Gaza: Razzia as Political Warfare

Although the tragic narrative that started with Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel isn’t yet completed, do-gooders and virtue-signalers are rushing to write their postscripts.

British and European Union leaders say the time has come to formally accept the creation of a Palestinian state.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and EU foreign policy tsar Josep Borrel even suggest that the Security Council pass a resolution to make that mandatory, adding to the 230 resolutions already passed on the issue.

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I used to be unequivocally pro-multiculturalism. How naive I was

Just one day before the October 7 terrorist attack, I tweeted that Conservatives should stop bashing multiculturalism. In the five months since, however, it has become clear that Britain is not the success story I naively believed it to be. Extremist ideologies have been celebrated on our streets. Minority communities have been targeted. And our failure to confront the root causes of division has become all too apparent.

The nation’s silent majority have watched in horror as protests descended into platforms for hate speech. As posters were vandalised with swastikas and mobs chanted anti-Semitic slogans, often without any understanding of their true meaning. Not all movements for justice, we know now, are inherently just.

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The nihilism of nonbinary

There is nothing liberating or progressive about erasing every trace of one’s sex.

Some things make less sense the more you study them. The idea of ‘nonbinary’ is a bit like that.

Nonbinary is an umbrella term used to describe those people who believe they are outside the gender binary. They believe that they are neither male nor female.

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Church of England archdeacon provokes anger with call for ‘anti-whiteness’

A Church of England archdeacon has called for “anti-whiteness”, in comments which have been criticised as divisive.

The Ven Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Archdeacon of Liverpool, also called for people to “smash the patriarchy” but insisted her comments were “not anti-white, or anti-men”.

Her statement prompted an angry reaction, with one person asking if it would be “safe to attend church” if Dr Threlfall-Holmes “holds racial prejudice against white people”.

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The Hertz Meltdown Reveals Scale Of The EV Debacle

The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revealed its ambition: to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles (EVs). Incredibly, this announcement comes as we are flooded with overwhelming evidence that EVs are a market loser.

Indeed, the artificial boom and then meltdown of the EV market is a modern industrial calamity. It was created by government, social media, wild disease frenzy, far-flung thinking, and the irrational chasing of utopia, followed by a rude awakening by facts and reality.

h/t Mauser

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Religious leaders in Boston demand ‘white churches’ give millions in reparations to black residents for owning slaves – and want the city to pay $15 billion

Religious leaders in Boston have demanded ‘white churches’ give millions of dollars in reparations to the city’s black community.

The activist clergy also called on them to back a push for the City of Boston to pay $15 billion in reparations for its historical role in the slave trade.

The event at Resurrection Lutheran Church was organized by the Boston People’s Reparations Commission, which made the $15 billion demand.

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Trump’s Third Act has begun. It’s a beauty.

Next week, Trump could make over $4 billion when his media company goes public, removing all doubt about his billionaire status.

And you can stop asking if he would have been better off putting his inheritance in a savings account in the 70s.

I expect Trump to leave a 15% tip for Leticia James and the Democrats because they made his windfall possible by hunting him and censoring him for years. You can call it a bond, not a tip, if you prefer.

h/t Mauser

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How the ‘Diversity’ Myth Is Consuming the Canadian Literary Scene

Comedy fans of a certain age may recall the “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” sketch about the legendary highwayman Dennis Moore, a deranged Robin Hood who steals so much from the rich to the give to the poor that he ends up stealing from the poor to give to the rich. “Blimey,” Dennis declares upon realizing the conundrum, “this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought.”

The Canadian literary world—long ago the domain of Robertson Davies, Pierre Berton, and Mordecai Richler—may be reaching its own Dennis Moore point, as indicated by a never-ending parade of awards, scholarships, mentorships, festivals, and publishing opportunities directed at writers who are black, indigenous, or people of colour (BIPOC), all intended to help “under-represented” or “marginalized” writers.

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Justin Trudeau’s grip on power is precarious — and we witnessed that not once, but twice this week

Canada’s Parliament did not fall this week, which means the country was spared a spring election.

Now normally, one wouldn’t dwell too long on what didn’t happen in politics, or even what almost happened. But on two occasions this past week, two opposition parties seemed determined to use votes in the Commons to show Justin Trudeau’s Liberals how precariously they remain in power.

It’s even more remarkable when you consider this was the only week this month that the Commons would be sitting. Of all the things MPs were determined to cram into it, we ended up with not one but two brushes with Liberal defeat.

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How the NDP’s motion on Israel could bring a profound shift in Canadian foreign policy

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly made it clear within minutes of the passage of the NDP’s motion on the Gaza war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the government didn’t regard it as just another non-binding opposition day motion that could be swiftly forgotten.

“This is clearly the intent of this government, to make sure that we follow what is written in this motion,” she said. “And that is why we’ve worked very hard to make sure that we could get to a text where we could abide by it.”

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Mob Rule Versus Survival of the West: Why Americans Should Be Watching the UK

It’s been hard to watch the effects of forced diversity, multiculturalism, and mass immigration on the tiny island of Great Britain—the most densely populated nation in Europe. At least in America we still have so much land area that most people are not yet feeling the effects of large-scale population displacement stemming from all forms of immigration.
In the UK, however, every day feels like an episode of “Survivor” as people who are being crammed in like sardines are increasingly made to fear that they’ll be voted off the island.
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