Links - November 13 2026 (Palestine/Middle East Peace)

U.N. condemns Israel, U.S. for not sharing Iron Dome with Hamas
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "LMAO. This is who is getting the Nobel Peace Prize. Because leftism is brain rot."

Alef Avenue | Facebook - "Yasser Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize. Winning one of these does not prove that you’re a champion of peace. This snake accepted a Nobel peace prize, and sat with the Israeli prime minister holding a sign that had שלום shalom written on it in 1994. Arafat led Fatah and the entire PLO during decades of terrorist attacks against Israel committed by Arabs from “Palestine.” Suicide bombings, hijackings, murdering innocent Israeli civilians, targeting the IDF, kidnapping hostages, and much more."

BRUTAL! Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov TORCHES Nobel Committee After Controversial Peace Prize Award: “Maybe Next Year They’ll Give the Chemistry Prize to a Hamas Bomb Maker” - "The chess legend was reacting to the committee’s decision to honor Pillay “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” [Navi] Pillay chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which issued a report accusing Israel of “genocide” in Gaza.  Critics, including Israeli officials and Jewish advocacy groups, have long documented her lack of impartiality: she signed a 2020 manifesto calling on governments to “Sanction Apartheid Israel,” then accepted the chairmanship of the inquiry without disclosing the conflict; she defended a fellow commissioner who invoked “the Jewish lobby”; and she has a record of one-sided criticism that ignored Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre of 1,200 Israelis, the rapes, the hostages, and the group’s use of human shields."
Garry Kasparov on X - "Maybe next year they’ll give the Chemistry prize to a Hamas bomb maker."

Sarah Ettedgui on X - "When Wikipedia Becomes the Source Code for AI
Most people have no idea what is unfolding inside Wikipedia’s most sensitive articles. Haviv Rettig Gur’s conversation with Ashley Rindsberg reveals a problem that cannot be ignored.  The implications go far beyond one page. They influence how the internet defines core concepts. They influence how AI systems learn. They influence what the next generation believes Zionism is. Here is the current lead sentence of the Zionism article, now under moratorium until February 2026: “Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.”  This is not neutral language. Sure, Zionism, like every national movement, sought a demographic majority of its own people. That is the basic logic of self-determination. What this sentence does is single out the Jewish national movement as uniquely spiteful, exclusionary, even eliminationist, while treating the same demographic logic as entirely normal for everyone else.  Apply the standard consistently and it aligns with Palestinian nationalism even more clearly. Gaza has had no Jewish population for nearly twenty years. The Palestinian Authority governs areas with virtually none. No serious observer expects a future Palestinian state to aspire to a meaningful Jewish demographic, and Palestinian leaders say so explicitly. Yet Wikipedia presents what is normal for Palestinians (and every other people) as evidence of malice when Jews pursue the same goal.  That is the asymmetry Haviv Rettig Gur was describing. The sentence reframes Zionism not as a movement of national revival or as the return of Jewish refugees from Europe and the Arab world to their historic homeland and language, but as something inherently hateful. And it sits in the most authoritative position on the page, written in Wikipedia’s own voice, where only uncontested facts are supposed to appear.  The problem is not only the sentence. The problem is the system that allowed a small, coordinated group of editors to insert it and then protect it through procedural warfare and exhaustion of opponents.  Once something enters Wikipedia this way, it spreads. Wikipedia is a primary data source for Google, for search engines, and for every major AI system: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, all of them. These systems treat lead sections as high-confidence truth. When Wikipedia is distorted, the entire knowledge ecosystem becomes distorted with it.  This is why the issue matters so deeply. A manipulated framing of Zionism is being elevated into the base architecture of digital knowledge, where it will be indexed, repeated, summarized, and reinforced as objective fact millions of times each day.  If we care about intellectual integrity and about our children, we cannot dismiss this as a minor online dispute. Wikipedia remains the baseline reference for an entire generation, and AI technologies now reproduce its claims as if they were settled history. When editors whose activity and off-wiki statements align with Iranian state media and other hostile actors succeed in seeding disinformation into the core definition of Zionism, that disinformation becomes the first lens through which millions of young people encounter Jewish history and identity.  We have a responsibility to call this out and to protect the next generation from narratives designed to delegitimize them.  Listen to the podcast. Read the investigative work. This deserves far more attention than it has received."

Group says it vandalized Ontario facility because of ties to Israel | National Post - "the anti-Israel group Palestine Action Canada took responsibility for the damage. A video posted to the account shows a masked person cutting wires in a dark room with a flashlight illuminating the scene... Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada urged the Canadian federal government to take action against the group after it released a map of locations to “target” because of apparent ties to Israel. The map of “targets” included sites within Canada.  The group also released a manual that described how to take “direct action” and provided advice on how “to develop small ‘cells’ to perpetrate property damage, in addition to guidance on avoiding law enforcement and destroying evidence of criminal misconduct.”  In the United States, sanctions were issued against the group, which according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, “has supported numerous acts of terrorism since July 2020, including acts that have physically injured U.K. law enforcement personnel, as well as acts intended to intimidate lawful commercial enterprises and coerce the U.K. Government.”"
More suppression of "pro-Palestine" "speech"!

Toronto lawyer says he was attacked in the street for being Jewish - "A Toronto-area real estate agent and lawyer has been left with lesions and bruises after he says he was attacked by a man who threatened to kill him while shouting that Jews were “baby killers committing genocide.” Joseph Bitton was at a commercial property he manages in the Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue West area around noon on Tuesday, when a man allegedly began swinging a parking pylon at him... “I dodged all the projectiles he was throwing at me, blocked him with my arms. I’ve got lesions and scratches on both arms,” said Bitton, whose injuries were documented by a doctor later that day. “Some people are telling me I should have knocked the guy out. I said, ‘Absolutely not. Then I would be arrested, and he would go free, and I would be the bad guy.’ So I deliberately just stayed 10 or 15 feet away,” Bitton told National Post... He followed the man from a distance of 10 to 15 feet as he boarded one bus, then attempted to escape through a rear door, crossed the street and got on another bus headed in the opposite direction. Bitton said he alerted both bus drivers that police were on their way and asked them not to move until officers arrived. “Nobody lifted a finger,” Bitton lamented. “There were dozens and dozens of witnesses at the bus stop, on the bus, at the other location across the street, at the original location. The only one single person that stepped out to help me was one retail tenant from the property that I manage, and he knows me. He came out when the guy was swinging this pylon, and tried to put distance between us and get the guy to stand down.” According to Bitton, his attacker eventually moved into a laneway behind an automotive repair shop, throwing rocks and bricks, before police arrived. Bitton said eight officers cornered the suspect in a dead end, handcuffed him and placed him in a cruiser. “When the police grabbed him,” Bitton said, “he kept saying ‘I didn’t do anything!’” From footage from eight property surveillance cameras, police officers identified a suspect, he said. “They saw the guy doing everything, throwing the pylon at me, and swinging at me, and throwing things at me,” Bitton said. Police charged Abdulkadir Al-Jelani, 58, of Toronto, with three counts of assault with a weapon and one count of uttering death threats. They are investigating the incident as a possible hate-motivated crime."
Time to blame "Zionists", Mossad and/or Israel, one way or the other

Toronto, Edmonton police arrest multiple suspects in anti-Israel incidents - "Police forces in Edmonton and Toronto announced charges this week following separate criminal incidents tied to anti-Israel hostility, including a knife attack at a festival pavilion and a violent assault during a demonstration.  In Edmonton, police charged Abdimalik Jama, 29, on Wednesday in connection with an incident at the Edmonton Heritage Festival on August 3.  Jama breached a protective perimeter around the festival's Israel pavilion, lunged with a knife, and struck the back of the kitchen tent before security guards detained him and on-site officers arrested him... in Toronto, police announced an arrest on Wednesday in an assault causing bodily harm investigation stemming from a March for Palestine protest on Saturday.  Authorities stated that a victim walking near Yonge Street and Grosvenor Street was approached from behind and punched multiple times in the head without provocation, sustaining facial and leg injuries... Martin Salgatar, 20, of Mississauga, surrendered to police at 52 Division on Monday and was charged with aggravated assault... the victim, Kyle, was a familiar presence in the local protest landscape who participates across various causes as a protester, counterprotester, and independent creator  Sa'd wrote that following the assault, others swarmed the victim, pointing, laughing, and seemingly trying to prevent bystanders from helping, before Salgatar escaped into the crowd after being urged to leave.  Kyle was subsequently transported to the hospital with a serious knee injury that left him unable to walk.  "This is what happens when repeated warnings about unlawful behavior at protests go unanswered, and police refuse to meaningfully address concerns about enforcement," Sa'd wrote online. "It is as though protesters have been led to believe they can assault people with impunity, particularly those documenting their public activities.""
Damn police suppressing "pro-Palestine" "speech"!
Mossad is so smart, they employ people with Muslim names for their false flag attacks

Meme - burntoakboy: "Two months ago, the Irish cricket team played Afghanistan, a country where women are treated like animals, where homosexuality is punishable by death and where democracy is entirely non-existent. The progressive Dublin elites said fuck-all. Tomorrow, the Irish football team will play Israel, a democracy, the only free country in the Middle East and a nation where women and gays enjoy full, unfettered equality. And the progressive Dublin elites have gone nuts. They've wept and wailed and marched. They've spoken of nothing else for weeks on end. There is no way to explain this mania and hypocrisy without using the word antisemitism. Go on, try. It's impossible."

Meme - *Fred from Scooby Doo unmasking 'Free Palestine'*
Hitler under mask: "KILL THE JEWS!"
The Palestinian @InsiderWorld_1: "Wish Hitler lives till now"
The Palestinian @InsiderWorld_1: "Hitler was the one good German!"
As left wingers would say if they were consistent, not all anti-Zionists are anti-Semites, but all anti-Semites are anti-Zionists. But they only use that to smear right wingers/Trump supporters as bigots by association

Meme - "EVERY TYPE OF PRO-PALESTINE AND ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST
Communist Socialist. History Denier. LGBTQ WOKE. BLM ANTIFA. Left-wing Liberals
Useful Idiot. Ignorant Retard. Clueless Influencer. Conspiracy theorist. Muslim Islamists
Mob Enjoyer Riot Junkie. Paid activist. Fascist Nazi. Right-wing Jew Hater. Blame Addict Victim Lifer
WHERE DO YOU FIT IN?"

