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Matt Margolis informs everybody of what won't shock anybody who knows Alvin Bragg cares more about petty accusations against Donald Trump than about serious crimes:

On Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg refused to say whether he will prosecute the pro-Palestinian rioters who broke into and took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.

Bragg is currently prosecuting Donald Trump for an alleged campaign finance violation that is normally tried as a misdemeanor offense and would normally result in a fine as a felony. In addition to elevating the misdemeanor offense to a felony, the statute of limitations on the alleged crime had passed. On top of that, nondisclosure agreements are not illegal.

Despite Bragg's overzealousness to go after Trump, he was unresponsive to inquiries from the Daily Caller regarding potential charges for pro-Palestinian rioters arrested on Tuesday. The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested 119 rioters at Columbia University on Tuesday evening, as well as 173 at a City University of New York (CUNY) protest, where students also took over an administrative building.

There's only so many articles like these where the people the news site tries speaking to refuse to offer any comment, if at all. In any case, it won't be a surprise if it's all swept under the rug, and the perpetrators are never prosecuted at all, nor required to post any bail to be released from custody.

Besides the above news, here's another very sad part of this whole scandal over at UCLA, where similar horrors have occurred:

Hundreds of American students convert to Islam and participate in an Islamic call to prayer at UCLA.

pic.twitter.com/mnEesT8oLE

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 2, 2024

This isn't shocking either, but does compound the sad path on which the USA is headed, with Islam becoming more common anywhere and everywhere. Particularly chilling has got to be when Republican-led states allow the Religion of Peace to gain serious footholds, like in Ohio, as mentioned earlier.

In another related issue, Lee Smith addressed fraud-in-chief Joe Biden's efforts to prevent Israel from getting rid of Hamas and rescuing hostages:

Reports are circulating that the Israelis are planning an operation in Rafah to eliminate the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza. If so, the Netanyahu government will be acting against the very public wishes of the Biden administration, which has spent the last half year moving heaven and earth to save a terrorist organization from destruction. Bizarrely, the White House’s statements and actions show that Hamas’ survival is more important than the security of a traditional American partner, Israel; more crucial to American interests than the preservation of the U.S.-led order of the Middle East; more precious than the dozens of American lives that Hamas ended on Oct. 7; more valuable than however many Americans and Israelis are still alive in the terror army’s tunnels.

Why? As the money and prestige that the U.S. has invested month after month in protecting Hamas demonstrate, the Biden administration sees the terror group as a valuable asset.

A day after the massacre, before Israel’s campaign against Hamas even began, Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote that he was encouraging the Turkish government’s “advocacy for a cease-fire.” It makes no difference that the tweet has since been deleted, since the White House has produced no shortage of evidence since that its top priority is to deter Israel from defeating Hamas, by increasing Israel’s vulnerabilities at every turn, and conditioning aid on Israel adopting a purely defensive posture.

The Biden administration has stopped Israel from entering Rafah by demanding it produce plans to protect the civilian population, piously insisting that “even one civilian death is too many.” That would be a hard task in any military scenario, but given that Hamas hides among noncombatants, the White House’s policy openly reinforces the terror group’s political and military strategy.

The president abdicated America’s historical role of vetoing anti-Israel activity at the U.N. Instead, the U.S. delegation abstained from a key Security Council resolution in March demanding an immediate cease-fire—thereby putting America’s diplomatic weight behind Hamas’ demand that it should be allowed to keep its hostages and continue ruling Gaza. The White House then sanctioned Israeli civilians on the West Bank for crimes dreamed up by left-wing pro-Palestinian organizations, while ignoring a Palestinian terror wave aimed at murdering Jewish civilians who were guilty of crimes like stopping at a red light, buying gas, and herding sheep. Much of the false reporting supporting the pro-Hamas offensive is channeled through U.S. Army Gen. Michael Fenzel. The U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority are spending taxpayer resources to build a Palestinian terror army on the West Bank that may soon be repurposed for Gaza, too.

By compelling Jerusalem to “surge” food aid and energy to Gaza, the White House broke Israel’s siege, and demanded an ally resupply its adversary at wartime. Whenever Israel goes on the offensive, Biden and aides publicly threaten to stop resupplying arms. After Iran’s massive missile and drone attack last month, administration officials let on that if Israeli retaliatory strikes exceeded meager U.S. limits, the White House would hobble Israel’s air defense systems. Thus, the Israelis were forced to adopt the battle-tested American military strategy of bombing sand.

