News Round-Up
8 May 2024
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.
A Jewish campaigner who was threatened with being arrested by the police for being near a pro-Palestine march has accused the Met of allowing "no-go zones for Jews".
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.
The Government's consultation on "non-statutory guidance" for schools on gender identity shows how weak it is, says Mark Ellse. The problem is it failed to amend the Equality Act, which protects "gender reassignment".
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.
Pro-Palestine protesters have sprayed and slashed the University of Cambridge's historic painting of British statesman Lord Balfour who paved the way for a Jewish state in the Middle East.
George Galloway and Lee Anderson are exactly what Westminster has been claiming to want and need for the past 15 years. And yet both have now been made political outlaws for patently obscure reasons, says J. Sorel.
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.
Lee Anderson's critics are not being honest about Sadiq Khan's failure to condemn the antisemitism flooding London's streets and why this particular racial prejudice gets a free pass in Khan's capital.
Charlotte Church has come under fire for leading a 100-strong pro-Palestine choir featuring children in singing the antisemitic song From The River to Sea, which calls for the destruction of the world's only Jewish state.
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