Gavin Ashenden’s damage control backfires as celebrity Catholic convert publishes conflicting messages. A Catholic podcast, co-hosted by Dr Gavin Ashenden, the ex-Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, has triggered fresh controversy after the celebrity convert to Catholicism signed a joint statement endorsing a notorious holocaust denier Catholic priest. The statement, issued by the three co-hosts of the Catholic Unscripted podcast—Gavin Ashenden, […]
Canada’s Jagmeet Singh Uses the Word ‘Genocide’ Incorrectly
Canada’s candidates for prime minister debated on Israel and Gaza: “Poilievre vows UNRWA funding cut over Hamas ties, Carney wants to maintain it,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2025: Singh also attacked Carney, demanding that he recognize the Israeli military operations in Gaza as a genocide. “Mr. Carney, why don’t you call things […]
Non-Orthodox Jewish Movements Sign Letter Standing With Campus Hamas Supporters
The final betrayal. It’s official. Former J Street press secretary Amy Spitalnick, who runs the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and has turned it into an anti-Israel pressure group, boasted of bringing together the Union for Reform Judaism (and other Reform groups), and the Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism along with Reconstructionist groups to stand […]
Orientalism Revisited: In Defense of Western Civilization
When Edward Said published his book Orientalism in 1978, it gave a bad name to a once-vibrant field of Western academic art and scholarship. Considered the bible of post-colonial studies, Said’s work accused Western culture of perpetuating harmful stereotypes about the Middle East. Despite its arrogant attack on nearly two centuries of Western painting and […]
Canada’s Mark Carney Still Doesn’t Get It
The candidates for Canadian prime minister recently debated regarding Israel and the war in Gaza: “Poilievre vows UNRWA funding cut over Hamas ties, Carney wants to maintain it,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2025: Liberal Party leader Carney said that he agreed with Singh that there were only a few organizations operating in […]
PA’s Islamic leaders ‘all agree’ that Islam prohibits Israel’s existence, ‘Sharia sanctifies Palestine’
The Palestinian National Charter states: Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. Article 19: The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their […]
Netanyahu vows again: ‘Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons’
International Atomic Energy Agency Chief Rafael Grossi just warned that Iran has “the pieces…like a puzzle,” and is “not far” from a nuclear bomb. The Prime Minister’s Office of Benjamin Netanyahu has released a statement (courtesy of the Israel Government Press Office): For over a decade, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led the global campaign […]
Good Friday and the Incoherence of Antisemitism
New in PJ Media: What makes this Friday good? On Good Friday, Christians make the extraordinary claim that God Himself, having taken flesh and become man, endured torture and was ultimately nailed to a cross, where after three hours, He “uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last” (Mark 15:37). So what’s good about it? […]
Media Sneers as Trump Meets With European Leader Who Vows to ‘Make the West Great Again’
New in PJ Media: Donald Trump was re-elected president in 2024, vowing to resume his struggle to end the hegemony of the leftist political elites and restore the government to the people. Those leftist elites aren’t in Washington alone; they’re also in Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, and most of the other capitals of Europe. There […]
EU to provide $11 million to highlight the contribution of the Qur’an and Islam to European civilization
The study will cover the period between 1150 and 1850, when Islam had no influence on European civilization except as a constant existential threat. This is wasted money that will be spent on fantasy and provide evidence of nothing more than modern Europe’s capitulation. “‘The European Qu’ran [sic]’: Falsifying European History With Funding from the […]