Author: Mick Hartley

mber of headlines from mainstream media outlets thus elevated one side of the story – the side promoted by a designated foreign terrorist organization – without waiting for forensic clarity and countervailing evidence".
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— Natasha Hausdorff (@HausdorffMedia) July 18, 2025

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In May 2025, the U.S. Department of State began a special aid initiative through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to deliver meals and direct food assistance to Palestinian civilians throughout the Gaza Strip. The mandate was straightforward: to securely move aid into a network of Secure Distribution Sites which would facilitate the distribution of millions of meals to hungry civilians1. The effort has delivered over 60 million meals since its inception.

Within days of GHF’s first meal deliveries, it became the target of a deliberate narrative assault, driven less by verifiable facts than by the demands of a competing narrative. Reports and evidence of violence at aid sites began to surface, and international and U.S. media outlets, social media influencers, and NGOs started publishing articles that ascribed blame to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) or GHF for intentional violence against civilians, war crimes, and complicity in the crime of genocide.

The reports quickly condensed into viral headlines, but the claim that the IDF was systematically murdering civilians was usually sourced from Hamas-run ministries or anonymous accounts, and often unverified. Moreover, evidence that Hamas could be responsible for violence around aid sites – evidence provided by non-Hamas Palestinian sources, by Hamas’s online communications, and by video that in some cases shows Hamas operatives deliberately firing on Palestinian civilians – was almost never suggested.

A significant number of headlines from mainstream media outlets thus elevated one side of the story – the side promoted by a designated foreign terrorist organization – without waiting for forensic clarity and countervailing evidence. Although in some cases the body texts of news articles did make an effort to present a more holistic exploration of sources, the verdict or tone in the headlines – that the IDF and/or GHF was responsible for the killings at aid sites – was already given.

A core failure of media coverage is the routine elevation of the Gaza Health Ministry, a Hamas-run agency, as a trusted source on culpability for violence. While violence itself is not always in dispute, the headlines overwhelmingly frame Israel or GHF as responsible, burying in the body text that these claims originate from Hamas if this fact is revealed at all. The result is a narrative that masks its source and misleads the public about who is to blame.

The Gaza Health Ministry itself is run by Hamas and for that reason alone cannot be quoted as a politically neutral source for answering questions of culpability or fact. The Ministry has a proven and systematic history of lies, deceptions, duplicated data, and exaggerations which strain credulity of any nonpartisan observer….

span style=”font-size: 11pt”>Israel’s intervention is not purely altruistic. From Israel’s perspective, the Syrian regime’s deployment of armed forces into southern Syria posed a direct threat to its border. Furthermore, the Druze community within Israel, an Arabic-speaking minority that serves conspicuously in the IDF, has close kinship ties to the Syrian Druze. The outrage within Israel over the Sweida massacres quickly turned into protests blocking highways. Hundreds of Israeli Druze even crossed into Syria to defend their brethren. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing internal controversies, seized an opportunity to appear tough and decisive. Launching airstrikes in support of the Sweida Druze has proven popular domestically, earning him political points while signalling strength.

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Jihadist terrorists from across Syria are descending on Sweida to massacre the Druze. The fighters are often transported for free, as long as they come armed.

Where are the Western activists who claim to stand against genocide? Why is there silence on the suffering of the Druze? pic.twitter.com/Qk9uH37Vlj

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) July 18, 2025

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> was narrated by the 13-year-old son of a Hamas government official.

Some might hope that this failure would be a turning point for the BBC. Yet hours later Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News, told journalists during an all-staff meeting that there is a “difference” between the political and military wings of Hamas. “I think it’s an important point of detail that we need to continually remind people of,” she stressed.

Turness’s guidance is simply not true. The UK government makes no such distinction. Under British law Hamas is “proscribed in its entirety” as a terrorist organisation because any attempt to distinguish “between the various parts of Hamas is artificial”.

As the leader of BBC News, on a £430,000 salary, Turness ought to know such basic points. Ironically, she is also the driving force behind the much-derided BBC Verify fact-checking service. Perhaps they could help her out here.

This leaked video is damning evidence of the failures of accuracy that are corroding the BBC’s output when it comes to the Gaza war. Crucially, it also reveals that those who lead the BBC simply do not understand the genocidal terrorist ideals that infuse every element of Hamas. This has played a critical role in creating a public perception that Hamas is legitimate, a resistance movement rather than a terrorist army that seeks the death of all Jews.

