Friday, March 20, 2026

03/20 Links Pt2: Douglas Murray: Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump; Melanie Phillips: ‘Mamdani is a monster’; Chuck Norris dies at 86

From Ian:

Brendan O'Neill: Joe Kent sums up everything that’s wrong with the MAGA Israelophobes
There are two things to be said about Kent’s frothing missive. The first is that it is incredibly dumb. George W Bush and Tony Blair, not Israel, were responsible for the calamity of Iraq. In fact, some Israeli officials warned against invading Iraq. They told the White House ‘Iraq is not the enemy – Iran is the enemy’. And it was the barbarians of the Islamic State who inflamed mayhem in Syria by violently subjecting large swathes of that nation to their cruel, bigoted writ. Treating Israel as the cauldron of all human wickedness absolves the true culprits – in this case, Islamist monsters – of responsibility for their crimes.

As for Iran – as has been well documented over the past three weeks, Trump has long been worried about the Islamic Republic. As the Atlantic says, he ‘telegraphed his bellicose intentions toward Iran for decades’. In his two terms as president, ‘he escalated conflict with the country at every opportunity’. Painting not only a brash president but mighty America itself as the plaything of Israel is historical illiteracy on stilts. Indeed, this week Trump publicly rebuked Israel for striking Iran’s South Pars gas field. Not very poodle-like of him.

The second, more serious thing to say about Kent’s animus for Israel is that it has the pungent whiff of anti-Semitic conspiracism. The damning of Israel as the author of all war, as the chief manipulator of the Western powers, as the dragger of our nations into the pit of ‘decline and chaos’, has clear and eerie echoes of the Jew-baiting of old. Where it was once the Jewish people who were seen as the source of our cultural decline, now it’s the Jewish homeland. Same shit, different century.

Kent sums up everything that’s wrong with the MAGA Israelophobes, that wing of Trumpism that is fast disappearing into the sewer of Jew-linked conspiracism. These people are morally indistinguishable from the woke mob they claim to hate. Not one word of Kent’s self-regarding letter would be out of place in the mouth of a blue-haired campus loon screaming obscenities about ‘Isra-hell’. Both the crank right and gender-bending left see the Jewish nation as the rotten seed of our moral crises. There’s a fascist feel to their neurosis.

It didn’t surprise me when Kent’s first big post-resignation interview was with Tucker Carlson, the man who sacrificed his skills of critical thinking at the altar of blind rage for Israel. Or that Kent has reportedly had associations with certain members of the ‘groyper army’. Trump is right to say ‘it’s a good thing he’s out’. But why was he in? I can’t be the only person horrified that the head of counter-terrorism was an anti-Israel nut. You might as well have Mehdi Hasan up there. The Israelophobic intrigue of the Very Online right runs directly counter to the open, hopeful spirit of the tens of millions of Americans who took a punt on Trump. In fact, it threatens to undermine it, by replacing that working-class yearning for greater democracy with the obsessional delusions of the digitally addicted.

The MAGA movement needs to sort itself out. Just as the old left was dragged down by the carbuncle of wokeness, so American populism is at risk of serious ailment from the crankery of its digital flank. These movements might seem miles apart, the former believing you can have a cock and be a lesbian, the latter being more ‘tradwife’. But they are as one in their vain, self-exonerating hatred for the world’s only Jewish state. Listen, Israel isn’t the cause of your wars or your depression or your girlfriend troubles or your baldness – grow up and take responsibility.
As NYC Oct. 7 hate crime offenders get sentenced, a victim wonders what justice looks like
In November 2023, weeks after the Hamas invasion of Israel, two women tore posters of Israeli hostages off a lamppost on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

A Jewish woman who was walking her dog confronted the pair, saying, “Why are you ripping down posters of victims?”

“I don’t think these are real people. I think this is AI-generated,” one of the women, Stephanie Gonzalez, said. “I believe whoever is in Palestine is real. Whoever’s in Palestine is truly suffering.”

The other woman, Mehwish Omer, gave the Jewish passerby the middle finger, according to video of the incident the victim filmed and shared with The Times of Israel.

