The Iconoclast
Russian anecdote; Anton Chekhov; and Golda Meir reflecting on Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
By Lev Tsitrin Just as Greek slaves developed the genre of fable to communicate their grim view of the world and its powers that be, the almost equally downtrodden Russians […]
Trump team bomb threats came with ‘pro-Palestinian message’
From the Telegraph Donald Trump’s proposed Cabinet has been targeted with a series of hoax bomb threats with one member suggesting it was the work of pro-Palestinian activists. Pete Hegseth, […]
Brighten Up – It’s Thanksgiving!
By Roger L Simon First, Happy Thanksgiving to all readers of this still rather new Substack! We have plans for 2025, unique to the format, we sincerely hope will make […]
Teenage girl pelted with bottles in suspected hate crime in Stamford Hill
From the London Evening Standard A 14-year-old girl has been rushed to hospital after being pelted with glass bottles in “an abhorrent hate crime” in Stamford Hill, a neighbourhood security service has […]
European attitude to Israel shows moral rot among leaders
By Conrad Black It is both a pitiful and contemptible state of affairs when within a few days of each other the pope writes, at least as a personal reflection […]
Ex-teacher accused of sharing Islamic propaganda denies terriorism
The trial of Dzhamilya Timaeva continues. From the Slough Observer and the Daily Mail Dzhamilya Timaeva, 20, from Windsor, Berkshire, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of sharing […]
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Awaited With Mounting Curiosity as Biden Tries To Saddle President-Elect With an Escalating War
By Conrad Black As the war in Ukraine escalates and the shambles of the Biden administration flounders to an end, the world awaits with mounting curiosity the disclosure by President […]
Muslim schoolgirl admits lying that her teacher was Islamophobic
which led to him being decapitated by a jihadist – because she was suspended for two days and worried her parents would be angry. From the Daily Mail The Muslim […]
Terror police block ‘October 7’ video game
From the Telegraph British counter-terror police have blocked a video game that allows players to recreate Hamas’s Oct 7 attacks on Israel. The authorities intervened last month by ordering Steam, […]
ICC Fails Afghan Women, Filmmakers Step In
By Phyllis Chesler I’ve just watched the film Bread and Roses, co-produced by actress Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousefzai, and directed by Sahra Mani. If only American women were […]
Dana Gioia on the Opera, From Tosca to Sweeney Todd
By Bruce Bawer Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry By Dana Gioia (Paul Dry Books, 198 pages, $20) “People’s reaction to opera the first time they see it is […]
Jewish community chase out pro-Palestinian protest outside Melbourne synagogue
By Christina McIntosh. A bit more encouraging news from Australia. From the Jerusalem Post and the Australian Jewish News A protest outside of Melbourne synagogue on Monday night which organisers […]
Norway’s Foreign Minister Targets Israel – and Trump
By Bruce Bawer Weird thing about Norway: on the one hand, the people, by Western European standards, are unusually patriotic and fiercely protective of their sovereignty, waving flags every year […]
A Separate Canada-US Free Trade Deal Would Be a Win-Win
By Conrad Black There are already suggestions from the country’s premiers that Canada express its willingness to divide the existing United States-Canada-Mexico free trade agreement into one bilateral agreement between […]
The Man Who May Be Tasked with Preventing World War III
By Roger L Simon As the members of Donald Trump’s new cabinet were being rolled out with remarkable rapidity, I kept asking myself where’s Ric, meaning Richard Grenell, a man […]
Man arrested for Woollahra rampage
By Christina McIntosh. An update on my post from the 22nd November. The Sydney police have done some fast work and arrested one of the blokes who did the anti-Jewish vandalism […]
