Iran fired some 180 ballistic missiles at Israel yesterday. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

António Guterres declared persona non grata by Israel. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

According to Danish media, all three suspects are Swedish citizens. Read it at The Local.

Video footage taken from a CCTV camera showed a large metal tube falling out of the sky and landing on a 38-year-old Palestinian man walking across a street. Don’t think this was Iran’s intention. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

Yes, I’m being funny now. Bum made me do this. 😀 The result of this new study says that people who take diabetes medicine to lose weight might make it harder for doctors to perform colonoscopy on them. Read it at JAMA Network Open.

Tonight marks the beginning of Rosh Hashana and the year 5785.

Wessie du Toit:

The decimation of the UK’s nightlife, and pub culture, is shocking. According to Bloomberg:

– Three-quarters of nightclubs shut since 2005
– Number of pubs down by a quarter since 2000
– 13,800 nighttime businesses shut in 2020-23
– 35% London’s local music venues closed 2007-15

Good news! For years, Ibn Rushd has taught Swedish Muslims that homosexuality is forbidden and that it’s allowed to abuse children. Now the organisation quits its activities after a government decision to stop funding it. Read it at Sydsvenskan.

New revelations. “Trump intentionally lied to the public, state election officials, and his own vice president in an effort to cling to power after losing the election, while privately describing some of the claims of election fraud as ‘crazy’.” Read it at ABC News.

New study gives hope. Read it at Nature Briefing.

I’m not an expert, but bombing the factory that makes atom bombs seems like a bad idea. On the other hand, it might be the last opportunity to stop Iran from getting the bomb. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

A German football fan has become viral for all the wrong reason. Probably the stupidest mistake ever. Read it at Daily Mail.

“Salome Zourabichvili opts not to advance bans on same-sex marriages and on adoptions by same-sex couples.” Read it at the Guardian.

It happened earlier today during a Q&A in the Swedish Parliament. It’s absurd how much anger this issue gives rise to in Europe. The day after attempted attacks in Israeli embassies in Denmark and Sweden, these people choose to do this. Read it at Expressen.

Was in the countryside yesterday morning. Had a meeting and was much too early, so I took a walk by myself and met some animals.

Read Mike Watson’s article at the Washington Free Beacon.

The article is a bit an interpretation stretch, but conspiracy theorists deserve mockery. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

This is scary. Use this interactive map to visit the attack sites, learn the facts, and view the horrors. You’ll find the map here.

Today marks one year since Hamas entered Israel from Gaza and orchestrated the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

In a video clip posted on social media, a pro-Palestinian speaker is heard telling the crowd at a Malmö rally that it’s in the Jewish genes to kill people. Read it at Expressen.

The similarities are eerie. Read Cyd Chartier’s essay at the Huffington Post.

Lund, one of Sweden’s most prominent university town, today saw a pro-Palestinian demonstration where speakers celebrated “their martyrs”. This happens on the first anniversary of Hamas’s brutal attack on 7 October 2023. Read it at Expressen.

“A former deputy chief of an Irish army unit has said Ireland is a ‘playground’ for Russian intelligence after claims that a member of parliament was recruited by the Kremlin to undermine Anglo-Irish relations during Brexit talks.” Read it at the Guardian.

Richard Pollock has made the list. Read it at Substack.

“The Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University study found that approximately 104 million people under the ‘people of faith’ umbrella are not expected to vote this election, including 41 million Christians and 32 million of whom regularly go to church.” Read it at Just the News.

This is really sick. Glorifying terrorists on 7 October. These students know no shame. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

“Pro-Palestinian activists are organising walkouts and rallies in support of Israel’s attackers.” Read it at the College Fix.

In Malmö, where I am at the moment, it begins now. Have an easy fast!

However, I was a bad Jew this year. Didn’t do all the hard work.

A new study finds that people who are sure they are right often believe they have got enough information to make up their minds, even if in reality they only have part of the picture. Read it at PLOS One.

Some studies just seem to prove what everyone already knows. But, well, now we have proof. Friendships are important. Read the study at Frontiers in Developmental Psychology.

In a country with a population of 380,000 everybody must now know someone who has been in government. Read it at the Guardian.

The unmanned aerial vehicle was sent from Lebanon under the cover of a Hezbollah rocket barrage. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

Mariya Chukhnova in the Kyiv Independent:

Referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine simply as “Putin’s war” is quite common, but this framing is misleading. It oversimplifies the invasion, affects allies’ perceptions, and fuels Russian propaganda. By focusing solely on the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, blame for this brutal aggression is shifted away from the Russian people. In reality, millions of Russians are driving and sustaining the war, which calls for a broader examination of collective responsibility.

A new study reveals that the number of viruses is beyond belief. Read it at Frontiers in Microbiomes.

“For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the US.” The base is Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Read it at the Wall Street Journal.

“The lack of publicly available information raises speculation about its potential uses, which could include military applications.” Read it at Space News.

Carbon capturing technologies have been trialed for more than fifty years, to the tune of more than 76 billion euros globally, with negligible results. Well, there are trees, right? We need more forests. Read it at EU Observer.

I’m so tired of these clueless fools. They really don’t get that the slogan “From the River to the Sea” is a call for a second Holocaust. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Whenever I tell non-Jewish friends about keeping kosher, the pig becomes the main topic. Jordan Rosenblum is the author of a new book about this issue. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Don’t we all? #DogPerson 🐕 Read it at DNyuz.

