The Iconoclast

Hit emotions, hide facts: MSM’s semantic games in Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case
By Lev Tsitrin If one is to check CNN on why Columbia graduate and anti-Israel firebrand Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation from the US, you will see this explanation from Khalil’s lawyer: “He […]

Man who wanted to ‘kill as many nurses as possible’ with hospital bomb jailed for 37 years
From the Manchester Evening News A man has been jailed for a minimum of 37 years after bringing a home-made bomb into a hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with the […]

Iran in Trouble as US Tells Israel US Will Handle Houthis
By Roger L Simon The Houthis–the dominant party by population in civil war riven Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries with starvation rampant (unlike Gaza) and 48% of its population without […]

Maybe it’s time to boycott the boycotters
By Matthew M. Hausman As a professor of legal studies in the community college system, I periodically receive calls and inquiries regarding the academic employees’ union. Though I usually relegate such […]

Tommy Robinson loses bid to challenge prison segregation in High Court
From Sky News Not the decision we hoped for. But sadly these days the judiciary are selected for their “group think” not their integrity and honour. They can still claim […]

A Debt of Gratitude
By Theodore Dalrymple No doubt it is rather peculiar, but whenever I see a grain of rice left on a plate, or a few crumbs scattered on a tablecloth, I […]

Ouch! Nothing is the Same Any More
By Reg Green With the pace of technological change having accelerated so fast that even teenage boys often can’t keep up, we have become used to words that had stayed stable for centuries […]

George & Winston
By G Murphy Donovan “Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.” George Orwell Internet journalism “could” […]

Ezra Levant was at Tommy Robinson’s dramatic court hearing today funded by Elon Musk – here’s what the MSM won’t tell you
T0mmy R0bins0n’s incarceration was the subject of a pre-judicial review hearing at the High Court this morning. Ezra Levant and Dan Wootton were there. Ezra Levant live tweeted during the […]

The Left’s Lies Did Terrible Damage to America
By Victor Davis Hanson The last week we’ve been hearing a lot about these lies. I guess there’s no other word for it. One of the most egregious was the […]

Daffodils by Charles A. Heath
And now here come the daffodils, The trumpeters of spring, All tooting joy, which thrills and thrills, The while again they bring Their happiest note attuned with cheer To tell […]

The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along
The left knowingly pushed falsehoods on COVID, Biden’s fitness, Hunter’s laptop, and the border—dividing the nation while facing no accountability. By Victor Davis Hanson For years, the left has advanced […]

An Elegy for Rabbi Michael Shmidman z”l
By Phyllis Chesler On Monday evening, March 17th, Congregation Orach Chaim held a memorial service for its late, revered senior rabbi, Michael Shmidman z”l. I was unable to attend in […]

‘The Barber in Peru’ – Back from the Dead
By Roger L Simon I got a bewildered phone call from my old friend “The Barber in Peru {Indiana}.” He’s getting pretty long in the tooth having been used by […]

Gavin Newsom’s California in ‘Existential Freefall’
By Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Gavin Newsom, as I had mentioned earlier, has had a series of podcast interviews and he’s selected conservatives. Charlie Kirk, Michael Savage, and others […]

Germany, better to dream of Bismarck, shake off the Greens and SPD
By Conrad Black From all indications, the proposed fiscal agreement in Germany between the Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens is an inadequate approach to […]