The Iconoclast

EXCLUSIVE: I helped jail the grooming gangs raping young girls in Rochdale – now things have got worse
From the Daily Mail Former police officer Maggie Oliver is angry. Twelve years ago she famously turned whistleblower to expose the horror of young girls being sexually abused by gangs […]

Iran, the Evil Kingdom, Protected by American “Wokesters.”
by Phyllis Chesler The Evil Kingdom of Mullahs has both exiled and murdered Afghan refugees in flight from the Taliban. In 2021, together with London based activist, Mandy Sanghera, I […]

The Verdict Is In: Non-Merit Based Hiring Has Diminished Quality at Canadian Universities
Patrick Keeney writes in the Epoch Times: The Times Higher Education, widely regarded as among the world’s leading journals for reporting on higher education in the UK and worldwide, has […]

Landscapes of allusion and illusion
by James Stevens Curl Two books have recently landed on my desk which deal in differing ways with images of the Landscape Garden: one is Prints and the Landscape Garden: […]

Fox News Up Against the Wall with Kamala Interview
by Roger Simon I suspect at least some of the powers that be at Fox News know to the degree they themselves are in, if anything, more jeopardy than Kamala […]

The Naked Truth
by Reg Green You doubt being a man in female company takes finesse these days? With even Barack Obama rebuked for having said Kamala Harris was the best-looking attorney-general, I narrowly escaped castration […]

It’s a very small world when you play the saz
by Geoffrey Clarfield My wife Mira and I have been living in Ein Kerem for the last month. It is an ancient village, thousands of years old and its stone […]

Bashert Encounters of the High Holiday Season
By Gerald A. Honigman Due to painful Family matters, as fate would have it, I found myself living in Rockville, Maryland to be near my son in 2024. Looking […]

Some Post Yom Kippur Thoughts
by Phyllis Chesler Since I can no longer hold my own in crowds and am temporarily on some heavy medication, I could not join my beloved shul for Yom Kippur. […]

Democrats Enter Panic Mode as Harris’s Faltering Candidacy Threatens To Bring Down the Obama-Biden Era
The most fecund arsenal of dirty tricks in the history of the country has failed to derail President Trump’s campaign for a second term. by Conrad Black How refreshing it […]

Truce with Hezbullah? No, Israel must insist on formal peace treaty with Lebanon
by Lev Tsitrin I do not get it. Why did we settle into the mindset that attacking Israel is somehow normal? Why, in the context of Israel’s war on Hezbullah, […]

Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living things
From France 24 Kabul (AFP) – Afghanistan’s Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule […]

Former British soldier sent £31k of night-vision rifle sights to Taliban
From The Telegraph A former British soldier raised money for the Taliban and sent £31,000 worth of night-vision rifle sights for its militants to use in battle, a court has […]

Columbus’s Voyage of Discovery
The true story is far more interesting than leftist myths. by Armando Simón If the name of Christopher Columbus has caught your attention in the past few years, it almost […]

If Columbus Was a Jew….
by Phyllis Chesler If Columbus was really a Jew how long before the brainwashed anti-American elites start blaming Jews for having #colonized the New World and given smallpox to the […]

As Valuable as a Dead Sea Scroll – A Story About Teaching English in Israel
by Geoffrey Clarfield Some Israelis read, write, and speak English with greater clarity and less hesitation than native born citizens of the Anglo Sphere. This is because they learnt it […]