What’s Worth Dying For?
In her new book, “The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West — and Why Only They Can Save It,” Melanie Phillips takes a candid look at the corrosion of the West and the hard road back.“In That Basic Sense the Zionists Were Right”: A Conversation with Irving Howe
For life to have meaning, it needs a sense of purpose. In recent decades, however, the West has taught itself that life is purposeless. There is nothing beyond ourselves. Life, the universe, and everything are the result of accidental developments. The appearance of design in the universe doesn’t mean there’s a designer; in Professor Richard Dawkins’s famous image, the watchmaker is blind, working without foresight or purpose.
For Dawkins, facing up to the randomness of existence is a heroic act. For countless others, however, it is a recipe for despair and demoralization. Random developments produce unforeseen consequences that we are unable to affect in any way. By contrast, moral agency means we make a difference through how we choose to behave. Our actions matter.
Moral agency is therefore a principal source of individual power; but the West has dispensed with moral codes as a curb on the freedom of the individual. So the paradox is that the more freedom we have, the less point there is to anything. Without moral agency, we become powerless, the plaything of determinist forces beyond our control. Human beings are helpless, in the grip of uncontrollable forces whether they be — as Marx, Darwin, and Freud told us—economic, biological, or psychological.
If the human being is nothing more than a sack of atoms whirling through space and time, if our consciousness is nothing more than the snapping of synapses and selfish genes, existence is random and therefore pointless. The resulting sense of powerlessness is a recipe for exponential misery, a ratchet effect of unrealistic expectations and the creation of permanent disappointment, dissatisfaction, and disillusionment.
This has driven, in turn, increasing attempts to forge a meaning to life beyond both religion and the satisfaction of the individual self.
The most obvious expression of this quest is the array of causes to which young people gravitate to find a focus for their idealism. One cause after the other claims to be about the betterment of the world — eradicating prejudice on grounds of race, sexuality, or gender, promoting the Palestinian agenda, saving the planet.
In fact, these causes are all based on demonizing and hating other people: white people, men, heterosexuals, Jews, and humanity in general.
Worse still, since these causes are utopian, they all fail to deliver the perfection of the world that they have promised. From multiculturalism to environmentalism to post-nationalism, Western progressives have fixated on unattainable abstractions for the realization of utopia. Since this inevitably results in disappointment, they consequently seek scapegoats upon whom they turn with a rage that’s as self-righteous as it is ferocious in order to bring about by coercion the state of purity that the designated culprits have purportedly thwarted.
Traditional liberal values, in the settlement that arose from the Enlightenment, involved tolerance, freedom, and the pursuit of reason. These values have come to characterize modernity in the Western world. Yet what’s called “liberalism” today has involved the repudiation of those virtues and replaced them with intolerance, oppression, and irrationality. Liberalism has mutated into its nemesis. These ideologies are all fueled by a rage against the world that exists and a desire to remake it anew. But rather than filling the existential vacuum, these ideologies merely deepen it.
A truncated version of the following interview, conducted in 1986, first appeared in the Jerusalem Post on September 5 of that year.Peter Beinart, Pundit (Declined)
—The Editors
America in the 20th century was a strange place. It could let a man spend 30 years writing essays, translating Yiddish stories, and editing a socialist magazine, which had few readers and barely paid the rent, and then, overnight, make him comfortable if not rich with a best seller about the vanished world of his immigrant parents.
Irving Howe (1920–1993), thanks to the commercial success of World of Our Fathers—his elegiac, not-so-sentimental account of the sweatshop Jews of Lower East Side—was able to move to the snazzier, safer side of Central Park. The book also made him, as he wrote in his autobiography, “famous for fifteen minutes.” Perhaps because his modest measure of money and fame came late in life, perhaps thanks to some strength of character acquired through early poverty, Howe’s popular success didn’t seem to have gone to his head.
As he answered my questions in his apartment in 1986, he was straightforward and serious, and as he stroked a fringe of white beard he seemed simultaneously bemused and grieved by what America had given him and what it had taken away from a generation of Jews like him.
He’d published more than 30 books on literature, politics, culture, and history. He taught English for many years at Brandeis, Stanford, and Hunter College. His wife, Ilana, was an Israeli, and he had two children from two previous marriages.
His autobiographical A Margin of Hope was a fairly honest and occasionally moving report on, among other things, Howe’s attempt to “reconquer” his Jewishness as “American socialism reached an impasse.”
The son of Yiddish-speaking garment workers, Howe was a Trotskyite in his youth, and even after World War II—during which he was in the army in Alaska—he clung to a vision of socialism in the New World.
He made his first mark among New York Jewish intellectuals by writing for Partisan Review, and Commentary. Soon, however, when he judged that they were celebrating America too uncritically, he launched his own magazine, Dissent, which for three decades had been trying to keep the ideals of socialism, or at least social democracy, fresh and bright. But, Howe admitted in his memoirs, Dissent was often boring.
Politically and culturally, Howe’s search for a Third Way had left him lonely—even stranded him. He broke with the New Left when it degenerated into tantrums, and was estranged from former friends and colleagues in the New York Jewish intellectual “family” who became neoconservatives and who flayed him for not learning all he should from his disillusion.
As for Jewishness, Howe had written that he, and others like him, long “avoided thinking about it.” He’d been, he said, rather indifferent if not actually cool to Israel—yet he’d relished the victory of the IDF in 1967. Howe, the ex-Trotskyite, had edited an anthology defending Israel and Zionism against the left. And he was known as an American supporter of Peace Now.
This brilliant essay first appeared in the print edition of Commentary magazine in 2010. We’re publishing it here on the occasion of Peter Beinart’s tour to sell his latest book, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning”—another broadside against Israel. As part of the monthslong publicity jaunt, Beinart has launched attacks on, among other things, Purim, the Jewish holiday which begins tonight.
We were reminded of this essay while watching his press tour to promote himself and his book, which is only his latest episode in his ceaseless political transformation. —The Editors
Peter Beinart is one of those journalists, common in Washington, D.C., who is less interesting for what he says than for who he is, or who he wants to be thought to be. He’s an exemplar, and when, in May [2010], he published an essay in The New York Review of Books announcing that “morally, American Zionism is in a downward spiral,” he deserved the considerable notice that the article brought him. As a piece of reasoned argument, or even as an anguished moral plea, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” was a mess: a goulash of overstatement, baseless accusation, statistical sleight-of-hand, strategic omission, and wince-making self-regard. As a piece of attention-getting, however, it was a masterstroke, and it’s on those terms, rather than its own, that the article and Beinart are best understood.
Beinart is well-known among Washington journalists as a quick-witted polemicist and a gifted stylist. He’s also regarded as one of the most energetic careerists anyone has ever seen. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! Banish careerists from the ranks of Washington journalism and the only people left would be a handful of newsroom librarians and a couple of copy editors from Human Events. What makes Beinart’s campaign of self-promotion conspicuous—week after week, year after year—is its utter lack of inhibition. There’s a kind of insouciance to it.
As far as I know, it first came to general notice in a brief biographical sketch that Beinart circulated early in his career. Having climbed over the bloody, dismembered carcasses of his co-workers and mentors, Beinart was named editor of The New Republic in 1999, at the dewy age of 28. His self-written bio made unsurprising mention of an undergraduate degree (Yale), a Rhodes Scholarship (Oxford), and a master’s degree in international relations (ditto). And then, deathlessly, there was this: “Beinart won a Marshall Scholarship (declined).”
That “(declined)” became a much-loved inside joke among Beinart watchers, a large and contented group who have known ever since that their man always repays scrutiny.
