Mona Marin, Israeli Arab woman, world-renowned neurosciences scientist, named dean of Haifa University. This is happening in Israel. When will 1 Jew be appointed to 1 such prestigious position in a Muslim country?
Can we stop hearing Israel is an 'apartheid State'? pic.twitter.com/HrXxIbmLWV— Dame BillieSt Unit 8200 🎗️ (@somesayparsley) May 17, 2024
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Raiding the catalogue of Café Royal Books again, this time with photographer George Wright:
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The US medical establishment, it seems, is unimpressed with the Cass Report.
A month after the publication of her report into youth gender services in the UK, Dr Hilary Cass has been doing the rounds in the American media. This week, she gave an interview to the New York Times on her research, which found “remarkably weak” evidence for paediatric gender transitions.
Speaking to the NYT, she said that “the real problem is that the evidence is very weak compared to many other areas of paediatric practice”, adding, “I can’t think of any other situation where we give life-altering treatments and don’t have enough understanding about what’s happening to those young people in adulthood.”
The Cass Report cast serious doubts on the model in use in many Western countries, including the US, in which clinicians automatically affirm children’s trasngender identities and recommend cross-sex medical interventions for minors. While the UK was quick to restrict puberty blockers and other interventions in light of the report, the American medical establishment has doubled down on supporting gender transitions for young people.
The Endocrine Society, which supports puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, told the NYT this week that the Cass Report “does not contain any new research” that would contradict those guidelines.
Stephen Hammes, the organisation’s president, also defended its position in the Wall Street Journal last year. “More than 2,000 studies published since 1975 form a clear picture: Gender-affirming care improves the well-being of transgender and gender-diverse people and reduces the risk of suicide,” he wrote.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, one of the most vocal champions within the US medical establishment of child gender transitions, declined to comment on the Cass Report for the NYT story and instead reiterated its opposition to legal restrictions on the practice. The AAP’s 2018 statement in support of child gender transitions calls for minors to have access to “comprehensive, gender-affirming, and developmentally appropriate health care”, for doctors to advocate for laws expanding access to such treatments, and for children’s medical charts to reflect their gender identity rather than their biological sex.
The American Medical Association, which supports cross-sex treatments for minors and resolved last year to intensify its lobbying efforts in support of youth access to gender transitions, has not yet made a public statement on the Cass Report.
Meanwhile, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) said Cass’s review was “rooted in the false premise that non-medical alternatives to care will result in less adolescent distress for most adolescents”.
Well yes, there's money to be made from all this "gender-affirming" care. But if that were the whole story, you'd expect the Republicans to be even keener than the Democrats – but that's not the case:
While many Western countries are restricting transgender treatments for children, there’s no end in sight in the US, where the debate has taken on distinctly partisan contours. Red states have attempted to ban the procedures, while the Biden administration has promoted childhood gender transitions throughout the federal government.
At bottom, then, it's about the ideology. The left buys into the gender cult, under the familiar mantra that "gender-affirming care" – puberty blockers and all the rest – reduces the risk of suicide.
A new study hot off the press has confirmed what most of us already knew: people who get "gender-affirming" surgery have more than 12 times higher instances of suicide attempts than those who don't get the surgeries.
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🚨URGENT UPDATE🚨
“I need the help of all of you…may their hearts soften and forgive my son.”
The Iranian Jewish man due to be executed by the Islamic Regime has been identified as 20 year old Arvin Netanel.
Arvin loaned money to a Muslim man who refused to pay him back. When… https://t.co/jDPtY1hdia pic.twitter.com/o7TGeELEtF
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The Iranian Jewish man due to be executed by the Islamic Regime has been identified as 20 year old Arvin Netanel.
Arvin loaned money to a Muslim man who refused to pay him back. When confronted, the Muslim man attacked Arvin with a knife. Arvin fought back in self defense and the Muslim man was accidentally killed.
Under Sharia Law, since Arvin is Jewish, the family of the slain Muslim man can demand the death penalty, WITHOUT ANY LEGAL DUE PROCESS.
If the situation were reversed, a non-Muslim would NOT have the same right.
Arvin’s family has begged the Muslim man’s family to show mercy, and have even offered financial compensation, but the family has refused. They demand that the Jewish man be put to DEATH.
Arvin’s desperate mother is begging the international community to raise awareness of Arvin’s impending execution which has been postponed to Monday.
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The latest from Reduxx.
A trans-identified male inmate appears to have been transferred back to a men’s prison after being charged with rape while in custody at a women’s prison. Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, a male who identifies as a woman, was housed at the Central California Women’s Facility [CCWF] when the sexual assault took place but has since been moved to Kern Valley State Prison.
Carroll’s criminal history dates back to 1988, when he began participating in organized crime at just 15 years old. In 1990, Carroll would be convicted for his participation in an armed robbery where he and several other men broke into an apartment occupied by two women. The women were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and held under demand of ransom.
Despite being only 17 years old, the brutality of the crime resulted in Carroll being charged as an adult with three counts of kidnapping for ransom, two counts of robbery, and three counts of oral copulation by force.