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "Pro-Palestinian activist in Sweden: “I know I don’t belong here. That is why I’m destroying this country as much as I can, and sucking up all the benefits and tax money to the absolute max." Remember, the entire purpose of the Palestinian movement is to advance the Islamic takeover of the West. These people absolutely hate you."

Revealed: the ‘Palestine poppy’ creator who justified stoning | The Spectator - "The creator of the ‘Palestine poppy’ is an Oxford-educated paediatrician who has written books for Muslim teenagers justifying stoning and warning that homosexuality is ‘a test from Allah’. Abdul Qader Ismail was accused of trying to ‘hijack’ Remembrance Day after he began selling an enamel pin shaped like a poppy in the colours of the Palestinian flag for £1.78 on eBay. The pin is listed as ‘not for profit’ with money being donated to Gaza charities. The Spectator can now reveal that Ismail is an active member of Greens for Palestine and co-sponsored the group’s ‘Zionism is Racism’ policy. He is also the author of a book series titled An Introduction to Challenging Topics for Muslim Teens. A chapter in the first book, marked for readers aged 13 to 15 and older, discusses religious punishments including stoning, whipping, crucifixion and amputation. Ismail describes them as deterrents and writes that, if applied, they may be a blessing because a person pays for their sins in this life and avoids punishment in the afterlife...  A separate chapter on female genital mutilation, marked for readers aged 15 to 17 and older, describes one traditional Islamic religious position as allowing, and even recommending, female circumcision. It discusses procedures such as reducing or removing the clitoral hood and reducing the inner labia, and describes arguments for having them performed by a trained surgeon using sterile equipment. Ismail writes: ‘The traditional Islamic position is that female circumcision is allowed, and even desirable. This is based on several Hadith.’ He also outlines that some scholars believe FGM is unacceptable...  In the Greens for Palestine WhatsApp chat, Ismail has accused Zack Polanski of ‘confirming he is a genocide denier’. He has also declared: ‘Zionism is in its dying stages, but things will likely get worse before they get better.’"
No surprise that people associated with a toxic movement is toxic. The "pro-Palestine" people are terrible people

Revealed: Jonathan Powell’s wife has defended Hamas | The Spectator - "Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, took flak last week after appearing to support Palestine Action, the banned terror group, on Twitter. The police looked, but took no further action. The Spectator can reveal that there is vastly more material, far more controversial than this, in Helm’s tweets. Helm has defended Hamas, questioned reports of mass rape by the terror group, blamed the 7 October attacks on the creation of Israel in 1948, compared Israel to the Nazis, and appeared to praise Syria’s then dictator Bashar al-Assad for remarks in which he had called the Jewish state an ‘outlaw colonial entity’ populated by ‘herds of settlers that are closer to barbarism than to humanity.’ She has also called for western military intervention against Israel and attacked her husband’s own government for its ‘complicity’ and ‘appeasement’ towards Tel Aviv. Here are some of the highlights. All of these posts are still up at the time of writing and several were made while Powell was serving as national security adviser. What on earth must the pillow-talk in the Powell-Helm household be like?"

Campaign Against Antisemitism on X - "The police have now reportedly announced that Sarah Helm’s post did not reach the criminal threshold and therefore that no further action will be taken.  So it’s illegal to express support for a proscribed terrorist organisation if you’re an ordinary person, but if you allegedly do it when you’re the wife of the National Security Advisor, that’s okay?  Aren’t we supposed to be a country where everyone is equal under the law?  With decisions like this, it’s no wonder that 89% of British Jews think the authorities are not doing enough to tackle political extremism.  Police inaction in this high-profile case beggars belief. It’s another nail in the coffin of British justice."

Visegrad24 | Facebook - "🇳🇱🇮🇱 Sarah Hildering van Lith, a non-Jewish Amsterdam-born music executive at Universal Music Group, says she fled the Netherlands for Israel after a wave of antisemitic threats, intimidation, and attacks following October 7. Hildering herself is also a terror attack survivor. On October 7, 2004,  exactly 19 years before the Hamas massacre, Palestinian terrorists bombed the Taba Hilton in Sinai where she was staying as a teenager. She survived but permanently lost 60% hearing in one ear. Things escalated dramatically in March 2024. While unlocking her front door in Amsterdam, she says a Moroccan Muslim man approached her screaming: “Cancer Jew wh*re, I’m going to rape you.” Within seconds, two other Muslim men reportedly joined him after hearing the word “Jew.” Hildering believes she was targeted because she wore a Star of David necklace. She later described seeing Amsterdam radically change after October 7, saying her neighborhood became covered in Palestinian and Hamas flags. During an interfaith dialogue initiative backed by Amsterdam’s mayor, she says one Muslim cultural leader openly defended “jihad” as synonymous with the caliphate while others nodded in agreement. In another incident in May 2025, Hildering says a man driving beside her on an Amsterdam highway made a throat-slitting gesture, displayed Hamas imagery on his car, then allegedly tried to force her into a near-fatal crash while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” After moving to a Jewish neighborhood hoping to feel safer, her new home was burglarized in what she believes was a targeted attack. Around €30,000–€40,000 worth of valuables, heirlooms, jewelry, and Israel-related items were stolen. Neighbors reportedly captured footage of a van surveilling her home for days beforehand. “I thought I would grow old and die in Amsterdam. I never imagined myself fleeing my birth city for safety reasons.”"
Damn Mossad!

TrendingPolitics.ca on X - "A fire truck responding to an emergency in Vancouver was forced to wait after pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the street, leaving crews unable to get through."
Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 on X - "The trucker convoy in Ottawa had daily coordination with the police, and agreed to keep a lane clear for emergency vehicles. They were still prosecuted with a vicious vendetta. Pro-Hamas extremists, many of them foreign nationals, block firetrucks with impunity. #TwoTier"
Protests are only a sacred right that cannot be interfered with in democracies if they push the left wing agenda

Maral Salmassi on X - "Amsterdam, 2026. Why are we tolerating this?"
leekern on X - "You wanted globalise the intifada? Cool. Now you have masked muslim psychopaths marching the streets of Europe holding the machine gun flag of Islamic terror groups like Hezbollah Their name means “the party of Allah” and their goal is to murder and subjugate humanity until Islam reigns supreme"

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "TERRIFYING: In Amsterdam, Netherlands, Muslims and far-left activists with Hamas flags openly call for jihad.  I don’t think Europe is taking this Islamic threat very seriously. What do you think will happen when these terrorists realize they cannot destroy Israel?  That’s right. They’ll do to their host countries what they want to do to Israel. Dark days ahead."
"We support Hamas" signs. Clearly, this is Mossad's doing!

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar reveals that their true goal is to wipe out all Christians and Jewish people across the world. “To create a world where Judaism and Christianity do not exist.”"

Owen Jones on X - "When the Zionist movement was promised Palestine by the British Empire, 90% of its people were Arab Muslims and Christians. The Zionist movement of the era echoed the colonialist mantras of the time to justify taking the land away from the people who actually lived there."
Mor Edge Insight on X - "This is exactly why an uneducated socialist pleb like @owenjonesjourno  is simply the last person anybody should ever even take seriously. He literally makes up everything he claims. None of it has any historical legitimacy. He’s a charlatan and a propagandist, and nothing more.   Jones is treating 1917 as year zero. It isn’t.  When the British promised a Jewish national home, Jews were already the largest community in Jerusalem and, by the later Ottoman counts, the majority.   The Prussian consul in 1844 put Jews ahead of Muslims and Christians in the city. By the 1880s they were the vast majority. Yet Herzl didn’t publish “The Jewish State” until 1896.   The people Jones says “actually lived there” didn’t include, in his telling, the Jews who already did.  His 90 percent figure is a countrywide snapshot of a thinly governed Ottoman district, not a title deed. And the promise wasn’t the whole map. In 1922 Britain cut the Mandate at the Jordan River. About three-quarters of the original territory, the part that became Transjordan, was closed to Jewish settlement and handed to an Arab emirate. The Jewish national home was what was left west of the river. That partition happened before a single refugee from 1948 existed.  Arabs did move into western Palestine in the Mandate years. British officials recorded illegal and unrecorded immigration from Syria, Egypt, and Transjordan into the towns the new economy was building. People moved toward jobs which the Jews created.   And none of this explains 1834. In Safed, Arab and Druze mobs looted the Jewish quarter for 33 days, killing and raping hundreds of Jews, while Egypt was fighting a peasant revolt. In Hebron the same summer, Jews who had taken no side were killed, synagogues wrecked, the quarter stripped. Herzl wasn’t even born.  There was no Zionist movement, no Balfour, no occupation to blame. The attacks still happened.  Jones isn’t describing the historical record. He is inventing a history that simply never existed, starting it at 1917, and omitting everything that came before it."

💀 Bisexual Selena 💀 on X - "Reminder that Israel has destroyed the whole town of Bethlehem and yet not a single Christian has spoke up about it since then"
Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "Bethlehem was 80% Christian under Israeli control. Then the city was transferred to the Palestinian Authority in 1995. 30 years later, it is now less than 10% Christian. Making the birth town of Jesus Muslim-majority was always an Islamic goal."
Time to get Christians to condemn the Israeli persecution of Christians

Meme - ""Activist for the Worker" vs. The Worker
*Man in red balaclava and topless waving Palestine flag with graffiti*
*Worker cleaning up graffiti*"

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "BREAKING: An extremist Palestine supporter just carried out Australia's first attempted political assassination in thirty years. Radical left-wing terrorist and Houthi supporter Brendan Nugent rammed independent MP Helen Haines with his car, shattering her lower body and critically injuring her. She will probably lose both her legs and could still die of critical injuries.  Pray for Helen's recovery. She is actually a progressive MP who spoke out for Gaza, yet the crazy terrorist still targeted her."
The "pro-Palestine" crowd are the worst.
Time to crush the "far right"!
Leopards eating people's faces is only for people who threaten the left wing agenda

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Horrific news: Australian MP Helen Haines will never walk again as a result of Monday’s far-left terror attack. Doctors had to amputate both her legs.   Her attacker was radicalised on the fringes of the Palestine movement in Australia. He supported the Houthis and expressed support for Hamas.   The anti-Israel movement in Australia has so much blood on its hands. 15 dead at Bondi and now an Australian MP forced to amputate both legs. Out of control. The anti-Zionists are literally a biblical plague on any nation that allows their movement to fester"

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Australian Federal Police commissioner Krissy Barrett just tried to say that Pauline Hanson’s cartoon series was morally responsible for the far-left terrorist attack on Helen Haines. She needs to resign. Labor obviously put her up to this to try push the Digital Duty of Care bill and censorship against the Australian right. Just sickening attempts to weaponise a far-left terror attack to destroy the Australian right with censorship. We literally have the attacker’s Twitter account. He had TEN THOUSAND left wing tweets and they are still trying to pin this on the right. They were itching from the very first seconds of the attack to blame this on the right to justify censorship against right wingers."

