Author: Mick Hartley

Jonathan Spyer in the Jerusalem Post on the almost unimaginable horrors experienced by rescued Yazidi captive Fawzia Sido:

It is now two weeks since the rescue of the Yazidi hostage Fawzia Amin Sido from captivity in Gaza by the IDF, in a joint operation also involving the US Embassy.

Fawzia has been returned to her family in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq. This week, she sat for her first filmed interview since her liberation….

Fawzia Sido, aged nine, was captured with two of her brothers by Islamic State in the summer of 2014. Following their capture, she and one of her brothers, Fawaz, were made to take part in a forced march from Sinjar to Tal Afar, at that time under the control of Islamic State. The journey took three or four days, during which time the Yazidis were given no food by their captors.

On arrival to Tal Afar, according to Fawzia, “They told us that they would give us food. They made rice and they gave us meat to eat with it. The meat had a weird taste, and some of us had stomach aches afterwards.

“When we were done, they told us that this was the meat of Yazidi babies.

“They showed us pictures of beheaded babies, and said ‘these are the kids that you ate now.’ One woman suffered heart failure and died shortly after. The mothers of these babies were there also. One mother recognized her own baby because of its hands.”

And to the interviewer’s mute sounds of horror, she continues “It’s very hard, but it wasn’t our fault. They forced us. But it’s very hard to know that it happened. But it was not in our hands.”

The accusation that Islamic State fed human meat to Yazidi captives has been made before, though this has never become one of the widely known elements of the ISIS story in the West. Perhaps the human mind simply and instinctively recoils from such depravity, and as a result it goes unrecorded.

Vian Dakhil, a Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament, was the first to reveal details of this practice by ISIS, in 2017. Dakhil related a testimony she had collected similar in its details to that given by Fawzia Sido. Dakhil revealed these details in an interview given to the Egyptian “Extra News” Channel, which was then translated by Memri.

Here's that MEMRI clip:

"One of the women whom we managed to retrieve from ISIS said that she was held in a cellar for three days, without food or anything. Afterwards, they brought her a plate of rice and meat. She ate the food because she was very hungry. When she finished, they said to her: We cooked your one-year-old son that we took from you, and this is what you just ate.

"One of the girls said that they took six of her sisters. Her youngest sister, a ten-year-old girl, was raped to death in front of her father and sisters. She was ten years old. The question that we keep asking is: 'Why?' Why did these savages do this to us?"

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Paul Trevor previously: Brick Lane in the Seventies.

>The festival’s list of speakers includes many individuals who have courted controversy. These include Professor Ilan Pappé, an academic at Exeter University known for his radical anti-Zionism, and activist Ismail Patel, who has met Hamas leaders in Gaza and “saluted” the group for “standing up to Israel”.

Also listed are those who are less well-known in the mainstream. The social media theologian and self-proclaimed “race realist” Paul Williams, who has a million followers across X/Twitter and YouTube, is due to deliver a speech on Sunday.

He has hailed an interview with former BNP leader Nick Griffin – entitled “Jews, Zionism, the far-Right and Islam in Europe” – as “superb” and shared a video by the American white supremacist Jared Taylor about the “biological reality of race”.

The former far-right Dutch politician Joram van Klaveren, who sensationally converted to Islam in 2018 and has since shared a video denying that mass murder and rape took place on October 7, is also due to speak.

A festival of antisemitic nutters, then…

Website here. The list of "inspiring speakers" still includes Labour MP Naz Shah.

sychopathy”.

Prof Jon Arcelus is another doctor at the centre and was formerly a co-chairman of the committee responsible for developing the controversial WPATH guidance.

The advert for a psychologist to work with gender-questioning children made no mention of the Cass report, despite requiring knowledge of the WPATH guidance.

It's like whack-a mole – keeps on popping up however often it's beaten down.

erberated around the world, and (unusually for an NHS-commissioned report) are now laying a new international foundation for a branch of medicine.

“The lack of evidence base leading to a change in the approach to gender care is not unique to England,” Cass said. “We are fortunate that our health system allows us to set up independent reviews that guide national policy, act on the evidence and implement improvement across the country.”

In other words our health service is not governed, as in the US, by profit. 

For more on US disinformation, see here.

l challenges”.

But she has denied doing so constituted transphobia or that she made any comments that could be construed as such, while Telegraph Sport understands the referee also heard nothing he deemed to be discriminatory.

The girl was charged after the opposition club lodged a complaint via Kick It Out, English football’s anti-discrimination watchdog, which included testimony from the trans player and that team’s captain accusing her of persistent transphobia.

