News Round-Up

• “Islamists hijack pro-Palestine marches carrying images of dead babies” – The Metropolitan Police have been accused of allowing Central London to become a ‘no-go zone’ for Jews after thousands of people marched in support of Palestine in London, reports the Mail.
• “Braverman orders review of terrorism and extremism laws” – The Home Office will consider whether new criminal offences are needed so the police can do more to clamp down on protestors openly supporting terrorism, according to the Mail.
• “Countdown star Rachel Riley hires bodyguard” – Rachel Riley has revealed she’s hired a bodyguard after feeling “terrified” at the hatred projected towards her and the British Jewish community, reports the Mail.
• “Mosque chairman who praised Hamas founder advises CPS on hate crime” – A prominent mosque chairman, who praised the founder of Hamas, advises the Crown Prosecution Service as part of a “scrutiny panel” on hate crime, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hamas ‘senior operative’ living in London suburb” – A Hamas “senior operative” lives in a £500,000 semi-detached house in North London, the Sun on Sunday can reveal.
• “Hamas blocks foreign nationals from leaving Gaza” – The United States has said that Hamas is blocking foreign nationals, including Britons, from leaving Gaza, reports the Telegraph.
• “The BBC has become a global laughing stock, but the joke isn’t funny” – A viral comedy sketch lampooning the BBC’s coverage of Israel was a little too realistic, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “How the arts turned a blind eye to Islamism” – Too much British drama and comedy has shied away from the darker side of multiculturalism, argues Simon Evans in Spiked.
• “Sky News Arabia ‘could legitimise attacks’ by calling Israeli towns ‘settlements’” – Sky’s Arabic news service has been accused of potentially legitimising attacks on Israeli civilians by referring to Israeli towns as “settlements”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Groups behind Israel-bashing protests, backing Hamas attacks, received more than $15 million from Soros” – Far-Left billionaire George Soros has funnelled more than $15 million in grants to groups behind pro-Palestine protests, says the New York Post.
• “Racism in the mask of anti-imperialism” – Across the West, ‘Marches for Palestine’ have given cover to some of the vilest antisemitism we’ve seen in decades, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Why the far-Left supports Hamas” – The far-Left copes with radical Islam by celebrating Hamas, says Nick Cohen in the Spectator.
• “The dangers of ‘decolonisation’” – Spiked’s Doug Stokes on why the academic Left has sided with Hamas’s antisemitic barbarism.
• “Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas” – The Western world shirks difficult decisions out of misguided equivocating. Israel can have no such qualms, writes Ramesh Thakur in the Australian Financial Review.
• “How years of appeasing Iran unleashed horror across the Middle East” – The West’s lack of moral clarity in its handling of the Iranian regime has fuelled terrorism, argues Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
• “Hamas has made the same fatal mistake as the IRA” – Despite Hamas’s delusional boasting of bravely fighting to the death, the penny is beginning to drop that these are its final days, writes Damien Phillips in the Spectator.
• “Protestors storm airport to ‘intercept Israeli passengers’” – A huge mob has stormed the main airport in the Muslim Dagestan region of Russia looking for Israeli citizens, following reports that a plane was arriving from the country, reports the Mail.
• “Harvard’s double standard on free speech” – At Harvard, you’re free to excuse Hamas’s atrocities, but don’t dare say anything that offends leftists, warns John Tierney in City Journal.
• “Children can spread Covid for about three days, study finds” – Researchers have found that children infected with COVID-19 are able to spread the illness for about three days, regardless of vaccination status, reports the Epoch Times.
• “What happened to Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid WhatsApps?” – Messages concerning COVID-19 that were sent and received by Nicola Sturgeon on WhatsApp were reportedly manually deleted from her phone, writes Euan McColm in the Spectator.
• “Japanese scientists develop groundbreaking drug that grows new teeth” – A team of Japanese scientists has developed a groundbreaking drug that stimulates the growth of new teeth, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Alison Rose has exposed the truth about Britain’s new elite” – Too many institutions are now run by people who want to please progressive activists rather than their customers, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “Serious economists do their own work” – Plagiarising Rachel Reeves falls well short of the intellectual rigour we expect from economists, writes Mr. Chips on Substack.
• “Foreign worker visas set to double in five years, Home Office forecasts show” – Home Office estimates show that foreign worker visas are set to double in the next five years as people are recruited to take ‘skilled’ jobs in occupations with shortages, such as social care, reports the Telegraph.
• “Life after Boris Johnson – what Dominic Cummings did next” – Boris Johnson’s former right-hand man has hidden himself away in monastic isolation to work on his evidence for the Covid Inquiry and possibly create a new political party, says Charlotte Ivers in the Sunday Times.
• “The case for wind power was built upon a myth” – We keep being told that wind power will continue to get cheaper. Now we know the truth, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Climate change blamed for ‘concerning’ rise of flesh-eating infections” – More than 40 ‘flesh-eating’ infections have been identified in Florida amid record-high water temperatures in the North Atlantic, reports the Telegraph.
• “New York City zero emission vehicle fleet legislation” – In WUWT, Roger Caiazza weighs up the pros and cons of New York’s recent legislation, which mandates that vehicles purchased by the city must be zero emissions
• “Officials block James Dyson’s £6 million donation to state school” – Sir James Dyson has been blocked by education officials from donating £6 million to his local primary school, reports the Times.
• “Activist curators are spoiling Britain’s museums” – Kew Gardens is currently running an autumn festival celebrating non-binary plants. It isn’t the only museum to lose sense of its purpose, says Lara Brown in the Spectator.
• “The Beeb’s moral bankruptcy” – The BBC keeps failing on sex and gender, writes James Esses in the Critic.
• “U.S. trans athlete fighting to compete against girls launches lawsuit” – A U.S. transgender student has vowed he “won’t give up” in his fight to compete against biological girls in sports, going as far as to take puberty blockers to aid his case, according to the Mail.
• “Women abandon U.S. jiu-jitsu tournament after being forced to fight males” – Biological males, claiming to be women, have taken over the women’s categories of a major U.S. sporting association, leaving many women fearing for their safety, reports Reduxx.
• “The good news they won’t tell you about race in America” – When Americans riot and burn whole cities, the passions driving this regrettable violence are more likely to stem from fiction and fantasy than fact, says Wilfred Reilly in Commentary.
• “Your face is the new interface” – The Critic’s Tracey Follows on the ugly future of facial recognition.
• “Nigel Farage will star in this year’s I’m A Celeb” – Nigel Farage will take part on this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here after jungle queen Georgia Toffolo brokered a deal with ITV, reports the Mail.
• “Introducing the Anti-Human Substack” – Daily Sceptic contributor Ian Price unveils his new Substack.
• “Hamas leader on the future plans of Hamas” – On X, Brigette Gabriel has posted a video of a Hamas leader vowing to cleanse the entire world of Jews and Christians.

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