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Brendan O’Neill

Brendan O’Neill

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The revolt of the Jews of London

Every now and then you see an event and you think to yourself: ‘This will go down in history.’ Last night’s revolt of the Jews of London against...

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Salman Rushdie has exposed the great lie of a ‘Free Palestine’

This is what people must mean by the phrase ‘adults in the room’. After seven months of left-wing hotheads damning Israel as the source of every...

20.05.2024 30

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The troubling reaction to the shooting of Robert Fico

Just imagine if, following the killing of Jo Cox, some right-wing media outlet had said: ‘Well, she was a divisive figure, and very pro-Remain, so...

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JK Rowling is no bully

I see JK Rowling is being cruel again. Her nasty streak is off its leash. She’s bullying random people and engaging in ‘unedifying’ behaviour....

13.05.2024 30

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What is the anti-Israel Eurovision protest really about?

A young Israeli woman warned to stay in her hotel room. A baying mob on the streets outside hollering slogans and abuse. Death threats piling up....

10.05.2024 40

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The truth about Israel’s ‘friendly fire’

David Cameron has got some front. The Foreign Secretary is haranguing Israel over its tragic unintentional killing of seven aid workers in Gaza, and...

03.04.2024 30

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The hounding of Kate was a new low for Britain

Shame on the ghouls who spread lies and rumours about the Princess of Wales. And the idiot conspiracy theorists who wondered if she might be dead or...

23.03.2024 40

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How was the puberty blocking scandal ever allowed to happen?

Remember when Irish singer Róisín Murphy was set upon by the mob last year? Her crime: she criticised puberty blockers and said we should stop...

17.03.2024 30

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Royal row / Leave Kate Middleton alone

Well done everyone for ruining Mother’s Day for the Princess of Wales. I hope you’re proud of yourselves. A young-ish mum posts a lovely photo of...

12.03.2024 80

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The disgusting defacement of Lord Balfour’s painting

There’s a new movement in town: Philistines for Palestine. Not content with traipsing through the streets every other weekend to holler their hatred...

09.03.2024 20

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Who could object to a Muslim war memorial?

I don’t understand right-wingers who spend most of their time on the internet. Often they’re found tut-tutting over what they view as the haughty...

07.03.2024 10

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Prince William should keep quiet about Gaza

‘William: Fighting in Gaza must be brought to an end’, bellows the Daily Telegraph‘s front page today, next to an image of a distressed-looking...

21.02.2024 10

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Labour’s Rochdale shame

So Labour still has cranks in its ranks. The party remains a haven for conspiracy theorists. For all Keir Starmer’s claims to have rooted out the...

12.02.2024 10

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Brianna Ghey’s murder is being weaponised – but not by Sunak

We really have seen the worst of politics over the past 24 hours. I’m not referring to Rishi Sunak’s dig at Keir Starmer for not knowing what a...

08.02.2024 8

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Of course the Clapham chemical attack is about asylum

The Clapham chemical attack is ‘not really about asylum’. An actual government minister said this. Not some junior scribe for the Guardian or a...

05.02.2024 10

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What was the Clapham chemical attack suspect doing in Britain?

Here’s my question about Abdul Ezedi, the suspect in the Clapham chemical attack: what the hell was he doing in this country? He came here from...

02.02.2024 30

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It’s not Palestinian blood that is cheap, Humza Yousaf

Sometimes a politician says something that makes you wonder if they’re living on a different planet. This week it was Scottish First Minister Humza...

23.01.2024 8

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The delusion of the Houthi pacifists

I see ‘Not in my name’ is trending on social media. It’s in response to the US and UK strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen. The tweeting classes...

12.01.2024 5

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The disgusting attempt to silence Joey Barton

I have a question. What’s more ‘dangerous’ and ‘disgusting’ – a footballer sounding off on social media or a government minister...

10.01.2024 30

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Harvard’s Claudine Gay isn’t a victim of racism

A month ago, Claudine Gay of Harvard University was obsessed with putting things into context. Asked at that now infamous Congressional hearing on...

03.01.2024 7

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Where have the ‘anti-racists’ gone?

