News Round-Up

• “IDF says ready to repel Houthi attacks, is striking Gaza ‘at rate not seen in decades’” – The Israeli Air Force says it is prepared to repel attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, reports the Times of Israel.
• “Netanyahu has failed Israel” – “To win both this war and the aftermath, Israel needs to rediscover the resourcefulness and determination that have ebbed somewhat in recent years under the stagnation and corruption of Benjamin Netanyahu’s long rule,” says Anshel Pfeffer in the Spectator.
• “BBC stops calling Hamas ‘militants’ by default after backlash” – BBC journalists will now refer to Hamas as a group “proscribed as a terror organisation by the U.K. Government and others”, according to the Telegraph. It trips off the tongue.
• “A new generation of hate rises in America” – Writing in the New York Post, Douglas Murray observes that the “outburst of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate” that has been seen across the U.S. is coming from the youngest people in the country.
• “As a secular Jew, I didn’t feel I could comment on the war. Till now” – Deborah Ross responds in the Times to the Artists for Palestine U.K. open letter that published this week, signed by 2,000 luvvies.
• “Israel is trapped by Western guilt” – “Colonial obsessions are undermining Jewish safety,” says Tom McTague in UnHerd.
• “The disgusting bigotry of the poster-rippers” – Spiked’s Tom Slater takes aim at the people who see fit to tear down the posters showing the names and faces of people missing after the Hamas attacks.
• “The media failure in Gaza” – AG deplores the “careless journalism” which saw numerous media outlets swiftly blame Israel for the Gaza hospital explosion, following the lead of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and omitting to verify the facts before they did so.
• “Disinformation reporter Ben Collins failed to correct the Gaza hospital story” – Reason’s Robby Soave takes aim at disinformation reporter Ben Collins after he helped spread inaccurate claims about the explosion at the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
• “Israel to Greta: ‘Hamas doesn’t use sustainable materials for their rockets’” – Not the Bee salutes the Israeli response to Greta Thunberg’s post announcing that she was on strike in solidarity with Gaza.
• “Heneghan Covid inquiry evidence report” – Carl Heneghan publishes the evidence that he submitted to the Covid inquiry that he didn’t get to discuss at the hearing he attended on October 19^th, on Trust the Evidence.
• “Anomalous patterns of mortality and morbidity in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trial” – On Where are the numbers, Tore A. Gulbrandsen, Martin Neil and Norman Fenton analyse the Pfizer trial data which the FDA was forced to release, thanks to the Informed Consent Action Network.
• “Federal researchers find evidence Covid mRNA jabs cause seizures in young children” – Alex Berenson reports on a finding that was “quietly released” by FDA researchers: young children had a significantly elevated risk of seizures and convulsions after receiving mRNA Covid jabs.
• “Yet another well-intentioned green folly” – Howard Dewhirst regales Spectator Australia with the tale of the 327-megawatt nuclear reactor in Kalkar, Germany, which was built at huge cost over many years and never commissioned due to green opposition.
• “The climate scaremongers: Luton Airport fire is a stark warning about EVs” – “It is reported that the fire started in a Range Rover diesel,” says Paul Homewood in TCW Defending Freedom, “but it is abundantly clear that the rapid spread of the fire, and the multiple explosions, could have been due only to one or more electric cars catching fire.”
• “If the Conservative Government’s conversion therapy ban criminalises pastors, they deserve to lose office” – “The news that the Government is now determined to ban conversion therapy has convinced me that it is my moral and patriotic duty to oppose the Conservative Party,” says Julian Mann in Christian Today.  
• “Being ‘anti-woke’ as a protected philosophical belief” – James Murray and Eric Kaufmann explain in the Critic, why being anti-woke should count as a protected philosophical belief for, meaning employees cannot be punished for it in the workplace.
• “It’s women who want Victoria’s Secret to bring sexy back” – Fiona Golfar cries “hurrah” for the news that Victoria’s Secret has decided to bring sexy back. “Because however much times have changed since the Angels’ glittery heyday, women still enjoy a healthy dose of aspiration,” she says in the Mail.
• “How did your child’s secondary school fare in GCSE rankings?” – The Department of Education has published performance data for 6951 secondary schools, the Mail reports, and Katherine Birbalsingh’s Michaela Community School in Wembley has come out top for the second year in a row.
• “The Westminster Declaration: Artists, journalists, and intellectuals demand the Censorship Industrial Complex is dismantled” – Reclaim The Net celebrates the launch of the ‘Westminster Declaration’, a new initiative aiming to defend “open discourse” against the “Censorship Industrial Complex”.
• “Rights groups push back against EU censorship chief Thierry Breton after he pressured platforms to censor ‘disinformation’” – Reclaim The Net reports that groups such as the Centre for Democracy and Technology, Access Now, and Article 19 are fighting back against Thierry Breton’s push to get social media companies to censor ‘disinformation’ about Israel and Hamas.
• “Armageddon is coming for the Tory Party…” – Guido Fawkes flags George Osborne’s comments on his Political Currency podcast just as the polls were closing on Thursday night. “If they’ve also lost Mid Bedfordshire (which they did), Armageddon is coming for the Tory party.”
• “The state sector is the elephant in Labour’s classroom” – “Labour are making a huge, and obvious, mistake in considering the Government tax treatment of independent schools in isolation, as though the 935 centrally-controlled monopolist didn’t even exist,” says Mr Chips.
• “Can political cartoons survive in an age of sensitivity” – Writing for Prospect, Alan Rusbridger wonders if there is any future for political catoonists, given their job involves being deliberately offensive.
• “When it comes to excess deaths, why is there a deafening silence?” – GB News presenter Mark Dolan responds on to Andrew Bridgen’s speech on excess deaths in the House of Commons.

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