News Round-Up
- “The shameful gloating at Israel” – Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s, but instead we find them siding with the Jew-haters against Israel, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Layla Moran embarrasses herself over Israel” – The Spectator draws attention to the Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman’s failure to condemn Hamas.
- “Migrants in Europe celebrate Hamas assault on Israel” – The Telegraph reports on videos of a camp in Greece that show Palestinians and other asylum seekers cheering on attacks from Gaza.
- “Islamist anti-Semitism is behind Israel’s darkest hour since the Yom Kippur war” – A direct line can be drawn from Hitler to Hamas, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Interview with Kevin McKernan, scientist who discovered DNA contamination in mRNA shots” – Rebekah Barnett interviews Kevin McKernan, the genomics scientist who first discovered plasmid DNA contamination in the mRNA Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines.
- “Why heat pumps will never work in Britain” – Sky-high costs and ill-suited properties are putting paid to Government rollout efforts, says Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
- “Eco council’s dirty little secret: How local authority is making life miserable for motorists as part of its climate change mission… while fuelling 387 of its 420 vehicles on diesel” – Oxfordshire County Council, which claims tackling climate change is its priority, is accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed 92% of its vehicles are diesel, reports the Mail.
- “I cannot support a Tory party in denial about immigration” – It’s clear Britain must leave the ECHR to get proper control of its borders, argues Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “Kevin Keegan’s right: female pundits shouldn’t raid men’s football” – Camilla Tominey backs the under-fire footballer in the Telegraph.
- “Yes, women football pundits are very irritating!” – “When football legend Kevin Keegan last week confessed that he wasn’t keen on female pundits discussing the men’s game, I fist-pumped as fervently as I do whenever Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min scores from an exquisite Richarlison assist,” writes Amanda Platell in the Mail.
- “How the woke Left took over the internet – and my part in it” – Graham Linehan writes in the Telegraph that he had a frontline seat to Twitter’s sinister rise, and how it spilled into the real world.
- “John Cleese struggles to get guests to discuss ‘woke issues’ on new show” – John Cleese has said he wants to discuss “woke issues” on his new show but is struggling to secure guests, suggesting they fear getting sacked, according to the Telegraph.
- “It isn’t easy being a gender critical Green” – Gender critical Green Party members are being treated poorly, says Nathan Williams in the Critic.
- “Is the countryside racist?” – The founder of a Muslim hiking group argues that, in Britain, “minority communities” are “edged out” of “rural spaces”. The Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon is not persuaded.
- “Rapists wrongly labelled as ‘women’ by police” – Police have adopted the self-declared gender of alleged sex attackers, despite the Home Secretary telling them not to, says the Telegraph.
- “The High Stakes in the Legal Battle for Free Speech” – The ongoing war between the U.S. Security State and the First Amendment is perhaps the most underreported development of the 21st century, and now Missouri v. Biden may bring it to the Supreme Court, says the Brownstone Institute.
