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‘The UN is rotten to the core’ Natasha Hausdorff on the global propaganda war against Israel. video

By on October 29th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/29/the-un-is-rotten-to-the-core/

The war in Gaza may be over, but the global hostility towards Israel is as fierce as ever. Hamas’s most lurid propaganda claims, accusing the Jewish State of every crime against humanity imaginable, are now treated as fact by Western governments, media and academia. Globalist institutions – from the UN to international courts – are now totally corrupted by Israelophobic lies.

Barrister Natasha Hausdorff – legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust – has long been battling against these libels. She recently returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the return of the hostages and the lie of the Gaza ‘genocide’. What follows is an edited version of that conversation. You can watch the full thing here.

Brendan O’Neill: What role do you think the West’s abandonment of Israel played in the horrors of the past two years?

Natasha Hausdorff: I think certain people have blood on their hands. The hostages that will not be returning alive to their families, the deaths of soldiers in pursuit of releasing them all, the killing of Palestinian civilians who also suffered Hamas’s endless abuse – these things should not have gone on as long as they did. The war should have ended far, far sooner. We must recognise the impact that global support for this barbaric, genocidal terrorist organisation has had in prolonging it, in delaying a deal.

There has been this bizarre pantomime playing out, where the UK’s Labour government has claimed credit for playing some role behind the scenes in securing the peace deal. The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, rightly called this delusional.

The reality is that over the past six months, the UK government, as well as others that recognised Palestine, have done nothing except impose arms embargoes against Israel and criticise it constantly, making this deal so much harder to realise. The damage that certain Western states have done with their political positioning is truly unforgivable.

O’Neill: What role have the international media played?

Hausdorff: There has been this enormous propaganda war, a war of misinformation, which does inevitably inform people’s positions. Frankly, I’ve seen an abject absence of journalistic integrity. The media have refused to report the truth out of Gaza.

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Bill Gates: About Global Warming… Never Mind Gates breaks the political embargo on questioning the myth of climate apocalypse. by Daniel Greenfield

By on October 29th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/bill-gates-about-global-warming-never-mind/

It’s a miraculous era. Rahm Emanuel acknowledged that men can’t turn into women. Bill Gates is off the global warming doomsday express.

It’s not as if he’s actually admitting it’s all nonsense, but the former Microsoft honcho starts out by rejecting the doomsday scenarios.

There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:

In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.

Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.

This doesn’t sound like such a big deal, but otherwise liberals in good standing were denounced as oil company shills for rejecting the catastrophic view of global warming.

Bjørn Lomborg can hardly speak to any audience other than the conservative ones because even though he’s a scientist who believes in global warming… he doesn’t believe it’s catastrophic. There are entire sites dedicated to destroying Lomborg and the media rarely speaks about him without a sneer or claims that he really works for the evil fossil fuels people.

So what Bill Gates is saying is big in its own way. It may not sound that way, but it’s heresy to a cult that built its entire ideological infrastructure around an imminent armageddon that has to be stopped no matter how many lives those efforts destroy because the alternative is the mass extinction of mankind.

Gates, a major donor and funder of climate causes, just shrugged all that off.

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UN International Court of Justice Harangues Israel Again Says that Israel must work with UN agency that is entangled with Hamas. by Joseph Klein

By on October 29th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/un-international-court-of-justice-harangues-israel-again/

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is a contaminated appendage of the UN system, which should have been removed decades ago. Yet it remains as a symbol of the UN’s poisonous bias against the Jewish State of Israel.

UNRWA is devoted exclusively to Palestinians it registers as “refugees,” which is separate and distinct from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that handles all the rest of the world’s refugees. UNRWA was supposed to operate as a temporary organization to provide humanitarian relief and services for the original Palestinian refugee population of about 700,000 Arabs following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. But it turned into a self-perpetuating bureaucracy, which, unlike UNHCR, defines “refugee” as including generation after generation ad infinitum of the millions of descendants of the original refugees. Moreover, unlike UNHCR, UNRWA continues the status of “refugee” for Palestinians even if they have become citizens elsewhere (e.g., Jordan).

UN humanitarian organizations are supposed to operate neutrally, impartially, and independently of any undue outside influence. UNRWA has operated in the completely opposite manner. Nevertheless, the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion on October 22, 2025 concluding that international law requires Israel to fully cooperate with UNRWA in fulfilling its mission to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.

The ICJ dismissed the overwhelming evidence Israel presented proving its allegation that UNRWA cannot be trusted to perform its services neutrally, impartially, and independently of Hamas’ influence. The advisory opinion is a hopelessly one-sided political statement against Israel, not a carefully reasoned and impartial judicial decision. Fortunately, an advisory opinion is non-binding as a matter of law.

