Author: Mick Hartley

I missed the recent election of Mothin Ali as co-deputy leader of the Greens. Good lord. The man who shouted Allahu akbar and described getting a seat on Leeds city council as a “win for the people of Gaza”.

He was also involved in the harassment of a Jewish university chaplain, who was driven from his home.

A rabbi targeted in an antisemitic hate campaign has expressed concern that a businessman who played a key role in amplifying the attacks has become deputy leader of the Green Party.

On October 7, 2023, Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch was working as a student chaplain at Leeds University. An Israeli citizen, he was called up as a reservist for a tour of duty with the Israel Defence Forces. Deutsch acted as a guard for food and ammunition convoys entering Gaza.

His presence in Gaza provoked protests back in Leeds, but these took on a particularly vicious hue upon his return to the city in early February 2024. Days later, Mothin Ali, the influencer Dilly Hussain and the Muslim Association of Britain all attacked Deutsch online. Ali’s post on TikTok picked up traction and Deutsch — along with those who supported him — view his social media activity as having been a central factor in the hate campaign that followed…

In one post, subsequently deleted, Ali referred to him as a “creep” and a “low-life”. He said: “Leeds University should be protecting its students against this kind of animal. You should be protecting people. You should be protecting students from this kind of animal, because if he’s willing to kill people over there, how do you know he’s not going to kill your students over here?”

Almost immediately, the Deutsches started receiving phone threats to their home in Woodhouse, central Leeds. “Tell that Jewish son of a bitch we’re coming for him,” said one male caller, speaking in a local accent to Deutsch’s wife, Nava. “We’re coming to his house and we’re going to kill him, and you as well, you f***ing racist bitch. Stupid little slag.”

In answerphone messages that have been heard by The Sunday Times, another caller said: “We know your address. We’re ten minutes away.” Another said: “You killed innocent Muslims, and they’re going to get you.”

The couple received 400 calls in one night, February 8. The onslaught slowed but continued for weeks. At one point, advised by West Yorkshire police, the couple left Leeds and took their two young children to stay with friends in Nottingham. “It was scary,” Deutsch later recalled. “They were threatening my wife and children. There’s no real way to protect yourself here.”

The Deutsches returned to Israel last summer, at the end of their chaplaincy posting in Leeds.

A fine victory for the Greens. Let's hope they're proud.

style=”padding-left: 40px”>Hamas thrives on misery. They use women and children as shields, hunger as a weapon, and the suffering of innocents as propaganda. Their strategy is not governance but perpetual conflict. They have no legitimacy. Only blood, fear, and ruin.

And yet our prime minister gives them legitimacy with weasel words. Worse, he does so in a bid to cling to votes that will desert him and Labour anyway. What happened in Tower Hamlets will happen nationally if this cowardice continues.

Moral? Never appease terror. Never reward lies. Never dress up weakness as principle.

Added:

If a terrorist organisation – which you *recognise* is a terrorist organisation – praises your intended move and directly claims it as being one of the positive results of the mass murder it orchestrated almost 2 years ago, chances are you are doing something unimaginably stupid. https://t.co/xbnxK4954c

— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) September 21, 2025

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The ‘National Diversity Awards’ were held last night.

‘Positive Role Model’ was given to Katie Neeves, a man who crowdfunds for children to get puberty blockers and tells them they “don’t need parents’ permission”.@AmazonUK @HSBC_UK @OVOEnergy @bt_uk – Why are you sponsoring? pic.twitter.com/KjKsrPro56

— James Esses (@JamesEsses) September 20, 2025

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them especially unpleasant or professionally dangerous to be around. These networks could be the most vocal within any government department, mainly because they believed that they had lessons to teach everyone else about their own “mental health”. As such, they tended to elevate the most malign and narcissistic individuals into moral authorities within their workplaces.

It will be difficult to prove the precise level of influence that LGBTQ+ networks had over senior officials in government, and over clinicians within the NHS, during the controversy over “gender affirming care” (hormone blockers and the removal of health body parts) during the decade while that debate was in contention in the UK. But throughout that time, scepticism toward gender ideology was framed by these groups as if it were a threat to the safety of staff. It’s known that the LGBTQ+ network within the BMA attempted to attack the methodology of the Cass Review, and that officials attempted to block Kemi Badenoch while she was Secretary of State for Women and Equality from meeting with gender critical campaigners. It is important to remember that every single decision made, and each piece of policy advice issued by officials, was done in an atmosphere in which groups like this wielded real influence over people’s careers.

