Jonathan Sacerdoti
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More than six weeks after the Oxford Union promised to publish my June debate speech, the full video is still being withheld — while extracts of their own footage of the debate have appeared elsewhere, heavily edited. I filmed my own speech with the Union’s knowledge and agreement as an insurance policy and backup. So I’m publishing it myself. They must release the entire debate. Should the West be suspicious of Islam?
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You might think I’m picking on Jacob Rees-Mogg. I suppose am. His position was so utterly hypocritical, inconsistent, and weak in the Oxford Islam debate. While he was very polite to me personally, and it was nice to chat with him over dinner, these moments showed him at his most pathetic. He mocked us, the people who came to debate suspicion of Islam in a public place, calling us weak, “desperate old pinkos… Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beasties” who were “fretting”. But he is the one who came over all cowering and timorous – just like a mouse himself – when he thought Laurence Fox, a free British man, might unveil a forbidden, blasphemous cartoon I had prepared with him in advance. Sire Jacob jumped to his feet, all nervous. He begged the chair to ban the use of props in the debate. He was scared. Can’t blame him really. Jacob’s relief was palpable when the cartoon was unveiled. It turned out to be a mockery of HIM... so that was OK! And then, just to demonstrate his objection to props was fake, he got out his own prop: a little cross, which he held aloft as if to ward off a vampire. If he really believed that cross would protect us all, why was he so worried about the cartoon?
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Now the video is finally out, I’ve been reminded of some of the looniest parts of the Oxford Islam debate, like this bit, when Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested that the West has only really benefitted from capitalism because of Islam. Contrary to the popular myth that around 820 CE Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi single-handedly “gave us the advantage of numbers,” he did not invent the base-10 numerical system or the concept of zero; he actually adopted a pre-existing Hindu system that Indian mathematicians had already perfected centuries earlier. While he was a brilliant polymath whose scholarship spanned astronomy, geography, and mathematics, his development of algebra was deeply rooted in the practical administrative needs of his court-supported environment. Under the patronage of the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun, Al-Khwarizmi was tasked with creating a functional mathematical framework to handle the complex, rigid demands of Islamic law. Indeed, if we are truly looking for the specifically Islamic influence in his work, it is found directly in his need to calculate the highly uneven, discriminatory inheritance quotas mandated by Sharia. Because Islamic jurisprudence explicitly dictates that a woman is legally entitled to only half the share of a man in parallel scenarios – such as a daughter receiving half of a son’s share – distributing an estate became a severe mathematical challenge when entangled with debts or deathbed gifts. Al-Khwarizmi dedicated nearly half of his landmark book entirely to a dense “Book of Inheritance,” structuring dozens of chapters around these very constraints. He explicitly wrote these unequal shares into his mathematical equations, providing systematic instructions to ensure a son would always receive double the share of a daughter. Ultimately, Al-Khwarizmi integrated the superior Indian number system into his new algebraic method not merely for abstract calculation, but to provide the exact tools necessary to execute these rigid, gender-skewed legal distributions with absolute mathematical precision. Talk about clutching at straws, Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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Britain is about to sanction Israel over a ‘two-state solution' that Oslo never made binding, and which 7 October already killed. A move timed not around the Middle East but around a by-election, a party conference and the Jewish holidays. This will appease nobody and harm everybody, especially Britain.
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When somebody tells you they acting in the name of Islam believed them.
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![1/ I had never met or heard of Abdullah al-Andalusi until the Oxford Union Islam debate (in various places he is also known as Mouloud Farid and as Wazir Leton Rahman). In this clip from a lecture at Lancaster University Islamic Society, he explains why recreating a Caliphate ruled by Sharia would be a good idea. He says that in our countries we are told we should follow democracy, liberalism and secularism because that brings peace and prosperity, “but it doesn’t.” He explains why “reform[ing] Islam like the Christians did” will “make the same mistakes again”. The Oxford Union invited him as someone who would explain and defend Islam. In person he was quiet and polite. I think he genuinely means this, and his lecture attempts to explain his belief in Sharia. [1 of 6] 👇🏻](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2084255863456329754/amplify_video_thumb/2084245406657966080/img/mZ9JFic8LyRipW1z.jpg)
1/ I had never met or heard of Abdullah al-Andalusi until the Oxford Union Islam debate (in various places he is also known as Mouloud Farid and as Wazir Leton Rahman). In this clip from a lecture at Lancaster University Islamic Society, he explains why recreating a Caliphate ruled by Sharia would be a good idea. He says that in our countries we are told we should follow democracy, liberalism and secularism because that brings peace and prosperity, “but it doesn’t.” He explains why “reform[ing] Islam like the Christians did” will “make the same mistakes again”. The Oxford Union invited him as someone who would explain and defend Islam. In person he was quiet and polite. I think he genuinely means this, and his lecture attempts to explain his belief in Sharia. [1 of 6] 👇🏻
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After the Golders Green Jew stabbings, BBC radio invited me on to discuss the alarming levels of Jew hatred in the UK. As usual, they muted my mic near the end. As usual, I recorded it myself and restored the sound. Here’s what they tried to silence as soon as I mentioned the Green party…
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Complete and uncensored My speech defending Israel at the Oxford Union. Includes all the parts the Oxford Union tried to hide and didn’t want you to see. I was abused, disrespected and attacked. They had no intention of giving the debate a fair hearing. This was a sham trial conducted mafia style by disreputable kids in black tie. I am a proud Jew. I defend the truth.