Back then, Beinart wanted to be thought of as a neoliberal, a “liberal hawk.” A neoliberal—you youngsters might want to listen up now—was someone who, although allied with the center-left, nonetheless thought of himself as tough-minded and wised-up, intent on beating down the pacifist illusions of his pantywaisted fellow Democrats. Irving Kristol, who had famously defined a neoconservative as a liberal who had been mugged by reality, said (not quite so famously) that a neoliberal was a liberal who had been mugged by reality but refused to press charges. To Beinart and his fellow neolibs, these were, appropriately enough, fighting words. They stormed the nation’s cable shows and editorial pages, launching precision-guided op-eds and multiple-warhead blog posts to demonstrate their eagerness to use American military might to advance the nation’s interests.
Seth Mandel: The Difference Between ‘Speech’ and ‘Assault’
You will find similar rank dishonesty—I am being persecuted for my political opinions—underpinning the tentifada movement more broadly, but of course there are lots and lots of people who express support for Palestinians without holding a classroom hostage and threatening Jews in the vicinity.Josh Hammer: Mahmoud Khalil and the Red-Green Assault on American Sovereignty
Similarly, the Hamilton Hall goons who were arrested and charged with trespassing and burglary were not, in fact, punished for their private thoughts. It’s worth recalling an account in the New York Times of the Hamilton Hall occupation from the perspective of those taken hostage.
After midnight on April 30, dozens of activists entered the building with ropes, chains, zip ties and the like, barricading the doors. After a scuffle, they let three building workers leave. One filed an accident report with pictures of his wounds stating he was “assaulted and battered, and wrongfully imprisoned.” That employee and another trapped in the building, the Times wrote, “said they strongly objected to the tactics of the occupiers, which they said had taken a toll on them. Neither man ever wants to work in Hamilton Hall again.”
About 20 hours later, the police finally arrived and, despite resistance, cleared the building and made arrests.
It goes without saying that not a single person in that group was punished for “political speech,” either. Like the Barnard super-genius quoted earlier, they just didn’t see a reason the rules should apply to them. They all assumed their actions were covered by the “Palestine exception.”
Perhaps the punishments herald a return to sanity for the school—after all, they were initially announced initially before the Trump administration pulled Columbia’s federal funding for its violations of civil-rights law. If so, the institution might start attracting students who know the difference between “feelings” and “assault and battery.”
It's quite simple, really: Any alien, from someone here on a tourist visa to a green card holder, is here solely because We the People—the citizens of this nation—consented to it. When the alien violates the terms of his admission, he can be—indeed, must be—removed. That alien, moreover, can be removed summarily if so desired; there is no specific level of "due process" to which an alien is entitled.Seth Mandel: What Columbia Must Do To Get Its Government Money Back
That brings us back to Khalil—a foreign national who violated the terms of his sojourn by supporting at least one (perhaps multiple) U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organizations, and by making common cause with an organization clamoring more generally for "the total eradication of Western civilization." The day the United States loses the ability to deport noncitizens who espouse such toxic beliefs is the day the United States ceases to be a sovereign nation-state.
And therein lies the entire point.
The Khalil saga is where we see the intersection of the three menacing anti-Western ideologies I identity in my new book out this Tuesday, Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. First, there is the woke angle: Khalil and his ilk believe in the neo-Marxist "oppressor"/"oppressed" dichotomy, and his view of Israel as an "oppressor" underlies his repugnant activism. Second, there is the Islamist angle: Khalil and groups like CUAD support Sunni Islamist outfits such as Hamas. Third, there is the global neoliberal angle: Those protesting Khalil's detention see little to no distinction between citizen and noncitizen—like John Lennon's dystopian song "Imagine," they envision a borderless world.
The drama over Khalil's arrest and detention is thus not really about Khalil. It is about the fate of the United States—and the destiny of the very West of which the U.S. is the foundational cog.
On Monday, the official X account for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats posted, alongside a corresponding photo, "Free Mahmoud Khalil." But if those Senate Democrats and Khalil's myriad other apologists are being honest, they seek not merely to "free" Khalil from President Donald Trump's Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency. Rather, they seek to "free" him—and all of us—from the shackles of Western civilization itself.
This is not only a moral problem but a financial one: Columbia, like other universities, takes lots of taxpayer cash. But being in noncompliance with federal civil-rights law makes the institution ineligible for such public money.
So the Department of Education, along with the General Services Administration and Department of Health and Human Services, has decided to help them out by detailing the ways the school must adjust its policies in order to be in compliance.
Among them are the following:
The university must “centralize all disciplinary processes under the Office of the President” instead of the University Judicial Board, in order to improve accountability.
Columbia is directed to “ban masks that are intended to conceal identity or intimidate others, with exceptions for religious and health reasons.” This is a rather obvious one, though it will be controversial to students who enjoy vandalizing school property and harassing Jews.
The administration letter also tells the school to “Formalize, adopt, and promulgate a definition of antisemitism. President Trump’s Executive Order 13899 uses the IHRA definition.” This will also face opposition, though it’s unclear if the school is being told it must adopt the IHRA definition, which is the consensus definition and the one used for the purposes of federal law. Harvard adopted the IHRA definition against the opposition of so-called free-speech advocates who didn’t read either the definition or Harvard’s student handbook very carefully: It was not added to imaginary “speech codes” but simply folded into existing harassment penalties which are not for speech alone.
The administration also wants Columbia to put its Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies departments under academic receivership “for a minimum of five years” as part of broader efforts to address the rampant anti-Semitism that has been baked into its curricula. This could be reworded as “teach students the truth, not blood libels” but it will also raise complaints from students and faculty and administrators who would prefer the school continue teaching medieval anti-Semitic conspiracy theories instead of whatever subject they were nominally hired to teach.
Another tough one: The Education Department wants Columbia to develop a plan to “reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices to conform with federal law and policy.”
In truth, Columbia should welcome that one. Administrators have repeatedly expressed shock that the school somehow admitted such large numbers of violent Jew-haters. It would be helpful for Columbia to get to the bottom of why it is the preferred destination for terrible people.
There are others, including one Columbia complied with as of yesterday: disciplining the violent occupiers of Hamilton Hall last year.
Should Columbia have to be told all this? Of course not. But don’t live in a world of should. We live in a world in which the very idea of safeguarding the civil rights of Jews on campus is considered puzzling and offensive to the administrators of these esteemed institutions of higher learning.
BREAKING: The government has delivered its demands to Columbia, including:
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) March 13, 2025
-Placing discipline under the president
-A mask ban
-Adopting IHRA or similar
-“Placing the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department under academic receivership”
-Admissions reform pic.twitter.com/hKenK5WQlm
On Antisemitic Conspiracy Theorists and Foreign Influence
There was a lot of discussion last week after Joe Rogan hosted Ian Carroll, a prominent promoter of antisemitic conspiracy theories, on his podcast. Carroll’s claims are filled with intentional falsehoods. His theories are specifically aimed to dehumanize and his denial of those motivations is a strategy to mainstream his views. All this has triggered much debate.Federal task force tells mayors it will visit as part of Jew-hated probe
However, there is another angle relevant to the larger political conversation. Carroll claims his primary concern is foreign influence in the U.S., but the way he and other antisemitic conspiracy theorists ignore the truth about such influence reveals their true agenda.
Since 2007, Qatar has openly spent nearly $6 billion funding American schools and lobbying the U.S. government. They have also spent billions more under the table bribing business leaders, influencers, and politicians. Recently, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was sentenced to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes from individuals associated with the Qatari government. The Attorney General Alliance regularly sends influential state Attorneys General on Qatar-funded trips.
