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The Islamo-left is on the march across Britain That protest in Whitechapel exposed the suicidal idiocy of leftists who cosy up to Islamism. Brendan O’Neill

Posted By on October 27th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/26/the-islamo-left-is-on-the-march-across-britain/

The next time someone asks what we mean when we say ‘Islamo-left’, I’m going to show them footage from yesterday’s protest in Whitechapel in East London. What a morally suicidal schlep that was. What an unholy union of witless leftists and menacing Islamists. ‘Refugees welcome here!’, cried the granola-fed grads of the limp-wristed left. ‘Allahu Akbar!’, barked the masked mob of religious hotheads. Rarely has the lethal idiocy of the left’s bed-hopping with Islamism been so starkly exposed.

This assembly of godless genderfluids and Koran-botherers was ostensibly a march against UKIP. That knackered old party had hoped to hold its own protest in Whitechapel yesterday. It was clearly a provocation: they targeted Whitechapel precisely because it has a large Muslim population. A Ukipper’s wet dream is to wang on about ‘Islamist invaders’ and the need for ‘remigration’ as Bangladeshi Brits look on with alarm. A wind-up masquerading as a march. The Metropolitan Police, fearing ‘serious disorder’, put the kibosh on it and told UKIP to do their wailing elsewhere.

So they went to Whitehall instead. Around 75 of them gathered outside the London Oratory with their flags and their hernias. And Whitechapel was left to the Islamo-left, to that seething mob of plummy radicals and gruff Islamists who love to scream blue murder about ‘Zionists’. And there you have it: in the eyes of the Met it is an offence against decency to let a handful of Ukippers traipse through Whitechapel, but it is absolutely fine to surrender those same streets to columns of black-clad fanatics raging against ‘Zionist scum’. The hypocrisy stinks to heaven.

The anti-UKIP counter-demo in Whitechapel was not an anti-racist march. We all know it. The dogs in the street know it. It was an orgy of intolerance dolled up as tolerance. It was a display of Islamist arrogance wearing the thin veil of ‘anti-racism’ to fool the overeducated idiots of the bourgeois left. Well, if they’ll believe someone with a cock can be a lesbian, they’ll believe Islamist fanatics who dream of annihilating the Jewish homeland are anti-racists.

For those of us who still have a quaint attachment to the virtues of reason and secularism, it was a sickening spectacle. Mobs of men in black masks hollered Islamist slogans in a distinctly menacing manner. They denounced ‘Zionist scum’ and darkly promised to hound them ‘off our streets’. They yelled ‘From the river to the sea’ (translation: destroy the Jewish homeland) and sang the praises of ‘our martyrs’ (translation: the Jew-killers of Hamas). And all the while, the pricks of the new left who think it’s bigotry to say ‘he’ about a fella in a dress just stood there smiling.

Anyone who says ‘They were just criticising Zionism’ is going to get slapped. Our crisis is too pressing for pussy-footing. When the devotees of a hardcore species of Islam take to the streets to fume about ‘Zionists’, we know who they mean. We know they don’t mean people like me – Gentiles who support Jewish nationhood. It’s not the likes of us they want to drive out of Britain, 1290-style. It’s them. Those Zios. The kippah people. Are we really going to do that dumb dance of saying, ‘Criticising Zionism is not the same thing as hating Jews’? Stop it. I’m tired.

Here’s my question: why is it racism for Ukippers to dream of expelling ‘Islamist invaders’ from the UK, but anti-racism for Islamists and their posh simps on the left to agitate for the expulsion of ‘Zionists’ from Britain’s streets? I agree UKIP’s chants were racist. To brand Muslims ‘Islamist invaders’ and demand their ‘remigration’ is vile bigotry. But why can’t the left say the same about the Zio-bashing that we all know is Jew-bashing? Far from calling that out, they snuggle up to it. They fancy themselves as the righteous enemies of racism when in truth they are the obsequious fluffers of Islamist bigotry.

