The New York Times headquarters was vandalised in Manhattan in response to a revised article on Gaza. There’s something uniquely violent and ignorant about the pro-Palestinian movement. They are truth resistant. Read it at Mint.

Background here.

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Kyiv yesterday, killing at least 31 people and injuring 159 in one of the deadliest attacks on Ukrainian capital since the start of the full-scale invasion. Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

It’s Friday evening. Have a nice weekend!

His name is Evyatar David, a 24-year-old Israeli citizen who was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists on 7 October 2023. Read it at NDTV.

The Palestinians don’t want a two-state solution, they want Israel and the Jewish people gone.

A Hamas official has frankly declared that Western nations recognising a Palestinian state would be “the harvest of” the October 2023 massacre. Read it at PJ Media.

According to the latest public opinion poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 64% of Gazans and 85% of West Bank residents oppose disarming Hamas. Read it at Legal Insurrection.

This is a big mistake. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Not everyone is happy about the prospect of a socialist Mayor of New York. Read it at the New York Times.

A new study suggests we might get ill by looking at sick people. Read it at Nature Neuroscience.

The unique anatomical quirk was found by accident in a man who died at the age of 78. Read it at the Journal of Medical Case Reports.

“The Guards said the path forward lies not in political compromise but in continued resistance. Quoting a Hamas slogan attributed to Haniyeh, the statement said: ‘We do not recognise Israel—never, never, never.’” Read it at Iran International.

Btissame Chait-Said, an Arabic, 34-year-old home care nurse in the Netherlands, last week became the subject of a police investigation after messages posted under her name on social media said she would happily kill “Zionist” patients. Read it at Jewish News Syndicate.

Some people seem to think that it’s OK to attack any Israeli. Read it at Jerusalem Post.

Good! Read it at The Local.

Short answer, “F**k no!!!” Read Steven Hayward at Substack.

Despite the war, Hamas has managed to continue to use a secret cash-based payment system to pay 30,000. Read it at BBC News.

I wonder what he will blame the Jews for in these films. Read it at Moviemaker.

The duties, which the president announced last week, took effect for about 90 countries just after midnight. This is madness! Read it at the New York Times.

Madness! Read it at AP News.

The universe it putting on a show. Read it at UPI.

Anti-Semitism is now big business. Funny, though, that they often claim that their opponents are paid by Israel lobby. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

I suggest Alex Stein be used as cat food. Read it at Pink News.

“Three Greek pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups are planning a ‘Day of Action’ on Sunday against Israeli tourists, vowing that the country will not become a ‘refuge’ for ‘genocidal people’.” Read it at the Times of Israel.

I’m not sure this is a good idea, but perhaps I’m wrong. Important is that those who live in Gaza are given the right to rule themselves as soon as possible. Without Hamas. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Watch it at Eyal Yakoby.

Dear God, save us! Read it at Daily Mail.

The children are sorted by eye and hair colour. Disgusting! Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

A nice read about Jewish teenagers who are openly proud to be Jews. Hard to get by in these days of unmasked anti-Semitism, where Jews are forced to hide unless we are trash-talking Zionism and Israel. Read it at Religion News Service.

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk says ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine might be imminent. Read it at Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.

It’s Friday. A few hours until Shabbat begins, but I’m fed up with this week and will go offline early.

God dod not only make Earth, he made Mars as well. Read it at Swedish newspaper Expressen.

Good! Read it at the Washington Free Beacon.

I’m neither British not a royal fanatic, but I find it fascinating how mush attention the Royal Family gets in the UK. In Sweden, we’re far mot relaxed about our Royal Family. Read it at Daily Mail.

I hate Wilders’s islamophobia, but he’s right on this. Read it at the Jerusalem Post. The Left wants us to believe that everyone sides with Hamas, but that’s not true.

A story that keeps on giving. Read it at Daily Mail.

Israel Police have detained a suspect who allegedly graffitied the Western Wall complex and the Great Synagogue with an anti-Semitic message. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

“Several hundred people marched on Sunday in London to demand Hamas release the Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian terror group in Gaza and to criticize Britain’s planned recognition of a Palestinian state.” Read it at the Times of Israel.

“Analysts warn that symbolic recognition of Palestine without follow-through risks undermining the diplomatic process and eroding global norms.” Read it at Ynetnews.

The Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif was killed by Israeli forces two days ago. Israel targeted him for his connection to Hamas. Al Jazeera and many international journalists condemn Israel for the killing. However, Al-Sharif’s Telegram account shows him praising the brutal terror attack on Israel in October 2023.

This is just nuts. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

“Israel is in talks with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the East African country.” Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

I have a bad feeling about this. Read it at the New York Times.

The wife-to-be dared to show her hand. Read it at the New York Times.

It took them two years, but now the United Nations has formally acknowledged that Hamas terrorists committed—and continue to commit—some of the most brutal sexual crimes on record, including rape, gang rape, genital mutilation, and sexual abuse in captivity. Read it at Ynetnews.

There was a time when Sinéad O’Connor ment a lot to me. Something about her pain and sadness spoke to me. Read it at Variety.

Good! Read it at PJ Media.

Thankfully, the 750-ton weapon shipment from Iran to the Houthis terror group in Yemen was intercepted. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

According to Ukrainian Centre for Countering Disinformation, Vladimir Putin will present Donald Trump with “historical materials” to frame Ukraine as an artificial state during their summit in Alaska. Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

Yay! It’s Friday afternoon! Shabbat in a few hours.

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has once again defended Hamas’s rule over the Gaza Strip. No surprise, but still disgusting. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Yesterday, Trump met Putin. Not much was revealed at the press conference that followed, but leaks suggest not much was offered to the Ukrainians. And they take note. Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

This is actually a photo some news agencies used.

She wrote the gay anthem, I will Survive. Read it at PJ Media.

Good! Ukraine needs our support. Russia can’t be allowed to win. Read it at Daily Mail.

The evils of war. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

I believe it when I see it. Read it at the New York Times.

Researchers find that the oldest confirmed black hole formed when the universe was a mere 500 million years old. Read the study at the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The parent’s biology may skew the probability of a baby being born male or female. Read the study at Science Advances.

Over a million protested across Israel yesterday, demanding end of suffering and peace. Read it at the Times of Israel.

North Korea’s loony dictator has created a tourist resort no one wants to visit. Read it at 38 North.

What’s the point of instructions that don’t show how things work? Have spent an hour trying to get an alarm to work. Stupid s**t!

Of course they did. Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

I can’t imagine how that meeting will unfold. Read it at AP News.

So, the American president called Putin’s friend in the EU after discussions about peace in Ukraine. Take note, Viktor Orbán is not the EU! Read it at Expressen.

Australia refuses entry for people who come the to express solitary with local Jews. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Israel remains consistent in its policy and demands the release of all 50 hostages. Read it at Legal Insurrection.

It won’t stop Putin, but it’s still good that someone speaks up against Russia’s attempts to form European politics. Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

The new normal. Funny, though, that these people don’t recognise that Hamas terrorists were the ones who deliberately killed children on 7 October 2023. Read it at the Times of Israel.

This is really nuts. “The Trump administration has directed the military to prepare for lethal strikes against cartel targets inside Mexico.” Read it at Ken Klippenstein.

Anti-Semitism is the new normal. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

I like this! European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde says Europe should expand trade with non-US countries in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs. Read it at the EU Observer.

Mark Judge is something of a nutjob at times, but this is a fun idea. Read it at Hot Air.

James Dobson, the vehemently homophobic leader of notorious right-wing Christian group Focus on the Family, has died at the age of 89. I doubt he’ll be allowed entry to Paradise. Read it at Newsweek and Pink News.

Of course they do. They want to terrorise Ukraine into submission. The West should ignore them and send troops to help Ukraine. Read it at EU Observer.

This according to the organisation itself on X. If correct, it means about 70% of Gaza's had something to eat yesterday. Not enough, but still something.

The aid workers claim that several international NGOs have limited their language and advocacy on the topic of Gaza because they fear that Israel might otherwise refuse them permits to operate in the Palestinian territories. I must have missed this silence. The world isn’t talking about anything else. Read it at Deutsche Welle.

A freak labelling others as such. Read it at Pink news.

The Famine Review Committee, a global group of experts, announced today that Gaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine. Read it at the New York Times.

The two MPs are Daniel Riazat and Lorena Delgado Varas, both of whom that party leadership regard as too anti-Semitic. It says something. Read it at Aftonbladet.

It’s now officially Friday afternoon. The weekend is approaching. I’m off.

Read Insurrection Barbie at Substack.