Where have all the anti-racists gone? You couldn’t move for anti-racists in recent years. They thundered from their newspaper pulpits about the...

28.12.2023 10

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Is identity politics to blame for the rise of antisemitism?

Anti-Semitism is surging among the young. It is now positively hip to view Jews as ‘problematic’. Consider the recent Harvard/Harris poll which...

18.12.2023 6

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Why can’t some Londoners tolerate posters of kidnapped Israelis?

What is it about those images of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas that so infuriates certain sections of the public? Since the Hamas pogrom of 7 October,...

15.12.2023 30

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The chilling link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism

Isn’t it remarkable how similar anti-Zionism is to anti-Semitism? The latest proof of an intimate link between these two ideologies comes from...

04.12.2023 2

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Why I’m attending the anti-Semitism march today

Imagine having to be reminded not to be racist. Imagine if officialdom itself felt it necessary to whisper in your ear: ‘Lay off the racial hatred,...

26.11.2023 10

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Islamophobia / Will Zarah Sultana quit Labour if it is ‘institutionally racist’?

Anyone who’s ever had a conversation with a Corbynista will know it’s impossible to talk to these people about anti-Semitism. The minute you...

21.11.2023 10

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Jess Phillips and the shame of Labour’s ceasefire rebels

I can’t decide if last night’s Labour revolt was an act of pointless narcissism or sinister appeasement. Maybe it was both. On one hand it will...

16.11.2023 8

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The real far-right threat

There was a horrendous far-right gathering in London yesterday. Racist cries cut through the air like a knife. One attendee wished death on an entire...

12.11.2023 10

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When will those ‘marching for Palestine’ do the right thing?

Those of us who believe in freedom of expression have felt mighty lonely this week. We have watched as, one by one, our fellow opponents of cancel...

08.11.2023 10

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Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas? 

One of the most curious things following Hamas’s massacre of the Jews on 7 October was the silence of Britain’s fascism-spotters. You know these...

06.11.2023 10

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Hamas’s victim complex

‘We are the victims… therefore nobody should blame us for the things we do.’ Who do you think said this? Some blue-haired campus activist...

03.11.2023 30

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Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob and the truth about Palestinian ‘solidarity’

So now we know what a ‘globalised intifada’ might look like. That’s what people chanted for on the streets of London on Saturday. ‘From London...

30.10.2023 30

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The shameful desecration of Israel’s kidnapped children

We have seen many grim images over the past two weeks. Images of the apocalyptic, Isis-style violence visited upon the people of Israel by Hamas....

25.10.2023 7

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The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot

I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications for jihad. It happened...

23.10.2023 20

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Do Jewish Lives Matter too?

For more than a year, English footballers took the knee in solidarity with a petty criminal who was murdered by a cop in Minneapolis. Yet after the...

12.10.2023 9

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Why isn’t Antifa condemning the tide of anti-Semitism?

I have a question about the events of the past few days: where is Antifa? Where are those self-styled anti-fascists who love to rage against anything...

10.10.2023 8

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War in Israel / The shameful gloating at Israel

Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s. ‘I’d have said something’, they...

07.10.2023 7

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Fox trap / The chilling calls to shut down GB News

Tyranny is a sneaky thing. It often scurries in on the back of controversy. It is often when people are angry about something that authoritarians spy...

28.09.2023 20

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Justin Trudeau’s Nazi blind spot

Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak irony of...

27.09.2023 30

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YouTube is wrong to rush to judgement on Russell Brand

It is often on the back of public fury that dangerous new precedents are set. Authoritarianism can sneak in when we’re all hopping mad about...

19.09.2023 5

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Róisín Murphy and the limits of the new authoritarianism

Has cancel culture finally met its match? Have the new blacklisters who hasten to erase anyone who gives voice to a view that displeases them finally...

13.09.2023 4

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Trans mob / The Guardian’s shameful Roisin Murphy review

Of all the smug, bitter things the Guardian has published over the years, its review of Róisín Murphy’s new album has got to be one of the worst....

08.09.2023 4

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