Zoe Strimpel
@realzoestrimpel
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Historian of gender, Sunday Telegraph columnist, Spectator, Jewish Chronicle, R4. Sincere contrarian. Very bad chess player.
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Joined June 2020
My column in @Telegraph today: .'In daring to point out one ugly and disturbing aspect of a mass movement, I had riled some of its supporters. But in calling that disturbing aspect out as anti-Semitism, I had invited spitting derision.'.
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Israel is back. It is single-handedly, betrayed by the world, saving the world. The West doesn't deserve its bravery and brilliance but I am so glad we are protected by it. Civilian casualties in Beirut are both deeply upsetting, and also the direct consequence of Hezbollah.
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I voted Remain and never became a fanatical Leaver. But it seems that being outside the EU – even for a month – has saved thousands of British lives.
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My interview with the fabulous, thoughtful @bariweiss in today’s Sunday Tel. Great to get to discuss her brilliant work for a UK audience
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All hail @Mr_Andrew_Fox and his big fuck-off report using open-source data into the torrent of lies from the Hamas-run Gaza "health ministry" about civilian casualties, which Western media absolutely mainlined and spewed out verbatim to reinforce the blood libel about Jews baying.
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I had a brilliant time interviewing @AbigailShrier - whose extreme intelligence, wit and courage changed the whole conversation . Abigail Shrier: Taking on the trans lobby has made me Public Enemy No 1
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I interviewed @YasMohammedxx, half-Gazan, half Egyptian, married at 19 to an Al Qaeda operative, and now one of the most astute critics of Islam, the hypocrisy and anti-Semitism of much of the pro-Palestine crowd, and the idea that Hamas = Palestine
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In Reuters and The Times, but *totally unreported* in NY Times and BBC six hours after the story splashed on the Tel website. Weird thing to keep quiet.Hamas plot to attack Jewish sites across Europe foiled by police
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I love how the instance of apparent fabrication of intel concerning Sinwar by a fraud published by the @JewishChron is pounced on with insane lipsmacking glee by @guardian and the rest of the anti israel lobby - 972, Middle East Eye etc - but that the more than 1200 betrayals.
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My interview with political philosopher-entrepreneur @VivekGRamaswamy about how corporate woke is eating away at democracy. I thoroughly enjoyed engaging with his ideas and arguments
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Me on @bariweiss on the collapse of Western authority, self and geopolitical understanding— and the predictably catastrophic results of our politics of retrenchment, appeasement and pacifism - thanks @petersavodnik for being a great ed
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My latest @telegraph column: . Why do Gen Z violently scream virtue, greenism, anti racism, — and end up the most anti-Semitic generation since the war?.
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Musk appaz wants to downplay posts with links on X, because links take people away from X. But they do the opposite: they keep people like me coming back for more, using X as a curated news source. Without links it’s just tiresome grandstanding and pronouncements.
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My interview with @AbigailShrier — as usual this force of nature nails the truth and doesn’t care if you like it or not .The stifling pathologisation of children for basically being human is proving lethal,as per her new book Bad Therapy . via @JewishChron.
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My story on @bariweiss @thehonestlypod in audio - how the West became blinded to real external enemies by inner demons and delusional thinking.
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Only the Jews: massacred, terrorised and kidnapped — and the the biggest police forces in the West have to launch patrols to protect JEWS, not those of the religion of their attackers.
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Fascists pretending to be anti-fascists. But they are increasingly no longer pretending not to be antisemitic.
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People often rail about politics and culture wars and so on in conceptual and psychological terms, forgetting that these things map directly onto physical harm and safety.
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Jesus. Braverman did not 'incite violence'. In calling out as haters those screaming "Hitler should have finished the job" and wearing Hamas outfits, how is SHE the one inciting hatred?I'd have thought anti-semites storming through streets are solely responsible on that front.
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This is indeed a tragedy, like all innocent lives lost. But it's a war, and they were working in a warzone, which carries terrible risk. Why is the world acting like it was some kind of sadistic murder? Oh, because Jews.
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I wrote about how feminism went weird about women for the divine @bariweiss.
“Post-Feminist Feminism …is not about liberating women. It’s about pushing women out of college sports. It’s about telling girls they aren’t lesbians or tomboys, men struggling to find themselves.”. Love this piece, by the unstoppable @realzoestrimpel .
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‘Being anti-Israel has nothing to do with being anti-Semitic!’ ‘People just want peace in the Middle East!!’.No.
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'the family who brought the High Court case are sending another child to the school in September and also planning a separate legal action.'. The crafty entitlement is ASTOUNDING.
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As the mob high and low rages and organises against Israeli 'genocide'. my column says:. 'The Israel Defence Forces are the most moral soldiers in the world'
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'Racial violence in the UK'. This phrase is ricochetted around US publications including The New Yorker. But it has never, as far as I can recall, been used to describe the Islamism that has killed hundreds in the UK, or threatened thousands or millions in Europe – even though.
