News Round-Up

• “Starmer accused of ‘gravely misrepresenting’ meeting with Muslim community” – An Islamic centre visited by Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Labour leader of bringing it into “disrepute” amid the Israel-Gaza conflict, reports the Telegraph.
• “Four Labour shadow cabinet members are on resignation watch over Starmer’s stance on Gaza” – Four Labour shadow cabinet members are threatening to step down after Keir Starmer failed to quell Labour wrath over the Israel-Hamas conflict, says the Mail.
• “Six people could have U.K. visas revoked because of antisemitic behaviour” – At least half a dozen foreign nationals could have their visas revoked for antisemitic behaviour or comments, reports the Telegraph.
• “Moment pro-Palestine protesters shout ‘boycott McDonald’s’ in Bristol” – The Mail has a video of Palestinian supporters shouting “boycott McDonald’s” outside a branch in Bristol, after the firm faced backlash for providing free meals to Israeli soldiers.
• “NHS physician celebrates Hamas terror attacks on Israel” – NHS medic Farah Bouamra has celebrated the Hamas terror attacks on Israel in a series of disturbing social media posts, according to the Mail.
• “My old friend is ripping down posters of kidnapped children” – Around the world, young people are tearing down photographs of innocent Israelis abducted by Hamas. Candace Mittel Kahn, of the Free Press, knows one of them.
• “Man tears down Hamas hostage posters and brands Israelis ‘terrorists’” – A man was filmed tearing down posters of civilians kidnapped by Hamas before screaming “Israel is a terrorist organisation”, reports the Mail.
• “The Guardian has hit new low with ‘unbelievably crass’ Holocaust headline, says Board of Deputies” – The U.K.’s largest Jewish organisation has said the Guardian has hit “a new low” after publishing an “unbelievably crass” opinion piece about the Holocaust, says the Telegraph.
• “How Israel-Hamas war has sparked a wave of U.K. campus ‘cancel culture’” – Academics have warned that the murder of 1,500 Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists has had a “chilling effect” on free speech on U.K. campuses, reports the Mail.
• “Met police seem to be clear on homophobia but not on jihad” – In Christian Today, Julian Mann relays his dealings with the Met Police over the arrest of a Christian street preacher, observing that officers are very clear on what ‘homophobia’ is, but less sure on the meaning of ‘jihad’.
• “Prominent journal editor fired for endorsing satirical article about Israel-Hamas conflict” – eLife’s Michael Eisen has been ousted for social media posts perceived as siding with Palestinians over Israel, according to Science magazine.
• “Ah, persecuting people over speech is bad now?” – In the Critic, Ben Sixsmith discusses the recent consequences of ‘cancel culture’ in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel.
• “The real jihad-chant scandal” – Spiked’s Tom Slater takes on the grotesque double standards of Britain’s speech police.
• “Not even bestial terrorist violence can shake the smugness of the Left” – October 7th ought to have been a ‘line-in-the-sand’ moment for the Western Left. But it wasn’t, laments Robert James in TCW.
• “The ultimate condescension toward Palestinians” – There is a patronising racism in the idea that slaughtering innocent people equates to noble freedom fighting, as if this were the only way to respond to oppression, writes John McWhorter in the Free Press.
• “Anatomy of a blood libel” – City Journal’s Eitan Fischberger explains how mainstream media outlets continually botch stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
• “Safety of monovalent Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Novavax COVID-19 vaccines in U.S. children aged six months to 17 years” – In a recent study, published on medRxiv, it was reported that myocarditis, pericarditis, seizures and convulsions were all detected following COVID-19 vaccinations in children.
• “Revisionist lockdown history” – The Covid Inquiry is a colossal waste of money, says Christopher Snowdon in the Critic.
• “The U.K. Government is flying blind. Their health data is unusable.” – The U.K. Office for National Statistics’s official Government health data is deeply flawed and cannot be used to make any health assessments, asserts Steve Kirsch on Substack.
• “The war on vaping is bad for our health” – A crackdown on e-cigarettes will do far more harm than good, argues Jack Rowlett in Spiked.
• “Farage calls for cut to Alison Rose’s possible £10 million NatWest exit pay” – Nigel Farage has said NatWest must slash the severance pay of its former boss Dame Alison Rose after she was found to have broken data protection laws by discussing his bank accounts with a journalist, reports the Telegraph.
• “World at ‘tipping point’ following government debt binges, says HSBC boss” – The head of HSBC has warned that the world is at a debt “tipping point” that threatens to spark a global crisis after years of government borrowing binges, says the Telegraph.
• “Unaccountable regulators must not be allowed to strangle innovation and investment” – New laws could make the Competition and Markets Authority the legislator, investigator and executioner, warns Matthew Lesh in CapX.
• “A vote against mass immigration and green climate nonsense” – The recent electoral success of the Swiss People’s Party was a vote against mass immigration and climate policies, says Janice Davis in TCW.
• “Watch: Gang cuts down speed cameras with angle grinders” – A gang of quad bike-mounted vandals have been seen cutting down speed cameras with angle grinders, reports the Telegraph.
• “Arsenal’s apology for lack of diversity is part of insidious culture” – Real racism would be to include black players in the Arsenal women’s team for the sake of ‘the optics’, says Nana Akua in the Mail.
• “BBC Newsround sparks fury over article about ‘white privilege’” – The BBC has sparked fury over an article teaching children about white supremacy, featuring an academic who described the Queen as a “symbol of white supremacy”, reports the Mail.
• “Plaque honouring ‘first black Briton’ removed as she was ‘Cypriot’” – A plaque honouring the “first black Briton” has been removed after DNA analysis suggested ‘Beachy Head Lady’ was not actually of African origin, says the Mail.
• “Don’t call transgender rapists women, Braverman tells police” – Suella Braverman has told women’s campaigners that police should not refer to transgender rapists as women because it is “offensive and factually incorrect”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ask about sex, not gender, to protect the truth, public bodies told” – Gender-critical group Sex Matters says schools and the NHS continue to mix up sex and gender, reports the Telegraph.
• “The smear campaign against Graham Linehan” – Why is Pink News spreading false claims about Graham Linehan’s book sales, asks Nick Tyrone in Spiked.
• “Iceland’s PM strikes over gender pay gap” – Tens of thousands of women in Iceland, including PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir, have taken a ‘women’s day off’ in protest at the gender pay gap and gender-based violence, according to the BBC.
• “Canada’s euthanasia programme is flirting with eugenics” – The Canadian plan to expand medically assisted dying to drug addicts is utterly barbaric, argues Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
• “Welcome to the cashless dystopia” – Your digital identity is the world’s most precious currency, says Rachel O’Dwyer in UnHerd.
• “We are sleepwalking towards digital dystopia” – The digitisation of everything will place ordinary people at the mercy of the powers-that-be, warns John King in Spiked.
• “Kemi Badenoch condemns the hostility towards Jews in Britain since October 7th” – Kemi Badenoch MP in the House of Commons stands with British Jews.

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