As the pair began to walk away, things escalated further: They attacked the Jewish woman, smacking her phone out of her hand and shouting, “Go fuck yourself,” as the victim pleaded, “Don’t assault me.”

“I’m going to assault you. I don’t care,” Gonzalez said.

The women then ripped a Star of David necklace off the victim’s neck, grabbed her by the throat, and clawed her face, causing bleeding in her eye and leaving red welts on her forehead and down her right cheek.

The attack took place on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a mere week before the victim’s wedding.

After a police search, the attackers were arrested a week later and charged with a hate crime assault.

Now being resolved in New York courts, the case was one of a series of hate crimes that took place in the aftermath of the Hamas onslaught on Israel that saw 1,200 murdered and 251 taken hostage to Gaza.

Gonzalez, Omer and the victim, who asked to remain anonymous due to privacy concerns, appeared this month for a court hearing that illustrated complications surrounding hate crime sentencing and the lasting trauma caused to victims.

“For two and a half years, I really have lived with this,” the victim said. “My soul has not been able to rest.”
MinterEllison pulls logo from Sydney Biennale after DJ storm
Law firm MinterEllison asked the Sydney Biennale to remove its logo from a list of major partners, distancing itself from the arts festival due to DJ Haram’s inflammatory opening-night speech praising “martyrs” and attacking Israel.

MinterEllison, a pro bono legal adviser to the biennale for more than 20 years but not a financial sponsor of the festival, had been credited on the biennale’s website as a major partner as recently as Tuesday.

DJ Haram created a storm after her comments at the Sydney Biennale opening night at White Bay Power Station.

But by Thursday the logo had disappeared. When contacted by The Australian Financial Review about the logo on the site, a MinterEllison spokeswoman said that “following comments made at the White Bay event on 13 March 2026, we requested its removal”.

“We did not want our branding to suggest any association with, or endorsement of, those views,” the spokeswoman said. “We firmly and unconditionally condemn antisemitism in all its forms – that is a core value of this firm.

“Our pro bono legal relationship with the biennale as an institution is continuing. It is separate from this year’s exhibition and from the actions or views of any individual performer or artist.”

On Saturday, the Financial Review revealed the content of DJ Haram’s speech of March 13, which included leading a chant of “long live the resistance” and referring to “the Zio-Australian-Epstein empire”, a phrase appearing to link Israel to the crimes of convicted sex offender and New York financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The speech has been condemned by NSW Premier Chris Minns and Arts Minister John Graham, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.


Douglas Murray: Douglas Murray: Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump
In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.

Nobody knows that better than Donald Trump, who has been stabbed in the back more times than Julius Caesar — yet has still survived.

This week, part of the noisy right-wing online podcast-sphere again turned on the president.

Leading the virtual charge, again, was Trump’s one-time cheerleader, Tucker Carlson.

There was a time when Carlson was fully Team Trump.

Carlson often appeared at Trump rallies as part of the warmup act.

But in the past year, he has tried to lead the MAGA base away from Trump and down a very dark path.

Fortunately, the Trump base hasn’t followed him there.

The president’s strong Middle East policy seems to have particularly deranged his one-time supporter.

While the president has advocated a strong defense of America’s regional allies, Carlson has spent 100% of his time trying to turn the MAGA base against Israel and in favor of Islamist regimes.

His podcast has become a remorseless roll call of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, Islamic extremists and World War II revisionists.

While attacking Trump, Carlson eagerly softball-interviews people who love both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

Quite an achievement.
Tucker Carlson calls pro-Hitler Oswald Mosley one of Britain’s ‘great war heroes’
Controversial US podcaster Tucker Carlson has described Oswald Mosley, the pro-Hitler leader of Britain’s short-lived fascist party during the Second World War, as one of the country’s “great war heroes”.

Carlson further claimed on his podcast this week that Mosley’s “only crime was being the opposition” to Winston Churchill, and that was why he was arrested.

Churchill, according to Carlson, was a person we are “required to deify”, but in fact was a figure who “presided over the imprisonment of his opposition party during the entire length of the war, and their families, and their wives.”

About Mosley and his party, he continued: “Their crime was being the opposition party and being disloyal and unpatriotic, they weren’t.”