Qatar controls Al Jazeera, one of the world’s largest news organizations. It has also invested heavily in other Western media to dictate narratives. You would think this would be prime territory for conspiracy theorists concerned with foreign influence, yet people like Carroll show no interest in it.
The biggest foreign spender on lobbying over the past decade is China. There is extensive evidence that the Chinese government is engaging in widespread subversion to influence Americans. Just this past week, two U.S. Army soldiers were charged with selling sensitive secrets to China. Yet, once again, these conspiracy theorists show no interest in that influence. In fact, during widespread discussions about evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was stealing American data and manipulating users through TikTok, Carroll propagated a baseless conspiracy theory falsely claiming that the Jewish CEO of Oracle, rather than China, controlled TikTok's algorithm.
It’s just like last year, when an important story emerged about a secret influence operation within the U.S. State Department linked to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Again, these conspiracy theorists saw nothing important to cover there.
In every case, these people only care about Jews and Israel. The approach is always to play a game of six degrees of blaming Jews. This is despite Israeli and Jewish-American lobbying efforts accounting for only about 1% of total U.S. lobbying spending each year. Americans should be concerned about the influence of foreign governments, but we should also be wary of those using selective concern to normalize bigotry instead.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s task force to respond to Jew-hatred told the mayors of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston that it plans to visit the cities as part of its probe of antisemitism, it said on Thursday.CPAC launches 'Center to Combat Antisemitism' ahead of visit to Israel
The task force intends to meet with mayors, city or district attorneys and local police “soon to discuss their responses to incidents of antisemitism at schools and on college campuses in their cities over the last two years,” Leo Terrell, a leading member of the task force and senior counsel to the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, told the mayors, Eric Adams (New York City), Karen Bass (Los Angeles), Brandon Johnson (Chicago) and Michelle Wu (Boston).
The task force is “aware of allegations that the schools in their respective cities may have failed to protect Jewish students from unlawful discrimination, in potential violation of federal law,” Terrell told the mayors. He added that he aims for the panel “to meet with city leadership, impacted students, local law enforcement and community members as it gathers information about these incidents and considers whether federal intervention is warranted.
“Too many elected officials chose not to stand up to a rising tide of antisemitism in our cities and campuses following the horrific events of Oct. 7, 2023,” stated Pamela Bondi, the U.S. attorney general. “Actions have consequences—inaction does, too.”
A spokesperson for the city of Boston told JNS that “Boston has one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in America, a source of pride and strength for our city and our region, and we stand firmly against antisemitism.”
“We were made aware of this inquiry from media reports and will determine the right way to participate as we learn more and discuss with our Jewish community leaders and partners,” the city spokesperson said.
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is slated to launch the CPAC Center to Combat Antisemitism during their upcoming visit to Israel, the organization announced on Wednesday.How Wikipedia is warping the world’s view of Israel
CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp and Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp are due to travel to Israel in the coming weeks. They will meet with Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli, who was a keynote speaker at CPAC's 2025 conference in Washington.
The Schlapps visit will also "serve as a strong message of solidarity," highlighting that "America’s conservative movement stands shoulder to shoulder with Israel in the face of rising hate, violence, and misinformation," CPAC wrote on X/Twitter.
The tweet also quoted Mercedes Schlapp as saying, "Whether on campus, at the border, or in the halls of power, hate has no home in our movement. We’re proud to take that message to Jerusalem and beyond."
On February 20, CPAC passed a resolution in support of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank.
CPAC is active in other areas of interest for US Conservatives, including violence against Christians in the Middle East.
"Earlier this week CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp released a statement on the atrocities occurring in the Middle East and African nations where Christians are being slaughtered by terrorists for their beliefs," the tweet added.
"The battle for religious liberty throughout the globe is a righteous battle for freedom of all Religions. No person should be persecuted or killed for how they worship their God. CPAC’s commitment to everyone's right to worship isn’t conditional – it’s foundational,” Matt Schlapp was quoted as saying.
Even more disturbingly, it gradually became clear that these edits weren’t being carried out by random actors. Following the patterns of this users' engagement on the platform, it is evident that many of them maintain work habits that mirrored standard office hours, from 9am to 5pm, or engaging in consistent eight-to nine-hour shifts, suggesting a level of organisation uncommon amongst typical volunteers. They are also in the habit of giving each other “Barnstars” — Wikipedia’s tokens of appreciation and a way to gain social capital on the platform.Christopher Rufo: A Columbia Professor Marched for Hamas—and Received Millions in Public Funding
But who were they? Given Wikipedia’s commitment to anonymity, it’s tricky to tell. Yet, it is possible to guess their ideological persuasions by looking at their user pages. For example, based on the flags on his user page, it might seem that user called “Nableezy”, who recently received an indefinite topic ban from editing the Israeli-Palestinian, is fond of Egypt and Chicago. Nableezy, who was also previously banned for a short time after making an antisemitic “joke”, states on his page that he supports “the right of all individuals and groups to violently resist military aggression and occupation by other parties”.
Elsewhere, the page of an activist user called “Selfstudier” also expresses support for Palestine, while at the same time taking pride in having edited the pages of every Israeli prime minister. The page of “Iskandar323”, meanwhile, reveals a user urging him to stop editing biblical pages, in response to this user’s habit to delete Jewish biblical history, in pages such as “Hezekiah”, “Ezra” and “Solomon’s Temple”, which he claims to be “predominantly the preserve of biblical myth, with little evidence lending itself to the study of the topic as anything more tangible or historical”.
It is impossible to know if these and similar editors are supported by Qatar, Iran or Hamas. But it is known that some of these bodies are openly involved in the Wikimedia Foundation. For example, in 2011, the Gulf Times reported that the Qatar Computing Research Institute, part of Qatar Foundation, had partnered with the Wikimedia Foundation to expand and improve Arabic content on Wikipedia. It is also known that the Qatar Foundation has donated more than $100,000 in support of Wikipedia — and that the page for the Qatar Foundation was edited by a PR associate of the Foundation.
None of this, of course, is a smoking gun — but it is a red flag and suggests that, when studying the campaign against Israel on Wikipedia, focusing on individual users can only get us so far. To better understand this coordinated effort, we could do worse than revisit the Muslim Brotherhood’s Explanatory Memorandum. Written in 1991 and attributed to Mohammed Akram, a senior Hamas leader and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s executive committee in North America, the document lays out a clear strategy for infiltrating and subverting Western societies. Crucially, it calls for the “destruction and elimination of Western civilisation from within”, achieved through non-violent means, primarily by shaping public opinion and manipulating cultural narratives.
Through this lens, the calculated takeover of Wikipedia appears to be part of a long-term strategy. And it’s not confined to English Wikipedia. In January, French journalist Nora Bussigny revealed the existence of a pro-Palestinian group that trained editors to shape Wikipedia narratives by learning the “value” of strategic framing, selective sourcing, and coordinated editorial efforts. Yet while other Wikipedia editions face similar challenges — Arabic Wikipedia is particularly known for its bias — the issue is most severe on English Wikipedia. This is largely due to the site's immense reach, with approximately one billion visits per month.
Given it’s popularity and the importance of Wikipedia as a source, how will this online war end? Well, having spent years studying the mechanisms that power Wikipedia, I can say that the short answer is not by itself. As public sphere scholar Jürgen Habermas has noted, the freedom to participate in discussion demands some preliminary rules. To put it simply, this public sphere cannot be considered reliable without legislative action, enhanced transparency in Wikipedia’s editorial processes, and stronger oversight to ensure impartiality. Public attention is an essential component as well, as we already saw a brief and unsatisfactory glimpse of how awareness can contribute to moving the community to action in January, when eight editors — six of them “pro-Palestinian” — were warned and banned from the topic area by Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.