The Daily Telegraph on X = "Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has deflected questions about a reported ‘dirt sheet’ his office compiled on independent MP Helen Haines last month, instead praising her as a “good local member”."
Dave Hughes on X - "He used taxpayer funds in an attempt to ruin Helen Haines political career only a few weeks ago and on Monday night he called her ‘A beacon of light’ with ‘the highest integrity’. We all have been let down so badly. My god, no wonder Australia is tanking so hard."

Zionism And Anti-Zionism | Facebook - "Antizionism did not appear ex nihilo; it evolved from classical antisemitism, adapting old libels into new, contextually plausible forms. Its core accusations—colonizer, apartheid, and genocide—can all be understood as ideological mutations of earlier anti-Jewish tropes. The charge of “colonizer” reframes the classical image of the Jew as a foreign usurper or parasitic outsider, a theme recurring in the writings of Marr, Drumont, Stoecker, and refined within Nazi racial doctrine. The accusation of “apartheid” secularizes an older anti-Judaic trope: that Jews, as a self-declared “chosen people,” separate themselves from and despise others—an image now transmuted into the claim that Zionists are inherently racist. The genocide libel forms a crucial evolutionary link: the Nazis claimed that Jews were plotting to exterminate the German people, while the Mufti of Jerusalem broadcast on Nazi radio that Zionists intended to annihilate the Arabs. Classical antisemitism was animated by fantasies of Jewish takeover and national extinction—fantasies now projected onto Israel itself. Yet evolution is not identity. Antizionism is not the same as classical antisemitism, just as Homo sapiens is not Homo erectus. It is a descendant, not a replica—a new formation bearing the inherited structure of accusation, but expressed in a different moral and political language."

Meme - Dr. Eli David: "Let that sink in: Arabs have more rights in Israel than in any Arab country."
Yaron Samid @yaron...: "Hi, @grok. In which Muslim countries do Arabs have more rights than in Israel?"
Grok @grok: "None. Per Freedom House 2026, Israel scores 73 (Free). No Muslim-majority country scores higher: Senegal 70 (Free), Albania 69 (Partly Free), Indonesia 56, Malaysia 53. Arab states score far lower (e.g. Egypt 18, Saudi Arabia 9, Iran 10). Israeli Arabs hold full citizenship, vote, and serve in the Knesset and courts."

Chrissie Mayr🇺🇸 on X - "Remember when mainstream media claimed this footage did not exist when Donald Trump said it did, trying to paint him as racist and a liar? I remember."
On Palestinians cheering after 9/11

UC Merced professor calls for ‘dezionization’ of University of California system - "A University of California Merced professor of history and critical race and ethnic studies recently called for the “dezionization” of the UC system.  Sean Malloy, who according to his faculty page researches “colonialism, war, white supremacy, and the critical study of Zionism,” writes in the Ethnic Studies Council at UC Substack that Zionism is a “driving force behind many of the external and internal threats to the UC and its faculty, staff, and students.”... Eight years ago, Malloy was apoplectic about a “threatening” display put up by the UC Merced College Republicans that included the phrases “I Love Undocumented Firearms” and “ICE ICE Baby.”  Malloy was “disgusted that some of [UC Merced] students would advocate for the government-sponsored ethnic cleansing of their fellow students,” and ripped the university for standing for the First Amendment in the face of such “terrorism.”"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Yesterday, Islamists entered a church and slaughtered over a half dozen Christians in Jordan. Cenk Uygur? Silent. Mehdi Hasan? Silent. Ms. Rachel? Silent."
Damn Jews spitting on Christians!

Mor Edge Insight on X - "Just a reminder that between 1913 and 1923 the Turks committed not one, not two, but THREE genocides. The Armenian genocide, Assyrian genocide, and the Greek genocide. The Turks also currently illegally occupy Cyprus, for the past 50 years. The Turks also illegally occupy Northern Syria.   But yeah, let’s invert reality and just blame Israel🤦🏼‍♂️"

Left Wing Cope on Bioware's Collapse

This also applies to other left wing straw men, e.g. "Star Wars was always political" or "Marvel was always political"

It's interesting how left wingers claim realism is important when they don't want bikini armour, but isn't important when you want to push the left wing agenda. Ergo, "You can accept dragons, elves and talking trees, but you can't accept a 2021 BMW 5 Series 530i with optional heated seating. Why are you so bigoted? *Battle of Pelennor Fields*"  

SirD 🇺🇸 on X

You guys ready to drop BOMBS on these left-wing culture war leeches rising up to "blame and fight with the chuds", in the face of the closure of BioWare?

Let's go:

DEBUNKING EVERY. SINGLE. LEFT-WING CULTURE WAR ARGUMENT & STRAW MAN IN GAMING DISCOURSE 💣💥:

"Games were always political!"––
Everyone understands the difference between telling a fictional political story, and politicization. Political stories created for the purpose of entertainment are great. Doing veiled gender propaganda is just subversive, obnoxious, and annoying. 

It also muddies the waters and damages the quality of games/the hobby at large.

"If the chuds know games so well, why aren't they making their own games?!"––
Nearly every single successful video game IP that has EVER been created in the west, was originally developed by "the chuds." Aka overwhelmingly straight white nerds and dudebros. 

You're seeing less of that today because leftists brought DEI to the industry, allowing them to subvert merit and actually get jobs. Then they refuse to hire anyone who isn't also a leftist. Hence why all the beloved IPs keep getting coopted then destroyed. Oh and Japanese/eastern games are chud games.

"You just hate diversity!"––
Diversity has been a thing in video games since their inception. You'd know that if you weren't a tourist. It was never a problem. We hate *manufactured* / inauthentic diversity that breeds caricatures, rather than characters born from a genuine creative vision.

"You just think gay/trans = woke!"––
See above. No we don't. Though there's a lot less tolerance for gay shit in the industry now because there's an overt agenda to force 100x more of it into everything, regardless of whether it fits. Literally shit like the "ExecuPride LGBTQ+ Ratings System" that scores companies from 0-7 for their "queer inclusion" and financially incentivizes more of it.

"You just hate fictional women who weren't created to appeal to you!"––
Uh yeah, no shit. We also hate men who weren't created to appeal to us. When you make a video game you should aim to appeal to your audience. Crazy, I know. Men and women have different preferences for what we think is "cool" or "appealing," depending on the gender of the characters, but we actually align more than you think of female characters. A

A baddie who is also cool, intelligent, and exciting is going to be 100x more interesting to a dude than some mopey, androgynous turbodyke who "misses mah gurl" and is always sad about her problems.

"That's misogyny/objectification!"––
No it isn't, you don't know what those words mean. We're discussing fictional characters not real women. If I refused to engage with a real woman because she's ugly, that would be misogyny/sexism/objectification. 

If I refuse to play a video game or dislike a female fictional character because she's ugly, that's just me having preferences and standards for fiction like a normal person. Learn the difference between fiction and reality, it's not complicated. How we feel about fictional characters says nothing, zero, about how we treat or feel about real women.

"So you just want oversexualized DOLLS who you can goon to?? Get a girlfriend!"––
People will genuinely come on here and say, "everything around me has to be objectively ugly, covered and modest, or I will compulsively masturbate." You're projecting. We're discussing appeal and preferences for video game characters, not masturbation or fucking porn.

"If you don't intend to masturbate then what does it matter? Wanting romance or sexuality in games is loser behavior."––
On the contrary, relationships and romance have been present in games (especially RPGs) since their inception. It's a perfectly normal thing to want in story games and RPGs. For many, it simply increases their appeal, enhancing immersion, your character's story, and your degree of choice in the fictional world.

"Video games don't revolve around you!"––
Uh, as a straight male, they kind of do. We are the overwhelming majority of the gaming audience, aka the paying customers who are keeping the lights on. I can guarantee you I speak for the majority, even if many of them don't understand the culture war or even realize it. Not every game needs to be for me, but if you're trying to make the next blockbuster hit, good luck if you decide to ignore my preferences.

"Oh yeah? Well they don't NEED to appeal to you!"––
No shit. It's fine if you want to make a game that doesn't appeal to straight men. Just stop deceptively marketing them - market your games to the gay, women, whatever and stop trying to hide it. We have never had a problem with you guys having separate games made especially for you. 

The problem is you keep coopting, and changing, established franchises. It's subversive, divisive, harmful, and it deserves criticism... especially when you market them as if nothing at all has changed.

"50% of gamers are women, actually!"––
Sure, if you consider playing a fucking Match5 mobile phone game for 45 minutes once a week or less to be enough to constitute "being a gamer." Men outnumber women in console/PC gaming/handheld gaming, and when you look at who games at least 5+ hours per week (again, not mobile), it's not close. 

As you increase the hours from 5/wk, the gap grows even wider. "Serious gamers" who buy the majority of products are still overwhelmingly men. Women are still overwhelmingly more on the casual side.

"It makes no sense for women to wear makeup in combat roles! It makes no sense that she's cute or feminine! We want realism!"––
No you don't. The realism nonsense is an excuse. If you wanted realism, women would barely even be IN combat roles. Also, sorry to burst your bubble, but a 280lbs of solid muscle turbodyke leading a squad of Gears into combat is not "more realistic" than a woman making herself look more presentable in public. What you "want" is to blur the lines between men and women.

You believe the way women are portrayed in games "creates harmful standards." You also believe femininity is a social construct of "the patriarchy." You want to subvert and deny "the male gaze" while making troons feel better. Most women who are *actually gamers* don't even want this, btw. 

You took it upon yourselves to change the way women are portrayed, when women were already happy with this overwhelmingly. If you're skeptical, go take a look at the most cosplayed characters. Look at the characters girl-gamers are buying merch for. Ask them their favorite character - it's VASLTY more likely to be Lara Croft, Jill Valentine, Tifa, etc. than it is to be Mags fucking Carter or Abby from TLOU2, lol.

"X franchise, series, or IP was always like... super gay and woke!"––
Shut the fuck up, no it wasn't. You guys always do this weird revisionist shit. You tried this shit with Dragon Age: Origins, when it was one of the most chud games to ever chud. A straight male-centric power fantasy from top to bottom. 1 optional gay romance and 1 gender ambiguous character with 10 minutes of screentime doesn't negate this. If you're still skeptical, see the attached screenshot below.