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The Left’s Never-Ending Outrage Machine From “No Kings” tantrums to ballroom hysteria, Democrats’ endless outrage shows the same pattern—Trump leads, they react, and outrage is all they have left. By Roger Kimball

Posted By on October 27th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/26/the-lefts-never-ending-outrage-machine/

The Democrats appear to be a never-ending source of pitiable entertainment these days. Last week, it was the pathetic “No Kings” (what some mischievous wag called “No Brains”) rallies across the country. Those 2,700 anti-Trump therapy sessions for aging, anencephalic boomers were funded to the tune of $294 million by such public-spirited individuals and entities as Arabella Advisors, the Tides Foundation, George Soros, and Warren Buffett. Such streams of cash funneled millions through dozens of left-leaning entities, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Sierra Club Foundation, the Democracy Forward Foundation, and other havens for the perpetually aggrieved.

It was a noisy but preposterous temper tantrum, full of sound and fury, signifying stupidity. The union of Kumbayah gestures with rage-filled pantomimes was both inadvertently comic and repellent, the odor of rotting pseudo-idealism wafting over the proceedings everywhere.

The insurmountable problem all of those protestors faced was the incontrovertible fact that Donald Trump is not a king. He is a duly elected president who handily won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. He campaigned precisely on the issues that the unhappy pot-bangers and sign-wavers bewailed: closing the border, expelling illegal migrants, dismantling the woke DEI apparat in academia and the federal government, and resuscitating and Americanizing the U.S. economy.

If Trump were a king, why would he not simply outlaw such puerile displays of maliciousness as the “No Kings” rallies? Why wouldn’t he simply decree the government open again? No, the whole thing was ridiculous. I doubt that even the participants could have taken their make-believe protests seriously. But they probably feel they have to do something to make themselves heard these days. In the face of the perpetual-motion machine that is Donald Trump, what is an underemployed Democrat to do?

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so the wokerati abhor an absence of outrage. It is an addiction, a sickness, a craving that cannot be denied. “Outrage or burst”: that’s their motto. So no sooner had the hangover of the “No Kings” fiasco begun to dissipate than a new draught was necessary. Trump supplied it with the news that he was going ahead with his plans to add a new ballroom—paid for with private funds—to the White House.

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The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’ America again flirts with its own “Bleeding Kansas”—a cycle of partisan violence and defiance where lawless zealots are hailed as patriots and the rule of law bleeds away. By Victor Davis Hanson

Posted By on October 27th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/27/the-left-is-bleeding-kansas/

In the late 1850s, “Bleeding Kansas” was the term used to describe the escalating cycle of violence, when surrogates for the Union and soon-to-be Confederacy fought each other over whether Kansas would be admitted as a free or slave-owning state.

As the assaults and killings increased, radicals set the agenda. The logical next step was the nightmares of Fort Sumter and Bull Run.

Those calling for restraint and peaceful resolutions were considered weak and traitorous. The thuggish and violent, instead, were praised as the true idealists and patriots, the real “base” of their respective parties.

We have witnessed a growing wave of left-wing assassins and would-be assassins in the last few years: James Hodgkinson, Luigi Mangione, James Crooks, Ryan Routh, Elias Rodriguez, and Tyler Robinson, who have targeted Republican House leaders, CEOs, Donald Trump, Jews, and Charlie Kirk. For months, leftists vandalized or torched anything to do with the Tesla brand, and with virtual impunity, they sometimes went after individual Tesla owners. Jews walked in the shadows on campuses, where mobs cheered Hamas killers.

From June through October 2020, Antifa- and BLM-led rioting led to 35 deaths, $2 billion in damage, 14,000 arrests, and 1,500 injured police. On January 6, violence left five dead, four from the protesting side. But whereas the federal government immediately and often excessively jailed both violent and peaceful 2021 protesters, almost all of the 14,000 protesters and rioters of 2020 were released by left-wing blue-city and federal prosecutors and judges.

ICE officers and facilities remain under siege in a number of major cities. In this current left-wing legitimization of violence, the Democrat Party is now embracing an eerie channeling of an earlier, pre- and post-Confederate ethos. Nonstop Democrat grandees call for their resistance to hit the street, if need be, to go lower than the “gutter,” and to “let your rage fuel you.”

The demagogic, anti-ICE bluster of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is nullificationist and state-rights supremacy to the core.