It didn't't start with the dinosaurs. Read the study at the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

On 19 August, researches found that Uranus hosts yet another moon, which looks like a tiny, faint smudge in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Read it at Science News.

“In Silicon Valley, far from thinking they’re lucky, they think they’re hard done by, that they’re victims,” former Meta employee Nick Clegg says. “I couldn’t, and still can’t, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity.” Read it at the Guardian.

“Stanford professor and historian Abbas Milani says the Islamic Republic’s real opposition is not abroad but inside the country: women walking unveiled, teachers refusing propaganda, and artists reimagining history.” Read it at Iran International.

An analysis of nearly 600 species of birds suggests that light pollution from human development can lengthen the time birds spend singing by nearly an hour per day. Read the study at Science.

Our planet’s climate history holds clues. Read it at Science News.

Exactly twenty years ago, I began to keep this online diary, which I think is a better description than blog. Well, this is not really correct. I actually began blogging in April 2000, but a server crash erased everything, so I moved to a more secure host and set up a new website. On 23 August 2005, I posted my first entry here. This entry is number 13,900.

When I started, the blogosphere was the coolest thing. Everyone was a blogger. Not so any more. I’m not quite sure why, but I never really got tired of it, but my writing has developed over the years. In the beginning, much was about politics, often polemic and, to be fair, not always kind. Nowadays, I mostly post links to news articles, with occasional comment on daily life and the arts. I post links to stuff I find noteworthy. Blogging about it makes it stick in my brain, so when I need it, I find it here.

I don’t know when I’ll stop blogging. Maybe I wake up one day and feel it’s time to end it. Or, maybe, it dies with me one day.

“Five ministers and four state secretaries followed Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp out after his efforts to issue new sanctions against the Israeli leadership were blocked by other government members.” Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

The Vatican only at number five. See the full list at Express.

A new study conducted at Ashkelon Academic College reveals the silent mental-health crisis affecting Israel’s security forces. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

I don’t doubt it one bit. Sleep is vital. Read the study at the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Osama Krayem has appealed a life sentence handed down in July over the 2015 murder of a Jordanian pilot burned alive by the Islamic State terror group in Syria. Read it at The Local.

This is simply wrong. Ukraine’s army should hit Russia with everything it got. Read it at the Guardian.

Many experts are worried that the bill is counterproductive. Read it at the Times of Israel.

Ali Hadrous, a teacher and former member of the socialist Left Party in Swedish town of Landskrona, has been sacked from his job after posting several anti-Semitic comments online. Now he’s suing the city for unlawful termination of his contract. When asked for more details, Swedish mainstream media was told by him that “the Jewish-Zionists lobby” controls Western journalists, the US, and most of the world. Read it at Expressen.

“Trump supporters have been left outraged after a school district reportedly suspended two boys for bulling a trans student.” Read it at Pink News.

“A 21-year-old trans woman, Ciara Watkin, has been found guilty of sexual assault after a court heard she did not tell the man she was dating that she was not assigned female at birth.” Read it at Pink News.

She’s right. Read it at The Independent.

So much for veganism. Read it at Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.

Yes! Read it at Expressen.

Update: I’m not fan of people Russians being killed, it’s just that Russia has done so much killing in Syria, Africa, and Ukraine.

Four journalists were among at least 20 people killed by Israeli strikes on al-Nasser hospital in southern Gaza. Read it at the Guardian.

Israel admits the mistake. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Perhaps not his best move. Read it at Politico.

Could help us learn more and remember things. Read the study at Nature Aging.

A report from the war against Russian barbarism. Read it at Spiked.

As cats age, they may yowl more than usual at night, have trouble sleeping or sleep too much, and act generally confused or disoriented. Now a new study shows that, just like in humans with Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-beta plaques build up in the brains of aging felines and may contribute to dementia-like behaviours. Read the study at the European Journal of Neuroscience.

“The highest-resolution images of a solar flare captured at the H-alpha wavelength (656.28 nm) may reshape how we understand the Sun's magnetic architecture.” Read it at the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

🤣 Read it at Deadline.

“A postwar plan for Gaza formulated by the Trump administration has circulated in recent days, which would turn the Gaza Strip into a "trusteeship" administered by the US for ten years.” Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Good! Read it at the Guardian.

Putin’s puppy is Budapest is doing what he always does. Read it at the Kyiv Independent.

For the first time, populist or far-right parties are leading the polls in the Britain, France, and Germany. Read it at the Wall Street Journal.