Speaking in a video interspersed with images of Mosley doing fascist salutes, Carlson said: “The opposition party was led by a First World War war hero who fought not just as you know, a pilot in the sky but and in the trenches. [He was] one of the great war heroes, former member of parliament, the country ever produced. And he and his compatriots and their wives were interned without charges by Winston Churchill for the duration of the war.”

Mosley was not fact the then-leader of the opposition but founder of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), a minor party that never performed well in elections even at its height in the mid 1930s, and never won a seat in Parliament.

BUF was estimated to have had, at most, 50,000 members but that number declined sharply following violent clashes at the Olympia rally in 1934 and later the Battle of Cable Street in 1936.

Mosley was indeed imprisoned – but only for three years, not for the entirety of the war – and the BUF was made illegal in May 1940 after the outbreak of the Second World War.

Instead of the forced imprisonment of the opposition party at the time, as claimed by Carlson, the exact opposite happened: Britain formed a wartime coalition government in 1940 that included Labour Party leader Clement Attlee, who served as deputy prime minister under Churchill.

Rather than suppressing political rivals, Churchill worked closely with them across party lines to run the war effort and rally nationwide support by presenting a unified political front.

Though Oswald’s detention under emergency powers remains controversial, it targeted not mainstream opposition parties but a small number of suspected fascist sympathisers deemed potential security risks.

Mosley famously sought alliances with fascist dictators Benito Mussolini and Hitler. In 1936, he married Diana Mitford at the Berlin home of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, with Hitler attending the ceremony as a guest.

His movement in the UK was associated with systematic street violence and the peddling of antisemitic conspiracies, such as framing Jews as a hostile or subversive force that maintained a disproportionate control over finances, media and politics.

He encouraged a paramilitary culture – including the “black shirt” uniforms – and BUF marches were deliberately routed through heavily Jewish neighbourhoods.


Conspiracist Joe Kent isn’t alone in building the narrative against Israel
Other outlets were more manipulative, flirting with Kent’s conspiracy theory while trying to avoid the appearance of endorsement. CNN’s Zachary Cohen wrote that Kent’s resignation “renews questions, which the administration has long struggled to answer, about why the US launched the [war] in the first place.”

Four Washington Post journalists similarly write that Kent’s “resignation comes amid growing questions as to why the US went to war with Iran,” claiming that “Trump’s explanation of the strategic rationale continues to shift.” They then all but openly endorse Kent’s conspiracy theory, citing two anonymous “people familiar with the decision-making” (whatever that means) who “said that Israel began a coordinated effort to pressure the US into striking within the very first weeks after the new Trump administration took office.”

Each reporter worked to breathe life into the same conspiracy woven by Kent by misleading their audience. The US has not shifted its strategic rationale or struggled to explain why it struck Iran. In fact, administration officials from President Trump to Secretary Rubio to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Caine have been remarkably consistent, citing the same goals: eliminating Iran’s nuclear and military capabilities, especially its ballistic missile threat, and creating the conditions for the Iranian people to rise up against the regime.

Given Iran’s decadeslong history of attacks on and bellicose rhetoric toward the United States and Israel, as well as its ideological commitment to continuing to export its violent ideology across the world, the justification for these goals is readily apparent.

But instead of accurately relaying these official statements, both CNN and The Washington Post chose instead to relay only their own inaccurate interpretations, or narratives, of the statements. Only this way could Kent’s conspiratorial ramblings maintain a false appearance of credibility. Only this way can the narrative be built despite the facts.

Kent’s conspiracy theory connecting disparate dots only works by skipping over the inconvenient ones. In a normal world, mainstream journalism would be reporting on those inconvenient dots, not playing the same deceptive game. From my perch as a media researcher at CAMERA, I find this to be less and less the reality in today’s world.


