The Iconoclast

Two women arrested in Madrid for running a ‘jihad academy that trained females in the ways of the Islamic State’
From The Olive Press, English language news from Spain TWO women have been arrested in the Madrid area for allegedly running an online ‘jihad academy’ aimed at recruiting females. The […]

Carney continues on a path of mindless globalism
By Conrad Black It was a gracious gesture for King Charles III and Queen Camilla to come to Ottawa for 24 hours to open Parliament and symbolize Canada‘s close relations […]

The Lasting Damage of the George Floyd Riots
By Victor Davis Hanson This week was the fifth anniversary, May 25, of the tragic death of George Floyd. It seems that it just happened but it was actually five years […]

Harvard, You’re Entitled to Nothing
By Victor Davis Hanson Recently, President Donald Trump has escalated his struggle with Harvard University. Remember what the issues were. Harvard had not really followed the letter of the law according […]

Talking Shop
By Theodore Dalrymple For the first time in my life, I have been a shopkeeper—admittedly for no more than a few hours, but I found it a curiously intense experience. […]

Toronto school board to force educators to undergo mandatory re-education on ‘anti-Palestinian racism’
By Geoffrey Clarfield from The Post Millenial Canadian News This is the state of state run education in Canada. Teachers took students on a field trip to a pro-Palestinian protest […]

Gal Gadot’s Hollywood star vandalised with ‘baby killer’
From The Telegraph The Hollywood star dedicated to Israeli actress Gal Gadot has been defaced with the words “baby killer”. Vandals used a black permanent marker to write out the slur against […]

The Normalization of Lethal Lies
By Phyllis Chesler When I think that the media cannot possibly get any worse, they do–and how they do! Is it worth documenting this increasingly dangerous decline even one more […]

Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
By Victor Davis Hanson A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people. The […]

Scottish government ministers are both Zionists and antisemitic
By Sammy Stein A few months ago, a member of Glasgow’s Jewish community accused the SNP and the Scottish Government of antisemitism after Angus Robertson, the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs […]

The Truth About South Africa’s Anti-American Agenda
By Victor Davis Hanson We’ve had another “ambush” in the White House. Ambush, remember, means an unexpected attack on someone from a secretive place. That was not an ambush. Cyril […]

‘I’m Shocked! Shocked, I Say!’
By Armando Simón “The Party [media] told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, “1984“ By now, […]

How Culpable Is the UN in the Gaza War?
Also some words on Musk’s Sayonara By Roger L Simon You don’t have to look too far below the surface to see how the United Nations, primarily through its branch […]

Scary AI, and Scarier Not-Scary AI
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds How scary is AI? In some ways pretty scary. Does AI have consciousness? Well, maybe. At least it seems to be concerned with its own survival, […]

More on the King of Canada’s reference to “Unceded Lands”
By William Corden Nothing sends me into a rage faster than “we acknowledge that we are operating from the unceded lands of whatever Indian Band they’re trying to mollify” The […]

Alberta Independence Would Be the Death Knell for Canada
By Conrad Black All of Canada is waiting to see which of the Mark Carneys that we saw in the recent election campaign emerges as the new prime minister. The […]