The Iconoclast

by Phyllis Chesler Listen: I’ve been told that the Afghan men who Western countries have rescued, have left their first, older wives behind, taking all the children, together with their second, younger wives. Such men are not likely to assimilate. Who will? The educated women, those with careers. ...Read More...

by Lev Tsitrin Ben & Jerry's motto "Love, peace, and ice-cream" is so passe in our age of outrage, whether real or imagined (I say "imagined" because the tragedies that inflamed the BLM movement -- the deaths of Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, have nothing whatsoever to do with ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis Since its creation in London on November 16, 1945, UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, founded to strengthen the foundation of international peace and sustainable development, has been concerned with masterpieces of human creative genius, ...Read More...

From the Daily Mail and the BBC A survivor of child sexual exploitation (CSE) has told an independent review how social workers condoned her Islamic marriage to one of her abusers at the age of 15 and left her with his family in a state of 'domestic slavery'. The review was commissioned in the ...Read More...

From Sky News Counter-terror police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was attacked with a knife at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon. The incident is not being treated as terror-related at this time, police have said, adding that the woman's injuries were not life-threatening. Footage ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald If the Bidenites have their way, and the U.S. returns to the 2015 Iran deal, lifting all sanctions on the Islamic Republic, the malign regime in Tehran will potentially have a windfall of more than a hundred billion dollars, much of which it can plow into its nuclear program. ...Read More...

The reports about this are mainly from Youtube and Miss Tash's own ministry website for  DCCI Ministries (Defend Christianity, Critique Islam). I have found one written report by UKNIP (News in Pictures)  At  3.34pm Police attended Hyde Park to reports of a female with stab wounds. A female is now ...Read More...

by Theodore Dalrymple A friend of mine defines a celebrity as someone of whom he has never heard. This is almost my definition too. Perhaps it is a sign of my tunnel vision, or rather tunnel attention, that world famous figures are to me often completely unknown. For example, while I had vaguely ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg A moment of silence was held during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony Friday July 23rd for the Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Munich games. This memorial some 49 years after the murders, was requested, but never given until now. It was in fact the first time those victims ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald   Mahmoud Abbas is in the sixteenth year of his four-year-term as President of the Palestinian Authority. He is best known for his despotic ways and his epic corruption. He has amassed a private fortune of $400 million, money diverted from foreign aid and from louche business ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The AP recently carried a story, designed to tug at our heart-strings, about a Palestinian woman who, imprisoned, was not let out by her Israeli jailers to attend her daughter’s funeral. The story is here: “Associated Press Transforms Convicted Terrorist Into ‘Palestinian Lawmaker,’” ...Read More...

collected by Reg Green The most recent eruption of articles about the British royal family -- with the echoes that come with them of former pettiness, backbiting and greed -- reminded me of a story in a world so long gone that it might be from fairyland. In Hons and Rebels*  Jessica Mitford who ...Read More...

by Eric Rozenman What if they held a rally against antisemitism and nobody came? That was nearly the case with July 11’s “No Fear — A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People.” Held at the foot of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, and sponsored by more than 100 Jewish and interfaith organizations, ...Read More...

 From Guns and Butter: Michael Rectenwald's, What Is The Great Reset, a series in five-parts, is discussed, as well as books by World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman, Klaus Schwab, including "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" and "Covid-19: The Great Reset"; technological changes ...Read More...

by Theodore Dalrymple After the attack by Moslem extremists on the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015, during which 90 people were murdered and hundreds more injured, many seriously so, a number of people falsely claimed that they had been present at the event. They did so for two reasons: the ...Read More...