Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Universities Slow To Condemn Hamas Were Quick To Issue Statements About George Floyd, January 6  |

I've obtained an email from concerned Jewish alumni at @NorthwesternU, as well as a reply from the school's new president. "Northwestern does not intend to make an institutional statement" about the largest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

 The Daily Caller  "Universities across the country that were quick to take stances on events like the death of George Floyd or the January 6 Capitol riot are either refusing to take an institutional stance on the terrorist attacks in Israel or correcting prior statements to explicitly condemn Hamas after facing backlash.

"Northwestern University and Williams College have opted not to take a position on the attacks whereas Harvard, Cornell, Ohio State and Stanford University amended their statements after receiving criticism for not condemning Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization. However, these institutions released statements condemning events including Supreme Court decisions, the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 2021 and/or the killing of George Floyd.

"Harvard initially released a statement failing to condemn the terrorists that attacked Israel, according to the Harvard Crimson. The university’s president released an updated response three days after the attacks that did condemn Hamas following community backlash.

"However, Harvard did not hesitate to condemn the Capitol rioters, or Russia for invading Ukraine, issuing statements the day both events occurred.

"Cornell acknowledged that many felt it did not adequately condemn Hamas in its initial Oct. 10 statement on the conflict and put out an updated statement."

Distorted thinking leads to repulsive conclusions in all things, from Antifa to Hamas. TD

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In defense of Israel

Pro-Palestinian Activism: Hamas Apologists Tuck Tail and Run at First Sign of Backlash | National Review  "Pro-Palestinian Advocates Reel It In after Backlash, Consequences.
"Last week, we rounded up disappointing reactions to the atrocities in Israel. This week, we’ve seen some of the worst offenders walk back their previous comments under public pressure.
"At least five of the 34 student groups at Harvard University that signed on to a statement explicitly blaming Israel alone for Hamas’s terrorist attacks have since distanced themselves from the statement, the Harvard Crimson reported.
"After initially signing on to a statement from the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, groups including Amnesty International at Harvard, Harvard College Act on a Dream, the Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Student Association, the Harvard Islamic Society, and Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo have withdrawn their signatures.
"Meanwhile, Chicago Black Lives Matter apologized for sending out messages “that we aren’t proud of” after the group posted and later deleted a graphic featuring a person paragliding with a Palestinian flag attached to its parachute along with the words “I stand with Palestine.” The graphic was evidently a reference to Hamas terrorists who used parachutes and gliders to enter Israeli communities last weekend during a brutal surprise attack." . . .

https://twitter.com/i/status/1713626250957185270

 The media run with Hamas propaganda about a bombed hospital - Andrea Widburg ..."Thanks to Israel’s eyes in the skies, we now know that the rocket that hit the hospital came from within Gaza itself:

 . . ."In other words, Hamas inadvertently bombed its own headquarters. Sometimes, the fog of war works.

"Nevertheless, the usual suspects are doing everything they can to show Israel as the despoiler of women and children. I’ve just grabbed a few screenshots of what the media have on tap as they wage their own war against Israel." . . .

Hamas-supporting Harvard students beg for donations to 'support their mental health' after suffering 'relentless bullying' over supporting terror attack on Israel | Daily Mail Online

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Hamas in their own words

Nothing has changed in the 14 years since this video was released.

This video, a compilation of MEMRI TV clips that aired prior to the 2009 Gaza crisis, includes statements by Hamas leaders calling for the annihilation of Israel and of all Jews, for death to America, and for the Islamic conquest of the world.


Police are looking for woman who celebrated Hamas murders

Hamburg — The statements are so loathsome that they make your blood boil.

A woman — obviously a Muslim — gave a statement to an NDR camera team near the Steindamm at Hamburg’s main train station.

“This is good, very good. I am happy that they (Hamas terrorists) accomplished such a thing. We celebrated at home.”

And as she says this, she laughs and grins. She couldn’t get any more contemptuous. Other respondents with migration backgrounds uttered similar sentiments in front of a rolling camera.

What will politicians do so that these kinds of things will NOT happen on our streets anymore?

Apart from appeals and assertions (“We stand on the side of Israel”), unfortunately not a lot.

 All those who question the unimaginable savagery of the Hamas attack against Israel must read the words of these forensic scientists struggling to identify the 297 bodies so brutalised as to be unrecognisable | Daily Mail Online


. . ."When pathologists gently began to examine, they could see the bodies were those of an adult and a child. And they were hugging tightly". . .

"She said the Hamas terrorists 'went into Israel and they enjoyed slaughtering civilians. This was an unhuman act'. Her job, she explained, was 'working and crying, at the same time'. She wasn't wrong. Dr Bublil was talking to me beside a small, blood-soaked mattress. She picked it up to show me: 'This is a mattress from a baby's bed. You can see the size of this blood stain – which means this baby was bleeding on top of this bed.' "

"There were no more words. She kept trying, but there was nothing else to say. Dazed and desolate, Dr Bublil shuffled across her lab to her colleague, and burst into tears."


