“Thinking before speaking is good advice and followed less often than it should be, especially by politicians, despite all the media training they receive. The first instant reaction – to a question or event – can be the most revealing of a person’s biases, about what they really think, about what they fear most. So it was with President Emmanuel Macron in his first statement following the attack in Trappes.” Our latest Substack. Link in comments.

If immigrant women had been attacked, the media would immediately ask whether anti-immigration marches and rhetoric had helped create the climate in which it happened. But when Jewish women are attacked, there is remarkably little interest in the climate created by years of Antizionist marches and relentless anti-Jewish rhetoric online and on our streets. The BBC even asks anyone who “believes they may have been assaulted” to come forward. Jewish women are doubted twice over: as women who report an assault, and as Jews who say they are being targeted by a hate movement. But there is a real hate movement against Jews, and the media refuses to name it. The double standard is blatant. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr78…