I just came across this, from Honest Reporting. Well worth a watch. I’m currently reading Yardena Schwartz’s Ghosts of a Holy War, on the 1929 Hebron Massacre. It was, she writes, a precursor of the 7th October pogrom. Arabs and Jews had lived together peacefully for years and years in Hebron, Judaism’s second holiest city.…

Who’d have thought lovely super-moral Noam Chomsky, scourge of US imperialism and defender of the down-trodden masses, would be an Epstein pal: Jeffrey Epstein sought advice from linguist Noam Chomsky over what he called “putrid” media coverage of sex trafficking allegations against him, new files show..… In 2023, Noam Chomsky, 97, told the Wall Street…

It turns out they’re doing fine. Matt Ridley in the Spectator: The BBC reported terrible news last week about polar bears: they are thriving. This is very annoying of them as it goes against the interests of environmental activists, polar bears being the very emblem, mascot and clickbait of climate change cataclysm. But the bears’…

Masih Alinejad, in Tablet, with an open letter to NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani: While mass killings are unfolding in Iran, you have chosen silence. While women are being beaten, imprisoned, and killed for refusing compulsory hijab and the entire Islamic regime in Iran, you have offered no sympathy, no solidarity, not even a basic condemnation.…

Why did Putin not allow himself such brutal strikes on civilian infrastructure under Biden, whom Trump calls “weak,” but totally destroys peaceful cities and disregards the “strong Trump”?

The usual suspects – step forward Corbynite MP John McDonnell – are praising the Palestine Action acquittal. But Amnesty UK? It does nothing of the sort. These activists weren’t on trial for being members of a proscribed organisation: they were on trial for breaking and entering, criminal damage, and grievous bodily harm. On all of…

Palestine Action activists cleared over weapons factory attack: At Woolwich Crown Court, in south-east London, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin were found not guilty over allegations that they had used or threatened unlawful violence. Activists used an old prison van to ram-raid an Elbit Systems factory in…

Maya Forstater at The Critic on the puberty blocker trial: The government has licensed the “pathways” puberty blockers experiment to go ahead. Drugs used for chemical castration will be given to children with the hope of improving their mental wellbeing moderately for a few years. The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, is the man responsible. Clinicians…

Talking of Kathleen Stock (below)…. Fun fact: Sally Hines was her Doctoral student.