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…

Hen Massig: Iranians are calling the regime’s massacre a ‘genocide.’ They are already talking about the day the regime will fall and promising ‘Nuremberg-style trials’ for those who have spilled the blood of their children. For three weeks, we watched history repeating itself. Religious and ethnic minorities, who have already faced the brunt of the…

“UNISON has a membership that is around 75% female, yet its response to a legal ruling about women being unlawfully required to share changing rooms with a male colleague leads not with women’s rights – but with trans rights. “What exactly is being defended here? The right of trans people to fair treatment at work…

No surprises here. From the Telegraph: West Midlands Police is “institutionally anti-Semitic” and has repeatedly dismissed alleged hate crimes against Jews in Birmingham, a whistleblower has claimed. A dossier obtained by The Telegraph, including internal emails and police crime logs, appears to show West Midlands Police disregard complaints about alleged anti-Semitism and extremism raised by members of the Jewish…

We knew about this, but it’s worth a reminder. So prison guards are asked to hold a “wedding ceremony” the night before: raping the girls so they can be executed the next morning. This is the reality for women under the Islamic Republic.

They do love stressing “the economy” at the Beeb: Iran’s supreme leader has for the first time publicly acknowledged that thousands of people were killed, “some in an inhuman, savage manner”, during recent protests. A violent response to protests in Iran has claimed 3,090 lives, according to US-based Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA),…

Simon Sebag Montefiore expands on his earlier tweet on Iran, in the Times this morning: In Iran, the conditions for a successful revolution against a hated, brutal dictatorship seem ideal: aged dictator, corrupt and cruel regime, economic collapse, a resonant cause, brave crowds. In this era of lightning connectivity, the Ultra Age, we expect an…