New study reveals that the roughly 130-year-old dietary log consists of oryx, zebras, and humans. Read it at Current Biology.

“Don’t get used to Trump’s Muzak of Insanity.” Read it at Matt Labash.

“Dogs have gone from working all day and sleeping outside to relaxing on the couch and sleeping in our beds.” Read it at The Atlantic.

Only a fool can demand Israel being evicted from the UN for the war in Gaza and Lebanon while completely ignoring the terror attacks from Hamas and Hezbollah. In the Guardian, Mehdi Hasan proves he’s such a fool. That aside, Israel should not be forced to leave the UN, the UN should be forced to leave Israel. End UNRWA and the UN’s other pro-terror organisations camouflaged as humanitarian aid.

A new IMF report showed that government borrowing will reach 93% of global GDP by the end of the year and near 100% by 2030. This is bad news for everyone. Read about it at Semafor.

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! Read about it at the Times of Israel.

According to Mike Watson, writing in the Washington Free Beacon, Biden undermines Israel’s campaign to restore deterrence against Iran.

This is just too absurd. Is this really what top politics is about these days? Read it at the Associated Press.

A new study using long-term brain imaging data shows one brain network involved in guiding attention is nearly two times larger in patients with depression than in people not experiencing depression symptoms. Read the study at Nature.

“The allegations against Moscow included funding pro-Kremlin opposition groups, spreading disinformation, meddling in local elections and backing a major vote-buying scheme,” the Guardian reports. “In particular, officials accused the fugitive pro-Russian businessman Ilan Shor, a vocal opponent of EU membership, of running a destabilising campaign from Moscow.”

“According to the European Anti-Poverty Network, one in three Canary Islanders is at risk of poverty, and 65% struggle financially.” Read it at News Central.

I haven’t written anything here for days. Have been a bit down emotionally. Can’t say why, but I guess it’s a combination of workload and dark winter days. Looking forward to a trip to Spain in a couple of weeks. Need sunlight.

“As a new poll shows that more than a quarter of Americans believe civil war could break out after this year’s presidential election.” Read it at the Independent.

“A new modeling study from a pair of Duke University researchers and their colleagues shows that the oscillation between El Niño and its cold counterpart, La Niña, was present at least 250 million years in the past, and was often of greater magnitude than the oscillations we see today.” Read the study at the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This night will be an hours longer as we’re leaving summer time.

It’s old news by now, but Israel launched a long-awaited retaliatory strike against Iran yesterday. Read it at the Times of Israel.

“Russian actors were behind a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania.” Read it at ABC News.

A 23-year-old woman who tore down Greek flags thinking they were Israeli dubbed one of the dumbest people on Earth by frustrated locals. Well, people who rip down flags are rarely intelligent. Read it at the New York Post.

“Strikes reportedly render crucial energy sites vulnerable to future attacks, destroy fuel mixers used to make missiles that were fired at Israel.” Read it at the Times of Israel.

“Kelly several times corrected Trump on his understanding of Hitler’s rule in Germany as a comparison for how to manage the US military.” Unbelievable! Read it at NPR.

Yesterday, a friend of Donald Trump’s referred to Kamala Harris as “the devil” and “the antichrist”, drawing an ecstatic roar from the crowd at Madison Square Garden. American politics has never been this dirty. Read it at the Independent.

“Passed 92-10, the bill would effectively prevents the UN Palestinian refugee agency, which Israeli leaders have accused of having ties to Hamas, from operating in Israel and East Jerusalem, halting essential services such as cleaning, education, and healthcare.” Read it at Le Monde.

The not-so-funny comedian Tony Hinchcliffe mocked the US territory by calling it “a floating island of garbage”. Read it at El País.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has sided with the Kremlin instead of the EU after disputed elections in Georgia this past weekend. Read it at EU Observer.

Dictators helping each other in battle against decency and democracy. However, this also shows that Russia isn’t a superpower. Read it at the Guardian.

The team found a long-buried tomb with the remains of twelve ancient skeletons beneath the iconic Al-Khazneh building. Read the press release at the University of St Andrews.

The chair of Puerto Rico’s Republican Party says he will not support Trump without an apology. Read it at the Huffington Post.

I guess it depends on what you put into the word, but I think this tweeter is in to something. Many treats political ideologies as identities, without any real knowledge about the ideas they’re supposedly embrace.

Owl of Athena:

It’s a word game: they hear “progress” and who doesn’t want to make progress? Who wants to be seen to stand still, especially people who basically do nothing, contribute nothing, and are stuck in their own feelings of self doubt and disappointment that their lives haven’t turned out as they’d have wished or as they were told they would (or should). This is why so many progressives are upper middle class: they had nowhere to go but backwards without massive effort.

“Hezbollah announced on Monday that deputy head Naim Qassem will serve as its secretary-general, succeeding slain chief Hassan Nasrallah as the leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group.” Read it at the Times of Israel.

“Russian troops tortured Oleksii Sivak for weeks, applying electric shocks to his genitals in a freezing basement in his home city of Kherson in punishment for resisting their rule.” Read it at the Guardian.

Sinéad O’Connor is one of those artists from my childhood that I always get back to. Love her take on Elton John’s Sacrifice. Read the last interview at the Guardian.

“In this age of information and surveillance, privacy has become a necessary watchword—a countermeasure to the constant documentation of what we say, do, buy, and consume.” Read it at The Atlantic.

One of the most prominent of Swedish photographers and gay-rights activists has left us. Read it at QX.