I really cannot stress this enough:

Anti-Israel and pro-Hamas Jews are to Judaism as the Westboro Baptist Church is to Christianity.

Do they exist? Sure, as a noisy but numerically negligible minority, totally at odds with the overwhelming majority of the Jewish community.

A Jewish woman in France was raped, and the perpetrator said he was going to pimp out her daughter in order to 'avenge Palestine.' When you support or deny the Hamas use of sexual violence against Jews, you encourage the continuation of this well-established pattern.

'wholly unrealistic' is an understatement. Hamas is an arm of a theocracy not a democracy and makes no bones about it. And the Middle East not exactly thick with secular democracies; it just beggars belief that anyone could be so naive to imagine such a thing would replace Israel

“The Democrats who are now openly talking about putting conditions on aid to Israel are hardly on the fringe.”

Count the Dem votes against Israel—that’s the fringe and that’s how many votes they got.

I’m AYE with no conditions for Israel and $9B in Palestinian aid.

This is a great, great piece - the reporting is great, the occasionally sardonic tone is great, the absolute authority with which it's written - this is the best kind of writing. By Michael Powell , of course

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

News: Akos has hired John Heilemann as chief political columnist

axios.com/2024/04/23/puc…

Guys. Just because we want to eradicate the world’s only Jewish state and we march in solidarity with the organization responsible for October 7, doesn’t mean we’re antisemitic. We have a whole tent of Jews hosting a river to the sea Seder.

Romney flattered by Fetterman’s idea he take over as Harvard president.

“One way of ending the demonstrations on Gaza would be to name me president of Harvard because then the demonstrations would all be about getting rid of President Romney. There would be mayhem,” he quips

Appalling news out of Paris - a 32 year old man kidnapped, raped, and tortured a Jewish woman to “avenge Palestine”.

We have no words.
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The White House: Vice President Harris and Israeli President Herzog discussed the deplorable cases of harassment and calls for violence against Jews in the US. Harris condemned this reprehensible Antisemitism & underscored her & President Biden’s commitment to speak out against

Gaza is the ~13th~ most important issue to Gen Z voters, according to the new Harvard Youth Poll.

#1 - still the economy

“Wray reiterated comments he has made recently underscoring that the threat from terrorism since Oct. 7 is as high as it has been in some time, especially from lone actors or small groups radicalized at home by the war.” nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

NBC News Exclusive: “We are increasingly concerned [about] the potential for some kind of coordinated attack here in the homeland, which may be not that different from what you saw against the concert hall in Russia a few weeks ago from ISIS-K”, FBI Director Wray says.

STORY:

Inbox: Speaker Johnson will travel to Columbia University tomorrow to “Deliver Remarks and Hold Press Conference on Antisemitism at Columbia University.”

BREAKING: Brandeis University extends the transfer application deadline to May 31 as antisemitism accelerates on college campuses.

“Students elsewhere should know we welcome all — Jews and students from every background — who seek an excellent undergraduate education and an

So, Columbia has decided that its graduating class, which completed high school and started college online because of Covid lockdowns, will now have to complete college online as well?

What can one even say about such gross failure?

Wow. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned as Stanford University president this summer for overseeing labs that produced falsified research at 3 different institutions over 20 years, returns to biotech with $1bn in funding.

'This is a disgrace that further erodes confidence in higher education.'

NEW: An ACTA Message to College Trustees: Do Not Allow Your Campuses to Become Havens for Antisemitic Violence and Harassment: goacta.org/2024/04/an-act…

“It is good that administrators at Columbia University

Mitch McConnell, a staunch backer of Ukraine aid, says the anti-Ukraine movement began with Tucker Carlson, “who, in my opinion, ended up where he should have been all along, which is interviewing Vladimir Putin.”

The Senate just voted 80-19 to break a filibuster on $95B aid

!!! McConnell takes aim at Tucker Carlson

“the demonization of Ukraine began w/ Tucker Carlson”

He says Carlson “ended up right where he should’ve been, which was interviewing Putin”

McConnell lamented Carlson’s “enormous audience” that convinced “a lot of rank & file” R’s