The Iconoclast

The Forever Holocaust
By Bruce Bawer I’ve read more than my share of books about antisemitism. I even reviewed one of them here at FrontPage twelve years ago. Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives was a collection of nineteen essays edited […]

The Left’s DOGE Tantrum
By Victor Davis Hanson There’s been a lot of commotion lately about the Elon Musk cuts and the Donald Trump rebranding of the entire administrative state and bureaucracy. It’s very strange that […]

Crimes of Punishment
By Theodore Dalrymple Notwithstanding their evident differences, Britain and France are very similar in their juridico-political idiocies. Perhaps idiocy is not quite the right word, insofar as there might be […]

Eat it, Europe
By Bruce Bawer Are you old enough to recognize the name of James Taylor? He’s a singer-songwriter, now 76 years old. Among his hits are “Fire and Rain” (1970) and […]

Good life [as an immigrant] for me, but not for thee: prosperous US Arabs would rather have Gaza’s Arabs live in misery
by Lev Tsitrin I hesitate to say which is more ridiculous, NPR’s asking US Arabs’ (who after all are, by definition, emigrants whose priority, evidenced in the very fact of […]

Teenage girl became ‘used to being used as a sex thing’, Rochdale abuse trial told
“All these men knew I was underage,” Girl A said From the Manchester Evening News The trial of eight men, accused of a series of sexual offences allegedly committed against […]

Reining In District Courts
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds A possible solution to lawfare: Back to the future? We’ve seen a lot of single-judge national injunctions in the last month. These will, for the most […]

Behind Jeff Bezos’ Changes at Washington Post
By Roger L Simon Mayday! Mayday! That sky is falling (not)! The Washington Post staff is exploding (yes)! Big changes are coming to their left-leaning opinion page—and maybe more (hope […]

Not in London
Newsreel of the funeral of the Bibas family in Israel yesterday was very moving, to see the crowds respectfully lining the streets and the orange balloons for all the hostages, […]

Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?
By Victor Davis Hanson At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have […]

This 2013 Interview Foresaw the Tragic Plight of Afghan Women Today
By Phyllis Chesler “The day after America leaves, every shelter for battered women, every school for girls, every hospital that admits women will be shut down with a vengeance. So […]

Germany’s Election Results and the Marginalized Conservatives
By Victor Davis Hanson There were elections recently in Germany. And as many people and pollsters had predicted, the conservative parties, and there are two of them, won nearly, almost, 50% […]

‘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 […]