Then the California self-ID law for criminals came in, and Tremaine suddenly became "Tremayne".
But in a case filed in March of 2021, Carroll suddenly invoked SB-132, also known as the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act. The law had been implemented just three months prior, and formally established the ability of inmates to be housed on the basis of their gender identity in California.
And off he goes, this violent sexual predator, to the women's prison. What could possibly go wrong?
The ACLU were involved, of course:
Ironically, Carroll is one of the trans-identified males intervening in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent males from being housed in women’s prisons in California. The lawsuit, launched against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, includes four female inmates who all stated they had been victimized by trans-identified male transfers.
In 2022, the ACLU intervened in the case, suggesting that the state of California could not adequately fight the lawsuit and represent the interests of trans-identified males.
In his sworn testimony collected by the ACLU for the case, Carroll declared: “I know what it feels like to live in fear and to carry the weight of the past abuse by men. But I am not a threat [to women]. I strongly believe that everyone here at CCWF would benefit from more structured interaction — opportunities to sit and talk with each other and realize that we’re all in the same boat.”
Added: there are protests:
Today we are here in the CA Superior Court of Madera to protest the fact that a male inmate is being charged w/2 counts of rape after being placed in the women's facility.
It is 2024 everyone knows that men are not women and they should not be in women's prisons. @sharonevolving https://t.co/8ywckvtDgb pic.twitter.com/pve0cqiPFb— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) May 18, 2024
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One of the three bodies of hostages recovered by the IDF today.
The image of Shani Louk’s body displayed as a trophy on the back of a Hamas truck should have been the end of them. Instead it sparked worldwide support for their aims and an explosion of antisemitism. I’ll never understand it. https://t.co/Qgz3ZobOCU
— Shelagh Fogarty (@ShelaghFogarty) May 17, 2024
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It gets weirder…
HAHA! The only politician whose career BEGINS with perverted photos appearing online! https://t.co/QizDvfmvCF pic.twitter.com/9Dj3Md74rM
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) May 17, 2024
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From the Telegraph:
Students who have raised concerns over anti-Semitism at Oxford University have been told they should leave, a letter from staff and students claims.
The letter, sent to Prof Irene Tracey, the university’s vice-chancellor, as well as deans and proctors, claims that there has been a lack of aid and sympathy for Jews, who face harassment and a hostile environment on campus.
The letter, whose signatories wish to remain anonymous, also accused the university of promoting “conspiratorial narratives”, as well as failure in reporting procedures in the past seven months.
They claim the university is becoming a “no-go area” for Jews and Israelis and that when some individuals raised concerns to their heads of programmes, they were “simply advised to leave Oxford”.
The letter, seen by The Telegraph, states: “We have felt isolated, unsafe, targeted, stressed, disappointed, angry and hopeless. Many of us have faced all manners of anti-Semitic slurs.”
It also details a list of 70 incidents that are alleged to have occurred since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on Oct 7.
The letter says a group of students told a Jewish student that “the Jews control the American government”, “Jews are everywhere”, and that they had “a Jewish nose”.
In another incident, the signatories said: “In vigils for the [Israeli] hostages, university members, mainly students, shouted at us, told us we are kid murderers, that we are spreading conspiracy theories and ‘Zionist propaganda’, and they vandalised our displays for the hostages. In fact, almost every time we did such a display, it was vandalised by organised groups from the university.”
They also claim that calls for violence are constantly heard in pro-Palestinian protests in Oxford, such as calling for the elimination of the Jewish state, “Palestine from the river to the sea”, “Intifada”, “the resistance is justified”, “globalise the Intifada”, “Israel is a terror state”, “From Oxford to Gaza: long live the Intifada”, “Israel, Oxford, USA, how many kids did you kill today?”.
It rhymes! So clever. A copy, of course, of the old Vietnam protest chant "Hey hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" But with considerably less force. It's all tawdry and secondhand – and powered by the usual antisemitic tropes.
The letter, which was sent last week, states: “Those places at the university, sometimes during working hours, became a no-go area for most Israelis and Jewish for seven months now.”
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Jewish student who is one of the letter’s authors, said: “This has been an issue since October and the university has not addressed anything or given any resources to dealing with this.
“There seems to be a problem regarding the academic information given out by the university on the matter of Jewish and Israeli people. Faculty members and hosted speakers feel comfortable to really spread misinformation without any type of monitoring from the university or any type of response. This just creates this mentality where people feel comfortable to tell other Jewish students that they control the banks and that anti-Semitism doesn’t exist – and this is Oxford University.”
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From the Cumberland News:
A supermarket worker who made indecent images of a child failed to attend court because she was scared to face ‘who she used to be’.
Emma Davies, 59, admitted making two Category C indecent images of a child when she appeared before magistrates in Workington on Tuesday.
She also admitted she had failed to surrender to court bail the previous day and apologised to magistrates for this.
Davies said: “Because of who I now am, although the responsibility is now mine, the person I used to be, throughout my life, this has always been there.
“I was having to face who I used to be. I was terrified. I didn’t know how you were going to address me in court. That played with my anxiety.” Referring to a name change, the defendant added: “It’s a legal status now and everything.”
