Anti-Semitism
September 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I want to draw attention to Park MacDougald’s take on what he calls “The Tucker Op” in his daily column at Tablet’s The Scroll. He takes account of more weirdness in the Carlson/Cooper hoedown than I did — e.g., Churchill’s alleged installation as prime minister by shadowy “financiers,” the likening of Israelis to the Nazis (“So, the Nazis were misunderstood, but also the Israelis are a bit like the Nazis.
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September 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Is that a good thing? It’s debatable. At Columbia, pro-Hamas demonstrators disrupted the first day of classes: Dozens of screaming anti-Israel protesters swarmed Columbia University as classes kicked off Tuesday — resuming the chaotic demonstrations that paralyzed the Upper Manhattan campus at the tail end of last semester. The rowdy demonstrators formed a picket line and banged drums as scores of students waited in lengthy lines to pass through security
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September 1, 2024 — Steven Hayward
There has been some salutary progress in recent months shutting down the divisive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” rackets on college campuses in many red states, but after the job of ridding us of the scourge of DEI attention needs to be turned to admissions offices. Thesis: Most admissions offices should be purged wholesale. Not only are most of them likely still violating civil rights law in the aftermath of the
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August 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
At Columbia, a new report details the orgy of anti-Semitism that consumed the school during the last academic year: Jewish students at Columbia University were chased out of their dorms, received death threats, spat upon, stalked and pinned against walls, as the Ivy League school devolved into a cesspool of antisemitic hate in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 murderous raid on Israel. The new and disturbing details emerged from
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August 24, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I wrote here about the preliminary injunction entered against UCLA by Judge Mark Scarsi in Frankel v. Regents of the University of California. I called this opening paragraph of Judge Scarsi’s order the Scarsi scar: In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to
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August 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is a report on a study of 113 incidents that targeted Jews, worldwide. The analysis was done by the Combat Antisemitism Movement. The results won’t be a shock to anyone who has paid attention; still, they are striking: The weekly Global Antisemitism Report published by the Combat Antisemitism Movement analyzed 113 incidents that targeted Jewish victims worldwide and found that 57.5% of the perpetrators were identified as far leftists,
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August 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The revelation of anti-Semitic hatred in deep pockets of American society has come as something of a shock to me and others. It is the hate that dares to speak its name in the university, in the Democratic Party, and elsewhere. The resignation of the Columbia University president this week reminds us of the horror show in Morningside Heights (more here). As Steve Hayward noted earlier this week, Judge Mark
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August 14, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I’ve been on record for a while predicting that campus anti-Semites will attempt to shut down several high profile college campuses this fall, in particular Columbia. Columbia classes are scheduled to resume on September 3, the day after Labor Day. Today’s Columbia’s embattled president, Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, abruptly resigned, effective immediately. She held the job for barely a year. There is no reporting yet as to whether Columbia’s trustees lost
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August 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It seems clear that at one point, near the end of the process, Kamala Harris had decided to make Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro her vice presidential nominee. This is why she scheduled the rally where she would introduce her Veep candidate for Philadelphia. The Democrats’ largely anti-Semitic progressive wing didn’t like the choice, but initially Harris stood up to them. But then, at the eleventh hour, it developed that Shapiro,
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August 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Vice President Harris is to hold a rally with her running mate in Philadelphia this evening. She has not yet revealed her selection. Today is the day. It has come down to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. My idea of hell is to be chained in Plato’s Cave — the one Socrates conjures in Book VII of The Republic — next to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
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August 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
As Scott wrote this morning, there are indications that Josh Shapiro is shaping up as Kamala Harris’s VP choice. Notwithstanding the opposition from “progressive,” i.e. anti-Semitic, Democrats, which I noted here. But now, in an 11th-hour development, the ante may have been upped. The progressives’ opposition to Shapiro is ostensibly based on the fact that he is pro-Israel, although–call me a cynic–I think it mostly stems from the fact that
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July 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Eric Clapton gave a 60-minute interview to The Real Music Observer (David Spuria) this past May 22. When I checked over the weekend, it had racked up nearly 250,000 views on YouTube. Drawing on the Jerusalem Post story highlighting quotes featuring Clapton’s anti-Semitism, Lloyd Billingsley picked up on them in “Clapton copies Cat.” Here we have the “Israel is running the world” passage of the interview: I was so enthused
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July 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Wall Street Journal extracts this Notable & Quotable excerpt from “Is Kamala the One?” by Joan Walsh in the Nation (July 8): She has gotten credit for being a step ahead of the president in her public statements, criticizing Israel’s relentless bombardment and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza with an eloquent anguish Biden has not matched. . . . “Listen, I strongly believe that our ability to evaluate
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July 8, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
I was so enthused about what was going on at Columbia [University] and elsewhere. And then what I couldn’t believe, because it freaked me out, were the Senate hearings, which were like the Nuremberg trials, you know? The Senate committee chairman asked pointed questions to presidents of universities, saying, ‘I just want to hear yes or no. Don’t talk to me about context. Yes or no, are you promoting antisemitism
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June 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
This past weekend Jamaal Bowman’s held a rally in the South Bronx that advertised his gross anti-Semitism and other warts to the voters in his largely suburban Westchester County district. AOC warmed up the small crowd in attendance by shaking her thing. In her remarks it sounded like AOC had been working on her urban accent with Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders pumped the old-time religion like William Jennings Bryan the
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June 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon continues to expose the deep thoughts supporting Columbia University’s surrender to the anti-Semitic mob. Today Jessica Costescu draws on the private Instagram account of Gil Hochberg, the Ransford Professor of Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies and chairman of the school’s Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (“MESAAS”) department. In the Instagram post on which Costescu’s story focuses, Professor Hochberg decries the coverage
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June 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Squad man Jamaal Bowman held a sort of last-stand rally in the South Bronx — why the South Bronx?– with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this past weekend. Having asked around about the Westchester County towns designated by Bowman in his effusion, I take it that Bowman simply disapproves of heavily Jewish neighborhoods. Why he singles out Jewish neighborhoods for scorn isn’t hard to discern, but what a disgrace. In
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