Joel Pollak also talks about this disturbing interference, which cannot be allowed to continue. What makes Biden and company's attempts to interfere with rescue operations is that a strong majority of USA citizens feel Israel should finish the job in Rafah (Hat tip: Jihad Watch), where many of the hostages are thought to be held:

A strong majority of American voters believe that Israel should move forward with a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to finish the war against Hamas, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll published on Monday [April 29].

Survey respondents responded to a prompt asking, “Should Israel move forward with an operation in Rafah to finish the war with Hamas, doing its best to avoid civilian casualties even though there will be casualties, or should it back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza?”

While willingness to support an Israeli operation in Rafah correlated with age (older respondents viewing such an operation more favorably than younger respondents,) even among the youngest respondents, those aged 18-24, 57% said Israel should move forward with a Rafah operation.

In contrast, 84% of respondents aged 65 and above said the same.

Additionally, respondents who reported that they followed Israel closely were far more likely than not to support a Rafah operation. Among these survey respondents, 77% said that Israel should move forward with an operation in Rafah.

Biden and company - along with the demonic army of pro-Hamas protestors at universities - are going to have to recognize that even the wider USA public wants the job in Rafah to be completed, and chances are even in Europe, there's plenty who do too.

Update: in France, the pro-Hamas demonstrators occupying universities were cleared away by police in possibly less time than it took in the USA.

Update 2: it's also been noted that many of the left-wing trespassers at the colleges weren't even studying there.

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This is something that's been going on at least 2 decades already, and here's the latest example:

Two girls, from the village of Otniel in the Hebron hills, came on Wednesday morning to pray on the Temple Mount. They were detained for questioning after one of them hung an Israeli flag over her shoulders while walking.

A police officer demanded that she remove the flag and upon leaving the Mount detained her at the local police station. The two girls were taken to the police station in handcuffs and then given a hearing before being evicted from the site.

Tom Nisani, one of Israel's most prominent Temple Mount activists and CEO of BeYadeinu, commented, "The Israeli government needs to decide whether the Temple Mount is in our hands or in the hands of the Waqf. The Temple Mount is not ex-territory. It is a national symbol to which millions of Jews have prayed to return to for thousands of years."

Nisani added: "There is no legal or moral reason to arrest Jews who walk with the Israeli flag on the Temple Mount. On Independence Day we will all raise flags on the Temple Mount."

What it indicates is that the police officials themselves are politically motivated, and that's something that has to be addressed too. Above all, this behavior and persecuation has to cease, because it's practically what led to October 7, 2023.

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The staff at Columbia University decided they had enough of all the disgusting terror supporters turning up and occupying their buildings, so police were finally brought in to clear them away. But what's really disturbing is the news that the wife of a known terrorist showed up at the campus:

🚨#BREAKING: New York City Hall has informed CBS News that there is evidence suggesting the presence of the wife of a known terrorist among the protestors on the Columbia University campus. pic.twitter.com/tOF1br3vHx

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 1, 2024

Well this is chilling, and makes clear the Biden "administration" isn't making much effort to prevent dangerous people from entering the USA. And for all we know, it likely won't be investigated, nor any arrest made of the specific figure, if at all.

An important point is made about all these agitators:

From the person throwing themselves down the steps to the women shrieking (at least, I hope they are women) as if they are being abused, all of this is manufactured. These are actors playing a role. They chose to illegally storm and occupy a building, breaking windows to gain entry. No one should feel an ounce of sympathy for them as they pretend to be brutalized by police. Let the tears fall.

If there's any transsexuals among the mob, it won't be surprising, though it's understandably mystifying to some why LGBT practitioners keep throwing their support behind entities that're opposed to LGBT ideology. I suppose what it really means is that a lot of such ideologues are only really taking up their lifestyles solely to undermine sane and civil societies, 5th column style or otherwise. And indeed, that's doubtless a very accurate observation, one that many have surely guessed long ago in any event. I saw a video on X where a police officer in Georgia had to carry away another thug who was also pretending to be hurt, and these obnoxious creeps sure are a major disappointment to society. They don't even deserve jobs, if this is all they care about. All must be done to keep them away from colleges, though with the way things are going now at institutes like Harvard, that's why universities are becoming pretty outdated already.

