- “Fury as children skip school for pro-Palestinian protest” – Parents warned they face fines and prosecutions if pupils miss classes as Gillian Keegan says absence for activism is ‘unacceptable’, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain braces for ‘more than 100’ pro-Palestine demonstrations” – Rather than a huge march in London, dozens of protests are due to take place in different parts of the U.K. today, reports the Mail.
- “The BBC’s Israelophobia is out of control” – The BBC’s distrust of the Jewish State is bordering on pathological, argues Jake Wallis Simons in Spiked.
- “‘Labour still has an antisemitism problem!’ – Starmer’s leadership brutally torn apart” – Dozens of Labour MPs rebelled against the leadership on a vote over the Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday evening, according to GB News.
- “Sacha Baron Cohen accuses TikTok of ‘creating biggest anti-Semitic movement since Nazis’” – Borat actor blames video app of whipping up antisemitism, reports to the Telegraph.
- “Britain is the new capital of anti-Israel hate” – As Israel unites in the face of terrorist evil, ours is exposing a nasty and divided underbelly, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “MeToo unless you’re a Jew” – Feminist groups are whitewashing Hamas’s crimes, writes Nicole Lampert in UnHerd.
- “What happens if Israel fails to destroy Hamas?” – Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas, but achieving such an aim in the war on Gaza is harder than he thinks, writes Nadim Koteich in the Spectator.
- “Iran’s betrayal leaves Hamas with nowhere to go” – We have reached a pivotal moment in this conflict, argues Hamish De-Bretton Gordon in the Telegraph. The terrorist group is increasingly isolated and its defeat assured.
- “Apple suspends ads on Twitter/X after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post” – Apple has paused advertising on X, formerly known as Twitter, after its owner Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post, according to the Times.
- “Trans endometriosis charity boss ‘bullied’ by Women’s Hour interview” – Steph Richards, 71, who sparked controversy this week after being appointed to the top job at Endometriosis South Coast, fuelled a pile-on of Women’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett after appearing on the show, says the Mail.
- “Giorgia Meloni’s plan to send migrants to Albania does not break EU law” – Albanian government puts forward draft legislation on five-year deal with Italy that could mean 3,000 migrants a month are processed, reports the Telegraph.
- “GB News launches paywall as ad boycott continues” – Outspoken broadcaster rolls out three membership tiers in effort to boost finances, says the Telegraph.
- “Surely scepticism should apply to all sources?” – A below-the-line commentator on the Daily Sceptic takes issue with Chris Morrison’s recent piece about Ben Pile’s book on his blog.
- “Why is Suella Braverman doing so well on social media? ” – Suella Braverman’s tweets are going viral, reports the Spectator.
- “Christian Drosten’s virus truth panels and the tiresome midwits who think it’s all OK” – On Substack, Eugyppius takes aim at Christian Drosten, one of his favourite targets.
- “Free speech advocates at odds with faith groups over NSW hate speech law overhaul” – Religious groups push for tougher hate speech legislation as NSW Council for Civil Liberties and Greens voice concerns, reports the Guardian.
- “The unbreakable Tory alliance between Court and Country is finally shattering” – Ever since Disraeli, the Conservative Party has been a coalition of clashing factions. But they may no longer be able to live together, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Landmark study finds sudden cardiac deaths in sport fell over time” – A ‘landmark’ Swiss and U.S. study should reassure people about the safety of the mRNA Covid vaccines and the risk of myocarditis, reports the Mail.
- “The real reason why Nigel Farage is going on ‘I’m a Celebrity…’” – Farage’s use of the word ‘demonised’ suggests that he may be taking inspiration from Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally in France, and is planning on relaunching his political career, argues Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Global warming might not happen quite as fast as we thought – here’s why” – Plants will absorb more carbon dioxide than predicted, meaning models could be overestimating the speed which the planet will heat up, writes Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
- “Man up and grow a pair? Not on our watch, says police force” – Staffordshire Police orders officers not to use gender-based stereotypes or any other ‘discriminatory’ language that may cause offence, such as the phrase “high poverty rates”. Instead, they should call deprived areas “communities with access to fewer opportunities”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pedants’ revolt brings back their apostrophe” – Residents of St Mary’s Terrace in Devon are celebrating after the possessive apostrophe was returned to their street sign, according to the Times.
