Category: Social issues

A line of UK police officers in yellow high-visibility vests facing a street with Palestinian flags and a red double-decker bus at night.

UK Intifada Chant Arrests: Free Speech Tensions and Anti-Palestinian Discrimination Concerns

The December 2025 decision by UK police to arrest protesters for chanting “globalise the intifada” has ignited a fierce debate over democratic erosion and selective enforcement. While authorities cite security concerns following recent global tensions, legal experts and activists warn that criminalizing political speech without evidence of violence constitutes institutionalized bias, threatening the fundamental right to peaceful mobilization and free expression.

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Busy city square in Amsterdam with historic buildings, crowded with locals and tourists, and street performers

The Silent Transformation: Demographic Shifts and the Crisis of Western Identity

Western democracies are experiencing a significant sociopolitical transformation due to demographic changes and new ideological alliances. Eliyahu Haddad’s analysis highlights that mass migration, declining birth rates, and “ideological paralysis” contribute to a “civilizational replacement,” which is now influencing electoral dynamics in Europe and North America and impacting social cohesion, domestic security, and transatlantic relations with Israel.

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President Trump has moved to constrain birthright citizenship, and a number of constitutional scholars have questioned whether the 14th Amendment in fact requires it. They make serious arguments, but they ultimately misconstrue the 14th Amendment. According to the best reading of the text, all individuals born on American soil are American citizens. The marginal exceptions to this rule tend to prove the rule rather than refute it.

The Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship

President Trump has moved to constrain birthright citizenship, and a number of constitutional scholars have questioned whether the 14th Amendment in fact requires it. They make serious arguments, but they ultimately misconstrue the 14th Amendment. According to the best reading of the text, all individuals born on American soil are American citizens. The marginal exceptions to this rule tend to prove the rule rather than refute it.

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