Update: a writer at the UK Telegraph makes an important point that if mollycoddled criminals like those stuffing the universities are the west's future, then we're clearly all doomed.

Update 2: TV actor Brett Gelman says the "protests" are like the 1930s all over again, and he's correct.

Update 3: it's also vital to note that these vulgar acts have also affected institutions in Europe.

Update 4: Northwestern University caved to demands of the pro-Hamas crowd, and made clear anybody with common sense should not waste a penny on their institutions.

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A campaign's been launched to draw attention to the plight of Indian women who fell victim to Islamic sexual violence in India (Hat tip: Pamela Geller):

The tragic murder of Neha Hiremath, the daughter of Congress councillor Niranjan Hiremath from Hubli, Karnataka, has transcended international borders, reaching the bustling heart of New York's Times Square. This outcry is led by the Indian diaspora in the United States, who have rallied under banners reading "Justice for Neha," "Stop Love Jihad," and "Save Hindu Girl," bringing significant attention to the case.

⁠Neha Hiremath, a 23-year-old first-year MCA student, was brutally murdered on April 18 at BVB College Campus in Karnataka's Hubli. Reports indicate that Fayaz Khondunaik, a former student of the same college, attacked Neha, stabbing her multiple times including in her neck and stomach. Both the attacker and the victim were subsequently rushed to a local hospital, where Neha was pronounced dead. The motive behind the murder, as claimed by Neha's father, is rooted in what he alleges to be a case of 'love jihad' – a term used by some to describe relationships used to coerce Hindu women into converting to Islam.

The incident has not only sparked widespread grief but also led to global protests, including a notable rally in New Jersey. Echoing the sentiments at Times Square, the demonstrators in New Jersey also aimed to raise awareness and demand action against forced conversions, rape, and violence targeting Hindu women. The display in Times Square particularly stood out, featuring Neha's image alongside the message "Save Hindu daughter" amplifying the campaign for justice.

This is pure abomination that anybody would take an innocent woman's life over petty issues, and the subject must be spoken about as widely as possible. Condolences to the victim's family. It's vital that people know about the horrible subject of Islamofascists targeting defenseless women.

Update: Ashlyn Davis has more on this chilling subject.

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A new documentary's been produced detailing the horrifying experiences of women who survived the Hamas' bloodbath and acts of sexual violence on October 7, 2023:

Several Israeli survivors of the Oct. 7 attacks, including former hostages, first responders, and witnesses, are detailing their horrifying experiences at the hands of Hamas in a new documentary.

“Your body is simply open to everyone,” Agam Goldstein-Almog, one of the Israeli hostages who was released in November after being held captive by Hamas for about seven weeks, said in a new documentary.

Goldstein-Almog, who was 17 years old on Oct. 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas militants stormed into Israel and carried out a massacre leaving roughly 1,200 people dead, estimated that roughly half of the approximately 250 people taken hostage have been sexually and physically abused.

The documentary, released a couple of days ago, is titled Screams Before Silence and is available on YouTube. The hourlong film, a project from former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, includes testimonials from former hostages who were released during the weeklong ceasefire in November, first responders, and witnesses who survived the attack.

Read more, but be advised that there are descriptions that're graphic. Yet that's exactly why this horrifying news must be known.

There's also been an eye-opening report produced about funding by George Soros companies for the pro-Hamas movement at college campuses (via Newsbusters):

George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.

The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.

Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.

The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor.

At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).

USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”

They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.”

The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019.

This hasn't been shocking in 10 million years, but it's still very devastating. And how to stop the funding of radicals by Soros foundations in the USA is anybody's guess.

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Some thankful news coming from Scotland, as the first Muslim to serve as premier at the north end of the UK is resigning, following controversial leftist policies that only caused a lot of justified outrage:

Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, resigned on Monday after just 13 months in office following a series of muddled progressive policies that culminated in him torpedoing his own governing coalition.

Yousaf, who became the first Muslim leader of a Western democracy, stepped down on Monday after his decision to rip up an agreement between his Scottish National Party and the Green Party, known as the Bute House Agreement, cost him a working majority.

[...] In the aftermath of Yousaf’s decision, a vote of no confidence was called for this week. And although he gave no indications he would resign last Friday, he changed his mind over the weekend.