- “Telegraph plan troubles Tories” – Conservative politicians are calling on ministers to scrutinise a last-ditch attempt by the Barclay family to regain control of the Telegraph newspapers and the Spectator with backers from Abu Dhabi, reports the Times.
- “UEFA refused to organise a minute of silence before the start of the match between Israel and Poland” – After UEFA refused to honour the victims of the October 7th massacre in Israel last night, the players in the Israel v Poland game refused to play the first minute of the match, reports Michael Weingardt on X.
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Seeing that there is a HUGE lack of skepticism on the “Daily Skeptic” now that the zionists seem to have mind controlled this site, it may be worth noting that most, if not all that we were told about October 7th, you know, Israel’s 9/11, was a lie.
40 beheaded babies, nope, charred babies, nope, gang rated women, pregnant women etc…ALL LIES.
The skeptics among us may have thought “hang on a second.” This site has lost credibility.
https://youtu.be/d0gECjlpXF8?si=K7dGvik9nGF0vAs-
Id love to hear the resident partisans tell us how this is just antisemitism….
I’ve always considered myself to be generally pro-Israel. For two simple reasons. 1. They’re more “like me” than their Arab neighbours, so I can relate better to them. 2. I was brought up on holocaust stories and so sympathy has sort of been inevitable.
That said, I’m beginning to find the whole Israel drama a bit tiresome. The deliberate fuzziness between Israel and juddhaism and the constant sef victimisation.is beginning to feel like a form of collective narcissism. They’re a tiny proportion of the world population constantly demanding attention.
To be clear, no matter how much anti-Jewish, anti-Israel sentiment they think there is in the world, you are better received around the world as an Israeli and/or a Jewish person than as a Palestinian. In fact, if you’re a Palaestinian, the chances are you can’t go anywhere and the moment you try to cross a border you’ll be interrogated. However bad you think your life is as a jew or an Israeli, it’s definitely a lot worse as a Palestinian.
And if you are a non-Israeli jew, nobody knows and probably nobody cares you are Jewish and anyone who does will only do so if you draw attention to the fact that you are.
Which begs the question, why the hell do you need anyone to know if you are Jewish? There are literally dozens of people who know me well who have no idea what my religious ideas are. It is very easy to go through life not drawing attention to one’s religion.
And if you’re not religious, then nobody needs to know you are Jewish and if they do, why do you consider it important to let anyone know? Who cares?
Is it possible, just possible, that at least some of the anti-jewish sentiment that may exist is at least partly because Jewish people, not all of course, make such a fuss about themselves?
Follow the money.
Anti Israel sentiment is venal; paid for.
‘In 2020, the State Department estimated that Iran gave Hezbollah $700 million a year. In the past, Tehran had historically given $100 million annually to Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.’
The Wilson Centre
‘Iran has spent the past 44 years using the Palestinian cause to advance its own interests and enhance its standing with Arabs ‘
FT
‘Al Quds quoted anonymous Palestinian sources March 4 as saying that Iran had re-established its financial support for Hamas. Tehran would provide $15 million annually to the movement in principle, an amount that would likely double in the coming period, according to the paper.’
‘The Hamas official refused to give a precise figure of the funds Hamas receives from Iran annually, stressing that Iran has been and remains the most prominent supporter of Hamas, both in terms of money and weapons.’
‘The US envoy to the Middle East peace process, Jason Greenblatt, tweeted 04 Feb. 2018, that Iran is giving $100 million a year to Hamas to buy weapons and build tunnels to attack Israel.’
Al Monitor 08 March 2019
If I follow the money, the bigger pile of money leads ro powerful pro Israel lobby groups in Washington and billions in weaponry going to Israel. My guess is that what Iran spends on Palestine is a pittance in comparison.
But the money has little to do with my point
Correct – this much:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2023-10-10/how-much-aid-does-the-u-s-give-to-israel
In 2021, U.S. obligations to Israel amounted to $3.31 billion, a figure that saw Israel returning to the top spot among aid recipients that year. But in 2022, the U.S. committed $12 billion to Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion, far exceeding Israel’s $3.18 billion that year. …
Almost all U.S. aid to Israel recently has been military aid rather than economic aid, in the form of Foreign Military Financing grants – U.S. grants and loans to Israel for acquiring U.S. military equipment and services. Israel is typically allowed first access in the region to U.S. defense technology to stay ahead of neighboring militaries, a concept summarized as a “qualitative military edge” by the Congressional Research Service in a report on foreign aid to the country. …
The CRS estimates that U.S. military aid reflects 16% of Israel’s total defense budget. The non-partisan data center, USAFacts, points out those totals don’t include funds for Israel’s missile defense systems, which to date have amounted to about $10 billion more in U.S. contributions, according to the CRS report.
