Harry's Place

Last night, at an event held as part of the Jewish Book Week, I listened to Eve Ensler speak about how she is “an emotional creature.”  Ensler is best known for The Vagina Monologues, a play that comprises a series of monologues that relate in some way to the vagina.
In her speech, Ensler declared [...]

Politics Daily reports:
The Polish trade union Solidarity, whose protests in the early 1980s helped precipitate the downfall of Soviet communism, has embraced the cause of Wisconsin’s protesting public workers.
Piotr Duda, head of the 700,000-member “Solidarnosc” trade union, wrote that on behalf of his organization he wanted to “express our solidarity and support for your struggle [...]

Me for a start.

Magdalena Marsovszky, a researcher of antisemitism in Hungary, writes about the disturbing tendency of the Hungarian nationalist extreme Right to link the era of Soviet domination which ended in 1989 with Jewish “traitors” and non-Communist leftists and liberals in the country today.
(Hat tip: Karl Pfeifer)

Russia could be effectively arming Hezbollah as it presses ahead with a major arms deal to Syria further provoking Israel.  Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said that “the contract is in progress.” Serdyukov added that Russia was also bent on carrying through on promises to deliver several Bastion anti-ship missile systems to Syria.
The [...]

Frank Buckles, the last known surviving American veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 110.

Twenty-three years after the war, in 1942, he was taken captive by the Japanese in Manila and endured three-and-a-half years of brutality, starvation and disease in a prison camp.
He received the French Legion of Honor in 2008.
A [...]

As Kim Jong-Il wonders if placing Kim Jong-eun in charge of the Juche biscuit making facilities was a wise idea, further reports of widespread starvation emerge from the Hermit Kingdom.
Yonhap covers the testimonies of former DPRK soldiers who defected to the South. One, Paek Hwa-seong recounts that he was conscripted into the military, he was [...]

This is a cross post from  Student Rights
Following the recent LSE embarrassment over their Libya links, the management of the London School of Economics will be further irked by the fact that a member of their teaching staff is not only an active member of Islamist sect Hizb-ut-Tahrir, but that he is appearing alongside characters [...]

Via Just Journalism:
On Saturday, The Times reported that half of the board of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics are supporters of the Boycotts, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) campaign against Israel – despite the centre having prominent financial links with several authoritarian Arab states, including Libya.
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Today’s Times includes another article by Dominic [...]

The Sun has the video of Galliano’s rant.
(Update – astonishingly, this is not the rant for which Galliano was arrested last week. This took place on an earlier occasion)
He is obviously drunk. Sober racists usually remember to keep their thoughts to themselves. Drunkeness gives racists permission to speak.
The Sun also reports:
Last Thursday Galliano allegedly insulted [...]