This makes my blood boil. The poor girls being told they are just not worthy of their wins, places, tv interviews, opportunities & scholarships in their own sports category 😡… this male would not make top 100 amongst other males. It’s cheating!!! https://t.co/dZsaaM1Uvz
— Sharron Davies HoL MBE (@sharrond62) April 13, 2026
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The Arab Case for Israel, by Hussain Abdul-Hussain:
Before the State of Israel emerged, Arab nationalism and Islamism rejected the European-crafted state boundaries in the Middle East, including the concept of Palestine. Instead, these nations aspired to forge a unified Arab or Muslim nation. This grand vision, however, never materialized. The notion of Palestine as a distinct entity emerged in 1964, largely driven by inter-Arab rivalries rather than a historical reality. Since then, Palestinians have cultivated a narrative of a lost state that, in truth, never existed as a sovereign entity. Their collective aspiration for a “return” is less about reclaiming a physical homeland and more about yearning for a time when Israel did not exist. This imagined past fuels a vision that, if realized, risks creating yet another unstable state, given the challenges faced by many Arab nations today, including neighboring Syria and further away Iraq, where peace is always tenuous and civil war haunting these countries and their failing states.
From a review in the Jerusalem Post:
The author makes two compelling overall observations: that the Jewish state is good for the Arabs; and that the Arabs have never articulated a cogent alternative, dwelling on an imagined past rather than an imagined future.
“Palestinians have always wanted to rewind the clock, but to what time, exactly?… The problem for Palestinians has been that no matter which period in history they chose, they would never find a time when the Arabs of Palestine were sovereign over the land,” he writes.
“Throughout history, the only locals to have ever been sovereign over the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea were… the Jews.”
And, “Palestinians have never admitted their inability to imagine a future modern Palestine, or their failure to build a single modern institution in their history, let alone to build and manage a functioning state that is not the kind of medieval Islamist emirate that Hamas constructed in Gaza after 2007.”….
Abdul-Hussain observes, “Since the time Muslims gained power over Jews and others in the region, they had treated them the same way they treated one another: coercion by violence. Originally, this was typical for empires subjugating those they colonized. But since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, it took on nationalistic characteristics, and this was when the story of Palestine was honed, evolving into the imagined nationality that we see today: the one that claims to have unfairly lost its sovereignty to the Jewish state, despite never having existed as a sovereign state.”
Concerning the explosive topic of Jerusalem, he discovered that “In over two millennia, since the Arabic language first started taking shape, there was never an Arab or Muslim dynasty that considered Jerusalem to be its capital.”
These and many other revelations led him to believe that “Perhaps if the Arabs, including Palestinians, realize that their national identity is not as ancient and fixed as they think, they will find it easier to trade it for more useful advantages, such as a higher standard of living.”
Abdul-Hussain calls for Arab introspection and a substantial adjustment of their viewpoint “not only to let Jews live in peace, but for the sake of a better future for the Palestinians and all the Arabs.”
If they ever choose to “prioritize measurable higher living standards over unquantifiable, manufactured, and manipulative concepts of pride, dignity, and national sovereignty, they will realize that peace with Israel, rather than defeating it, is their actual victory.”…
“It is Palestinians that need to be liberated, not Palestine,” he declares.
“Arab society is perhaps one of the most violent on the planet today … whether in the form of militias, bandits, secret police, thugs, honor crimes, and domestic abuse. Yet now, since the theory of ‘decolonization’ has become all the rage in Western academia, inadequate Islamic traditions that should be replaced with modern ideals are being praised as indigenous.”
See here for more on settler colonialism, and the absurity of applying it to the case of Israel.
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From the article:
On 26 August 2025, Ali posted: ‘England has a government overrepresented with Zionists Jews.’ Among these, she appears to count Keir Starmer, saying that he is a ‘Jewish Zionist.’ In June that year, she opined: ‘The Israeli survivors of the Holocaust are systematically repeating the sins of the Nazis. Mass starvation is cheaper than gas chambers, but no less evil.’ Another post, with a picture of another stereotypical Jew, says: ‘Don’t you know the rules? We went through the Holocaust, and now we get to kill everyone, forever!!’ Donald Trump is ‘owned by Jews’, according to an image she posted in November 2024.
On the subject of 7 October, she posted an image saying the situation demands that ‘Palestinians resist, by any and all means. Last October, some of them did precisely that.’ Other posts on her account make clear that Israel’s complete obliteration is her goal. Last month, during Iran’s bombing of US bases in the Gulf, she said: ‘Don’t ask why Iran is bombing enemy bases in Arab countries. Ask why enemy bases exist in Arab countries.’ On Facebook, Ali says that 9/11 was a ‘false flag attack’ created by Israel, and that Israel may also have killed Charlie Kirk….
Not a great deal about the environment. But then this is is the new-look, antisemitism-friendly, Green Party.
