The Iconoclast
Austrian police searching for group of men ‘of foreign appearance’ over New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Innsbruck
From the Local (which omits the foreign origin of the suspects) the Russia Today Police in the Austrian city of Innsbruck are searching for a group of men “of foreign […]
No Breitbart, a Muslim mob didn’t set fire to Germany’s oldest church
The German press including the this story. At New Year’s Eve celebrations in Dortmund a mob of more than 1,000 men chanted ‘Allahu Akhbar’, launched fireworks at police, and set fire to […]
‘Jihad! Jihad!’ Migrant gang turns Swedish city into war zone
From the The Local. I think the Local is still trying to put a good face on this; diversity, vibrant, high-jinks, sort of thing. The boy who took the video […]
Waltham Forest Asian Seniors Group which was awarded £37,000 reluctant to let women join
My home town again. From the Mrs Anjem Choudary at a different venue in Walthamstow plotted sedition and was closed in 2015.
John Kerry, Those “Illegal” Settlements, That “Two-State Solution” (Part II)
by Hugh Fitzgerald After the Six-Day War, while the Israelis waited for the Arabs to make that phone call about peace negotiations that never came, the Arabs had other ideas. […]
Donald Trump Must Not Join the Jackals
by Michael Curtis In his biting article in Commentary February 1, 1981, Daniel P. Moynihan, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, 1975-76, was critical of his successor Donald F. […]
Commonsense in ‘The Australian’: An Op-Ed by David Suissa, of the Jewish Journal, on the Subject of Those Jews Who Insist on Building Houses in Judea and Samaria
It is refreshing to see something as intelligent and generally informative as this being given column inches in one of Australia’s most widely-distributed newspapers (the ‘Australian’ can be found in […]
Child sex abuse trial: Five in court over 23 offences
From thethis child raping band of brothers started this morning. THREE brothers and two other men have gone on trial for historic child sexual exploitation (CSE) offences. The five men have […]
John Kerry, Those “Illegal” Settlements, That “Two-State Solution” (Part I)
by Hugh Fitzgerald There’s a lot that has already been said about John Kerry’s appalling speech defending the Obama Administration’s abstention on the anti-Israel Resolution 2334 in the U.N. Security […]
Obama’s Failed Presidency
by Conrad Black Like most people, I had hoped for the customary settling down after the very tumultuous and nasty election. We have been denied that, not by the candidates, […]
The Fight Against Anti-Semitism begins in our Universities
by Gary Fouse The year 2016 was not a good year for Jewish students at many of our universities. The AMCHA Initiative, which was co-founded by University of California Hebrew […]
Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin
by Michael Curtis It would be much too unkind to say that President Barack Obama is a self-made man who worships his creator. Yet it is true that he seems […]
Descartes Winter
by Rebecca Bynum Oftentimes I mark time by what I’m reading and I remember time that way. Milton Spring, the year of Donne, Byron Autumn and now my Descartes Winter. […]
Isis plotting chemical attack on UK: Watch for the enemy within, says minister. "There are traitors"
From Sunday Times Islamic State militants have aspirations to launch mass-casualty chemical attacks on targets in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the British security minister said in a newspaper interview […]
Dozens Dead In Multiple ISIS Bombings Across Baghdad
ISIS continues to attack the Shi’a in Iraq where and when they can. Laura Wagner writes in
Eight arrested in Istanbul as Isil claims New Year’s attack on nightclub
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