[...] He became leader of the SNP and first minister in March 2023 after longtime party leader Nicola Sturgeon stepped down. Her resignation came during a police investigation into alleged misuse of campaign funds. Her husband, former SNP treasurer Peter Murrell, was charged with embezzlement earlier this month, while Sturgeon herself was questioned and released without charge last year. Both deny any wrongdoing.

Yousaf’s short-lived tenure will be remembered, however, for controversial legislation that would make it easier for people to change their gender, which was at odds with the Conservative-led Westminster government.

His party also introduced a hate crime law that made transgender identity a protected characteristic. The law generated criticism from the likes of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, and even X owner Elon Musk.

In the end, Yousaf’s tenure was made untenable after he scrapped the Bute deal with the Greens over climate change policy disagreements.

Douglas Ross, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives who tabled the motion of no confidence, told STV that Yousaf was “forced … out of office for repeatedly failing Scotland.”

Not mentioned, and likely because these papers have regrettably succumbed to PC, is that Yousaf's policies would doubtless be employed in the future to enforce Islamic sharia, and not just LGBT ideology. Admittedly, it's interesting that an Islamist would approve of something like that, but surely because most Muslims couldn't give a damn if transsexuality ends up hurting "kuffar", so long as Muslims aren't affected.

Yousaf's departure from the role of First Minister in Scotland is most fortunate, and now, we must hope better yet, that the conservative party in Scotland will be able to win an election, if one is to be held soon.

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The chief of the Olympics committee says palestinian athletes will be welcomed, even if they don't qualify:

Between six and eight Palestinian athletes are expected to compete at the Paris Olympics, with some set to be invited by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) even if they fail to qualify, its head Thomas Bach said.

Bach told AFP on Friday that qualification events for the Paris Games, which start on July 26, were ongoing for a number of sports.

“But we have made the clear commitment that even if no [Palestinian] athlete would qualify on the field of play… then the NOC [National Olympic Committee] of Palestine would benefit from invitations, like other national Olympic Committees who do not have a qualified athlete,” he said in an interview at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He said he expected the Palestinian delegation to number “six to eight.”

Bach said that the International Olympic Committee “from day one of the conflict” in Gaza had “supported in many different ways the athletes to allow them to take part in qualifications and to continue their training.”

For an outfit that's supposedly against Russian participation, they sure don't seem to have a problem with another community far more savage taking part. The Olympics clearly isn't worth viewing any more, let alone participating in.

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There was a documentary a short time ago on Apple TV called Boys State, and now it's been followed by a sequel called Girls State, which presents a most interesting problem addressed:

Her platform was essentially women have to think of themselves because the men are not going to. Basically, in the words of one of the girls there, Emily Glasgow, Cecelia ran on an unbeatable platform: a feminist manifesto.

What was the great inequality that propelled these girls to unite under such a slogan? Stricter dress codes and a buddy system that their counterpart at Boys State did not have to adhere to. So while these girls lamented these grave injustices, the boys were discussing policy, albeit with its own issues, but policy nonetheless.

While feminism as embodied by leftists can be appalling, this does provide what to think about as far as dress codes are concerned, and if boys aren't going to held to specific standards, then it's offensive to suddenly decide girls must be. This is something conservatism's had a problem with for a long time, and while some have moved away, it's clear it'll take years until it can be cleaned up, if at all, mainly because leftists have now taken up that very position.

And I won't excuse the harm ultra-Orthodox Judaists caused with the way they went about such BS in past years. As noted before, that does is take away vital attention from more serious issues like Islamofascism. It's time to quit with such trivial issues as "modesty".

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Some footage of one of the PLO-affiliated terror groups turned up:

The Fatah movement's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Tulkarm, published footage last night (Friday) of the shooting carried out by terrorists towards the town of Bat Hefer.

"At 23:35 we attacked Bat Hefer and fired bullets that hit the homes of settlers," the video stated. "This is just the beginning."

Bat Hefer residents have suffered for some time from the sounds of gunfire from the direction of Tulkarm, and there have been incidents where bullets hit homes near the fence.

Last week, ISA and Border Police forces conducted an extensive counterterrorism operation in the Nur a-Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm, which lasted dozens of hours.

