This is good on Labour’s attempts to hamstring itself in government and the evasion of responsibility behind appeals for outside regulation capx.co/the-deep-state…

The Palestine solidarity campaign’s need to re-cast the Holocaust with the Jews as perpetrators is an hysterical compulsion. Why can they not make their case without appropriating Jewish suffering?

JamesHeartfield These are American students chanting in America that they want to impose their wishes on people halfway around the world.

Sounds kinda imperial.

Very touched by everybody recalling Edward Said and Columbia 68 protests in this poignant moment.

There is just a tiny bit of problem with this story. You know what Edward Said did to SDS student protesters?

He called the campus police to get them thrown out of class!

My God there’s some pretentious bollocks written on this site sometimes!

If Oasis caused anything it was probably an increase in the sale of cheap guitars and Adidas Gazelles.

How to ruin any cause: fill it with idiots. “Queer” rights? Fill with idiots. The Humanities? Idiots. Environmental issues? Idiots. I once passionately fought for all these things but now just want to oppose the idiots. Congratulations, idiots!

All-too-characteristic paranoia in the Palestine solidarity camp: when they get bad press they blame the Jews infiltrating their movement.

What indeed?

I am finding it difficult, really difficult, to understand the total eclipse of reason which brought us to this. I mean, haven't learned anything from Hegelian dialectics?

Praise Hamas
= Antisemitism increases
= Conservative reactionary backlash
= Censhorship spreads
= Woke

On the universities’ crisis of legtimacy
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“Tunisian colonizer”!

Doctorb Nick 🏳️‍🌈 Susan Bernofsky Columbia University Over 95% of American Jews are Zionists. The props you use at the protests are called tokens. Are there gay people who hold homophobic views because of trauma? Yes.

Glad we cleared that up.

Bring on the next gaslighting 🙏

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Today’s day on X: Was called all kinds of names from genocide supporter to old hag, told I shouldn’t be allowed to live or teach in this country, blamed for Germany’s Nazi past.

Why all this? Because I’m opposed to boycotting Israeli mail. The world has officially gone mad.

Quite the timing: in the week the Global Disinformation Index cites Kathleen Stock’s columns as cause to label an entire publication ‘disinformation’ and defund it, she is highly commended for the same columns at the National Press Awards 🤷🏼‍♂️

Palestine protesters demanding the return of the British Empire and the Mandate wasn’t something I expected

.William Dalrymple is sufficiently intelligent to know that the economic effects of imperial rule are contested and there many economic historians who disagree with him. Yet he pretends his own view is simply ‘fact’ and accuses Kemi Badenoch of ‘ideological wishful thinking’.

I don’t know. It looks like a step backwards for Columbia University to give itself over to a prayer meeting to me

For years, my argument about not saying “openly gay” was that you wouldn’t ever say “openly Jewish.” How did we get to this point?