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Sour, self-regarding, bland: the face of respectable contemporary anti-Semitism par excellence
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I warned the BBC it was spreading Hamas propaganda. It refused to see reason
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'Hamas is willing to extend the truce'. Oh how TERRIBLY kind of them! But, sorry, they don't get to call the shots now, and hopefully never will again
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How utterly disgusting. Not that it’s a surprise from this passionate antisemite.
My thoughts today are with the women & young girls of Gaza.May they find the "second of safety" they desperately need. My thoughts also go to the Israeli women,especially the soldiers:.what have you done,what have you become. Dears, when you realise it,you will be haunted forever.
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My interview with the very funny, extremely sharp and exceptionally wise @JohnHMcWhorter in today’s @Telegraph about his new book Woke Racism and why the ‘religion’ of woke is only holding back the people it purports to serve
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More than half an hour for the police to come to a terrifying anti-Semitic pile-on. Three attacked in Leicester Square ‘for being Jewish’ and 'speaking Hebrew'
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My notebook in @Telegraph: why are so many women wrapped in keffiyahs, macho terrorist style, teeny bopping for the most odious rapists and haters of women the world has ever seen? . The women cheering on Hamas rapists are an insult to feminism
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Just been on @TimesRadio with @kaitborsay who as ever is fantastic.Was surprised and disappointed though to be confronted with a presentation of ‘fact’ by the other panellist, Jemma Forte, including: Israeli policy is burning innocent people alive in shelters, shooting.
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I get antsy when people - ok, men - start talking with certainty about ‘women’ and what constitutes ‘their long-term happiness’. Translation: women, stop lying to yourselves (and inconveniencing us) and go realise yourselves in the kitchen as mothers of seven.
One of the biggest unspoken truths of modern Western society is that women have been brainwashed into acting in ways that are fundamentally against their own long term happiness and well-being in order to maintain the myth that men and women are the same. It's tragic but. .
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Hamas is laughing its head off.Many smirks and chuckles.That's what happens when you make the whole world an evil fool and it merrily plays along. Hamas *always* knew it could fully indulge its sadistic taste for murdering Israelis and the world would still deplore *only* ISRAEL.
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Me in @Telegraph: "While lefties bleat about Islamophobia, Jews like me look askance at the chanting and cheering in Muslim communities in response to Hamas’s murder of hundreds of Israelis."
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So many excuses made for the unbridled antisemitism uniting elites,old lefties,rock stars,BLM-ers and many Muslims-it’s their ‘ignorance’,their ‘cowardice’;their ‘education’,it’s a misguided interpretation of postcolonial theory. No: it’s simpler and darker than all of the above.
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A lovely bunch of innocents being released from Israeli jails in exchange for 5 year olds
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For many, ten days spent under lock and key in a quarantine hotel room would be deeply traumatic – never mind civil liberties, what about human rights? .Britain can and MUST do better @grantshapps @michaelgove @RishiSunak .
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I never had high hopes for the right and especially the far right. Who would, re the latter? But what a disappointment the global left has become - my column in @Telegraph
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Tonight on @BBCRadio4 at 20.30, my doc is a must-listen for anyone who has ever had a row about Brexit, empire or Britain’s future, with some fabulous interviewees, including @lindacolley @redhistorian @DavidDeutschOxf @daliagebrial
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My @telegraph column. That even gay Eurovision fans have joined the evil pile-on on the Israeli act is boggling hypocrisy. Eden Golan was splendid as well as brave — I voted several times for her and would have even if she’d been terrible.
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My @Telegraph column. That hundreds of Britain's political and legal grandees – including Tories – are demanding an arms embargo to Israel is pusillanimous and dangerous. They should be shamed, not taken seriously.
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Margaret Thatcher on events in Tianenmen Square, June 1989. ‘It shows communism stands ready to impose its will by force… we must take that into account on our views on defence…’. How she’d be squrming at the West’s response to Russia, China and Iran today…
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We're not crying 'ism': these are not metaphorical issues of safety and we have left the domain of discourse: Jews are once again in real, physical peril: my latest @telegraph column
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Why are the usual suspects still making excuses for Hamas? They are anti-Semitic murderers
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And. this Critical Theory student is getting the violins out for the Third Reich in the name of social justice in Britain today.
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Me on the moral abomination that is the UN – which has hated Israel since the 1970s and, indulging China and Russia, seems more committed to destroying peace than promoting it
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Dude, we thank you, but ‘hatred’ is not where it’s at. That’s schoolroom jargon.Where it’s at is something far more profound, an ancient worldview hinging around the desire to kill Jews,or justify doing so,and to take over the world and make it a caliphate,as per.@richard_landes.
