News Round-Up
8 May 2024
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by Will Jones
Labour is set to lose the West Midlands Mayoral election because of anger among Muslim voters over its stance on Gaza, party sources fear, adding to the shock loss in Oldham and struggles elsewhere.
Sadiq Khan has apologised for suggesting the Chief Rabbi's criticism of his call for a Gaza ceasefire was due to his Muslim-sounding name.
The evidence that the Gaza casualty numbers from the Hamas-run Health Ministry (now over 32,000) are wildly inflated continues to mount. Mark Zlochin looks at what the proportions of male and female UNRWA workers tell us.
Have 30,000 civilians really died in Gaza? Statistics expert Prof Abraham Wyner shows how Hamas's casualty numbers must be fake because they violate fundamental statistical relationships.
George Galloway's by-election win is a protest against Broken Britain, says Luke Tryl, as a poll shows that two-thirds of voters believe the cost of living is the key issue, while just 8% prioritise the Middle East crisis.
What is happening in Gaza is not genocide, argues Douglas Murray. "It’s not even regionally remarkable." After all, Assad murdered 600,000 Arab Muslims in Syria – and where were the protests then?
The war-torn Gaza community of Al-Mawasi could be twinned with the seaside town of Hastings in East Sussex, if local councillors have their way.
Some on the Left like to compare Israel's treatment of Gaza to 1930s Germany. But where were such comparisons when the unvaccinated were barred from society so they didn't 'spread disease', asks Andrew Barr.
Natasha Hausdorff, Legal Director of Lawyers for Israel, has revealed that she was 'bumped' from a scheduled BBC appearance on the evening it parroted Hamas propaganda about an explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza.
After the BBC recently misreported that the Israeli army was "targeting medical teams and Arab speakers", Stephen Daisley looks at the long list of the BBC's other recent anti-Israel 'mistakes'.
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