But they were only the tip of the iceberg. Just as with Hamas’s fighters, there are plenty more activist-editors waiting to replace them. If we want to keep Wikipedia reliable and neutral, the only way is to reverse their edits, enforce the mandatory disclosure of editor identities on sensitive topics, and implement AI and expert monitoring to uphold neutrality.
Without these measures, Wikipedia risks becoming a modern version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Manly’s appearance at a pro-Hamas rally, coupled with her activist academic research, raises serious questions about the medical establishment, which has directed large sums of taxpayer dollars to ideologues disguised as professors and to activism disguised as science. And it gives further grist to officials in the Trump administration, who have argued that funding cuts are necessary to disrupt the pipeline of left-wing radicals.Douglas Murray: Protesters prove again they are moral vacuums
Manly’s work routinely advances the idea that racism causes physical illness, such as Alzheimer’s disease. She claimed in an interview last year that “we shouldn’t blame people for their lifestyle choices in terms of their brain health.” Rather, “systems of oppression” and “discriminatory beliefs” cause black people to suffer dementia at disproportionate rates. “Any biological differences are driven by . . . racism,” Manly has said, later defining racism as “the pathway through which race is ‘biologized.’” Her academic work reflects these views. One paper Manley coauthored blamed “historical patterns of segregation” for higher rates of dementia among blacks. Another paper blamed “structural sexism” for declining memory, with the effect found to be stronger among black women.
Manly’s work is lavishly funded by taxpayers. Most recently, the National Institutes of Health gave her and her team nearly $700,000 to produce work linking racism to brain disease. As part of this grant, in January 2025, Manley and colleagues published an article implying that blacks living in states with “high lynching proportions” experienced higher levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a factor associated with greater risk of dementia. The authors claimed that “racism is associated with inflammation and dementia risk” because it “cumulatively taxes the body resulting in worsening biological and cognitive health.” Another paper concluded that “racist U.S. policies” had an “influence on cognitive health over time and dementia risk later in life.”
A critic of wokeness in science and the medical director of Do No Harm, psychiatrist Kurt Miceli, says that Manly’s research demonstrates why DEI should be struck from the medical field. Miceli regards her linking of historical lynchings with black dementia rates as “political” as opposed to scientific. He goes on to explain that the marker Manly uses to track her hypothesis of racism-invoked stress—CRP—can rapidly change and is more influenced by health factors such as obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Manly’s activist-driven research wasted taxpayer money, he argues. “There’s so much else that could be done [instead of] sort of focusing on an argument that . . . leads to calls for possibly reparations.”
Despite her politicized research and history of defending pro-Hamas activism, Manly continues to help lead a multimillion-dollar government project funded by numerous agencies that tracks brain aging. She also currently maintains more than $20 million in active grants to support her research at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute at Columbia.
The Trump administration has shown its determination to slash the National Institutes of Health’s bloated budget. It would be wise to scrutinize the work of professors like Jennifer Manly, who seem to be pursuing ideological research rather than medical science, and terminate funding for projects that don’t meet traditional scholarly standards. The only way to restore trust in America’s research institutions is to focus on real research—not pro-Hamas radicalism or dubious racialist scholarship.
Speaking of brats, I was interested in the statement read out yesterday on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil’s wife.Second anti-Israel Columbia protester, Leqaa Kordia, arrested by Homeland Security for immigration violations — as third self-deports and flees to Canada
The New York woman who is married to the soon-to-be-deported Hamas supporter gave her views through her lawyers.
She claimed, “My husband was kidnapped from our home, and it’s shameful that the United States government continues to hold him. I demand his immediate release and return to our family. His disappearance has devastated our lives. Every day without him is filled with uncertainty, not just for me, but for our entire family and community. Our loved ones are struggling with the pain and fear of his sudden absence.”
Which is interesting. Because of course Khalil and his friends are very much on the side of kidnapping. Seventeen months ago, their great heroes in Hamas kidnapped 250 Israelis from their homes.
Among those taken hostage were many Americans, including 21-year-old Edan Alexander, from New Jersey. And I don’t see Khalil & Co. having any concern for his family’s pain.
To date there have been no huge protests in New York demanding Edan Alexander’s release.
Thugs and blowhards like Zohran Mamdani haven’t screamed themselves hoarse to demand that Alexander be released from actual captivity.
As ever, these people give themselves away. They support hostage-taking when it involves actual torture and deprivation.
But when it comes to US law enforcement doing its job? Oh, then they cry victim.
Sorry — not falling for it.
A second protester who took part in anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University has been nabbed by immigration officials, who also revoked the visa of another student “for advocating for violence and terrorism,” sources said Friday.Columbia says it expelled some anti-Israel students, revoked degrees, issued multi-year suspensions
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian who hails from the West Bank, was busted by Homeland Security agents Thursday for alleged immigration violations related to overstaying on an expired student visa, the sources said.
Kordia — who was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark, New Jersey — was first arrested in April 2024 for taking part in one of the protests on Columbia’s campus while overstaying on her twice-canceled student visa, according to the sources.
A third Columbia protester, Indian citizen Ranjani Srinivasan — a doctoral student in urban planning at the Ivy League university and a teaching fellow at Barnard College — was seen in dramatic video obtained by The Post running through LaGuardia Airport as she self-deported from the US for Canada on Tuesday.
The State Department revoked her student visa on March 5, the sources said.
Columbia University announced on Thursday that it had disciplined students who occupied the Ivy League school’s Hamilton Hall last spring with measures including “multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations and expulsions.”Columbia Encampment Leader Known for Owning 'Emotional Support Rabbit' Among Students Expelled for Storming Hamilton Hall
“The return of suspended students will be overseen by Columbia’s University Life Office,” added the school, which is the subject of a federal probe for alleged inaction in response to Jew-hatred. “Columbia is committed to enforcing the university’s rules and policies and improving our disciplinary processes.”
The Trump administration announced recently that it is cutting about $400 million in federal funding to Columbia for its lack of response to antisemitism.
“‘Some students.’ Not enough,” wrote Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), sharing an Associated Press headline that stated, “Columbia University says it has expelled, suspended or revoked degrees from some students who seized a building during a pro-Palestinian protest.” (Foxx was chair of the House Committee on Education and Workforce during several high-profile hearings about Jew-hatred with university presidents.)
“This ruling is an important first step in righting the wrongs of the past year and a half,” stated Brian Cohen, executive director of Columbia Barnard Hillel. “I am grateful to the rules administrator and other members of the administration for their roles in ensuring these cases were resolved.”
“Discipline for a building takeover last spring? It appears that the wheels of justice at Columbia turn slowly and only when the federal cash clogging the gears has been removed,” wrote Jay Greene, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.
“The lesson here is that it takes $400 million in funding cuts to get an Ivy League school to expel some (not all) of the students who vandalized school property, illegally occupied a building and ground campus life to a halt,” wrote Aaron Sibarium of The Washington Free Beacon. “How much would it take for more meaningful reforms?”
Aidan Parisi, the son of a longtime State Department official who emerged last spring as a Columbia University encampment leader and is best known for owning an "emotional support rabbit," was among the students Columbia expelled for storming Hamilton Hall, he announced Thursday night.NYPD Arrests Dozens After Jewish Voice for Peace Storms Trump Tower To Demand Release of Pro-Hamas Columbia Activist
Parisi, a graduate student in Columbia’s School of Social Work, wrote on X that he was among the student activists expelled nearly a year after they stormed and occupied Hamilton Hall. Last spring, Parisi, the son of longtime State Department official Elizabeth Daugharty, emerged as a constant presence in the illegal encampment that plagued campus for weeks in April. He was also suspended shortly after his involvement in a pro-Hamas event, "Palestinian Resistance 101," held on campus in March 2024, which featured a number of terror-tied speakers who explicitly called for violence against Jews.