During the operation, Israeli special forces eliminated 14 terrorists in close encounters, arrested 15 wanted individuals, confiscated numerous weapons, destroyed dozens of IEDs, and demolished two bomb factories.

Nine IDF soldiers and one Border Police officer were injured. All were evacuated for medical treatment, and their families were updated.

What this makes clear is that the PLO continues to prove a serious threat to safety. Also chilling, but not shocking, is Columbia university's continuing cowardice in dealing with anti-Israeli protestors:

Administrators at Columbia University have backed away from their threats to anti-Israel protesters, telling the student activists that have occupied its campus that the school will not use the New York Police Department to clear them out.

Columbia’s decision to allow the protesters to continue camping in the university’s quad comes after the administration gave multiple deadlines, each of which came and went without the university taking any action.

The students were originally given a deadline of Tuesday night at midnight to come to an agreement with the administration, but the deadline was pushed back to 8:00 AM on Wednesday morning. The deadline was extended yet again to Friday, with the university now backing down completely.

It's worth remembering these same brand-new monsters also demonstrate quite a bit of anti-American sentiment on campus, one more reason why the university's caving is so atrocious. Nobody should pay money to study there ever again.

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According to Robert Spencer, it looks like a recent report is warning that approval could've been given by Biden for what even the ICC could be planning:

If a Wednesday report in the Israeli media is accurate, this is one of the most, if not the most, craven betrayal of an ally in American history, and in the entire world’s history.

The Israeli journalist Amit Segal published a Hebrew-language story in the popular Israeli news outlet Mako that reveals an American betrayal of Israel of stupefying magnitude. “Very senior officials associated with the International Criminal Court in The Hague,” wrote Segal, “have spoken about Israel’s fear of arrest warrants for senior officials in the context of the war in Gaza. The officials told N12 [Mako’s broadcast channel] that the intention to issue such orders would not have been possible without American consent.”

The threat of arrest from the International Criminal Court is not hanging over the heads of minor officials only. “Last week,” Segal reports, “the Prime Minister’s Office held an urgent discussion on the issue, in which serious concerns were raised about allowing the issuance of arrest warrants against senior Israeli security and political leaders, including against Netanyahu himself.” This could all happen quickly: “Reports that have recently arrived in Jerusalem,” Segal continues, “indicate that the chance of issuing arrest warrants has increased dramatically, possibly as soon as next month.”

Segal noted that this was happening with American approval: “Regarding the intention to issue arrest warrants for senior Israelis, the sources at The Hague said that it is impossible that the chief prosecutor would have decided on such a dramatic step, in a war that is still ongoing, with very little evidence, if he had not at least had a ‘green light’ from the Americans. If this is true, this is another and unprecedented low in relations between Israel and the US, at a very sensitive time, on the eve of the ground entry to Rafah.”

Let's also remember Biden's "administration" refused to oppose a UN resolution against Israel a number of weeks ago, so this is no shock either. It's just another disgusting moment in a world that's eroding under political correctness and Orwellianism.

Update: foreign minister Yisrael Katz warns there'll be a wave of antisemitism if the ICC issues arrest warrants.

Update 2: Meir Ben-Shabbat makes clear the planned raid on Rafah must take place, even without the approval of the USA and the ICC.

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There's a supposed conservative in the radio business named Erick Erickson who's been around for 2 decades or so, and is one of the most pretentious to claim the mantle. John Daniel Davidson describes how Mr. Erickson is totally out of touch with reality on only so many issues:

Maybe you saw a recent clip on X from conservative talk radio personality Erick Erickson criticizing what he calls a “weird movement within conservatism” that questions things like “limited government” and “free markets,” principles long associated with the conservative movement.

If you haven’t seen the clip, take a look. It’s like watching someone talk about the state of conservatism halfway through Obama’s first term, when Republican leaders were vowing to repeal Obamacare and inveighing against Democrats for violating the Constitution with a “socialist” health care scheme. (Obamacare was of course never repealed and is now, all these years later, a permanent feature of America’s health care system.)

Erickson’s point, which he also made in a post for National Review, is that the Republican coalition for decades was built on the “three-legged stool” of fiscal conservatism, traditional values, and a peace-through-strength foreign policy. This is what won the Cold War and unleashed prosperity at home. I’m sure you’ve heard the story.

