Tag: Israel

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.

Labour's support among Muslim voters has dropped by around a third, from 86% to 60%, amid anger at Keir Starmer's Israel stance, according to a poll.

In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the Tories facing electoral oblivion, Trump's victory in Iowa and Gary Lineker's claim not to realise he was tweeting anti-Israel propaganda.

Thousands have gathered in London's Trafalgar Square for a 'Stand with Israel' event, demanding the release of hostages from Gaza and marking 100 days since the October 7th attacks.

School 'strikes' where children bunk off lessons to join protests for fashionable causes are growing in popularity. The latest cause to be taken up by disturbing numbers is protests against Israel's war in Gaza.

The one source of comfort for Joe Baron going into 2024, with everything else looking so doomy and gloomy, was the prospect of Arsenal winning the league. But he's beginning to doubt that even that will happen.

Genocide has a very specific meaning in law, says Dr. David McGrogan. Bandying the word around and using it of the collateral damage from legitimate military objectives – however awful – lacks moral seriousness.

Health services in Estonia, Israel and Austria provide safer care than Britain and the U.S., a report has revealed – with the U.K. failing to make the top 20.