Whataboutery…..
Anti jewish sentiment is venal; paid for.
That many other political lobbies are paid for is both blindingly obvious and beside the point.
I would venture to say that the money for both sides in this comes from the same source. Israel/Palestine is the weeping sore that refuses to heal and never can. No amount of attacks from either side will ever stem the pus. Plus, it is no one’s interests – well, the shysters who
For me, there are two stories here.
The first starts with Balfour, the Holocaust etc. and Israel’s foundation and ends with Sharon’s deliberately provocative visit to the temple mount in 2000.
During that time, Israel had a point, was mainly the victim (though mainly of the Germans and Brits and later of the Americans, who all just made the Arabs pay for their sins) and the Arabs ignored reality/strengths of cause and of the allies and always played their poor hand terribly.
But then, both sides came to their senses in 1993 and until that visit in 2000 (ignoring continued West Bank settlements&quarrels, ignorance of UN res. reg. Golan, WB&co etc.).
With that deliberately the peace process sabotaging visit by Sharon and with Netanjahu’s subsequent deliberate sabotages of it and of any two state soution, Israel (and Israelis who elected them) has become the main current villain of that story now.
The reflexive, excessive efforts to smear any criticism of it and them in that regard as anti-Semitism (while giving a fig about real anti-Semitism in the form of global conspiracy ringleadership stories etc. see Caitlin Johnstone yesterday) by Jews and most of the Western elites has only put me, and seemingly the whole global South and East and more and more Westerners, further off- I am with Erdogan here.
That doesn’t mean that I endorse Hamas’ actions (though what did we/Israel expect- the fence says: just that, why did security fail, did it fail…?!) or that we should have let in millions of muslims into our countries- I am with Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor Orban here, but now, they are here and have rights (and duties, which we should enforce much stricter).
It also doesn’t mean that I appreciate the deliberately provocative and often really anti-Semitic current protests here, nor do I think they should be forbidden though- I am a FSU member, you see: I can’t get excited about the former, but certainly about the latter.
If that now gets me down ticks from both/all sides, I appreciate it and see it as perfect validation.
For balance, youtube clip is by Chris Hedges:
‘Hedges began hosting the television show On Contact for the Russian-government owned network RT (Russia Today) America in June 2016. Hedges……was approached to make a show by RT America president Mikhail “Misha” Solodovnikov’
‘In June 2014, Christopher Ketcham published an article on The New Republic website accusing Hedges of plagiarism in several Truthdig columns, a 2010 Harper’s Magazine article, and in his 2002 book, War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning. The Truthdig posts were updated to give attribution to their author (though Ketcham critiqued some corrections as too little or too late)……
Hedges has described himself as a socialist and anarchist.
Hedges is married to the Canadian actress, writer, and vegan activist Eunice Wong.’
Wow. Straight into ad hominem attacks rather than questioning the veracity or otherwise of the report itself (which, incidentally, I’ve seen corroborated and confirmed on numerous other sites). Way to go.
You don’t like balance, context?
Hardly ad hominem to point out that Hedges is a plagiarising socialist anarchist Russia Today journalist vegan loon since he has admitted all those things himself, presumably believing that they do him credit……..
Well done for not giving any actual corroboration links……telling.
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/what-really-happened-on-7th-october
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israeli-apache-helicopters-killed-own-soldiers-civilians-on-7-october-report
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-19/ty-article-magazine/israels-dead-the-names-of-those-killed-in-hamas-massacres-and-the-israel-hamas-war/0000018b-325c-d450-a3af-7b5cf0210000
(Note that in the last link, around 50% of those listed are military or police)
‘The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of The Cradle.’
Not particularly reassuring…..
And then haaretz (The problem with Haaretz is that it tends to be heavily one-sided. Asaf Ronel, world news editor in 2017, declared that he is an anti-Zionist.) references Mondoweiss
‘In 2015, David Bernstein, writing for The Washington Post, called the website a “hate site”, and listed quotes from Weiss that he said were anti-Semitic.’
No wonder you delayed the corroboration links.
