News Round-Up

• “Why I joined the October Declaration” – In the Critic, Toby Guise outlines his support for the October Declaration, declaring, “We should stand with British Jews in a time of peril.”
• “Those who seek to deny the horror of Hamas’s modern-day Holocaust are dragging the world into a new dark age” – Broadcaster Andrew Neil explains why he signed the October Declaration.
• “Corrie offered me security after surge in antisemitic hate, says Maureen Lipman” – Corrie’s Dame Maureen Lipman has been left stunned by an offer of security to shield her from antisemitic attacks, reports the Sun.
• “Israel demands UN chief resign after ‘horrible’ Hamas attack comments” – António Guterres backed calls for a ceasefire, as he suggested the October 7th massacre was linked to “56 years of suffocating occupation”, provoking fury from the Israeli Government, says the Telegraph.
• “Three teenagers arrested after burning Union flag and chanting ‘Free Palestine’” – Three men have been arrested after a pub-goer chased down a gang who allegedly set fire to a Union flag while shouting “Free Palestine” and “Allahu Akbar”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Don’t push hatred underground; Expose it” – To censor is a very human impulse, but it doesn’t make us safer, says Dane Giraud of the New Zealand Free Speech Union.
• “Israel’s plight exposes the truth about virtue-signalling ‘values’” – Britain is a place where we frequently express solidarity with victims of terror attacks yet stay silent on the plight of Israel, observes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Why won’t the police crack down on antisemitism?” – Certain pro-Palestine protestors are being let off lightly, says Henry Hill in UnHerd.
• “Jihadists at home” – As a demonstration of more than 100,000 people in London shows, the West has permitted a large Islamist element to develop in its midst, writes Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
• “Terrorist sympathisers are exploiting the right to peaceful protest – Northern Ireland can teach us how to police them” – Northern Ireland’s Parades Commission may well be a template for dealing with hate on the streets of Great Britain, says Ian Acheson in CapX.
• “Hamas founder’s defector son says they want to ‘annihilate Jews’” – The son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef is warning how Hamas wants to “annihilate” the Jewish people and establish sharia law around the world, reports the Mail.
• “A call for empathy for innocent Israelis” – In an open letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Simon Sebag Montefiore and others make an impassioned call for empathy for Israelis.
• “Hard lessons from Israel’s high-tech border failure” – On his Substack, N.S. Lyons discusses the failure of Israel’s high-tech Gaza border defences.
• “How the Arab world turned against Hamas” – The merciless, drug-fuelled violence meted out by Hamas has provoked queasiness even among natural supporters of the Palestinian cause, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
• “Biden calls for Israel-Hamas ceasefire by mistake” – Guido Fawkes has a video of U.S. President Biden accidentally calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
• “Why does Macron think France should learn to live with terrorism?” – Successive governments in France have been wilfully complacent about the spread of Islamic extremism, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “American Banlieue” – America needs to extinguish the fires of tribalism before they burn us all up, argues Liel Leibovitz in City Journal.
• “America’s college donor exodus won’t revive free speech” – Few donors seem to recognise the fundamental problem on American campuses: A fragile commitment to academic freedom that is frequently overruled by a censorious ideology, writes Neetu Arnold in UnHerd.
• “Fight them on the speeches! Why the FSU is needed in Australia” – In the Spectator Australia, Dara Macdonald explains why she (and others) have set up a Free Speech Union in Australia.
• “U.S. Covid military deaths were almost non-existent” – Why did U.S. military deaths spike after most in the military had been vaccinated, asks Bill Rice, Jr. on Substack.
• “Moderna loses billions in value after rival Pfizer’s vaccine warning” – Moderna has seen a recent dramatic decline in its stock value following a warning from its rival Pfizer, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Nobody wants a heat pump, no matter how large the bribes” – If Rishi Sunak thinks heat pumps are going to start selling like hot cakes just because he has increased the grants from £5,000 to £7,500, he may be disappointed, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Do Irish people have white privilege?” – Ireland’s education system is encouraging “white or male or Irish” pupils to reflect on their “privileged status”, says Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
• “Is it racist for a white woman to sell sushi?” – A white Australian woman in NYC has been branded an evil ‘coloniser’ just for opening a sushi restaurant, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “The curious case of the male sorority sister” – The liberal media’s fawning over oddball Artemis Langford has revealed the misogyny at the heart of the trans cult, says Jenny Holland in Spiked.
• “EHRC boss Baroness Falkner’s job is safe after trans activists tried to ‘hound her out’” – The head of Britain’s equality watchdog has been told the internal investigation of her has ended after trans activists tried to “hound her out of office”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why we can’t let the trans lobby win” – Graham Linehan joins Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss why he risked his career to fight against gender ideology.
• “Could Rishi be found guilty of conversion therapy?” – A ‘conversion therapy’ ban is supposed to prevent outrageous abuse, but the truth is that such abuse is already outlawed and a new law could instead capture everyday speech and ordinary beliefs, argues Tom Brand in the Critic.
• “Spanish predator who impregnated minor girl is transferred to a ‘mixed-sex’ prison with women” – In Spain, a man serving a four-year sentence for sexually abusing an underage girl has been transferred to a mixed-sex penitentiary to serve his time with women, reports Reduxx.
• “The fall of Scientific American” – The once objective Scientific American now regularly panders to trans-activist pseudoscience, says James Esses in Spiked.
• “Trans-identified male student wins ‘Fastest Sophomore Girl’ title at Maine race meet” – A male high school student who ‘identifies’ as a woman has won the Fastest Sophomore Girl award at a recent race meet in Maine, according to Reduxx.
• “U.S. Government and NewsGuard sued by Consortium News” – Consortium News is suing the U.S. Government for contracting with the internet ‘watchdog’ NewsGuard to identify, report and abridge the speech of American media organisations that dissent from U.S. official positions on foreign policy. 
• “Facebook and Instagram ‘ensnared’ teenagers, says U.S. lawsuit” – Dozens of U.S. states are suing Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleging it has fuelled a mental health crisis among young people, reports the Times.
• “AI hysteria is out of control” – Experts’ alarmism over artificial intelligence could strangle this technology at birth, warns Norman Lewis in Spiked.
• “All is not lost for Argentina’s anarcho-capitalist presidential hopeful” – Javier Milei may have been pipped to the post by centrist rival Sergio Massa in Argentina’s recent vote, but all is not lost for the climate change-sceptical, pro-life economist, writes Phoebe Hennell in the Spectator.
• “‘Oh be quiet!’” – On GB News, Jenni Barnett gets agitated with host Mark Dolan and Toby Young in a heated debate over whether or not ‘climate denialists’ should be jailed.

If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.