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t”>The charge of genocide —unleashed precisely when Israel embarks on major operations or is about to achieve a breakthrough — has been central to anti-Israel propaganda strategies for decades. Psychologically, it taps into the deep-seated collective memory of the blood libel leveled against Jews for centuries. Strategically, it’s a rhetorical weapon deployed at critical moments to stall Israel’s progress.

The long-term use of the genocide charge is what helped it gain such immediate traction after Oct 7 — and its constant repetition today ensures it will stick even faster the next time Israel is attacked and forced to defend itself. Because make no mistake about it: there will be a next time.

ments of trans activists is a surefire way to turn anyone into a Terf. This is arguably one of the reasons why Rowling has been excluded and denounced by so many supposedly thoughtful, kind people. They can’t refute her arguments.

Columbus might have no in-depth knowledge about this particular issue. That he, like so many others, is so willing to condemn Rowling without any clear justification is nonetheless to his shame.

If you’re in favour of puberty blockers for confused children and the end to all single-sex resources and spaces, you ought at least to own it. Tell us why. Otherwise, you’re just a man throwing rocks at a woman because all your mates are doing the same.

As I said yesterday, I don't suppose Columbus has given the subject much thought, beyond picking up on the general opinions of the nice "be kind" sort of people with whom he mixes. For them trans people are an oppressed minority to whom Rowling is, inexplicably, unpleasant. And that's it.

Lewis Wickes Hines, August 1908. "Clyde Bradford, 315 E. Third Street, Cincinnati. Been with a bakery."

[Photo: Shorpy/Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee]

Looks like the experience left him traumatised.

Lewis Wickes Hines was a campaigning photographer, documenting child labour in the early 1900s.

The lost generations are those who educated in the UNRWA schools on the destructive ideology of “return” as the singular obssession with the undoing of a Jewish state and who grew up to pursue butchery in its name. It is one of the greatest educational crimes of the last century. https://t.co/yA1aQ7Xao8

— Dr. Einat Wilf (@EinatWilf) September 1, 2025

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"They risk becoming the lost generation".

Lazzarini is head of UNRWA.

Here's Einat Wilf from November 2023:

In short, why are there still millions of people claiming to be refugees from a war that ended more than seven decades ago? Because to the Palestinians, that war has never ended, and they continue to believe that one day, with enough patience and violence, they could still win it to achieve their original goal: no state for the Jewish people anywhere from “The River to the Sea”.

All thanks to UNRWA. 

es, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

The saddened man would be Chris Columbus, director of the first Harry Potter films.

I don't suppose he's given the subject much thought, beyond picking up on the general opinions of the nice "be kind" sort of people with whom he mixes. For them trans people are an oppressed minority to whom Rowling is, inexplicably, unpleasant. And that's it.

Evidence that woke isn't dead, peer review is problematic, and science needs to address deep problems in its culture: A grad student at Harvard conducted the first systematic, data-based study to document & explain the rise in gender dysphoria. His paper was rejected from a…

— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) August 31, 2025

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…His paper was rejected from a leading journal because, among other things, "Throughout the manuscript, the authors use language that is considered prejudicial and outdated (e.g., "natal sex" as opposed to "sex assigned at birth"). It is critical to follow best practice and guidelines surrounding gender inclusive language, particularly for research specifically on the topic of gender incongruence, expression, and identity."

=”font-size: 11pt”>Whether the trans issue will prove a dealbreaker has yet to be seen. Until now, some secular people on the Left have looked the other way when it comes to their allies’ religious conservativism, especially if they are Muslim and support the Palestinian cause. But now hyper-liberal Corbynites must ask themselves a question: can they be in the same party as alleged transphobes who are ardently pro-Palestine?

A neat example of this meltdown was posted by the Stats for Lefties X account in response to Leeds Green councillor Mothin Ali defending Adnan. “Adnan is a blatant transphobe,” the account wrote. “The fact that you’re defending him and comparing his critics to Farage is absolutely disgusting and makes me very glad I did not vote for you.”

This public spat in the new party has highlighted one of the most corrosive political developments in recent years. It’s not so much single-issue politics as a refusal to allow people to dissent from a rigid party line. In an era of slogan-based politics, “trans women are women” has equal billing with “free Palestine”. But which will the Corbyn-Sultana crusade choose?

Oh dear. Settle back with the popcorn…

What an embarrassment to Glasgow. pic.twitter.com/q2VRbyMBGG

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) August 31, 2025

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Your gender gibberish for the day. Yes, it's a thing. And here's the original for easier reading, including a recommended reading list, "as the starting point for an historically informed and sustained engagement with the discriminatory dynamics of the Supreme Court’s Ruling, and as the basis for our rejection of its core premise".

In trying to avoid offending anyone, the NHS comes up with strangled wording. 'Women and people with a cervix,' it says. Which basically makes it sound as though women don't have a cervix. Utterly ludicrous. Just say 'women' and leave it at that. (H/t @JamesEsses). pic.twitter.com/5GvhBWqGMK

— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) August 31, 2025

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Jonathan Spyer argues that Israel, prior to October 7th, was guilty of concentrating on the empirical and ignoring the ideology of Hamas – the power of political Islam:

To understand the dynamics and likely direction of events, one must study ideas, and the societies that adhere to those ideas, and not only military systems.  This was Israel’s mistake before, and it was its mistake in 2023, too.  But the Jewish state was hardly alone in this error.  In the west, where supporters and apologists of political Islam have been permitted to burrow deep into the key systems of political power and of the formulation and dissemination of ideas, the problem is yet more acute.  Israel may have been gravely in error and allowed itself to be attacked.  But the society that could produce people like Roi Beit Yaacov, and Gal Shabbat, and Shani Louk too possessed the vitality and cohesion to mobilise effectively in its own defense.  In the case of the west, partly as a result of the years of neglect, it is not at all clear that the same can be said.  In any case, capacities like those displayed by the 202^nd battalion of the paratroopers brigade in Jebalya, with the heavy price incurred, are of the type which only need to be deployed when something has gone terribly wrong.  The failure to take an interest in the enemy and his mode of thinking was what began the road to October 7.  The west should learn from this as well as Israel, and with no less urgency.   The old slogan of the Polish patriots was ‘For your freedom and ours.’