d that lawyers for a schoolgirl were bringing a legal challenge over the Crown Prosecution Service’s affiliation with Stonewall. She asked that the service withdraw from the champions scheme on the grounds that the group had misrepresented the law on transgender rights. The CPS refused, and the girl has applied for a judicial review.
The Stonewall edifice is crumbling.
April 28, 1949. "Barton's, business at 790 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Exterior."
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A return to the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park (previously) with the azaleas and rhododendrons in bloom:
px”>Advocating a boycott of Israeli products, Duarte remarked: “We can do without Jacobs Coffee. Many of us come to the protest, we wear the keffiyeh, it’s a sign of protest and then we go home and drink Jacobs Coffee.”
The Jacobs Coffee brand was originally launched by Johann Jacobs — a German merchant who hailed from a long-established Christian family in the city of Bremen — in 1895.
In the same speech, Duarte told South African Jews whose children volunteer for the IDF that they were “part of the problem.” She took the opportunity to deny that she was antisemitic, telling the crowd, “Israel has already said that I am antisemitic. That is the most stupid thing to say when you are in the wrong.”
ly of four live in Hyesan’s Songhu District and were placed into the quarantine facility on May 24, according to a source in Yanggang Province yesterday. “The family was given a punishment of 20 days in isolation for illegally raising the cat following an order not to do so in the [Sino-North Korean] border region,” he added.
North Korean authorities previously handed down an order in Hyesan, Sinuiju, and other places on the border directing people to “catch and eliminate pigeons and cats” as part of efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19. The belief apparently seems to be that animals can spread COVID-19.
North Koreans have been seen shooting at birds flying over the border from China, and both cats with owners and feral cats have been the target of elimination campaigns.
The family in Hyesan, for their part, told the authorities that their cat had died when officials went around to households to ensure no one was raising the animals.
On May 22, however, their cat was seen near a chain-link fence on the border.
Border patrol guards tried to capture the cat, but failed. The cat was seen making its way toward a residential district. The incident was reported up to the provincial quarantine command, and after two days of investigation the owners of the cat were found.
“The cat was taken away and the family was sentenced to 20 days in isolation,” the source said. “They were taken to a facility [and were not allowed to stay] in their own house.”
The source said that many people have questioned why the authorities made such an effort to catch the cat, expressing disbelief that the cat would have been able to cross the river into China and back.
Reminds me of Mao's campaign to kill all the sparrows, since they were supposed to be eating too much grain. So the insects thrived. That was the start of the great famine…
Hardly anyone cares about the culture wars, says David Aaronovitch. It's just the chatterings of an elite minority who like to sneer at those not up to speed with the latest terminology:
I’m thinking, for example, of the elderly man who got into terrible trouble for using the word “coloured” about a workmate, believing it still to be the politest form of description, as he had almost certainly been informed 30-odd years ago when told off for saying “negro”. Or the health charity that advised “people with cervixes” to go for smear tests, because the word “women” would exclude trans men who still had cervixes and trans women who never had them. Of course, just about everyone with a cervix is in reality a biological woman, and therefore the message was a very bad one in public health terms. There are those who will call me “transphobic” for pointing this out.
So nearly there, but he can't do it. He can't say "everyone with a cervix is in reality a biological woman". It's too bold. It's too dangerous even, for a man who himself is one of this elite minority. So he cops out. He remembers what happened to Rosie Duffield. In goes that "just about", and he can breathe again. He's safe. He won't get cancelled. And he even manages a claim that he's being brave – "There are those who will call me “transphobic” for pointing this out".
He may pose as a sensible straight-talker, and he must know perfectly well that everyone with a cervix is indeed a biological woman, but he can't quite come out and say it.
A fail, I'm afraid.
on the issue for a year.
It is a grim sign of the times that so many in the media — with a few noble exceptions — felt more inclined to believe a highly repressive Communist regime rather than an elected US president.
Ah, but that was Trump….
support and protection” for the community.
Both politicians serve constituencies housing some of the largest Jewish populations in the UK.
As in London, communities in the North-West and Yorkshire have experienced an alarming rise in cases of anti-Jewish racism.
Young people have been particularly hard hit, with both cities being home to large student populations who increasingly cross the line between legitimate criticism of Israel and outright bigotry.
Between Saturday May 8 and Sunday May 23 alone, the Community Security Trust recorded 42 antisemitic incidents in Greater Manchester and 13 in West Yorkshire.
However, the CST said these totals are “almost certainly” undercounts, as there is always a delay in incidents being reported, verified and processed before they are formally logged.
Dave Rich, Director of Policy at CST said: “One disturbing trend we have seen during this conflict involves a large number of incidents of cars with Palestinian flags driving through Jewish neighbourhoods, particularly in north Manchester, in a way that appears designed to intimidate and harass Jewish people.
“Shouts of ‘free Palestine’ are sometimes accompanied by abusive or threatening language, also directed at random Jewish people.
“We urge everyone to report this kind of behaviour to CST and to the Police, who will investigate and arrest people for these antisemitic hate crimes.”
Well, not much seems to have been happening by way of arrests in the case of those antisemitic London thugs.
The implication, with that remark about "large student populations", is that these problems are caused by young hard-left activists at the universities there. But of course both places are also – unmentioned – home to large Muslim populations.
Further to that piece by Ben Cohen about the young Muslim firebrands leading the latest antisemitic demonstrations in Europe and the US, see this, from the Israel Advocacy Movement:
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