This is, in other words, a man, charged with a serious sexual offence, who now plays the victim since he's grown his hair and claims to be a woman.
[Image (edited): Newsquest]Davies, of Moor Place, Frizington, was granted bail, with conditions not to reside at any premises where children under the age of 18 are present and not to have any unsupervised contact with children under 18, as is unavoidable in the course of everyday life.
This would allow the defendant to continue her job at Asda, the court heard.
Keith Southward, chair of the magistrates’ panel, told Davies: “You will be addressed as you wish to be addressed, so don’t worry about it.”
Well phew. We'd hate to see him misgendered or anything.
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This May and every May, Palestinians around the world mourn over 70 years of what they term “Zionist imperialism” and the “nakba” (catastrophe) they have endured. The prevailing narrative tells the story of “white” Jewish Europeans colonizing the land of the indigenous “brown”… pic.twitter.com/gSkA3BKriT
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This May and every May, Palestinians around the world mourn over 70 years of what they term “Zionist imperialism” and the “nakba” (catastrophe) they have endured. The prevailing narrative tells the story of “white” Jewish Europeans colonizing the land of the indigenous “brown” Palestinians, within the context of European colonialism and white supremacy. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict garners significant global attention, with Palestinians and their advocates being particularly vocal.
However, lost in the debate over the Palestinian experience are the stories of tens of millions of victims of genocide, expulsion, and forced assimilation under Arab and Turkish imperialism. My family, with Amazigh Jewish roots on my father's side and Babylonian (Iraqi) Jewish roots on my mother's, experienced expulsion and persecution, leading me to discover these largely untold stories.
Many other groups have faced similar persecution without restitution or the “right of return,” and the global community remains silent. Why the double standards?
Over the past 150 years, similar “nakbas” have occurred among those indigenous to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
The approximate number of victims from less-publicized genocides includes Assyrians (300,000 from 1914-1920), Armenians (1.5 million from 1914-1923), Kurds (50,000-180,000 from 1986-1989), Greeks (450,000-750,000 from 1913-1920), Yazidis (10,000 in 2014 alone), and Sudanese in Darfur (300,000 from 2003-2009).
Victims of expulsion and persecution leading to emigration include Lebanese Maronites (8-14 million in the diaspora, 4 million in Lebanon), Assyrian Christians (15 million in the diaspora and in Syria), and Armenians under the Turkish Empire (11 million in the diaspora today). In Lebanon and Syria, nationality laws deliberately bar Christians from returning, ensuring a Muslim Arab majority in these countries.
From North African and Middle Eastern Jewish communities, 850,000 Jews were expelled or forced to flee, with one million Copts leaving Egypt. Even where expulsions or emigrations did not occur, widespread persecution did. Forced assimilation affected Berbers, Kurds, and Sudanese, with Arabization policies implemented in schools and government institutions since the 1960s. Berber only became an official language in Algeria in 2002; Kurdish was forbidden in Turkish media until then; and in Yemen, Jewish children were taken from their families for forced conversions. Numerous similar examples of persecution against Jewish communities persisted throughout the Middle East into the late 20th century. To this day, no restitution has been made for these heinous crimes.
These are not stories typically heard in newspapers, universities, or at social gatherings in cities like London and Paris, and certainly not on channels like Al Jazeera or Turkish television. Instead, major outlets like CNN, BBC, and academic faculties in Middle Eastern studies often depict the region as being Turkish, Arab, and Iranian since ancient times. These same sources highlight 'European' and 'Zionist' aggression while ignoring the histories of other groups in the region.
When confronted with the historical realities of Turkish and Arab oppression, these crimes are often whitewashed, with claims that the Ottoman and Arab Empires were peaceful and tolerant. These narratives overlook the fact that many groups, such as Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Jews, and Lebanese Christians, sought independence from these empires. Smaller groups appealing to Western Europeans for help were met with violence from the imperial powers seeking to preserve their dominance.
From the 1880s to 1923, Pan-Turkish and Pan-Arab movements claimed lands conquered under their rule as settler colonialists. The Pan-Turks pursued genocides against Greeks, Assyrians, and Armenians, while ensuring forced assimilation for Kurds and Assyrians and expelling Greeks and Armenians.
Pan-Arabs claimed areas settled during medieval times as original Arab homelands, and after aiding the British in overcoming the Ottoman Empire, pursued imperialistic goals in multicultural countries, forcing Arab culture upon Assyrians, Amazigh, Maronites, and Egyptian Copts.
By the 1940s, the Arab League sought to Arabize North Africa and the Middle East, implementing policies of Arabization and forced assimilation.
At the Versailles Treaty (1919) all indigenous peoples of the Middle East— Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Maronites—called for national self-determination.
However, only the Jews and Armenians, under British and Russian rule respectively, achieved independence.
As activists campaign to commemorate Palestinian Arab refugees of the Arab-Israeli conflict, I wish these advocates would extend half of the sympathy they have for Palestinians to the millions truly oppressed by imperial powers throughout history and today.
Mick Hartley 