UNRWA does not carefully vet its employees, resulting in the hiring of numerous members of Hamas and other terrorist organization members as well as individuals with close family ties to terrorists. One former Commissioner-General of UNRWA shamelessly declared: “Oh, I’m sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll, and I don’t see that as a crime. Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant, and we do not conduct political vetting to exclude individuals based on their affiliations.” Another former Commissioner-General remarked: “Our employees are part of the social fabric of Gaza and its ecosystem. And as part of that social fabric in Gaza, you also have Hamas.”

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Daniel J. Flynn What Oxford Union’s Ousted President-Elect Could Learn from Frank Meyer George Abaraonye was removed for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death. He might yet come to question his beliefs.

By on October 29th, 2025

https://www.city-journal.org/article/oxford-union-george-abaraonye-charlie-kirk-frank-meyer

Earlier this month, the Oxford Union held a no-confidence vote in its president-elect George Abaraonye, based on his celebration of Charlie Kirk’s murder. “Charlie Kirk got shot,” Abaraonye wrote in a group chat last month, “let’s f—ing go.” On Instagram, he announced: “Charlie Kirk got shot loool.”

Bizarrely, Abaraonye depicted the campaign to remove him from office as one of “harassment, censorship, and abuse.” Without a hint of self-irony, the young man who indecently cheered Kirk’s murder wrote: “We will not be silenced.”

This past May, Kirk and Abaraonye had met in the Oxford Union. They debated the question of toxic masculinity. Kirk looked and sounded like the Oxford product and Abaraonye looked—in sweatpants, a t-shirt, and what resembled slippers—and sounded like the guy who had never gone to college, rather than the reverse.

Though both men were respectful, Kirk clearly won the exchange. One needn’t even watch the 12-minute, 25-second discussion (it starts at 1:06:36) to know this. No one winning a fight bites the other man’s ear, and no one who triumphed in a debate celebrates the murder of his opponent.

It would seem impossible to express confidence in the head of a campus debating society who welcomed the execution of a human being for the crime of debating on campus. The Oxford Union members certainly regarded it as a disqualifier. Seventy percent voted for removal.

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Charles Lipson The real reason Democrats are in meltdown over Trump’s White House ballroom They see it as a metaphor for the president’s attack on institutional norms. Shame for them that ordinary voters don’t care

By on October 29th, 2025

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/10/27/real-reason-democrats-meltdown-trump-white-house-ballroom/

Donald Trump has demolished an old office wing attached to the White House and begun building a large new ballroom, big enough to accommodate state dinners and other major events. Currently, those have to be held outdoors, under a temporary tent, because the White House lacks a large, permanent space.

Democrats are outraged by Trump’s move. They have filled social media with pictures of the demolition. Oh, the humanity. Tearing down any part of the White House is a travesty, they say, and an assault on one of our cherished national landmarks.

“Dial down the hyperbole” is the Republican reply. The renovations will improve the White House complex without damaging the central residence, where the president and his family live and where the historic public rooms are located. The only destruction is to a decrepit wing of offices built by Franklin Roosevelt, now lacking adequate electricity, plumbing, and electronic connections.

Republicans add that renovating the White House has been done many times and that the most extensive work, by far, was by a Democrat, Harry Truman, who gutted the entire White House residence and rebuilt the interior. While that work continued, the president and his family lived across the street in Blair House.

That’s all ancient history, say today’s Democrats, and it is not what matters now. What matters now is that Donald Trump is deliberately taking a wrecking ball to a national treasure. Worse, he’s doing it for his own aggrandisement, not for the country he serves. Republicans reject those arguments, of course. In fact, they think the Democrats’ whole meltdown over the issue is ridiculous.

Democrats say their opposition is noble. They want to preserve the integrity of the White House building and prevent its wanton desecration. Republicans respond that the project will make the White House much more usable for public functions. Future presidents, Democrat and Republican, will need a serviceable, year-round space for large events, and no one is better qualified to oversee its construction than a successful builder.

Republicans add that the new ballroom won’t cost taxpayers a dime. It will be given to the public by private donors, including Trump himself. “Opposing that is silly and selfish,” they say. “Why look a gift horse in the mouth and complain about the teeth?”

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Taiwan president: Israel a model for facing ‘authoritarian coercion’ “The Taiwanese people often look to the example of the Jewish people when facing challenges to our international standing,” said President Lai Ching-te.

By on October 29th, 2025

https://www.jns.org/taiwan-president-israel-a-model-for-facing-authoritarian-coercion/?