New York mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani, in the spirit of Jefferson Davis, recently summed up the left’s resistance best, bragging that he hoped to disconnect New York local governance from federal government authority entirely—at least in the obligatory rather than beneficiary sense.

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How ‘antisemitic’ activist Linda Sarsour nurtured socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral bid Story by Rich Calder

Posted By on October 27th, 2025

Antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour isn’t just playing a big role in Zohran Mamdani’s NYC’s mayoral campaign — she’s been a political mentor and close friend of the silver-spoon socialist for nearly a decade and helped guide his far-left hatred of Israel, according to a foreign intelligence report and critics.

Mamdani’s propensity for making pie-in-the-sky Marxist campaign promises date back to his high school days when he made a failed bid for student government with a “fresh juice for all” campaign.

However, it was the Hamas-supporting, Palestinian-American firebrand Sarsour who helped nuture the 34-year-old into the radical mayoral frontrunner he is today, according to a foreign intelligence service report obtained by The Post.

”Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy is linked closely within a network of Islamist figures and organizations with extremist associations,” says the document, which names notorious Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who once urged “jihad” on New York City.

“His reliance on Linda Sarsour as a mentor, and her own allegiance to . . . Wahhaj, situates Mamdani within the ideological chain of influence extending from Wahhaj’s radical teachings to the political sphere of New York City,” the document reads.

Sara Forman, executive director of the pro-Israel New York Solidarity Network, called Sarsour “one of the main antagonists for normalizing anti-Israel rhetoric in New York’s public sphere.”

“Much of what Zohran Mamdani now says about Israel and Zionists would have never been politically acceptable in New York,” said Forman.

“Linda Sarsour is an absolutist, committed to the destruction of the State of Israel with every fiber of her being,” she added. “Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism is intertwined with, and indistinguishable from, Linda’s and certainly a reflection of her decades of work to delegitimize Israel.”

Mamdani was “largely unknown in New York political circles” until joining the Sarsour-founded Muslim Democratic Club of New York in 2017, the report notes.

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Palestinians’ ‘Technocratic Government’: The Mother of All Deceptions by Khaled Abu Toameh

Posted By on October 27th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22016/gaza-palestinians-technocratic-government

According to a report by Israel’s KAN News, Hamas has already selected half of the technocratic government’s members, including figures sympathetic to the terror group, while the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, chose the other half. Mediators, including Egypt, presented the full list to Hamas to ensure its approval, a move that will allow the terror group to maintain influence in the Gaza Strip after the war.

The terrorists who launched the war by committing the worst crime against Jews since the Holocaust and who brought death and destruction on their own people should not be allowed to have a say in the future governance of the coastal enclave.

If Hamas is allowed to maintain a security presence in the Gaza Strip, this means that the new government and its members would be at the mercy of terrorists and militiamen who are already carrying out extrajudicial executions against their critics, political opponents and suspected “collaborators” with Israel.

US President Donald J. Trump’s plan for ending the war in the Gaza Strip states: “Hamas and other factions agreed to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza.”

The factions that met in Cairo made no mention of an “international transitional body” or the proposed “Board of Peace” as outlined in Trump’s plan.

Needless to say, the Palestinian factions pointedly ignored the part of Trump’s plan that calls on the terror groups to lay down their weapons. Hamas leaders have repeatedly emphasized that their group has no intention to disarm before the establishment of an independent and sovereign state.

Fatah and Hamas, in short, do not want Trump’s “Board of Peace” or any international body to play any role in the governance of the Gaza Strip. Each of the two factions wants the Gaza Strip to be ruled by its own loyalists, masquerading as “independent” and “apolitical” figures.

What we are currently witnessing is an attempt by both Fatah and Hamas, with the help of Egypt and Qatar (Hamas’s main sponsor and funder), to circumvent the Trump plan.

Are Egypt and Qatar working to ensure Hamas’s continued rule over the Gaza Strip by allowing the terror group to choose members of a new technocratic government?

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From Dreyfus to Macron: The Grand French Tradition of Politically Correct Antisemitism by Pierre Rehov

Posted By on October 27th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22005/france-antisemitism

Macron did not even have the decency to make his recognition of a non-existent Palestinian state contingent on Hamas releasing the hostages.

