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[Henry Jeffreys is working on a new book @HenryGJeffreys]

The National Trust has bought Rules, London's oldest restaurant. Expect to see notices dotted around the place explaining why Thatcher was bad, kedgeree is colonialist, and land acknowledgements on the wine list.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

I doubt a council that struggles to issue a parking permit is really up to solving the most intractable crisis in the Middle East. https://t.co/6SEAB376MN

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

You shouldn't have asked anyone to 'write your vows'. Cranmer's have been available for nearly 500 years and are still better than any schmaltzy self-obsessed woo that you are likely to compose

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On this day—October 12, 2000

The Ramallah lynching.

Two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn. Yossi Avrahami, a 38-year-old toy salesman, and Vadim Nurzhitz, a 33-year-old truck driver, were heading to their unit near Beit El in a civilian Ford Escort. They took a wrong turn and ended up in Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah.

PA police stopped them, but instead of turning them around, the officers took them to the police station in el-Bireh. Rumors spread that Israelis were being held there, and more than 1,000 Palestinians descended on the station and began calling for their execution.

They stormed the station, found the two Israelis and began beating, stabbing, and mutilating them. Aziz Salha later described entering the room: “We were in a craze to see blood … I saw an Israeli soldier sprawled on the floor … a knife lodged in his back … I removed the knife and stabbed him … I put my hand over his mouth … to strangle him.”

He then walked to the window, hands and shirt soaked in blood, and waved at the baying crowd below. An Italian television crew captured it, and broadcast the images to the world. One of the bodies was thrown from that same window, and the mob immediately started stomping on and beating him. The other man was shot and set on fire. Once they were unrecognizable as humans, the crowd dragged their bodies through the streets to Al-Manara Square for an impromptu celebration.

British photographer Mark Seager arrived in time to see a body being hauled by the feet, lower half on fire, head “a pulp, like a red jelly.” He reached for his camera, but the mob stormed him with punches. They smashed his equipment and shouted, “no picture.” He later wrote: “It was the most horrible thing that I have ever seen and I have reported from Congo, Kosovo, many bad places … There was such hatred … It was murder of the most barbaric kind. When I think about it, I see that man’s head, all smashed. I know that I’ll have nightmares for the rest of my life.”

A Palestinian police officer, Raed Sheikh, later admitted he took an iron pipe into the room and struck one of the still-living Israelis across the body and head. “The soldier began making a grunting noise.”

This was not “resistance.” It was a deliberate, ecstatic, public slaughter of two Israeli men who had taken a wrong turn, carried out in broad daylight by a Palestinian mob.

The image of Salha’s bloody hands became a defining photograph. Salha was later arrested, convicted of murder, sentenced to life, released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal, and finally killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza in 2024.

Decades later, Hollywood celebrities and other professional virtue-signalers put on red hand pins. They call it a “ceasefire” symbol. To anyone who lived through October 2000 or who otherwise knows anything about the history of the conflict, those pins are not ambiguous. They are a stylized recreation of the exact gesture a murderer used to show a cheering crowd the blood of the Jews he had just helped butcher. The useful idiots who wear them either do not know, or they do know and have decided the image is aesthetic. Either way, it is a disgrace.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

There was a situation at my daughter’s school last week which left her in tears. I went in to the school the day after to let them know we were removing her with immediate effect. The head teacher tried to explain but I had no interest in her excuses or reasons.

The school had a play and an open evening for next year’s new pupils, and my daughter’s class were asked to take the potential new pupils and their parents for a tour of the school and classes.

My daughter is the most softly spoken, polite and friendly child you’d probably ever meet. She’s one of just 40 Jewish pupils at the school out of over a thousand children. My wife wanted her to go to a non Jewish school because she felt concerned about the security threats at Jewish schools, and I don’t have much say in the matter as I’m just the dad. Our youngest goes to a Jewish school and the security simply isn’t anywhere good enough. This would be both their last year at school in this country because we’d already made the decision to leave the country before their next school year.

My oldest wears a tiny discreet Star of David pendant. It’s so inoffensive to anybody but allows her to express her Jewish faith in a small way.