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We heard about Kimjongunism the other week – the ideological shift in North Korea where the cult of the Great Leader and the Dear Leader is being replaced by the cult of Kim Jong Un. More now from the Daily NK:
North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), held in February 2026, sidelining the ideological legacies of his predecessors and generating widespread confusion among ordinary North Koreans, a source inside the country told Daily NK on Monday.
Political education sessions held at institutions, enterprises, and neighborhood watch units across the country have increasingly centered on what authorities are calling “Kim Jong Un ideology” and his leadership achievements, according to a source in North Hamgyong province. Lecture materials and study guides distributed after the Ninth Party Congress have shifted away from the teachings and instructions of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, instead presenting Kim Jong Un’s directives and vision as the sole standard of the current revolutionary era.
Instructors at political sessions have reportedly told participants that Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il “remain only as historical symbols of their respective eras, enshrined alongside the immortality towers. All current policy must be grounded strictly in the instructions of Marshal Kim Jong Un.” The shift has left a growing number of North Koreans disoriented.
“Since the Ninth Party Congress, a storm of Kim Jong Un-ism has been blowing,” the source said. “The teachings of the former leaders are being pushed aside and forgotten. The sense of mission demanding absolute obedience to the Marshal’s orders is being hammered home, and it’s causing enormous confusion among the people.”
Kim Jong Un ideology, it seems, also has an economic dimension: more state control, less private enterprise. L’état, c’est Kim Jong Un. The totalitarian ratchet works only one way.
The confusion has been compounded by an economic directive that arrived March 31, ordering that donju (wealthy entrepreneurs who operate semi-independently within North Korea’s informal market economy) and private economic actors be fully brought under state control by Oct. 10, the anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s founding.
The order, which represents a sharp departure from the tacit tolerance of market activity that has characterized recent years, has sent anxiety spreading through the population. The source said authorities are now framing the affluent merchant class as “remnants of class struggle,” with privately run shops and food service businesses being transferred wholesale into state ownership.
“The move to forcibly incorporate donju into the framework of socialist workers is shocking people,” the source said. “Businesses that were operated with private capital are being absorbed by the state all at once.”
North Korea has long relied on donju and private economic activity as a de facto pillar of economic stability amid chronic shortages, but the post-Ninth Congress policy shift signals the regime’s intent to bring that sector under direct state management.
The tightening grip of political and economic control since the party congress has prompted some North Koreans to express nostalgia for the Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il eras.
“During the times of the Great Leader and the General, the state couldn’t solve people’s livelihood problems, but it at least guaranteed the ability to trade and make a living,” the source said. “People say that life was hard then too, but the Marshal’s era is many times harder and more frightening.”
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Not quite yet. They’ve won the right to appeal against the decision that lesbians can’t meet without men
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From the Times – Bridget Phillipson calls for trans guidance to be more inclusive:
Bridget Phillipson told Britain’s equality regulator that it must “tone down” its guidance over single-sex spaces and make it more inclusive before she presents it to parliament, The Times understands.
In other words, drop all that stuff about single-sex spaces. Think of the poor trans community….
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Vile.
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…who was hanged shortly after the war in the trial of Belsen.
Adolf Eichmann’s defence in his trial was that he was merely a cog in the Nazi machine – just following orders. Arendt, seeing this unprepossessing man in the dock, swallowed Eichmann’s line completely – hence her phrase “the banality of evil” in her 1963 book “Eichmann in Jerusalem”. In fact, as we now know, Eichmann was a fanatical Nazi who later expressed regret that more Jews hadn’t been killed. Fortunately the Israelis weren’t as gullible as Arendt and hanged the bastard.
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And a Times editorial:
Thursday marks a year since the Supreme Court delivered one of its most important rulings to date. In declaring that sex should be defined purely by biology, the court injected clarity and common sense into an issue beset by trans ideology. The court sided with For Women Scotland, a campaign group, which argued that protections based on sex should apply only to biological females, and against the Scottish government, which argued such rights should be extended to biological men describing themselves as women.
It was hoped that this ruling would mark the end of the “gender wars” that for years have been fought by trans activists. Instead, the past 12 months have brought only dithering by a government that appears reluctant to accept and implement the court’s verdict. Despite the lack of legal ambiguity in what defines a “man” and a “woman”, the education secretary Bridget Phillipson, who doubles as equalities minister, has yet to publish official guidance on how the court’s ruling should be put into operation. It is remarkable and disturbing that ministers see nothing wrong in frustrating the will of Britain’s highest court.
Especially given Starmer’s near-obsession with following the law.
The government says it must “get this right”, but in reality it appears to be happier doing nothing. It is to be regretted that Ms Phillipson has failed to respect the law and publish guidance in good time. This is political foot-dragging of the highest order. The result is that organisations in the public and private sectors may be breaking the law while awaiting instruction on, for example, the provision of lavatory facilities. This is especially concerning for institutions such as hospitals and leisure centres, which look to Whitehall for guidelines.
Mick Hartley 