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  British Jewish actor urges UK citizens to speak out against Jew hatred; wave of commentators accuse him of playing ‘victim’ while not caring about Palestinians in Gaza Stephen Fry issued a heartfelt Christmas message Monday, calling out the surge in antisemitism in the United Kingdom and encouraging the country’s Jews to take pride in their heritage — and swiftly sparked a torrent of online trolling and backlash, with many accusing the actor and writer of playing the victim instead of shining light on the plight of Palestinians in war-torn Gaza. “The great Irish thinker and writer Conor Cruise O’Brien once said that ‘antisemitism is a light sleeper.’ Well, it seems to have woken up of late,” Fry said in the video, which aired on the British Channel 4 network. “The horrendous events of October 7th and the Israeli response seemed to have stirred up this ancient hatred.” Jewish on his mother’s side, Fry was not raised in a religious household and said he did not identify as such. “Then

  Kureishi is reportedly still unable to use his arms or legs and has spent the last year in five different hospitals. Hanif Kureishi has said his sense of self and privacy have been “completely eradicated” after a fall on Boxing Day in Rome last year. The 69-year-old British author and playwright spoke to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme as he guest edited the show on Tuesday, a year after sustaining life-changing injuries. According to the programme, Kureishi is still unable to use his arms or legs and has spent the last year in five different hospitals. Recording the show at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, Kureishi said he feels like an “exhibit” being surrounded by doctors who see him as “a thing”. He added: “It is humiliating at the start and then you begin to realise that it doesn’t really matter. “You realise quite quickly that your body doesn’t belong to you any more… that you are changed, washed, poked and prodded by nurses and doctors, random people all the ti

  Ermittler haben die bisher größte Menge an Captagon in Deutschland sichergestellt - Verkaufswert etwa 60 Millionen Euro. Die Droge wird vor allem in Syrien und dem Libanon in illegalen Fabriken hergestellt. Zwei Dinge überraschten die Ermittler des Zollfahndungsamtes (ZFA) Essen an diesem Oktobertag besonders: die Menge und die Professionalität. In einem Garagenkomplex an der Autobahn bei Aachen hatten sie gerade 300 Kilogramm Captagon sichergestellt. Am selben Tag wurden vier Tatverdächtige im Raum Aachen verhaftet - Syrer im Alter von 33 bis 45 Jahren, darunter ein Mann, der zuletzt in Wien gemeldet war. Alle vier sind seither in Nordrhein-Westfalen in Untersuchungshaft. Gemeinsam mit Funden in den vergangenen Monaten an den Flughäfen Köln/Bonn und Leipzig/Halle, für die auch die vier Tatverdächtigen verantwortlich sein sollen, summiert sich der Fund auf 460 Kilogramm Captagon. Nach Recherchen von  BR ,  MDR ,  SWR ,  RBB,  gemeinsam mit der "Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung&qu

  Actor John Schneider has called for the execution of President  Joe Biden  and his son,  Hunter Biden Recently unveiled as the Donut on reality show  The Masked Singer , Schneider took to X, formerly  Twitter , to share his violent views. "Mr. President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung. Your son too. Your response is..? Sincerely, John Schneider," the actor wrote in a reply to a post by President Biden. Joe Biden had written: "Trump poses many threats to our country: The right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and America's standing in the world. But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy. If we lose that, we lose everything." Threats to the president are considered a federal felony under code 18, section 871, and include anyone who "knowingly and willfully... threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict great bodily harm upon the president of the United States". Anyone convicted under the law c

  Sophie Hinchliffe has been praised for opening up about her and her son Ronnie's health diagnosis. Taking to Instagram on Wednesday the influencer, who is known to her fans as Mrs Hinch, revealed they have both been diagnosed with Autism.  Sharing a photograph of the pair smiling, she wrote:  "Autism. A question I am asked daily. "Mrs Hinch, is Ronnie autistic? Yes, our wonderful Ronnie is autistic. In fact, I am too." Revealing that they have known "for a while now", she continued:  "We decided as a family to take our time to process, to learn, to grow and to find our way together before we shared. "So that’s exactly what we did and are continuing to do each day. "We have hard days but we also have lots of magical days. And if only everyone accepted and understood autism, the world really would be a much better place. "Ronnie, thank you for being ours, for being so precious and simply incredible. "Because of you everything finall

  "No other people are popular like Franco Cozzo in Melbourne" — that's how the iconic Melbourne furniture salesman described himself in a 2022 documentary. It's unclear whether the statement was meant to be serious or humorous, but Cozzo — who died this week at the age of 88 — was never afraid to laugh at himself. Cozzo's unique sense of humour is the first thing that his friend Tony Cavallaro remembered about him. "He loved to joke!" said Cavallaro, who also owns a business in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, an area that hosted one of Cozzo's furniture showrooms. "He is going to be missed. He was the largest persona in Footscray. How many people have you heard that don't say Footscray, they say Foot-a-scray? It's sort of stuck in people's minds." In the 1980s and ’90s, Melburnians were waking up and going to bed with his do-it-yourself television commercials, which featured Cozzo's vibrant, baroque furniture accompanied