Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • No crime to incite violence against Jews

    From the JC:

    The Metropolitan Police have said that an imam who led a prayer for the destruction of Jewish homes "did not meet the threshold of a crime” in a decision that has baffled security experts.

    Just two weeks after Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel last year, a preacher at an east London mosque – located near a sizeable Jewish community – told his followers: “Oh Allah, curse the Jews and the children of Israel. Oh Allah, curse the infidels and the polytheists.

    “Oh Allah, break their words, shake their feet, disperse and tear apart their unity and ruin their houses and destroy their homes.”

    No doubt the Met are referencing the special use of the term "destroy" in Islamic theology, where it can have a number of meanings including a holy spiritual struggle – as they helpfully explained to us about "jihad".  

    Or this is yet another example of two tier policing.

  • Ahoo Daryaei released

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  • A tragedy of misallocation

    Robert Hutton at The Critic:

    Although farming is often reported to be in crisis, Britain is actually full of people who know how to make a fortune from it. Unfortunately, due to a tragedy of misallocation, all those people live in London and are busy on social media, and so the farming has to be done by people who are apparently too stupid to understand that they’re vastly rich, even when it’s been repeatedly explained to them by their betters.

  • International diplomatic failures over Israel and Lebanon

    ing with Lebanon’s decision to cultivate an alternative armed force, larger than its own military, implicated in atrocities in Syria, and answerable to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The insistence of global actors, most notably the host country itself, on protecting Hezbollah and securing for it advantageous ceasefire arrangements in previous wars in 1996 and 2006 also went unmentioned.

    Where Israel is concerned – where Jews are concerned – the normal diplomatic rules don't apply.

  • Lynchburg station

    John Vachon, March 1943. "Lynchburg, Virginia — railroad station."

    image from www.shorpy.com
    [Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

  • Kindness

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    In full:

    I hope people hear the word “kindness” and realize the kindness is very selective. The plea is blatant emotional manipulation: It means: * please “muster kindness” for the men and boys who want to compete in women’s and girls’ sport – and not for the women and girls who are disadvantaged. * please “muster kindness” for those who say earnestly that some kids are “born in the wrong body” and need drugs and surgery to “be their true selves” – but not for all the detransitioners, the confused teenage lesbians who expose this lie; nor for the desperate parents who are losing their children to a billion-dollar medical industry.:

    We see you. The “kindness” you advocate is claiming growing numbers of victims. More people are understanding this every day. Yes – and many of them are right there with you in the House. They know about your links to organizations like Gendered Intelligence.:

    It’s not about “kindness” – it’s about accepting a distorted, sexist, homophobic narrative – and it’s about power, control, and money. The best answer to that is just to say No.

    Sarah (Tim) MacBride is "the first openly transgender state senator in the country, she is the highest-ranking transgender elected official in United States history." A trans activist and friend of the Bidens…

  • A scenario contrary to what was anticipated

    Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx:

    An Argentinian man convicted of violence against women who was transferred into a women’s prison on the basis of his self-declared gender identity has raped and impregnated a female inmate while detained.

    Well, who could possibly have predicted that?

    Gabriel Fernández had been accused of violence by multiple former partners before changing his legal sex to female and renaming himself Gabriela Nahir Fernández in 2018. Last week it was revealed how, while serving a sentence related to a domestic abuse conviction, Fernández raped a female inmate in the women’s prison in Córdoba where he is housed, resulting in the victim becoming pregnant….

    A panel of judges at the Córdoba Chamber of Accusation has since ordered Fernández to be isolated from female inmates, calling the situation a “paradox” in the context of the nation’s gender self-identification laws.

    “Paradoxically, we find ourselves facing a scenario contrary to what was anticipated. That is, the accused, who perceives herself as a woman and belonging to the LGBTI group, is the one who turns her colleagues into victims or prey of her needs… taking advantage, of course, of the fact that she is housed in an establishment that would not be prepared for these exceptional cases, at least for the moment,” said the judges, referring to Fernández with feminine pronouns.

    A paradox indeed. 

    News of the sexual abuse prompted a response from Argentina’s Vice President, Victoria Villarruel. From her official account on X, the Villarruel strongly condemned gender identity ideology, and referred to its supporters as “degenerates.”

  • Banning “Zionist” customers

    Ireland once again – from the JC:

    An Irish publican has claimed his pub is enjoying “loads of business” after banning “Zionist” customers.

    The Celtic Marine Bar in Bundoran, a picturesque town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast popular with tourists, put up a sign last week week saying, “all Zionists are barred from The Celtic Marine Bar. Stop the genocide. Free Palestine.”

    The publican, Aaron Nealis, told the JC that the Zionist ban was bringing in “loads of business” and that locals “love it”. If any supporter of Israel tried to buy a pint of Guinness in his establishment, he added, he would “put them out”….

    The widow of a Jewish man who regularly visits Bundoran said the banner had left her “extremely upset”.

    In a complaint directed to the local tourism board, Sally Wickham wrote: “I usually enjoy visiting your lovely town. It is safe and welcoming and I love running or dog walking with my friends down the promenade at night. However, on my last visit, I was confronted by hate speech…

    “I refer to the giant banner on the Celtic Marine Bar Restaurant. If it said No Catholics, Muslims, etc, I am sure it would have been removed by now. I hope this does not reflect the true nature of your town and that you are not antisemitic.”

    Nealis insisted that he was not prejudiced against Jews. “Being anti-Zionist isn’t being antisemitic because Palestinians are semitic, Israeli Jews are not semitic,” he wrongly claimed.

    “They’re not from the Middle East,” he insisted. “Zionism isn’t Judaism. Zionism is a political movement.”

  • Jew hatred

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  • China and North Korea

    At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru on Nov. 16, there were increasing calls for China to take on a greater role in curbing North Korea’s provocations, such as troop deployments to Russia. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol urged China to play a “constructive role,” to which Chinese President Xi Jinping responded that China does not wish for tensions on the Korean Peninsula and would cooperate with Yoon in addressing the issue. U.S. President Joe Biden stressed that China should use its influence to prevent further North Korean troop deployments, warning that deepening North Korea-Russia ties could heighten provocations. Xi reiterated that China would not tolerate threats to its strategic security and core interests.

    All talk, but no concrete action. China is in a bind over North Korea – a wayward son that they've been protecting for years, fast becoming a real liability.

    Despite North Korean provocations, China has continued to shield Pyongyang while expanding economic ties with Russia following the Ukraine invasion. As North Korea-Russia military cooperation now threatens China’s own security, Beijing bears significant responsibility for this situation.

    Following North Korea’s sixth nuclear test and ballistic missile (ICBM) launch in 2017, China supported a UN resolution to impose automatic sanctions, including restricting oil imports if further tests occurred. It also agreed to expel North Korean workers. Over 96% of North Korea’s trade depends on China, including key materials for its nuclear and missile programs. Money laundering and cryptocurrency cash-outs to fund North Korean weapons development largely occur in China, with wages of tens of thousands of North Korean workers in China serving as a major income source for Kim Jong-un. If China had fully enforced international sanctions, much of North Korea’s provocations could have been curbed.

    China has long used North Korea to counter U.S. influence but does not want tensions on the Korean Peninsula to escalate beyond control. However, the North Korea-Russia alliance, with North Korean troops deployed to Ukraine, directly undermines China’s core interests. If China wishes to address this, it only needs to enforce the UN sanctions it has already agreed to.

    The answers are there, if the right pressure can be applied. Though the likelihood of Trump being astute enough to apply that pressure is, I'd say, on the low side. 

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