That’s why I try and give some balancing views.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861
Israeli Efrat Fenigson spoke out about the situation very early on and on multiple platforms – this is the Darkhorse podcast. While not questioning the makeup of those killed, questioning the overall situation naturally leads to scepticism over numbers (1400 victims stuck for a long while, recently and quietly reduced to 1200 with higher numbers of military/police victims, for example).
https://rumble.com/v3p80xd-israel-did-not-respond-to-the-attack-for-many-hours.-how-is-this-possible-e.html
Electronic intafada as a source?
The clue’s in the name……..
You don’t have to believe that everything the Israelis have done over the past 80 odd years has been good to believe that the Hamas/Palestinian pogrom was evil.
As was always said of the Palestinian leadership, they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. The result is both the impoverishment & displacement of their people.
The hostages are real. The massacre was real. The Palestinians have vowed to do it again & again. How can the Israelis not react? And a half hearted reaction is no reaction.
Hamas suffers from Munchausen by proxy on a national scale. They’ve provoked a crisis, which leads to the continued immiseration of their people.
Since April in Sudan about 50,000 civilians, all Muslims, have been killed by other Muslims. 6m have been displaced. 4m people have abandoned Khartoum alone. Does your heart bleed for them too?
I would say there’s a huge amount of scepticism below the line, possibly fueled by the DS policy of not showing any scepticism above the line. Some of what I’ve read I find disturbing. To be clear, I have not taken a side in this conflict – something I’ve maintained from very early on. I believe choosing one over the other can only mean that you’ve chosen which propaganda to believe. Blind faith seems to be the main evidence for ‘truth’.
Your claims are very controversial, and I’ve seen them posted before, does the video you link to provide indisputable evidence of these claims? Evidence that holds up to the highest scrutiny? I very much doubt it.
And what happens when you get your wish – a wish that so many, suddenly BBC/Guardian loving, ‘sceptics’ on here support, of an anti-Semitic state having recognised sovereignty? Israel holds a key strategic position for the West, sitting as an island amongst Arab land that practices a lot of radical Islam. Do you support the expansion of radical Islam and are happy to see that expansion on the street you live in?
Like I’ve said before, this conflict goes way beyond the simple narrative of pro this or pro that. I think there’s a lot of naïvety on both sides, but one is potentially committing an act of incredible self-harm.
I keep asking for proof! In a world full of camera’s and recording equipment why o why is there no evidence? I don’t trust either side as far as I could throw them, until I see evidence, not propaganda!
Indeed. I remain misanthropically even-handed about the whole Israel/Hamas affair: I hope both sides lose and everyone dies.
While I don’t share the sentiment, the possibility of mass carnage, even more than we are seeing, is non-zero.
I used to own a T-shirt, bought from an army surplus store (do they still exist?), which bore the Marines/Green Berets motto:
“Kill ’em all, let God sort ’em out.”
Apparently it dates back to the crusades and paraphrases the Papal Legate’s response to Simon de Montfort’s question about how to identify heretics claiming to be Catholic.
It appealed to my pitch-black sense of humour, which I try but mostly fail to communicate in the written form.
Your a tonic👍
Next you’ll be peddling the blood libel…
You may only be sceptical about approved subjects on the DS, and I wouldn’t expect anything else in the current social/political/legal climate in the UK.
You need balls of steel, financial independence – and probably the protection of a First Amendment – to allow such a wide range of views (in the article subject matter and comments) as The Unz Review, for example.
I won’t be renewing my subscription, but I wish Toby and everyone involved in the site the best of luck with all their future endeavours.
Ill be sorry to see another real skeptic leave.
In the Daily Mail article about Transexual, Steph Richards’s (71) appointment – it fails to mention the value of “Steph’s” house – which just goes to show how far standards have slipped at The Mail.
However, the article states: “On Endometriosis South Coast’s website, the charity added endometriosis in the ‘gender non-conforming population is a highly stigmatised and scary area of diagnosis and treatment’. It claimed that ‘focussing research and treatment plans on gendered constructs is not progressing either research or treatment’. ”
Endometriosis is the condition where cells similar to the ones in the lining of the womb (uterus) are found elsewhere in the body. I struggle to understand “woke-speak” – but is the charity saying that focussing research on women is delaying progress in finding treatments to the problem? If that is the case, are they seriously suggesting that transexuals have wombs? Am I missing something here – or has the world gone mad?