The problem now, he says, is that some people on the right (whom he doesn’t name) are calling into question these orthodoxies, especially free markets and limited government. They aren’t fighting to cut the size of the government but are instead working to gain control of it and wield power to achieve their preferred outcomes.

Erickson thinks this is bad, a betrayal of the old three-legged stool of Reaganite conservatism. After all, he says, if you use government power when your side is in control, the opposing side will use it against you when they’re in control. And we don’t want that, do we?

It’s hard to overstate how out-of-touch this way of thinking is, as if the past 15 years simply never happened, to say nothing of the past 50.

Consider the three legs of the stool. On fiscal conservatism, we’re swimming in an ocean of debt that grows no matter which party controls Congress, while inflation is killing middle- and working-class families. On traditional values, we legalized gay marriage and then quickly moved on to normalizing transgenderism and acquiescing to so-called “gender-affirming care,” even for minors. On peace-through-strength foreign policy, we lost the War on Terror and are now funding multiple wars all over the world as part of a crumbling global imperium. The stool has no legs left.

Read more at the page. I've been fairly familiar with Erickson myself, and he's nothing more than cure for insomnia. Most likely he's not particularly concerned about the issues Davidson cited, and it's about time Erickson go into retirement. Besides, much as I feel bad to say this, even Reagan wasn't perfect, and never confronted the issue of Iran's totalitarian regime properly.

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Another example of how the most far-left Hollywood members are being let off the hook as compared to conservatives, as the disgraced movie mogul Weinstein had his sentence in New York overturned:

Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and other Hollywood stars reacted to a decision by the New York Court of Appeals to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape verdict.

In a post on X on Thursday, Sorvino wrote that she was “horrified” by the court’s decision to overturn the 2020 rape conviction of Weinstein due to the court’s failure to give the disgraced movie mogul a fair trial by allowing allegations from accusers not connected to the charges against him to testify.

“Day after #DenimDay honoring sexual violence survivors, Harvey Weinstein’s conviction overturned, due partly to ‘Molineux witnesses’ testifying to prior bad acts, like lioness Annabella Sciorra,” Sorvino’s post read, referring to a term meaning “witnesses in a trial who are allowed to testify about criminal acts that the defendant has not been charged with committing,” The New York Times noted.

To be sure, nobody's going to be questioning whether the left's conduct contributed in any way to this ruling, which is just as unfortunate as the time Bill Cosby's verdict was overturned. Sure, Weinstein's career is over regardless, but this is very regrettable all the same, because if the courts could take a lenient approach to Cosby's sentence, it could end up being the same for Weinstein, who, if it matters, produced atrocious propaganda in the past that was hurtful to Israel and lenient on Islam.

John Nolte says the way the trial was first handled a number of years ago was poor, and maybe it was, although I assumed the approach used was part of the concept of witness testimony. In any event, of course this is a very sad day when somebody who's apparently a self-hating Jew would be let off the hook. There may be a new trial, but it makes very little difference; what's been done so far only represents another travesty of justice for victims of sexual assault in Hollywood.

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It looks like for now, fraud-in-chief Joe Biden and his staff have backed off their intent to impose sanctions against the IDF's Netzach Yehudah faction:

The Biden Administration has backtracked and will not impose sanctions on the IDF's Netzach Yehuda Battalion, ABC News reported this morning (Friday).

According to the report, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson explaining that the decision was made in light of Israel's commitment to addressing concerns over human rights violations by the IDF in Judea and Samaria.

According to Blinken, the administration's concerns over alleged human rights violations by the Netzach Yehuda Battalion "will not delay the delivery of any U.S. assistance and Israel will be able to receive the full amount appropriated by Congress."

On Wednesday, Ynet reported that Israeli officials believed that the US would not follow through on its announcement of its intention to impose sanctions on the Netzach Yehuda Battalion. According to that report, the administration was pressured to reverse its decision from all sides of the political spectrum.

Secretary Blinken said on Monday that there would not be an announcement regarding sanctions against the IDF’s Netzach Yehuda Battalion, but told reporters they should “stay tuned.”

Yesterday (Thursday), US Senator Marco Rubio warned that the decision to impose sanctions on the IDF battalion "helps Israel's enemies. I oppose plans by the Biden Administration to impose sanctions on the commanders and troops of the Netzah Yehuda battalion," Rubio said.

