The Ettinger Report: Holy Land circa 1850 Mahmoud Abbas promotes an egregious historical fabrication, claiming that the Palestinians are descendants of the original Canaanite peoples. Moreover, Mahmoud Abbas’ school curriculum – which glorifies suicide bombers – reiterates this falsified ...Read More...

Susan Korah writes in the Convivium: Geoffrey Clarfield “She has a poetic sadness about her like a pre-Raphaelite painting,” Geoffrey Clarfield says with no hint of sarcasm or disrespect. He is referring to Nadia Murad, the reluctant poster girl of Yazidi suffering in the aftermath of the brutal ...Read More...

Maxime Bernier, Leader of the People’s Party of Canada spoke at an immigration rally in Mississauga, July 24, 2019 I want to discuss with you today the People’s Party position on immigration. For decades now, there has only been one acceptable position among our political and intellectual ...Read More...

Liel Leibovitz writes in the Tablet about a new book which makes the case that the American worldview has always been rooted in the Five Books of Moses. America, G.K. Chesterton once observed, was “a nation with the soul of a church.” Make that a shul: As Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land, ...Read More...

ISIL is waging a war of terror against the people they formerly slaughtered and enslaved, namely the Yazidi people of Iraq by Geoffrey Clarfield Yazidi children are seen at a makeshift refugee camp, Avro Elementary School, in Duhok, Iraq, in September 2014.Terry Glavin/Postmedia News A coalition ...Read More...

Christopher Dummit asks, How can we trust scholarship to give us useful answers if there isn’t genuine intellectual debate? Universities are supposed to be truth-finding hubs — testing ideas, solving problems and asking new questions that others are either too afraid or too busy to ask. But to ...Read More...

David Wooten wonders how have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness in Lapham's Quarterly: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ...Read More...

Bruce Thornton discusses the wages of modernity’s technocratic hubris in Frontpage. The central fallacy of modernity is the belief that science and technological progress have made traditional wisdom and the insights of earlier thinkers irrelevant or malign. This presentist hubris of what G.K. ...Read More...

From the Jewish Refugees blogspot:     On  the 78th anniversary of the Farhud on 1 and 2 June 1941,  we recall the most traumatic event in the collective memory of Iraqi Jewry. It  took place  on the Jewish holiday of Shavuoth: 180 people were brutally murdered, thousands were wounded and ...Read More...

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa writes in the Post Millenial.  In what was most likely a preemptive move to avoid grounds for attack during the federal election, the Conservative Party of Canada disallowed professor and radical Islamism critic Salim Mansur from running as their candidate in London North Centre. Mansur ...Read More...

Raheel Raza writes in the Clarion Project: A  proposed law in Canada will result in Christians muzzled. Meanwhile Islamists (including those tied to terrorists) get government funding. These days we wake up every day to disturbing news in both the U.S. and Canada. The Council on American-Islamic ...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...

Raheem Kassam writes in Breitbart: The former head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, has admitted he “got almost everything wrong” on Muslim immigration in a damning new report on integration, segregation, and how the followers of Islam are creating ...Read More...

From Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms: It goes without saying that the Canadian right to “free expression” entails the fundamental freedom to speak one’s mind without fear of censure or punishment by State authorities. The other less advertised aspect of “free speech”, however, ...Read More...

Turkey is seeking influence and votes throughout the EU and spreading ideas that imperil efforts to integrate the Turkish diaspora writes Lorenzo Vidino in Foreign Policy. In recent years, relations with Turkey have caused headaches for most European governments. Long gone are the days when most ...Read More...