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The Left’s Reaction To Arrest Of The Latest UK Stabbing Is As Predictable As It Is Disgraceful

The Left’s Reaction To Arrest Of The Latest UK Stabbing Is As Predictable As It Is Disgraceful

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Paul Birch via DailySceptic.org, These people have never been in a life-or-death situation like the arresting officers One would think that even when the police successfully detain a suspect who was alleged to have been conducting a marauding knife attack, the professional activists would have a day off. But you would be wrong. Amid all the ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ cliché bingo, voices of criticism were heard. Among them, the blue-tick career race-baiter Shola Mos-Shogbamimu. She was quick to take to X following yesterday’s attack on the Jewish community in Golders Green, north London. The 45 year-old suspect, a British national of Somali origin, had reportedly stabbed two Jewish men at random. The suspect – depressingly, inevitably – had previously been referred to the Government’s counter radicalisation programme, Prevent. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu criticised police officers who are shown kicking the suspect in the head while he is on the ground. She opined: Contemptible abuse of police power. Why kick him in the head several times when he’s already Tasered and in your control? Should he not …

Former Olympic hammer thrower emerges as Italian left’s anti-Meloni – POLITICO

Former Olympic hammer thrower emerges as Italian left’s anti-Meloni – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Salis’ most prominent initiatives as mayor have been progressive. Her first act was to register the births of 11 children born to lesbian couples abroad, blocked by her right-wing predecessor. She has opened a municipal office for LGBTQ+ rights and introduced a minimum wage for city contracts. She also backed pro-Palestinian causes. Winning the center But amid talk of a national role, she has increasingly shifted her politics toward the center, with a focus on mainstream issues surrounding health, labor, security and migration. The left, she argued, must focus on “pragmatic, concrete” issues. In a competitive contest on the left, Salis’ limited political experience could count against her, but she argued that she was adaptable. After all, she has taken control of one of Italy’s most important cities “by assembling a competent team and learning day by day, like anyone in a new job.” Experience, she argued, came in different forms. She pointed to the discipline of elite sport and her work within Italy’s Olympic system, where she dealt with ministries, international partners and major …

Why the right’s antisemitic shift is scarier than the left’s

Why the right’s antisemitic shift is scarier than the left’s

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — A friend asked me in a text message yesterday, “So, Jeff, you’ve been talking and writing about the antisemitism on all sides of the political spectrum. Which side do you think is the most dangerous?” It was just a few days after Menachem Rosensaft and I wrote about the “horseshoe” effect of antisemitism – how it exists both on the left and the right.  For that op-ed, we recalled the passage from Exodus that describes how the Red Sea split for the Israelites, creating a wall of water on both sides and a metaphor for what we are experiencing today. Here’s another Passover-related image — and my answer to my friend. For a variety of arcane reasons, medieval illustrators would often include rabbit-hunting scenes in their haggadot: dogs or hunters chasing rabbits into a huge net. Jews would interpret themselves as the rabbit. The hunters are chasing us into a net. The hunters also come from both sides.  Today, the hunters on the left are the anti-Zionists who promote their positions using antisemitic …

How the death of a far-right activist has shaken up the French left’s mayoral campaigns

How the death of a far-right activist has shaken up the French left’s mayoral campaigns

Published by Sam Flores

Rabya Boinaheri, LFI candidate for mayor of the 15th and 16th arrondissements of Marseille, February 20, 2026. THEO GIACOMETTI FOR LE MONDE No municipal campaign debate goes by without mention of the death of far-right activist Quentin Deranque, who was beaten to death by antifascist activists on February 14 in Lyon. The debate held in Lyon itself on February 24 saw heated exchanges between the four participants. The same dynamic played out in Marseille during the first – and perhaps only – televised debate bringing together the four main candidates for mayor on Thursday, February 19. “The half-hour on Quentin wasn’t even on the agenda… We wanted to talk about Marseille, but they took us for fools,” said the left-wing incumbent mayor, Benoît Payan, after the broadcast. Radical-left candidate Sébastien Delogu, whose party La France Insoumise (LFI) has ties with a group accused of taking part in the beating, tried to defuse the controversy from the outset by paying his respects to Deranque, while also recalling that, in 1995 in Marseille, a young man named …

Sophia Chikirou hopes to capitalize on radical left’s recent scores

Sophia Chikirou hopes to capitalize on radical left’s recent scores

Published by Sam Flores

Sophia Chikirou, lead candidate for La France Insoumise (LFI, radical left) in the Paris municipal elections, at a campaign event, on November 14, 2025. THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP In 2022, La France Insoumise (LFI) saw its presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, claim second place in Paris with 30% of the vote, compared to 21.9% and third place nationwide. Then, as part of the Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance in 2024, the radical movement secured four of the capital’s 18 constituencies, with all four directly elected in the first round of the snap parliamentary elections. Now, for the Paris mayoral election in March, LFI intends to capitalize on its previous strong electoral showings in the French capital. “The only elections we haven’t really thrown ourselves into, where we haven’t really invested until now, were the municipal elections. It’s not right that our ideas aren’t represented at the local level, when so many things are decided locally!” said Sophia Chikirou, LFI’s candidate for mayor of Paris, in a January 19 interview on the YouTube channel of journalist Alexis Poulin, a …

Karoline Leavitt Torches The Left’s Hypocrisy On Deportations

Karoline Leavitt Torches The Left’s Hypocrisy On Deportations

Published by Jenni Sidey

At her first briefing since the Minneapolis shooting of Alex Pretti, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democratic leaders for refusing to enforce federal immigration law. She described Pretti as an armed left-wing agitator and said the administration’s message was clear: the Biden-era approach to immigration enforcement is finished. Leavitt accused Democrats and hard-left activists of trying to obstruct the mandate voters gave President Trump, while federal immigration officers are carrying out the will of the American people. She noted that Trump has condemned the “vile” treatment of those officers and called the resistance to enforcement deadly. She also outlined what the White House sees as the path forward in Minnesota, stressing cooperation from state and local officials who have shielded illegal aliens. Trump spoke with Gov. Tim Walz on Monday in a productive conversation, Leavitt said, noting the two were on a similar wavelength about next steps. The administration’s demands include turning over all criminal illegal immigrants in state and local custody for immediate deportation, requiring local police to transfer all illegal aliens …