Anti-Semitism
September 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Some years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates was the hottest thing on the Left, viewed as an intellectual of world-historical importance. Scott performed the excruciating task of reading Coates’s Between the World and Me. It won the National Book Award for nonfiction, but Scott called it the worst book he had ever read. Coates made a lot of money from his racist grifting, and then disappeared from sight. He hasn’t been heard
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September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In the tweet below, Aviva Klompas provides a good summary of the apparent facts underlying Israel’s astounding Operation Grim Beeper, as Michael Doran calls it. Doran himself comments in the thread “A few thoughts on Operation Grim Beeper.” As I get it, Israel seems to have manufactured and sold the beepers to Hezbollah through a Hungarian front. Perhaps the terrorists were attracted by the volume discount. On October 8 Hezbollah
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September 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
From a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier today: “Fucking Jews…fuck Israelis.” The Senate Judiciary Committee has refused to hold a hearing on antisemitism for the last year. They held one today on “all forms of hate.” It was interrupted by horrific antisemites. Maybe now the Senate will take antisemitism seriously?! pic.twitter.com/Yh6Wi2cJlc — Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) September 17, 2024 Senate Republicans couldn’t get a hearing on anti-Semitism, but the Democrats allowed
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September 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Former Attorney General Bill Barr is a Columbia graduate. At the Free Press, he considers that university’s descent into anti-Semitism: Reading the report issued last month by Columbia University’s Task Force on Antisemitism, one could be forgiven for thinking that it describes the University of Heidelberg circa 1933. It contains accounts of observant Jews being harassed and assaulted, and open calls for the murder of Jews. But no, this is
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September 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In Newton, Massachusetts, a prosperous suburb of Boston, a small group demonstrated peacefully on behalf of Israel. A man harangued them from across the street, and then attacked one of the demonstrators: A pro-Israel rally in a Boston suburb turned violent Thursday evening when a passerby was shot during a scuffle after confronting a group of demonstrators, authorities said. *** Words were exchanged before a passerby rapidly crossed the street
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September 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Crank pseudo historians must be a dime a dozen. As one such, there’s nothing special about Darryl Cooper. The focus is on Cooper in the episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored posted below. It features Andrew Roberts, Dave Smith, and Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon. It was Dillon’s tweets on X that originally drew my attention to Carlson’s promotion of Cooper and his teaching on World War II. I greatly respect
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September 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In his 2019 review/essay on Tucker Carlson in the Claremont Review of Books, Michael Anton reasonably assessed: “Tucker Carlson has become the de facto leader of the conservative movement—assuming any such thing can still be said to exist. He didn’t seek the position. I doubt he wants it. He’d probably disclaim it, in fact. But the mantle settled on him nonetheless…” Perhaps without his show on Fox News, which Anton
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September 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.” Carlson added: “I want people to know who you are and I want you to be widely recognized as the most important historian in the United States.” You may not be familiar with Cooper’s views —
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September 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I want to add a footnote to my comments here and hereon Tucker Carlson’s interview with Darryl Cooper. The proposition that Tucker is only asking questions as a journalist is a meretricious falsehood. Tucker introduces Cooper as the world’s greatest historian. You may not be familiar with Cooper’s views — I was pleased never to have heard of him — but Carlson is. As anyone who pays the price of
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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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