MARK STEYN CLUB
Never Mind the Bollocks, It’s Islam
Mark Steyn
October 20, 2025

I’ve had a rough few days and have emerged from a cloud of medication to a barrage of intemperate emails from British readers demanding to know what I make of Jews being killed on the streets of Manchester, Jews being forbidden from attending footie matches in Birmingham, and Jews being arrested and interrogated for ten hours for perambulating the streets of London while wearing visible marks of their faith. Well, obviously, I’m shocked, shocked to find Jew-hate going on at Rick’s Café Keffiyeh. …Demography isn’t everything but it’s a good ninety per cent – especially if your public discourse, as at the BBC et al, won’t permit you even to notice the demography. Sir Keir Starmer professes to be so outraged by the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending the match in Birmingham that he has demanded the West Midlands Police and other “authorities” revisit the issue. Yeah, good luck with that. READ MORE

THE SPECTATOR Anti-Jewish sentiment has poisoned our police In the video obtained by the Telegraph, the interviewing officer alleges the suspect got ‘very close’ to pro-Palestine protesters and that his actions went ‘beyond observing to provoking’. He can then be heard asking the suspect: ‘What necklace are you wearing?’ The suspect, flustered, explains that it’s a Star of David. His solicitor objects to the question and, after a brief pause, the interview continues. The constable says he was not intending to offend, but was reflecting the fact that fellow police officers had ‘noted in their statements that because the Star of David was out and present to people… they felt that was antagonising the situation further’…In all, the suspect [THE JEW] spent almost ten hours in custody and remains on bail.