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Campus Chaos Abounds

On campuses of public universities like CUNY, and of “elite” private institutions such as NYU, Columbia, and Harvard, chaos abounds. Student activists, supported and incited by outsiders, occupy large swatches of these ivory towers, preventing unobstructed passage, freedom of speech, and access to class for their fellow students. Violent actions such as looting, destruction of property, and bodily harm to pro-Israel students accompany protests in support of the Palestinians.

The world received joyous news on Sunday when a helicopter crash resulted in the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.  At least, the world should have reacted as if this was joyous news.  Instead, the moral failure of the world to recognize that this was a good thing exemplifies how backwards many nations are in terms of simple and obvious truths.  

There’s a new race category slated for the next census, and it could offer an opportunity for American Jews to redefine themselves in the context of Israel, minority representation, and self-identification.

On the same week in which a young Iranian Jew was sentenced to death for defending himself against a Muslim attacker, the helicopter carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, 63, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, 60, crashed on Sunday in the foggy mountains near the country’s border with Azerbaijan. After many hours of searching, their bodies were found along with those of two other passengers and two flight crew.

In the world of politics, nothing is more exciting than a good olde debate.  The brilliant exchange of ideas that can truly come from an exciting back and forth between two intellectual heavyweights who dominate in their areas of policy expertise is something to behold.

Caught between activists in his party who seek to reduce his administration’s support for Israel and the majority of Americans, including most Jewish voters, who support the war effort against Hamas, President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he rejects an international tribunal’s efforts to prosecute Israeli leaders.