Harry's Place

What is the esteemed Dr Radovan Karadzic, poet, psychiatrist to Sarajevo football club, confidante of presidents and all-around statesman doing banged up in the UN detention centre at The Hague? He should be power-schmoozing and re-drawing the map of the Balkans, or so I argue in today’s Times:
Why is Radovan Karadzic on trial? Surely the [...]

Quite predictably, the Taliban have threatened violent retribution for anyone who votes in the rerun of the Afghan elections. Last time they attacked polling stations and amputated the fingers of people who had voted. To underline their opposition to election, they have stepped up attacks. They began with an assault on a United Nations hostel [...]

This is a cross-post from Ben Cohen on the Z-word blog
When cultural historians look back at this week’s J-Street conference in Washington, DC, they will observe that many of the participants invested its proceedings with an almost mystical significance: a Woodstock moment for Jewish politics in America which poked a finger into the flabby bellies [...]

This is cross-posted from Edmund Standing’s blog

Over at Norfolk Unity, Atreus writes:
The braindead element (about 95% of the BNP membership) didn’t need much persuading that Nick had delivered the performance of a lifetime [on Question Time] in hostile territory and that consequently the BNP is on course to gain three thousand MPs at the next [...]

This is a guest post from Nothing British About The BNP
A couple of weeks ago we reported about the news of Liberal Democrat Baroness Jenny Tonge being invited to share a platform with prominent Islamists and Kristina Morvai, a close friend of BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP and leader of the extremist nationalist Hungarian party [...]

I got one of those round-robin emails from a friend of mine. I found it profound and moving. I have nothing to ‘hook’ it on, so I’ll just post it as is.

Irena Sendler

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a [...]

We’ve posted before about the antisemitc, Holocaust-ridiculing French comedian Dieudonné– once (and I hope no longer) a darling of the French Left– who has been booked for an appearance next March at London’s Leicester Square Theatre in his newest stage show “Sandrine.”
According to the gingerly-worded announcement on the theatre’s website:
The issues touched on, while sensitive, [...]

This is a guest post by Michael Ezra
The Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, was morally opposed to the BBC providing a platform to Nick Griffin on Question Time. The BBC’s decision, in his opinion, was “unreasonable, irrational and unlawful.” He stated:
The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the [...]

Remember our old mate Mehdi Hasan?
He was the London journalist who spotted the obvious similarities between those of us who don’t currently profess the Muslim faith and mere cattle back in July.
“The kaffar, the disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to the teachings of Islam, the rational message of the Quran; they are described in the [...]

With over 150 dead and 500 wounded, and two government buildings destroyed, the twin suicide car bombs in Baghdad over the weekend is the most depressing suicide attack yet.
The pessimistic view:It should be more and more clear that al Qaida is intent on taking over countries. It is not satisfied with being an underground terror [...]