How many times did you die trying to beat hatred before winning?.
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‘Have obesity’/‘living with obesity’ instead of ‘are/is obese’ is like ‘has goodness’ or ‘has evilness’.Moth. Theresa was among a number ‘with goodness’.Hitler ‘lived with evil’ .It’s denying personal responsibility (vs ‘the system’)and shows the way language is going under woke.
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Israel would do *almost* anything not to have to control Gaza. But it won’t sacrifice the heads of its citizens again.
Netanyahu claims that Israel could control Gaza for an “indefinite period.” No. Palestinians have a right to determine their own future. Israeli military occupation of Gaza undermines efforts to build two independent states that advance respect for every human being.
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“The Houthis attacked us over 200 times. The first time that they harmed an Israeli citizen, we struck them. And we will do this in any place where it may be required. The blood of Israeli citizens has a price.". Exactly this. Imagine anywhere in the West grasping this.
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My column on how, fiddling while Rome burned, we lost sight of what real enmity means
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coughlan’s fans — enraged I called the proudly fat actress fat — are the most disgusting people I’ve ever encountered. No wonder. She ought to have stuck to acting — as an activist, for fat positivity, for trans and now for terrorism against Jews, she’s up to no good at all.
‘Bridgerton’ star Nicola Coughlan has raised $1.2M for Palestine.
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This shows the strength of what @DavidDeutschOxf calls The Pattern: Labour frontbenchers willing to destroy their careers in order to – let's not mince words – defend the mass murder of Jews
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A total delight to sit down with @bariweiss and talk Israel, morality, and both where the West has gone wrong and who can save it — and how. Bari Weiss: 'History has come for Israel, it's come for Ukraine and it will come for the West next'
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"Measles is surging again because Covid destroyed trust in the medical establishment". No: measles is back because conspiracy theory destroyed trust in the medical establishment – and in sanity more generally.
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The launch of The Lesbian Project, @project_lesbian, comes not a moment too soon - well done @bindelj and @Docstockk.
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Why Black Lives Matter protests are a catalyst for anti-Semitism
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My column in today’s @Telegraph on why the thirst to paint Britain as ‘just as bad really’ as the Continent is misguided
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Almost (almost) funny how Israel’s expulsion of Hamas cell UNWRA is being treated as a big ‘oooh Israeli inhumanity and zest for drinking blood of innocents on full display yet again! On with the pogrom!’ moment.
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It’s like the apologies from Corbyn’s party for the antisemitism. Woops! Must review processes!.Well, unless ‘process’ fixing entails a dramatic ideological break with the deep urge to side with Israel’s lethal enemies, rooted in the dark logics of antisemitism, then you’re.
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Me on @bariweiss substack. War is never nice, but the West’s abandonment of making credible the threat of physical force - an essential component to moral force - has got us here, with bombs raining on the gates of Europe, and with much worse to come as China and Iran look on.
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My @Telegraph column:."With the net closing in on people just for being either Israeli or Jewish (presumed to be “Zionists”), it might not be long until people find themselves out of a job unless they first denounce the Jewish state just like DEI demands we all own up to “white.
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My column today on the dubious value of terms like ‘toxic masculinity’
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My @jewishchronicle column on the traitorous Jews who hate Israel. and yes, Jews. Anti-Israel Jews are worse than just antisemitic via @JewishChron.
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Too often, among today's students, a concern for "wellbeing" > zest for learning, reading and thinking. This is the real threat to their wellbeing.
Apparently, I was guilty of affecting their mental well-being | @realzoestrimpel
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Wow. Never thought I’d see UK worse/more craven on Jews than Austria/ the EU. We know where this money goes. The last few days have made it crystal clear. It’s no good lighting up the FCO. Stop the funding now!
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I accept with full awareness and even appreciation of being a Media Jew wheeled out for on-cue defence of Israel and indignation at the anti-Israel provocations sent my way. Hard to make any worthwhile points though when someone will always say ‘but Ben Gvir and Smotrich’ and I.
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What’s horrifying about not forcing 16-18 year olds to do something they really don’t want to do, and encouraging those who do want to do it… ? Or perhaps @yuanyi_z didn’t read it. Horrifying in its own way ;).
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Ok! Falklands next, obviously. Then Gibraltar. Then. What destructive idiots this lot are. Starmer gives up British sovereignty of Chagos Islands ‘to boost global security’
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'The elected parties make actual laws, but it is the illiberal left now making all the other laws; those we increasingly must live by if we want to work, express ourselves in public and private, and keep our friends.'
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Yes. Last night I had a finger wagged at me about the IDF’s zest for ‘collective punishment’ of Gazans.Israel never engages in ‘collective punishment’— which it neither has has time or taste for. Plus the IDF’s code of ethics, whose author I’ve interviewed, explicitly forbids it.
