The Iconoclast

From the Telegraph and Argus. Khalil Ayub, 39, was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court last Friday after being found guilty of 12 sexual offences against three female child victims in the Bradford district.  The 39-year-old was found guilty of offences including rape and sexual assault in a unanimous ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The vote this week on Representative Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) status as House Republican conference chairman vastly transcends her. All sides are correct that it is a battle over the “Big Lie.” Cheney, the Democrats, and NeverTrumpers all say the Big Lie is the contention that ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald It is not only Iran’s nuclear program that Israel has been steadily degrading. Hardly a month goes by without news of a mysterious explosion, somewhere in Iran — at a chemical plant, an oil refinery, a weapons factory, a liquified gas plant, a missile site. The media focus ...Read More...

There was another pro-Palestinian demonstration in Whitehall opposite Downing Street tonight. As rockets rain down on Israel from Gaza sent by the poor Palestinians, other Palestinians, Arabs and their allies in London, in particular the Stop the War Coalition and  Friends of Al Aqsa  protest about, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The baneful leftist British newspaper, The Guardian, is celebrating its 200th anniversary, and as part of an extensive exercise in reflective self-adulation, it produced on May 7 an exposé of what it considered to be the worst editorial errors of judgment it had committed in these ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Rashida Tlaib (D-West Bank) has gone on a rampage again. She’s accused Israel of “apartheid” and “stealing Palestinian homes” – so far so predictable, but now she’s added a new charge – that Israel has deliberately been setting fires to Palestinian land. A report on her latest ...Read More...

From the Times and the Guardian Serving members of the French military have fired a second salvo at Emmanuel Macron’s government in an open letter accusing it of “cowardice, deceit, perversion”, just weeks after a first letter said the country was heading for “civil war”. The armed forces are taking ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg Any strong ideological belief carries with it a risk of denying those facts that do not support the ideology. The denial of certain facts approaches an ideology of Denialism when the facts denied seem incontrovertible. So if there is doubt, for example by Islamist radicals ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler In a nearly full page article entitled “As Court Decision Nears, Battle Over Evictions Spikes in East Jerusalem,” the New York Times manages to describe Jews as “settlers” in Jerusalem nine times; as “far right” or “right-wing” twice; as “right-wing settlers” once (in case ...Read More...

by Rebecca Bynum The UFO report will soon be released by the government. It won't tell us everything the government knows, but it will give us a better idea about whether or not we are being visited by advanced civilizations in our vicinity of the galaxy. Are they studying us? Will they contact ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Upon being re-elected prime minister in 2019, albeit with a minority of MPs and fewer votes than his chief opponent, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that it was time to tackle “our greatest problem: climate change.” It is routinely and endlessly bandied about by most of our ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Maj-Gen. Hossein Salami, has been boasting about Iran’s ability to “strike Israel.” He’s been a veritable miles gloriosus, the “braggart warrior” of Roman drama. A report on his exaggerated claims about previous attacks on Israel ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis On May 5, 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath and spoke at the tomb of Napoleon at the ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of the emperor. Macron maintained that the historic figure was both ogre and eagle, Alexander and Nero, the soul ...Read More...

by Lev Tsitrin The New York Times’ Editorial Board routinely engages in righteous indignation -- yet that indignation is highly selective. Consider editors' deep concern for impartiality of courts that hear immigration cases, expressed in the recent opinion titled “Immigration Courts Aren’t Real ...Read More...

From the Huddersfield Examiner and the Mail on Sunday A teacher who sparked fury by showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to pupils during a lesson about blasphemy is living in a ‘safe house’ with his wife and children because of fears they will be attacked. More than six weeks after fleeing his ...Read More...