"An expulsion for Palestine is an honor, a sacrifice that pales in comparison to those of the Palestinian people," Parisi wrote Thursday.
"Been getting asked what I need [sic] re my expulsion from columbia, but I’m okay. Palestinians living under occupation and genocide need us. Immigrants facing deportation need us," he added Friday morning. "In the face of fascism, the only response is community."
Columbia announced Thursday evening that it punished students who stormed Hamilton Hall with multi-year suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations. The university declined to say how many were sanctioned, but Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD)—the Ivy League school’s most notorious anti-Semitic student group—claimed 22 students across Columbia and its sister school, Barnard College, were disciplined, including nine expulsions.
Grant Miner, the president of Columbia’s graduate student union who was arrested for storming Hamilton Hall, was also expelled Thursday. The self-described "medievalist" is the son of veteran California lobbyist and former Arnold Schwarzenegger aide Paul Miner, who owns a $1.8 million Sacramento home, the Washington Free Beacon reported. In October 2023, just two days after Hamas's terror attack on the Jewish state, the younger Miner was photographed at a New York City rally holding a sign that read, "Resistance against occupation is a human right."
Last spring, Parisi had pledged to "resist" what he called "institutional repression" at Columbia and praised the "intifada." He also has a long history of anti-American and anti-Israel activism, having posted a photo of the two nations’ flags burning on July 4, 2020. "No love for any colonizer flag," he wrote in his caption.
Police arrested dozens of Jewish Voice for Peace agitators after they stormed Trump Tower in New York to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Hamas Columbia University activist in ICE custody.
"We want justice. You say how, free Mahmoud Khalil now," the JVP activists chanted. "We will not comply, Mahmoud, we are on your side."
They also held banners proclaiming, "Fight Nazis, Not Students," "You Can’t Deport A Movement," "Come For One, Face Us All," and "Free Mahmoud, Free Palestine."
The NYPD warned the demonstrators before moving in to make arrests, carrying some away by their hands and feet. NYPD did not immediately provide an exact figure of how many were arrested.
Liberal billionaire George Soros’s philanthropy, the Open Society Foundations, has given $525,000 to JVP to fund its human rights work in the Middle East. The philanthropy has reported giving another $650,000 to JVP’s lobbying arm and political action committee, awarding it a three-year grant in 2023.
"Under the guise of fighting antisemitism, the Trump regime is using attacks on the movement for Palestinian freedom as an opening to dismantle civil liberties and the entire progressive movement, " JVP, which calls itself the "largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world," wrote in an Instagram post Thursday. "This is how fascism works. We refuse to be divided or silenced."
"We will not stand by as this fascist regime attempts to criminalize Palestinians and all those calling for an end to the Israeli government’s US-funded genocide," the group added in a post to X.
“Jewish Voice for Peace” is an account run by a Muslim who founded “Students for Justice in Palestine,” which has been banned on many college campuses for terror support… and none of us are surprised. pic.twitter.com/m3YBgS7Db5
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) March 14, 2025
House Democrats join letter questioning legality of Mahmoud Khalil’s detention
Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are circulating a letter to administration officials defending detained Columbia University anti-Israel leader Mahmoud Khalil and questioning the authorities supporting his detention and revocation of his green card.
The letter had gathered over 100 signatures by Thursday evening, a source familiar with the situation said. It does not mention or acknowledge the specific nature of Khalil’s activities on Columbia’s campus, including his involvement with the anti-Israel encampment and the alleged distribution of pro-Hamas pamphlets at a protest he helped organize.
Khalil was also reportedly under investigation by Columbia itself for helping to organize an unauthorized protest where demonstrators supported Hamas and being involved in social media posts attacking Zionism and other acts of discrimination.
The letter focuses primarily on challenging the legal underpinnings of Khalil’s arrest, which the administration has said is based on an infrequently used law allowing the secretary of state to revoke the visa of any foreign national whose presence or activities pose “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”
The letter repeatedly accuses the administration of violating Khalil’s free speech rights and attempting to silence him for dissenting.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statement regarding violent antisemitic agitators on college campuses who hold visas:
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) March 14, 2025
"When they came claiming to be students, they didn’t mention occupying university buildings, vandalizing them, tearing them apart, and holding campuses hostage.… pic.twitter.com/MY2ydUKPw0
I’m proud of Pres. Trump and Sec. Rubio for saying, “We’ve had enough,” to the virtuecrats and moral snobs at Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/GCGsnaz0kH
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) March 13, 2025
Why are colleges still coddling criminals on their campuses?
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 14, 2025
These schools are babying terrorist sympathizers & endangering Jewish students—and they're doing it with OUR money
Time to shut down their funding pic.twitter.com/mXktcMX23q
Columbia University
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) March 13, 2025
➕ Chaotic Tent City
➕ Buildings Seized
➖ Asshole protesters
🟰 Accountability pic.twitter.com/LLNjcmpa7A
This op-ed by UC-Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is almost unbelievable. Many law professors and lawyers know that pro-Hamas students disrupted a @BerkeleyLaw event at Erwin Chemerinsky's home last year. There's a video in which he and his wife are screaming at the students… pic.twitter.com/TihOxnYuJt
— Adam Mossoff (@AdamMossoff) March 14, 2025
Watch Bernie Sanders snap at far-left activist Olivia DiNucci when she asked him about Mahmoud Khalil.
— Stu (@thestustustudio) March 13, 2025
Two hours later, Sander's Twitter account made a public comment that was likely drafted by his staff to appease his Progressive base. pic.twitter.com/OneMAYA51Z
Here is a relevant section of the green card application Khalil filled out. As an active member and spokesperson for CUAD, responsible for the encampment and the violent takeover of the Columbia building last Spring, and as an organization dedicated to overthrowing "Western… pic.twitter.com/ytp15rN2W6
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) March 14, 2025
Khalil’s lawyers are LYING in their case filings. The “foreign policy” provision for deporting a citizen in 8 USC 1227 doesn’t prohibit the Secretary of State from excluding entry or from deporting an alien by way of citing the alien’s beliefs /statements / associations.
— Ben B@dejo (@BenTelAviv) March 14, 2025
It… https://t.co/md1GSzujuV
The “Mahmoud Khalil Masjid Response Toolkit” is now available!
— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U (@CampusJewHate) March 13, 2025
It is unclear who developed it, but they are using a @Google form which we find very ironic because Google is on the BDS list.
Some highlights of the toolkit include tips on how to mobilize and talking points. The… pic.twitter.com/TETn5KTW9I
"It's great to be in such good company, and talking about sort of litigation for people who are arrested by the police is, is one of my favorite things. You're a good company."
— Stu (@thestustustudio) March 13, 2025
Molly Bilken discusses a settlement agreement related to lawsuits from the George Floyd protests in… pic.twitter.com/D7XbFjj3VF
Molly Bilken discusses the provisions of the settlement aimed at protecting the rights of journalists and the public during protests. The settlement requires the NYPD to explicitly acknowledge the First Amendment right to record police activity in public spaces, which is also a… pic.twitter.com/RrnRouTVW1
— Stu (@thestustustudio) March 13, 2025
And lastly, this is more of an oddity, but it shows the ideological foundations of Molly Bilken's childhood.