The BBC’s legitimisation of Hamas began as soon as they started murdering babies and raping women on October 7. The refusal to call Hamas terrorists has been followed as the war progressed by the corporation’s daily willingness to report unverified figures and spurious claims from the “Hamas-run health ministry”. Driven by a hunger to break news and get clicks on social media, the BBC’s approach has been to report first and ask questions later.

Hamas know that any press release they issue will go straight onto the BBC's headlines. Nice work for a terrorist organisation that makes no secret of its Islamist ideology and its hatred of Jews.

The latest:

A nurse who confronted a transgender doctor in a changing room behaved in an "unacceptable" way, an employment tribunal has heard.

Gillian Malone – who is head of nursing at NHS Fife – said nurse Sandie Peggie should have raised concerns about sharing facilities with Dr Beth Upton – a trans woman – in a different way.

Ms Peggie and Dr Upton exchanged words on Christmas Eve 2023 after the nurse told the doctor they should not be in the same changing room at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.

Ms Malone said Ms Peggie's comments that Dr Upton was a man constituted unacceptable conduct.

Why doesn't NHS Fife just throw in the towel? Yesterday their head of Equalities and Human Rights didn't know what sex she was, and now the head nurse tells us it was unacceptable for Sandie Peggie, coming in to the women's changing room to change herself during a heavy period she was experiencing and finding a man there, to mention the fact that he was a man.

What she should have done: she should have kept quiet, changed herself while the man looked on, then later approached her line manager with her concerns – at which point she would have been instructed to attend a compulsory course on transphobia, and how people with penises can be women especially if they wear a wig and a dress and some make-up and tilt their head to one side in a coquettish manner, and how trans people are especially sensitive to being misgendered so it's something you must never do. Then everyone would have lived happily ever after.

dding-left: 40px”>MPs and campaigners have warned that the incident is an example of the risk the government will create by introducing an official definition of Islamophobia, arguing that it will shut down the ability to punish Islamic-extremist rhetoric.

At 2pm on October 17, 2023 — ten days after Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel — the station broadcast a 38-minute speech by the radical imam Shujauddin Sheikh. He had delivered it to an audience outside the Karachi Press Club in Pakistan five days earlier.

Sheikh said of Jewish people: “Their history is from killing prophets to only protecting their own interests, to instigating war, to instigating war and then lending money with interest and strengthening their economy, to achieving a bigger purpose for themselves and a very big reason for that is for their vision of a ‘Greater Israel’.”

Ofcom fined the station £3,500, concluding: “This broadcast contained antisemitic hate speech and abusive and derogatory statements, which were potentially highly offensive and not justified by the context.”

In response, Markaz Al-Huda handed back the station’s Ofcom licence and accused the regulator of being a “puppet instrument heavily run and supportive of a Zionist agenda which makes [it] a discriminative and Islamophobic organisation”.

Markaz Al-Huda is now being reviewed by the Charity Commission over its remarks. It was reported to the charity watchdog by the National Secular Society.

Megan Manson, the society’s head of campaigns, said: “Ofcom was right to sanction this group. These comments, broadcast within days of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, were antisemitic in the extreme and could have contributed to the division and hate crime in the wake of that attack.

“We urge the Charity Commission to take an equally robust stance on this charity and ensure it cannot publish hateful or divisive sermons in the future — even if that means removing the charity from its register. Charities must never be permitted to be exploited by extremists.

“That this charity responded to Ofcom’s concerns by calling the regulator ‘Islamophobic’ also demonstrates the pitfalls of trying to create an official definition of ‘Islamophobia’. Regulators trying to protect the public must not be hindered by fears of such accusations.”

MPs and campaigners have warned that the extremist broadcast exposes the real-world risk of the government’s plans to introduce a new Islamophobia definition.

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In other words, the Scottish government cannot wash its hands of this affair any more than NHS Fife can emerge from it with its reputation enhanced. Magical thinking has been the default proposition across the public sector for many years and we are only now gaining a full sense of the damage this nonsense has caused. The Peggie case is but a microcosm of the macro failings apparent across a public sector where immovable stupidity meets unstoppable incompetence.