Joining Macron in this narcissistic display were other small, soft leaders with large, hard Islamist constituencies — Britain’s PM Keir Starmer, Australia’s PM Anthony Albanese, and Canada’s PM Mark Carney — who followed Macron’s lead in granting international legitimacy to a cause dedicated to terrorism.

The Palestinian Authority continues to operate as an unelected dictatorship, funneling millions into its infamous pay-for-slay “jobs” program — sometimes listed as “welfare” — which grants salaries to terrorists and their families based on how many Jews they succeed in murdering. The more Jews they murder, the higher the monthly stipend. Palestinian schoolbooks still erase Israel from maps, depict Jews as usurpers, and teach children that the ultimate aspiration is martyrdom.

Macron’s recognition, applauded by large sections of Europe and beyond, was not the action of a statesman seeking peace. It was a pitiful lunge to hold onto power by a weakened leader, desperate to posture as a “moral arbiter” abroad while avoiding accountability at home. Macron is willing to betray the Israelis, who are fighting not only for the West but for his own people, the French.

After France’s defeat at the hands of Germany in 1940 came collaboration. France’s Vichy regime did not merely submit to German edicts; it embraced its own homegrown antisemitism. Vichy’s machinery operated with bureaucratic zeal: statutes defining who was a Jew, the exclusion of Jews from professions, property seizures, internments, and ultimately deportations to Auschwitz. The cultivated myth of a France “shielding” Jews while Germany did the harm has long since been demolished by the historical record. Vichy was a French government, enacting French laws to persecute Jews on French soil, and in too many instances, to deliver them to their deaths.

​ The moral cost was enormous. By making stability the overriding priority, French authorities tacitly normalized contact with organizations that targeted Jews and Israelis. These back-channel accommodations blurred the line between counterterrorism and collusion — and served as an early modern example of a recurring French pattern: When domestic tranquility and influence in the Arab world collide with the safety and security of Jews, the balance is often struck in favor of tranquility.

President Chirac, during a visit to Israel in October 1996, erupted at what he called a “provocation” by Israeli plainclothes security guards during a walk in the Old City of Jerusalem — an incident that became emblematic of Paris’s sensitivity to perceived Israeli slights and a readiness to dramatize grievances that resonated with the Arab and Muslim public. Whether the outburst was theatre or genuine indignation, it fed a narrative: France would hold Israel to scrutiny in a way that sometimes felt public and punitive, while remaining discreet, conciliatory, or accommodating toward Arab regimes.

[H]ow come, if Mohammad al-Durrah was shot, there was no blood at the scene? The controversy led to libel suits, heated media debates in France, and a long war of narratives: for many critics, the al-Durrah case became a test of whether French media could be trusted to report dispassionately on Palestine-Israel — or whether powerful images produced abroad would be turned into instruments of political mobilization at home.

For decades, the front pages of Le Monde, Libération, and Le Monde Diplomatique have provided disproportionate framing that vilifies Israel while sanitizing Palestinian violence. Headlines portraying Israeli counter-terrorism as “aggression,” while minimizing rocket fire or suicide bombings, have shaped French public opinion, sometimes more decisively than presidential speeches.

The effect of this editorial slant is cumulative: each cover, each op-ed, each biased image is built into a narrative architecture in which Israel stands as the perennial aggressor and Palestinians as the archetypal victims. This distortion is not merely academic. It affects political choices, emboldens intellectuals who conflate anti-Zionism with moral virtue, and reinforces a climate where politicians know they can score points by signaling distance from Jerusalem. In the long run, media coverage has hardened the double standard and provided cultural cover for diplomatic betrayals.

The 21st century has added a more transactional layer to France’s Arab policy: investment in the French economy. Few states have invested more aggressively in French assets and businesses than Qatar. The oil-rich emirate poured billions into Parisian real estate, media holdings, luxury firms, and sports franchises. The purchase of Paris Saint-Germain football team became a symbol of how deeply Qatari capital has embedded itself into French public life. Alongside investment came soft power: television channels, think tanks, and influence campaigns aimed at projecting Doha’s narratives into French discourse.

