News Round-Up

• “Five times the Met Police stood aside during pro-Palestine protests” – Only 10 people were arrested during a recent pro-Palestine rally in London, where protesters scaled buildings and called for ‘jihad’, reports the Telegraph.
• “Surely police can arrest protesters calling for eradication of Israel” – The fact that elements of a 100,000-strong crowd appeared to be calling for a holy war to wipe Israel off the face of the earth didn’t seem to trouble the police – unlike GC feminists on Twitter – writes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
• “It’s not up to police to enforce taste and decency, says Met Chief after ‘jihad’ protest row” – Sir Mark Rowley has called for changes in the law around policing extremism as he said officers could not be expected to “enforce taste and decency”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot” – “I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications for jihad”, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Tube driver who led chant of ‘free, free Palestine’ suspended TFL says” – A Tube driver who led a chant of “free, free Palestine” on a London Underground train has been suspended pending further investigation into the incident, reports the Mail.
• “‘This is why Jews aren’t safe in London’” – In a video on X, the Israel Advocacy Movement demonstrates how the police treat Islamists with an al-Qaeda flag versus a Jew with an Israeli flag.
• “Police pressure leads to pro-Israel rally being cancelled in North London” – The Telegraph reports that the Met urged the organisers of a pro-Israel prayer walk in Golders Green to cancel the event, even though they allowed a pro-Palestinian march in Central London to go ahead.
• “Leader of group that held protests in London hails Hamas as ‘heroes’” – Luqman Muqeem, the leader of Hazib ut-Tahrir, said after the October 7th attack on Israel that Hamas were “heroes” for having “broken through the enemy lines of yahood (Jews)”, according to the Mail.
• “EU envoy to Gaza filmed paragliding in the region before Hamas attack” – A former EU diplomat filmed himself paragliding over Gaza and saying “once we have a free Palestine, you can do the same thing” – three months before Hamas terrorists paraglided into Israel to carry out a barbaric massacre of civilians, says the Mail.
• “IDF screens unthinkable Hamas video to prove depravity of attack” – The Israeli Defence Force invited foreign journalists to a grisly screening of bodycam footage of Hamas’s October 7th terror attack in Israel, according to the Times.
• “Video Israel claims shows Hamas terrorist admitting order to ‘behead’” – The Israeli military has shown the Mail footage of a Hamas prisoner interview and reports on its grim contents.
• “ITV’s due diligence disaster” – It seems that another major broadcaster has slipped up in their coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict, presenting a Palestinian correspondent for Iranian state television as an “ordinary British Muslim”. This time it is ITV News, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “The day the delusions died” – A lot of people woke up on October 7th as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed, asks Konstantin Kisin in the Free Press.
• “Why are so many young people anti-Semitic?” – The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
• “Counter-extremism lead: Blasphemy codes are chilling free speech” – The Commissioner for Countering Extremism has warned that allegations of blasphemy are suppressing free expression in the U.K., according to the National Secular Society.
• “Media decides censorship is bad now that it hits the Left” – Pro-Palestinian voices shouldn’t be censored, and neither should other disfavoured voices, say Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
• “Elite disinformation is a far greater problem than fake news on Twitter” – Those in authority tell us to ignore the evidence of our own eyes and ears, and believe that all is well, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “A political reawakening?” – Call it a realignment, call it a political awakening, call it a vibe shift. Something has changed since the attacks on Israel, say Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman in the Free Press.
• “Greta Thunberg removed from Israeli curriculum over Gaza support” – Israel has announced that it will remove all references to Greta Thunberg from its school curriculum after the Swedish climate activist expressed support for Gaza, reports the Telegraph. But why was a truant on the curriculum in the first place?
• “Free speech under threat in Israel, activists say” – Jewish and Arab Israelis are detained, fired from jobs and even attacked for expressing sentiments interpreted as pro-Hamas, reports the Guardian.