Yes, Peggie's been cleared of gross misconduct, but this tribunal case rumbles on…

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Number a thousand in "obviously correct things nobody could possibly have imagined ten years ago would need to be said". https://t.co/qEjOPyfzXp

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) July 17, 2025

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g-in-pride-march/ar-AA1IHX3W?ocid=BingNewsSerp”>Background:

A gender-critical lesbian has won a case against Northumbria Police who failed to act impartially by marching at a Newcastle Pride parade.

Linzi Smith, 34, claimed that the force's "uniformed participation" in last year's march broke the professional oath sworn by each police officer to act "with impartiality" at work.

And in a landmark High Court ruling today, a judge found that there would have been "issues" in policing with impartiality if, for example, an "attempted counter demonstration by gender critical people" broke out.

Court filings outline how Smith "entirely accepts that it was necessary for the event to be policed, but she objects to what she sees as the force and/or members of the force associating themselves with the views of supporters of gender ideology and transgender activists by actively participating".

"Gender ideology", she claimed, had been "embraced by the organisers of the event" and was supported by "many of the participants".

While at the march, police were seen marching with a "Police Pride" flag, Pride colours, Unison trade union banners and more.

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Statement Following My High Court Victory Today.

I am delighted with the judgement of the Court. It is terrifying to live in a community where the police have abandoned their duty of impartiality and embraced a highly controversial political cause. I’ve experienced first-hand…

— Linzi 🖤🤍 (@RightNUFC) July 16, 2025

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Full text:

I am delighted with the judgement of the Court. It is terrifying to live in a community where the police have abandoned their duty of impartiality and embraced a highly controversial political cause. I’ve experienced first-hand what happens when the police forget their duty of impartiality. I posted some gender critical tweets, and Northumbria Police launched an investigation into my conduct – but when I received appalling homophobic abuse as a lesbian, they did absolutely nothing. Their participation in the Pride march clearly shows where their sympathies lie. Today however, the court has ruled decisively that the Chief Constable acted unlawfully. My hope is that Northumbria Police change their ways and follow this ruling. If they do they will be policing the community for everyone.

Many Thanks to each and every one of you who showed me support throughout.
This is a victory for all of us. ❤️

Last word to Joan Smith:

It’s a scandal of epic proportions that so many senior police officers have embraced gender ideology. They have fallen for the lie that giving special rights to trans people, at the expense of everyone else, is a neutral and apolitical act. Today’s judgment has stripped away that excuse, exposing the spectacle of cops waving Progress flags as a declaration of blatant bias.

The central conceit of political transvestism is aesthetic and it is this: female clothes have more rights than female bodies and a male wearing the former extinguishes and assumes the political character of the latter. This is the single most stupid ideology ever.

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) July 15, 2025

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From the Daily NK:

As the first day of the hottest period of summer (July 20) approaches, demand for dog meat is surging in North Korea. With fewer rural households raising dogs, supply has tightened, prompting traders to scramble to secure stock.

A source in South Hamgyong province told Daily NK recently that “the price of dogs and dog meat in Hamhung has been steadily climbing since the start of the month,” adding that this is “due to rising demand as the hottest days approach.”

Unlike South Korea, where cultural shifts and a new law banning the breeding, slaughter, and distribution of dogs for consumption are phasing out the practice, dog meat remains a staple health food in North Korea during the summer.

Many North Koreans believe that eating dog meat on the three hottest days of summer drives away heat and boosts stamina. The belief is so widespread that even financially struggling households try to eat dog meat at least once during the season.

Is this why we talk about the dog days of summer? [No.  "The phrase “Dog Days” was coined thousands of years ago to describe uncomfortably hot weather and it centers around the rising of the Sirius sun or “the Dog Star.”  The “Dog Star” is only visible for 40 days each year. This is usually the hottest stretch of summer."]

Dog meat restaurants are placing early bulk orders ahead of the summer peak in anticipation of a sales surge.

Households commonly buy and cook dog meat in kilogram units, and as the hottest period approaches, prices surge and supply tightens. As a result, restaurants are reportedly rushing to secure stock from traders.

According to the source, dog meat traders in Hamhung are now traveling directly to rural villages to secure dogs, as few urban residents raise them. Rural households, however, still tend to keep dogs.

In Hyesan, Ryanggang province, dog traders are also actively moving through rural areas, reportedly offering above-market prices to secure supply.

Best keep Fido indoors for the next few weeks.

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