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Letter to the Editor: Apartheid Israel?
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Letter to the Editor: Apartheid Israel?

Dear Editor A lovely photo from the 31st of May with one of the presidential candidates, who was born and brought up in Morocco, surrounded by young Israelis. Does not look one bit like apartheid South Africa. I mean in reality, apart from the black people in the photo, it’

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Hollywood Crawls to Dictators – Again

Hollywood Crawls to Dictators – Again

No matter what Muslims might claim, Nazis are easily Hollywood’s go-to villains, these days. Whether it’s Indiana Jones, Marvel films, or Oscar-baiting Holocaust films, if Hollywood wants a bad guy: slap on a black uniform and some shiny boots. It wasn’t always that way, of course. From

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Idiots, Influencers and Anti-semites

Idiots, Influencers and Anti-semites

Almost certainly, if you asked the right-on hordes of woke lefties protesting for Palestine, they’d be horrified at the suggestion that they’re anti-Semites. After all, hating Jews is what Nazis do. They might even be sincere – even if more than a few of them like to be a

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Will Ardern’s New Resolve Hold Firm?

Will Ardern’s New Resolve Hold Firm?

New Zealand’s prime minister has been fed a steady drip of treats and belly-rubs from China in return for rolling over and sitting up for the past two years. Now that she’s soiled the carpet, the rolled-up newspaper is out in a flash. Beijing has lashed out at

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Why Putin Is Laughing at the West

Why Putin Is Laughing at the West

Russian president Vladimir Putin might be many things, but stupid is not one of them. “Woke” is another: Putin is one of the last people who’d be browbeaten by a bunch of scowling teenagers and bourgeois loonies gluing themselves to roads. Putin is also not the sort to deliberately

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Pull Yer Head In, Jacinda

Pull Yer Head In, Jacinda

It’s what we in Australia call “pulling your head in”. It’s what happens when some drongo at the footy or in the pub is mouthing off and everyone else is silently cracking the shits with them. Pretty soon, they get told to “pull yer head in”. Being invariably

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2,000 Bombs Found in Yangon

2,000 Bombs Found in Yangon

30th May 2021 I have managed to reconnect with useful sources and the situation is getting complex. In protests against the previous coups, the opposition tended to gradually fade away after a few weeks as the military turned the screws and imposed their will on the people. The current coup

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What Are They Building in There?

What Are They Building in There?

As I’ve reported for The BFD, the ineluctable realities of demographics and geopolitics are against China’s superpower ambitions. Geopolitically, superpowerdom means a lot more than just military strength. A superpower has the sort of cultural clout that draws other nations into its sphere of influence by a kind

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