"Get woke go broke is a myth!"––
It's exaggerated, but not really. There are exceptions to every rule (ex: Spider-Man, enjoyed by kids and normies everywhere). Nearly every woke game sells less than they otherwise would if they weren't woke. 

Usually massively - for example selling half or a quarter as much as previous (not woke) franchise entries. And that's setting aside the rapidly growing, insane number of once beloved studios that started doing woke shit, only to completely fucking implode, get hit with mass layoffs, closures, disastrous sales, humiliating game launches, etc. 

You idiots also have the foresight of a peanut, so you don't understand the severity of long term reputational damage, either. You might get by unscathed, with relatively high sales for 1-2 games. But keep burning the target audience, creating to spite the majority's preferences, and it WILL catch up.

"This game has progressive politics and themes!"–– If it's done right, we don't give three quarters of a fuck if a game has progressive politics and themes. Go look at the popularity of Metal Gear Solid. Dragon Age. Mass Effect. And many others. As I said, there's an OBVIOUS difference between politicization, and fictional political stories. We all see that difference.

"Games are woke unless they're good, or you guys personally like them!"––
No, games are woke if they are woke. Woke literally means, "this game was deliberately created to spite the preferences of the majority male audience, despite pretending it wasn't and marketing itself otherwise." Woke refers to games made by devs whose creativity is agenda driven. Woke games often have thinly, or not so thinly veiled propaganda.

"Baldur's Gate 3 was super woke and it sold 20 million units. Take that, chud."––
See screenshots below, and learn to have independent thoughts and arguments rather than just fucking regurgitating the same dumb shit everyone else in your sociology classroom is saying. BG3 is "optionally" woke. And it's *completely* optional. This is not the case AT ALL with most woke games. 

Links - 12th November 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

Michigan Activists Lose Fight to Remove Display of 3 Wise Men From Public School Roof - "A Michigan school board decided on Monday to keep Christmas decorations on top of the elementary school’s roof despite activists claiming the display is too religious. The three wise men, a biblical reference to Jesus Christ’s birth, are displayed on Newaygo Elementary School’s roof. The Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists argued the Christmas display went against the separation of church and state"
From 2018

Collin Rugg on X - "Ms. Rachel blasts a children's soccer league for "racism" after a child's parents claim the cops were called on him for being "too good" at soccer. The man who called the police is black. He called the police because the boy's parents were being disruptive. Is there a single hoax she won't believe?"
Of course, all the other shameless left wing and black grifters were jumping on the same bandwagon

Dan Burmawi on X - "The West Got the Islam Islamic Countries Restrict
About 16,000 jihadists from the Middle East and North Africa went to fight with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq. That region has about 414 million Muslims, 94 percent of its population. Western Europe, where Muslims number about 26 million, under 5 percent of the population, produced more than 5,000. That is one jihadist for every 25,000 or so Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa, and one for every 5,000 in Western Europe, more than four times the rate. The gap widens in individual countries. Belgium, with about 860,000 Muslims, produced roughly 500 jihadists, one for every 1,700. France, with 5.7 million Muslims, produced about 1,700, one for every 3,400. Indonesia, with about 239 million Muslims, produced about 600, one for every 400,000. Belgium’s rate is roughly two hundred times Indonesia’s. A study coordinated by Germany’s federal criminal police found that in 2025, 23.8 percent of Muslims in Germany called an Islamic theocracy the best form of government, up from 18.7 percent in 2021, and 25.1 percent put the rules of the Koran above German law. In France, 24 percent of Muslims told IFOP they sympathize with the Muslim Brotherhood, whose founder called restoring the caliphate an obligation on every Muslim. Muslims in the West are a small minority in rich, safe, free countries. Muslims in the Islamic world are the majority, and Islam runs their courts, their schools and their calendars. The second group should be the more militant one. The first is, by a wide margin. So what is happening? Why does Islam in the West, at a fraction of the numbers, produce more jihad per head than the Muslim world does?
For thirteen centuries Islam divided the world into the House of Islam and the House of War. Jihad was a divine duty of Muslims, led by the ruler. Peoples who surrendered paid the jizya and lived as dhimmis, and those who refused were fought. Jihad was the foreign policy doctrine of the Islamic Caliphate since the days of Muhammad. The last caliph to officially use this doctrine was Sultan Mehmed V, who in November 1914 proclaimed jihad against Britain, France and Russia and called on Muslims everywhere to rise. On March 3, 1924, Turkey abolished the caliphate, and the governments that subsequently took control of Muslim lands kept the shell while abandoning the doctrines. They did not retain jihad, dhimma, or the full application of sharia law. Yet these countries are called Islamic, while the thousands of Islamic groups that emerged after the caliphate’s fall to continue jihad until Allah’s rule is established over the entire earth were given a label of Western invention: “Islamism.” Under Muslim dictatorships, Islam is permitted where it serves the ruler and suppressed where it threatens him. The regime keeps the religious restrictions, the conservative customs and the demands for personal obedience. It allows Islam to govern people’s clothing, relationships and private conduct, but refuses to let an independent Islamic movement decide who has the right to rule. The ruler wants the population controlled by Islam without having his own authority challenged by it. That’s why those Muslim rulers can wage war against Islamic terrorism even though they are Muslims: because for these rulers, not for their people, trying to impose an Islamic political order is terrorism, and anyone among their people who says otherwise gets punished. Yet their people, just like the rulers themselves, know that establishing an Islamic political order is the heart of Islam, but they can’t say it openly out of fear. Those who try to accomplish it indirectly, like the Muslim Brotherhood, get banned, and those who try to establish it directly face war. Take the leash off and see what Muslims in the Islamic world will do. In Egypt, the moment the dictator fell in 2011, 13.2 million Egyptians voted for the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate in a country where elections were controlled by the army, the same army that removed the Muslim Brotherhood’s president a year later. When Assad’s authority collapsed across much of Syria, almost all those who could joined Islamic terrorist groups: hundreds of thousands of them, spread across more than a thousand units by 2014. The fall of Saddam showed the world what happens when Muslims are no longer suppressed by a dictator and get to choose which version of Islam they believe in. In Jordan, four members of parliament visited Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s family home after he was killed to mourn him and call him a martyr, while hundreds of mourners flocked to the tent. This was the man who had bombed three Amman hotels the year before and killed Jordanians. If it weren’t for fear, millions would have gone to mourn Zarqawi.
Islamism is simply Islam practiced in freedom.
In the West, Islam has room to pursue the political ambitions that Muslim dictators keep under lock and key. A movement banned in its country of origin can establish an organization in London, recruit followers, raise money and preach that Allah’s law must govern society. The ruler who would have jailed its leaders is gone. In his place stands a democracy that protects their right to organize, without examining what they are organizing to achieve... Twenty years ago, I remember Muslim families in the West returning to their home countries when their children reached adolescence because the parents feared what Western freedom would do to them."

Britons were black ‘before these isles were British’, says Horrible Histories - "Early Britons were black “before these isles were British”, BBC children’s series Horrible Histories will tell its younger viewers in its first ever episode dedicated to black history... One song will touch on Britain’s prehistoric population having dark skin “before these Isles were British”, in reference to the probable skin colour of the 10,000-year-old Cheddar Man remains... “When we started out we had no idea of the responsibility we would end up having. There is an onus on us to get it right.”... There was widespread anger last year at the lyrics which cited tea, sugar, cotton and even Queen Victoria as examples of supposedly “British things” that are “from abroad” or “frankly stolen”."
From 2021. If you push the left wing agenda, you're morally right even if factually wrong, which is all that matters

No, the first Britons were not ‘black’ - spiked - "The idea that the native inhabitants of a nation have some kind of mystical connection with the land is something usually associated with the ultra-nationalist far right. So why are self-professed anti-racists now trying to bring back this blood-and-soil mindset? Last month, the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in Brixton, south London hosted an exhibition claiming that the first Britons were black. The Brilliant Black British History exhibition was based on the children’s book of the same name by Nigerian-born poet and author Atinuke. The exhibition, funded by both Lambeth Council and Arts Council England, made some truly astonishing claims. Visitors to the exhibit were told that ‘Britain was black for 7,000 years’ before white people arrived. Apparently, scientists have discovered that ‘the first migrants to Britain around 12,000 years ago had black skin’. This seems to be based on the contentious genetic study that claimed the Cheddar Man – the 10,000-year-old set of remains found in Somerset – was likely to have had ‘dark to black skin’. Of course, that would not have made the Cheddar Man ‘black’ in any meaningful sense. It would be ludicrous to suggest that the dark-skinned, blue-eyed people who inhabited most of western Europe 10,000 years ago had any concept at all of ‘blackness’. And it is even more ridiculous to suggest that the pigmentation of the Cheddar Man’s skin meant that he shared the same ethnicity as today’s Brits of African and Caribbean descent. Undeterred by these inconvenient facts, the exhibition goes on to claim that Emperor Septimius Severus, who died in York in the 3rd century AD, was ‘a black Roman ruler’. As it turns out, Severus was born in North Africa, a fact that has been taken to mean he was ‘black’. In fact, it is much more likely that Severus was of Italian and Middle Eastern descent. The curators make this mistake once again when they claim that a whopping 11 per cent of Roman York was black. This seems to come from a misunderstanding of a 2009 study, which found that one group of human remains in York was composed mainly of migrants from North Africa. Amazingly, the content of the BCA exhibition was actually a lot tamer than the children’s book it was based on. Atinuke’s Brilliant Black British History tells young readers that black people built Stonehenge, that ‘every single British person comes from a migrant’ and that Britain’s population was majority black for longer than it has been majority white. These claims are skewed, to say the least. But perhaps more importantly, most Brits wouldn’t care even if they did prove to be true... Regular Brits might not care about the skin colour of their ancient forebears, but our cultural institutions clearly do. The BCA is a charity supported by, among others, Lambeth Council, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the British Film Institute. Until 2021, it was even working with the Home Office. Our educational institutions also seem keen on peddling identitarian falsehoods. In December last year, it emerged that some schoolkids across the UK were being falsely taught that St Hadrian of Canterbury – an abbot living in 7th-century England – was black. He wasn’t. He was born in Libya and was probably of Berber descent. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the BBC has also got in on the action. Beloved kids’ series Horrible Histories recently came out with a song called ‘Been Here From the Start’. The lyrics imply that black people have always maintained a significant presence in Britain. The supposedly educational, non-fiction show omits the fact that this is patently untrue. This obsession with inventing an alternative black British history is deeply unhealthy for all of us. For starters, there are plenty of black Britons who really were black and who really did make significant contributions to our history. Making demonstrably false claims about black people being the true natives of the British Isles both ignores the real black figures of British history and revives some pretty ugly nativist notions. As an organisation that claims to dedicate itself to both education and anti-racism, the Black Cultural Archives should know better than to spread this kind of divisive nonsense."

