The Iconoclast

Ukraine’s attack on Russian airbases, a masterpiece of underdog warfare
By Conrad Black The Ukrainian attack on 41 Russian long-range bombers and intelligence aircraft on June 1 has been widely recognised as a triumph of scientific ingenuity and a tactical […]

Trump’s Second Term Gains Momentum as Economy Soars, Borders Tighten
By Victor Davis Hanson We’re at four months now in the new Trump second administration. And a strange thing has happened. If you look at the polls, after diving for President […]

Canada probes IDF soldiers over war crimes allegations
By Geoffrey Clarfield Canada is no longer an ally of Israel. This is the end result of a generation of Cultural Marxist, DEI, BDS, Anti Zionist indoctrination of Canadians at […]

Book review: The Medievalist by David Angsten
The Medievalist by David Angsten “like an egg into a finely crafted beer” By Carl Nelson Roland Grimsky (a modern day Quasimodo) stumbles forward through David Angsten’s latest book, “The […]

Trump May Be ‘Filling the Zone’ With His Program but There Is Room for Criminal Law and Tort Reform
By Conrad Black In these last 130 days, President Trump has effectively ended the authorized illegal mass invasion of the country by thousands of destitute people every day, and he […]

Ruth in Bethlehem
By Phyllis Chesler Quite clearly, Ruth is an Abrahamic figure. Her story circles right back to Bereshit (12:1-3). I may have noticed this in the past, but I don’t think […]

Trump’s Message to Putin: You Blew It
By Victor Davis Hanson There’s been a new development, a new phase in the Ukraine war. I know we’ve talked about it before, but more recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin has escalated […]

Restoring Canada Special Series Part III: National Sovereignty in the Age of Mass Migration
By Patrick Keeney Canada is undergoing one of the most radical demographic experiments in the Western world. In 2023 the country admitted 1.25 million newcomers, the highest number in its history, pushing the […]

Man who burned Koran guilty of religiously aggravated public order offence
From PA via the North Wales Chronicle and the National Secular Society The burning of a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London amounted to a religiously aggravated public order […]

Did CNN Cause the Boulder Terror Attack?
The “Blood Libel’ reinvented By Roger L Simon My title is deliberately salacious. Admittedly I’m in that kind of mood, given the events in Boulder June 1 and those in […]

Right-wing Karol Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election
Nawrocki’s victory is a huge triumph for Trump From the Telegraph, and again. Karol Nawrocki has narrowly won Poland’s presidential election in a contest seen as a choice between a pro-EU […]

Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?
By Victor Davis Hanson The left is in its usual sanctimonious but schizophrenic mood. The media claims daily that the Trump administration has usurped power. It is supposedly destroying democracy. […]

Getting Real About Jew Hatred
By Eric Rozenman Spontaneous memorials, like the dozens of glowing yahrzeit candles on the sidewalk near the White House on May 22, and empathetic statements after the murders of Yaron […]

How the ‘Pravda-Like’ Press Distorts the News
By Victor Davis Hanson So much has been said about the media, the mainstream media, the legacy media. There’s not really much to add because we all know that it’s […]

Should a Nation Dwell Alone? Eurovision and Yuval Raphael
By Geoffrey Clarfield Israeli popular singer Yuval Raphael recently came in second in this year’s Eurovision song festival. She deserves our heartfelt congratulations during this dark time for Israel and […]

Holocaust survivor among eight victims of Colorado terror attack as friends reveal how peaceful weekly pro-Israel event turned to horror
It is hardly worh mentioning after all the other atrocities that a peacable group of elderly citizens is a cowardly and dishonourable target; the usual rules do not apply when […]