Jonathan Sacerdoti

Should the West be Suspicious of Islam? My full Oxford Union speech.

A Palestinian asylum seeker who arrived in Britain illegally by small boat has been jailed for six years after breaking into a family home and masturbating in front of terrified young girls. The judge concluded that he intended to rape at least one of them. Mohammed Abbas, 29, who claims to be Palestinian, arrived from France in March. By July, he had already been convicted of assaulting a police officer, whom he spat at, and battery. Rather than being deported, he was given a taxpayer-funded, £250,000 two-bedroom house in Cardiff, where he lived alone. Just two days after moving in, Abbas broke into a nearby family home at 2am, entering a bedroom shared by three sisters, including two children under 16. He exposed himself, repeatedly demanded sex and masturbated as the girls screamed in terror. He even attempted to climb towards one of them on a bunk bed. She desperately fought him off with a pillow. Their screams eventually alerted their family, and Abbas fled. Police subsequently discovered stolen belongings at his accommodation and DNA evidence linking him to the bedroom. The court heard that Abbas received £30 weekly from the Home Office, which he spent on food, alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. His asylum application remained undecided. Judge Lucy Crowther described the danger he posed to women and girls as “real and imminent”. He received six years’ imprisonment and three years’ extended licence. Meanwhile, the British Government has reopened its refugee resettlement scheme, with approximately a quarter of referrals earmarked collectively for Palestinians and Afghan women and girls. Ministers expect initially hundreds of arrivals across the new resettlement routes, potentially rising into the low thousands. Abbas cannot be considered for deportation until he has served his custodial sentence.

American military aircraft have been evacuated from RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk following intelligence about a possible Iranian threat, according to the Wall Street Journal. Several US refuelling tankers were relocated to Germany and Prestwick Airport in Scotland on Monday, while other aircraft were moved from Mildenhall to nearby RAF Lakenheath. Security at both bases was raised to Force Protection Condition Charlie, the second-highest American military alert level. The specialist defence publication The War Zone documented the unusual movements, which coincided with additional American military deployments towards the Middle East. The involvement of two major US airbases is significant. Mildenhall supports aerial refuelling, reconnaissance and special operations, while Lakenheath hosts American fighter aircraft, including F-35s. Dispersing aircraft between installations and relocating tankers further afield could reduce their vulnerability to a concentrated attack while preserving operational capabilities. The precise nature of the Iranian threat remains unclear. One possibility is that American commanders have received intelligence about an Iranian attack against their British installations, following earlier suspected Iranian intelligence activity targeting RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Another is that Washington is dispersing vulnerable aircraft ahead of renewed strikes against Iran, anticipating retaliation. Both explanations could be true simultaneously. The movements raise questions about whether these precautions are purely defensive or preparations for another confrontation with Iran.

France has formally accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of carrying out a major cyberattack against refrigeration systems at approximately 700 retail sites across the country, destroying food supplies and reportedly causing at least 15 fires. The attack, which took place overnight on 11–12 October, involved hackers remotely manipulating refrigeration controllers, raising temperatures to as high as 50°C. The resulting damage reportedly ran into tens of millions of euros. French authorities have identified three senior Iranian officials suspected of involvement: • Hamid Reza Lashgarian – Head of the IRGC’s Electronic and Cyber Centre. • Mahdi Lashgarian – Commander of the IRGC’s Shahid Kaveh cyber unit. • Reza Salarvand – Also identified as a commander of the Shahid Kaveh unit. French prosecutors have reportedly requested international arrest warrants. The French investigation also identified cyberattacks targeting equipment at small hydroelectric installations, raising further concerns about Iranian operations against civilian infrastructure. Another IRGC-linked unit, Shahid Shoostari, has previously been implicated in cyber operations against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, including a 2023 attack that compromised customer information. France has summoned Iran’s ambassador and is pursuing further European sanctions. The significance extends far beyond damaged supermarket refrigerators. This was an alleged state-directed cyber operation designed to interfere with physical infrastructure, with consequences including destroyed food, substantial financial losses and fires. It demonstrates how cyberwarfare can reach directly into ordinary civilian life, targeting the systems on which food distribution, electricity generation and other essential services depend.