It's the familiar story of efforts to help the less fortunate taking over and becoming the tail wagging the dog. 

Prompted by stories like this:

Warwickshire County Council's LGBTQ+ staff group has warned of the "deeply unsettling" effect of not guaranteeing that the Pride flag will be flown at the council headquarters in the future.

The council's new leader, Reform UK's Councillor George Finch, wanted the Progress Pride flag taken down before the end of Pride month in June but chief executive Monica Fogarty refused.

For people like Fogarty here, keeping the Pride flag flying is a hill they're ready to die on.

What this all means is that in organisations like the police, or the NHS, or the Civil Service – or the BBC – the people who rise to the top now are not so much those who've proved their capability and leadership skills, but those who've embraced the latest shibboleths about inclusivity and so on with the most enthusiasm: those who came top in the Stonewall seminar tests and were loudest in their commitment to the LGBTQ+ cause.

In other words, as we've seen recently – especially with the police – the people at the top may well be idiots.

Breaking news:- I tell you very clear this is the end of line for . afghan women ⬇️😾
The Taliban have ordered the Ministry of Telecommunications to obtain formal guarantees from telecom companies to provide Afghan users’ calls, data, and digital activity to the group’s security… pic.twitter.com/A4RHhtLVPA

— WDI.Afghanistan (@WDIAfghanistan1) September 19, 2025

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Full text:

The Taliban have ordered the Ministry of Telecommunications to obtain formal guarantees from telecom companies to provide Afghan users’ calls, data, and digital activity to the group’s security agencies. Local sources in Kandahar report that Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada issued the directive.
According to the order, telecom companies must create special codes that, once triggered by a user, will automatically transfer all call logs, messages, and digital activity to Taliban intelligence.
Experts warn this decision could severely restrict freedom of expression and citizens' privacy.

It hardly needs an expert to point this out. And women, no doubt, are the main target. 

This is a declaration of independence. Today, lesbian gay and bisexual people have a new global organisation

Learn more at https://t.co/m7Kvp0lkly#LGBInternational pic.twitter.com/cEUGgGjOBo

— LGB International (@lgbinternationl) September 20, 2025

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Added: now in the Telegraph.

Gender-critical gay rights groups are forming a global alliance to challenge transgender advocates.

On Saturday, the LGB Alliance announced the launch of LGB International, a coalition of worldwide LGB groups, which declares its “independence from the LGBTQIA+ establishment” to distance itself from the “legacy gay organisations which now focus entirely on transgender issues”.

The LGB Alliance was started in 2019 following a fallout and factionalism at Stonewall, Europe’s biggest LGBT rights organisation, after it was accused of promoting a “trans agenda” at the expense of gay and lesbian rights.

At the time, the LGB Alliance, which is made up of gender-critical lesbian, gay and bisexuals, said the point of forming a new organisation was to “counteract the confusion between sex and gender which is now widespread in the public sector and elsewhere”.

Speaking of the group’s relaunch, Frederick Schminke, the chairman of LGB International, which does not include transgender organisations, said: “We are launching this because the organisations that once represented gay people are now entirely devoted to ‘gender identity ideology’.

“We risk losing our hard-won rights, and as public support plummets, traditional LGBTQ+ organisations have barricaded themselves up against all reason, fostering an atmosphere where no dissenting views are tolerated.”

p style=”padding-left: 40px”>Surprise, surprise—last week, the same author had an equally unhinged reaction to Kirk’s death, posting, “Thoughts and prayers you Nazi b-tch… Hope the bullet’s okay after touching Charlie.”…

I see no indication that any of these people are representative of transgender people in general. But it should be concerning that the political self-selection mechanisms within trans subcultures consistently serve to elevate the profiles of men who (1) heap abuse on women; (2) regard their own claims to womanhood as matters of overarching sexual and political urgency; and (3) employ rhetoric that encourages coercive, violent, and even deadly suppression of ideological opponents.

