The Iconoclast

by Hugh Fitzgerald Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) has had her predictable say on the coronavirus vaccine and Israel. She claims that Israel has a duty to vaccinate the Palestinians, that it did not do so because Israel is a “racist” state and Israelis are “racists.” The report on her noxious fuming ...Read More...

From The Times and the Daily Mail Jailed terrorists are not being properly punished for radicalising other inmates and extremism may be being ‘encouraged’ in prisons, the terror watchdog has warned. As a result an inquiry is being launched into how prisons deal with terror convicts. Jonathan Hall ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis When April with its sweet-smelling showers has pierced the drought of March to the roots, then folk long to go on pilgrimages to distant shrines known in various lands. It may be too strong to say that a specter of uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions is haunting ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald A curious story recently appeared in the British Daily Mail about one Anis Ali, a Muslim train driver at Heathrow who brought suit for “religious discrimination” because he had heard after the fact about training for drivers that involved a mock-terrorist attack, in which the ...Read More...

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by Theodore Dalrymple Conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 pandemic are legion and sometimes go like this (I have heard such theories more than once): governments everywhere, avid as governments by their very nature always are, for increasing their power and control over their populations, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black St. Laurent is the only such prominent figure I have known of whom I have never heard a negative, or even slightly disrespectful, comment UBC Press has just released “The Unexpected Louis St. Laurent,” a study of the former prime minister (1948-1957 ), whose title implies that ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The most amusing, if not necessarily most important story to come out of the Middle East this week: Iran turns out to be the biggest deadbeat in the UN, owing that body $16.2 million that it has been unable to come up with. Once Iran wallowed in wealth, suffering from an embarrass ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler AM Northwest (KATU-TV) just aired this segment with me about Requiem for a Female Serial Killer. Helen Raptis was a great interviewer, had all the right questions and clearly, she had read the book which she praised rather mightily at the end of the interview. I only wish that ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald On a cold, dark, winter day, Joe Biden spoke to a small crowd after being sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America. The euphemisms of his inaugural speech are lost on a great number of Americans. With several references to the Capitol breach two ...Read More...

Everyone who wishes America well must always hope that an incoming president of the United States is successful. by Conrad Black Some have been more vociferous in their criticism of Joe Biden than I have, but few have been more consistent. I’ve never forgiven him for what he did to my friend ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Among the most admirable acts of the Trump Administration was its ending of American funding for UNRWA, the U.N. organization responsible for the housing, feeding, medical care, and education, of those who are now called “Palestinian refugees.” There were several reasons for ...Read More...

From the Bristol Post A man from Bristol (he's actually a Spanish National, but I suppose he lives in Bristol now) found with bomb-making manuals and recipes on making poison has admitted sharing “terrorist tutorials” and having a stash of bomb and poison-making instructions. Souhaib Embarek, ...Read More...

by Rebecca Bynum ([email protected]) The junior editors and minor authors of America have spoken. PS: Banned authors, or those potentially banned, come to NER Press. We'd love to have you. ...Read More...

From the BBC, and the Telegraph Iraqi military spokesman Yehia Rasool said Thursday morning's attack was "carried out by two suicide bombers who detonated themselves when pursued by security forces" through the Bab Sharqi area. The bombers targeted an open-air market for second-hand clothes in ...Read More...