The first Britons were Black, exhibition on diverse history claims - "In 2018, it was announced that a genetic study of Cheddar Man, the oldest set of human remains to have been found in Briton, suggested that “giveaway” genes meant he likely had blue eyes and a range of possible skin pigmentations from “dark to black”... But the leader of the genetic study, Susan Walsh, clarified that Cheddar Man’s appearance was uncertain, while a separate 2017 study from geneticist Sarah Tishkoff found that predicting likely pigmentation based on “giveaway” genes was inaccurate... Cambridge historian Professor David Abulafia said: “The Brixton expo is new to me but the tendentious tone seems to be exactly what I would expect. I am totally nonplussed by the obsession with the skin colour of people in Britain’s remote past. “They are unlikely to have existed and even if they did they didn’t pass on their dark skin to modern Britons. Most black Britons are ultimately of African descent. “Judging people by skin colour is racist and I don’t understand why anyone of any colour would think it is desirable. “And that applies to diatribes against ‘white males’ as well as against black or brown people. “The presence of a very small number of Africans in this country over the two millennia up to the 19th century is exaggerated out of all proportion. And most of these ‘Africans’ were from the north of the continent and white or light brown.”"

Ukpahiojo James on X - "“Religion was invented to control people.” You really think men invented a religion that tells them to love their enemies, forgive those who hurt them, and pray for those who persecute them? 🤔"
John Wright on X - "“Religion was invented to control people.” Only people who want to control people recite this absurdity: Revolutionaries, Anarchists, and Marxists. Because empty men cannot envision any other motive for anything. Christianity is abolished the slave trade, humbled emperors, curtailed kings, forbade usury, sanctified monogamy, banished pederasty, bestiality, and other perversions. Not only does it NOT control people, it preaches self control, and opposes every force of tyranny external and internal, secular or spiritual."

Meme - Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk: "Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has responded to the unacceptable online abuse directed at a Met officer who received an award at yesterday's annual Police Federation Conference. PC Fiona Shaik Umar was recognised for the outstanding contribution she has made for women in policing."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "The vast majority of criticism was not because she is Muslim, but because she was not following very basic gun safety rules. Her finger was on the trigger and she pointed the barrel of the gun at a fellow officer."
Meme - "Women in Firearms Attachment *female police officer with finger on trigger, pointing gun at male colleague's thigh*"

Meme - jackie @SubccubusGirl: "i tried to donate blood today, i had an appointment, and they turned me away. apparently you still can’t donate blood if you’re on PrEP or had anal sex within 3 months? (both disqualified me) i thought they unbanned gays from donating? how is this not de facto discrimination?"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "US FDA blood donation guidelines apply the same individual risk-based questions to all donors regardless of orientation, deferring for recent anal sex with new/multiple partners or PrEP use to protect the blood supply as these can affect HIV detection."
Jail him for promoting homophobic stereotypes!

Meme - AG @AGHamilton29: "That awkward feeling where you’re a member of Congress parroting the same bogus talking points as neo-Nazis and they notice…"
Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes: "AOC is more America First than 99% of Republicans."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "An unspoken secret in Congress is that much of the reflexive, blind, unconditional vote support for nearly any Israeli gov action isn't from actual agreement..."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "You are a white supremacist and I want nothing to do with you nor the world you imagine. I believe in a multiracial democracy, one of economic rights, civil liberties, and that affirms the working class and the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people. These are not small differences. They are irreconcilable. White supremacy is a scourge and must be disavowed in all places."
As left wingers keep telling us, if a Nazi is at the table with 9 others, there're 10 Nazis at the table

Jacqueline Thomsen on X - "New: A lawyer’s misconduct complaint against US District Judge Ada Brown stemmed from a hearing during which she repeatedly directed racial insults at him, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg Law."
Mary Katharine Ham on X - "A judge bullies a lawyer she thinks is white, but is actually Latino, calling him a “chad” and “Mr. Social Media, Main Character Chad, White Hero, Savior, Loves to Help Black People Be An Ally.” The percentage of unhinged educated people one encounters these days is disconcerting. This account goes on and on. She doesn’t think she was out of line."

The Free Speech Union on X - "🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Blasphemy law is back — but it only applies to Muslims. FSU member and retired police officer Stephen Gray was found guilty of being "grossly offensive", a criminal offence under s127 of the Communications Act 2003, for repeating a joke about Mohammed. Stephen reposted a message he saw on Facebook that said: “Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9 year old!” While giving evidence, Stephen explained that the post was a reference to the marriage between the Prophet Mohammed and Aisha — which was consummated when she was just nine years old, after he married her when she was six. Stephen said the post was intended to be satirical but he also hoped it would spark a serious debate: did that marriage, as recorded in the Hadiths, contribute to the acceptability of child marriage in Muslim countries? District Judge Steven Hood found the post to be “grossly offensive” and dismissed Stephen's defence that it was making a serious political point about the acceptability of child marriage. He found that the post was designed to be offensive and could not be making a serious point because it was light-hearted in nature. He concluded that a conviction would not amount to a disproportionate interference with Stephen’s right to freedom of expression. The Free Speech Union is helping Stephen appeal his conviction and has instructed a top criminal silk, John Beggs KC, to act for him. With your support, we hope to be able to pay for Stephen’s legal defence in the Crown Court and meet the costs of any further appeals. Please donate Stephen's crowdfunder in the link below. Earlier this year, the FSU paid for the defence of Hamit Coskun, who burnt a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London. He was initially convicted, but we managed to get that conviction overturned on appeal. When the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) then tried to appeal the acquittal, we took them on and won again. More recently, the Free Speech Union threatened South Wales Police with legal action after it adopted a draconian version of the Government’s definition of anti-Muslim hostility, instructing officers to record any comment that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam as a 'non-crime hate incident'. We won, and the force withdrew the guidance. Stephen’s case gives us another opportunity to reaffirm the principle that there is nothing illegal about criticising any religion, including Islam. It should not be a criminal offence to repost jokes about Islam that some Muslims find offensive. Read more below and please donate to our Crowdfunder 👇"

Basil the Great on X - "🚨NEWS: It has been revealed that Dr Farah Ahmed of Cambridge University previously wrote an article in which she claimed: "Muslims should study engineering and computers 'to produce advanced weaponry for Jihad in order that the deen [Islam] may dominate over all other" Is Cambridge going to fire her?"

The Food Professor on X - "The Canadian Press has seriously undermined its moral credibility. Using the September 11 attacks primarily as a vehicle for discussing Islamophobia demonstrates remarkably poor editorial judgment. Those attacks were perpetrated by 19 Islamist terrorists who murdered nearly 3,000 people, most of them Americans. For anyone old enough to remember September 11, the day remains profoundly painful and disturbing. Most of us remember exactly where we were when it happened. Anniversary coverage should focus first on the victims, the events themselves and how they changed the world forever—not subordinate that history to a contemporary political narrative. CP is not simply another newspaper: it is Canada’s national wire service. Its journalists produce stories that are distributed to subscribing newspapers, broadcasters and digital platforms across the country, where they may be published largely unchanged under a Canadian Press byline. That gives its editorial choices enormous reach. A questionable framing does not remain confined to one newsroom—it can be reproduced nationwide and presented as authoritative reporting. Canada faces a broader problem with the quality, balance and intellectual diversity of its media coverage. This may help explain the increasingly reflexive anti-Americanism shaping our public discourse. When a national wire service amplifies ideology instead of scrutinizing it, the effects reverberate throughout the entire media ecosystem. Informed debate suffers—and our democracy becomes more fragile by the day."

Brivael Le Pogam on X - "Here's how the system works. No conspiracy, no secret room. Something far more solid: a century of patience. It starts in an Italian prison. In the 1930s, Antonio Gramsci, locked up by Mussolini, tries to understand why the communist revolution failed in the West. The workers didn't follow. They were attached to their families, their faith, their homeland, their small property. His conclusion changed everything: you don't take power with rifles, you take it through culture. First you conquer the schools, the universities, the press, publishing, the theater. Once you control what people think, you don't need to seize the state. It falls on its own. In 1967, the German student leader Rudi Dutschke gave it a name: the long march through the institutions. In France, that march received a historic gift. At the Liberation, de Gaulle distrusted the communists. He refused them the Interior, Defense, and Foreign Affairs. He kept the sword but let the mind slip away. A commission chaired by two communists, Paul Langevin and then Henri Wallon, drew up the plan for France's postwar schools. The Communist Party presented itself as the party of the martyrs of the Resistance, and the intelligentsia fell in line: Sartre, Aragon, the journals, the publishing houses, the teachers' unions. The right kept the ministries, and the left took the minds. That was the founding mistake. People believed power lived in the state, when it actually lived in the heads of those who would run the state tomorrow. Then came May 68. From the intellectual ruins of that era, France gave the world Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, three brilliant minds who forged, in the elegance of our language, the weapon that would paralyze the West. Foucault taught that truth doesn't exist, only power relations disguised as knowledge. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning and that every reading is a betrayal. Deleuze taught that we should prefer desire to law, the nomad to the settler, becoming to being. Gramsci provided the strategy. French Theory provided the software. Those texts crossed the Atlantic. Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 80s, where they met American puritanism, its racial guilt, and its obsession with identity. Judith Butler read Foucault and invented performative gender. Edward Said read Foucault and invented postcolonialism. Then came intersectionality. The matrix was always the same: there is no truth, only power, so every hierarchy is suspect, every norm is violence, and every majority is guilty. The child of that marriage is called wokeism, and today it's coming back to us like a boomerang, in our own universities. Meanwhile, the infusion went on for forty years. A generation of professors trained a generation of journalists, judges, senior civil servants, and HR managers. Nobody needed to give orders. People came out of the same mold, hired those who thought like them, and pushed the others aside. That's what capturing an institution looks like: not a coup, but slow sedimentation. Above the nations, a structure was built that answers to no one. Europe, dreamed up as a common market among free peoples, became a machine for producing norms, directives, and regulations, far from voters, far from borders, far from reality. Today the loop is closed. In 2016, the Davos forum promoted a vision of 2030 summed up in one line: "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy." It came from a former Danish socialist minister. In Brussels, they passed the DSA, which turns platforms into auxiliaries of censorship. For years they've been negotiating a regulation that would allow your private messages to be scanned. They're preparing a digital ID and a digital euro. Every time with a nice justification, and every time with a little less freedom. And who's at the controls? Look at the résumés. Emmanuel Macron was a card-carrying member of the Socialist Party before becoming François Hollande's economy minister. Gabriel Attal was a Socialist Party activist for ten years and learned the trade in a socialist minister's office. They changed labels, not software. That software rests on one belief: human beings are interchangeable, and so are cultures. Mass immigration isn't a problem, then. It's a step toward a finally equal world. They don't understand that it's impossible by design. A culture doesn't vanish into a vacuum. When a civilization gives up on itself, another one, more sure of itself, takes its place. This left courted political Islam as an electoral base and an ally against "the system." But political Islam shares none of its dreams. It doesn't want an equal, borderless world. It has its own project. Those who thought they could use it will end up devoured by it. The craziest part is that there are hardly any true believers left. Inside these institutions, almost nobody sincerely believes in the project anymore. No small group is pulling the strings. There are incentives: thousands of people whose salaries, status, grants, and careers depend on keeping the fiction alive. Admitting they were wrong would cost them their position, their prestige, their standard of living. So they prefer the collective lie. They double down on what doesn't work, because admitting failure would cost them more than carrying on. It's that dumb. People who understood nothing about economics or human nature built a system that only holds as long as nobody looks at it. So here is the real fight of our time. It isn't left versus right. It's a simpler question: what world do we want? The first is a world of strong nations and strong cultures that respect each other because they know who they are. A world that welcomes people through assimilation, not dissolution. The second is a world of total dilution, where every culture melts into a tasteless mush with no memory and no roots. They sell it to you as diversity, but it's the opposite. Real diversity is different peoples remaining themselves. A world where everyone is the same, everywhere, isn't diverse. It's uniform. And a uniform world is the easiest one to control. For a century, this system seemed unstoppable. It held the schools, the press, the culture, and the institutions. It lacked one thing: someone powerful enough that he couldn't be bought, who decided to look and say what he saw. Elon Musk did it, and I have high hopes that he'll be the one to finish this project off. The lie had a century. The truth only needs a moment."

