At one point, the owners reported receiving up to 1,000 hate messages per hour, including death threats, not over policy, but simply over identity. What’s happening to Boker Tov is part of a wider pattern across Europe: Cultural spaces, businesses, and everyday life becoming hostile terrain for anything visibly Jewish or Israeli. History has seen…

This is very, well….sweet. From 2011 – though it has more of the feel of fifty or more years ago. In Dudley. From the late much-missed Martin Parr:

Mani Basharzad at the Spectator – The West will regret not intervening in Iran: The longest war of the twentieth century was between Iran and Iraq and lasted for eight years. Yet during those eight years, Iraq killed fewer Iranian civilians than the Islamic Republic has reportedly killed in the past two weeks. The regime’s security forces…

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From the Telegraph: The NHS has defended cousin marriage because most do not lead to birth defects, it has emerged. Midwives have been told about the benefits of “close relative marriage” in training documents that minimise the risks to couples’ children. The documents claim “85 to 90 per cent of cousin couples do not have affected children”…

They’re playing videos and messages of solidarity from the outside world. They’re showing our protests, the support from elected officials, the encouragement from the Crown Prince, and the international community. On the screen, the messages tell them to keep going, to keep fighting, that we are with them, and that freedom is the closest it’s…

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A parable for our times, from the Mail: Stek Oost, located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam, was sold to the Netherlands as the dream solution to the housing and refugee crisis. A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to ‘buddy up’ so the migrants…

Nora Bussigny in the Times of Israel: If antisemitism has long plagued France, dating back to the Middle Ages, it’s now metastasizing in new, alarming ways, according to a recently published book by French journalist Nora Bussigny. Titled “Les Nouveaux Antisémites” (“The New Antisemites”), it exposes virulent Jew-hatred endemic to many far-left organizations in France,…

Very depressing. From the Times – Number of schools marking Holocaust has halved since Oct 7. More than 2,000 secondary schools around the UK had signed up to events commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day in 2023, which takes place on January 27, according to data from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Until that year, those taking…