“Israel’s determination and capacity to defend its territory provides a valuable model for Taiwan,” Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te’ said in remarks released by his office on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

Speaking at a Monday night dinner of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Taiwan, Lai said, “I have always believed that Taiwan needs to channel the spirit of David against Goliath in standing up to authoritarian coercion,” according to the report.

Appeasement has never worked against authoritarian regimes, and the concept of peace through strength is a maxim that the Israeli, U.S. and Taiwanese societies have believed in for years, the Taiwanese president went on to say.

“The Taiwanese people often look to the example of the Jewish people when facing challenges to our international standing and threats to our sovereignty from China. The people of Taiwan have never become discouraged,” he added.

Lai noted that Taiwan’s newly developed multi-layered air defense system, named “T-Dome,” had been inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.

Israel and Taiwan have maintained strong relations throughout the war in Gaza.

The Jewish state does not have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but the countries maintain de facto embassies in Tel Aviv and Taipei.

In July, 72 members of Israel’s 120-member Knesset signed a declaration supporting Taiwan’s inclusion in key international organizations.

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The Jewish academics living in fear of anti-Semitic hate mobs Pro-Palestine activists are forcing staff to hide in their homes – and the silence from university authorities is deafening

By on October 29th, 2025

http://The Jewish academics living in fear of anti-Semitic hate mobs Story by Nicole Lamper

Rosa Freedman, professor of law at Reading University, says campus attitudes to October 7 mark a disturbing new reality – Jeff Gilbert

The atmosphere on the cold autumn night was febrile.

The noise could be heard from around the corner. Around 100 students – most wearing keffiyehs and masks – were angrily chanting “Zionists off our campus!”. The hatred crackled in the air outside one of the UK’s most prestigious universities.

The London School of Economics (LSE) event on October 16 – a discussion about sexual violence committed during the October 7 attacks (and other wars), led by Israeli academic Ruth Halperin-Kaddari – was the source of the fury. Within minutes of the venue being announced – for safety reasons, just a few hours before the talk began – an online call for an “emergency rally” spread rapidly across the university. Even the Feminist Society joined in the push.

The peace plan between Israel and Hamas had been signed a week earlier, yet the protests continued – as they have at universities across the capital and the country – targeting both Jewish students and academics, many of whom say they no longer feel able to take part in university life.

LSE students held an ‘emergency rally’ demanding ‘Zionists off our campus’ before an Israeli academic’s lecture

At City St George’s, part of the University of London, Michael Ben-Gad, an Israeli economics professor, has been targeted for having once served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), a conscript army. The activist group City Action for Palestine described him as a terrorist and declared that it “will not allow evil to roam free on our campus”. Last week, activists stormed his lecture theatre, with one protester allegedly threatening to behead him.

Also in London, Samuel Williams, a final-year politics, philosophy and economics student at Oxford, was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after chanting “Put the Zios in the ground”. His words have since been adopted by other activists. Pro-Palestine organisations at Leeds, Cardiff and Queen Mary universities shared digital posters using the same slogan, several of which included images of guns, on Instagram.

Representatives of Jewish students and academics say that the tolerance of anti-Israel protests since the October 7 attacks has emboldened activists, some of whom have marked the recent two-year anniversary with celebrations.

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Will The 30th U.N. Climate Conference Be The Last?

By on October 29th, 2025

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/10/29/will-the-30th-u-n-climate-conference-be-the-last/

The United Nation’s 30th Conference of the Parties, known as COP30, will be held next month in Belem, Brazil. It will be a nearly two-week festival of intellectual depravity, in which fiery sermons are preached, nags are given an undeserved forum, backs are slapped, glasses clinked and participants tell each other and the world how important they are. Our hope is that it’s an endangered species falling hard toward extinction.

While the crisis-mongers are supping luxuriously and congratulating themselves for saving a world that’s in no danger from human fossil-fuel exhaust, their crusade is losing momentum. Polls are showing that fewer Americans believe it’s a “very serious” or serious problem. When issues are ranked by the public, climate is far behind others, such as health care and the economy. It also follows, though a bit more closely, immigration, energy policy and crime as a top concern. Some Americans are even more troubled by our growing political extremism, which, given the growing violence on the left, is understandable.

President Donald Trump, for one, seems to have never thought too much of the climate warnings. Last month, Politico reported that he was actively seeking “to undermine international efforts to tackle climate change.” While using “the bully pulpit” at his U.N. address last month, he touted “the benefits of U.S.-produced fossil fuels,” while also ridiculing “other nations for embracing green policies and renewable energy.”

Which is as it should be. No American president ought to let an international cabal of grifters and zealots dictate our energy policy.

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