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Nothing to see here – just another reporter used by the BBC who turns out to be a rabid antisemite:

Gaza reporter Ahmed Alagha has reportedly been banned from appearing on the BBC’s Arabic service after describing Jews as “devils” and Israelis as “not human beings”.

Alagha, a regular contributor to BBC Arabic’s coverage of the war in Gaza, was barred from the channel after The Telegraph uncovered derogatory and antisemitic comments apparently made by the journalist on social media.

In one post, following Israeli strikes in Gaza, Alagha reportedly wrote that the Israeli occupation "is the embodiment of filth, the unrivalled swamp of wickedness,” adding: “As for the Jews, they are the devils of hypocrites.”

The following day he reportedly said: “The ‘Israelis’ are not human beings to begin with, rather they are not even beasts. Perhaps they belong to a race for which no description can capture the extent of their lust and sadism.”

Alagha, described on air as a Palestinian journalist, has appeared on BBC Arabic reporting from Gaza numerous times since January last year.

And fitted right in.

“BBC Arabic’s editors specifically seem to be trapped inside an echo chamber,” a spokesperson for Camera UK said.

“This precedent would be unimaginable were Alagha to target any other minority group in the UK, let alone a group involved in the same conflict he purports to cover.”

omen’ should be “celebrated”.

-Has a webpage which reads as a roadmap to transitioning.

-Has trans flags flying in its counselling rooms.

-Collaborated with Mermaids.

-Enlists children to make pride flags for marches.

-Sells ideological reading material through its online shop.

-Kicked me out, after 5 years of volunteering as a counsellor, because I refused to denounce biological reality.

Head of Childline, Shaun Friel, the man who booted me out, has said today that it is a “privilege” to work with children “coming out” regarding their “gender identity”.

If our children are not safe contacting the NSPCC, where are they safe?

From NSPCC news:

• In 2024/251, Childline delivered over 2,400 counselling sessions to children and young people with issues or concerns about sexuality and gender identity.
• Two in five of these counselling sessions were about coming out.

Coming out, here, means coming out as gay or as trans. They've completely bought into the idea of the trans child – the child born into the wrong body.

For instance:

One transgender boy, aged 17, told Childline:

"I'm trans and still kinda in the process of figuring my identity out. There's been so much hate for us lately in the news in terms of people taking their lives, kids being attacked, governments putting harmful laws in place. I'm scared as to what this means for my future, and if I'll ever be able to live as myself."

The full panoply of delusions about trans persecution and the struggle to "be able to live as myself ", straight off social media. A responsible children's charity would do their best to discourage this troubled soul from believing that somehow they can change sex and all will be well. Not the NSPCC though.

er, of the campaign group Sex Matters, says: “Presenting the idea of an effeminate boy ‘becoming a girl’ as an edgy coming-of-age story is presenting delusion as self-discovery. This series will promote a regressive, dangerous, impossible and fundamentally homophobic dream to another generation of gay young men.”

"Regressive" and "Fundamentally homophobic". Yes, exactly. And the Beeb has been promoting this line – with vigour – for the best part of a decade now.

The Supreme Court ruling that said biological sex is real should have been a wake-up call to the BBC. Instead, it has left the BBC and many other cultural institutions reeling, because to question gender ideology in the arts world is to be ostracised and often fired. Far from being dissidents, the arts have bent the knee to trans orthodoxy to a sickening degree.

Since the ruling, we have seen programmes like Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour struggle to get on board with reality. They have pandered to men who have transitioned, but are hostile and incredulous when faced with the likes of Helen Joyce, the incredibly articulate gender-critical activist who has been snubbed by our national broadcaster.

We constantly have to read on BBC websites about “women” who have committed rape. Male sports cheats are referred to as women. We have had a decade of this. I cannot call it brainwashing, because anyone with a brain can see it doesn’t wash at all. On every salient point, from puberty blockers to single-sex spaces, the pushback has been real and righteous. The culture has to catch up.

was knocked out by Khelif in the first round. She didn't get close to the medal bouts, so she can't be awarded a medal. We just…

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The boxing was a knockout competition. Angela Carini was knocked out by Khelif in the first round. She didn't get close to the medal bouts, so she can't be awarded a medal. We just don't know – and we can never know – what would have happened in the absence of Khelif. Carini might have still been eliminated in the first round, or gone much further.

The *whole* competition and *all* the results were completely corrupted by the presence of Khelif and Lin Yu Ting. Some apologists for men in women's sport say "it's only one athlete" and this is always silly. But knockout competitions demonstrate an extreme version of of this stupidity.