• “How the Democrats betrayed the Jews” – There is no more cosy mystery about the antisemitism of the Democratic Party, says David Mamet in UnHerd.
• “The U.S. stands on the brink of global war with the Middle East and Asia” – Washington must stand firm if it is to avoid direct conflict with Iran and China, says Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
• “How Western politics got so crazy and why they seem poised only to get worse” – A great part of what is happening today reflects the fading “unipolar moment” of unchallenged liberal American hegemony, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Hospital trust asking visitors to wear face masks again” – A hospital trust has asked staff, patients and visitors to go back to wearing face masks due to a rise in Covid and flu cases, reports the Mail. It seems they haven’t read Dr Tom Jefferson’s Chochrane Review.
• “Narrative control: Vaccines and excess deaths” – The media’s use of propaganda techniques to delegitimise MP Andrew Bridgen’s speech on excess deaths signals its role in shoring up Government and corporate interests, writes Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
• “Revealed: Evidence that the drug companies knew about the SV40 promoter, yet decided to conceal it from the regulators” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch sits down with three experts to discuss the evidence that drug companies deliberately concealed the presence of the SV40 promoter sequence from regulators.
• “The Tories are doomed, and deserve to be” – What is the point in voting for a Conservative Party that promises higher taxes and immigration, asks Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Woke ideology is in retreat around the world – except in Britain” – When Labour wins, it will double down on kneeling and rainbow flag waving, even as the rest of the world lurches Right, predicts Louise Perry in the Telegraph. But she believes Keir Starmer will be a one-term Prime Minister.
• “Right-wing populist party tops early Swiss election results” – The Swiss People’s Party, which campaigned against mass migration and “woke madness”, is ahead in the early results in the Swiss General Election, reports the Mail.
• “Russian anti-war activist dies after ‘fall from height’” – A Russian anti-war protester, who became a symbol of resistance to the Kremlin, has died in a mysterious fall, says the Telegraph.
• “Welsh beauty spot could be surrounded by thousands of solar panels” – Villagers have hit out at plans to surround one of Wales’s most renowned beauty spots with thousands of solar panels, reports the Mail.
• “Sadiq Khan’s biking tsar accused of ‘distorting’ London cycling stats” – Sadiq Khan’s cycling tsar has been accused of using “distorting” data to suggest the number of cyclists in a busy part of London has tripled, says the Mail.
• “North Wales magistrate steps down in 20mph scheme opposition” – A magistrate has quit his post because punishing drivers for breaking a new 20mph limit makes him “uneasy”, reports the Denbighshire Free Press.
• “Private school slams chaotic LTN scheme causing teachers to quit jobs” – The £20,000-a-year Magdalen College School has become the latest critic of the hated LTNs, which has led to gridlock mayhem in the rural Oxfordshire countryside, says the Mail.
• “World Rugby launch investigation into South Africa’s Bongi Mbonambi after Tom Curry’s racism allegation” – South Africa has hailed Bongi Mbonambi as a “great character” as World Rugby launched an investigation into Tom Curry’s allegation of racial abuse against the Springboks hooker, reports the Telegraph.
• “The decolonisation of mathematics” – In a recent study, Dr. John Armstrong and India Jackman have concluded that the evidence presented to argue that mathematics and colonialism are inseparable is weak, and appears to be primarily rhetorical.
• “The Observer view on gender dysphoria: Criminalising therapy poses a risk to children’s welfare” – NHS England’s shift to a “watchful waiting” approach regarding trans identity faces challenges from campaigners seeking a criminal ban on ‘conversion’ treatment, says the Observer in a leading article.
• “The dangers of banning ‘trans conversion therapy’” – People who feel uncomfortable in their own bodies need therapy not affirmation, says Jo Bartosch on Spiked.
• “We don’t want British Jews to be living in fear” – On GB News, Daily Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson explains why a group of journalists created the October Declaration, which secured more than 32,000 signatures in its first 24 hours.

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