News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Venues across the country are cancelling Eurovision gigs after Palestine protest groups instructed their followers to hound pubs showing the contest, with bars closing their doors as they fear for staff safety.
Israeli Eurovision singer Eden Golan was ordered to stay in her hotel room by her country's national security agency as thousands of pro-Palestine protesters including Greta Thunberg demonstrated in Malmo.
Oxford dons have called for the university’s head of equality to resign after he backed the pro-Palestinian protest camp at the university – and he previously celebrated the NatCon conference being shut down by police.
Shameful scenes of pro-Palestine supporters chanting the genocidal slogan 'From the river to the sea' and inciting an 'intifada' have sprung up at universities across the country.
Climate protests are so last year, it appears, as the same crowd now preoccupies itself with Gaza demonstrations. Is the truth that Left-wing protests are just fads chasing the latest issue du jour?
Under no definition is Israel committing genocide. According to John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point, "Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history".
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".
Over 200,000 people have marched in London, supporting Palestine amid escalating tensions in Yemen, with some protesters endorsing recent terrorist actions by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
Children as young as seven are skipping school to join pro-Palestine marches organised by Stop the War Coalition, a front for the Socialist Workers’ Party.
The Spectator's Sean Thomas is despairing over the state of our media and the future well-being of the U.K.'s Jewish community after attending the recent pro-Palestinian rallies.
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