Author: Mick Hartley

ative) position on Israel. It’s hard to see what that has to do with American history or how it can possibly be described as a fair approach. Israel is once again absurdly lumped in with every apparent founding sin of the American nation.

How much worse will the education system become when those who've imbibed this poison in the classroom are themselves the teachers of tomorrow? One Jewish teacher who spoke to me remarked darkly that Gen Z — which polls show sides 50 per cent with Hamas — should be renamed the Hitler Youth.

"Multiple students reported being spat on, screamed at, called derogatory names like "dirty Jew" or "you Jew," and physically assaulted by protestors."

Last night at @UCBerkeley, Jewish students were threatened, assaulted, and prevented from attending a speech by a Jewish speaker on campus. Campus police shut down this private event when it became clear that they could not protect the students. Multiple students reported being… pic.twitter.com/FKidts1FvZ

— JCRC Bay Area (@SFJCRC) February 27, 2024

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e=”font-size: 11pt”>Gay is making a similar point. She conflates the upper-class WASPs who used to go to non-Jew country clubs with those who are out there now singing ‘Long live our martyrs’. The intersectional left is deliberately conflating these movements to distract attention from the fact that this wave of anti-Semitism is a completely different phenomenon. And that it has more to do with Islamism than with Trumpism.

Palestine Arabs “fighting” alongside the British is, at best, misleading. Palestine’s Arabs—like most of the Middle East’s Arabs—would have preferred a Nazi German victory and the defeat of the Western democracies. The British were seen as the common enemy of the Germans and the Palestinians. As Sakakini, a Palestinian nationalist, relates in a diary entry of 1941, the Arabs of Palestine “had rejoiced when the British bastion at Tobruk fell to the Germans,” and “not only the Palestinians rejoiced … but the whole Arab world.”

This support for Hitler wasn’t merely a matter of the old adage that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend.” Muhammed Amin al-Husseini, the leader of the Palestine national movement, was an outspoken antisemite. He aided the 1941 pro-Nazi revolt in Baghdad. When it collapsed, he fled to Berlin, where he spent the rest of the war years enjoying a handsome salary for his work as a Nazi propagandist and a recruiter of Balkan Muslims for the SS. 

Palestine’s Arabs thus assisted in the destruction of European Jewry in two ways: They successfully pressured the British into closing the gates of Palestine to European Jews fleeing the Holocaust; and they supported Germany’s efforts to win the war. In radio broadcasts from Berlin, Husseini called on the Arab world to rebel against Britain and “kill the Jews.”

All these inconvenient facts are shoved under the carpet in the New York Times piece….

ct the houses of Hamas militants from IDF bombardment. Rayan, a fiery religious clerk within Hamas and a rising militant star, marshaled hundreds of civilians into a house that had received IDF warnings of an impending strike. Instead of fleeing, Rayan called on people to swarm the house and cover its rooftop with as many civilians as possible to force the Israeli military into a choice: Either commit a massacre, or call off the airstrike.

Israel called off the strike, and the incident received widespread international attention. Though the tactic drew condemnation from Human Rights Watch, which criticized calling civilians to the scene of a planned attack as risky and dangerous, Hamas leaders like Ismail Haniyeh praised the tactic as a marvelous feat of perseverance and nonviolent resistance.

Nizar Rayan proclaimed victory and vowed to use the self-described "human shields on rooftops" strategy to prevent future destruction of Hamas members' houses and infrastructure. It would go on to be used dozens of times in the years leading up to the first major war between Israel and Hamas in 2008-2009….

Multiple things are true simultaneously: The Israeli military kills civilians in its pursuit of militants and subsequently attempts to absolve itself of moral and operational responsibility by blaming Hamas's use of Gazans as human shields. And Hamas absolutely disregards the safety and well-being of Gazans by deliberately and nefariously placing its infrastructure and armaments among civilians and crowded neighborhoods and cities throughout the Gaza Strip. The group gives itself the right to be anywhere it deems necessary in Gaza because the interests of the "resistance" far outweigh any harm done to innocent civilians in pursuit of the supposed "greater good" and the "liberation of Palestine."

ww.spiked-online.com/2024/02/27/the-cat-killer-case-reveals-the-depravity-of-trans-ideology/”>Lauren Smith at Spiked:

The gruesome case of Scarlet Blake really should have been the last straw. We have become all too numb to the way the police, the courts and the media have adopted the preferred pronouns of dangerous and predatory men. How male perverts, paedophiles and rapists are now routinely treated as women, based on their self-declared identities. You might have hoped that the sheer depravity of Blake’s crimes, and the depths of his mental delusions, would jolt our elites into sanity. But you’d be wrong. In the wall-to-wall coverage of Blake’s crimes, he is consistently referred to as a ‘woman’….

This week, Blake was sentenced to life in prison. Thankfully, he will be housed in a high-security men’s prison and not in a female estate, as so often happens with trans-identifying criminals.

But while the prison system is thankfully not treating Blake as a woman, the media have overwhelmingly bowed down to his delusions about his gender. Headlines from the Mirror, Sky News and the Independent all talked about the ‘“Cat killer” woman’. In some reports of Blake’s crimes, like ITV’s, you’ll have to get several paragraphs in before there is any mention that this ‘woman’ is trans. Most reports – including on BBC News – do not mention this at all. He is presented simply as a ‘woman’, without qualification.