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BREAKING: An Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome has been diverted to a French military airbase following a bomb threat, while three Ryanair flights bound for Bulgaria have also received threats today, amid a growing wave of similar incidents across Europe. The Aer Lingus aircraft, carrying 151 passengers and six crew, landed at Évreux military airbase in Normandy, where French military bomb-disposal teams were deployed to inspect it. All those aboard were reported safe. Three Ryanair flights travelling to Sofia from London, Madrid and Copenhagen were also targeted today. The London flight was diverted to Plovdiv, while the other two landed in Sofia. The latest alerts follow an extraordinary series of similar incidents earlier this week. On Tuesday alone, seven flights were affected, including services from Heathrow to Warsaw, Copenhagen to Warsaw, Manchester to Murcia, Dublin and Lisbon to Rome, and Dublin and Bergamo to Sofia. On Monday, a Wizz Air flight from London Luton to Sofia was diverted to Budapest under Hungarian fighter escort. On 18 October, an Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna was diverted to Sofia following another bomb threat, with Bulgarian fighter jets deployed. The threats have forced emergency landings, military interceptions, runway closures and extensive security operations across several countries. No explosives were found in the earlier incidents. The disruption has also extended beyond aviation. On Tuesday, the Israeli-operated cruise ship Crown Iris was evacuated at the Greek island of Syros following a telephone bomb threat. Its 940 passengers and 597 crew were taken off the vessel while security teams searched it. Nothing suspicious was found. The growing pattern raises questions about whether Europe is facing a coordinated campaign of disruption rather than unrelated hoaxes. Different airlines, countries and routes have been targeted, repeatedly forcing costly security responses and the deployment of military resources. Authorities have not identified those responsible or established any connection between the incidents. There is currently no evidence publicly attributing them to a particular state or organisation.

Iran has declared Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force “terrorist organisations” and designated MI6 a “hostile group” — as British authorities confront a growing pattern of alleged Iranian operations inside the UK.

BREAKING: Iran has declared Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force “terrorist organisations” and designated MI6 a “hostile group”. Under the new measures, the Royal Navy and RAF are now formally treated as terrorist organisations under Iranian legislation, while MI6 falls within an Iranian law covering espionage and cooperation with states Tehran considers hostile. The latest escalation comes as two men face prosecution over an alleged Iranian intelligence operation targeting RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire base used by the US Air Force. All this came just days after Foreign Secretary Edward Miliband met Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in New York on 24 September, shaking his hand and posing for a photograph together at the UN General Assembly. The new measures announced today by Iran’s Foreign Ministry today, follow a decision by Tehran’s Supreme National Security Council and took effect immediately. Iran says it is retaliating against Britain for bringing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under the State Threats Act in July, and for what Tehran claims was UK assistance to US and Israeli military operations against Iran, including access to British-controlled bases and logistical facilities. It is an extraordinary inversion of reality from the brutal Islamic regime whose Revolutionary Guards have been responsible for decades for sponsoring terrorism and destabilising activity abroad. Meanwhile, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, a British couple in their 50s from from East Sussex, have been imprisoned in Iran for nearly two years, since January 2025. He is a carpenter and she is a psychologist/life coach. They are now serving 10-year sentences for espionage – charges they deny. Their appeal was rejected, and they remain in custody. Their family met Foreign Secretary Edward Miliband on 27 October and is pressing Britain to go further, including formally declaring their detention arbitrary, granting diplomatic protection and considering action at the International Court of Justice.

Netanyahu’s speech suggests that Israel and the USA are on course for an escalation with Iran, which will potentially influence coalition negotiations following the election result. Netanyahu is targeting the right-wing factions to encourage them away from aligning with Arab parties towards a right wing coalition.

Netanyahu: we must establish a strong, right wing block. It is forbidden to form a government that relies on anti-Zionist Arab parties. How can you talk about a coalition government when it includes members who serve the enemies of the state? The Zionist majority must wake up and unite.

In recent months, the BBC had to get rid of its Director General, head of News and now to pay £400,000 to a 22 year-long employee who made documentaries there. All at least partly because of its anti-Jewish, anti-Israel lies and falsehoods. It had a senior reporter broadcast fake news about a Palestinian rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza and obstinately say he didn't regret it when he was shown to be wrong, and made a documentary which secretly starred the son of a Hamas minister whose family it paid with money from the license fee.