…some sceptical comments to the sceptical article regarding Chris Morrison’s story re BMGF funding of Guardian/BBC Media Action
https://mfinmoderation.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/surely-scepticism-should-apply-to-all-sources/#comment-121012
‘From the river to the sea, time to ditch the bbc!’
For balance:
‘Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also have form with their own rockets backfiring and killing civilians in Gaza. During this current war, 450 missiles have been misfired into Gaza by militants fighting for both groups. Not only does this add to the civilian death toll but also gives Hamas a PR opportunity to blame Israel, as they did when PIJ fired a rocket into the carpark of a Gazan hospital on October 18.’
‘Just now, hamas snipers have reportedly killed dozens of children and women on the streets, targeting those attempting to travel from north to south Gaza and those displaying white flags as a sign of peace. Similar acts have previously been attributed to Palestinian and hezbollah terrorists in Syria. They do not want civilians to leave; they want to use them as human shields.’
How hamas use their own civilians as human shields, Karen Harradine TCW
Subsidised Wind Solar Wreak Economic Havoc
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Michael Matheson MSP racked up an £11k bill for data access on his Scottish Government iPad while on a family holiday in Morocco. £7k of that was in just one day. He first tried to pass it off as a necessary expense because the device was only used for government work before then agreeing to personally pay the bill as he changed his story and said his children had used the device to watch football.
So, he clearly kept the government device highly secure.
Aunty Beeb has helpfully followed up with a guide entitled:
“Data roaming charges: How to keep costs down when travelling abroad” on how to avoid similar embarrassment. It includes such obscure but helpful tips as:
All of which could be summarised as “Don’t be a numpty” and “Aren’t those Moroccans bastards for charging Brits so much for Internet access”…
…oh yes, and “No Sh*t Sherlock”.
The one thing they forgot to mention was “Don’t watch too much p0rn”.
“Surely Scepticism Should Apply To All Sources?
On the 16th November The Daily Sceptic published an article by Chris Morrison with the headline:
Billionaire Funds the Guardian to Tune of $116 Per Reader of Print Edition
I want to use this as an example of how DS sceptics are selective about where they apply their scepticism (most of the points I am making here I already made in comments about the article but few people read all the comments)..“
As, similarly, few people would have read my comments, posted late in response to Chris Morrison’s article, with a further delay while ‘awaiting approval’ (which seems to happen when a post contains a lot of links) – here are my two posts again:
This used to be the Guardian:
2002:
“The drug pushers
US pharmaceutical firms are increasingly plying doctors with expensive gifts in the hope that they will prescribe their drugs. It couldn’t happen here, could it?”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/apr/11/nhsfinance.lifeandhealth
2003:
“Revealed: how drug firms ‘hoodwink’ medical journals”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/dec/07/health.businessofresearch
2004:
“The drugs industry and its watchdog: a relationship too close for comfort?”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/oct/04/health.businessofresearch1
2006:
“Drug companies use unscrupulous and unethical marketing tactics not only to influence doctors to prescribe their products but also subtly to persuade consumers that they need them, a report claims today.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/jun/26/health.medicineandhealth1
2007:
“Drug firms try to bribe doctors with cars”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/31/international.mainsection1
2009:
“Pfizer drug breach ends in biggest US crime fine”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/sep/02/pfizer-drugs-us-criminal-fine
2011:
“How drug companies’ PR tactics skew the presentation of medical research
Elliot Ross reveals the secret ‘army of hidden scribes’ paid by the drug companies to influence doctors”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/20/drug-companies-ghost-writing-journalism
2012:
“GlaxoSmithKline fined $3bn after bribing doctors to increase drugs sales”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/03/glaxosmithkline-fined-bribing-doctors-pharmaceuticals
This is what The Guardian became:
2020:
“Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has 95% efficacy and is safe”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/18/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-95-effective-and-safe-further-tests-show
2021:
“Are Covid-19 vaccines safe?
