Opinion

Over Pesach, the Jewish world was rocked by yet another set of siblings, the third such set in under 60 days, being killed at the hands of Palestinian terrorists in Israel. The sisters, Maia and Rina Dee, were shot by a gunman when they were driving with their mother, who died a couple days later from her injuries. At the same time, on the other side of the country, Italian tourist Alessandro Parini was killed when a Palestinian terrorist committed a car ramming attack in Tel Aviv.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an expansion of the state’s school voucher program this week, making it the fourth state in the nation to move towards universal school choice.  It’s an underreported story of our time, but we are in the midst of a revolution in the American educational system.  After declining for the better part of a century as the system became more centralized, the public school system is no longer seen as the only option for education.  Parents are looking for other ways, and many state governments are looking for alternatives. 

A month after District Attorney Alvin Bragg figured out where the courthouse was long enough to indict former President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, controlled by the Republican majority, held a hearing in America’s largest city, focusing on the problem of violent crime. The Committee, chaired by Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, came up to New York City itself to hear testimonies in an aptly titled hearing, “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan.”

For close to 15 years, there has been reporting on college campuses throughout the nation that the Leftist indoctrination that targeted young minds in terms of Marxist economic policy and intersectional identity philosophy were putting a heavy emphasis on another topic that seemingly was irrelevant to them: the plight of the Palestinian refugees. The blame was immediately and ferociously aimed at the only Jewish state in the world: Israel. Defenders and supporters of Israel have, since then, been playing catch-up to this indoctrination, but the chickens have come home to roost. For the first time, Gallup polling shows that Democrats have greater sympathy for Palestinians than Israelis.

Selective enforcement of the law is tyranny. The arbitrary use of power based on personal or political likes or dislikes is something that nearly everyone should agree is morally abhorrent. That is what we have seen this week - not only with the malicious prosecution and indictment of President Trump, but with the underreported and swept aside stormings of two state capitols in Kentucky and Tennessee.

When families move to the suburbs, it comes with expectations of a quiet neighborhood, good schools, and low crime, among other things. Last November, voters on Long Island expressed their concerns about crime by electing Republicans on federal, state, and local levels, in protest of bail reform passed by Democratic lawmakers in Albany.