M.A. Rothman | Facebook - "𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘𝐂𝐀𝐌 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝟗𝟏𝟏 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐕𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 “𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃”
Ms. Rachel told her millions of followers: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘬, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. Her post claimed police were called on a 3-year-old Black boy because he was too good at soccer. Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III and attorney Ben Crump piled on. Griffin III wrote that 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝟑-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 was ridiculous, and also claimed the family had been escorted off the field with a trespass notice. Then the body cam footage and 911 audio came out. League director Thomas Hayes, who is also Black, told officers the parents were causing a disturbance and he wanted them removed. He said he had subbed the boy out so other kids could play, and that the boy was pushing other children. Hayes also said the boy was exceptionally talented and had scored plenty of goals. Winter Park police said the call was about the parents, and that 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵. They also said nobody was arrested, trespassed, or forced to leave the park. The boy's mother, Martasia Griffin, told officers on video: 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘳. The league, i9 Sports, says it is reviewing the incident and has contacted the family. By then the outrage had already gone viral, built on a version of events that the police and the recordings 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 — 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞."
This doesn't deter all the disgusting grifters like Ms Rachel. But then, there is no left wing bandwagon she won't shamelessly jump on

Emmanuel Ruimy on X - "Il y a quand même une différence entre l'extrême droite et l'extrême gauche qui m'a toujours fasciné.
L'extrême droite dit ce qu'elle est. Réactionnaire, ultra-conservatrice ou xénophobe : elle ne s'en cache absolument pas. Quand Zemmour déclare qu'on ne peut pas être français en ayant un prénom musulman, c'est choquant, mais au moins on sait à quoi s'en tenir.
L'extrême gauche, c'est l'inverse exact. Elle fait le contraire de ce qu'elle proclame.
- Elle se dit antifasciste. Et ce sont des miliciens cagoulés, se réclamant de l'antifascisme, qui sont aujourd'hui mis en examen pour avoir lynché à mort un jeune homme de 23 ans sur un trottoir de Lyon.
- Elle se dit anticonformiste. Mais elle vit dans des microcosmes sociaux très fermés, où l'on parle le même langage codé, et où le moindre écart vous vaut l'exclusion.
- Elle se dit antiraciste, mais elle trie les gens en « racisés » et en « blancs » et organise des réunions interdites à certains selon leur origine.
- Elle se dit du côté du pluralisme et du contre-pouvoir. Mais elle bloque des conférences, fait annuler des intervenants à l'université, réclame le boycott des médias qui lui déplaisent, arrive à faire censurer un journaliste sur un média de service public.
En résumé, l'extrême droite dit ce qu'elle veut faire, l'extrême gauche fait le contraire de ce qu'elle veut dire."

NHS invites white staff to take £250 ‘disrupt racism’ course - "An NHS trust has suggested its white staff sign up to a “disrupt racism” course. Staff at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon, Wiltshire, were sent a newsletter encouraging them to sign up to a programme for “white-identifying individuals” called From Allies to Disruptors. The course, from equality charity Brap, was one of a list of activities suggested to NHS staff for black history month. The letter says the £250 course, which involves six half-day online workshops and runs from November until April 2027, is designed for “individuals who are white and live in the world as white people”. “By understanding more about racialised dynamics, the programme will help you become a more confident disruptor of racism,” it says... Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, a director at Don’t Divide Us, a campaign group opposing racial identity politics, said it was “time to call enough on schemes like this”. She said: “It’s not only, or primarily, a question of wasted money and time; the embedded beliefs being promoted: that Britain is systemically and/or institutionally racist against black or brown ethnic minorities, and that white people need to be more effective ‘disruptors of racism’, actively sow grievance, division, entitlement and make solidarity more difficult.” “We need to be finding ways of building social bonds, not tearing them apart. No public institution should be outsourcing their moral responsibility – not to mention money – to address problems, where they exist and can be evidenced, to charities or companies who act in sectional rather than public interests,” Dr Cuthbert added."
Damn Tory underfunding destroying the NHS!

Xenophobia vs Cultural Appropriation

This famous essay was written in 1937 to mock American xenophobes. A century later, it is once again valuable to expose the vacuity of "cultural appropriation":

One Hundred Percent American

There can be no question about the average American’s Americanism or his desire to preserve this precious heritage at all costs. Nevertheless, some insidious foreign ideas have already wormed their way into his civilization without his realizing what was going on. Thus, dawn finds the unsuspecting patriot garbed in pajamas, a garment of East Indian origin; and lying in a bed built on a pattern which originated in either Persia or Asia Minor. He is muffled to the ears in un-American materials: cotton, first domesticated in India; linen, domesticated in the Middle East; wool from an animal native to Asia Minor; or silk whose uses were first discovered by the Chinese.

On awakening he glances at the clock, a medieval European invention, rises in haste, and goes to the bathroom. Here, if he stops to think about it, he must feel himself in the presence of a great American institution; he will have heard stories of both the quality and frequency of foreign plumbing and will know that in no other country does the average man or woman perform their ablutions in the midst of such splendor. But the insidious foreign influences pursue him even here. Glass was invented by the ancient Egyptians, the use of glazed tiles for floors and walls in the Middle East, porcelain in China, and the art of enameling on metal by Mediterranean artisans of the Bronze Age. Even his bathtub and toilet are but slightly modified copies of Roman originals. The only purely American contribution to the ensemble is the steam radiator, against which our patriot very briefly and unintentionally places his posterior.

Returning to the bedroom, the unconscious victim of un-American practices removes his clothes from a chair, invented in the Near East, and proceeds to dress. He puts on close-fitting tailored garments whose form derives from the skin clothing of the ancient nomads of the Asiatic steppes and fastens them with buttons whose prototypes appeared in Europe at the close of the Stone Age. He puts on his feet stiff coverings made from hide prepared by a process invented in ancient Egypt and cut to a pattern which can be traced back to ancient Greece and makes sure they are properly polished, also a Greek idea. Lastly, he ties about his neck a strip of bright-colored cloth, which is a vestigial survival of the shoulder shawls worn by seventeenth-century Croats. He gives himself a final appraisal in the mirror, an old Mediterranean invention and goes downstairs to breakfast.

Here a whole new series of foreign things confront him. His food and drink are placed before him in pottery vessels, the popular name of which – china – is sufficient evidence of their origin. His fork is a medieval Italian invention and his spoon a copy of a Roman original. He will usually begin his meal with coffee, an Abyssinian plant first discovered by Arabs. The American is quite likely to need it to dispel the morning after affects of over-indulgence in fermented drinks, invented in the Near East; or distilled ones, invented by the alchemists of medieval Europe.

If our patriot is old-fashioned enough to adhere to the so-called American breakfast, his coffee will be accompanied by an orange, or orange juice, domesticated in the Mediterranean region, a cantaloupe domesticated in Persia, or grapes domesticated in Asia Minor. From this he will go on to waffles, a Scandinavian invention, with plenty of butter, originally a Near-Eastern cosmetic.

Breakfast over, he sprints for his train – the train, not the sprinting, being an English invention. At the station, he pauses for a moment to buy a newspaper, paying for it with coins invented in ancient Lydia. Once on the train he settles back to inhale the fumes of a cigarette invented in Mexico, or a cigar invented in Brazil. Meanwhile, he reads the news of the day, imprinted in characters invented by the ancient Semites by a process invented in Germany upon a material invented in China. As he scans the latest editorial pointing out the dire results to our institutions of accepting foreign ideas, he will not fail to thank a Hebrew God in an Indo-European language that he is one hundred percent (decimal system invented by the Greeks) American (from Americus Vespucci, Italian geographer).

--- by Ralph Linton in The American Century (1937)

Links - 12th November 2026 (1 - Zohran Mamdani)

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.  We do not yet know the cause of death, but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction and its oversight partners will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.   Our administration is fully committed to the critical work of creating better conditions in our city’s jail system and closing Rikers Island as quickly as possible."
Adam Milstein on X - "Mamdani didn't name Jose Miranda. He named his killer. A homeless parolee with 30 arrests who took a father from his two children with a meat cleaver. What kind of backwards world are we living in??"