Yes.“
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/18/covid-vaccine-side-effects-pfizer-moderna-johnson-is-it-safe
2021:
“Pfizer finds Covid vaccine safe and effective for children 12 to 15”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/31/pfizer-covid-biontech-vaccine-safe-effective-children
2021:
“Undermining the AstraZeneca jab is a dangerous act of political folly”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/03/undermining-the-astrazeneca-jab-is-a-dangerous-act-of-political-folly
2021:
“Don’t fear the AstraZeneca jab, the risks are minimal”
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/mar/21/do-not-fear-the-astrazeneca-covid-jab-the-risks-are-minimal
2022:
“Anti-vaxxers should face penalties for their selfish choices”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/anti-vaxxers-should-face-penalties-for-their-selfish-choices
2022:
“From medical advances to expanding equity and access, the Guardian US’s solution-driven healthcare coverage puts people first, making our platform the perfect match for Pfizer’s messaging. At the same time, our audience is uniquely tuned-in to healthcare topics: some 74% of Guardian readers are very interested in learning about the behind-the-scenes evolution of treatments, research and innovations.”
https://advertising.theguardian.com/us/labs/projects/elevate-pfizers-scientific-innovation-via-powerful-video-storytelling
No need for the re-posts.
As I responded at the time – If Billy is chucking money at the Groan it doesn’t matter what purported reason he attaches to the “donations.” The bottom line is that Billy is guaranteeing favourable press by virtue of the amounts involved.
It is that simple.
“Global warming might not happen quite as fast as we thought – here’s why” – Plants will absorb more carbon dioxide than predicted, meaning models could be overestimating the speed which the planet will heat up, writes Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
Whaat? The models might be wrong?
It’s a story about yet another model which tries to explain why so many of the other models are proving to be so wrong.
Yes And it still buys the notion that x CO2 is a causative factor in global temperature.
It’s also a story showing that Sarah Knapton is still on board with the global boiling crap. Carbon dioxide has F. all to do with heating the planet. And if the planet is warming up it is simply the result of climate change which goes with living on planet earth.
Knapton still schilling.
More on the further Islamification of Europe and what will it be like for the future generation to live here? Will we end up living in ”two-state” countries in years to come? I think all of these ‘strikes’ by school kids gives us an indication and does not bode well at all;
”In this essay I shall concentrate on Germany. If we have learned anything from history, it is that German problems don’t stay in Germany but seem to emanate to the wider world. And so, I ask a lot of questions as food for thought.
-Can you imagine what would happen if Germany’s Muslim population grew, through demographics and immigration to amount to about 15% of the population up from its present 6%?
-Can you imagine what would happen if Islamists undertook a major campaign to have Sharia Law and Islamist culture against Christians, Jews, women, LGBTQ, and children, be part of a separatist movement for a two state solution within present-day Germany?
-Can you imagine if Iran (with its terrorist proxies) and other terror-sponsoring and Muslim Brotherhood groups backed this movement by undertaking serious terrorism including chemical weapons and missile attacks aimed at German civilians?
-Can you then imagine that other countries around the world might begin to support growing Islamist demands to accommodate Sharia Law by means of a separate country, a “two state” solution to the Islamist terrorism? Would it seem reasonable for the more Muslim and tolerant former West Germany to agree to become the Muslim State with the former East Germany adamant about being the non-Muslim state?
How could France or Sweden deprecate such an arrangement when they have allowed “no go” zones to operate in a way that approaches a separatist Islamist sovereignty?”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380497
An Arab’s perspective on Jews and Israel;
”Many many years ago, I learned Hebrew out of curiosity and in a bid to penetrate into a world that I once thought was evil and conspiring against the Arabs and Muslims. Once in, I was surprised how wrong I was, how wrong almost every Arab and Muslim around me was. Israel was not on a mission to kill us all, was not conspiring against us. Israel wanted to live, and let live. In the Middle East, it’s we, the Arabs, who never seem to let live, even if that means that we die.
The world does not feel Israeli pain. It only sees and hears Palestinian pain. The world likes to take the side of the underdog, even when the underdog is guilty. Of course, they don’t see it that way. One billion Muslims have a much louder voice than 16 million Jews, making it harder to hear the truth, easier to tell lies. So the world blames Israel, even when Palestinians started the carnage like Hamas did on 10/7.
