The Iconoclast

by Conrad Black Gabe Schoenfeld, from whose forehead a cuckoo bird emerges, screeching and flapping, whenever the name of the president of the United States is uttered in any context, has earned a new trophy for the confection of defamatory fiction with his attack on Elliot Kaufman, the Wall ...Read More...

From Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms: State attacks on your free speech rights As seen in last week’s “update”, freedom of expression does not just include the right to express an opinion but to hear one as well. It is meant to protect “both speaker and listener” and may ...Read More...

by Matthew Hausman During his first two years in office, President Trump has worked to repair a relationship with Israel that was severely damaged by Barack Obama and to make respect for the Jewish State an essential component of US Mideast policy. He demonstrated this commitment by moving the ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Jeremy Heard was the Liberal Party candidate for Isaacs (an electoral division) in Australia until May 1, when some remarks he had made about Islam on the opinion page of the conservative journal Qantara back on February 14, 2018, came to light. For those remarks, he was promptly ...Read More...

As reported just yesterday by the ABC.  Their headline, of course, said nothing whatever about Islam. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/brisbane-man-charged-with-terrorism-offence/11137172 "Terrorism Charge: Man to Face Court in Brisbane After Joint Police Raid on Property". "A Brisbane ...Read More...

Tommy Robinson's campaign video: ...Read More...

From Politicalite A NEWLY-SURFACED VIDEO TAKEN DURING THE MUSLIM VIOLENCE IN OLDHAM WILL ‘WIN TOMMY THE ELECTION’ DESPITE THE POLICE TRYING TO CENSOR IT, POPULAR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AVI YEMINI HAS CLAIMED.  I embedded the video here, but as it can no longer be shared anybody wishing to watch ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Recently some Muslim students have complained about having to take final examinations during Ramadan, that this year begins on May 5 and ends on June 4. It’s a puzzlement: in most states the laws require schools and colleges to provide “reasonable accommodation” to the religious ...Read More...

They now must choose between ignominiously dropping their impeachment effort and embarrassingly pursuing it. by Conrad Black If the Democrats are really tempted by impeachment, bring it on. Since the day after the 2016 election they have been threatening this, placing their chips on the Russian-collusion ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Mohammad Tawhidi is well-known as the “imam for peace” who urges fellow Muslims to support Jews and Christians, rather than join or defend those Muslims who attack them. He not only defends Israel, but insists that “Palestine is Jewish land.” He warns Christians to wake up ...Read More...

Podcast here. An interview with former NYU professor Michael Rectenwald. He is an author of several books including, "Springtime For Snowflakes:Social Justice And It's Postmodern Parentage". We discuss his wild journey from an avowed Marxist to a free market libertarian and the subsequent fallout ...Read More...

Remembering 22 women and children murdered at the Manchester Arena two years ago today and Fusilier Lee Rigby murdered 6 years ago.  Lee Rigby was from Manchester but it always rains and looks grim whenever I visit so this is a thoughtful photograph of the Lancashire/Merseyside coastline. Part of ...Read More...

The Huddersfield Examiner can now report freely on the convictions of Mohammed Akram and Usman Khalid. Now that the trial and legal discussions have concluded, it can be reported that this trial was the latest in West Yorkshire Police’s Operation Tendersea investigation. Throughout January to October ...Read More...

The anti-Ilhan Omar rally this week was different, because everyone realized that all Jews, even - or especially - the Iran-loving Neturei Karta are in the sights of today's anti-Semites. And that the Democrats are party to it. by Phyllis Chesler I have never seen so many members of the Neturai ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is never happy unless he is promoting his own neo-Ottomanism, has come up with a new way to maintain Turkey’s hold over Turkish citizens living abroad. He wants to establish a series of Turkish schools in France that will follow the curriculum of schools ...Read More...