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Why there will never be peace between Israel and the Palestinians; ”There is no room for discussion or concessions because of the nature of the foe as they communicate it to their people. An Egyptian Muslim cleric, Sheikh Masoud Anwar, on Al-Rahma TV on Jan. 9, 2009, also stated that negotiations with the Israelis were worthless because Jews could not be trusted. He declared: “The worst enemies of the Muslims — after Satan — are the Jews. Who said this? Allah did.” Indeed he did: it’s in the Qur’an (5:82). Numerous Muslim clerics have for many years contradicted the general assumption that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict was over land and could be settled through negotiations. As Barack Obama pressed Israel to resume peace talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in the summer of 2013, Sheikh Hammam Saeed, the leader of the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, thundered that eradicating all Jewish presence from the Holy Land was a matter of Islamic law. He termed the idea of a negotiated settlement “heresy, according to Islamic law, because Allah says that Palestine belongs to the Islamic nation, while they say that Palestine belongs to the Jews. Anyone who says that Palestine belongs to the Jews… Read more »
Latest leaflet – Stop the medical Global Coup
I’m sure everyone must have been thinking the same when we saw the early footage of trucks loaded with Hamas gunmen in Israel. How the hell did they just drive across the border? There’s even reports they paraglided over, but I haven’t seen any footage of that yet. ”There has never been a Hamas jihad offensive from Gaza of this magnitude. In fact, throughout the history of modern Israel, there has never been anything like this, even when the Jewish state faced jihad coalitions of the neighboring Arab states in major wars in 1948, 1967, and 1973. So how was Hamas able to do it? For one thing, it was Shabbat in Israel, and the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. In that, this latest jihad resembles the 1973 war, which was launched on Yom Kippur. The idea in both cases was to catch the Israelis napping and at minimal preparedness, with large numbers of military personnel off for the holiday. But that was by no means all. There were widespread reports that as Hamas’ relentless rocket barrage began, Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome missile defense system was down. Reports on this so far are sketchy, but if the Islamic Republic of Iran,… Read more »
Why would anyone doubt that Iran was behind this. They finance Hamas, arm Hamas and give diplomatic shelter to them. I don’t doubt they and their Russian and Chinese friends provide intelligence for Hamas.
biden recently released 6bn US dollars to Iran which helps them run their theocratic dictatorship.
the west needs to smell the coffee after abandoning thought of armed threats to the west when the USSR collapsed. “The end of history” was always junk but how convenient for politicians for a penchant for grand spending projects.
Yes the 6 billion gifted from Biden and now thousands of rockets launched on Israel along with all of the other weapons ( from Ukraine? ) Hamas have acquired to launch their assault, it is plain as day to anyone with eyes to see. My major concern is that they are going to start executing the hostages. I like Victor Davis Hanson’s assessment of the situation; ”This Biden State Department insanity cannot stand. So expect some apparatchik to take down this Munich-like posting as soon as possible. 2) The Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal that saw South Korea hand over embargoed Iranian money to Qatar—despite Tehran’s increased anti-Israeli rhetoric and its loud brag about the escalation. We should assume money for rockets (Hamas claims they have launched 5,000, and have received 100,000 of them via the Damascus airport) and weapons in general for Hamas were supplied by Iran, which again is likely the chief catalyst for this surprise attack. 3) Almost immediately, after his inauguration Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. And in unhinged fashion he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian journalist Robert Malley as America’s chief negotiator.… Read more »
Well we know that this war has the US written all over it ( enabled by the Biden administration, of course ) but is this for real? Seems more details are to follow..
*To be clear, my biggest concern right now and what I sincerely hope we find out more about today, is the safety of all those hostages that were taken in Israel. There were kids taken ffs!*
”DEVELOPING: Middle East Monitor reported that Joe Biden approved the release of $75 million dollar aid to Palestine just hours before the attack on Israel.
In a quiet move bypassing Republican obstructionism, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has approved the release of $75 million in crucial food assistance for Palestinians just hours before the funds were set to be redistributed elsewhere.
UNRWA has been a frequent target of Republicans. After he assumed office, President Joe Biden reversed ex-President Donald Trump’s efforts to squeeze off funding to the UN agency and Palestinians generally.”
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1710881590421733563
All you need to know about the Greens and “gender”…
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/green-party-failed-to-properly-investigate-child-abuser-report
“The Green party should have looked more carefully into the background of a man who twice served as one of its election agents despite having been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, according to an independent report.
David Challenor, whose daughter Aimee was a rising star within the party, was jailed for 22 years in August for a series of crimes committed in the attic of the family home in Coventry.”
Cue Monty Python Spanish Inquisition sketch:
“Our main priority is Climate Change.”
“…and Critical Race Theory – our two main priorities are Climate Change and Critical Race Theory.”
“…and an almost fanatical devotion to Gender Dysphoria support. Our priorities are… (I’ll go out and come in again).”
