The Iconoclast
Could the Allies have Bombed Auschwitz? Controversy and Reality
Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp August 25, 1944 Dr. Rafael L. Medoff, executive director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies once again on the eve Yom Ha Shoah 2016 […]
ISIS Kill Eight Egyptian Police Officers in a Cairo Suburb
Egypt has its own reasons to fight ISIS.
Woodrow Wilson and Mother’s Day
What a dilemma for the students and faculty of Princeton University? Do they know that it was Woodrow Wilson who in 1914 issued a presidential proclamation that officially established Mother’s Day to celebrate […]
Is “Never Again” Happening Again?
by Dr. Lori Ripps and Molly Gross (May 2016) Introduction by Jerry Gordon The student body of the US Naval Air Technical Training Center, Pensacola, Florida Naval Air Station assembled […]
The Pleasures of Resentment
Is the US Treasury anti-Semitic, anti-Italian, anti-German, anti-Polish, anti-Irish, anti-Catholic, anti- many other groups that could be named, none of whose descendants has ever appeared on an American banknote? Hitherto, […]
The European Commission and the Latest “Rights Of Man”
“In its latest bid to tackle the biggest migration crisis since World War II, the European Commission proposed making countries pay a ‘solidarity contribution’ of 250,000 ($290,000) euros per refugee […]
Shocking story of extremism in class: I taught TWO jihadis at Cardiff school where Rigby’s killer is called a hero
Donald Trump, the centrist, has attracted an army of disaffected patriots
The United States is now moving in high gear into the most interesting election campaign it has had since 1968, and without the constant riots that occurred throughout that election […]
Growing Up Before November
“To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.” – Chekhov The Republican primaries began as an opportunity to vote for […]
Egyptian New Kingdom Mummy Found with Animal, Flower Tattoos
From the female mummy with extensive tattoos of animals and flowers. The mummy dates to between 1300 and 1070 B.C., which makes her the first mummy from Dynastic Egypt with […]
Trump Leads the Spartans
This is funny (with thanks to Ann Corcoran):
Pelosi, Vicente Fox plot to defeat Trump, Mexican calls Trump voters lazy drunks
This is beautiful – a foreign leader colluding with the Democrats right out in the open and desparaging Americans. From the Mexico City Sunday and discussed ways he can help […]
London election results live: Sadiq Khan is named capital’s new mayor
errorist-supporting (in)human rights lawyer is not the latest in a chain of honourable and illustrious men. Having said that, he will have a certain amount of power, a substantial budget and […]
Jews Remembered in Venice
Though his sonnet was on Westminster Bridge, London, William Wordsworth might have used the same words to describe Venice, “a sight so touching in its majesty.” Everyone is enchanted by […]
Russians Give Concert in Ruins of Palmyra
Nottinghamshire school tells Muslim students fasting could damage exam results
From the Blackburn and Green Lane Birmingham mosques say? Allah knows best.
