuring five transgender players amid accusations one had broken an opponents’ leg in two places. Flying Bats FC won every match they played during the four-week Beryl Ackroyd Cup, including a 10-0 victory in which…

The Times headline – Don’t teach children about changing gender, schools told: Schools must not teach children that they can change their gender identity and should avoid “explicit” conversations about sex until they reach the age of 13, the government is to say. Ministers will warn schools on Thursday that gender identity is a highly…