The history of anti-semitism

Ashley Church writes: The Holocaust did not begin with the gas chambers of Auschwitz or Treblinka. It began much earlier, with ideas, laws, exclusions, and the slow normalisation of cruelty. The part that history often forgets. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, there was no plan to exterminate the Jews. What did exist…

The history of anti-semitism

The Moral Failure of Pacifism

Pacifism presents itself as the highest moral ground: a principled refusal to engage in violence, an insistence that all killing is always wrong, and a hope that moral purity can disarm brutality. In practice, however, pacifism is not merely naïve but morally evasive. It refuses responsibility for consequences, confuses intentions with outcomes, and ultimately relies […]

The Moral Failure of Pacifism

A course of indoctrination at the University of Chicago

There are many courses in universities that seem not to be exercises in objective teaching and learning, but rather courses designed to foist certain political ideologies or points of view on students. One of them at this university was called to my attention by several in our community; it seems to be a course on…

A course of indoctrination at the University of Chicago

Forgotten History-The Swiss Airforce during WWII.

Although Switzerland remained neutral throughout World War II, it had to deal with numerous violations of its airspace by combatants from both sides – initially by German aircraft, especially during their invasion of France in 1940. Zealous Swiss pilots attacked and shot down eleven German aircraft, losing two of their own, before a threatening memorandum […]

Forgotten History-The Swiss Airforce during WWII.

Framing and omission in BBC coverage of Israeli president’s Australia visit

Early on February 9th the BBC News website published a report by Sydney correspondent Helen Livingstone headlined “Israeli president lays wreath at Bondi at… The post Framing and omission in BBC coverage of Israeli president’s Australia visit appeared first on CAMERA UK.

Framing and omission in BBC coverage of Israeli president’s Australia visit

Terrorists again missing from BBC reporting on strikes in Gaza Strip

On the night between February 3rd and 4th a group of Palestinian terrorists attacked IDF soldiers on the Israeli side of the ‘yellow line’… The post Terrorists again missing from BBC reporting on strikes in Gaza Strip appeared first on CAMERA UK.

Terrorists again missing from BBC reporting on strikes in Gaza Strip

Media bias on display: the headlines should have been “Hamas terror tunnels beneath ANZAC cemetery in Gaza turn cemetery into military target, responsible for destruction of veteran headstones”

Recently a number of news outlets including the Herald and Newstalk ZB published articles about the IDF’s desecration of ANZAC graves in Gaza. Headlines included for example “New Zealand World War 1 graves among those bulldozed at Gaza cemetery”: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zealand-world-war-i-graves-among-those-bulldozed-at-gaza-cemetery/3BU24SYRSNFSHGPWOBP2PT7PP4/ and “Graves of 20 NZ soldiers killed in WW1 and WW2 bulldozed by IDF at…

Media bias on display: the headlines should have been “Hamas terror tunnels beneath ANZAC cemetery in Gaza turn cemetery into military target, responsible for destruction of veteran headstones”

The evil of Japan during WWII

Many people forget that the Japanese war crimes were as bad if not worse then those committed by the Nazi’s albeit it on a marginal lesser scale. Beside the crimes and experiment committed by Unit 731 there were a great number of other atrocities, including cannibalism. https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/07/01/unit-731-japanese-wwii-experiments/   In “The Knights of Bushido”, Lord Russell […]

The evil of Japan during WWII

The Adelaide Writers Festival

Juliet Moses writes at Quillette: The furore surrounding the storied Adelaide Writers Festival, the longest-running and largest literary festival in Australia and one that receives significant taxpayer funding, has made international headlines. Our drama ostensibly begins when the Festival’s board disinvites Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, an Australian writer with Palestinian heritage.  Its climax sees a cultural…

The Adelaide Writers Festival

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The execution of deserter Eddie Slovik

Eddie Slovik was executed on January 31, 1945, becoming the only American soldier put to death for desertion since the Civil War. Of approximately 40,000 U.S. service members who deserted during World War II, only several thousand were court-martialed. Forty-nine received death sentences, but Slovik was the only one whose sentence was executed. Private Eddie […]

The execution of deserter Eddie Slovik

Maarten Boudry on the policing of academia

My friend Maarten Boudry, a Belgian philosopher, has been increasingly demonized for his heterodox views, especially on the Hamas/Israel war, since he is sympathetic to Israel (he isn’t Jewish). In the latest post on his Substack site, also published in condensed form in The Jewish Chronicle, Maarten recounts how there is a near-unanimity among European…

Maarten Boudry on the policing of academia

Why didn’t the US focus on Japan first in WW2? (Short Animated Documentary)

Sectoral shifts in supply, wartime agriculture edition

It is all the more remarkable, then, that within six years Britain’s agricultural output had transformed, more profoundly and at a faster pace than any time since the start of the Industrial Revolution.  The most urgent need was to provide a substitute for all that previously imported foreign wheat.  In 1939, Britain only had 11.8…

Sectoral shifts in supply, wartime agriculture edition

Female Nazi Guards: The Forgotten Perpetrators of the Holocaust

Female Nazi Guards: The Forgotten Perpetrators of the Holocaust When discussing the Holocaust and the atrocities of Nazi Germany, the image that often comes to mind is of male SS officers enforcing brutal policies. However, women also played significant roles in the Nazi regime’s machinery of oppression and genocide. Among these women were the female […]

Female Nazi Guards: The Forgotten Perpetrators of the Holocaust

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