Those prone to attributing Britain’s rising Jew-hatred to Middle East violence involving Israel should think again, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked. The latest trigger for – always-lurking – anti-Semitism, O’Neill shows, comes from the vile alliance between Islamism and progressivism, particularly the DEI ideology that has pervaded the UK’s institutions and, increasingly, penetrated regular bourgeois society.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
