News Round-Up

• “Biden says Israel reoccupying Gaza would be ‘big mistake’” – Joe Biden has warned Israel against reoccupying Gaza, the Telegraph says, but he has promised that the U.S. will send everything the country needs to fight Hamas.
• “New York club uses pictures of Hamas assault on Israel to advertise ‘fundraver’ for Palestinians” – The charity event poster shows Hamas terrorists using a bulldozer to punch a hole in the border fence with Israel, the Telegraph reports.
• “Why Israel is unlikely to achieve its aims with Gaza ground invasion” – Former Major General Charlie Herbert gives the Daily Mail an explainer on the difficulties the IDF will face in undertaking a ground assault into the Gaza Strip.
• “Israel is trapped in a dilemma” – Seth J. Frantzman describes the dilemma facing Israel for the Spectator. “Is destroying Hamas worth the risks of a long war?”
• “As Israel prepares massive ground campaign, the end game remains opaque” – “Netanyahu’s cabinet is determined to bring Hamas down, but confounding questions will have to be answered,” says Lazar Berman in the Times of Israel.
• “Why has the Gaza ground invasion been delayed since Friday” – Delaying factors may include tactical considerations, pressure to avoid civilian casualties and concern about Hezbollah, writes Yonah Jeremy Bob in the Jerusalem Post.
• “Netanyahu’s greatest failure” – Limor Simhony Philpott explains in the Spectator why, though Hamas alone is to blame for the attack, “many Israelis are furious with Netanyahu over policies that helped create the monster across the border.”
• “This unholy axis of Iranian thugs and Marxist psychopaths is an enemy of Muslims too” – “Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are vital barriers to the spread of toxic narratives seizing both the West and the East,” says Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
• “No10 says Ofcom rules don’t stop BBC from calling Hamas ‘terrorists’” – No10 has dismissed the idea that using the term ‘terrorist’ would breach impartiality guidelines, the Daily Mail reports, piling more pressure on the BBC to use the term.
• “Corporate activists cheered on BLM and lockdown. Now Jews need their support, they’re silent” – Grant Feller asks Telegraph readers to offer their Jewish or Palestinian friends, contacts or colleagues some words of support.
• “Do Israel’s critics understand Evil?” – “Calls for a ‘proportionate’ response are intellectual obfuscation,” argues Jacob Howland in UnHerd.
• “Abomination on the streets of Sydney shamed the N.S.W. government, defiled Australia, and defamed its people” – Ramesh Thakur pens a passionate broadside for Spectator Australia against the antisemitic gathering outside the Sydney Opera House.
• “The reverse Floyd moment” – “I don’t think those of us who aren’t Jews can appreciate the terrible fear of being hunted down,” says Ed West, reflecting on the “psychological toll of the October 7th pogrom”.
• “Can a donor revolt save American Universities” –  The Free Press reports that University donors are closing their cheque books after student groups cheered for the Hamas terrorists.
• “Palestinians are expendable to Hamas” – “The plight of Gazans as Israel prepares to launch a ground offensive against Hamas is bleak and immediate,” reads this Telegraph leader. “Hamas cares not a jot for the Palestinian people it purports to represent.”
• “As Israel buries its dead, volunteers honour them by digging their graves” – Funerals have been held day and night for the victims of the Hamas attacks, according to the Times of Israel, requiring teams of volunteers to prepare fresh graves.
• “U.K. lockdowns were a policy ‘failure’, health expert tells Covid inquiry” – Professor Mark Woolhouse has told the Covid inquiry that nationwide lockdowns were a failure of public health policy, the Guardian reports, saying that SPI-M-O group, a subgroup of SAGE, failed to assess the negative consequences.
• “Sir Patrick Vallance says release of full diary entries would breach human rights” – Lawyers for ex-chief scientist Sir Patrick Vallence are arguing that full pages from his diaries should not be shown on screen, the BBC reports, saying that only text referred to in the hearing should be released.
• “Moment £190,000 McLaren plug-in hybrid sports car bursts into flames” – A chance to view the scorched wreckage of the McLaren Artura, a plug-hybrid sports car, after it burst into flames on test drive, courtesy of the Daily Mail. Both passengers escaped unharmed.
• “Burning electric cars must be dunked in baths of water to stop fires spreading” – A Government commissioned report has found that battery-powered vehicles pose a medley of risks to indoor car parks, the Telegraph says, and it recommends that parking spaces become wider and burning electric cars be dunked in baths of water.
• “Richard Curtis regrets the way he wrote about women in his films” – Richard Curtis also said he would never use the words ‘fat’ and ‘chubby’ again, according to the Daily Mail, after he was challenged by his activist daughter Scarlett.  
• “The never-ending cancellation of Kevin Spacey” – Spiked’s Lauren Smith takes aim at the Prince Charles cinema for its decision to back out of screening a Kevin Spacey film even after the actor was twice judged innocent in court.
• “What Shakespeare can teach us about cancel culture” – Douglas Murray introduces Kevin Spacey to perform a scene from Shakespeare apt for the age of cancel culture, part of an annual series of lectures in honour of Sir Roger Scruton. The Spectator has published a transcript of his remarks here.
• “Trans woman wins £25,000 in UK’s first sex discrimination tribunal” – A transwoman has been awarded £25,453 in compensation, including £21,000 for injury to feelings according to the Daily Mail, after Kingston Council took two years to change the employee’s details
• “Past controversies of Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell” – The Daily Mail showcases some of ex Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell’s most controversial pieces of artwork.
• “The new feminism is misandry in disguise” – Victoria Smith in UnHerd, with a reminder that “men aren’t too stupid to fix their own problems”.
• “The ANZACs are back!” – Paul Collitis takes to TCW Defending Freedom to rejoice at the results of the Aussie referendum and the Kiwi election.
• “White Irish Privilege” – Irish Education Minister Norma Foley struggles to answer journalist Ben Scallon’s question about the country’s draft new social education curriculum which would urge students to recognise their privilege as a white person, male or Irish.

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