Author: Blazingcatfur

Palestinians are the only victims that matter

It’s almost like a religious ritual. Every Saturday since 7 October, central London has swollen with protestors waving the Palestinian flag and chanting “From the River to the Sea”. For the impartial and curious observer, two facts are immediately striking. The first is not all that mysterious: the protestors are disproportionately Muslim. The second is more of an enigma: why are they so young?

How the West’s woke radicals became Hamas’s moral spindoctors.

Is Hamas now getting its talking points from Harvard University radicals? Something’s going on.

On 7 October, the day of Hamas’s apocalyptic pogrom against the Jews of southern Israel, 34 student groups at Harvard rushed out an open letter absolving Hamas of guilt for the ongoing horror. We ‘hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence’, said the self-righteous mob from the leafy, luxurious, non-blood-spattered lawns of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Israel is ‘the only one to blame’ for what is happening today, they said (my emphasis).

Washington is frustrated that beyond bombing Gaza Netanyahu is failing to identify war aims the US thinks are attainable

An enduring British conceit, even after revelations about the ugliness of the 1950s anti-Mau Mau struggle, is that our forebears did imperial counter-insurgency nicely. In reality, while we were less cruel than the French and much less so than the Belgians, British operations relied more heavily upon force than hearts and minds.

In Kenya, though modern local estimates of 90,000 dead seem wildly exaggerated, a million people were relocated into “protected villages” and disease-ridden camps. It is sometimes claimed that we were victorious in Malaya thanks to Gen Sir Gerald Templer’s brilliant tactics. More important were Malayan loathing for the Chinese insurgents and London’s promise of independence.

If I were Israel I would not be providing the Biden regime with any more than the minimum needed.

The BBC must publish an internal report on anti-Israel bias that has been “suppressed” for almost two decades, a former attorney general has said.

Sir Michael Ellis, one of Britain’s most prominent Jewish politicians, made the demand in a letter to Tim Davie, the corporation’s director-general.

He warned that the broadcaster had “suffered worldwide reputational damage” over criticism of its reporting and its refusal to call Hamas terrorists.