As part of my research for an essay on African writer Chinua Achebe, published in The Federalist this past February, I reread Albert Memmi’s monograph The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) in order to refresh my memory on some of the finer philosophical points of that seminal anti-colonialist treatise. Since my essay was arguing that Achebe, in his novel Things […]
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UK: Labour and civil rights groups to mount legal challenge against Johnson’s plan to end early release of jihadis
The civil rights of the jihadis matter; the civil rights of their victims and potential new victims do not. “Boris Johnson could SUSPEND European human rights laws to reverse automatic early release for terrorists as Labour’s Shami Chakrabati and civil rights groups hint at legal challenge,” by James Tapsfield and Rory Tingle, Mailonline, February 4, […]
A Book Critical to the Survival of Israel, and of Civilization as a Whole
Review of The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, by Robert Spencer. Bombardier Books, 2019. Kindle edition. Within days of the reviewer returning from her first trip to Israel, impressions still fresh in her mind, this book landed in her Kindle. Pre-ordering works. She read it in one night. The […]
Brussels: Police escort firefighters during New Year’s Eve celebrations due to “state of war” conditions
Sad and tragic: “Firefighters across the Belgian capital of Brussels are expected to be escorted by police officers during New Year’s Eve celebrations due to the high level of danger involved when operating in the city. The new policy is largely designed to mitigate the violence against firefighters in the EU capital that was seen last […]
European Union Mandates Warning Labels on Goods from the West Bank
The European Union is now requiring that Israeli products made in contested territories – the West Bank – must carry consumer warning labels, a decision that could trigger American anti-boycott laws and open up what legal experts describe as a “Pandora’s box” of litigation. The story is here: The European Union ‘s top court ruled […]
Hizballah using social media to recruit Muslims to murder Israeli civilians
Meanwhile, the social media giants are too busy silencing foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women to pay any attention. “New Study Analyzes Hizballah’s Online Recruitment of Palestinian Terrorists,” IPT News, November 1, 2019: A lot of attention has been devoted to the Islamic State’s use of the internet to inspire or direct […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Orban warns he will “use force” if Turkey delivers threat to send 3,600,000 “refugees”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently stated: “Hey European Union. Pull yourself together…..If you try to label this operation as an invasion, it’s very simple: we will open the gates and send 3.6 million refugees your way.” But now, “Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned he will ‘use force’ to fend off migrants if […]
Turkish Columnist: We Must Stop Western Civilization From Destroying the World
As Turkey prepares to move into Syria, it is useful to recall, as an insight into a widespread Turkish mindset, a July 8, 2019 column entitled “Stopping Western Civilization” and published in the Turkish pro-government Milli Gazete daily. Here is MEMRI’s summary: Turkish columnist Mehmed Şevket Eygi asked readers: “Can we allow Western civilization to […]
Central African Republic President praises “peace without borders”: “What Europe has done is a dream in Africa”
“The president of the war-torn Central African Republic warned Sunday that stability in Europe is conditioned upon stability in Africa because ‘everything is connected.’” President Faustin-Archange Touadéra unfortunately may be right, for no other reason than the fact that globalists have imported the jihadist problems of the Middle East and Africa into Europe through suicidal […]
How Trump Started a Civil War Between Hamas and a UN Agency
Even within the United Nations, a sprawling multinational bureaucracy linked by luxury dining, corruption and complicity in terrorism, the UNRWA stands out for waste, corruption and terror. The UNRWA’s abbreviation leaves out its full title, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, and its heavy focus on Gaza. The […]