Qatar’s record is not benign. For years it has financed Hamas and sheltered its leadership. That France tolerated — even courted — Qatar despite these links testifies to a familiar pattern: geopolitical expediency trumping moral clarity.

Macron’s post on X insisted on conditionality (Hamas must relinquish control and the Palestinian Authority must reform), yet those conditions remain unenforceable in practice. A state without concrete guarantees risks rewarding the very actors — such as Hamas and its patrons — who use terrorism as a policy. Macron’s declaration looks less like statesmanship and more like firing blanks: a symbolic attempt at appeasement to placate vocal constituencies at home and reclaim the moral high ground abroad by offering up a state that someone else — a sovereign nation, far away — is supposed to implement, while offering Israel and the United States nothing at all.

Domestically, Macron’s maneuver landed poorly. Multiple polls indicate that a large majority of the French public — roughly three-quarters — opposed immediate, unconditional recognition of a “Palestine” while Israeli hostages remained in Gaza or while Hamas remained in power. The disconnect between Macron and his electorate is striking. While he sought applause abroad, he was being widely perceived at home as indulging in moral posturing that had little chance of delivering peace and a lot of chance of making matters worse.

On the eve of the Jewish New Year, when families across the world were preparing to celebrate renewal and resilience, French President Emmanuel Macron chose a different symbol.

He formally recognized, at the United Nations on September 23, a so-called Palestinian state — an act that emboldened Hamas, even as the 20 Israeli hostages still believed to be alive remained starved, tortured, and trapped in its tunnels in Gaza. Macron did not even have the decency to make his recognition of a non-existent Palestinian state contingent on Hamas releasing the hostages.

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POSITIVE NEWS FROM ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

Posted By on October 26th, 2025

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com 

In the weekly dispatches from Israel Michael Ordman proves how Israeli research and technology improves the lives and aspiration of citizens throughout the world. Some of many examples are of Israel’s medical advances, that rival the world’s leading hospitals in diagnostic and curative measures. Imagine for a minute the benefits that peace will bring. 

Psalm 29:11
“The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.” rsk

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
I lost my leg but not my future. Three IDF soldiers endured trauma, yet their resilience shines through as they rebuild their lives. Through the support of Belev Echad (see here previously) they have received advanced prosthetics, therapy, and a community in Kiryat Ono that helped them reclaim their lives.
https://worldisraelnews.com/i-lost-a-leg-but-not-my-future-soldiers-journeys-from-trauma-to-renewal/
 
Messi gifts signed jerseys to ex-hostages. Argentinian soccer legend Lionel Messi gifted two recently released Israeli hostages, Bar Kuperstein and Segev Kaflon, with signed jerseys valued at $10,000 each.
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-soccer-legend-messi-gifts-two-released-hostages-signed-jerseys/
 
Oct 7 VR center. The new October 7 Education Center in the southern city of Sderot, aims to create an immersive experience using screens and other multimedia technology. The center, opened in April, since when a few thousand people have already visited, with a goal of 40,000 visitors per year.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-october-7-center-in-south-harnesses-virtual-reality-for-an-immersive-experience/
 
Return to Kibbutz Dafna. On 8 Oct 2023, Hezbollah rained rockets down on northern Israel, forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to evacuate. Today, 95% of the 1,000 residents who lived in Kibbutz Dafna before the war are back. And the secular kibbutz held a communal Shabbat to give a message of resilience, faith, & hope.
https://www.jns.org/back-to-the-border-a-communitys-return-resilience-and-renewal-in-northern-israel/
 
Mandela’s granddaughters visit Israel & Gaza. As most people find, when they see Israel and the Palestinian territories for themselves they get a completely different view from that they received in their home countries. Very interesting interview here of the experiences of two granddaughters of Nelson Mandela.
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/10/nelson-mandela-granddaughters-israel-gaza-visit/
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Israel ranks 4th in OECD for life expectancy. Israel spends less than most OECD countries on health, yet it has one of the lowest levels of infant mortality, heart disease mortality, and preventable deaths. Israel’s average life expectancy is 83.8 years – almost a year more than in 2023 and the fourth highest in the OECD.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-life-expectancy-fourth-highest-in-oecd-1001524081
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-870952
 
