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Not for laughs / Edinburgh Fringe is becoming a Jew-free zone

Not for laughs / Edinburgh Fringe is becoming a Jew-free zone
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James O’Brien has disgraced himself

James O’Brien has disgraced himself
23.07.2025 5

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The shamelessness of Diane Abbott

The shamelessness of Diane Abbott
18.07.2025 8

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Why is Bob Vylan free but Lucy Connolly in prison?

05.07.2025 20

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Glastonbury has become a sinister festival of anti-Semitism

29.06.2025 30

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Zohran Mamdani and the Hipster Intifada

25.06.2025 20

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How dare Sally Rooney ‘admire’ Palestine Action

23.06.2025 3

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The establishment was more afraid of ‘the gammon’ than the groomers

17.06.2025 10

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Did Greta Thunberg refuse to watch the October 7 video?

10.06.2025 20

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Gender muddle / Leo Varadkar and the real story of the Imane Khelif gender scandal

08.06.2025 10

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Leo Varadkar and the real story of the Imane Khelif gender scandal

08.06.2025 20

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New religion / Ireland has been consumed by hatred of Israel

02.06.2025 20

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Why did the Met arrest a Jewish man for mocking Hezbollah?

24.05.2025 3

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The UN’s claim about babies dying in Gaza is unravelling

21.05.2025 4

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Gary Lineker and the truth about toxic centrism

19.05.2025 10

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The anti-Israel Eurovision mob are Hamas’s little helpers

16.05.2025 4

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Hamas hostage / How America betrayed Edan Alexander

12.05.2025 10

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The ugly truth about Lucy Powell’s grooming gangs comments

04.05.2025 20

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Has Keir Starmer watched Groomed: A National Scandal yet?

01.05.2025 10

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Tone deaf / Kneecap’s phoney punk act has been unmasked

29.04.2025 4

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Kneecap’s Israelophobia has gone too far

23.04.2025 8

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The trans-rights movement’s howl of male rage

20.04.2025 20

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Terf wars / Why did we need the Supreme Court to tell us what a woman is?

16.04.2025 3

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Westminster / The moment in the ‘grooming gangs’ debate that shamed Jess Phillips

09.04.2025 3

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Is Israel wrong to see Labour MPs as hostile actors?

07.04.2025 8

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The truth about Israel’s ‘bloodlust’ in Gaza

04.04.2025 9

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The hypocrisy of Zarah Sultana

30.03.2025 3

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‘Free Palestine’ / Why are there more protests against Hamas in Gaza than Britain?

26.03.2025 6

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Why don’t we hear more about Israel’s stunning blow against Hamas’s fascists?

19.03.2025 4

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Happy St Patrick’s Day – but not for Ireland’s Jews

17.03.2025 10

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Migrants who hate Jews shouldn’t be allowed in Britain

11.03.2025 30

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What’s the real reason some on the right hate Volodymyr Zelensky?

03.03.2025 10

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Lost in translation / The BBC’s Gaza farce takes another sinister turn

26.02.2025 10

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Hamas’s final torment of the Bibas family

21.02.2025 2

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The incalculable evil of Hamas’s coffin stunt

20.02.2025 4

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Is Pope Francis Rory Stewart in a frock?

12.02.2025 10

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The call that shames the pro-Palestine movement

07.02.2025 5

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Donald Trump is liberating the US from the transgender madness

06.02.2025 3

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Burning a Quran shouldn’t be a crime

03.02.2025 10

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Why are ‘anti-racists’ silent about Arbel Yehud’s terrible ordeal?

30.01.2025 10

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The ‘dejudification’ of the Holocaust

28.01.2025 7

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Trump rally / No, Elon Musk didn’t make a fascist salute

21.01.2025 20

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Did we learn anything from Charlie Hebdo?

Ten years ago today, two men armed with Kalashinikovs barged into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris and opened fire. They unleashed hell. In...

07.01.2025 30

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Why is Israel being blamed for the battle of Kamal Adwan Hospital?

Every good reporter knows you never bury the lede. You never smother the key point of a story with fluff and verbiage. And yet that’s exactly what...

31.12.2024 10

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Shame / Israel is right to cut ties with Ireland

Everything that has gone wrong in modern Ireland is summed up in the fact that it is winning praise from Hamas and criticism from Israel. Last week...

16.12.2024 40

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The creepy idolisation of Luigi Mangione

So according to the modern left, killing the fascists of Hamas is ‘genocide’, but killing a CEO and father of two is ‘justice’? How else are we to...

10.12.2024 5

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The trouble with Amnesty International

How perfect was it that Amnesty International’s report on Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza landed on the same day that the war in Syria got even...

09.12.2024 5

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There’s nothing radical about flying the Palestine flag

I have a confession to make: when those Maccabi Tel Aviv fans tore down a Palestine flag in Amsterdam a few weeks back, I let out a little cheer....

29.11.2024 4

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The farmers’ revolt makes me proud to be British

My first thought upon seeing today’s revolt of the farmers was just how gloriously normal it looked. For more than a year London has been besieged...

19.11.2024 3

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Donald Trump and the revenge of the deplorables

So now we know what happens when you sneer at voters as ‘garbage’. When you view them as ‘deplorables’. When you treat them as the dim stooges of...

06.11.2024 30

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