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Golda Meir was wrong (not for the only time) when she called the late dictator Francisco Franco a “humanitarian” for his supposed role in protecting Spanish Jews during the Holocaust.
In fact, as Haaretz reported (citing the Spanish newspaper El Pais):

[I]n 1941, Spain prepared a list of all 6,000 Jews in its territory and gave [...]

This is a cross-post by Edmund Standing
The fallout from the BNP’s major electoral defeat continues…
Over at the ‘British National Politics’ website of Eddy Butler’s ‘reformist’ splinter group, the dissenters are reporting that Nick Griffin’s neo-Nazi connections remain strong:
The campaign to re-elect Nick Griffin as Chairman of the British National Party is taking shape. It is [...]

This is a guest post by Abu Wannabe Arab
You know you’ve done something right when Green Lane Mosque (GLM) in Birmingham is upset with you. This is a hardcore Wahhabi institution that is much reviled in the local community and known for bringing in hardline Wahhabi clerics in order to preach intolerance and hate. Its [...]

As many will now know, later this month The Times will no longer allow free access of its on line content.  I do not wish to discuss the pros and cons of this from the point of view of The Times, but the effect of this decision.
Even if other newspapers follow the lead of The [...]

By Karl Pfeifer
The city of Vienna launched a promotion campaign with the slogan “Wien ist anders”: Vienna is different. And Vienna after the Second World War was different as it did not invite back its former Jewish citizens and tolerated anti-Semitism in politics and media for several decades.
After the publication of Carl Schorske’s book “Fin [...]

Those of us who post at Harry’s Place frequently ask: Why Israel? Why does this tiny country attract so much attention and outrage for its deeds and (yes) misdeeds when other countries daily commit atrocities on a scale the dwarfs any and all of the dubious (or worse) things Israelis have ever done?
To his sort-of-credit, [...]

This is a guest post by Andy Lambert
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which claims to be Britain’s ‘largest Muslim umbrella organisation’, has been attacked in the past for promoting extremist speakers and being controlled and run by Islamists.
In response, they have often gone to great lengths to clear their name, providing the media with [...]

This is a cross post by Natalie Wold
Sunday, while meeting a friend for lunch near Whitehall I had the privilege of witnessing the hundreds of protesters who took the streets of London in protest for and against Sharia Law.  Group one, Muslims Against The Crusades purportedly by Al-Muhajiroun chanted their views against democracy and [...]

This is a cross post from One Law for All
Several hundred people joined One Law for All on 20 June at Downing Street to show their opposition to Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and to demand universal rights and secularism.

UPDATE Obama has made his choice and McChrystal has been sacked and replaced by General David Petraeus who was behind the surge policy in Iraq.
The BBC reports that Obama said he had made the decision “with considerable regret” but said McChrystal had failed to “meet the standard that should be set by a commanding general”.
He [...]