The Iconoclast

Fight or Flight?
On both sides of the Atlantic, life turns darker for Jews By Bruce Bawer In France, vandals deface the Holocaust Memorial along with several other Jewish sites in Paris – a city […]

Biden Dismantled Basic Immigration Law. Now, Americans Are Suffering.
By Victor Davis Hanson Immigration is not just back in the news, it’s in the news every single day. Almost every single day we see someone here illegally like Mohamed […]

The G7 Summit in Canada Will Be an Unusually Interesting One
By Conrad Black The G7 meeting next week in Kananaskis, Alberta, could be an unusually interesting discussion by the standards of that group. The first modern leaders’ summit was the […]

All members of the CDC advisory committee on vaccination have been fired
By Petr Chylek On June 10, 2025, POLITICO published a portion of an email sent to all 17 members of the CDC’s (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) vaccination advisory […]

Why I Can’t Read the Newspapers Anymore
By Eric Rozenman Who can forget where he or she was when news struck of the decision by retired English journalist John Richards to close the Apostrophe Protection Society? Who […]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Report on the Treatment of Gender Dysphoria and Why You Should Care
By Armando Simón So many things occurred in the past month that went against the contrary to leftist totalitarianism and, therefore, were suppressed as usual by the leftist media hivemind. […]

CODEPINK = CODE-RED
By Phyllis Chesler Alice Schwarzer, the leading feminist of Germany and the founder of EMMA magazine, introduced the German edition of Women and Madness way back in the early nineteen-seventies. Over the years, I’ve […]

A Tribute to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo & his Unique Courageous Support For America’s beleaguered Allies, the Kurds…
By Gerald A. Honigman I was recently alerted to an important essay dealing with America’s 40 million truly stateless allies in the Middle East, who have far less negative moral […]

Ouch! Counter Jumping
By Reg Green The Ukrainian Counter-Disinformation Center spoke yesterday of the importance of the drone strikes deep inside Russia. The Russian Counter-Counter-Disinformation Center is expected to deny the drones’ effectiveness. The response […]

Trump’s Tariffs, Without Shortages and Inflation, Are Emerging as a Bigger Story Than the Departure of Elon Musk
By Conrad Black The noisy departure of Elon Musk from the administration is a matter of infinitely small importance. It will not last much longer as the subject of fervent […]

Gavin Newsom’s ‘Reckless’ Surrender of LA to Foreign National Riots
By Victor Davis Hanson This weekend we saw rioting in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement for its efforts to apprehend illegal aliens and employers who were hiring illegal aliens. […]

London-based ‘Hamas operative’ behind Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla
From the Telegraph A man accused of being “a Hamas operative” based in London is a key figure behind Greta Thunberg’s Gaza-bound aid boat, it emerged on Monday. Zaher Birawi, […]

Thank God I Left California
“Free Palestine” meets Mexico By Roger L Simon I left California in 2018 after having lived there since1968. Many were doing the same then I have written about this move […]

Israel detains Greta Thunberg after stopping aid boat on way to Gaza
Israel’s military has detained Greta Thunberg and other activists after intercepting their Gaza-bound aid boat. Drones surrounded the Madleen yacht and dropped a “white irritant substance” before soldiers boarded around […]

Gavin Newsom and His Cruel Notion of ‘Cruel’
By Victor Davis Hanson Recently, Gov. Newsom weighed in on the Trump administration’s efforts to undo the last four years of border destruction, when an estimated 10-12 million illegal aliens […]

Road to Recovery
By Sammy Stein For nearly two decades, the Israeli non-profit organisation Road to Recovery had been transporting sick Palestinians from checkpoints in Gaza and the West Bank to hospitals in […]