I nearly missed it! 😱 The EU’s Justice DG is telling everyone it’s International Lying Day! It’s that day when you lie by colluding in someone’s fantasy. It doesn’t help the person in the long term -- they will have to come to terms with reality eventually. But it makes you feel virtuous — which is what this pronoun business is really all about.

A great update on the need to continue protecting women’s rights and on the stubborn refusal of numerous public sector organizations to accept the law.

Please read and digest. The bill to supposedly ban “Conversion Practices” is a Trojan horse for an assault on family life — and on gay and lesbian youth.

Does she really believe in this pernicious bill she is marketing? Or is she just parroting a script?

I enjoyed this panel and the lively audience interaction. Allowing TQ+ identitarianism to take over the LGB rights movement has been a disaster for LGB people. The so-called “LGBTQ+ community” is a movement based on belief in universal gender identity. Lumping LGB together with TQ+ makes no more sense than having a “community” of vegans and chicken farmers.

At #BattleFest we discussed the forced marriage of LGB and TQI+ which Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth, co-founder of @AllianceLGB, described as equivalent to a union of vegans and chicken farmers. We all agreed we all want a divorce and to reclaim our history

Tomorrow I will be speaking at the #BattleofIdeas about the disastrous yoking together of LGB sexual orientations with TQ+ identity issues. The unjustifiable demands of the “queer” TQ+ movement have done incalculable damage to LGB people. Not just to public perceptions and LGB rights - but serious harm to LGB teens and young adults. Gay teens aren’t sick! It’s OK to be Gay!

Statement from the European Network of Migrant Women — who represent many women who have fled religiously repressive cultures — about the recent European Parliament resolution on combatting Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in Europe. I recommend you read it, it’s like balm for the soul. All the left-wing organisations and political parties in Brussels voted AGAINST the bill because they didn’t want to be accused of “Islamophobia”. We are so lucky to still have organisations like this that care about the welfare of women, above anything else. Absolute heroines. This is principle, not political expediency. This is courage. Shoutout to @ENoMW

Whatever you may think of India Willoughby, many, many people are complicit in persuading him that he was “born trans” and is a “real woman.” However obnoxiously such men may behave, they are nonetheless also tragic in the harm they are doing to themselves, and everyone who has pandered to their delusion shares the blame for it.

Het is echt heel gevaarlijk dat dit in Nederland wordt toegestaan. Ik heb als journalist veel met #Hamas in #Gaza te maken gehad. Het is met afstand de meest vrouwonvriendelijke, homo- en jodenhatende ANTI-Palestijnse beweging die ik ken. Hoe kan je dit nu steunen?

“Leven en laten leven” en “iedereen moet kunnen zijn wie die is” klinken zo aardig, zo progressief, zo humaan. Als we ontdekken welke consequenties daaraan worden verbonden, verschuift het beeld behoorlijk.

Please read this and take whatever action you can — a letter, a phone call, a conversation — to raise awareness of the importance of preventing this bill become law.

Misogyny, homophobia, and antisemitism are among the oldest forms of hatred on the planet. Most people know these are reprehensible forms of prejudice and avoid expressing them openly. However, those who harbor these prejudices have devised a form of casuistry enabling them to express them under cover of supposedly “progressive” views. They can shout “trans rights are human rights!” — claiming they are standing up for oneofthemostvulnerablegroupsinsociety, which enables them to pour scorn on and trample on the sex-based rights of lesbians and women and girls in general (and gay men) — and to feel virtuous and good about themselves. They can shout “Zionism is racism!” — claiming they are opposing “genocide” and standing up for the “victims of colonialist oppression”, which justifies them in denigrating their Jewish fellow citizens and striking fear into them — and which makes them feel virtuous and good about themselves. These were smart strategies, which worked well for a while. But more and more people see through them. The activists will not succeed in reinstating these vile prejudices at the centre of our public life. Most people reject them.

Why did no one ask: “Where is the evidence?”

Just lovely, isn’t she.

We’re seeing plenty of examples of chutzpah today. Like this one.

It's horrifying that these people don't have the grace to think about stepping back on the third anniversary of a massacre. I'd have hoped that even the most ardent pro-pal campaigners would've had the humanity to recognise the cruelty of this. Let people grieve fgs.

Utterly despicable. This is the kind of behaviour that the Greens’ antisemitic motion has incited. Shame on them.

The Green Party is finished.

Three years ago today, there was no war raging in Gaza. There was a ceasefire. Then, in the early hours of 7 Oct, Hamas launched a coordinated invasion of Israel. Thousands of armed men crossed the border & they deliberately went looking for civilians. They went into homes & murdered families. They killed children & elderly. They abducted men, women & children & dragged them back into Gaza as hostages where civilians cheered. And they attacked the Nova music festival. Hundreds of young people were dancing in the desert when terrorists descended on them. It is grimly familiar to see Islamist terrorists choosing a place of music, dancing, & freedom as a killing ground. Manchester. The Bataclan. Nova. There are photographs & videos of what happened that day because, extraordinarily, many of the perpetrators filmed it themselves. There is a plethora of evidence of sexual violence. There is the intercepted call in which a Hamas attacker excitedly told his parents that he had killed 10 Jews “with my own hands”. They raped & burned bodies, hunted people through fields & into bomb shelters, & paraded terrified hostages through Gaza. It was an atrocity. And something happened in the West almost immediately afterwards that I still struggle to comprehend. Before Israel had even buried its dead, people thousands of kilometres away began finding reasons why the victims had it coming. Within days, the murderer and the murdered had begun swapping places in the popular imagination. Three years later, antisemitism has returned with a fervour to Western society with a speed and confidence that should terrify us. Ancient conspiracies about Jewish power & blood libels have been repackaged in the vocabulary of “decolonisation”. Jewish people around the world have been expected to account for the actions of a foreign government. People have celebrated or rationalised terrorism as “resistance”. Influencers who could not have found Gaza on a map 4 years ago have turned Palestine into an entire political identity. And an extraordinary amount of propaganda has been swallowed without the slightest curiosity about the people producing it. So, since the word itself is now treated as an obscenity I will admit that I am a Zionist. Zionism, at its most basic, is the belief that the Jewish people have a right to national self-determination in their historic homeland & that Israel has a right to continue to exist as a Jewish state. That does not mean believing the Israeli government is always right. It does not mean supporting every military action, every politician, or every policy. It does not mean believing Palestinian civilians have no rights or that their suffering does not matter. It means I believe Israel should exist. Shouldnt be eradicated. If Israel’s objective were simply to obliterate Gaza without regard for civilian life, it possesses the firepower to inflict destruction on a vastly greater scale. But they don’t. Hamas, meanwhile, has repeatedly made clear that it regards the destruction of Israel (not peaceful coexistence with it). They have turned down peace deals & 2 state solutions. You can grieve for innocent Palestinians. I do. And you can criticise Israel. I do. You can also believe that every innocent life lost in this war is a tragedy. But I will not pretend that Hamas is a liberation movement. I will not romanticise men who deliberately massacred & raped civilians. I will not accept that murdering Jews is morally complicated because the murderers have run a highly successful propaganda campaign. And I will not participate in the extraordinary collective amnesia about how this war began. On 7 Oct 2023, people were dancing. Then Hamas came across the border to kill them. I remember them today.