Academic Freedom Win: Israel Boycott Supporter Ilana Feldman Will Not Be Dean at George Washington U

William A. Jacobson

You can have academic freedom, or you can have a pro-BDS Dean, but you can’t have both.

"Ilana Feldman, a professor of anthropology at George Washington University (GWU), recently was appointed Interim Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at GWU.

There was an immediate firestorm of controversy, since Feldman is a supporter of and longtime activist leader of the academic boycott of Israel, which is part of the larger Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

"As we have documented, BDS was launched at the openly anti-Semitic Tehran and Durban Conferences in 2001, a repackaging of the Jewish Boycotts of the 1920s and 1930s, and the Arab League Boycott of Israel. BDS was a rebranding meant to appeal to western liberals, framed in the language of social justice. Part of that repackaging was to claim BDS started in 2005 as a call from Palestinian civil society. BDS supporters in the West mosly are ignorant of the history of BDS.

Feldman Will Not Be Considered For Permanent Dean 

"Feldman’s pro-BDS background, which involves a commitment not to treat Israelis (and by implication, supporters of Israel) fairly, went against the requirements needed for the senior administrative post of Interim Dean or permanent Dean.

"GWU acknowledged the criticism, and issued a statement  reiterating its rejection of BDS:

May 18, 2020We have listened and heard the concerns from some members of our community about the appointment of Dr. Ilana Feldman as interim Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and personal views she has expressed about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

 More...     All emphases in the original. TD

Jim Acosta Goes After Kayleigh McEnany on Trump "Lies", Backfires in His Face

The Federalist Papers  "In one of the best clips of the day chief CNN clown Jim Acosta tried to go after White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and got eaten alive.
"He asked if it was right that the President got fact checked given how many “false and misleading statements” the President has made.
"McEnany hit back hard saying “look, if you’re going to get into the fact-checking business, there is no one that should be fact-checked more than the mainstream media that has been continually wrong about a number of things.”
"It all went downhill for Jim Acosta after that.

"Take a look, via The Hill:

‘If Anybody Needs To Be Fact-Checked, It’s The Media’: Kayleigh McEnany Unloads On Jim Acosta . . . “So if anyone needs to be fact-checked, I think it should be the media,” she concluded.
“ 'News outlets make mistakes from time to time. We own up to those mistakes. We correct those mistakes,” Acosta protested.

“ 'Not always,” McEnany replied."

Biden Has Earned 11 Pinocchios From Fact-Checkers During Coronavirus Crisis

CORONAVIRUS Coronavirus checks, direct deposits are coming. Here's everything you need to know.

NBC News

Who qualifies? How much is being sent? When? How will I get the money? Questions and answers.

"WASHINGTON — As the coronavirus crisis ravages the U.S. economy, millions of Americans are about to receive help from Congress in the form of direct cash payments.
President Donald Trump signed into law a massive $2 trillion emergency economic package on Friday that includes direct cash payments and unemployment benefits, among other provisions, for people across the country.
"But who’s eligible to get a check or direct deposit, and for how much? Here are some questions and answers about who qualifies for cash from the federal government:
"Q: How much will I get?

Depends on how much you make.

"If you made less than $75,000 in 2019, you will be eligible for the full payment of $1,200. Couples who filed jointly and made less than $150,000 will get $2,400. An individual who filed as "head of household" and earned $112,500 or less gets $1,200." . . .
Full article with video here...    Hat tip to Mary Torrens; Lompoc, CA

Muddy Maxine Waters — What a Riot

Michelle Malkin  . . . "She’s earned a lifetime of left-wing adoration for whitewashing the deadly riots as a “rebellion,” excusing the week-long shooting, looting and arson orgy as “a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration,” and coddling Crips and Bloods gang members — with whom she performed the Electric Slide as part of her “fearless support and understanding of young people and their efforts at self-expression.”
"I covered Waters in the early 1990s as an editorial writer and columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. Her federally funded Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center was a gang-infested boondoggle.
"She embraced Damian Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at white truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over the bloodied innocent bystander.
"And she and her family personally profited from her rise to racially demagogic power.
"She owns a tony mansion in predominantly white Hancock Park, several miles outside her congressional district." . . .  Her Democrat liberal privilege helped out.