Breakthrough device for bladder cancer treatment. (TY Ron M) Israel’s CAPS Medical (see here previously) has received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its its PlasmaSure™ System to treat low- to intermediate-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/caps-medicals-plasmasure-receives-fda-110000164.html
 
IBD therapy discovered. Israel’s Immunai has used its immune system AI mapping platform to discover a novel therapeutic target for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Immunai has partnered with AstraZeneca who will develop the therapy, which if successful will earn Immunai up to $85 million.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj8zlcr6ex
 
Downton Abbey writer can write again. (TY OurCrowd) Downton Abbey creator Lord Julian Fellowes was successfully treated for essential tremor at St. Mary’s Hospital, London with the incisionless focused ultrasound therapy from Israel’s Insightec. He had lost the ability to write by hand due to involuntary shaking.
https://insightec.com/news/downton-abbey-creator-lord-julian-fellowes-successfully-treated-for-essential-tremor-with-insightecs-incisionless-focused-ultrasound-therapy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey
 
Be smart – pay attention. A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that the auditory cortex, one of the brain’s main sound-processing centers, changes how it operates when we focus on a task. It synchronizes its activity to the rhythm of the task rather than merely reacting to sounds.
https://www.cfhu.org/news/huji-researchers-discover-how-the-brain-becomes-a-better-listener-how-focus-enhances-sound-processing/  https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-870916
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1963
 
Israel can kickstart US IVF initiative. The new US policy announcement making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible is good news for Israel, which has been at the forefront of IVF treatment for decades. It opens up a massive opportunity for medical technology companies, particularly in Israel’s vibrant fem-tech scene.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-871149

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Tertiary Symptoms of Decline Augusto Zimmermann & Gabriël Moens

Posted By on October 25th, 2025

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/uncategorized/tertiary-symptoms-of-decline/

Universities used to be repositories of the wisdom and intellectual traditions of Western civilisation, including rationality and scepticism. As such, these institutions of higher learning have traditionally been crucial to the growth of intellectual inquiry and scientific progress.

Unfortunately, our combined 60-year academic experience reveals most Australian universities have now abandoned these noble goals. These universities have effectively deserted their original educational mission to become “safe spaces” ruled by officious bureaucrats who, among other things, enforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness (DEI) policies, both in faculty recruitment and in promotion. For example, conservative academics have been subject to systematic discrimination on university campuses, and free academic enquiry is now under a very serious threat.  The ongoing anti-intellectual environment of universities has caused great harm to academic freedom and the intellectual function of our universities. As they have lost respect for free intellectual debate and inquiry, their lackadaisical s attitude spreads not only to college campuses but also to society at large.

Freedom of speech is basically dying in Australia’s universities, most often in the pretence of supposedly encouraging “diversity” and a “safe environment”. As a result, students and academic staff have been found at the receiving end of administrative inquiries for merely holding ideas that are no longer fashionable or accepted by the ruling classes. This ongoing suppression of free intellectual debate comes not just from government agencies but through the tertiary education providers themselves.

Australian universities are often created by the Australian governments via an Act of Parliament. They are built on public property and funded by government grants and state-subsidised loans. They should be, at least in theory, legally compelled to meet a range of criteria in exchange for this federal funding. More specifically, such higher education providers are accountable to the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA) – which then enforces upon these institutions the Higher Education Support Act 2003, and the Higher Education Standards (HES) Framework 2015. Moreover, universities are expected to apply policies and procedures which affect the resilience of staff and students under the guise of providing a “safe” environment. A good example is the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence, which comes into effect on January 1, 2026. This Code seeks to nurture an environment and culture of safety and inclusivity for staff, students, and visitors.

