News Round-Up

• “Israel defy pro-Palestinian crowds and are through to Eurovision final” – Israel singer Eden Golan has made it to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest following a public vote, despite thousands of protestors calling for her to be excluded from the competition, reports the Mail.
• “Sunak tells university bosses to come down hard on Gaza antisemitism” – Rishi Sunak orders university bosses to clampdown on antisemitism amid fears the U.K. could import violent protests like those seen in the U.S., says the Mail.
• “Vice-chancellors warn Rishi Sunak over non-student ‘agitators’” – Leading universities raise concerns that non-student “agitators” are infiltrating on-campus protests over Gaza to “stir division”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Hysterics for Hamas” – Why have young women been so prominent in the recent campus chaos? asks Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
• “BBC failed to correct student over Israel genocide claim” – The BBC is accused of fuelling anti-Israel sentiment after a pro-Palestinian student claimed the country had been found guilty of a “plausible genocide” in an interview, reports the Telegraph.
• “Biden threatened with impeachment for withholding Israeli aid” – Republicans have seized on President Biden’s threat to withhold U.S. weapons from Israel , with at least one saying he should be impeached, says the Mail.
• “Zadie Smith has failed the Palestine purity test” – Novelist Zadie Smith has been monstered by the anti-Israel mob for daring to recognise the humanity of Jews in an essay in the New Yorker, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Prepare to welcome boarders” – In the face of an existential threat – Islamic mobs running wild every Saturday – our police and legal system seem paralysed, says Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Christian preacher challenges arrest for protesting Islam” – A Christian preacher is appealing a ruling which upheld his arrest outside Southwark Cathedral for displaying placards protesting against Islam in the wake of the Oct 7th terrorist attack, according to Christian Concern.
• “AfD politician convicted for warning about gang rapes” – A German court has upheld a verdict against Rotenburg AfD leader Marie-Thérèse Kaiser for incitement to hatred after she quoted official statistics about the number of Muslim migrants involved in violent crime, reports the European Conservative.
• “Five babies die of whooping cough after surge fuelled by lockdown” – Health chiefs say Covid lockdowns have fuelled England’s unprecedented epidemic of pertussis, according to the Mail.
• “The WHO’s naive global vaccine plan won’t withstand contact with reality” – The WHO is better off ensuring that, next time, the death toll inflicted by a pandemic is not multiplied by a botched response, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “We did it! 22 attorneys-general in the U.S. have told Joe Biden that the WHO will not be making public policy in their states” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass celebrates 22 American states giving the finger to the WHO’s pandemic accord. Now for the other 28…
• “New FDA study reports elevated post-vaccination seizure risk in toddlers” – On the Illusion of Consensus Substack, Rev Arora asks the FDA how it can still recommend Covid vaccinations for children despite the newly emerging risks. Their response is all-too-revealing.
• “Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic goes RICO” – Fauci is now in the sights of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Will he be held to account? Hope springs eternal, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
• “South Korea’s birthrate is so low, the President wants to create a ministry to tackle it” – South Korea’s leader says he plans to create a new government ministry to tackle the country’s deepening demographic crisis, according to CNN.
• “Soaring immigration is fuelling Britain’s housing crisis, says Bank’s chief economist” – The Bank of England’s chief economist says “large increases in immigration” are piling pressure on Britain’s housing stock, after net migration hit a record-breaking 745,000 in 2022, reports the Telegraph.
• “Dominic Cummings unveils plans for new party to replace the Tories” – Boris Johnson’s former advisor unveils plans for a new “Start-Up Party” which he claims could replace the Conservatives, says the Telegraph.
• “The vindication of Kate Forbes” – The appointment of Kate Forbes to Deputy First Minister will infuriate many on the nationalist Left. But the truth is she represents the views of a great many Scots – including half the members of the SNP, writes Euan McColm in the Spectator.
• “‘I hate hate speech laws’” – The most horrible places to live are those where you live in terror of letting slip some stray remark, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
• “Councils scrapping apostrophes is just another sorry sign of Britain’s decline” – If we’re now dropping the punctuation mark from traffic markings, the road ahead does not look good, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Gordon Brown selling Britain’s gold reserves cost the country £21 billion” – Analysis suggests that Gordon Brown’s ill-fated decision to sell off Britain’s gold reserves in 1999 has cost the country £21 billion, according to the Mail.
• “Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech” – The Guardian reports that Hong Kong is demanding the removal of a protest song, popularised during pro-democracy demonstrations, from the internet following a court ruling banning it.
• “Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging” – A court in Iran has sentenced acclaimed movie director Mohammad Rasoulof to eight years in prison, a flogging, a fine and confiscation of property for ‘national security crimes’, according to the Guardian.
• “Classic cars of future risk being killed off by Net Zero” – Concern is mounting among motoring enthusiasts that cars not yet classified as ‘historic’, are being scrapped due to Net Zero targets, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Rodney McInnis: GHG Lab – a defensive tool for threatened industries” – On the Tom Nelson Podcast, Rodney McInnes joins Tom to discuss GHG Lab – a novel “engineering approach” to computing the greenhouse gas (GHG) effect on the Earth’s temperature.
• “Autism school signed up to LGBT charter pushing ‘pseudoscientific’ trans ideology” – A Scottish school for severely autistic children has signed up to a controversial LGBT charter pushing “pseudoscientific” transgender ideology, reports the Telegraph.
• “How gender ideology breeds toxic law” – In the Brownstone Institute, Ramesh Thakur advocates justice for all before social justice for favoured protected groups.
• “The ‘nice guy’ LGBT campaigner who became leader of Eunuch Maker cult” – In the Telegraph, Max Stephens profiles Marius Gustavson who, over four years, made £300,000 from 22,800 subscribers paying to watch ‘human butchery’ on their screens.
• “Is Critical Race Theory Marxist?” – On his Psephizo blog, Ian Paul explores the connection between Marxist ideology, Critical Race Theory and church initiatives aimed at tackling perceived racial injustices.
• “Students accused of blackface win $1 million payout after arguing it was acne mask” – Two students expelled from a leading private school in San Francisco for “blacking up” have won a $1 million payout after they argued they were in fact wearing acne face masks, reports the LA Times.
• “Is journalism back? New York Times editor goes ballistic on Biden, ‘safe space’ era” – Five years of bitterness between Joe Biden and the country’s most influential newspaper has burst into the open, paving the way for a press comeback, says Matt Taibbi on his Racket News Substack.
• “Just another day in the U.K. Parliament” – Andrew Bridgen questions Penny Mordaunt about AstraZeneca’s admission of vaccine-induced blood clots and its global withdrawal, and gets labelled a “conspiracy theorist” for his trouble.

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