Many Jews died to earn that Israeli sovereignty, and they continue to die for it—even now. Hamas’s 10/7 massacre threatened Israel’s existence, and Israelis are now fighting the fight of their lives—a second War of Independence, as they call it. But what Israelis think and say remains mostly in Israel, far from global media. It is the Arabs and Muslims who set the global narrative, who have repeatedly turned the Jews’ fight for sovereignty into a fight over real estate: We lived in this land thousands of years before them, therefore we are its rightful sovereigns. But who lived in this land before the advent of the Arabs? In fact, in many countries that we call Arab today, Jews lived and spoke Hebrew, then Aramaic, then Arabic, long before Islam even existed.”
https://www.newsweek.com/im-arab-i-dont-understand-why-world-cant-acknowledge-jewish-pain-opinion-1842536
Bad tempered, rather shouty interview on MSNBC of all places, with Medhi Hassan and Mark Regev, Senior Advisor to Bibi. Rather revealing, nonetheless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD-yRuTasHU
Propaganda side of the war doesn’t seem to be going as well as Jonathan Greenblatt would like. The ole’ left/right divisions deliberately fomented over the last few years just ain’t working like they used to….
https://twitter.com/snarwani/status/1725138601996853424
The 10K statement from HM govt on withdrawal of UK from the WHO petition. If you haven’t signed it already, would urge you to do so, so that a debate can be had in the House. They clearly haven’t read the small print on the IHRs…
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/648609
The UK Government will not end our WHO membership. We are committed to working with the WHO to tackle the world’s health issues. We do not and will never cede sovereign powers through our partnership. …
The best way to protect the UK from the next pandemic is by ensuring all Member States can contain and respond to disease outbreaks through compliance with International Health Regulations (IHR). Therefore, the Government is supporting the processes of negotiating an Accord on pandemic preparedness and response, and agreeing targeted amendments of the IHR as a means of strengthening preparedness for and in response to future health emergencies. …
Throughout both negotiations, the UK has been and will continue to be clear that we would not agree any amendments to the IHR or sign up to an Accord that would cede sovereignty to the WHO in relation to making domestic decisions on national measures concerning public health, such as, domestic immunisation programme rollouts and other similar measures.
Any new or amended domestic legislation necessary to reflect new international obligations under the IHR or the Accord would be made through the applicable parliamentary process. In all circumstances, the sovereignty of the UK Parliament would remain unchanged.
That statement is of course subject to future amendments. 😀😀😀
“Landmark study finds sudden cardiac deaths in sport fell over time”
From the study itself:
Methods: This study included National Collegiate Athletic Association athlete deaths during a 20-year time frame (July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2022). Athlete deaths were identified through 4 separate independent databases and search strategies (National Collegiate Athletic Association resolutions list, Parent Heart Watch database and media reports, National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research database, and insurance claims). Autopsy reports and medical history were reviewed by an expert panel to adjudicate causes of SCD. [my emphasis]
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.065908
Call me whacky, but didn’t TPTB prevent most if not all autopsies during the plandemic and after jab rollout? If that’s the case, how can this study be representative?
“Call me whacky, but didn’t TPTB prevent most if not all autopsies during the plandemic and after jab rollout”
Yes. I lost a friend who died less than 24 hours after being boosted – massive heart attack. No autopsy. According to the coroner the jab and the subsequent heart attack were just an “unfortunate” coincidence.
Yeah right.
‘Labour still has an antisemitism problem!’
Never! Well blow me down!
Just reading through all the headlines above
The world has gone fu£king mad!
Listening to the Woman’s Hour interview with Emma Barnett (Kudos to her by the way), Steph Richards was not “bullied”, she was just asked a few hard questions to which Emma responded with very valid counter arguments. Ms (sic) Richards is obviously not used to being forced to argue the position rather than being given a sycophantic free ride.
Apostrophes are a fiendish European printers’ invention from a few centuries ago. They sneaked into English but never fully integrated with it. Some colleges’ names pre-date apostrophes. I hoped Brexit would get rid of them.
GB News is going the way of AUF1 in Germany.
The Germans have gone full STASI and just banned the station, à la RT.
Like our government did over the COVID jabs, GB News won´t be directly banned: it´ll just be starved by excommunication.
They seem to be following the tactics of the main stream, with selective paywall for certain publications on their website to raise revenue. Of course, we can only comment here if we donate cash as well.
I found Ben Pile’s paper measured and non sensational in its reporting (whilst not agreeing with him on every point). It brought to the surface issues and info not readily available and focused on the very pertinent point of ‘influence’. Undue (and covert) influence is particularly relevant in the range of climate policies. (The paper also made clear the period over which the BMGF donations are made).
On the matter of the Guardian, I suspect there is much more to be told of the circumstances which result in the majority of news items returned by Google searches being from the Guardian