News Round-Up

• “Amy Winehouse statue’s Star of David covered with pro-Palestine sticker” – Police are investigating after the star of David necklace on the statue of Amy Winehouse in Camden was covered over with a pro-Palestinian sticker, reports the Standard.
• “Spineless Starmer would sell British foreign policy to the largest voting blocs” – Keir Starmer’s stance on Gaza and Israel was a sobering and powerful counter-argument to that of his critics – and then he caved, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s antisemitism dilemma” – On the Battle of Ideas Substack, James Heartfield explains why the Labour Party can’t seem to shake off its problems with antisemitism.
• “The woke wing of Hamas” – From London to New York, young radicals have become foot soldiers of Jew hatred, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Islamism is exploiting Britain’s political vacuum” – Europe‘s leaders have allowed Islamism to thrive, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
• “U.S. moves to stop Israel’s invasion of Rafah” – The U.S. says that Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah “should not proceed under current circumstances” as it tries to use the UN to stop it, reports the Telegraph.
• “The deliberate lies in the Washington Post” – The Washington Post ran a piece heralding the Arab journalists killed in Gaza. But Investigative journalist David Collier points out the paper ignored the links between those journalists and Hamas.
• “Largest Covid vaccine study yet finds up to three times greater risk” – Covid vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have been linked to a small but significant proportion of heart, blood and neurological disorders, reports the Mail.
• “‘Our paper critical of the Covid vaccines will be retracted by Cureus!’” – The paper Steve Kirsch co-authored with six other authors calling for a vax moratorium will be retracted by the journal because the publisher won’t allow any paper that is counter-narrative to be published, says Kirsch. Download it here before it disappears.
• “First-trimester Covid vaccination is 28% more dangerous than third-trimester, another study shows” – For a safe vaccine “not affecting pregnancy”, the trimester in which it‘s taken shouldn‘t matter, says Igor Chudov on Substack.
• “New Zealand OIA request reveals the Covid vaccines increased your risk of dying” – An OIA request to the New Zealand health authorities shows that the vaccines didn’t protect people from Covid. It killed them, writes Steve Kirsch on Substack.
• “The Wuhan Cover-Up by RFK Jr.” – “The Wuhan Cover-Up does a better job than any other book or article I have read at exposing the trends, forces and institutions that brought us the Covid catastrophe,” says Debbie Lerman on Substack
• “From Zika to Covid and the corruption of science” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton highlights his recent discussion with Dr. Randy Bock on a range of issues relating to the Covid years.
• “Labour vows to ‘eliminate’ fox hunting” – Labour has vowed to eliminate fox hunting within its first five years in power, saying there is not a majority in “any part of the country” that wants it to continue, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mass immigration is bringing a European-style populist revolt to Ireland” – Republican voters are turning against Sinn Fein as they reject the party’s open borders policy, says Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
• “The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill” – The Republic of Ireland could soon become one of the worst violators of the right to free speech in the Western world, warns Paul Coleman in the Critic.
• “High energy costs are a choice – and an act of national self-harm” – Governments like to claim that globalisation means that our destiny is beyond their control. That’s wrong, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Men and women’s brains do work differently, scientists discover for first time” – The brains of men and women operate differently, scientists have shown for the first time in a breakthrough study, according to the Telegraph.
• “Defence minister defends military’s ‘woke’ policies as necessary to represent modern society” – Andrew Murrison, the Minister for Defence, People and Families, tells MPs he is “guilty as charged” if he’s accused of wanting to make the military a more inclusive and diverse workspace, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sadiq Khan puts ‘anti-U.K. propaganda’ on a pedestal in Trafalgar Square” – The London Mayor has been accused of promoting “anti-British propaganda” with a shortlist of woke sculptures for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why is the NHS indulging ‘breastfeeding’ men?” – Discharge from a transwoman’s nipples is not breast milk. Stop pretending otherwise, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “Cathedral apologises as transgender activist eulogised at funeral as ‘mother of all whores’” – A New York cathedral has apologised for holding a “sacrilegious” funeral for a transgender activist eulogised as the “mother of all whores”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Disney: a billion-dollar casualty of woke” – Disney is paying a heavy price for trying to shove identity politics down our throats, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Nick Clegg boasts 60% of Meta staff used for censorship” – Meta’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg has let slip how much effort goes in to sanitising the platform, says Guido Fawkes.
• “Shocking” – A video posted on X shows a man at a pro-Palestine rally, who held a sign saying Hamas is a terrorist organisation being aggressively removed by the police, rather than having his right to counter-protest protected.

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