Author: Mick Hartley

Yesterday, a man stood proudly among dejected women, setting the regional collegiate women’s 200m record, breaking the 300m record, winning the 4×400, and obtaining the Liberty League Women's Track & Field award.

The NCAA allows men like Sadie Schreiner to steal women’s records. pic.twitter.com/IOI3ZtsY8A

— Two Genders One Truth (@2genders1truth) March 2, 2024

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Furious team coaches pointed out there were mixed sex leagues the boy could join.

One female club manager said: 'We've spoken to parents and the girls themselves, a number of them we've 'rescued' from mixed sex leagues where they have been excluded from having the ball passed to them, where they have been tackled and had bones broken.

'I have also been informed by parents that they would be looking to take their daughters out of the league and the girls themselves saying they would just give it up if boys joined.'

A male coach said when he asked the girls on his team for their opinion on allowing boys to join they all said 'they wouldn't be happy and then four said they would give up playing football'.

He's not even claiming to be trans, this lad. He just wants to play with the girls because….well, because he's not very good, and thinks he'll do better with the girls. Nice for him, not so nice for the girls. It's sort of taking away the trans fig-leaf to make the power-play even clearer: women in sport don't really matter.

Why bother even having a female league, if boys/men can just join in when they feel like it?

John Vachon, November 1942. "Deaf Smith County, Texas. Panhandle highway." On the way to Amarillo.

[Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

Every. Damn. Day. And the richest, freest, most comfortable, most powerful peoples & nations in the world watch Ukrainians die for freedom, die to keep Russia's war from their soldiers and borders. Full support could end it quickly, and chart a course for the free world. https://t.co/nlBV9To1m1

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) March 2, 2024

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Barbaric. Cmon @SpeakerJohnson ! Help to protect these innocent children. It is immoral to do nothing. Let your colleagues vote on the aid bill to Ukraine. https://t.co/K5SckxTdIE

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 2, 2024

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The fight against Oswald Mosley's fascists has been crystallised in memory as the 1936 Battle of Cable Street in the East End. As Michael Crowley informs us, though, the struggle was playing out in the early and mid-1930s in Manchester, where the local Jews successfully organised and defeated Mosley on his home ground, in the the face of intimidation and violence – with little or no support from the left.

Worth a read for the historical background. Crowley's conclusion:

In the shape of the anti-Israel movement, Britain’s Jews today face a different threat. But it’s one that bears comparison with the Blackshirted menace that once stalked Britain’s streets. Once again, Jewish people find themselves confronted with a movement shot through with anti-Semitism. A movement that wants to drive Jewish people out of public spaces, just as it wants to drive Israel off the map. A movement that wants to efface all expressions of Jewishness.

In 1930s Manchester, Cheetham’s Jewish community, led by young Communist radicals, fought back. They did so courageously and determinedly. But they also did so alone, without the support of the mainstream left. There is a danger that Britain’s Jews now find themselves in a similar position, left alone to face the oldest hatred in its new Islamist and identitarian guise.

They need the solidarity of those outside the Jewish community more than ever. To defend synagogues, Jewish schools and businesses. To defend Jewish people from the Israelophobia that now seems to grip a significant minority of the population, much as fascism once did.

The legacy of Cheetham’s struggle against the Blackshirts is one of courage, conviction and resistance. Young radicals fought back against the most reactionary ideology of the era. It’s time we started doing the same.

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In honor of Lou Reed’s birthday, Keith has recorded a cover of “I'm Waiting for the Man.” The digital single & music video are out now and featured on the upcoming album ‘The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed’. Vinyl & CD available at fine independent record shops… pic.twitter.com/dxmveZazNc

— Keith Richards (@officialKeef) March 1, 2024

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Full video here.

A pedant writes – "I'm Waiting for my Man”, surely.

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See also: the Houthi Hypocrisy.

We wanted to see if there was a connection between the justification of Hamas’ atrocities on October 7 and a trendy campus ideology that portrays Jews as “white” and “oppressors” and Israel as “colonizers” and an “imperialist” force.

Our recent conversations with students at the… pic.twitter.com/VpnmuKHS8o

— Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (@jilvorg) February 29, 2024

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"Students enrolled in courses influenced by postmodernism, Critical Theory, and its offshoots, such as Postcolonial Theory within the Humanities and Social Sciences, are taught to view the world through a simplistic societal model. This model categorizes individuals by their identity traits, ranking them as either “oppressors” or “oppressed” in an ongoing conflict for power.

"These divisive ideas have gained dominance in Western societies, posing a threat to their foundational liberal values."

An enlightening report from Yigal Carmon at MEMRI on the two faces of Qatar:

The Al-Jazeera TV network is an arm of the Qatari regime. It is owned by the government and carries out its foreign policy by means of indoctrination of the Arabic-speaking masses worldwide. Al-Jazeera, therefore, should not be discussed as a means of telecommunications, but instead as an unyielding and forceful political tool of Qatari foreign policy under the guise of a mass media network….

Qatar is a Wahhabi/Muslim Brotherhood extremist entity in the guise of a supposedly modern nation state. Wahhabism is an 18th-century movement espousing a return to 7th-century Islam, including uniting the Muslim world under the banner of Jihad. Indeed, former Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Aal Thani (father of the current Emir) praised himself as being directly descended from 18th-century cleric Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, the hardline ideological founder of Wahhabism.

Qatar's implementation of its doctrine of Wahhabi/Muslim Brotherhood Islam is three-pronged: it promotes Islamist terrorist organizations worldwide; it strives to topple secular authoritarian regimes in the Arab and Muslim world under the guise of fighting dictatorships; and it uses its wealth for educational, social, religious and political movements in both the East and the West in order to expand its influence and further its aims.

In order to disguise its Wahhabi/Muslim Brotherhood goals, Qatar has adopted a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde persona….