Tikvah Podcast: Hussain Abdul-Hussain on the Arab Case for Israel
From the moment of its founding, and, in truth, before its founding, the State of Israel has faced the determined opposition of the Arab world. The armies of five Arab nations invaded Israel the day after it declared independence in 1948. In 1967, after a similar attempt again failed, the Arab League met at Khartoum and issued the famous three no's: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiation with Israel. Terrorism, war, and boycott followed across the decades—the PLO, the intifadas, the missile campaigns, and the Iranian proxy network that exploited Arab grievance and stretched from Lebanon to Gaza to Yemen, and whose efforts came to a gruesome crescendo on October 7, 2023. Arab opposition to Israel has been, for most of the past century, an organizing principle of Arab political life. It was the cause around which governments mobilized populations, and around which Palestinians built an identity.

And so it is genuinely remarkable when a man who grew up inside that world, who absorbed its assumptions as a child, who knows its arguments from the inside, sits down and writes a book called The Arab Case for Israel.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain was born in Iraq, raised in Lebanon, and serves as a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. On this episode, he joins Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver to discuss The Arab Case for Israel.


The Brink: Sectarian Muslim voting is changing our country: Lionel Shriver
In this episode of The Brink, we are joined by Lionel Shriver for a wide-ranging conversation anchored in the results of the Gorton and Denton by-election and what they reveal about the changing political landscape in Britain.

Using the by-election as a starting point, we explore how immigration, identity politics, and cultural division are reshaping British politics. Lionel reflects on the growing disconnect between political elites and the public, and why questions around national identity, integration, and social cohesion are increasingly dominating the political conversation.

The discussion also turns to the wider cultural climate in the West. We examine the pressures shaping public debate, the influence of identity politics in media and institutions, and why many writers and public figures now feel constrained in what they can say openly. Lionel explains why she believes a culture of self-censorship has taken hold and how this affects journalism, literature, and democratic discourse.

Finally, we ask what the future holds for Western societies as these tensions deepen. Are we witnessing a political realignment driven by cultural issues, and what does that mean for the stability of democratic institutions?

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
03:22 Reaction to the Gorton & Denton By-Election
05:37 Immigration, Demographics and Political Power
07:08 Tribal Voting and the Breakdown of Assimilation
08:16 Identity Politics and the Green Party Alliance
10:18 Israel, Palestine and Progressive Politics
10:58 Who Is Manipulating Whom? Greens vs Muslim Voters
12:32 The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Strategy
15:22 Is Islam Compatible With Liberal Democracy?
18:38 Historical Parallels: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution
20:15 Lionel Shriver’s Novel A Better Life and Immigration
24:20 Borders, Nationhood and the Ideological Divide
26:32 Immigration as “Home Invasion” — The Novel’s Metaphor
27:26 Old Immigration vs Modern Immigration
31:14 Choosing the Right Immigration Policy
36:23 Disorder, Gang Culture and Failed Integration
37:12 Meet the Characters: Gloria and Progressive Compassion
39:16 Nico and the Collapse of the Work Ethic
43:41 Domingo, Masculinity and Cultural Conflict
48:29 The Decline of Western Work Ethic
51:03 Is There a Sensible Middle Ground on Immigration?
54:40 The Crisis of Western Identity
56:13 Civilisations in Decline and Cultural Self-Hatred
59:19 Complacency, Fragility and the Future of the West


travelingisrael.com: Your Dog, Islamization, and the Fall of the West: The Uncomfortable Truth
Violence in Muslim societies is a reality we can no longer ignore. Don’t wait until it reaches your own doorstep and your dog, because by then, it will be too late.


At Australia’s biggest mosque, Albanese heckled as ‘putrid dog, genocide supporter’ for Israel stance
Protesters heckled and booed Prime Minister Anthony ​Albanese on Friday during a visit to Australia’s largest mosque for Eid al-Fitr prayers, voicing anger over his stance on Israel.

Video showed protesters interrupting proceedings about 15 minutes after Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke joined worshippers at Lakemba Mosque in western Sydney to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Demonstrators booed, told Albanese and Burke to “Get out!” and called them “genocide supporters,” referring to the war in Gaza sparked by the Hamas October 7 attack. Israel has denied all accusations of genocide.

Video appeared to show the Australian prime minister heckled as a “putrid dog” by one man in the crowd.

“Dear brothers and sisters, keep calm a little bit,” one of the organizers told the crowd, urging people to sit down and stop filming the exchange. “It is Eid. It is a joyful day.”

A security guard was seen tackling one heckler to the ground before escorting him away.

