Remain Vigilant, Indeed

Whom are we supposed to believe that Iranians wanted to attack in Britain? Jews? There are 10,000 in Iran, served by 30 synagogues. There are Jewish schools. There are kosher shops and eateries. There is a matzah factory in Tehran. There is a reserved Jewish seat in Parliament. Why travel to Swindon, with one small synagogue?

Meanwhile, actual Nazis were applauded on the streets of London. Their deportment was not marching, but a handful of unarmed Ukrainians did walk through London as part of the VE Day parade. In the words of Jonathan Dimbleby, "I wonder whether Ministers are aware of what Ukraine's role was in the Second World War?" Followed by details. From 41 minutes here. That interview really was live.

That George Simion is banned from Ukraine is because he supports the incorporation into Romania of the whole of Bukovina, and while he did come out against further arming of Ukraine after Donald Trump's second inauguration, his position on the present conflict is whatever Trump says. He is in general extremely anti-Russian, and not unrelatedly he wants all of Moldova, as well the Timok Valley. Those positions, and his views on the ethnic minorities inside Romania, make him genuinely Far Right in a way that cannot be said of Călin Georgescu, whose merely battier views he does nevertheless share.

But Simion is pro-EU, pro-NATO, basically pro-war, and a supporter of Israeli settlement and annexation of the West Bank, so he is allowed whereas Georgescu was not. By the way, Israel now says that it also intends to occupy forever even Gaza, the Biblical Philistia, which could not be done without mass ethnic cleansing or genocide. Any such intention was "an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory" until, well, yesterday.

If it is a conspiracy that you want, then look out for the description of the annulment of last year's Romanian elections in such terms as, "after declassified intelligence documents revealed an alleged Russian influence operation." Was this operation alleged, or was it revealed? It could not have been both. Show us the declassified documents.