Veteran padre Rev Bill Chapman, or Father Bill as he is most-known, is in the right place to keep-on keeping-on stepping down from parish duties. Covering three parishes was getting a bit much to do, at the age of 79, he confirmed after being farewelled by the flock at Crownthorpe
The atrocities that were committed on October 7th should never be forgotten, and the Israelis have established a brand new website to document the horrors of that day. But there are still many in the Western world that are attempting to deny what happened. Or they are trying to blame
Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com As Americans look on with increasing alarm at the shocking state of their broken southern border, the nation’s sea boundaries are being violated with rapidly escalating impunity. At the same time, communist China has dramatically upped its presence in the Western Hemisphere. It was inevitable
The Ponderer This article is explicitly intended as a reply/followup to Dr Lion Red’s excellent article moving from that balanced view of history to analyse the present and imagine possible futures. There has been a long, complicated and bloody history bringing Israel / Palestine to where it is now.
Harry Palmer When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time, they will know nothing else but this
Prof. Jonathan Rynhold Prof Jonathan Rynhold is head of the Political Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University and a senior researcher at the BESA Center. Dr. Toby Greene Dr. Toby Greene is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the BESA Center.
The social media platform X is awash with daily posts claiming Israel is targeting Palestinian civilians in its war on Hamas, despite daily assurances from the IDF that Israel is doing its best to avoid killing and injuring civilians whilst fulfilling its promise to Israeli citizens to annihilate Hamas to
In mid-1944, with WWII still raging, George Orwell took aim at socialist and pacifist Vera Brittain, who had published a hand-wringing pamphlet attacking Allied bombing raids in Europe. Like the comfortable leftists today attacking Israel’s self-defensive response to Hamas’ unspeakable barbarities, Brittain whined about the “thousands of helpless and
Prof. Eitan Shamir BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,223, October 22, 2023 (Ph.D. Kings College) Former head of the National Security Doctrine Department in the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Expert on insurgencies and combat doctrine. besacenter.org A decade ago, in 2013, I published an article with
Our next guest grew up on the West Bank where his father was a founding member of Hamas. He was groomed to take a senior role before he turned on the terrorist group in prison. Spying for Israel now, converting to Christianity and ultimately seeking asylum in the US, Mosab
One BBC reporter got more truth than she expected when she interviewed international law expert, barrister Natasha Hausdorff. The answers didn’t quite fit the narrative the reporter wanted to portray. Discuss it on the BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads
The Israel-Gaza war is morally crystal-clear in a way that no conflict has been for the last eighty years. In the early 1940s, there was no moral equivalence between the Allies and the Axis. The enormities of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were so beyond the pale of basic human
In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has pursued a consistently violent strategy aimed at rolling back Israeli rule – and it has made steady progress despite bringing enormous suffering to both sides of the conflict. But its stunning incursion into Israel
Alex Berenson Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter and the author of 13 novels, three non-fiction books, and the Unreported Truths booklets. His newest book, PANDEMIA, on the coronavirus and our response to it, was published in November 2021. alexberenson.substack.com (A side note: Many of