“Shame on you!” yelled protesters who followed Albanese and Burke when they left.

The mosque event was “incredibly positive,” Albanese said later, despite the incident.

“If you got a couple of people heckling in a crowd of 30,000, that should be put in that perspective,” he told reporters, adding that the community had dealt with a couple of hecklers.

He added that some frustration stemmed from the government’s designation this month of Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir as a prohibited hate group on the basis of new laws prompted by a deadly terror attack targeting a Jewish communal event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on December 14.

“I thank them for the very warm reception that occurred. Yes, there were a couple of people who were heckling, some people don’t like the fact that we have outlawed extremist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir, and that brought a response from a couple of people.” he said, according to The Guardian.

Hizb ut-Tahrir’s long-term goal is to establish a Caliphate ruled under Islamic law. Britain and multiple other countries have declared it to be antisemitic organization that promotes terrorism.
Heckler tackled at Eid prayers after accusing PM of supporting genocide



spiked: ‘Mamdani is a monster’
Melanie Phillips and Brendan O’Neill discuss NYC’s mayor and the deep-seated anti-Westernism of the progressive classes.


Anti-Israel group claims responsibility for blaze at Czech arms maker
Czech police are investigating a fire at an arms company on Friday as a potential terrorist attack, the interior minister said, after an anti-Israel group claimed responsibility.

The blaze, which did not cause injuries, broke out at a warehouse in a business park in the central city of Pardubice, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Prague, before dawn, the fire brigade said.

“We are examining all available information. There is a likely link to a terror attack,” Interior Minister Lubomir Metnar said on X.

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš called the news “very serious.”

Czech police chief Martin Vondrasek told reporters that police were investigating “a deliberately started blaze” and “intensively seeking those who committed the crime.”

Arms producer LPP Holding, which develops and makes products for civilian and military use, such as drone technologies used by Ukraine’s armed forces in the war against Russia, said in a statement that the fire was at its premises.

Two Czech media reported they had received an email from a group called the Earthquake Faction saying it had set fire to “a key production center for Israeli weapons.”
Israel football chiefs welcome FIFA decision not to act on suspension calls
The Israel Football Association has welcomed the FIFA committee decision not to act against it over teams based in the West Bank playing in its competitions.

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) raised a complaint ahead of the 2024 FIFA Congress about teams from Israeli settlements in the territory participating in IFA-authorised events, and called on FIFA to suspend the IFA.

The FIFA Council referred the matter to its Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee (GACC), which has recommended no action be taken, because “the final legal status of the West Bank remains an unresolved and highly complex matter under public international law”.

Shlomi Barzel, the head of communications for the IFA, said in a statement: “We are constantly working in various ways to repel time and time again desperate attempts to harm Israeli football for political reasons.

“This will not stop, but there are those who listened to us with a willing heart and understood very well that they should not fall into this trap.

“I am convinced that we will continue to face great challenges in the international arena, but also beautiful days on the pitch.”

In 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal under international law. Israel views the territory as disputed, rather than occupied.

The FIFA disciplinary committee did sanction the IFA in relation to another PFA complaint related to discrimination.

The IFA was fined 150,000 Swiss francs (£142,000) and warned regarding its conduct, and ordered to display a “Football Unites the World – No to Discrimination” alongside the IFA logo at the team’s next three top-tier home internationals.
Harvard Discriminated Against Jews, U.S. Government Says In New Lawsuit
The federal government is suing Harvard over what the Justice Department’s complaint calls the university’s "toothless non-response to the ongoing relentless antisemitic on-campus discrimination."

The suit was announced with a traditional press release that included quotes from Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, who represented Trump as a private lawyer before he was elected in 2024, also posted to social media a video of herself describing it as "an important federal civil rights lawsuit." She announced, "we look forward to litigating this case." The Washington Free Beacon has learned that Trump himself has personally been calling Dhillon directly every so often to check in on the case.