In its Diversity and Equity Guidance Note, TEQSA states: ‘Measures taken to accommodate diversity should not contravene the pursuit of intellectual inquiry, and more generally, freedom of expression’.[1] Under the Higher Education Support Act 2003, Australian universities must have ‘a policy that upholds free intellectual inquiry in relation to learning, teaching and research’.[2] Further, the HES Framework requires of these universities ‘a clearly articulated higher education purpose that includes a commitment to and support for free intellectual inquiry in its academic endeavours’.[3]

Unfortunately none of these important legal requirements is properly enforced. The bureaucrats working at such universities have created hundreds of policies and other regulations that effectively hinder free speech and intellectual inquiry.[4] Instead, faculties are lowering academic standards in hiring to be more politically correct. Teaching staff are required to use ‘sensitive’ language in the classroom and any ‘insensitive’ remark may result in formal complaints followed by an internal hearing notable for its lack of due process, and then academic suspension or a requirement to attend ‘sensitivity training’. Refusing to accept such a humiliation can bring dismissal, with further academic employment unlikely. These heinous practices have the inevitable consequence of lowering the quality of education offered to students and the standards of scholarly publications.

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The United Nations Has Become the Dictators’ Club: Chooses Tyrants Over the Oppressed by Majid Rafizadeh

Posted By on October 25th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22001/united-nations-dictators-club

The United Nations was founded on the promise of upholding peace, justice, and universal human rights. Today, however, it appears less like a beacon of morality and more like a stage for savagery and hypocrisy.

The UN is quick to condemn democratic nations such as the United States and Israel for defending their citizens and fighting terrorism, but goes out of its way to protect, coddle, and even elevate some of the world’s most brutal and oppressive regimes — most notably Iran. The UN, which should be standing with the oppressed, is instead handing power and legitimacy to their oppressors.

It is as if the UN places arsonists in charge of the fire department and then acts surprised when the firehouse burns down.

The US should pay only for the programs it wants and get what it pays for, or at least, as US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz has suggested, pay only commensurately for UN support. The US needs to stop smiling, drinking coffee with murderers — and especially funding them — and instead stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those fighting for freedom. Until that happens, the UN will remain what it has sadly become: an expensive, corrupt horror show at the expense of humanity’s most courageous people.

The United Nations was founded on the promise of upholding peace, justice, and universal human rights. Today, however, it appears less like a beacon of morality and more like a stage for savagery and hypocrisy.

The UN is quick to condemn democratic nations such as the United States and Israel for defending their citizens and fighting terrorism, but goes out of its way to protect, coddle, and even elevate some of the world’s most brutal and oppressive regimes — most notably Iran. The UN, which should be standing with the oppressed, is instead handing power and legitimacy to their oppressors.

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The Crashing Failure of the Feminist Movement By Joan Swirsky

Posted By on October 25th, 2025

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/the_crashing_failure_of_the_feminist_movement.html

Going back 250 years, the enemies of America thought long and hard about how to destroy the fledgling experiment of a democratic republic that our Founding Fathers had envisioned.  It was and continues to be clear to them that America’s strength is a function of three phenomena:

A fervent belief in the God Who makes miracles happen, for just one example the crushing defeat of the thunderously powerful English Empire’s armies by blazing patriots like General George Washington and his ragtag army of American heroes.
An equally ardent belief in and passion for the concept of freedom.  Men who knew they were going to die, and their wives who believed their deaths were for the noble cause of freedom, all sacrificed to bring about our victory over the monarchy that wanted to continue to rule us.
The most passionate was the embrace, belief in, and allegiance to family — its sanctity, its strength, its ability to weather all storms and overcome all obstacles.

If they could destroy all three, our enemies reasoned, the masses they considered essentially stupid would be forced to rely exclusively on Big Government.  And so, to this day, the socialists-cum-communists among us are employing — as their predecessors did — every malevolent, criminal, and vicious tactic they can muster to actualize that goal.

Astounding progress

The America-haters among us have already

infiltrated our public schools and contaminated generations of students with anti-American propaganda, as well as explicit pornography and grooming, even in kindergarten!
lured both Christians and Jews to abandon their faiths and to worship the new God of Social Justice.
succeeded in the leftist — and, I believe, traitorous — infiltration of our military and intelligence services like the FBI and CIA…until, that is, the redemptive entrance of President Trump and his secretary of war, Pete Hegseth.
rigged the 2020 presidential election, which political activist Dinesh D’Souza also proved in his explosive film, 2000 Mules.
On and on and on.

Still, the family remains their most desired — yet maddeningly elusive — target.