“The Palestine cause has destroyed the Middle East and Lebanon.” Lebanese journalist Tony Boulous at MEMRI TV. “It is clear the Middle East has changed, and if we do not join in, and if we continue to talk about “the Zionist Enemy” and “the brutal imperialist enemy”…these things have become laughable. Concepts like “global imperialism”…

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib talks to a Palestinian economist about the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza: Motivated to serve his people and country, the economist shared with me that the World Bank’s James Wolfensohn spent his own money to preserve Gaza’s greenhouses and to implement extensive plans to protect what remained of the infrastructure left behind…

Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times interviews the three For Women Scotland campaigners whose case led to the Supreme Court judgment, on biological sex as the criterion for women-only spaces. We won the Supreme Court sex ruling. The PM is subverting it: Susan Smith, 53, a former financial adviser and one of FWS’s three founding…

Can he put a foot right? Starmer again: Sir Keir Starmer nominated a former adviser for a peerage despite knowing he campaigned for a councillor who had been charged with child sex offences. Matthew Doyle, who was the Downing Street director of communications until March, is due to take a seat in the Lords early…

Interviewed in the Times: Lydon is sceptical of the new wave of punk bands. “You could be influenced by my earlier work, but please don’t show any signs of imitating it,” he says. “You have to have your own ideas.” He finds Bob Vylan, the group who chanted, “Death to the IDF,” at Glastonbury, “rather…

They know best what’s good for us.

An interesting couple of reports from MEMRI. First up, a recent article in the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq, resurrecting the Protocols, on the Zionists’ wicked plot to take over the world: As Vasily Grossman said: ‘Tell me what you accuse the Jews of, and I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.’ Which brings us to…

Romi Gonen interviewed here. “I was going to be his sex slave for life”.