Operation Yellowhammer: political advantage trumps right to privacy
The end of prolonged conflicts can be both brutal and swift. The American Civil War ended with Sherman’s brutal 'March to the Sea' and the First World War ended with…
Auschwitz
Holy Innocents: why are we putting 12-year-olds in solitary confinement for 23½ hours a day?
Herod then with fear was filled: "A prince," he said, "in Jewry!" And all the little boys he killed At Bethl'hem in his fury. Childermas – the Feast of the Holy Innocents – is rarely referenced, still less observed, in…
The Holocaust should not be syncretised: it was a unique glimpse of hell
"I am sure that Members across the House will wish to join me in marking Holocaust Memorial Day this Sunday," proclaimed the Prime Minister in PMQs on Wednesday. "It is…
The Labour Party has officially become institutionally antisemitic
It has long been suspected that Jeremy Corbyn has a problem with Jews (if not known that he is antipathetic to Judaism, defends antisemitic conspiracy theorists, and accommodates Jew-hatred), but…
The Prayer Shawls of Auschwitz
This is a guest post by Brother Ivo. ____________ Those who have visited Auschwitz are likely to find their thoughts straying back there on this day of Holocaust remembrance. A…
Does God suffer?
There's an awful lot of suffering and badness around. Nasty people do nasty things, and wicked people do worse. There are floods, droughts and earthquakes, which are no-one's fault;…
Planned Parenthood murders living, breathing babies to harvest brains
Some people never have legs, and yet they can run the marathon of life faster than the Olympian. Some people never have eyes or ears, but they see secret…
After-birth abortion? Planned Parenthood and the art of infanticide
Not only has Planned Parenthood perfected the art of aborting babies in a "less crunchy way" in order that the harvest of body parts may be plentiful, but it…
Planned Parenthood aborts babies in a "less crunchy" way. What's wrong with harvesting baby body parts?
"A lot of people want intact hearts these days, because they're looking for specific nodes," explains Dr Deborah Nucatola, Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood, the largest…
Justice for Greville Janner and the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz
Labour peer Greville Janner (left), aged 86, will apparently not be prosecuted over allegations of historic child abuse because the Crown Prosecution Service says his evidence could not be…
Benjamin Netanyahu promises legitimacy, peace and security
The Archbishop of Canterbury made a pronouncement last year which was somewhat unusual in modern Anglican geo-political quibbling and hedging. The statement is still on the Lambeth Palace website,…
Rev'd Stephen Sizer: "Show me evidence Israel wasn’t behind 9/11"
As the civilised world was choking in the memorial lamentations of Auschwitz 70-years-on, suspended in that space of sorrow somewhere between needing to remember yet yearning to forget, the…
"If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France"
The words of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls echo down the centuries of anti-Semitic Europe, where Jews have been marginalised, persecuted, reviled, expelled and turned to ash in the…