Immigrant businesses who spoke out against Mamdani supermarkets say they're getting hit with NYC sanitation fines - "Members of an immigrant business group that has spoken out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans for government-owned supermarkets lately have been getting slapped with fines from the city’s Sanitation Department — and some say it looks like a case of retaliation.  Diana Larrazabal, who owns flower and gift shop Aroma D’ Angel at 304 E. 116th St., said shops including hers in recent months have received a slew of citations from the New York City Department of Sanitation for garbage that isn’t even theirs.  Her flower and gift shop was dinged with fines three times this year — most recently for $350 in May. Many of her Spanish-speaking neighbors who are not bilingual lean on her to help them navigate the city’s red tape, she said, adding that they also are forking over hundreds of dollars in fines...   The coalition’s chairman, Frank Garcia, says the fines ramped up about two weeks ago when the group began pounding the pavement to speak with local business owners to get support for its suit. “When we started going door to door two weeks ago, that’s when the fines started,” Garcia told The Post, saying some have been served with penalties as stiff as $1,000. “The owners don’t speak English.”"

Exclusive | Mamdani accused of misusing NYC resources to boost Dems: ethics complaint - "Mayor Zohran Mamdani was slapped Tuesday with an ethics complaint from a watchdog group accusing him of misusing city resources to boost multiple Empire State Democrats, The Post has learned.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust urged the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board to launch a probe into Hizzoner’s endorsements of both Gov. Kathy Hochul’s re-election campaign and Lindsey Boylan’s failed bid for City Council...   The letter cited an advisory opinion from the board in 2009 advising Big Apple pols against using city resources to endorse candidates...   FACT noted that in all three instances, Mamdani stood behind the seal of New York City and that his team put transcripts of those press conferences on the city website. The watchdog is urging the board to “impose the proper penalties” on him. Mamdani’s predecessor, former Mayor Eric Adams, was hit with a $4,000 fine from the board in February after his staffers put multicolored whistles on reporters’ chairs during a press conference last year to jab at the harassment accusations against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo."

Farai Mazhindu on X - "The global left's obsession with turning a failing state into an ideological blueprint is the height of intellectual laziness and political delusion.  The fact that Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist politician from New York, looks at South Africa and sees a model to emulate proves just how detached Western progressive academics are from the brutal realities of African governance.  They treat lived economic tragedies as experimental playgrounds for their virtue signaling.  To look at South Africa and see an economic North Star requires a breathtaking level of willful blindness.   There is absolutely nothing good to copy from the South African reality.  The country is trapped in a low-growth loop, with astronomical unemployment rates and a completely suffocated private sector.  The municipal water networks are collapsing, and the national rail and logistics corridors are in shambles.  Law and order have effectively broken down, turning the country into one of the most violent, high-crime zones outside an active war theater.  Decades of porous borders and failed regional foreign policy have fueled explosive, unmanaged migration, sparking violent grassroots conflict.  Mamdani and the global left look at this smoking ruin and somehow see a progressive paradise, simply because the political rhetoric sounds nice in a Manhattan lecture hall.   The core defect of the socialist fantasy is that it is entirely obsessed with distributing wealth but utterly incapable of creating it. The strategy is always to "eat the rich" and penalize success. They overtax the productive middle class and the corporate sector to fund massive, unsustainable social grant systems.  When you destroy a business-friendly landscape, capital flees the country. Factories close. Intellectual property leaves. You cannot distribute wealth that has already fled the borders.  Once the rich are "eaten" and the business class is gone, the state is left with nothing but an impoverished population and a broken tax base. The "comrades" end up presiding over equalized misery rather than shared prosperity.  Western leftists like Mamdani love South Africa because they only engage with its symbols, the progressive constitution, the anti-apartheid history, the radical rhetoric of economic transformation.  They don't have to live with the rolling blackouts, the dry taps, or the fear of home invasions. They champion ideologies that kill production and development because they are completely insulated from the consequences of their own ideas.  Copying South Africa's current economic trajectory isn't a progressive strategy; it is a blueprint for national suicide."
Time to mock poor people for supposedly voting against their interests

Bring Your Crash Helmet to New York City - WSJ - "Walking or running in the Big Apple is becoming more perilous by the day as e-bikers and motor-scooters speed, ignore traffic signals, ride the wrong way on one-way streets or up on sidewalks and are otherwise reckless. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the self-styled man of the people, is looking the other way. He’s siding with delivery companies that prioritize rapid service over safety and resist accountability... “Micromobility”—people zipping around on small motorized vehicles—has brought challenges to traffic-law enforcement for years. But New York can’t seem to get its arms around the problem, and casualties are rising. There have been some 560 e-bike crashes in the city this year through the third week in July, up 28% from the same period last year. Add in scooters, and fatalities stand at 20, up from 13 last year. Survivors of accidents also pay a high cost. Doree Lewak, a contributing writer at the New York Post, has written about how, in 2019, she “was mowed down by a speeding food delivery worker—going the wrong direction on a one-way street and on the opposite side from the bike lane—on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, leaving me for dead.” For months, “it was difficult to speak, and the radiating pain was so intense that even modest movement—from laughing to getting dressed to turning on the shower—was wrenching,” she wrote. The e-bike problem got the attention of former mayor Eric Adams in 2025. He moved to regulate e-bikes, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s department began to issue criminal court summonses for reckless violations of traffic laws by their riders. She called the behavior “clearly unlawful, dangerous, and degrading of our collective quality of life in New York City.” But Mr. Mamdani, who took office in January, issued an executive order in March to the NYPD, putting an end to criminal summonses for e-bikers. His view seems to be that it’s cruel to hold bikers responsible when they break the law. Chaos in the streets has ensued. On July 7 a 43-year-old in the running lane on Central Park’s West Drive was rammed from behind by an e-biker traveling in the wrong direction. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and a broken elbow and needed three blood transfusions and skin grafts. A witness alleged that the e-bike rider tried to flee but was detained by horrified onlookers. No charges were filed."

Florida names Mamdani "Economic Developer of the Year" with giant billboard in Times Square

Mamdani's Rent Freeze Is Going As Well As Expected - "If only someone could have predicted that the guy who ran for office promising a city-wide rent freeze was going to make things worse. Wait, didn't lots of people predict this would not go well? Back in January, I wrote about how the rent freeze would lead to higher rents... LA, like New York, has rent control and it's difficult to build in the city. As a result rents are up and vacancy levels are low. San Diego has no rent control and streamlined building processes. As a result, San Diego is building new apartments like crazy."

NYC rents hit record high while Mamdani advances rent freeze agenda - "The citywide median asking rent reached $4,200 in June, up 5% from a year earlier and the highest recorded by StreetEasy since it began tracking the market in 2010. In Manhattan — the most densely populated NYC borough — the median cost of monthly rent climbed 5.1% to $4,965.  At the same time, apartments are becoming harder to find. The number of rentals available across the city fell 1.4% from a year ago, while Manhattan saw a 4.4% drop. It was even more dire for larger apartments in Manhattan, where the number of available two-bedroom units fell 9.3% and three-bedroom units dropped 11%.  Simply put, there are not enough apartment units to meet demand, and costs are reflecting that squeeze. The rental unit shortage presents an early test for Mamdani’s affordability agenda in New York.  While the socialist mayor has pledged to dramatically expand the city’s housing supply, his push to freeze rents on roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments has drawn warnings from economists who say the policy could discourage investment and make an already tight housing market even tighter.  Adam Lehodey of the Manhattan Institute told Fox News Digital that rent increases on rent-stabilized apartments have failed to keep pace with inflation for years, even as the costs of maintaining buildings have continued to rise. As a result, he said, "slowly but surely, landlords have less to invest in their properties."  He argued that this growing gap is leaving some building owners increasingly unable to cover basic operating expenses, which can lead to deferred maintenance and reduced investment in the city’s existing housing stock.  Lehodey also pointed to a second dynamic in the rent-stabilized market: tenants paying below-market rents have a strong incentive to stay in place, which reduces turnover and makes those apartments harder for prospective renters to find.  "People who are looking for apartments can't find apartments," Lehodey said. "People aren't giving them up, even if they have too much room." Other economists have sounded similar warnings, arguing that uncertainty surrounding Mamdani’s broader tax and regulatory agenda could also discourage the investment needed to expand the city’s housing supply.  "Merely the threat of a more hostile tax and regulatory environment has been enough to chill investment in New York City, and that’s already impacting prices," E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital. "Builders and financiers aren’t going to start multi-year projects that might become unprofitable on Mamdani’s next whim."  Antoni previously told Fox News Digital that the problem goes beyond new construction, arguing that government limits on rents can reduce the number of apartments available and discourage investment in existing properties.  "Economists, whether they are on the right or on the left, essentially are in universal agreement, that when the government implements price controls in the rental market, you end up with housing shortages," Antoni said.  "And not only do you end up with fewer housing units available, but the quality of those units consistently goes down as well," he added."
Clearly, the solution is to confiscate housing!

Exclusive | Manhattan rents reach all-time high of $6,655 per month - "The average price tag for a place to live just hit a jaw-dropping $6,655 a month, an all-time high, according to fresh data from Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group.  That’s a brutal 10% jump from a year ago, and real estate pros are pointing straight at Mayor Mamdani’s incoming rent freeze on stabilized units as one of the culprits, along with a looming pied-a-terre tax that brokers say is only going to squeeze the market harder. The pain is compounded by a record-low number of vacant apartments across the city, leaving desperate renters with almost nowhere to turn...   New York’s rental vacancy rate has cratered to just 1.49%, the tightest it’s been since 1968, and down from 1.57% previously. Experts consider anything under 5% a landlord’s market. This is far worse than that. Separately, state registration data self-reported by landlords shows about 57,000 rent-stabilized apartments sat empty citywide in 2025, roughly 5.6% of the regulated stock and up from 3.7% a decade earlier... Gary Malin, chief operating officer of The Corcoran Group, points the finger squarely at Albany and City Hall.  “Misguided New York City and State legislation, like ‘good cause’ eviction, the FARE act, and the 2019 rent laws, have in large part created this perfect storm for sky-high rents,” Malin told The Post. “These laws have curtailed the supply of rental housing. This has caused demand to build up to a boiling point and pricing for available apartments to reach all-time highs. Legislators seem to care more about optics versus the actual impact of their policies. Their initiatives may be well intentioned, but there’s been severe unintended consequences, and today’s apartment seekers are literally paying the price.” And the incoming rent freeze won’t be the relief tenants are hoping for, Malin warned, since landlords still have bills to pay.  “One thing is for certain, landlords’ costs will still go up regardless of the new rent freeze,” Malin said. “While the freeze may be good news for rent stabilized tenants, the bad news for market rate renters is that these increased expenses will likely be passed on to them, in the form of higher rents when it’s time to renew their lease.”  And brokers say that shift is already underway, well before the freeze officially kicks in on October 1. Landlords who know their rent-stabilized units are about to be locked in place are padding rents on their free-market apartments now to cover the gap.   He also sees the new pied-a-terre tax scaring off would-be buyers and pushing them straight into the already-slammed rental pool.  “The new pied-a-terre tax may have an impact on the rental market as well, especially at the high-end,” Malin said. “People who were in the market to purchase a part-time home in New York, may instead look to rent — to avoid the liability and hassle associated with the surcharge. In addition, current homeowners now faced with the tax may choose to sell their pied-a-terre and rent as an alternative. Overall, both new policies will likely cause additional demand to hit a rental market that’s already incredibly stressed.”   Douglas Elliman’s top-producing rental broker, Keyan Sanai, says it’s a collision of forces: high mortgage rates keeping buyers on the sidelines, a housing shortage that never gets fixed, and policy blunders piling on at the worst possible moment."