While this is fortunate, we should still be wary of more badness to come, and it doesn't solve the antisemitic university crisis either, to name but one example. And there are tragically plenty more that will be very hard to deal with.

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Ambassador Michael Oren says the repellent anti-Israel demonstrations on university campuses are very grave, and another interviewee says they appear to be bankrolled by oil dough:

The Media Line spoke to former Israeli Ambassador to the US and Columbia alumnus Michael Oren, who expressed deep concern over the situation. He described the current campus climate as "intolerable, unacceptable, and exceedingly dangerous," impacting not only Jews but also the broader Western society. Oren traced the origins of these sentiments back to the 1960s youth revolutions.

After their initial failure, he said, these movements embedded themselves in academia, subtly promoting anti-establishment ideologies over decades. “They went back into the campus and spent 50 years instilling their ideas into students and professors to inspire government officials and corporate executives on this particular set of self-declared anti-establishment ideas as trojan horses for antisemitism.”

Anti-war protests of today are actually pro-war

Oren drew parallels between the 1968 anti-war riots and today's campus movements, which he views as pro-war due to their exclusion of Israel.

This shift has notably affected disciplines like American Studies, which have become distinctly anti-American, Oren continued. He also pointed out that even some Jewish academics have joined the anti-Israel chorus, failing to recognize the potential negative consequences for themselves. “They fail to see that this path also ends badly for them.”

Reflecting on Passover, Oren cited the Haggadah's story of the Wicked Son, which he believes mirrors the stance of those who don’t identify with their own people and criticize Israel's defenders. “It's the best image for these people who keep saying that if you defend Israel, you’re a bad Jew. Eventually, they’ll become one of the bad Jews themselves. This movement is a deep-seated cultural trend that has taken decades to evolve, and undoing it may also take decades,” said Oren.

Oren criticized university administrators for not taking a firmer stand earlier. “These demonstrations are orchestrated and funded from outside. These aren’t spontaneous demonstrations,” he said. He called for an FBI investigation into the protests' origins, emphasizing the threat they pose to campus safety. “Jewish students, professors, and staff can’t go on campus.

Oren stressed the limits of free speech, particularly when it incites violence or supports terrorism, “which, by the way, is illegal in America,” he said.

“These people need to be prosecuted, but in the end, this isn’t a job for local police. This requires federal agencies to stop foreign agents from sewing chaos in America and its allies,” concluded the former ambassador. [...]

Beery also highlighted the influence of certain academic and financial practices at Columbia during his time there. “As a student at Columbia from 2002 to 2005, I worked at the Middle East Institute as a research assistant. One of my regular duties was to type up and send thank you notes from the director to various donors, most of whom were oil companies or their proxy organizations and foundations. Nearly none of these were reported by the university at the time,” he said.

So could oil companies have something to do with all the chaos we're seeing now? Well that's also disturbing, and exactly why maybe we shouldn't have to rely solely on fuel for car driving either.

On a related note, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared the demonstations to the 1930s and the National Socialists:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted “an antisemitic surge” in the United States in an English-language video message Wednesday, amid widespread anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses across the US.

Activists angered by Israel’s war on the Hamas terror group in Gaza have engaged in an escalating standoff with university administrations who have sought to dismantle the encampments, with Jewish students and faculty saying the demonstrations include antisemitic harassment and calls for violence against Jews, as well as support for Hamas’s October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians.

“Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel, they attack Jewish students, they attack Jewish faculty,” Netanyahu charged in his statement, which likened the scenes to those that preceded the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.

“This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. It’s unconscionable. It has to be stopped. It has to be condemned unequivocally,” the Israeli premier said.

“But that’s not [only] what happened,” he added. “When you listen to them, they say not only ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to the Jews,’ but also ‘Death to America.'”

Netanyahu lamented the “antisemitic surge” in the US “as Israel tries to defend itself against genocidal terrorists who hide behind civilians.”

“We’ve seen in history that antisemitic attacks were always preceded by vilification and slander… We have to stop antisemitism because antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine. It always precedes larger conflagrations that engulf the entire world,” Netanyahu said.

Even now, Columbia continues to take a weak stand on the issue, and nobody sensible should invest money in them for any reason whatsoever.

Update: John Nolte has more on this now chilling subject.

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