Author: Mick Hartley

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rt of his reason for undertaking his research was to “to chronicle the events of October 7 with clarity and meticulous, fact-checking precision, to ensure it is never forgotten” and prevent the denial of Hamas’s atrocities, which he likened to a “more modern version of Holocaust denial”.

“Our report will hopefully permit people to see such denials and justifications for what they really are: a perversion of reason and rejection of human decency. We owe it to the victims and their grieving families to set down the ghastly, unvarnished truth about the sheer barbarism that Hamas and its terrorist allies unleashed”, he wrote.

He continued: “Hamas and its allies, both in the Middle East and equally shamefully in the West, have sought to deny the atrocities, despite the ironic fact that much of the evidence for the massacres derives come from film footage from cameras carried by the terrorists themselves – though of course there is also much more from many other sources, as this report delineates.”…

The report’s findings also reiterate those by the UN’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence, Pramila Patten on allegations of Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) and says that on October 7 “members of Palestinian armed groups crossed the Israeli border and committed acts of CRSV. These include acts of rape, gang rape, forced mutilation, sexualised torture, forced nudity, and posting sexualised images of victims on social media without consent.”

Roberts said he wanted to “lay down incontrovertible proof – for now and for the years to come – that nearly 1,200 innocent people were indeed murdered by Hamas and its allies, and very often in scenes of sadistic barbarism not seen in world history since the Rape of Nanjing in 1937.”

The full report can be accessed here. Andrew Roberts writes about the report today in the Spectator.

The circumstances of all the 1,182 deaths that took place on that horrific day are documented in our report, which at times necessarily makes somewhat gruesome reading. But it reminds us of the sheer sadism, rapine and viciousness that was planned and premeditated.

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erficial criticism or evaded their duties. Essentially, they were asked to suspect, watch, and denounce those closest to them.

With these surveillance directives, some party members have expressed frustration at being turned into “party spies.”

“People are very sensitive about mutual criticism nowadays,” the source said. “Shared party tasks traditionally meant dividing economic responsibilities or project work among members. But with the party now telling them to be spies, many members question why they worked so hard to join the party.”

“The honor of being a party member is gradually diminishing, and some even regret joining,” he added. “People are beginning to think that while it’s good to become a party member, it’s even better not to be one.”

Despite harsh crackdowns on accessing outside media following laws like the 2020 “Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act” and 2021 “Youth Education Guarantee Act,” public consumption of foreign content hasn’t decreased.

The impurity keeps creeping in. The battle must be intensified. The people must be protected.

ority allocates funds to domestic abuse services..

The move is a reaction to an announcement from Edinburgh Women’s Aid (EWA), one of Scotland’s largest domestic abuse charities, that it will not allow trans women or non-binary males to use its 24-hour refuges or group counselling services..

This, of course, after the ongoing disaster of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, where a man claiming to be a woman was appointed as top banana.

Staniforth, a Scottish Greens councillor who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, has tabled a motion that will be debated at a meeting of the full council.

Staniforth expressed the concern that if trans women are not welcome to use single-sex services they have no alternative provision. “If there is a blanket ban on trans people accessing the service that is not acceptable,” the councillor said.

“It would be completely inappropriate for [a trans woman] to try to access men’s services. We wouldn’t allow any other minority women to be just cast aside completely like that.”

Ah, I think I see the flaw in his argument: trans women are not "any other minority women", but are, in fact, men. That's the problem, right there.

Asked whether a separate service for trans-indentified people might be a solution, Staniforth said: “Would we want separate refuges and services for people of colour?"

But how would he feel if a service for "people of colour" was invaded by people who blacked up?

the truth.

Camera is left unimpressed. “With every single complaint that reached the ECU having been rejected, this putatively independent body appears to function as a rubber stamp for the whim of BBC Arabic editors,” its spokesman told me. This, he went on, was part of a trend whereby “a small group of BBC officials have marked their own homework.”

It's part of the continuous BBC effort to present the Palestinian cause as entirely about land: a classic case of freedom fighters against colonialism. In fact, if we were allowed to hear what Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza are actually saying, we'd see that it's all about Islam, it's all about Jew-hatred, and it's all about refusing to countenance the existence of a Jewish state.

On the gender front, despite America's best efforts, Scotland happily leads the way:

Girls in care should share a bedroom with boys who ‘self-identify’ as the opposite gender, according to ‘terrifying’ guidance issued by a watchdog.

In the latest development of Scotland’s single-sex scandal, the Care Inspectorate says looked-after transgender children ‘should not be made to use the toilet or bedroom of their sex assigned at birth’.

The edict adds that trans youngsters should be able to ‘share a room with other young people who share their gender identity’.

Astonishingly, it also states there is ‘no law in Scotland’ that protects single-sex spaces.

Scottish Conservative equalities spokesman Tess White said: ‘It’s frankly ludicrous that Scotland’s care watchdog doesn’t recognise there are legal obligations to provide single-sex spaces.’

