Alex Hearn in the JC on the cowardice that led people to go along with a small, organised mob stirring up hatred against Jews: The huge spike in hate-crime attacks came as reports of October 7 emerged in 2023. But what made the last two and a half years remarkable was not the hatred itself…

More from Andrew Gilligan at the Spectator on the deranged antisemites still standing as Green candidates: A Green candidate in this week’s council elections says the White House should be blown up, described Hamas taking ‘filthy hostages,’ and denies that anyone was raped by the terror group on 7 October. Feda Shahin, a Green candidate…

Some good news… And this…

Everyone goes on about the difficult conversations we need to have about the rise in antisemitism, but they then back away from actually having any of these difficult conversations. Paul Stott in the Spectator on the refusal to name names: To address any problem, it must be named. In Golders Green, ministers and senior police…

Melanie Phillips on good form in the Times this morning – Dangerous Palestinianism has gripped politics: The local government elections this week will have a very odd aspect. In electing people to busy themselves with bin collections, planning applications and mending potholes, an apparently sizeable number of people, namely left-wingers and Muslims, will be voting…

From Reduxx: A trans-identified male freshman from an elite school in California won the Women’s Varsity 400-meter race at the Prep League Championship Finals last week, defeating a number of more experienced female athletes to the title, including his own sister. Paul Haaga, also known as “Lina,” won the girls’ final with a time of 59.45 seconds. His…

Argentinian photographer Irina Werning has spent years travelling across South America for her ongoing project Las Pelilargas, documenting the women and girls for whom long hair is a proud cultural tradition. What she found over nearly two decades was that traditions were evolving, with long hair functioning as both a mark of continuity and, in some…

From the Telegraph – Cambridge fails to suspend students who threatened to kill classmate over Israel trip. A University of Cambridge college has been criticised after it failed to suspend students who made death threats against an undergraduate who visited Israel. The visit, organised by the Pinsker Centre think tank, took Oxbridge student leaders to Israel, where…

From the Times of Israel: A choral concert fundraiser for the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack at a Jewish event in Sydney has been canceled after local Greek singers opposed singing alongside their Jewish counterparts in the planned joint performance. The two-hour benefit concert, titled Concert for Hope and Unity, was to feature…