Every time a leftist Israel-hater denies being an antisemite, ask them why, out of all the violent, repressive Middle-Eastern dictatorships, the one they singularly obsess about is the only liberal democracy – which also happens to be the only Jewish state. If they can come up with a response at all,
As you may recall, there was a huge story in Australia which I couldn’t tell you much about. No one can: a Victorian judge slapped an almost-total suppression order on it. I can’t tell you much about a new development in the story, either. All I can tell
As I recently reported for The BFD, a claimed new lead in the case of vanished airline MH370 claims to have drastically narrowed the likely crash site. The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur in 2014. All evidence points to the plane crashing somewhere over the
So far in this series, we’ve debunked the revolting lie that Hamas are ‘resistance fighters’, and the obvious stupidity of the Marxist claim that Jews are ‘settler colonialists’ in their own homeland. As BFD readers are no doubt grimly aware, though, firmly believing the most obvious stupidities is an
As I’ve been reporting for The BFD, Senegal, formerly one of the few stable democracies in Africa, has been steadily sliding into violent misrule. At the heart of the unrest is the decision by incumbent president Macky Sall to postpone the elections due in February, for a proposed 10
If something is true, then it is true in all circumstances. If rape is a crime, then it is a crime, without exception. If racism is wrong in itself, then it is wrong in all circumstances. Things may be ‘morally grey’, but that doesn’t change the truth or otherwise
In the first part of this series debunking the lies of the ‘pro-Palestinian’ lobby, we dealt with perhaps the most loathsome: feting the rapist butchers of Hamas as ‘resistance fighters’. In this second part, we’ll look at the most self-evidently silly: that Jews are somehow ‘settler colonialists’ in their
There are some mysteries that grip the public imagination for decades, not least unexplained ship or aircraft disappearances. As I’ve reported recently, shipwreck hunters have recently found the wreck of the WWII-era SS Arlington at the bottom of Lake Superior, while another deep-sea exploration team has found what may
Australian state governments too often like to use car license plates as banners for their Maoist little slogans. Especially in Victoria. They used to be just “The Garden State”, but in the last few decades, they’ve had “Nuclear Free State”, “Education State”, and so on. Still, not as embarrassing
Won’t somebody please think of the public servants? It’s not easy, you know, pulling in a paltry hundred grand a year, working flexi time, and gorging yourself stupid in Lambton Quay. (Just like Canberra and Hobart, it’s conspicuous just how many fancy cafes and bars tend to
“De-colonisation” is one of the latest buzz-words to take the place of thought in the empty heads of the left. Resentful Bungas who owe pretty much everything they have to colonisation have suddenly decided that biting the hand that gave them — at last count, modern medicine, science, an end to
So, what’s the next Current Thing going to be? Ukraine is so 2023, already. Even the anti-Semitic left are going to get bored with screeching at Israel, eventually (after all, being social media-motivated, their concentration spans rival a gnat’s). It’s as certain as the failure of socialism
Even by the standards of the Canberra Bubble, this one’s a jaw-dropper: disgraced former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold has been appointed as a lecturer at Canberra University. Even more astonishing, he’s teaching a unit on the law of evidence. Which makes about as much sense
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has produced an excellent series debunking Palestinian propaganda. Unfortunately, the very people who should read such a series, won’t, but it’s worth summarising so that reasonable people can at least go into a debate with the “pro-Palestinian” lobby fully armed with the facts
For the past eight years, the chattering classes have constantly horked that this time they’ve finally got the Bad Orange Man. Even before Donald Trump was sworn in, they were screeching “Impeach!”, for what exactly, didn’t matter. Then it was a gaggle of preening Hollywood nitwits importuning the
My old mother always used to say, “A guilty conscience needs no accusing”. The wise saying, which possibly goes back all the way to Socrates, means that the guilty know they are guilty and a nagging conscience eventually shows itself. Moving on to another topic entirely, ever since the ASIO
