The Iconoclast
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 […]
I Can Hear These Books Sing
By Geoffrey Clarfield A Review of Jewish-“Muslim Interaction in Books-The Medieval and Early Modern Periods” Exhibition and catalogue by Nadav Sharon and Blair Kuntz at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book […]
A repulsive antisemitism plagues U of T profs
By Conrad Black It is not conceivable that Canadians are happy with the increasingly hostile treatment of Jews in this country and the reputation that Canada is acquiring as a […]
Deity and Reality
The Urantia Book, paper 105: 105:0.1 (1152.1)TO EVEN high orders of universe intelligences infinity is only partially comprehensible, and the finality of reality is only relatively understandable. The human mind, […]
The Problem with Writing Politics
by David Solway Writing politics is not the same as political writing. The latter entails an engagement with the subject, while the former suggests a reaction to the subject. The […]
Koran burner told of imminent terror threat to his life
An asylum seeker who burnt the Koran has received a police warning of a terror plot to murder him, The Telegraph understands. Hamit Coskun was woken by officers acting on behalf […]
A Shared Plight
By Theodore Dalrymple Living between France and Britain, I am struck both by how different and how similar they are, the differences obvious and the similarities underlying. Chief among the […]
I Burned a Quran. The British Government Punished Me for Blasphemy.
From the Free Press, originally published in The Spectator. Hat tip, Phyllis Chesler, thank you. After my protest against Islamic extremism landed me with criminal charges, the verdict is in: […]
This Is the Actual Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
By Eric Rozenman I think this piece (link attached) by Shoshana Bryen of the Jewish Policy Center that appears in the current issue of the online newspaper The Algemeiner is […]
What About that Algerian Male Boxer and his Gold Medal?
By Phyllis Chesler It’s all too crazy–even for me. Here we have a man, Imane Khelif, who was once disqualified from competing as a woman because he is a man–and […]
The Quiet Economic Boom of Trump 2.0
By Victor Davis Hanson The Trump budget is making its way through the Senate. And people on both sides of the issue of fiscal sobriety are arguing because the Biden deficit, […]
Update; Police blunder in ‘Lee Rigby style’ threat against British paratrooper as security tightened at base in Colchester
From the Daily Mail (a paper that has its drawbacks but also does have its uses) Update – the police blundered. What else is new? Other than the depths of […]
A Year at New College
By Bruce Gilley It takes me about eight minutes to walk across the campus of the New College of Florida, where I just concluded a year as a visiting professor. […]
The meaning of “indigenous”
The old imperial habit rises again: dividing the world into the natives and us By Theodore Dalrymple A BBC headline that arrived by algorithm on my computer attracted my attention: […]
