The Iconoclast

The insidious BDS campaign trying to undermine our universities
By Conrad Black As the United States officially abandons the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda as the institutionalized bigotry that most of it is, and Harvard University has banned reasonably […]

This Year in Jerusalem
By Roger L Simon I am on a crowded plane from Budapest to Ben Gurion Airport. Flights into Israel are fewer these days hence every seat is taken, Some of […]

Sadiq Khan continues to wriggle and evade a straight answer
Readers will remember that last week the Leader of London Conservatives Susan Hall tried to pin down Sadiq Khan (I will not call him Sir) on the subject of Grooming […]

DEI’s Demise
By Theodore Dalrymple Most people are inclined to suppose that if there were justice in the world, they would be better off. This, of course, is the merest prejudice. Hamlet […]

The Mess of Anti-Semitism in Canada
By Geoffrey Clarfield James Pew and his colleagues at Wokewatch have their fingers on the pulse of Canadian society. He is a proud cultural Christian, friend of the Jewish people […]

Racism in Black and white
By Theodore Dalrymple I am coming around to the idea, though reluctantly, that there is much hidden or subconscious racism in our society, though not where it is most expected […]

Foolish Lady Bishop Vs. Trump
By Bruce Bawer Today fewer than one percent of Americans belong to the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Nonetheless, although the Constitution forbids any establishment […]

Ouch! Don’t Ask Him. He Knows the Answer.
By Reg Green Donald Trump’s untried picks to slim down vast Government departments will have a hard time of it, of course, maybe an impossibly hard time. But would […]

Fun
By Carl Nelson “the pleasure of taking pains” – Frost What makes fun? One component might be the passage of time. Harsh times are oft times fun in collegial […]

Giorgia Meloni: Just Do It
By Armando Simón North America and Europe, particularly Western Europe, have for over a decade been swamped by a tsunami of illegal immigrants. In Europe, the majority of these […]

Axel Rudakubana will serve at least 52 years behind bars for Southport stabbings
From the Liverpool Echo and the Telegraph I didn’t hear/read all of the news broadcasts today as I had to go out for three hours. But the Judge handled him well […]

Being Kind to the Cruel Never Ends Well
By Phyllis Chesler I jumped on the news about yesterday’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv rather hastily because it suddenly occurred to to me that, from now on, Jihadists and […]

The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left
By Victor Davis Hanson Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the left’s hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked. After a decade of this unhinged furor, […]

CNN Is Wallpaper in Europe Too
By Roger L Simon I have been sitting in the Lufthansa Lounge at Frankfort Airport about six hours due to one of those travel semi-calamities that we all experience so […]

Germany: Stabbing in Aschaffenburg leaves 2 dead
The arrested man is an Afghan, named Enamullah O who lives in an asylum shelter. One of the dead is a smalll boy aged 2. According to German press the […]

Vulnerable girls ‘became sex slaves’ in degrading grooming gang ordeal, court hears
From GB News and The Manchester Evening News Photograph from The Oldham Times. The MCN is running a live blog from the courtroom which is practically a live transcript of the […]