News Round-Up

• “Thousands of protesters march for Palestine through capital cities” – Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors have taken to the streets in European capital cities as the crisis in the Middle East deepens, says the Mail.
• “Police to explain why they stood by as protesters called for ‘jihad’” – Home Secretary Suella Braverman is demanding an explanation from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police after his officers stood by as pro-Palestine demonstrators called for a ‘jihad’ against Israel, reports the Mail.
• “Arrest after man seen in video chanting ‘God’s curse be upon the Jews’” – A man seen in a video chanting pro-Hamas slogans during huge pro-Palestine protests in London – and waving a sinister, black flag – is being held in custody after being arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred, according to the Mail.
• “Revealed: The Hamas chief who lives in a London council house” – Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, the fugitive who led Hamas’s terrorist operations in the West Bank, was issued with a British passport and recently bought his own council house with a £112,000 discount, reveals the Sunday Times.
• “Colleagues left ‘appalled’ by top doctor’s comments on Israeli response to Hamas attacks” – The President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has sparked outrage after writing to members, implying that Israel’s military response to the Hamas terrorist attacks has been “barbaric”, while failing to highlight the plight of the child hostages, according to the Telegraph.
• “I’m a Palestinian. Hamas alone is responsible for the blood shed in Gaza” – Hamas is responsible for all the blood that has been shed and will continue to be shed during this war, full stop, writes Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights activist, in Newsweek.
• “BBC’s Israel reporting failures are a danger to British Jews, says ex-boss” – Danny Cohen, a former director of the BBC’s TV channels, has said the Corporation’s “failures” over its reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict have had “dangerous, real-world consequences” for British Jews, according to the Telegraph.
• “It’s not the occupation” – It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided, notes David Benatar in Quillette.
• “How Hamas is winning the propaganda war against Israel” – Misinformation warfare is transforming historic antisemitism into raging Israelophobia, warns Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Against set-menu morality” – Demonising Israel has for years sat on the hard Left’s set menu, and this viewpoint has moved from starter to main course, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
• “The Islamo-Left is a menace to Jews and decency” – The Western Left’s failure to denounce Hamas confirms its abandonment of secularism and reason, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Jonathan Sumption on Gaza, lockdown and the ECHR” – Jonathan Sumption sits down with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to discuss everything from our evolving attitudes to war, Covid, the ECHR and Roe v. Wade.
• “California high school students stage pro-Hamas walkouts after textbooks instil anti-Israel, pro-jihad views” – Students take up the cause of America’s enemies because they have been taught, explicitly, to do so, explains Libby Emmons in The Post Millennial.
• “The campus peril to Western civilisation” – U.S. student and faculty reactions to Hamas’s atrocities demonstrate once and for all the fraud of elite higher education. We must reform our universities or create new ones, argues Jacob Howland in City Journal.
• “Henry Kissinger: ‘Grave mistake’ to import different cultures and religions into West” – In a video on Wide Awake Media, Henry Kissinger says it was “a grave mistake” to import so many people of totally different cultures and religions into the West, because of the tensions it has inevitably give rise to.
• “Belgium’s cowardice is preventing it from tackling its terror threat” – There is no co-ordinated fight against extremists in Belgium and it is increasingly regarded by France as a threat to its national security, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Is Germany no longer safe for Jews?” – The firebombing of a Berlin synagogue speaks to a chilling return of antisemitism, says Sabine Beppler-Spahl in Spiked.
• “mRNA Covid vaccines form spike protein in heart cells, but cause different anomalies” – New research observing rat and human heart cells shows that within 48 hours of vaccination the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines form spike proteins, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Lockdown sceptics are rapidly being vindicated” – The Covid Inquiry has shown how the scientific process was perverted by advisers steeped in groupthink, says Karol Sikora in the Telegraph.
• “Researchers find Pfizer excluded clinical trial deaths from FDA Covid vaccine EUA request” – A recent study suggests Pfizer excluded known deaths in the vaccine arm of its clinical trial from its ‘emergency use authorisation’ data filing to the FDA, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Reform U.K. party leader rules out coalition lifeline for Rishi Sunak” – Reform U.K. leader Richard Tice has said he would refuse a pact with the Tories even if they offered him five million quid, says the Mail.
• “‘We’re the first county to lose every single bank’” – The Telegraph reports on unease in the East Midlands as a community reliant on cash contemplates a bankless future.
• “Academics urge Rishi Sunak not to buckle under pressure from Big Tech” – A group of leading economists have warned Rishi Sunak not to buckle under intense lobbying from the world’s biggest online giants to help them “escape” proposed new regulation, reports the Mail.
• “The Frank Report LXVI” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland remarks that Rishi Sunak is now a “dead billionaire walking”, Labour MPs have started showing their true colours and Scotland is reeling from the suicidal immigration policy of Humza Useless.
• “Labour planning electric car cash incentive after committing to 2030 petrol ban” – Labour will give drivers cash to buy EVs under plans being considered to help Britain stick to its Net Zero target, reports the Telegraph.
• “Where Is the alleged Australian warming?” – As with all scientific work, researchers are not permitted to rely on convoluted interpretations when the primary data do not tell the required story about global warming, says Dr. Geoff Sherrington in WUWT.
• “Greta Thunberg: Poster girl of eco-austerity” – Climate protesters pose as radicals, while pushing a reactionary agenda, writes Angie Speaks in Spiked.
• “Arctic sea ice: The canary in the coal mine” – More honest reporting is required from media outlets, climate scientists and government bodies about the true nature of climate change, instead of highly selective reporting or misreporting to build an alarmist narrative, says Greg Goodman in WUWT.
• “The cost of doing good” – Proponents of ‘impact investing’, or investing both to benefit society and generate financial returns, made big promises and failed to deliver, writes Aswath Damodaran in City Journal.
• “University of Cambridge library ‘blacklists harmful books’ in decolonising drive” – The University of Cambridge’s national library has been accused of blacklisting books in a “sinister” new decolonising drive, reveals the Telegraph.
• “U.K. Government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity” – The Government has been monitoring the social media accounts of “dozens” of ordinary teaching staff and is keeping files on posts that criticise education policies, reports the Guardian.
• “Chief Whip in row over plans to ban conversion therapy” – Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart is at the centre of extraordinary claims that he had vowed to “crush the religious Right” amid the ongoing row over a conversion therapy ban, according to the Mail.
• “Mother wins landmark court ruling to stop child having private trans treatment” – A mother has won the first High Court ruling to stop her child, who believes she is really a boy, being treated outside the NHS, according to the Sunday Times.
• “De-transitioner with multiple personalities slams doctors for therapy” – A North Carolina lesbian has slammed doctors who led her down a path of transitioning as a “fractured and unstable” adolescent, reports the Mail.
• “We risk raising nation of chemically castrated kids, says Tavistock doctor” – A former Tavistock Trust doctor has told the MailOnline that Britain could become a nation of chemically castrated children if trans and gender theory is allowed to fester unchallenged.
• “Scottish country dancing gets makeover with new etiquette guide” – An etiquette guide has been published by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society to create a “safe, comfortable and inclusive place to dance for all”, reports the Mail.
• “AI will destroy TV news” – For 100 years or more, a photo was seen as near-conclusive proof in disputes of any kind. All that is about to disappear, warns Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
• “Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett lets rip on Victoria Derbyshire” – Speaking to the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire, former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett attacks the broadcaster for taking the Gazan side in the conflict and lacking moral clarity.

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