She faces a six-to-12-match ban if found guilty during a hearing later this month and she and her mother have decided to speak out about her plight because they feel they have been left with no choice.

Telegraph Sport has agreed to conceal her identity due to her being a child and her being on the assessment pathway for autism. It is a common trait of people with autism that they can struggle to recognise gender.

Eh? The whole point here is that she did recognise the gender of the bloke, and spoke out about it. 

The mother also revealed she had contacted the county FA after the friendly to raise concerns about the duo’s participation due to the two clubs also being in the same league. “They’ve both obviously gone through full male puberty, so they’re bigger, faster, stronger in every way than the girls that they’re playing against.”

She said a lengthy ban could see her daughter sidelined for the entire season, something she branded “hugely unfair”, adding: “I’m just furious, but I’m generally furious about this whole issue.”

and lavatories as female colleagues, schools have been told.

Training from the National Governance Association (NGA) tells governors that staff should be given access to the bathroom “available to other members of their newly acquired gender”.

Their "newly acquired gender”? What a strange phrase. "I've just acquired a new gender, you know! It goes perfectly with my new outfit." Special offer two for the price of one maybe.

The advice, seen by The Telegraph, goes on to suggest that requiring transgender people to use a disabled toilet instead of making reasonable adjustments “is not lawful or good practice”.

It reads: “Employees who have undergone gender reassignment or who are transgender must be supported to use all toilets and shower facilities which are available to other members of their newly acquired gender.

“Requiring transgendered people to use disabled toilet facilities instead of making reasonable adjustments is not lawful or good practice.”

The NGA is the national membership association for governors, trustees, and governance professionals in England’s state schools and trusts.

More than 80,000 members across 70 per cent of schools and trusts in England access its services, which include advice, training and events.

An adult is on hand to set them straight.

Maya Forstater, the CEO of Sex Matters, a human-rights charity, said the training was “grossly irresponsible” and “deeply disturbing”.

She said: “Nowhere in the Equality Act does it say that men who identify as women have the right to access female toilets, so this is a shocking misrepresentation by the NGA.

“Employers are required by law to provide single-sex toilets unless they are fully enclosed unisex rooms. It is grossly irresponsible for the NGA to tell school governors and trustees otherwise.

“The Equality Act protects transgender people so that they can’t be harassed or discriminated against, such as being denied employment or housing. It doesn’t give them an all-access pass to opposite-sex facilities.

“It is deeply disturbing that school governors are being misinformed by the NGA in a way that breaches the rights of teachers and other staff to basic privacy and dignity.”

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was responsible for the bloodiest attack on Israel since the Holocausts. His ultimate vision, the 7 October atrocities were orchestrated with chilling precision after years of preparation.

Netanyahu’s government has demonstrated that terrorism is best confronted with decisive action….

Netanyahu framed Sinwar’s death as the “beginning of the day after Hamas,” signalling that Israel sees no future in which Hamas governs Gaza. Netanyahu addressed the people of Gaza directly: “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza… this is an opportunity for you to finally break free from its tyranny.” There are also broader regional implications. Sinwar’s elimination sends a message not just to Hamas, but to all of Israel’s adversaries, particularly Hezbollah and their Iranian patrons. The Islamic Republic, the true orchestrator behind much of the conflict, uses its proxies to destabilise the region. Sinwar’s death, complete with graphic photos to get the message across, reminds Iran and its allies of Israel’s unshakable resolve.

Israel’s path to peace cannot be through appeasement or ceasefires with groups seeking its destruction. Netanyahu’s approach, though derided by some Western neophytes to the realities of the Middle East, underscores a fundamental truth about Israel’s security in a brutal neighbourhood: peace is achieved not by negotiating with those who seek to kill you, but by eliminating them. With Sinwar gone, the war continues—but Israel moves one crucial step closer to its ultimate goal: a Gaza free from Hamas’ tyranny, and a Middle East free from genocidal Islamist terror.

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— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 17, 2024

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"Today marks the anniversary of the Isfahan acid attacks on these women, whose “crime” was wearing an improper hijab. Ten years later, the attackers walk free, because why arrest yourself when you hold power? Meanwhile, those who dared to protest, like Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, remain behind bars. During this past 10 years, I’ve watched countless powerful female politicians from the West visit my country, only to submit to compulsory hijab in the name of “respecting Iranian culture.” Show them these pictures and remind them: hijab was never part of our culture. Forced hijab is the culture of ISIS, the Taliban, and the Islamic Republic. #WomanLifeFreedom"