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "Yesterday, I gathered with residents at the Allama Iqbal Community Center’s Mela to commemorate Pakistan’s Independence Day and honor the contributions Pakistani New Yorkers have made to our city. Today and everyday, we celebrate this community whose open arms, determination, and dreams for a better life have helped shape the city they call home."
Eylon Levy on X - "Zohran Mamdani: “I can’t support any state that privileges one religion.”
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Article 2: “Islam shall be the State religion of Pakistan.”"
One cope is that by attending, he wasn't supporting Pakistan, but his constituents who have ties to it. Yet, he skipped the Israel Day Parade, breaking a longstanding tradition, and there're a lot more New Yorkers with ties to Israel than Pakistan.

Brianna Wu | Facebook - "“Commemorate Pakistan’s Independence Day?” If you don’t like what happened in Israel in 1948, just wait until I tell you the details of what happened in India in 1947. Around 14 million people were displaced. Muslims fled India. Hindus and Sikhs fled Pakistan. About a million were killed in the massacres, and women were raped and abducted. What country shows the dangers of Islamism to its own citizens more clearly than Pakistan? India became a global superpower. Pakistan progressively Islamized its laws, persecuted religious minorities, empowered jihadist movements and somehow allowed Osama bin Laden to live for years beside its premier military academy. Mamdani treats the creation of Israel as a historic crime and the creation of Pakistan as something to commemorate? His Jew hatred shows in the double standard."

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability. It leaves our workers unprotected and our streets less safe. It's time for a change.  I'm proud to support the Delivery Protection Act to crack down on exploitative subcontracting and build an economy that works for everyone."
Tweets from Zach Weinberg on X - "In two years, we'll wonder why Amazon delivery prices are up and service level is down and now only middle class and above can afford it. Same thing happening to Uber in NYC. Harming the poorest NY'ers who benefit from Amazon's incredible service."

End Wokeness on X - "I just found this clip of Zohran Mamdani on an Arab podcast, admitting that he fooled white liberals. Progressive ideology is just a tool. His real priority? "Identity""

@amuse on X - "SOCIALISM: Tracy Rosenthal hasn't paid rent on her $2,300/month apartment in almost six years. She's Zohran Mamdani's housing guru and author of "Abolish Rent". It turns out she's a trust fund baby whose daddy is a 4-time Grammy winner."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: A secret bot army boosting Mamdani on X appears to be operating from City Hall, according to an exclusive report. Cyber experts say they’re “100% sure” the IP addresses trace back there. So much of the DSA’s online support is astroturfed."

Flopping Aces on X - "There may be no more revealing line in the entire Mamdani story than this one:  “His security blanket is his phone and the dopamine from how many likes he gets on a post.”  That wasn’t some MAGA meme account. That was a Democratic operative describing New York City’s mayor. Another City Council member reportedly said Mamdani is so thin-skinned that he “reads everything.”  Imagine running America’s largest city while your emotional support device keeps buzzing in your pocket.  Crime? Housing? Taxes? Garbage?  Hold on, somebody ratioed the mayor.  According to the New York Post, Mamdani allegedly becomes particularly attentive when criticism starts generating bad press. Insiders say negative coverage or a critical social-media post can suddenly accomplish what unanswered calls, texts and emails apparently cannot: get City Hall’s attention. One operative said they respond when something reaches “crisis levels in the press.”  That’s not constituent services. That’s reputation-management Whac-A-Mole.  Then Councilwoman Virginia Maloney committed the unforgivable offense of tweeting “I know math is hard.” Sources say Mamdani contacted her afterward.  Somewhere, a notification appeared. Mayor Zoflake saw it. Dopamine levels crashed. Emergency meeting at Gracie Mansion.  This is the great irony of influencer politics: spend years teaching everyone that likes, shares, views and viral clips are evidence of your popularity, and eventually you start believing your own analytics dashboard.  But New York City isn’t TikTok. The electorate doesn’t come with a beauty filter.  And Staten Island proved the comment section occasionally shows up in person."

Exclusive | Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive' in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources - "Social media-savvy Mayor Zohran Mamdani is developing a reputation IRL as “thin-skinned” and hyper-sensitive to public criticism, despite hyping himself online as a smiling and unflappable politician, scores of insiders spilled to The Post.  Behind the scenes, Hizzoner huffily badgers critics who dare question him publicly, harbors petty grudges against prominent pols and often only responds to texts when he’s miffed about bad press, according to interviews with more than a dozen elected officials, consultants and other politicos.  “I see more and more he cannot handle criticism, but mainly from elected officials who he thinks he can push around,” one political consultant said...   His reputed simmering irritation recently boiled over after city Jewish leaders called on him to “stop fanning the flames of hatred” against Israel in the wake of an alleged antisemitic stabbing attack on the Upper West Side.  Sources said the mayor personally called at least one elected official who attended the news conference, complaining about being told to tone down his rhetoric — and upset that their exhortation was connected to his video branding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal,” which was posted days before the attack...   After taking office in January, Mamdani maintained his image-conscious ways by pouring $53 million into a new “Office of Mass Engagement,” an expansion of his already massive communications team that critics argue is a propaganda organ for City Hall.   He also regularly drops new videos, from an arguably ill-advised clip filmed outside billionaire hedge fund titan Ken Griffin’s $200 million condo to hype the DSA “tax the rich” agenda to a 13-minute documentary this week about tenants organizing against their do-nothing landlord.  Protecting the DSA movement’s burgeoning political power appears to be the source of much Mamdani touchiness, insiders said.   Another Democratic operative said Mamdani is “tough on staff,” often holding late-night meetings in Gracie Mansion with his DSA comrades.   “He’s the first DSA (mayor) so they have to show he can manage the city, and any time someone puts a dent in that it hurts their cause,” a government insider said.  But sources revealed that Mamdani also obsesses over even the potential for bad media coverage, such as when Queens Borough President Donovan Richards in July slammed the DSA as “white supremacy” in an X post.  Sources said Mamdani tried to nip a negative story in the bud by having a staffer reach out to Richards’ office to take down the post. Richards left the post up, leading to a Post story highlighting the rift between Mamdani’s largely lily-white DSA comrades and minority lawmakers such as the borough president. “He’s so thin-skinned and reads everything,” one City Council member said...   One Democratic insider said Mamdani treats those who cross him with a “cold demeanor,” terse in responses and not his usual smiling self. That’s a contrast to his usual smiley and affable public manner...   “He has been known to hold grudges against whoever challenges him or his positions for even some of the smallest of slights, and those people get sent to the back of the line unless he needs something.”   Some insiders did credit the youthful Mamdani, 34, for being engaged in backroom dealings and acknowledging his limits. The mayor carries himself with “humility,” a union source said.  “He asks lots of questions. Seeks to understand the issues he’s lacking familiarity with,” the source said.  “He does more listening than talking. That’s uncommon in the political realm.”... insiders said Mamdani is quickly showing himself to be even more sensitive to media coverage than his notoriously whiny groundhog-killing predecessor Bill de Blasio. Mamdani should focus on the job, rather than a “first-term council member tweeting” about him, snarked Fabien Levy, former Mayor Eric Adams’ chief mouthpiece.  “This administration is more on Twitter, Instagram or TikTok than probably any other politician in the county, but to steal an Eric Adams-ism: it’s not what’s in the tweets, it’s what’s in the streets,” Levy said."
Time to dismiss this as a hit job despite multiple sources and some bits praising him

Zohran Mamdani booed off stage at NYPD Night Out on Staten Island - "New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being mocked after many say he was humiliated by being booed off the stage while attending one of the city's biggest pro-police celebrations on Staten Island.  Mamdani attempted to address about 3,500 residents and families attending the New York Police Department’s 43rd Patrol Borough National Night Out Against Crime event on Tuesday. His remarks, however, lasted less than a minute as loud boos, jeers and chants of "get out of here" and "nobody wants you" drowned out his voice... Mamdani has faced criticism over his relationship with police dating back to his mayoral campaign, which was dogged by questions about his past support for defunding the police. After his election, critics renewed those attacks when his budget included cuts to police funding and canceled plans to hire 5,000 new NYPD officers.  He also took criticism for his handling of an incident in February in Washington Square Park, dubbed "Snowballgate," where a mob of roughly 100 people pelted NYPD officers with snowballs, leaving two officers injured.  Rather than condemning the assault, Mamdani appeared to downplay the violence, referring to the perpetrators as "kids" taking part in a snowball fight. Fox News Digital previously reported that local crime expert and Manhattan Institute fellow Rafael Mangual said, "Mamdani did not come out in support of the NYPD in that incident. Instead, he seemed to kind of brush it off and even refused to call for the prosecution of the perpetrators," adding that the actions of the mob clearly qualified as an assault against police officers."

Meme - Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham: "Dear Zohran,  This is why people don’t want you at the memorial.  Those people on 9/11 didn’t just “die.” They were murdered. Murdered by radical Islamists who committed an act of terrorism. Terrorism that you refuse to condemn. Terrorism where you’ve unapologetically stood with people who said these people deserved it.   Instead, you’ve made this event about your made up aunt. Instead, you and the rest of your DSA comrades have done everything in your power to shift the blame away from radical Islam. You acknowledge people died, but you won’t say why they died. Instead it’s “some people did something.”  You, and everyone who voted for you, disgust me. New York has forgotten. Shame. Zeek"
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani: "Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11; 22 years later, the death hasn't stopped.  We mourn our neighbors who died that day. The hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed. The unknown millions injured & displaced.  In their memory, we work toward a better world."