French hotel group Accor has warned that forward bookings from Europe to the US are down 25% this summer. Read it at Bloomberg.

Canadian tourists rethink holiday trips to the US due to Trump. Read it at Miami Herald.

I’m surprised it’s only 73%. Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

An actor has left us.

This is nuts, but also a fun way to protest. Read it at the Associated Press.

The government declares maximum alert in Tenerife and La Palma as Storm Nuria approaches. Read it at Canarian Weekly.

People who undertook 4:3 intermittent fasting lost just under 8% of their body weight within a year, compared to a 5% loss among people who cut their daily calories by about a third. Read the study at Annals of Internal Medicine.

The orange man is set on destroying the world economy. Read it at CNBC and the Wall Street Journal.

Hamas admits 72% of deaths are combat-aged men as it quietly reduces civilian death toll. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

“‘Anyone who opposes or protests [against Hamas] should be treated not as a political rival but as a traitor—to be dealt with under the Palestinian revolutionary law,’ according to Al Jazeera political analyst Saeed Ziyad.” Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

The enemies of the Jewish state would love this. Let’s hope the government in Jerusalem realises that it has to end its divisive policies. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Read Nachum Kaplan.

Yesterday, Elon Musk, who has served as a close advisor to Donald Trump, broke with the president’s decision to impose expansive tariffs on most foreign nations, saying that he hopes to see a “zero tariff situation” between the United States and Europe. Read it at NBC News.

The stock markets are down everywhere this morning. Catastrophe in Asia and Europe. In Stockholm, the it’s down 7% after four minutes of trade. It’s absurd how one man can destroy world economy.

A French geographer was forced to leave his lecture by 20 masked and hooded pro-Palestinian students who called him a “Zionist” and a “terrorist” last Tuesday. These people are projecting their own beliefs on others. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

“The economy was chugging along. Then came Trump’s dramatic tariff increase.” Read it at the Wall Street Journal.

It’s not good. Read the study at Small.

An investigation by CNN has revealed that Iran is using minors affiliated with criminal gangs in Sweden to target Israeli and Jewish interests. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Needless to say, Lorena Delgado Varas is a member of the communist Left Party, which has been repeatedly criticised for allowing and promoting anti-Semitism. Read it at the Swedish Committee against Anti-Semitism.

Apparently, a real problem for some. Read it at Ynetnews.

I’ve been ill for two days. Cold with fever. Not fun.

Well, the orange man seems to do one thing right. Read it at Campus Reform.

A man who police say scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, where he set a fire, had planned to beat Josh Shapiro with a hammer if he found him. The police haven’t said it yet, but I wouldn’t be surprise had the motive being anti-Semitism. Read it at the Associated Press.

A new study finds that not getting enough vitamin K could harm brain health as we age. Read it at the Journal of Nutrition.

“The controversial amendment also recognises only two sexes, providing a basis for denying other gender identities.” Of course, the argument is that the ban will keep children safe. Bigots always use children to legislate against minorities. Read it at the Guardian.

An author and liberal activist has died.

World politics these days is so absurd that begin to lose interest. Everything is about Trump’s latest whim.

Despite Belgium’s efforts to push back against their conspiracies, Russian spies are still active in Brussels and have “a higher risk appetite” than before the Ukraine war. Read it at the EU Observer.

“Hungarian lawmakers have voted through a controversial constitutional amendment that campaigners described as a ‘significant escalation’ in the government’s efforts to crack down on dissent and chip away at human rights.” F**king a*seholes! Read it at the Guardian.

Kidneys for cash. Read it at Deutsche Welle.

A clash by anti-Israel activists and pedestrians outside a Jewish-owned Strasbourg bakery the past weekend drew outrage from French politicians. I’m so sick of these anti-Semitic terror sympathisers. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

A decade-long study tracking young Americans reveals a profound shift happening in religious life. People are walking away from churches, synagogues, and mosques in record numbers while maintaining personal spiritual beliefs and practices. Read the study at Sage.

A new study reveals that dogs may be far better at understanding human speech than previously understood. Read the study at Animal Cognition.

Good! The golden age of anti-Semitic Muslims must come to an end. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

“The industrialised extermination of a people targeted solely for their identity is not the same as a war started by Hamas terrorists aiming for the same thing.” Read Michael Kuenne at the Times of Israel.

Hundreds of residents of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, took to the streets yesterday to protest Hamas’s rule. Good! The Gazans must end Hamas and opt for peace. Read it at the Times of Israel.

At 9.45am this morning, the Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis.

I suppose this was the logical next step thing in the Republican meltdown and detachment from truth. Read it at Mediaite.

After the terror attack on 7 October 2023, which was the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, Ziad Basyouny praised Hamas on social media. Now he advocates the dismantling of Israel. He also supports the nurses who were captured on video threatening to harm Jewish patients (some newspapers as replaced the word “Jewish” with “Israeli”, but they say Jews in the video). Read it at ABC and the Guardian.

Here are some possible candidates. Read it at Reuters.

A former CIA agent reveals shocking new evidence suggesting Hitler may have faked his death and escaped to Argentina. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Today is Yom HaShoah, the day Jews throughout the world remember the Holocaust.

I watch the funeral of Pope Francis yesterday. In the speeches, I realised what a different pope ha was compared to his predecessor. I truly hope that the next pope will follow in Francis’s footsteps. He’s now in his final resting place at Santa Maria Maggiore, a basilica I visited in 26 November 2017.

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“Trump’s approval rating is lower than for any past president at the 100-day mark in their first or second terms.” Read it at the Washington Post.

Kurt Schlichter argues in favour of striking Iran now. Read it at Townhall:

I know it’s not fashionable among some on the right, but we have a moral and strategic obligation to attack Iran right now. Not later. Not down the road, after more bogus negotiations with these glorified bazaar merchants who specialise in stringing along credulous Westerners until they get what they want. Today. We have the forces in place, and if we don’t do it, they’re going to end up with the bomb.

Mainland Spain and Portugal lost power on yesterday in an unprecedented power outage that caused widespread chaos. Read it at The Local.

No Jews to blame, so no rallies in European capitals with leftists crying “genocide” and carrying with posters of dead children. Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

The proposal calls on the Bank of Israel to cancel the specific series of banknotes transferred to Gaza. An interesting idea, if you ask me. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

In Malmö, you only see stickers with the Palestinian flag. No one here cares about the Israeli hostages. So many people in Europe have bought into the idea that killing, raping, and kidnapping unarmed Jews is “resistance”. Here’s zero balance in sympathy for the two sides fighting in Gaza. I miss Tel Aviv.

In a couple of hours, May is here. I love May. It’s the month I was born and, usually, it’s when spring makes its big breakthrough in Sweden.