Hugh Fitzgerald

In Glasgow, Scotland, a man grabbed a 16-year-old girl, dragged her behind some bushes in Springburn Park, and raped her. The police told the public that the rapist was a “tanned European.” If you are thinking he was someone along the lines of Marcelo Mastroianni, think again. More on this deliberate misidentification can be found here: “Teen girl (allegedly) raped in park by a Muslim migrant, officials refer to him as a ‘tanned European,'” by Olivia Murray,

Two Dutch women were invited to Pakistan to meet with people who, as “the grandson of a leading politician” assured them, would be interested in investing in their new company. There were no investors, but instead, Pakistanis who seized them, repeatedly raped them, beat them, threatened them with death, and kept them prisoner in order to exact a ransom in cryptocurrency. They managed miraculously to escape.

And both Israel and Lebanon are appalled. Trump sees Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa as a “strong leader,” someone who can take on Hezbollah and deal better with it than Israel. That is not how either Beirut or Jerusalem sees things. More on Trump's suggestion that Lebanon let Syria back in to crush Hezbollah can be found here: “Trump presses Syria to take on Hezbollah, raising alarm in both Lebanon and Israel,

For the past 2½ years, the Israelis have been insisting that many of those in Gaza who claimed to be journalists, and whose reports on the war much of the mainstream media in the West relied on, were in fact journalists only part-time, but terrorists full-time. As the evidence for this piled up, the defenders of those “journalists” at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have had an increasingly hard time of it. The CPJ has produced a list of 207 people whom it described as “journalists killed by the IDF.” The Israelis have insisted that many people on the list were members of Hamas. Their misreporting was essential to the terror group's propaganda effort. Now the CPJ has had to surrender. More on these “journalist” terrorists can be found here: “After HonestReporting's Research, CPJ Ousts Nika Soon-Shiong and Admits Its Gaza “Journalist” List Was Wrong,” by Sharon Levy,

From Pamplona to Madrid to Barcelona, the antisemitic fever is spreading across Spain. The anti-Israel animus that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his corrupt regime display at every turn, of course, encourages it. More on the signs of the oldest hatred in Spain can be found here: “‘Destroy Israel' Banner at Spain's San Fermín Festival Sparks Outrage From Jewish Leaders and Officials,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello,

The six-day funeral for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei began in Tehran and ended in Mashhad, where he was born and where he was buried, with ceremonies, too, in Qom, and in Iraq, in the cities of Karbala and Najaf. The Iranian regime now claims that in those five cities at least forty-three million people joined the crowds of mourners. This is a preposterous figure, off by an order of magnitude. More on where many Iranians went during the funeral can be found here: “The Funeral the Cameras Missed: How Iranians Really Marked Khamenei's Death,” by Maddie Ali,

Lindsey Graham, a four-term Republican Senator from South Carolina, has just died at the age of 71. He was without a doubt Israel's best friend in Washington. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, he sometimes wanted to provide more aid for Israel's defense than the Israelis themselves requested. In an interview he gave to the Jerusalem Post a few months ago, Senator Graham said “I'll stand with Israel until the day I die. It is our greatest ally.”

Lindsey Graham, the four-term Republican Senator from South Carolina, who has just died at the unacceptably early age of 71, demonstrated throughout his career a commitment to the safety and wellbeing of the state of Israel that only the late Senator Henry Jackson, who also died at 71, matched in the last half-century.

Where hatred for Jews leads. . . .

His denial is catching up to him.