I repeat, I am sorry the world is filled wit hatred but better to lance the pus and get it to ooze in the open, why hide reality?
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A university-backed event promotes denial and justifications of Hamas’s atrocities.
Organizers refused us entry because we weren’t registered but waved others through who also weren’t on the list. The lecture hall was filled, and we resorted to sitting outside and pressing our ears against the door to listen.
What we heard was two hours of denial, lies and incitement. Speakers referred to the atrocities of Oct. 7 in the sanitized language of “civilians killed,” not beheaded, raped or kidnapped. They called the terrorist group “militant,” and one observed that “violent resistance movements often emerge in colonized spaces.”
Nobody mentioned the Hamas charter’s call to “fight Jews and kill them,” but somebody asserted that Israel aims to “inflict as much harm, damage, and death as possible.” One panelist remarked, “The one most important part of our conversation here today is that Israel is still occupying Gaza.” Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
One of the speakers flatly declared: “No matter what the solution is—a two-state solution or a one-state solution—the Israeli state cannot remain the state of the Jewish people.”
This event had broad institutional support from Yale. “Gaza Under Siege” was co-sponsored by the American Studies, Anthropology and Religious Studies departments; the programs in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; the Center for Middle East Studies; the Black Feminist Collective (co-directed by the head of Pierson College); the Ethnography Hub; the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; and Yalies4Palestine. The head of Jonathan Edwards College promoted it in a weekly email. The heads of Yale’s colleges had previously been instructed not to advertise a post-Oct. 7 Shabbat dinner invitation. That event was controversial, an administrator told Ms. Tartak.
In the past month, Yale has become a hostile environment for Jewish students. We’ve seen multiple protests with hundreds of students yelling “resistance is justified”; a petition with 1,200 student and staff signatures accusing Israel of genocide and Yale of “criminalizing” Palestinians’ “right to resist”; the words “I [heart] Gaza” and “love 4 Gaza” written in chalk throughout campus, and Instagram posts by the student group Yalies4Palestine declaring “the Israeli Zionist regime responsible for the unfolding violence” and calling on “the Yale community to celebrate the resistance’s success.”
After the speeches ended on Monday, we entered the hall. Our stomachs dropped at the sight of nearly 200 fellow students, some of whom we had regarded as friends, along with professors we had looked up to in esteem. We asked the moderator and two of the speakers if they were willing to denounce Hamas unequivocally. All three turned their backs on us. So has our university.
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Sarah Schutte:Rothman: We’re Seeing ‘Some of the Most Grotesque, Overt, Unselfconscious Displays of Antisemitism That I Have Witnessed in My Entire Lifetime’
By Sarah Schutte:Rothman
Posted By Ruth King
National Review senior writer Noah Rothman, on Tuesday’s episode of The Editors podcast, said antisemitism in the West is reaching levels he’s never before seen. The discussion followed the killing of a Jewish counter-protester in Los Angeles over the weekend.
“Attacks on Jews, for being Jews, are up by 388 percent in the last month,” he said. “That’s an estimate, so we don’t know. But it would comport with what we’re seeing.”
Rothman added, “We’ve seen acts of property destruction, specifically Hitlerian threats against lawmakers, ritualistic vandalism. This is all an act of intimidation and a sort of a rite, a ritual that summons in the people who engage in this, the will to engage in murderous violence.”
These acts, he said, amount to “some of the most grotesque, overt, unselfconscious displays of antisemitism that I have witnessed in my entire lifetime.” He noted that even New York City, with its large Jewish population, is hosting rallies “where people are chanting, ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ and, ‘There’s only one solution to the Jewish problem.’”
Much of this, Rothman said, is a product of press bias and historical illiteracy. “We don’t teach the Holocaust anymore,” he said. “Studies suggest that 10 percent of people in the Gen Z age haven’t even heard the word ‘Holocaust.’ Most of them don’t know what it was about. They don’t know the numbers. They don’t know why they were killed. And they don’t know the predicate for it.”
“We have been creating the conditions for anti-Semitic violence for years,” he said. “It has come home to roost, and it’s only going to get worse. And we have no one else to blame but ourselves.”
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Bari Weiss on Why We Should End DEI
Long Island Republicans painted the town red on Tuesday night after a landslide victory in the deep blue state.
GOP candidate Ed Romaine outshined his Democrat opponent David Calone in the Suffolk County Executive election, resulting in Republicans now holding all of the countywide seats in Nassau and Suffolk Counties — both county executive seats, the district attorney and comptroller's offices, and all four congressional seats.
Political analysts told CBS News that a second GOP wave is about to hit the New York.
"You have the Republicans able to unify on what their message is … The Nassau and Suffolk operations they have politically will be reinvigorated," political strategist O'Brien Murray said.
Another said that they could only recall one other moment in the last 60 years when Republicans were presiding over the predominantly Democrat area.
"Long Island, for now, is defiantly returning to its red roots," Lawrence Levy, dean of Hofstra University's National Center for Suburban Studies, said.
More about the massive GOP victory from the New York Post:
Romaine, 76, the Brookhaven Town supervisor since 2012, flipped the Suffolk County executive seat from blue to red. The current occupant, three-term Democrat Steve Bellone, had to relinquish the seat because of term limits. Romaine was favored to win after a series of high-profile endorsements, including the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association, which backed a GOP executive for the first time in 20 years. It's a continuation of the GOP dominance over Democrats on Long Island in recent election cycles. Pickups of two congressional seats on Long Island helped the GOP capture control of the House of Representatives in last year's midterm elections — thanks in large part to a strong showing by GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, the then-Suffolk congressman who swamped Democrat Kathy Hochul on Long Island running a law and order campaign, though she narrowly won statewide.
Sen. Al D'Amato (R-N.Y.) said that voters have taken a sharp look at the country Democrats have created, leading to Americans wanting change.
"The borders are in chaos. There's nothing for Democrats to come and vote for. And those who are coming to vote are voting for Republicans in local races," he said.
This election can be viewed as what's to come for the 2024 election, as Americans are waking up to the insanity the Democrat Party has endured on the nation.
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