An archetype, recently in the news for all the wrong reasons, is Chelsea Wolfe, a male cyclist who competes in women’s events. He recently told a female protester to “go suck a sawn-off shotgun.” Not surprisingly, Wolfe was also very pleased to hear that Charlie Kirk was assassinated, triumphantly declaring “We did it” alongside a story about the horrific murder, and flashing a thumbs-up sign.

…thanks to their attention-seeking behaviour and (stereotypically “toxic”) male aggression, their extremist rhetoric has suffused the whole movement. Attendees at trans events in Toronto, for instance, now casually don “Transphobe Extermination” shirts, festooned with a noose. To trans people who’ve come to imagine that this sort of apocalyptic language is a normal part of everyday political discourse, it must come as a great shock when ordinary people react with revulsion at their equally abhorrent celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s death.

Indeed. Perhaps these activists' sacred position as trans prophets for progressive Canada may be coming to an end. There's been a backlash:

Things might be changing, though. DC Comics cancelled its comic-book contract with Felker-Martin following her celebration of Kirk’s death. And Ashley’s comments about Kirk were deemed so over-the-top that the University of Alberta put him on leave—so as “to allow a thorough review while supporting community safety.” While I have no doubt that Ashley will soon be back at work (regaling everyone with fascinating details of his “gender/fucking” adventures during his time off), the mere fact that his bosses felt compelled to (effectively) censure him is significant.

This is a Canadian campus, remember—and therefore one of the most dogmatically trans-positive places on the planet. Just a few months back, the University of Alberta named Ashley one of its “spotlight” academic stars. Maybe school officials should have thought harder about what sordid details that “spotlight” would pick up.

A kind of companion piece to Kathleen Stock's UnHerd article, here's Stella O'Malley at Spiked – Charlie Kirk’s death has exposed the bigotry of the ‘Be Kind’ brigade:

For too many people, politics has become a kind of secular baptism, a ritual washing away of sins. You can be careless with those closest to you, even cruel, and still believe yourself virtuous. All it takes is spending a Saturday on X hurling righteous abuse at ‘right-wing bigots’ and, hey presto, you’re absolved.

That smug worldview might look harmless when it is just an old pal excusing his shabby behaviour. But since last week, we have witnessed the same mentality on the global stage, after American conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated for his political beliefs.

Across the progressive media, the script was familiar. Gleeful libels were spread about a 31-year-old father of two. Violence was suddenly rebranded as a legitimate moral option….

And this is where the left-right charade collapses into farce. Once upon a time those definitions meant something. Now they are little more than Hogwarts houses for overgrown teenagers.

Today, to raise ethical concerns about medical experimentation on children is ‘right-wing’. To question the wisdom of men competing in women’s sports is ‘right-wing’. To say you like your own culture is ‘right-wing’, too. Patriotism is effectively cast as racism….

‘Right-wing’ is a catch-all slur for anyone with an unfashionable opinion. ‘Left-wing’ has become a badge of virtue. What was once a serious clash of philosophies is now a playground insult hurled at whoever irritates you.

Not just "right wing" – that's no longer enough of an insult. It's "far right" now. "Fascist".  With the occasional "Nazi" – especially for anyone with Israeli sympathies, or who refuses to buy the Gaza genocide line.

Here's what it's really about. 

On September 15, 2025, an activist from Gaza, Fatima Zahra Harb, whose family was “martyred,” said on Ofogh TV (Iran) that their deaths “had to happen” because “pure blood needs to be shed for the land to be liberated.” Harb said that every war gives Palestinians more energy and that more babies are born so they can increase their power in order to “kill them all and liberate the land.”

"Pure blood needs to be shed for the land to be liberated. This is our very sacred land that has to be freed. We follow the path of Imam Hussein. We do this for the sake of the Prophet, not for the sake of the land. If they conquer Palestine, the entire Islamic culture and civilisation will be decimated."

It's all about Islam.

k: it was also that he acted ostentatiously like an adult. He was not frightened of sexual maturity and responsibility; he embraced these things. He actively told people not to give into every passing desire, but to be continent and restrained. He was also able to tolerate opposing viewpoints to his own, without feeling the threat of personal disintegration, or the need to get lost in defensive persecution complexes. Whatever else you think about the content of his particular belief system, these seem like decent qualities to aspire to; and presumably they made resentful, fearful, emotionally delayed adolescents of all ages stamp their feet and hate him all the more.