The Iconoclast

‘Desperately needed’ London grooming gangs inquiry REJECTED as Labour and Sadiq Khan refuse ‘repeated calls for action’
From GB News and repeated at MSN where the comments are excellent A Tory proposal to fund a grooming gangs inquiry in London has been voted down by the capital’s […]

London university hosts event on ‘understanding Hamas’ led by professor who claimed that labelling Hamas terrorists was an ‘obstacle to peace’
Thanks to Dr Chesler I had notice of this on Monday to enable me to watch out for it. This is the GB News report, the first in the UK […]

Israel’s “no” vote on UN Ukraine resolution
By Lev Tsitrin Two back-to-back articles in the Jerusalem Post express the unease felt in Israel over the country’s “no” vote in UN General Assembly on resolution condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine. […]

Fighting Back Against Jew Hatred Among Psychologists
By Phyllis Chesler On February 23, 2025, Dr. Julie Ancis, who founded Psychologists Against Antisemitism, and others, organized a letter to the APA which has, so far, garnered nearly 4000 […]

Time to end ‘pandemical nervosity’ in Europe over Trump
By Conrad Black This has been an eventful political week for Europe. The German Social Democratic Party (SPD), as expected, the party of Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and Gerhard Schroeder, […]

BBC ‘whitewashed’ anti-Semitism in Gaza documentary
From The Telegraph The BBC has been accused of “whitewashing” the views of participants in its controversial Gaza documentary after repeatedly mistranslating references to “the Jews” and omitting praise of “jihad”. […]

Trump’s New Direction for World Peace Worth Trying
By Roger L Simon Remember “The End of History”? That was a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama. If you don’t recall it, don’t feel embarrassed. It’s beyond laughable now. History, […]

MAGA Foreign Policy and the Iranian Regime
By Victor Davis Hanson One topic that’s come up throughout January and this week again is what to do about the Iranian nuclear proliferation problem or crisis. And we all know that […]

A Look at Our History Shows Canadians Have Earned the Right to Be Patriotic
By Conrad Black The concept of Canadian patriotism has evolved steadily but gradually over more than 400 years. When Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec in 1608, and in his 30 years […]

Philip Haney, An American Patriot: In Memoriam
By David John Baldovin With sanity and patriotism now on display in the Oval Office as well as within the United States national security apparatus, it is an appropriate time to […]

Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope
By Victor Davis Hanson To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it. […]

Election Lands Germany at a Crossroads at Which We All Have Arrived
By Conrad Black The German elections confirmed that Germany, traditionally the most powerful country in Europe at least potentially, since Bismarck founded the German Empire in 1871, has arrived at […]

Ouch! Say It Ain’t So
By Reg Green A host of Pentagon contracts have a taint of corruption, President Trump says. Even so, they have many defenders. Remember the contractor who said the only taint about them […]

Erin Moran, Courageous Aussie Journalist, and the Hamas Nightmare…
by Gerald A. Honigman I found the following Erin Moran video on IsraPundit related to the barbarism Israeli Jews are repeatedly subjected to by their assorted Arab neighbors… Wasn’t […]

Ex-policeman describes ongoing grooming gang criminality as “massive” and blames community
By Robert Harris A GB News report published today (“EXCLUSIVE: Ex-South Yorkshire Policeman gives shock verdict on grooming gangs STILL active: ‘It’s massive’/” by Adam Chapman), features a retired South […]

Shamanism—Medicine Men and Priests
This paper details the development of ritual and the appearance of specialists in dealing with the spiritual world – “the shamans, who presume to stand between man and God as […]