Talk about Hamas-level hate: White House reports Peter Fonda tweet on Barron Trump to Secret Service - POLITICO   "Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for first lady Melania Trump told POLITICO that the notification came in response to Fonda’s tweet, which suggested that 12-year-old Barron Trump should be placed in confinement “with pedophiles … see if mother will stand up against the giant a--hole she is married to.”

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Dylan Mulvaney Is The Babylon Bee's Man Of The Year

 Dylan Mulvaney Is The Babylon Bee's Man Of The Year | Babylon Bee


"It is time once again to honor one man who has gone above and beyond to advance the cause of men and raise the bar for what other men seek to accomplish.

"The Babylon Bee has chosen Dylan Mulvaney to receive the 2023 Man of the Year award.

Already a proven force to be reckoned with on the Chinese spy app TikTok, Mulvaney has gone on to make his mark as a celebrity spokesman powerful enough to utterly destroy the reputations of big-name consumer brands. None of them were more notable than Bud Light, the one-time top-selling beer, which hired Mulvaney as its pitchman last spring only to suffer the most precipitous financial freefall in the history of the beer industry. Once thought to be an invincible brand in the beverage world, Bud Light was brought to its knees by the man — the legend — that is Dylan Mulvaney." . . .

More at the The Tunnel Wall blog

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Buyer’s Remorse Strikes Americans Who Voted for Biden

  Intellectual Takeout

"Anyone who has ever bought something only to hate it once they got it home is familiar with the concept of buyer’s remorse. Sadly, the regret felt after making a bad purchase also applies to the world of politics.

"The difference is that politicians, once elected, cannot be returned for a refund. And the damage they inflict on their constituents or nation can linger on for years, long after they have left office. Which is why many American voters, when faced with the reality of the Biden Presidency, are now having second thoughts about voting the man into office.

Biden’s fast-sinking ship of state

"Truth to be told, this process actually started fairly early on in his Presidency as shown by a series of Gallup polls, which show that, while Biden did initially enjoy a 56 percent approval rating generally (60 percent among younger voters), support for him quickly dropped so that by March 2022 his overall support had fallen by 14 percentage points to 42 percent. This drop was particularly worrisome in light of the even greater declines seen among some key demographics – namely, Millennials and Gen Z voters (down 19 and 21 percentage points respectively), African-Americans (down 21 points) and Hispanics (down 20 points).

"Since that time, Biden’s approval rating has remained stuck at around the 40 percent mark, even dropping below that recently. While this is close to the level experienced by Presidents Trump and Obama at the same point in their Presidencies, there are a number of red flags unique to Biden. One is the steep decline in support seen among independents – which fell from 61 percent in January 2021 to 39 percent in August 2023. Another is the softness in support from young Hispanics and African-Americans. And then there is the ongoing flight of working-class voters to the Republicans." . . .

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Hamas went too far

[Bill Ackman] later tweeted, “Something is profoundly wrong with the state of universities in America when the Palestinian President disavows Hamas while student groups from some of our most prestigious universities support the terrorists.” 
John Cusack, pro-Hamas

 The October 7 atrocities have the American press playing it straight. Sorta.

Just the News reported, “The main Associated Press reporter in Gaza covering the war was suspended from his duties while the wire service looks into his previous social media posts, which include comments calling for the fall of Israel and comparing the world’s only Jewish state to Nazis.

“Issam Adwan has made numerous comments against Israel, which were highlighted last week by Honest Reporting, an Israel media watchdog.

“In an October 2022 post on X, formerly Twitter, Adwan said that Israel was a ‘racist regime that is so similar to the Nazis.’ The post has since been deleted.

“In another post from October 2022, Adwan said: ‘The Palestinian revolt against the Israeli oppression will be a triumph sooner rather than later. No matter how strong or well-supported by the other tyrants, every colonial system will be overthrown.’

“He also reposted a statement from the BDS movement, a group that calls for the end of economic relations with Israel, accusing Israel of poisoning the wells of Palestinians. The trope of poisoning the wells goes back to when Jews were blamed for purposely spreading the Bubonic Plague in the 14th century, according to the American Jewish Committee.”

"14th century?

"I thought jihadists were stuck in the 7th century. Well, that is progress, I suppose.

"But the real progress is by AP, which for years shielded the military intelligence apparatus of Hamas from Israeli bombing by locating AP’s Gaza City bureau there in the Hamas building. Finally, Israel had enough.

"Reuters reported on June 8, 2021, “Israel’s military said on Tuesday that a tower block in Gaza housing the U.S.-based Associated Press which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike was also used by the enclave’s Islamist rulers Hamas as an electronic warfare site." . . .

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