Everyone seems to be in agreement that Blake is mentally disturbed and delusional. No one has felt compelled to describe him as a ‘cat’, despite the fact he sometimes identifies as one. No one has felt the need to acknowledge the other personas that he claims he shares his head with. And yet, almost the entire mainstream media have happily repeated his equally false claim that he is a woman and not a man.

Herein lies the madness of the trans ideology. It asks us to ignore biological reality. And instead, it expects us to pander to the fantasies of even the most dangerous and mentally unstable criminals. The grim case of the cat killer surely has to be the limit.

The Times report today – comments of course turned off:

The daughter of an Oxford fellow has been sentenced to life in prison for fulfilling a warped sexual fantasy by mutilating a cat and killing a stranger.

There's something particularly vile about this level of language abuse. Daughter?? 

Also in the Times today, Hugo Rifkind witters on about the danger of AI and deepfake, and how the media must be the answer:

Media, meanwhile, needs to be the antidote to fakery rather than its vector. I say this wincingly, as somebody who has occasionally been duped himself, but there really should be no greater shame for a journalist than spreading a fraud.

Yet the Times, and every other major news outlet, is happy to continue spreading the fraud that one of the most horrific recent cases of murder in the UK was committed by a woman.

Leeds University: students told to debate:

Was Oct 7th Justified?

Leeds, where a lecturer published directions to the Hillel, where the Jewish Chaplin who'd been in the IDF was threatened and driven out and where a student had her essay failed because it was critical of Hamas. pic.twitter.com/CIeSUmQWjO

— David Hirsh (@DavidHirsh) February 26, 2024

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s that Lee Anderson was justified in saying that the mayor of London was “controlled” by Islamists, a claim made doubly absurd by Sadiq Khan’s amoral opportunism and stylistic resemblance to David Brent. It is quite right that Anderson was suspended. Neither does it mean that peaceful protest should be suppressed.

But it is absurd to claim, as some still do, that the biggest threat at present is the far right. What ought to excite more scrutiny and agitation is the steady deterioration of British state authority under threat of violent intimidation. Clearly, the government needs to examine the guidance and norms determining how the authorities respond to extremism and intimidation. The police and political leaders need to rediscover their appetite for confrontation with unacceptable elements of the pro-Palestinian movement, even where it involves risk and the use of force. Our education system needs the resources and political backing to tackle Holocaust denial and classroom extremism.

But what should worry us most is the possibility that our civil society has already frayed too far to be repaired, and that this is only going to get worse and worse. We cannot ultimately police our way out of a breakdown in civic norms brought about in large part by reckless immigration policy. If MPs are no longer safe because of how they vote in our parliament, that tells us something more profound than that our police are weak. It tells us that our society is weak. And that is a problem that none of our leaders has yet been willing to talk about.

Meanwhile:

Ministers must do more to prevent the Israel-Gaza protests from “draining” official resources as policing protests cost Scotland Yard almost £25 million, a report has found.

The figure covers the policing of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protests from the date the conflict ignited on October 7 to December 17 last year.

A cross-party group of MPs who make up the home affairs committee said it was “deeply dispiriting” to see the fight against hate crime get “stuck in Home Office limbo”.

Weekly demonstrations, which have drawn hundreds of thousands of people to central London, have strained the Met Police’s capabilities and impacted officers’ wellbeing, with more than 4,000 forced to abandon rest days over three months to ensure demonstrations passed off safely….

The Campaign Against Antisemitism said the report “fails to address the increasingly urgent need to restore the confidence of the British public and ensure the safety of this country’s Jewish community”.

A spokesperson added: “After months of intimidatory marches, this report offers no concrete recommendations for the here and now, just a long-term policy discussion about workforce planning and new laws that will take years to agree. Millions of pounds are being diverted from fighting crime into policing these relentless marches. The Jewish community is in fear and our city centres remain no-go zones during the protests. We need action urgently.”

John Vachon, February 1942. "Lancaster, Pennsylvania".

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

Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in…

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1. Islam is a religion founded in 610 by the Prophet Muhammad.
2. Islamism is an ideological and political movement which arose upon the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 ("Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."), and among urban professionals in India in 1920 and 1930s, before spreading globally. Key ideologists include Hassan al-Banna, Mawlana Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdudi, Al-Nabhani, and Sayyid Qutb.
3. It is a hugely diverse movement which encompasses reformists, radicals and Jihadists and can take ‘right’ (Taliban) and ‘left’ forms (Shariati in Iran absorbed the anti-imperialist ideas of the European far left just as the Brotherhood / Salafist Reformism had earlier drawn on the ideas, slogans, and models of organisation of the inter-war left-totalitarian tradition).
4. All wings are anti-Western, anti-liberal, anti-democratic, antisemitic and – implicitly or explicitly – totalitarian.
5. The claim that the two – Islam and Islamism, the religion and the ideology / movement – are identical is untrue.
6. The claim that there is just no relationship whatsoever between Islam and Islamism is – just as a brute empirical fact – also untrue.
7. To understand the complex, historically evolving relationship between Islam and Islamism you have to be willing to read, think, and discuss: you have to *know stuff*.
8. To treat any criticism of the ideology and movement of Islamism as a ‘phobia’ towards the religion of Islam would be wrong and a disaster for Western liberal democracies, leaving us defenceless.
9. To treat any criticism of the canonical texts of the religion, the Koran and Hadith, as an expression of hatred towards all Muslims would be wrong and would abandon those on the receiving end of some of those canonical texts: women, gays, Jews, and Muslim reformers, for a start.