A logical consequence: There can't be a just redistribution of the medals. The whole competition at Paris should be declared null and void. There should be massive financial compensation to all those who competed. There should be a public apology from the IOC to all the women boxers. Who should be named. Perhaps there should be commemorative medals to all of them.

I don't say this in order to stymie any attempts to get a re-awarding of medals. But the situation really is irretrievable, and this adds very significantly to the moral harm that has been inflicted by the IOC.

t-size: 11pt”>Beach Box Spa in Brighton was accused of giving in to the “woke mob” after it said sorry for excluding trans women from the female-only session last Thursday.

Owners had originally opted to exclude transgender women from the session to allow female customers to feel safe while relaxing in their swimwear.

They later performed a U-turn after facing criticism from transgender activists online.

In a message on their website, they said the decision had been “wrong” and “goes against everything we believe in”.

They also said they “believe trans women are women and trans men are men.”

The firm is also now holding a new “queer sauna session” from Thursday and said its staff may require further “LGBTQ+ inclusion training.”

Further indoctrination is required – and, no doubt, more groveling apologies.

One critic said: “I absolutely loved your saunas but your decision to exclude trans women is incredibly disappointing.

“Your business operates in a queer city. I won’t be using a space that excludes my trans siblings. Please do better than this.”

It's astonishing how deeply ingrained in the "progressive" mind now is the Stonewall-inspired conviction that trans people are a poor persecuted minority, and the next liberation crusade. Despite gender-critical victories like the recent Supreme Court ruling that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex, it sometimes feels that we'll need to wait for a whole generation of befuddled idiots to pass on before we can return to sanity.

es people of faith to tolerate those who criticise and protest against their religion, just as their values and beliefs are tolerated.”

National Trust "deeply disappointed" by removal of stitching over JK Rowling's name. Full story:https://t.co/qH0JVaeil2@WRNDerbyshire @JeanHatchet @LightninLex @nationaltrust

— Nick Wallis (@nickwallis) June 1, 2025

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In brief: the National Trust's Hardwick Hall has a "collaborative artwork" celebrating women, where people are invited to stitch in famous names. Someone stitched in JK Rowling and, inevitably, someone else soon stitched over it – the only name so desecrated. Now someone else has removed the stitching-over to restore the Rowling name…and the Trust is "deeply disappointed".

Helen Joyce at The Critic, with a nod to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, on The five stages of victory after the Supreme Court ruling. Most gender ideologues are still stuck on anger:

Signs waved at a demo in Parliament Square called for the hanging of TERFs and the return of witch burning. One cross-dressing man wanted the world to know that his “pussy tastes like non-biological Fairy Liquid”. Two others brought a dog in a jacket declaring “I eat TERFs and I’m hungry”.

A middle-aged cross-dresser with fake boobs spilling out of a baby-doll dress explained to a passing videographer that he had used the ladies’ in Waterloo station on his way there. “I’m not going to stop,” he said. “If I walked into a men’s toilet looking like this, I’m just asking for trouble.”

Nothing I can say about the violent, fetishistic narcissism at the heart of trans activism is half as persuasive as what trans activists say themselves. Every time they speak, they make it harder for all but the most gender-addled politicians to continue insisting that every “transwoman” is a vulnerable sweetie nobly coping with the tragic, albeit puzzlingly metaphysical, disability of having been born looking exactly like a man.

Homosexuality is illegal in Iran – punished by execution. Transitioning to female, for gay men, is the only option if you want to avoid the noose. From a Feb 2023 post:

In Iran, the regime believes that homosexuality is a disease that needs to be treated like any other, typically by physically changing a person’s sex.

“The government believes that if you are a gay man your soul is that of a woman and you should change your body.” [Shadi] Amin said.

“They think this is a way to fight the existence of homosexual people because you change their body and you solve the problem.”

Trans ideology in a nutshell.

1./ Iran's Tran$ Plan. If you want to understand what drives trans ideology look at what's happening in Iran where a new national plan aims to increase revenue from medical tourism six fold; including from the country's booming gender clinics. Why does this matter?
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Iran’s treatment of gender dysphoria isn’t some anthropological curiosity. It offers us a uniquely honest glimpse into the inner workings of “gender affirming healthcare” everywhere. Elsewhere gender clinicians and trans activists have to disguise their motivations and mangle the language of social justice to mislead institutions.

In Iran all this dissembling about liberal values is dispensed with. Here medics do what their colleagues do in the West but without any distracting residue of shame. Here bigotry enables doctors to turn the tenets of trans ideology into a clinical gay-hate conveyor-belt.

One of the most homophobic nations in the world holds up a mirror to the tragedy unfolding in gender clinics across the West.