The root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict is that Israel wants to keep existing and the vast majority of Arabs want it to stop existing.
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) February 14, 2026
That’s it. It’s not actually that complicated. pic.twitter.com/MGTT5yAq6Y
Mick Hartley
Politics and Culture
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This is worth a read. Steve Silver – The Cairo Connection: Johann von Leers and the Rebirth of Nazi Propaganda:
The man who had once been one of Goebbels’ most loyal foot soldiers died in Cairo on March 5, 1965, at the age of 63. His death was marked by a funeral that reflected his dual identity: it was attended by both former SS officers and high-ranking Egyptian officials. He was given an Islamic funeral under his adopted name, Omar Amin.
Von Leers’ death did not signal the end of his influence; rather, it marked the successful implantation of his Hitlerite worldview into a new era. By the time he was laid to rest in 1965, he had kept the Nazi legacy alive in a way that his peers never managed: he had successfully rehashed 1930s antisemitism into the language of 20th-century anti-colonialism.
His “anti-Zionist” antisemitic propaganda efforts were to become so successful that their repercussions are felt more strongly today than they were in his lifetime, with the indoctrinated totally unaware of the provenance.
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When every cause becomes an excuse to target Jews, the far right, Islamists, the far left end up marching in the same direction.
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“We are facing a well funded regressive right wing movement and they really have placed trans people at the center of that effort… threats towards trans people are threats towards all women.”
But trans women are not women.
Why Trump won. And why the Dems need a clean-out. Urgently.
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A comprehensive take-down by Julie Bindel in the Mail on Sunday – Why Bridget Phillipson is the worst Education Secretary in memory:
A child’s first day at school is challenging enough. But now parents must worry that their four-year-old may come home in the afternoon professing to be a different gender.
This might sound far-fetched, but under new guidelines announced by Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, teachers will be allowed to affirm the gender choice of any child….
So when I read the Government’s new trans guidance for primary schools, released on Friday as a draft and now open to consultation, I sensed the hand of gender activists, whose chief concern is not for child welfare but for political ideology.
But let’s not be surprised by Phillipson’s relaxed attitude to safety in the classroom, given her department’s recent directive to headteachers, as revealed in today’s Mail on Sunday, not to expel children caught carrying knives.
It is, apparently, better for them to be kept in school, while the wellbeing of their classmates and teachers takes a back seat.
Following her absurd Marxist attacks on the successful academy system, her VAT raid on private schools and her wilful ignorance of free speech issues on university campuses, her latest interventions prove she is not only the worst, but the most dangerous Education Secretary in living memory.…
Bridget Is ruining children’s lives out of an ideological blindness and a desire to look and feel like she is a good person.
And teachers won’t speak out about it because it is the Labour Party. They won’t break ranks.
On top of all that, there’s Phillipson’s role as Minister for Women and Equalities, where she’s been sitting on the EHRC single-sex ruling for months now, in the hope that it’ll go away.
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After ignoring the slaughter of the innocents in Iran, BBC reporter Lyse Doucet reported from Tehran on the public holiday last week, “where it feels like a family festival”. How lovely.
Now – the lead item on the BBC website – she’s interviewing the Iranian deputy Foreign Minister:
Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the US if the Americans are willing to discuss lifting sanctions, an Iranian minister has told the BBC.
US officials have repeatedly emphasised that Iran, not the US, is holding up progress in this protracted negotiating process.
On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump preferred a deal but it was “very hard to do” one with Iran.
But in an interview with the BBC in Tehran, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said the ball was “in America’s court to prove that they want to do a deal”, adding: “If they are sincere, I’m sure we will be on the road to an agreement.”
This is a rogue regime. It’s busy slaughtering a whole generation of young Iranians. But for the BBC It’s just another country where leaders can be interviewed with the full solemnity and deference appropriate to a foreign dignitary. For them there’s only one rogue regime in the Middle East – and it’s not Iran.
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Are we surprised?
This definition — now rebranded as “anti-Muslim hostility” — will have a chilling effect on free speech. It will silence legitimate criticism of Islam and its practices, and deter open discussion of serious public concerns, including the grooming gangs scandal and Islamist extremism.
So who is behind Britain’s new Muslim blasphemy law? FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK has published a new briefing exposing the Working Group’s members and their links to Islamists.
Full report here.
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