The BBC has agreed to pay £400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7. Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta. Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as “evil”, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre. When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was “too partial” to oversee it because she was Jewish. She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it. She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings. The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as £400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism. Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.

New details have been revealed about an alleged Iranian-linked plot to bomb Jewish targets in Manchester: prosecutors say the suspects were sent instructions for making a homemade explosive device by a contact believed to be based in Iran. Iranian nationals Rahman Salehi, 34, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, are charged with preparing acts of terrorism. Both intend to plead not guilty. The Old Bailey heard that police allegedly observed the men photographing and filming Jewish sites in Manchester on the eve of Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day. Prosecutors say this was reconnaissance in preparation for a terrorist attack on Manchester’s Jewish community. The alleged targets included the Manchester Jewish Museum and Heaton Park synagogue — where two Jewish worshippers were killed in a separate attack almost a year earlier. Prosecutors allege that the pair were communicating with a third person believed to be in Iran, who sent them a document containing instructions for assembling an improvised explosive device from readily available materials. The two men are due to stand trial in Manchester on 15 June next year.

Hamas has explicitly threatened to carry out another October 7-style attack — not only inside Israel, but in Judea and Samaria and abroad. According to Ynet, senior Hamas officials delivered the warning through UN humanitarian coordinator Dr Ramiz Alakbarov, asking him to convey it directly to Israel. Israeli officials reportedly described the message as extraordinary and unprecedented in its bluntness. A document detailing the threat was urgently passed to Israel’s political and security leadership. Hamas said Israeli military operations in Gaza, changes to the “Yellow Line” marking Israeli military positions, and the Palestinian Authority’s cancellation of elections were causing it to lose control on the ground — and warned it could strike “wherever the opportunity arises”. The threat comes as Hamas faces growing military and financial pressure. Israel has intensified targeted operations against senior Hamas figures and members of its elite Nukhba force. Meanwhile, Hamas reportedly needs around 90 million shekels — approximately $29 million — every month simply to pay its personnel. Israeli security estimates put Hamas’s workforce in Gaza at around 30,000 people, from administrative staff and lower-level operatives to members of its military wing, receiving roughly 3,000 shekels each per month. Three years after October 7, Hamas is not hiding its intentions. It is openly threatening to do it again — and potentially far beyond Gaza.

An east London 18 year old has been jailed after providing practical cyber-security assistance to al-Qaeda and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. Yusuf Shah, from Ilford, was only 16 when he was stopped at Heathrow in January 2024 under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. Police later discovered that he had downloaded instructions on making explosives and explosive devices, material on using different weapons, and an al-Qaeda publication containing practical guidance on carrying out terrorist attacks. But Shah was not simply consuming propaganda. On Telegram, he joined groups supporting terrorist organisations and offered his technical expertise. He advised members how to use an untraceable cryptocurrency to donate to al-Qaeda. A payment of $1,376.51 was subsequently made using the QR code and security methods he had recommended. He was also approached to produce a cyber-security guide for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan after being told that a senior TTP official had requested help. Shah produced a document entitled “A Guide on Cybersecurity”, giving detailed instructions on cyber-security and cryptocurrency intended to help the terrorist group operate secretly. Police say Shah had been discussing religion online since 2021, when he was 13, and by the end of 2022 was expressing support for al-Qaeda and TTP. Now 18, he has been sentenced to four years and two months in custody and made subject to a 10-year notification order. This case also leaves some important questions unanswered publicly: • Where was Shah born, and what is his nationality and family background? • What school did he attend? • Did he attend a mosque, madrasa or other religious institution, and if so which one? • Was there any offline ideological influence from clerics, teachers, friends or relatives? • Did his family know about his extremist activity? • Were there earlier warnings from his school, community, social services or police? • Which online figures, channels and communities first introduced him to al-Qaeda and TTP propaganda? • Did he have direct contact with terrorist operatives beyond the interactions already disclosed? • Why was a 13-year-old able to progress from consuming extremist material to materially assisting terrorist organisations without earlier intervention?

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Green party leader Zack Polanski is totally clueless when it comes to zionism and international law in general.