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at human rights charity Sex Matters, called the guidance ‘a terrifying failure of the state’s duty to protect some of Scotland’s most vulnerable young people’.

She added: ‘This policy is grossly negligent, putting young people who deserve so much better at significant risk.’…

In a move which critics believe displays a chilling lack of understanding of equalities legislation, it goes on to say: ‘The provision of gendered facilities such as toilets is social convention. There is no law in Scotland about this.’

Susan Smith, of campaign group For Women Scotland, said: ‘Various pieces of legislation do mandate single-sex toilet provisions.

‘Care Inspectorate officials must be naive to the point of abject idiocy if they think gender identity will preclude children indulging in dangerous sexual behaviour.

‘Children’s human rights and physical safety matter: unless the Care Inspectorate want another child abuse inquiry on their hands, they will stop deliberately putting children at risk.’

A spokesman for the Care Inspectorate said: ‘It is for care services to decide on the appropriate provision of facilities to meet the individual needs, rights and wishes of those experiencing care.'

Well yes, no doubt. And they're making a horrendous mess of it – bending the knee, as always, to gender ideology ahead of the safety of troubled young girls.

In Illinois – Deerfield middle school administrators force teen girls to change in front of boy in school locker room:

After receiving a complaint from girls in early February that a boy was in their locker room while they were changing for gym class, District 109 “Assistant Superintendent for Student Services” Joanna Ford, “Assistant Principal” Cathy Van Treese and “Director for Student Services” Ginger Logemann reprimanded the girls, then escorted them to the locker room and tried to force them to change in front of the boy.

Parent Nicole Georgas, whose daughter refused and ran out of the locker room, described her daughter’s experiences to the school board Thursday.

“The male student was present in the girls locker room,” Georges said. “Feeling violated, the girls made the choice not change into their PE (physical education) clothes with a biological male present.”

The next day, Georgas said, Ford, Van Treese and Logermann tried to bully them into to changing in front of the boy.

“(The administrators) all came into the girls locker room, making them change into uniform. This went on all week,” Georgas said. “My daughter refused to take part in her privacy being violated. How dare they!”

She said Shepard School Principal Rob Wegley told her daughter that any male student can use any girl’s bathroom or locker room at his school so long as they claim to “identify as female.”

Middle school girls are 11 and up to 15 years old. They're going through puberty. They're having their first periods. They're ultra-sensitive about their bodies and about getting undressed anywhere – let alone being forced to undress in front of boys.

These people…

span style=”font-size: 11pt”>My ruling was given by a three-person panel consisting of a former nurse, a current nurse, and one public representative, with the assistance of a constitutional lawyer. “(T)he Panel is not concerned with the validity of the Respondent’s beliefs,” they wrote in their ruling.

That is simply untrue — as evidenced by the very statements given in the same ruling.

From my guilty verdict: “The panel understands that the statement that there are only two sexes — male and female — is an oversimplification that does not align with current medical or biological understanding.”

ar political and religious motivation.”

“Anyone listening to this case would be horrified by what they heard and by the motivation behind it,” Judge Richards said, adding the defendants “seemed to justify action against the victim in this case based on his background as if he was less worthy of your respect and compassion, and [that is] utterly abhorrent to any right-thinking person.”

Kashti suffered injuries to his face and head, including a swollen eyelid which wouldn’t open for several days, a cut on his scalp, pain in his legs for weeks after, and bruised knees and upper back. The trio threatened to kill Kashti if he tried to escape.

After assaulting him, they handcuffed him to a radiator but, once they were out of the room, he managed to free himself, locate his phone – which had been taken from him – and escape….

In a statement from Kashti read out by the prosecuting lawyer Craig Jones, the court heard how he was in “complete shock and fear and felt as though he was going to end up dead.”

“As an Israeli Jew, this was my own personal October 7,” Kashti said in his victim impact statement, going on to say that October 7 “was flashing through my mind” as he was restrained. Jones said Kashti also said he was thinking about his “Jewish ancestors who suffered in the Holocaust” during the ordeal….

They conspired to keep the motivations for the kidnapping “clean” and only about the money to make it appear as “a non-politically motivated kidnap”.

Simi wrote that if Kashti were to realise “the Islamic angle, the eventual retaliation and effort into retaliation is 10 times worse.”

“We shouldn’t colour this as an Islamic thing. Don’t say Islamic phrases around him, so we’re just in it for the money,” the messages said, as read by Prosecutor Jones.

Intended to act as “inspiration” for the crime, pinned to the top of the Telegram group chat was an Islamic “litany for victory”, which they suggested they recite or listen to every day while “keeping in mind your intention of jihad,” the prosecution said.

Assuring the group, Simi messaged: “All three of us have complete 100 per cent faith in Allah, so we can’t fail.”

Ha!