The new federal complaint relies heavily on facts described in the report of Harvard’s own Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias. That makes it difficult for Harvard to dismiss the facts or characterizations in the report, because the task force was made up largely of Harvard professors picked by Harvard’s president. Harvard can claim the situation has since been remedied, but, in that regard, an inconvenient truth is that not all of the task force’s recommendations have been implemented. While the pace of disruptive anti-Israel public protests on the campus has slowed, and while the anti-Israel activists are whining about what they characterize as "politically motivated terminations of leaders at Harvard’s scholarly centers that include programming on Palestine," egregious incidents of bigotry persist to this day. So does robust "programming on Palestine"; Harvard’s English and history departments paid a $35,000 honorarium and $7,500 in travel expenses "for a 5 star hotel" to have Ta-Nehisi Coates appear on campus on September 24, 2025, the second day of Rosh Hashana, and "read from his chapter on Palestine," according to documents released this week by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. An Arab Conference at Harvard is scheduled for April 17-19, 2026, and is described by organizers as "the largest Arab Conference in North America."

The anti-Israel protesters have tried to hide behind the First Amendment’s protections on free speech and assembly; Mahmoud Khalil has a case against Columbia on this before Judge Arun Subramianian of the Southern District of New York. In a Harvard case brought by Harvard student Alexander "Shabbos" Kestenbaum, who spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024 and who accompanied Trump on an October 7, 2024, visit to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens, New York, Judge Stearns declared himself "dubious that Harvard can hide behind the First Amendment to justify avoidance of its Title VI obligations."


'Dezionize Jewish Consciousness': Columbia-Affiliated Seminary Picks Up Anti-Israel Academics Who Abruptly Resigned From Harvard
Harvard University's anti-Semitism task force described how the university's divinity school program on Religion and Public Life (RPL) presented a perspective "widely perceived as consistently anti-Israeli," noting that its head, Diane Moore, said her goal was to "dezionize the Jewish consciousness." Moore and her former deputy, Hussein Rashid, abruptly resigned in January 2025, but they weren't unemployed for long. The Columbia University-affiliated Union Theological Seminary (UTS) announced last month that they will lead a program about how religion "can be instrumental in just peacemaking."

Moore and Rashid, the former leaders of Harvard's RPL program, will run a newly formed center at UTS—also called Religion and Public Life—starting in the fall, according to the February 26 announcement, which said the school's "goal is to have students be intentional in their service of a just world at peace." UTS president Serene Jones said it will equip "students with the intellectual rigor, moral imagination, and practical skills necessary to engage the most pressing issues of our time."

Rashid announced his departure from Harvard a day after Moore, accusing the university in his resignation letter, published by CNN, of "anti-Muslim bias (amongst other racisms and discriminatory attitudes that exist here)." Rashid also wrote that Harvard is "an institution of white supremacy that actively seeks to harm me and mine." In an interview with the left-wing network, he called the school "a primarily white-serving institution."

The pair's hiring by a Columbia affiliate cements a pattern in which academics ousted by Harvard find refuge in Morningside Heights. Rosie Bsheer, who was removed from her leadership post at Harvard after bringing a litany of anti-Israel speakers and few, if any, dissenting voices, is finalist for Columbia's Edward Said chair in Arab Studies, the Washington Free Beacon first reported. Cornel West, who claimed he was denied tenure at Harvard in 2021 because of the opposition from pro-Israel donors, also has fetched up as a professor at the Union Theological Seminary.

A Columbia spokesman said the university is independent from UTS and "has no authority or input over its personnel matters." The schools, however, are close partners. UTS students have access to Columbia's campus, which is about a five-minute walk away, as well as to facilities such as libraries. The schools also offer dual degree programs.
Cornell president rejects ‘deeply disturbing’ student resolution to sever partnership with Technion
Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff rejected a recent Student Assembly resolution calling for the university to boycott its partnership with an Israeli institution, stating that doing so would “fundamentally conflict with our core commitment to academic freedom” and noting the “political bias” within the resolution “is deeply disturbing.”

In a letter to the Student Assembly, Kotlikoff wrote that the resolution — which calls to sever Cornell’s longstanding academic partnership with the Technion — “would not only hinder our research, teaching and public engagement; it would imperil our academic principles.”

The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, the partnership in which Cornell Tech is based, was established in 2013 as a collaboration between the two institutions. It is located on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan.