— Stu (@thestustustudio) March 13, 2025
Bilken's father is Douglas Bilken, a former Syracuse University professor who was controversially appointed Dean of the Syracuse University School of Education.… pic.twitter.com/QLqktVO1Wc
So, Mahmoud Kahlil and his fellow antisemitic agitators are actually stupid. He and seven other students are suing to keep their names from being known to a House committee seeking records from Columbia University. Here's why this is dumb, and sure to fail:
— Ben B@dejo (@BenTelAviv) March 13, 2025
The U.S. Department… pic.twitter.com/2DIP2oUY4E
Prof speaking about "mild manner and thoughtful" Khalil.
— Melissa ✡︎🇺🇸🇮🇱🎗️#ReleaseOurHostagesNow (@unwaiverhesed) March 14, 2025
See attached twt if you need a reminder about the prof. https://t.co/TmqUwKMoU4 pic.twitter.com/84eMMM7qiF
Columbia’s graduate student union has announced that the union president, Grant Miner, has been expelled “with no evidence” in order to "interfere with bargaining". AS IF. This has nothing to do with bargaining. Grant was arrested in the encampment and Hamilton Hall. This… pic.twitter.com/qZW7BZXD89
— Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students ✡️🇮🇱 (@CUJewsIsraelis) March 13, 2025
Among those who were expelled by @Columbia today is the university’s graduate student union (SWC) president, Grant Miner.
— Tali Goldsheft (@TaliGoldsheft) March 14, 2025
SWC, including Miner, helped take hostages in Hamilton Hall a few months ago.
As you may remember, they HELD A JANITOR HOSTAGE in the building. pic.twitter.com/T9Lk9WyTxb
In what may be the first in the Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus history we are happily reposting a tweet by @ColumbiaBDS. (Well, actually we can't repost because the blocked us but please enjoy the screenshot).
— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U (@CampusJewHate) March 14, 2025
We would like to thank @Columbia for finally doing the right thing!… pic.twitter.com/hjoAm9Mxba
Today the news out of @Columbia just gets better and better!
— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U (@CampusJewHate) March 14, 2025
Happy Purim everyone! pic.twitter.com/FMbedcynF5
If we’re going to support deporting Mahmoud Khalil, it’s crucially important to know why. New Ep out now on @AmisHousePod #MahmoudKhalil pic.twitter.com/9X9OW1NyHz
— Ami Kozak (@amiKozak) March 13, 2025
https://t.co/QumnIP2zSt https://t.co/IwI9hy9Ank
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) March 14, 2025
UKLFI: University student charged with supporting Hamas
A University of London student has been charged by counter terrorism police with expressing support for Hamas, after making a speech soon after 7 October 2023 celebrating the terrorist attacks in Israel.DHS agents search two Columbia University residences – days after anti-Israel agitator arrested by ICE at off-campus apartment
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) originally reported Sarah Cotte, a student at the School of African and Asian Studies (SOAS), University of London, to the police and to her university in October 2023. This was after she made a public speech on the steps of SOAS, celebrating the attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israelis on 7 October 2023. Her speech was caught on video, and subsequently broadcast on social media.
She was arrested on 31 January 2024 and released on bail. According to a police statement, she was charged on 11 March 2025 with two counts of expressing support for Hamas, a proscribed organisation. The first was for expressing support for Hamas in October 2023, and the second charge relates to similar comments allegedly made on a WhatsApp group.
Sarah Cotte, a French national, was secretary of the Fight Racism Fight Imperialism society at SOAS in October 2023. During her speech, soon after 7 October 2023 she declared:
“We at SOAS Fight Racism Fight Imperialism express our unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian Armed Resistance who have broken free from their open air prison in Gaza and are rising across an occupied country, against the Zionist state which has been bleeding Palestine dry for nearly eighty years. Israel has existed for 27,540 days but in less than one day it has been nearly brought to its knees by righteous armed resistance.”
UKLFI reported Ms Cotte to the Counter Terrorism Police for alleged breaches of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Department of Homeland Security agents executed search warrants on two Columbia University residences on Thursday night — just days after anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by ICE at an off-campus apartment, the Ivy League school announced.
Interim president Katrina Armstrong revealed the raids in a letter to the Columbia community and noted that nobody was arrested or detained when the feds searched the rooms of two students.
“Federal agents from the DHS served Columbia University with two judicial search warrants signed by a federal magistrate judge authorizing DHS to enter non-public areas of the University and conduct searches of two student rooms,” Armstrong said.
“The University has a clear protocol in place. Consistent with this protocol, our longstanding practice, and the practices of cities and institutions throughout the country, the University requires that law enforcement have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including residential University buildings.”
The “heartbroken” leader said she was “obligated” to comply with the law, adding that no items were removed and no additional action was taken by the feds.
Columbia President Katrina Armstrong says she’s “heartbroken” over DHS legally searching two residences.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) March 14, 2025
Where was her heartbreak when:
- Jewish students were harassed, stalked, and prevented from going to class?
- employees were assaulted?
- buildings were violently taken… pic.twitter.com/g2mSTZjkjA
Entirely fair now for law firms to ask HLS applicants if they voted in favor of BDS, and decline to hire them if they say yes. Among other things, (a) a law firm's participation in such boycotts makes a company ineligible for government contracts in many states and may violate… https://t.co/orz01RvapF
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) March 14, 2025
This propaganda directly from Hamas themselves insists that no civilians were killed on 10/7 and that Hamas only targeted soldiers. pic.twitter.com/4yQ8jEfCWT
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@camhigby) March 13, 2025
Pennsylvania - Areej Alfeen openly doxxed her former teacher for being Jewish, calls Jews terrorists, and denies their indigeneity.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) March 14, 2025
There’s zero confidence she can be around patients ethically.
Why is @IovanceBio supporting this individual?
ACT NOW: https://t.co/BlLj7pUhMi https://t.co/k7SqlC0nlj
GUARDIAN ERRS ON WEST BANK VIOLENCE STORY
As is so often the case at the Guardian, a recent report vilifying Israel (“Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says”, March 10) was based almost entirely on a report by an anti-Israel NGO. However, not only did the journalists, Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum, fail to critically examine the report by B’tselem, but actually misrepresented one of the NGO’s accusations.
Here’s the relevant paragraph from the Guardian piece:
Israeli airstrikes in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, the beginning of the Gaza war triggered by Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, have killed more Palestinians than during the violence of the second intifada of the 2000s…according to data collected by B’tselem over more than two decades.
Yet, if you look at the section of the B’tselem report in question, it’s clear that this is not what they’re alleging.
From 7 October 2023 to 8 March 2025, B’Tselem documented 69 airstrikes, which killed 261 people, including at least 41 minors. In stark contrast, airstrikes in the West Bank killed 14 people in the preceding 18 years, from 2005 to 7 October 2023.
Given that the 2nd intifada had ended by 2005, B’tselem is clearly alleging that more Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in the West Bank in the seventeen months since Oct. 7, 2023 than during the 18 year period AFTER the intifada. Also, the fact that there were hardly any airstrikes on terror targets in the West Bank during that 18 year period between the 2005 and Oct. 7, 2023 shows how meaningless even that B’tselem claim is.
Further, if the journalists wanted to make an accurate and more morally relevant 2nd Intifada comparison, they could have noted that more Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists on one single day in Oct., 2023, than during the entire bloody intifada.
It’s a shame because Gerard Howlin’s article is sensitive and empathetic.
