Putting the century-long conflict between Israel and Palestine into a historical context along with European racism and antisemitism.

It should be noted that the Jews who lived under Islamic kingdoms did not enjoy equal rights. All Jews there, along with all Christians there, were officially designated as inferior to Muslims. They were never allowed to forget this. I expect that is part of the reason some of them chose to emigrate to Israel.

* [the Tory] plan to ban the glorifying of terrorism risks criminalizing "supporters of the suffragettes, Nelson Mandela, or even the crowd at Murrayfield belting out Flower of Scotland".*

The idea of trying to prohibit any opinions one finds odious leads invariably to tyranny, though the path that goes there may be crooked. That includes prohibition of a hostile attitude to some ethnic or religious group, no matter which group it may be.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, formerly of Pussy Riot, went to Indiana and sang God Save Abortion.

Australian legislators are rushing to pass a law to partly reverse the court decision against holding non-Australian criminals in deportation prison for life simply because it is impossible to deport them.

There are crimes that justify keeping the culprit in prison for life. Such a sentence could be carried out, when imposed, for criminals whether they are Australians or not.

But whether the criminal is kept in prison for life must not depend on whether the culprit is an Australian citizen. If the culprit of a certain crime, being an Australian citizen, would eventually be released (perhaps paroled), a non-Australian culprit should be released from prison just the same (and possibly then deported).

*[The insurrectionist's] Veterans-Day speech mirrors Hitler's statements almost word for word.*

I doubt this was a coincidence — I think the insurrectionist was given specific advice by Nazis.

*In denying that Trump sounds like a Nazi, his spokesman sounds a lot like … Goebbels.*