You're addressing people who are honestly against Hamas's crimes. No such people are opposed to Israel doing what is necessary to end them. Ending "the occupation" or avoiding what many mischievously call 'collective punishment' means perpetuating those crimes. Being complicit.
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Yes, hundreds of thousands calling for mass pogroms is so ‘disrespectful’.
My statement on the disrespectful protests planned for Armistice Day.
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My @telegraph column: ."It’s hard not to feel a pulse of fear and loathing when one sees how our once-great liberal democracy has been hijacked to serve the agendas of people who appear to show solidarity with a regime heading an army of caliphatic Islamist butchers.".
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Police warned her and suggested she cancel. Whose fault that it's unsafe for her to go? Apart from the Pal mob of course. Well: the Govt's. It's not a citizen's duty to risk her life if the police won't do their job. When she was Home Sec she should have done more to root this.
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I don't recall any, let alone all, reports of Ukrainian retaliatory attacks on Russia quoting numbers of children killed, according to the Russian health ministry. .
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Me on the death of American science and knowledge growth.
"Professors are tying themselves in knots to avoid describing reality so that students will be politically pacified and not offended" | Writes @realzoestrimpel
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Where there's a keffiyah there's bad news. It's never 'just' a fashion item anymore. And it's never about 'peace'. It's explicitly about legitimising Hamas and all explicitly violent 'resistance' against les Juifs.
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I think there are clear moral lines: the parallel is with Allied bombing of Germany: to defeat the Nazis, innocent civilians had to die. Few would argue we should not have responded militarily to Hitler’s regime. It’s the same with Israel and Hamas, horrible though that is.
There aren’t clear moral lines in this conflict. If you accept Israel has the right to protect its citizens against terror, innocent Palestinian lives will be lost; the question is what can be done to minimise loss of life & worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Awful, but true.
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The once formidable entrance to UCL now looks like this. I asked a ‘customer experience’ dude if the university was planning to do anything.‘They can’t do anything, because the protesters threaten to cover the whole building if they do’.Ok! So it’s Juden Raus - thanks @ucl
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'The same unforgiving standards applied to racists by the hard-left are never used towards anti-Semites. '. My piece on Dickens, anti-racism and Jews for @spectator . via @spectator.
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I loathe hooligans and thugs with a visceral passion. But I'm a Jew - classic target of neo-Nazis and skinheads- and I fear the British far left much more than the far right. People power saved us from far-Right rioters, but the threat is not over
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So much simpler and more honest for them all to drop ‘Israel has the right to defend itself *but* [insert thing that means the opposite]’ and just say what they mean: ‘Israel does not have the right to defend itself *and* [insert as above].
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At @ucl library. Just outside is a crowd baying for Israel to be cut off from the international community, and cheering at anti-Semitic falsehoods
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My @Telegraph column: the hostage families, evacuees and former two-staters I met this week all say the same thing:.Israel has woken up to the total war with Islamism — while the West remains stuck in lethal lalaland, repeatedly hitting snooze.
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My column in @Telegraph: we're all tired of the culture wars, of woke this and right wing that, but alas, the issues remain important and very stubbornly there
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Trains are fun - but air travel is the great wonder of the modern world.
Or alternatively you could stay in the modern world: carry on getting the plane, be there in under 2 hours, no need to wait and change in Brussels, generally for about half the price.
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For some women, it’s the *absence* of sexual attention that troubles. My APOV on the matter.
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My column in @telegraph .Pushed around by Iran and its proxies, Russia and China, the West must remember how to fight. It may already be too late
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It may turn out that the Southport massacre was caused by untreated psychotic illness. This question still occurs, and applies to other similar scenarios: why is it being referred to exclusively and pointedly as a ‘tragedy’ — as if it fell from the sky, entirely without human.
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Me in @Telegraph: Britain should be THANKING the Israeli Defence Forces not taking every opportunity to undermine it by sniping and repeating vicious inaccuracies.
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Young people in the West have no real idea anymore what war is— why it is waged, and why it isn’t the same as genocide. It’s good they don’t know what war means, maybe. It’s bad they use this ignorance to compound their RAGING ANTISEMITISM.
The death rate in Gaza is at a historic high, with thousands of children killed in just a few weeks. Demanding an end to this inexcusable violence is a question of basic humanity. Silence is complicity. You cannot be silent in an unfolding genocide.
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Another false idea is that such a thing as ‘long-term happiness’ for any group a) exists or b) is a proper goal. In fact, being free and miserable/mixed bag or unfree and even more miserable are the two options. I choose the first.
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Pier built just for Gaza aid. Hamas fires on it. Crossing opened for aid. Hamas fires on it. (None of this is reported). You see the difficulty. Source: Bicom briefing
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