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“The BBC broke me.” After 22 years at BBC Radio Lancashire, Sean McGinty was dismissed following a dispute over his emails and social media posts. In my new interview, he explains why he challenged the BBC’s response to October 7, describes the personal cost of speaking out.
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In Jacob Rees-Mogg’s desperation during the Oxford Islam debate, he also came up with this bit of loony argument, praising Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) as a great Islamic political theorist we ought to admire in the West today. Sir Jacob is a fan of Ibn Khaldun’s writings on taxation. But what does he think of the rest of political thought? Unlike some contemporary scholars who argued Jihad should only be defensive, Ibn Khaldun explicitly stated that Islam has a unique divine obligation to aggressively subjugate other nations. He wrote: “In the Islamic community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” He contrasted Islam with Christianity, arguing that Christians were not commanded to seek global political dominion, whereas Muslims were. He fiercely held that Muslims were intrinsically culturally and morally superior to all non-Muslims simply by virtue of possessing the Islamic faith and legal code. He also argued that an oppressive, tyrannical, and unjust Muslim ruler was vastly preferable to even a single day of civil unrest or rebellion, and that citizens have an absolute religious duty to unconditionally submit to state authority, even if the ruler is actively stealing their property or acting cruelly. In his foundational work, The Muqaddimah, he also explains his pseudo-scientific views on sub-Saharan Africans, explicitly writing that people living in the extreme hot climates of sub-Saharan Africa were “closer to dumb animals than to rational beings” and alleged that they lived in caves and engaged in cannibalism. He used these prejudices to justify the Arab slave trade, writing: “Therefore, the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because Negroes have little that is essentially human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals. He also claimed that Black people were characterized by universal “stupidity, levity, excitability, and great emotionalism,” attributing this to the “hot air” of their geographic zone. His views on Islamic political supremacy were uncompromising, and he openly argued that a religious theocracy (Khilafah) was the only legitimate form of governance. He explicitly stated that purely secular political systems based on human reason are fundamentally corrupt and sinful because they prioritise worldly greed over divine law. He even had zero tolerance for heterodoxy within the Muslim world, railing against Shia Muslims, and aggressively condemned and sought to ban the works of ecstatic or philosophical Sufi mystics (such as Ibn Arabi). So, are you embarrassed of this speech yet, Jacob Rees-Mogg?
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Here's what's happening right now in Keir Starmer’s “state of Palestine”: In Gaza City, a Hamas Sahm unit is about to execute by close-range shooting, three Gazans accused of being associates of Yasser Abu Shabab and collaborators with Israel. The Palestinian civilian crowd has gathered around them and is cheering for Hamas. Many of them are filming the event. This is what Keir Starmer has given British backing to.
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What happens when you put a Jew in the Oxford Union armed with facts? Here's what...
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• The UN’s own latest Gaza nutrition survey blows apart the famine narrative: acute malnutrition among under-fives was just 0.2–0.8%. • The UN report’s own conclusion: there is “no widespread acute malnutrition at population level”. • Gaza’s pre-war acute-malnutrition rate was around 0.8%. The new measurements are therefore at or below the pre-war level. • Gaza’s figures are lower than neighbouring countries: Egypt 2.9%, Jordan 2.0%, Syria over 12%. Even Bulgaria is 4%. • The famine threshold is 30% acute malnutrition by WHZ. The new Gaza measurements are 0.2–0.8% — a tiny fraction of that threshold. • Meanwhile, on 30 June Yvette Cooper described Gaza's situation as “desperate” and announced another £23 million of British taxpayers' money for UNRWA. • Politicians and campaigners were talking about ‘starvation’ while the UN nutrition system was producing physical measurements showing extremely low acute malnutrition.
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Andy Burnham’s decision to discuss Gaza with Gary Lineker raises a revealing question: was this a serious attempt to address one of the world’s most complex conflicts, or yet another carefully chosen platform designed to avoid difficult scrutiny and signal fake virtue for the calculated benefit of a dangerous portion of the electorate?
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