News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The reaction of the woke Left to the massacre of Israeli civilians makes it clear that their attempts to no-platform people in the name of making people feel 'safe' is just a rhetorical smokescreen.
When violence breaks out between Israel and Palestine it becomes common to observe that progressives have a particular problem with the Jewish state, seemingly because it is Jewish. Why is that, asks Dr David McGrogan.
Just when you thought that the Left couldn’t sink any lower, along comes Yanis Varoufakis defending the brutal attack on Israel as resistance against an 'apartheid state' – a comparison as false as it is grotesque.
The Black Lives Matter chapter in Chicago publicly backed the Palestinian terrorists who killed some 1,200 Israelis over the weekend with a post that read "I Stand with Palestine" and an image of a Hamas paraglider.
On the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the appalling responses of the Left to the attack on Israel, Nigel Farage saying he won't join the Tories and Laurence Fox getting arrested over Ulez.
An NHS medic, Dr Mennah Elwan, mocked Israeli festival-goers for fleeing Hamas gunmen, claiming on X that "there are no civilians in Israel" and calling for the UK to forcibly remove the whole Israeli population.
On Substack, Melanie Phillips reports from Jerusalem on the grim events unfolding in Israel.
If the vaccines saved lives, why were Florida's Covid waves no smaller after the rollout than before? The same can be said for Israel and Bahrain, while low-vaccination comparators often fared better.
A study of nursing home residents in Israel shows clear evidence of vaccine-related deaths, says Prof. Eyal Shahar. The vaccine should therefore be withdrawn for the elderly and new trials undertaken.
A paper in the Lancet claims the Pfizer vaccine averted 5,000 deaths in Israel. Prof Eyal Shahar says this is nonsense – and a comparison with Sweden proves it.
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