When it was her turn in line to greet the family she would show around, the family was a Muslim family. My daughter has no personal issue with anybody and is friendly with two Muslim girls in her class who aren’t bothered by her being Jewish. But this family clearly were. In front of everyone, the father refused to be shown around by “a Jew”. He apparently, according to several parents and a teacher, raised his voice at her, and demanded that another child show them around. Instead of the head teacher condemning his behavior and telling him to leave, she asked my daughter to step aside and asked another pupil to show them around. Nobody except other parents, non Jewish parents, came to my daughter to ask if she was even ok. She was in a flood of tears, frightened and confused.

My wife got a phone call from another parent and insisted she would go fetch our daughter because she already knew what I would do had I gone there myself. But this is what we live in now. This is the new normal.

For reasons of what will come next, I won’t name the school. But this is going to escalate, a lot.

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

A classic example of how playing the ‘both sides’ card is a means of avoiding, or even denying, obvious truths.
“We can never allow conflict overseas to divide us at home”, Khan says.
But only one side imports the conflict here. Only one side targets the other on British streets every week.
The two sides are not, in fact, the same.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Imagine if, on the anniversary of Hiroshima, Americans marched past Japanese communities waving American flags and denouncing Japan. Or if Britain chose the anniversary of Dresden to stage victory marches through London. We don’t. Those dates are treated with sensitivity because whatever your view of the wider war, the anniversary of mass civilian death is not the day to celebrate.
Yet on 7 October — the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — demonstrators have deliberately chosen to march through London for the Palestinian cause.
They do it, simply, because they are utterly repugnant human beings

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

He’s not a ‘dog walker’, BBC. His name is Wayne Broadhurst and he was brutally murdered by an illegal migrant in London.

His killer was smuggled into the UK hidden in a lorry in November 2020 and lied about his age to gain asylum.

He has now been given an indefinite hospital order. The doctor who assessed him spoke of protecting the public “in anticipation of his release into the community”.

What community is that exactly? Who wants to accept this deranged killer? Wayne Broadhurst’s killer should never be released back onto Britain’s streets. He should be deported.

The judge has recommended that he be deported, but will @ShabanaMahmood make sure that happens?

[Diana Harding @DianaHarding7]

Hear! Hear! 👏👏👏

#TwoTierPolicing

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Thank you Antonio.
The ‘pre Goldsmith last name’ was Goldschmidt, and had been for hundreds of years - at a minimum since Mosche Goldschmidt settled in Frankfurt’s Judengasse in 1521.
The family arrived there from Nuremberg after the entire Jewish community was expelled, their property stolen, synagogues and cemeteries destroyed in 1498. This was in part so that Emperor Maximilian, who was short of money, could get his hands on around 8,000 gulden.
When things became difficult for Jews in Frankfurt the family moved again, to France. But a few years later the Dreyfus Affair (where a young Jewish army officer, was falsely convicted of treason and sent to the brutal French penal colony of Devil’s Island) caused a surge in French antisemitism and the family moved again to London.
There they were determined to integrate successfully and part of that involved anglicising their name to Goldsmith.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

If anyone in Hampshire was wondering why they couldn't get an ambulance when they rang 999 today, now they know the reason... our International Health Service has different priorities.

[Simon Cook @cooksimon]

There are no words - but check out where you live at https://t.co/bQJsPoOomX

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

To all my followers - while I'll continue with my @Telegraph columns each week, the Planet Normal podcast and my "When The Facts Change" Substack, the @CPSThinkTank is my new day job.

Please watch this video and like/share the post below to help me spread the word.

Thanks, Liam

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

George Galloway posted this photo today with the caption "What if this was your Dad? #Gaza."

This man is not in Gaza and he is not Palestinian. He is Syrian, like me.

His name is Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, known as Abu Omar. AFP photographer Joseph Eid took this photo in March 2017, in the ruins of Abu Omar's bedroom in al-Shaar, eastern Aleppo, the neighborhood devastated in the regime's 2016 offensive to retake the city. Abu Omar was a collector of antiques and vintage cars. The war took his home and most of his collection. He came back anyway, sat on his bed in the rubble, lit his pipe and played a record. The whole world knew this picture as the face of Aleppo's destruction.

And Galloway knows exactly who destroyed Aleppo, because he was on their payroll.

