News Round-Up

• “Iran’s Foreign Minister warns Israel to stop Gaza attacks or risk ‘huge earthquake’” – The Times of Israel reports on claims that Tehran has conveyed to Israel it will intervene if strikes on Hamas continue.
• “BBC Arabic reporters backing Hamas on social media say Israeli hostages have been ‘arrested’” – The BBC is embroiled in an impartiality row after its journalists appeared to justify the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas, the Telegraph reports.
• “Jeremy Corbyn tells pro-Palestinian protesters anyone who believes in human rights ‘must condemn’ Israeli army’s actions in Gaza” – The former Labour leader addressed thousands at a rally in London, urging them to condemn the Israeli army’s actions in Gaza amid mass protests across the U.K.’s major cities, the Mail reports.
• “Star of David graffitied on Berlin homes in chilling echo of Nazi crimes” – The incidents appear to be an intentional imitation of the antisemitic persecution of Jews during the 1930s, says the Telegraph.
• “The West is truly lost if it can’t see Hamas for what it really is” – The terror group deliberately started a war against Israel; it is morally responsible for what happens next, says Daniel Hannan.
• “Unspeakable slaughter, but I’ve seen nobody flying an Israel flag” – When Russia invaded Ukraine last year, the schools near me put Ukraine flags in their windows, but no Israeli flags have appeared, says Hadley Freeman in the Times.
• “Israel eases guns restrictions amidst security failures” – Just as Ukraine did when Russia invaded, Israel has eased gun restrictions among its citizenry, reports Reason.
• “Anti-Semitism and the new world order, Part 1” – TCW‘s Norman Fenton and Karen Harradine on the global rise and risks of antisemitism in the form of anti-Zionism and its worryingly unashamed endorsement by parts of the U.K.’s anti-globalist ‘freedom movement’.
• “How Hamas fooled Israel – and the West” – Too many people seem to have persuaded themselves that Hamas was open to negotiations, say John Jenkins and Udi Rosen in the Spectator.
• “After his comments on Israel, Gareth Southgate’s halo has well and truly slipped” – The England manager’s defence of the FA’s “difficult” decision was pathetically craven, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Covid Inquiry proves SAGE had too much power” – Boris Johnson leant too much on an unaccountable body, says Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
• “Vaccine and stroke – the unmentionable connection” – Dr. Roger Watson in TCW notes that one obvious possible cause of stroke is being left out in medical journal articles.
• “The real tragedy of Sir Tom Moore’s wasted millions” – The funds could have been spent on lovely new cancer centres, but were squandered on trivial projects, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Net Zero Ambitions: Sinking in a Sea of Reality?” – Investor confidence in renewable energy is waning, says WUWT.
• “The climate scaremongers: Whatever happened to the ice-free Arctic?” – In TCW, Paul Homewood takes a look back at the failed predictions of Arctic thaw.
• “Rural councils launch ‘meaty’ resistance against vegan trend” – Councillors in Suffolk, Cornwall, and Northamptonshire are defying the vegan wave, vowing to keep meat and dairy on the menu, the Telegraph reports.
• “LTNs in Oxford cause ‘chronic’ gridlock and ‘exasperatingly’ slow bus journeys” – A report by travel companies reveals that it is often quicker to walk into the city centre than take the bus, according to the Telegraph.
• “A Climate of Pessimism at the Vatican” – Having gone ‘full Greta’, Pope Francis then goes ‘full Karl Marx’, says Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Conservatives should amend the Equality Act — not repeal it” – A small amount of legal tweaking can tame the Blob, argues James McSweeney in UnHerd.
• “Police try to intimidate and censor Tory councillor from speaking to media after free speech ‘hate crime’ arrest” – In a disturbing development, Northamptonshire Police has tried to intimidate and censor a Tory councillor from speaking to the media after he was arrested for an alleged ‘hate crime’, reports Christian Concern.
• “Labour plan for cohabiting laws are anti-libertarian, says former High Court judge” – Sir Paul Coleridge says introducing a form of common law marriage would represent a huge extension of the state into people’s private lives.
• “Kevin Spacey cancelled by West End cinema despite acquittal” – Friends and colleagues of the actor are outraged as the world premiere of his first film since being cleared of sex assault charges is scrapped, reports the Telegraph.
• “Does the Native American case for reparations add up?” – Jeff Fynn-Paul in the Spectator sets out the case against paying ‘compensation’ to the descendants of indigenous people.
• “Australia’s divisive Voice referendum’s crushing defeat” – Terry Barnes covers Australia’s ‘Brexit moment’ for the Spectator.
• “Will Young’s queer privilege” – Julie Burchill in Spiked on the slightly bizarre news that Will Young has promised to leave the U.K. if the Tories win the next election.
• “I’m told there were also delegations from ‘Turkeys in favour of Christmas’ and ‘Chickens Love KFC’” – Douglas Murray responds to reports of an ‘LGBT stands with Palestine’ sign at the London Palestine rally.

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