The resolution calls on Cornell “to terminate its institutional partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology while maintaining Cornell Tech as an independent Cornell campus.” It claims “ethical and legal concerns” regarding the Technion’s involvement in Israeli military research and technologies linked to “human rights violations.”

The resolution, Kotlikoff wrote, “inaccurately asserts that ‘the continued operation of Cornell Tech as a Cornell University campus does not require an ongoing partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.’ Cornell Tech, while part of Cornell, is a joint effort of the university, the Technion, and the City of New York. It is no more possible for Cornell to unilaterally terminate that effort and claim full control of the campus than it would be for the Technion or the City of New York to do the same.”

“Finally, I am deeply troubled by the selective manner in which this resolution singles out the Technion, alone of Cornell’s many international partners, for censure,” continued Kotlikoff, who noted that Cornell currently maintains 159 active agreements with institutions in 59 nations and regions; all of these institutions have some government affiliation, and many conduct research with military and security applications. “Cornell also has relationships with institutions in countries whose governments have been accused of human rights violations — as our own has been,” he wrote.

“None of these publicly available facts are mentioned in the resolution; only our partnership with an Israeli institution is targeted for erasure. The political bias evident in this selective approach is deeply disturbing, and the resolution is incompatible with both the Student Assembly’s purpose and Cornell University’s core values. I reject it fully and forcefully.”


Man charged after alleged antisemitic abuse of Jewish men in Bournemouth
A man has been charged following a series of alleged antisemitic incidents targeting members of the Jewish community in Bournemouth

Dorset Police said the suspect, a 45-year-old local man, was arrested after reports that two Jewish men were verbally abused in separate incidents on Manor Road in Boscombe on the morning of 10 March.

One of the victims was allegedly targeted again eight days later, on 18 March, with the same suspect reportedly making further comments referencing the man’s Jewish identity.

Following an investigation by neighbourhood officers, the man has now been charged with three counts of religiously aggravated public order offences. He also faces a charge of criminal damage after allegedly damaging a police cell while in custody.

He is due to appear at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Friday 20 March.

Police Constable Jo Morgan, from Bournemouth East Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “We are committed to taking action against all reported hate crimes towards members of our faith communities in the local area.


Chuck Norris dies at 86 after ‘medical complication’
Legendary actor and martial artist Chuck Norris died on Thursday at the age of 86 after being hospitalized in Hawaii, his family confirmed on Friday.

According to the reports, he died because of an "undisclosed medical complication."

"It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning," his family wrote. "While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace."

The six-time undefeated World Professional Middleweight Karate Champion, whose tough-guy image inspired satirical "facts" that made him an Internet phenomenon, had been hospitalized in Hawaii on Thursday, Variety reported.

Norris's blockbuster-packed career
Norris starred in more than two dozen films portraying silent loners, soldiers, lawmen, veterans, and All-American heroes who captured criminals, released prisoners of war, rescued hostages, and battled terrorists.

With his roundhouse kicks, he fought martial arts icon Bruce Lee in Rome's Colosseum in his 1973 film debut "The Way of the Dragon." Along with actor Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis, he helped defeat villain Jean-Claude Van Damme in the 2012 blockbuster "The Expendables 2."

Time magazine described him as "the ultimate tough guy."


Chuck Norris: Please vote for Prime Minister Netanyahu!
I watched Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, and I saw a man who loves his country with all his heart and soul. I also saw a strong leader that is absolutely crucial for the safety of the Israeli people.

I have done three movies in Israel – “Delta Force” being my favorite – and I formed many friendships while there. You have an incredible country, and we want to keep it that way.

That’s why it is so important that you keep a leader who has the courage and vision to stand up against the evil forces that are threatening not only Israel but also the United States. You see, we the American people need Prime Minister Netanyahu as much as you do. Weak leadership can destroy your country and then the evil forces can concentrate on America, too.

So I ask you, please, for the sake of Israel and the whole Middle East, vote for Prime Minister Netanyahu on Election Day.

And as far as those in the U.S. and the rest of the world, in this season of Easter, it’s good to remember what the Hebrew Scriptures say about Israel and those who support her: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you” (Psalm 122:1).






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