— Rachel Moiselle 🧡 (@RachelMoiselle) March 14, 2025
This is the fault of the editors who consistently choose inflammatory and misleading headlines regarding anything to do with Jews and antisemitism. https://t.co/whOPLCOEGR
Since I posted about my experience at that bookshop, at least five people have told me or messaged me about similar experiences there, in addition to the numerous comments on that post. It seems it was a standard station for 'peace delegations'.https://t.co/THxZF6wg89
— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) March 13, 2025
These buses have the delegations of Syrian druze in them https://t.co/zCta2Kn0h2 pic.twitter.com/FHQvxaBFFn
— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) March 14, 2025
Mr. FAFO's new studio?
— GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) March 13, 2025
Perfect for singing—and for staging scenes. pic.twitter.com/QfRj6AOKmE
Bisan isn’t just lying to millions—she’s fabricating an absurd blood libel, proving how low people like her can go. In fact, it perfectly illustrates the saying:
— GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) March 13, 2025
"Tell me what the Palestinians accuse Israel of, and I will tell you what their own crimes are." pic.twitter.com/go5AVXewTz
Advertising kitchenware at al-Danaf Hyper Mall, Nuseirat, Central Gaza Strip.
— Imshin (@imshin) March 14, 2025
Instagram stories timestamp: 1 hour ago#TheGazaYouDontSee
Link in 1st comment pic.twitter.com/usbmxrbMGu
13th day of Ramadan (13 Mar '25) at Thailandy Restaurant, Gaza City.
— Imshin (@imshin) March 14, 2025
For the paying customers: Kebabs, shawarma, grilled chicken, beef and rice.
The restaurant also prepared meals of rice and meat for the less fortunate, funded by a Turkish charity.
Instagram stories timestamp:… pic.twitter.com/ul5Knrawfw
These Gazan youths thank donors for contributions which funded buying these 2 sheep, which they claim will be slaughtered, cooked and distributed to doctors in the hospitals.
— Imshin (@imshin) March 14, 2025
They say it's 8th day of Ramadan (8 Mar '25).
Timestamp: 6 days ago#TheGazaYouDontSee
Link in 1st… pic.twitter.com/bg89QdZxYU
Don't miss what it looks like at the end, after they clean and tidy up. #TheGazaYouDontSee https://t.co/IAqPblHtCG
— Imshin (@imshin) March 14, 2025
Hizbullah-Affiliated Lebanese Academic Sadek Al-Naboulsi: I Urge Every Honorable and Believing Fighter to Bear Arms and Fight the Israeli Enemy; We Have No Choice but to Take the Responsibility the Government Has Relinquished pic.twitter.com/4ymBiWd3A6
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) March 14, 2025
Why MAGA Must Expel the Podcast Pied Pipers of Antisemitism
The intersectional left believes that society is unfairly structured to benefit certain groups (like white people, men, or the rich) while oppressing others (like racial minorities, women, or LGBTQ+ people). They thus infer that seemingly neutral values like “free speech” or “colorblindness” are nothing more than a ruse for the benefit of entrenched powers. Therefore, radical changes are needed to fix this.
The so-called “woke right” also believes society is unfairly structured—but they think the unfairness goes in the opposite direction. They claim that elites, progressives, “globalists,” and, increasingly, Jews, have rigged the system against “regular” people, like conservatives, Christians, or the working class. They also want radical changes to fix this.
Carlson—formerly a bowtie-wearing Republican “establishment” stiff at CNN and The Weekly Standard—at some point suffered a profound disillusionment with America, and now presents the governing powers as one big lie; a hideous mask for “what is really going on,” which is really the opposite of what mainstream people think is good. This is why he will promote Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust denier as the “best and most honest historian” in America, or run overwrought, cringe-inducing propaganda on his channel about the majesty of Moscow’s bountiful supermarkets. It’s all a lie anyway, so why not join Putin in fighting the powers that be?
Many young conservatives are up this creek without a paddle. They grew up in a very different environment from their parents. The world they know is one of institutional decay, political polarization, and growing distrust for science, government, and the press.
For young men, in particular, there was also an ambient sense that progressivism—of the kind that Americans soundly rejected in November—demonized them and their masculinity in entertainment, in school, and in employment. The disenfranchised and disenchanted always look for someone to blame. Many white men now believe the world is out to get them, and the sadly most common outgrowth of that feeling, across all histories and all time, has been antisemitism.
Currently, young conservatives feel distrust for most mainstream news figures. And they are often unaware how often online content is bought and paid for by hidden actors who either wish to push a specific agenda or simply turbocharge existing divisions within American society.
With traditional media institutions hemorrhaging money, viewership, and staff, it’s imperative to understand that new media voices are the new mainstream media, exploiting the constantly shifting sands that today exemplify the media landscape.
No longer are conservatives the “opposition.” There’s been a shift in power, culturally, and politically. With it comes responsibility. The MAGA movement must celebrate its victories, and realize what they mean. They’ve won. They are the culture. No longer the scrappy start-up or the outsider.
They must get their house in order and expel the most radical among their ranks, starting with the antisemites.
Imagine going from Fox News' to this pic.twitter.com/JwkdrQIJKp
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) March 14, 2025
Comedy Cellar USA: Response to Dave Smith: NO! Conspiracy Theorists and Anti-Semites Must Be Called Out. (good footage)
Nuts and bigots are garnering millions of followers, spreading like cancer online. Noam insists that we can (and should) engage with arguments while at the same time identifying bigotry (and mental illness) for what it is.
Darryl Cooper: “Hitler wasn’t going around and giving antisemitic addresses in public.”
— Adam Goldman (@admgoldman) March 13, 2025
Reality: Hitler addressing the entire Reichstag in 1939, declaring that he will annihilate the Jewish race.
Cooper’s continuous push to change perceptions of Hitler are simply lies. pic.twitter.com/Yz7poOh8LD
Cooper also references 1938 in the discussion, stating that even then Hitler had to avoid publicly showing animus toward the Jews. So it literally couldn’t be more relevant as counter proof that less than six months later, Hitler was openly threatening the Jewish race.
— Adam Goldman (@admgoldman) March 14, 2025
And yes,…
Joe Rogan: "How awful that Darryl Cooper is labeled a Nazi apologist."
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) March 14, 2025
Darryl Cooper: "The Nazis only gassed the Jews cuz they weren't properly organized" pic.twitter.com/fSwpPtoiFK
Darryl Cooper: “Hitler grew up in small town Germany.”
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) March 14, 2025
Doesn’t even know Hitler was Austrian.
But Joe Rogan will tell 30 million people that this man is a genius historian pic.twitter.com/oPsdnsIHkX
Hitler was the victim of a hormone that plays a role in labor/delivery/lactation and human bonding, according to this "historian" https://t.co/wAsoNEyX00
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 14, 2025
Gang who kidnapped, assaulted and planned to extort Israeli man in Wales given 8-year jail terms
Three men who kidnapped and brutally assaulted an Israeli Jewish man with both the intention to extort him for money and because of his Jewish heritage, have received over eight years imprisonment.CAA resumes private prosecution after Met says it was not incitement for imam to preach: ‘curse the Jews’
Appearing in Swansea Crown Court on Friday, the three men, Faiz Shah, 22, from Bradford, Mohammad Comrie, 23, from Leeds, and Elinaj Ogunnubi-Sime, 20, from Croydon, were each given a sentence of eight years and one month for the premeditated assault in August last year.
The victim, Itay Kashti, a London-based music producer and composer, was lured to a remote Airbnb rented by the trio in Carmanthenshire, west Wales on the pretence of working with musicians, only to be “immediately assaulted” upon entering. The court heard how Kashti was kicked, punched and handcuffed to a radiator by the three men, who had used a false identity to gain his trust.
The taxi driver who drove Kashti to the remote premises was also assaulted but managed to flee shortly after and call the police.
