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Chag Pesach Sameach.

🚨🛑 EXCLUSIVE - Rabbi Yonah Blum, who served as Chabad Rabbi at Columbia University for 23 years until 2019, shared with me his thoughts on the unprecedented scenes on campus:

'I remember clearly when the thin veil was lifted. For years, there was a debate on campus about

#Breaking - The executive director at Columbia’s Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life just sent out an email beginning with the words: “It is unacceptable that I need to send this email in 2024.” Read it to understand why. The NYPD will be at the Kraft (Hillel) Center throughout

🚨 🧵 Columbia University, my cherished alma mater, has fallen.

Earlier today, Columbia’s Orthodox Rabbi blasted out a WhatsApp message to ~300 Jewish students — a message quite unthinkable in 21st Century America to Jewish people in the city with the most Jewish people in the

I used to tell my Jewish friends - even weeks ago - that Columbia (where I’ve served as a professor and a dean for 15 years) was still a safe place for their kids to live and study.

I’ve come to doubt that. So does a campus rabbi, Ellie Buechler.

h/t Jake Tapper

The Islamic Republic & the Iranian people aren’t the same. Far from it, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi told me New York Post. “We don’t need foreign countries to intervene to remove the regime…Iranians demand change & are paying with their lives every day.” nypost.com/2024/04/13/wor…

Paranoia within the Iranian dictatorship - an essential read by the always excellent Ali Ansari

The targeting of Iranian assets in Iraq and Syria was expected. The assault on an airbase in Isfahan, in the heart of Iran itself, was more striking, because it exposed the

I mean we have to admit that things have gotten really bad at Columbia.

It's clearly descended into 'Go Back to Poland' which is one of the worst thing you can say about Jewish people period knowing 95% of Polish Jews were wiped out.

It's become indefensible now.

The Islamic Republic & the Iranian people aren’t the same. Far from it, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi told me New York Post. “We don’t need foreign countries to intervene to remove the regime…Iranians demand change & are paying with their lives every day.” nypost.com/2024/04/13/wor…

BREAKING: Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, a senior U.S. official tells our Martha Raddatz

#Breaking - Nika Shakarami's sister, Aida, has been arrested in the Islamic Republic's latest brutal crackdown on women. Nika, who died under mysterious circumstances likely at the hands of Iran's security forces, became one of the best-known protesters during the

Three suspects wanted for the stabbing of Pouria Zeraati were from Eastern Europe and were hired and flown into Britain to carry out the attack. Masih Alinejad 🏳️ was also targeted by an eastern Europe criminal mafia employed by #Iran 's regime.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

#Breaking - Today, during the congressional hearing with Columbia’s President & Board on campus antisemitism & how the school is stamping out unauthorized events, this unsanctioned event was held on campus with the chants:
“No peace on stolen land”
“NYPD KKK”
“Public Safety KKK”

🚨🚨 #BREAKING - Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, has been suspended from Barnard College for her involvement in unsanctioned anti-Israel protests on Columbia's campus.

#Breaking - Nika Shakarami's sister, Aida, has been arrested in the Islamic Republic's latest brutal crackdown on women. Nika, who died under mysterious circumstances likely at the hands of Iran's security forces, became one of the best-known protesters during the

Table set outside Downing Street for the hostages. Incredibly poignant and powerful.

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s so-called morality police in one of their notorious vans which are used to haul women (and some men) to correctional/reeducation centers.

The vans usually have two male officers and women officers who wear the chador (the black cloak the most

#Breaking - Today, during the congressional hearing with Columbia’s President & Board on campus antisemitism & how the school is stamping out unauthorized events, this unsanctioned event was held on campus with the chants:
“No peace on stolen land”
“NYPD KKK”
“Public Safety KKK”

Today, Columbia University’s President, Minouche Shafik, will speak before the House Committee on Education & the Workforce about Columbia’s efforts to combat antisemitism. We hope she has better answers than Presidents Gay and Magill did during last December’s disaster hearing,

Release the hostages