Huda Kattan, the Iraqi-American mogul behind Huda Beauty who’s “mastered the art of blending creativity with entrepreneurship”, is in a spot of bother. In July 2025, Kattan posted a video to TikTok in support of antisemitic conspiracy theories claiming that Jews and Israel were behind World Wars I and II, the September 11 attacks, and the October 7 attacks. The video was then taken down by TikTok, while French cosmetics retailer Sephora pledged…

The Stonewall effect. Yes. it still lingers. From the Telegraph: A police force has been accused of prioritising “ideology over accuracy” by allowing detainees to choose their gender. Norfolk Constabulary confirmed that “in most cases” the force recorded the self-identified gender of suspects. The policy has been criticised by women’s rights groups, who fear that it skews…

It’s not difficult. It’s not complicated.

Walthamstow this morning.

The Times – Ofsted finds school that uninvited Jewish MP is ‘inclusive’. The education watchdog has found no evidence of political bias at a Bristol school that cancelled a visit from a Jewish MP after staff and activists threatened to protest. Ofsted inspectors found that Bristol Brunel Academy had “a deep understanding of fundamental British…

I posted last week on the Kurdish woman featured on MEMRI TV, campaigning against the Arab betrayal of the Kurds as Syrian forces close in on Kabani. It’s not just an Arab betrayal though, as Roger Boyes shows in the Times. It’s an American betrayal too. The Kurdish-majority town of Kobani in northern Syria, a…

From Rawadari, an Afghan human rights organisation – Taliban’s New Law Legalises Slavery In Afghanistan, Makes Mullahs Immune. At the centre of the controversy is Article 9, which divides Afghan society into four categories: religious scholars (ulama or mullah), the elite (ashraf), the middle class, and the lower class. Under this system, punishment for the…

The state of the US academy, pt. 373: Just three days after Hamas’ deadly rampage that killed at least 1,219 people and the kidnapping of 251 hostages, DeCristo wrote that “one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda & misinformation … they have…

Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator, on Holocaust remembrance 81 years after the liberation of Auschwitz: How many Jews do you think there are in the world? Out of 8.1 billion people alive today, we are just 0.194 per cent of the world’s population. There are only around 15.7 million of us. The worldwide Jewish population…