“Amongst our priorities are such diverse elements as Climate Change, Critical Race Theory and an almost fanatical devotion to Gender Dysphoria support.”
“…bin collections?”
“Shut up!”
“What about the roads?”
Here are the councils busily trying to save the whole planet when they can’t even manage to fill a few potholes!
“Well, the roads go without saying”
Yes we’ve noticed!!
I can’t read the Telegraph so I don’t know whether the “is the countryside racist” article refers to people being “edged out” of living in the countryside or merely visiting it. As far as living in the countryside goes, from what I have understood from the few muslim acquaintances I have, the main obstacles are a lack of mosques and halal food shops, but they probably also meant a lack of other muslims though they didn’t say this out loud so I may be assuming too much. Seems quite normal to me if you live a country where your religion and culture isn’t the majority tradition, and those things require physical proximity to other people of the same culture because it’s logistically unviable for them to be provided otherwise. My acquaintances seemed fine with this – just a fact of life. As far as visiting it goes, I visit the countryside quite often and it seems vast and empty to me – I struggle to imagine how anyone is “edged out” and places are desperate for business – but again perhaps it’s the lack of halal sandwiches in countryside snack bars that is the problem?
There’s this thing called a ‘picnic’ where you can take what you want to eat and drink with you…
Yes, my family like to go walking on rural footpaths and visit interesting landscapes (Malham Cove springs to mind) – It does seem the majority of people we encounter on such trips are white.
Indeed apart from in English Heritage and National Trust brochures, non-white people are probably under-represented as visitors or inhabitants to the countryside. And I would say “so what?”.
Picnic? Surely that’s a white privilege construct. What are you, some kind of racist?
I shall go and self-flagellate immediately. Why not? I’m Catholic.
A West Indian origin hospital porter I knew once came from Malham… oh no, that was Balham.
Where did he come from the rest of the time?
I cannot access the Farage article but from the summary I disagree. We should leave ECHR and the convention regardless of border control.
it is unacceptable to a free people to be governed by an activist Supreme Court populated by non lawyers from other countries.
“It is unacceptable to a free people”
….said with tongue firmly in cheek.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12605853/women-football-AMANDA-PLATELL-Kevin-Keegan.html
Yes, and the same applies to the rugby. Why the hell do we have to have women commentating on men’s sports?
Men commentating on netball? I thought not.
Well if you or any other bloke would be so kind as to explain to me what exactly the problem is, hux? I’m genuinely not getting what the issue is here. Is it because of the fact women playing these sports professionally is fairly new in comparison to men, who’ve played football and rugby since forever, so men don’t feel women have sufficient knowledge and expertise when they offer up their assessment of the match? Is their commentary not as good as mens’ due to them lacking comprehension of the sport? Men have historically commentated on women playing most other sports I can think of; athletics, gymnastics, swimming, tennis, etc etc. Aren’t they commenting on the performance of the person competing irrespective of gender? I don’t get what all the fuss is about.
I don’t watch much TV sport and can’t stand most commentators or pundits regardless of sex. The sad truth is that one develops a kneejerk reaction whenever you see “minorities” fulfilling any role because you are pretty sure some of them have got where they are through box ticking/politics and not on merit – and I would class women commentating on men’s sport as a “minority”.
Personally I am not bothered who is commentating as long as they know what they are doing. Arguably the level of performance in certain sports like football, rugby is very different between male and female and perhaps a female will be missing some elements of that sport as practiced by males.
Men do all the sports you enumerate to a high (higher?) level than females.
But I don’t want to turn this into a men v women thing because the world needs both of us, doing what we do.
If they are competent I don’t mind too much but why do we have to have so many newbies who barely seem to understand the game they comment on. Perhaps more important, why is commentary on all sports going the way of soccer with gross exaggeration and screaming when something trivial occurs.
And why would a new cricket commentator tell us a new batsman (“batter” sic) is going to the crease to get as many runs as possible. Do they not assume a certain level of understanding among the audience for the game they are watching?
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