News Round-Up

• “Hundreds of protesters gather outside Israeli embassy in London” – Palestinian and Israeli supporters have clashed at a London Underground station, according to the Mail.
• “Kosher restaurant in Golders Green vandalised as Met police step up patrols in London” – Metropolitan Police patrols have been increased in London after reports of groups of people celebrating Hamas’ attack on Israel, reports LBC. Scotland Yard says it’s not treating it as a hate crime, rather incredibly.
• “London Jewish school tells students they do not have to wear blazers” – A Jewish school in London has told students they do not have to wear blazers as the Metropolitan Police increase their patrols outside educational institutions, following a spate of anti-Semitic attacks, says the Mail.
• “‘We expect intimidation’: Why Britain’s Jewish community provides its own volunteer security force” – The Community Security Trust is the unspoken presence keeping people safe at synagogues, Jewish schools and various events, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
• “Activist calls Hamas attacks ‘beautiful and inspiring’” – A pro-Palestine activist, who called Hamas’s terror attacks against Israel “inspiring” and “beautiful”, is an elected Women’s Officer at the University of Sussex students’ union, reveals the MailOnline.
• “‘Worst day in Israeli history’: Why didn’t anyone see it coming?” – Israel’s famed intelligence agencies and defence forces face serious questions about how they failed to spot an unprecedented assault by Hamas, says the Week in a leading article.
• “British anti-Semites are delighted by the attack on Israel” – The Israeli counter-attack following Hamas’s attack will provide a new justification for anti-Semitic violence in the U.K., predicts Nick Cohen in the Spectator.
• “Decolonisation is not a metaphor, it is violence” – Hamas’s terrorism has been a mask-off moment for the decolonisers, writes Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
• “BBC accused of ‘failing public’ by refusing to call Hamas ‘terrorists’” – The BBC’s former Director of Television has criticised the broadcaster for not calling the Hamas gunmen ‘terrorists’ in news broadcasts, reports the Mail.
• “Why won’t the BBC call Hamas terrorists?” – Words matter, and pro-Hamas propaganda is already having real-world consequences here in the U.K., writes Nicole Lampert in CapX.
• “Why are Jews being blamed for Hamas’s attack on Israel?” – Make no mistake: This was the killing of Jews because they were Jews, says Jake Wallis Simpson in the Spectator.
• “Hamas’s war on Israel: Everything you need to know” – The Free Press answers your questions on Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah and more.
• “In-school Covid measures lead to record truancy in Japan” – On Substack, Guy Gin examines newly released data that indicates a 22% increase in truancy rates in Japan.
• “If there was a way to fix the NHS, we would probably have found it by now” – The Dutch healthcare system has waiting times that are between a third and half of ours, observes Kristian Niemietz in CapX.
• “Scottish Labour is still gripped by gender-identity lunacy” – Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is desperately trying to cover up his party’s role in Scotland’s disastrous self-ID bill, says Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
• “Three-day Supreme Court battle over Rwanda asylum scheme begins” – Home Office lawyers have argued that deterring migrants from crossing the Channel is of “strong public interest” as judges review the fate of the Rwanda scheme, according to the Mail.
• “State elections in Bavaria and Hessen show the establishment parties to be in decline as political momentum shifts decisively to the Right” – The election results in Bavaria and Hessen is yet another sign that Germany’s centre-Right parties have entered a period of long-term decline, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Subsidies have defanged the French media” – The elite French media is lavishly subsidised, making tenuous any claim that mainstream French journalism is independent, says Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
• “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plan is a disaster waiting to happen” – While Rachel Reeves set out Labour’s plan for growth, the Shadow Energy Minister was busy undermining it, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “Is the planet truly ‘boiling’, or are we measuring the wrong things?” – A new study that eliminates the effect of ‘urban islands’ throws doubt on both the extent and the causes of global warming, argues Igor Chudov on Substack.
• “Correct, WBUR, many climate scientists don’t tell the truth” – Are climate scientists lying about how disastrous it will be if average global temperatures increase by 1.5°C to retain their arbitrary target? It seems that way. Yet there is no evidence that passing 1.5°C means disaster, says Anthony Watts in WUWT.
• “Your luxury beliefs are a threat to our living standards” – The anti-fossil-fuel hysteria of the global elite threatens to impoverish mankind, argues Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The crusade against carbon dioxide” – Watch Professor William Happer speak at an Institute of Public Affairs event in Brisbane about the religious crusade against carbon dioxide and the lack of integrity in climate science.
• “Serious concern over universities, says free speech boss” – The stifling of free speech at English universities is a “serious cause for concern”, the new free speech tsar at the Office for Students, Arif Ahmed, has told the BBC.
• “Award-winning Polish musician removed from performances, teaching contract after criticising gender ideology” – An award-winning Polish musician has been canceled in the U.K. after speaking out against gender ideology, says Reduxx.
• “Male cyclists take home first, second places at Women’s Cyclocross Cup in Chicago” – Two trans-identified males have won women’s events at the Chicago Cyclocross Cup, sparking outrage among women’s rights advocates, according to Reduxx.
• “Canadian veteran offered medical assistance in dying while campaigning for a wheelchair ramp” – On X, Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis has posted a news report about a Canadian woman who, while campaigning for a wheelchair ramp to her private residence, was offered medically assisted death.
• “Today, I declared myself an independent candidate for President” – On Substack, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced his U.S. presidential bid, but as an independent not a Democrat.
• “The divide between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people could not be greater” – On X, Gabriel Noronha, a former U.S. State Department Advisor on Iran, has shared a video of Iranian soccer fans chanting, “Take that Palestinian flag and shove it up your ***” in response to an attempt by regime shills to show their support for Hamas.

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