Jay Nordlinger on the problems of products bearing communist symbols. He also draws my attention to this (close to home) controversy which features further attempts to delegitimize Israel: apparently the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign thinks that student choirs should not be allowed to tour Israel. Clare College always seems to find itself at the centre [...]

via Hot Air we find:
This video is even more grotesque than you think. It was shot in a suburb of Paris called Aulnay-sous-Bois. The next-door town to Aulnay is called Drancy, about 1 mile away. Drancy was used by the Nazis between 1942-1944 as a deportation holding camp for the Jews of Paris prior to [...]

Adrian Hamilton has a despicable and quite bizarre article in the Independent today. It’s title “walking out on Ahmadinejad was just plain childish” and is so insane it bears repeating, just to emphasize the sheer strength of the vicious bile-filled hatred of Israel that has grown wart-like on the disfigured body politic of the [...]