Just before reading out her sentence, Judge Catherine Richards stated she has “no doubt” Kashti was targeted due to their “understanding of his wealth and Jewish heritage.”
A Telegram group chat set up between the defendants planned the crime “in minute detail”, which was the “beginning of a careful and elaborate plot on the part of these defendants to secure [Kashti’s] attendance,” the prosecution said.
In the group chat, Shah, Comrie, and Ogunnubi-Sime discussed in depth a chilling “shopping list” of equipment they would need to restrain Kashti, including hyper-realistic face masks to conceal their identities, gloves, a gag, handcuffs, zip ties, a blindfold, and ketamine with which to drug Kashti. They later discussed the requirement for food and water, indicating, the court heard, their intention for the kidnapping to last several days.
The messages also “indicate a strong degree of planning to launder any money extorted from [Kashti] or his family” via cryptocurrency.
Campaign Against Antisemitism intends to recommence our private prosecution, which we had paused during the Met’s re-investigation.'I was almost lynched, called a Jewish whore': Woman attacked by mob in Copenhagen
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “After a year and a half, senior Met commanders have concluded that a call in a mosque to ‘curse the Jews’ does not constitute incitement. This is an appalling betrayal.
“It is hard to imagine what more the Met would need to pursue this case. There is video footage and it does not seem that any of the facts are in question, so what the Met is saying is that extremists can preach hatred of Jews from pulpits in mosques up and down the country, and our police will not lift a finger. This is why eight in ten British Jews think that the police do not do enough to protect them, according to our polling.
“We will now work with our lawyers to continue the process of privately prosecuting this case. We are also awaiting a decision from the Charity Commission on this matter as the mosque where this took place is a registered charity. Instead of relying on the authorities like everyone else, it is increasingly the case that British Jews have to rely on us to take action to enforce the law of the land.”
A 39-year-old Jewish woman was almost "lynched" in an antisemitic attack in Christiania, Copenhagen, last week, Danish outlet BT first reported on Wednesday.
The woman told BT that she was driving her moped through the Danish capital on Friday, wearing an Israeli flag, when she was confronted by a man dressed in black.
According to the woman, the man asked her if she was Jewish, to which she replied yes.
He reportedly replied: "Are you proud of that?" When the woman responded again with yes, the man spat on her and called her a 'child murderer'," she told BT.
The woman straight away called the police. However, in the meantime, another man appeared and ordered that she throw her Israeli flag away.
"Before I could even get answers from the police, things escalated further," the woman recalled.
"Suddenly, a group of men rushed towards me. A strong man with a Middle Eastern appearance shouted at me to take off the flag immediately," she added.
When she refused, the men began to tear the flag apart. "There were at least 50 people watching, and when I screamed for help, one of the men smiled mockingly and said, 'Nobody will help you here.' Then he grabbed me by the throat and started choking me with his hands," the woman told BT.
"One of them pulled the flag over my head so I couldn't see what was happening. I kept shouting for help, but no one intervened. Then they started dragging me off the asphalt."
https://t.co/VpiYi8YZeL pic.twitter.com/7ctrfMbrmR
— Karen Ievers (@karenievers) March 14, 2025
When the Portuguese Haman Threatened the Jews of Brazil
Perhaps more than any other biblical book, Jews have time and again throughout history seen their own experiences through the prism of the book of Esther. Stuart Halpern presents the example of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a Dutch-born, Amsterdam-raised and -educated rabbi who in 1642 took a position in the city of Recife in northeastern Brazil. Dutch Jews flocked to this colony after the Netherlands won it from Portugal, and were joined by local descendants of conversos who seized the opportunity to return to Judaism:
Unfortunately for the rabbi and his flock, in 1645 the Portuguese sought to take the city from the Dutch and set a naval blockade. Starvation became rampant. So too was the fear among the local Jews that under Portuguese rule their newfound religious freedom would be forgotten. The dire situation stretched for years.
[Da Fonseca] composed a poem in the early 1650s, “Zekher asiti l’nifla’ot El” (“I made a memorial to the wonders of God”). In it, he encouraged his coreligionists to repent and seek the mercy of God. And he lambasted the villainous actions of João Fernandes Vieira, a local military leader supportive of the Portuguese, as being like that of a modern-day version of the conniving vizier Haman.
[He] structured the poem’s format on the medieval poet Judah HaLevi’s “Mi Kamokha,” itself a lengthy retelling of the Purim tale. Whereas his predecessor had lyrics like “Immediately after all these things, Ahasuerus lifted Haman up, and exalted him over all the princes,” da Fonseca wrote of “Remember, O God, the king of Portugal. . . . From the dung heap he elevated [João Fernandes Vieira] to protect and strengthen him.”
Portugal in the end reclaimed Recife and the region around it, forcing the Jews either to revert to Catholicism or to flee. While Aboab returned to Amsterdam, others left for the Caribbean or New Amsterdam, and were among the founders of American Jewry.
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Im gonna go @MarALago for Megillah reading! 🎉✡️ @realDonaldTrump @TeamTrump @IvankaTrump @jaredkushner @LaraLeaTrump #Purim2025 #Purim #trump pic.twitter.com/0CHlaK2mkS
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This image shows Jewish children in Tehran wearing costumes on the holiday of Purim in 1964, 15 years before the Iranian Revolution brought a hardline, oppressive regime to power in Iran.
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) March 14, 2025
Our hope is that one day, Iranians will be free from the regime that suppresses their… pic.twitter.com/JrtADdAccS
Heroes in Action! 🚒🦸♂️
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Jerusalem firefighters dressed as superheroes—Batman, Superman, and Spiderman—brought Purim joy to children with disabilities at the Feuerstein Institute! Rappelling down the building, they spread smiles, laughter, and holiday cheer. 🎭✨Happy Purim! pic.twitter.com/8fr9fpQFhw
Purim.
— David Collier (@mishtal) March 14, 2025
This holiday always reminds me of 1996. When kids in fancy dress were out enjoying themselves in Tel Aviv - and a HAMAS terrorist looked at the Purim celebrations - saw all the kids - and thought that would be a good place to detonate his explosives.
Hamas are monsters. pic.twitter.com/xVktO8kHoc
Herzog attends Megillah reading alongside family of murdered hostage
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday participated in the traditional reading of the Book of Esther at the Shemesh U’Magen synagogue in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, where the family of murdered hostage Ori Danino prays.
Seated alongside the president were Ori’s father and brother.
Master Sgt. Ori Danino, 25, was abducted by Hamas terrorists from the Supernova music festival during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, and murdered in captivity. He is credited with having saved the lives of many revelers during the Gazan terrorist invasion.
“We are here to honor and commemorate Ori Danino, to pay tribute to his family, and, through his story, to cry out and pray for the return of all the hostages home, with God’s help,” said Herzog on Thursday.
“Former hostage Omer Shem-Tov and others spoke about Ori Danino, describing how, in the midst of the horrific disaster, from the tunnels in Gaza, from the valley of the shadow of death in Gaza, Ori was like an angel amidst the chaos,” he continued.
“I believe this speaks volumes about Ori—he fought and returned again and again to save his brothers. When—in the story of Purim—Mordechai says to Queen Esther, ‘And who knows whether it was for a time like this that you became royalty?’—this is a call for heroism, a call to take responsibility. Ori took responsibility with supreme bravery, throughout his time in Gaza and before that as a soldier in the IDF. He was a great leader, ultimately murdered by evil men,” said Herzog.
This Purim, we celebrate knowing what is already written in our history and knowing that our resilience always perseveres. pic.twitter.com/qpRgwDqC1s
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 13, 2025
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