News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
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In the latest Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are the NatCon siege in Brussels, Iran's not-exactly-Pearl-Harbour attack on Israel and the rapid demise of the trans cult.
The Middle East teeters on the brink of all-out war following Iran's unprecedented launch of hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel in retaliation for a deadly drone strike in Syria.
An epidemiologist who called it right from the start, on Covid (over-hyped), lockdowns (useless, deadly) and vaccines (effectiveness overplayed, harms underplayed), Prof Eyal Shahar looks back at his articles since 2020.
A grim new report reveals that only one in four British Muslims believe that Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7th, with 46% sympathising with the terrorist organisation.
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.
An unholy alliance of eco-zealots and pro-Palestinian protestors have joined forces to blockade the British Museum under the banner of Energy Embargo for Palestine.
The BBC faces another antisemitism scandal as two journalists, responsible for accusing Israeli soldiers of abusing Gaza hospital medics, have endorsed videos glorifying Hamas attacks and anti-Israel content online.
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.
Up to 12% of UNRWA staff – more than 1,400 UN aid agency employees – are associated with Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to Israel's Defence Minister.
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