News Round-Up

• “Years of subterfuge, high-tech barrier paralyzed: How Hamas busted Israel’s defences” – The Times of Israel examines the intelligence and operational failures that enabled Hamas to breech the Gaza border fence.
• “Cambridge student welfare officer celebrated Hamas terror attacks online” – Cambridge Students’ Union welfare office has been labelled a ‘disgrace’ for liking tweets supportive of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the Telegraph says, as the University faces a revolt from students and lecturers over its silence on the atrocities.
• “Four of Britain’s top lawyers complain to Ofcom about BBC stance on Hamas” – Senior lawyers, Lord Wolfson K.C., Lord Pannick K.C., Lord Grabiner K.C., and Jeremy Brier K.C, have accused the BBC of abandoning impartiality by its refusal to refer to Hamas as ‘terrorists’, reports the Telegraph.
• “Jewish BBC reporter resigns over refusal to call Hamas terrorists” – BBC Radio Derby reporter Noah Abrahams has quit his job over the broadcaster’s refusal to refer to Hamas as terrorists. “I have morals and I stick by them,” he said, according to the Daily Mail.
• “England ban Israel flags and will not light up Wembley arch” – Players will wear black armbands and hold a minute’s silence when England plays Australia, but, according to the Telegraph, no Israeli or Palestinian flags will be allowed and the arch will not be lit in Israeli colours for fear of a backlash.
• “I stand with Israel” – Rod Liddle explains to Spectator readers why he posted an ‘I stand with Israel’ picture, when he more usually disapproves of that “kind of keyboard-warrior grandstanding embarrassing and self-promoting”.
• “Britain must stand up against those who support Hamas” – “Britain has harboured Iranian Revolutionaries, Hamas supporters and others for decades,” says the Spectator’s Douglas Murray. “We have been played for fools.”
• “The woke scapegoating of the Jews” – “The Western Left’s response to Hamas’s atrocities has exposed a virulent new form of anti-Semitism,” says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
• “Muslim Council’s statement on Israel fell woefully short” – Kahlid Mahmood, the longest-serving Muslim MP, uses a column in the Times to give voice to his anger at the Muslim Council’s response to the atrocities in Israel. “They represent nobody but themselves.”
• “Why is the U.K. tiptoeing around hate merchants?” – “Jews will feel uneasy in Britain as long as Hamas-glorifying thugs get a free pass from university and police chiefs,” says Juliet Samuel in the Times, in an excellent piece.
• “Campus cowardice and where the buck stops” –  Bari Weis contrasts what American colleges will tolerate with what they won’t. “Microaggressions are met with moral condemnation are places of exquisite sensitivity, while “campuses will tolerate – even glorify – the wanton murder of Jews.”
• “What will Israel’s invasion of Gaza achieve?” – Hostages and Hamas leaders are out of reach, writes Professor Edward Luttwak in UnHerd. But not its infrastructure.
• “The pandemic a tale of original antigenic sin and why did we ignore the positive mortality data?” – Stephen Andrews considers why there were greater global excess deaths in 2021 than 2020, and why we continue to see high levels of excess deaths.
• “Neonatal deaths in vaccinated mothers 28% greater, U.K. study reveals accidentally” – The authors of a new preprint study were trying to prove that the Covid vaccine is ‘safe and effective’, but, says Igor Chudov, “some findings are disturbing and point at the opposite”.
• “After complaints, pharmacy conference cancels scheduled keynote by doctor” – David Zweig reports that Dr. Vinay Prasad has hd his invitation to speak at an upcoming conference rescinded following accusations that he spreads “dangerous misinformation.”
• “Memory-holing the apocalypse” – In the Upheaval, N. S. Lyons warns against stuffing the misdeeds of Fauci and his ilk down the memory hole.
• “The real reason for Wales’s 20mph speed limit” – The speed limit change has been years in the making, according to Awkward Git writing for TCW, and its roots go back at least as far workshop held by the U.N.’s Economic Commission in Europe in 2010.
• “We need to talk about ZOE” – Deborah Cohen and Margaret McCartney investigate Professor Tim Spector’s ZOE app for UnHerd and find that “its scientific foundations aren’t as strong as its creators would have you think”.
• “Australian feminists & Katherine Hayhoe weep over white men who do not love ‘change’” – William Briggs pours his inimitable scorn over some peer-reviewed woke gobbledegook recently published by Australian Feminist Studies.
• “There is no such thing as a ‘trans lesbian’” – Writing in Spiked, Bev Jackson calls out the UN’s gender-equality organisation, UN Women, for its gaslighting of lesbians.
• “I supported the trans community unquestioningly – until my sister wanted to become a boy” – An anonymous young girl gives the Telegraph an account of her older sister’s feelings of discomfort with her body, which, it turned out, were caused by autism and ADHD.
• “Controversy over plan for statue to anti-slavery West Africa Squadron” – The Daily Mail reports on businessman Colin Kemp’s £70,000 plan for a monument to the 17,000 Royal Navy sailors who lost their lives fighting to end the slave trade. Chip in to support the West Africa Squadron Memorial Fund here.
• “People’s need for self preservation has trumped their civic duties” – Former headteacher Mike Fairclough is the guest on the latest edition of Planet Normal telling hosts Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson how pandemic era virtue signalling harmed children. Listen in full here and read more about how he was hounded out of his job for speaking out on Covid here. The Free Speech Union is supporting him.

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