Harry's Place

Normally I don’t find antisemitism amusing, but I couldn’t stop myself from smiling at this clip featuring “Lebanese New Age Guru Maryam Nour”– who, refreshingly, was not taken seriously on LBC:

Update: If you have trouble telling from the translation on the video who said what, here is a transcript.

And he’s not the one they are investigating.
The BBC reports:

A Venezuelan crossword compiler has been questioned by intelligence agents after being accused of hiding a coded assassination message in a puzzle.
Neptali Segovia denies using his crossword in the national newspaper Ultimas Noticias to incite the murder of President Hugo Chavez’s brother, Adan.
Answers to clues included [...]

April Fools’ Day was over a week ago, but today the  Guardian newspaper has  published the most jaw-dropping, stupid suggestion in an article by Polly Toynbee.  Her idea is summed up in the article’s title:
The tax and finances of every citizen must be open to public scrutiny.
The rest of the article tries to justify this [...]

The US based Socialist Workers Party should not be confused with the British organisation of the same name, but they do have some similarities: they are both rest homes for the politically deluded, social misfits, psychopaths, and swivel-eyed totalitarian monsters.
We can get some idea of the support the US SWP have because they run candidates [...]

I am sure that many people  will be as shocked as I am by this report that has appeared in the Daily Telegraph:

Infanticide should be legal, Oxford experts say
A group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued that killing young babies is no different from abortion, and should be allowed even when there [...]

Thus Spake Lee Barnes:
Twitter.
The word says it all really doesnt it.
Twitter – twit, twat etc etc
But come on lets be honest what does it say about the person that likes using the twitter on his phone ( the twitoris ? ) and who does the twitting ( The twittee ? ) [...]

It was only last month that News Line, published by the the bizarre Workers Revolutionary Party, called on British workers to “support the Libyan people, and to be for the victory of Gadaffi. UK workers must make their contribution to the struggle. This must be a general strike to bring down the coalition and bring [...]

[R]apists don’t rape because they’re somehow evil or perverted or in any way particularly different from than the average man in the street: rapists rape because they can. Rapists rape because they know the odds are stacked in their favour, because they know the chances are they’ll get away with it. [...]

Writing at the wacko website The Truth Seeker, Gilad Atzmon not only takes his usual shots at Harry’s Place (“Islamophobic agent-provocateur”), he expands his attack to Andy Newman of Socialist Unity and Richard Seymour of Lenin’s Tomb, both anti-Zionists who have denounced his antisemitism.
He accuses Newman, Seymour and, um, David Aaronovitch of being “caught together [...]