In 2012, Galloway began hosting a show on Al Mayadeen, the Beirut channel that has never disclosed its backers and is widely seen as the voice of Iran's "Axis of Resistance." He was reportedly paid around £3,000 an episode. He also presented on Iran's state channel Press TV, and spent nearly a decade on Putin's RT.

The Axis: the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, the Iraqi militias, the Houthis and, until December 2024, the Assad regime. For over 13 years after the 2011 uprising, Assad survived only because the IRGC, Hezbollah and Russia fought his war for him. When the regime finally collapsed, he fled to Moscow and was granted "humanitarian" asylum. The same humanity he denied every Syrian he bombed.

Who doesn't remember the barrel bombs on bakeries and markets? The sarin in Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun? The chlorine in Douma?

Galloway remembers. On his show he called Assad "the last bastion of Arab dignity." When Assad gassed Douma in 2018, Galloway pushed the "staged attack" conspiracy, even though the OPCW confirmed chlorine was used.

None of this is new. This is the man who stood before Saddam Hussein in 1994 and saluted his "courage" and "indefatigability." He was suspended from the House of Commons after an inquiry found strong circumstantial evidence that Saddam's regime, with his connivance, used the Oil-for-Food program, meant to feed starving Iraqi children, to fund his Mariam Appeal campaign.

In 2014 he declared Bradford an "Israel-free zone": no Israeli goods, no Israeli academics, not even Israeli tourists. Police logged it as a hate incident.

Last year he flew to Tehran to accept an award named after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, called him a "martyr," and boasted that his most treasured possession is Haniyeh's personal passport. Then he flew straight to Moscow to applaud Putin's Victory Day parade.

Today, the self-proclaimed anti-imperialist lives in what he calls "exile," broadcasting from Russia and China, lecturing the West about freedom.

This is not an honest mistake. It is the method of Galloway and his camp, and it is what they mean by "by any means necessary." When the truth doesn't serve the cause, you invent a new one. A Syrian father, ruined by Assad and his Iranian and Russian patrons, becomes a Gazan victim of Israel. The real killers get erased, and the propagandist who defended them on their payroll gets applause from a Western audience that never bothers to check.

Syrians remember who bombed Aleppo. They remember who went on TV to defend it.

Abu Omar is not your propaganda, shameless George.

@georgegalloway

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨 Make it make sense. Because I’m honestly struggling.

Two women from Palestine Action climb onto the roof of Martin-Baker — the firm whose ejection seats just saved two RAF pilots — film themselves causing criminal damage, get arrested, and walk free on bail the same day.

A man throws a plastic bottle at police during the Eastney protest and gets two years.

The organiser of that protest, Danny Tommo, is now remanded in custody after slashing an empty dinghy in the Channel.

Same courts. Same country.

Very different outcomes.

[Juliet Moses @JulietMosesNZ]

If Macklemore really wants to show solidarity with Palestinians he should perform at this 22,000 capacity venue in the Palestinian city Rawabi, in the West Bank, which I’ve visited twice (this is my photo). It’s the biggest open air venue of its sort in the Middle East and hosts international acts. And since he’s such a big advocate for gay people he should definitely sing “Same Love”. He could even replicate his 2014 Grammy’s performance when a bunch of same sex couples got married.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

One woman, a convicted terrorist’s wife, is living at a taxpayer funded, taxpayer maintained and taxpayer improved, FIVE bedroom house in Shepherd’s Bush worth £1.7m.

On what planet is this fair, justifiable or even vaguely acceptable?

😡😡😡😡

https://t.co/21mj42fud5

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“It was now the hour when the fragrance of tea and the warm, heartening scent of buttered toast begin to float like a benediction over the English home...”

P.G. Wodehouse, Full Moon

[Driftwood @buc97552]

Shariah Law:

This 13-year-old child, Aisha Duhulow, was gang raped by three Somali paedophile savages.

After reporting being raped, she was convicted of adultery, buried to her neck in a stadium, and stoned to death by about 50 men before 1,000 spectators.

Incredibly, it gets even more tragic. An 8-year-old boy who tried to help the girl was, of course, shot dead.

This is the very same culture our government is deliberately importing into the UK.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

This is historic. The state is supposed to provide the British people safety and security. But instead they are protecting illegals entering our country from the British public who are trying to protect their country. Insane inversion of responsibility