For those who don’t know about the LA Riots of 1992, 58 people died, and many more were gravely injured, including a man called Reginald Denny.  . . . "It all happened on videotape, a helicopter caught it, and it happened in Maxine Waters’ city. But she did not denounce the attack. On the contrary, she all but endorsed the attack.

"The leader of the mob that nearly murdered Reginald Denny was called Damien Williams.

"Maxine Waters visited Damien Williams’ mother to offer her support. Williams was sent to prison on a single felony charge of mayhem, but when his accomplices got off, Waters joined in the celebration."  . . . Those guys were simply "protestors":

Tucker Carlson Slams ‘Dangerous’ CNN For Calling Violent Minneapolis Rioters ‘Protesters’   

“Diverse countries only survive if the groups within them can coexist peacefully and thankfully almost everybody in America wants to coexist peacefully.”And CNN doesn’t want that kind of coexistence. Especially in the era of Trump.“News organizations like CNN do not want that, and that’s why every day they work hard to fan racial resentment to make different groups distrust and hate one another,” he said.

 Woman in Wheelchair Is Beaten by Minneapolis Rioters Who Then Claim She 'Deserved' It  . . . "Jennifer said looters and rioters beat her from the front and back. Indeed, there’s video of a woman beating her in the head from behind. Fortunately, looters and rioters around her had some scruples and begged the woman to stop.

"Journalist Andy Ngo cast about on Twitter for more video of the rioters and Jennifer found this video of her being choked by a concerned citizen who was ostensibly upset over the police killing." . . .

Maxine Waters on all the above:
Maxine Waters Dumps Gas on the Fire as Violent Riots Leave Parts of City 'Unrecognizable'  . . . "Waters’ comments, which play on the racial aspects of the case, seem poised to only fan racial divides in the city.

"Her dismissal of the justice system and blanket attack against many cops is not far off from the lawmaker’s usual rhetoric, but the timing of her latest comments mean her words now have even greater potential to result in violence." . . .

Black Lives Matter protester is left unconscious after falling from hood of police cruiser that was attacked as Los Angeles highway was closed down by demonstration in support of George Floyd

CNN Calls Minneapolis Rioters ‘Protesters’…

CNN’s Lemon Blames Trump For George Floyd’s Death…

We all need to be prepared for anything and everything to be blamed on Trump between now and the election so this is no surprise. As we get closer to the election the accusations and blame are going to get more and more outrageous. (Comment)

UK Daily Mail

. . . "The march rally began near the Hall of Justice at around 4p.m. local time before protesters marched through the streets toward the area of Temple.
"People carried signs reading ‘Black Lives Matter’. (Supported by Kamala Harris)

"The group then made its way onto the 101 Freeway where they blocked cars along the road. "The freeway was forced to shutter.
" 'By around 6.25pm local time, the crowd began moving off the freeway and continued moving through downtown LA streets, reported NBC Los Angeles. 
" 'As night fell, some protesters were seen burning an upside-down US flag before they carried the burnt remains of the flag towards a row of police officers. " . . .
. . . 
"At the Target store near the site of Floyd's arrest, the inside of the store lay in ruins, with stock depleted of all goods and the remaining merchandise flung across the floor.

"Witnesses reported thieves using power tools to break open cash registers and trying to access the store's safes, before it too was set alight and seen engulfed in flames.  
"Rioters then turned to a Wendy's where they sprayed graffiti on the walls before moving onto a bank - trying to bust it open and raid the ATMs. 
"A group of four men with huge firearms were seen outside a GM Tobacco store as they said they had come to protect local businesses from looters, reported Minnesota Reformer." . . .

"The View Hag Joy Behar Blames Trump For Death Of George Floyd By Minn. Police…"

Democrats are Panicking at the Prospect of Quick Economic Recovery

Legal Insurrection

“Unlike the Great Depression and Great Recession, economist[s] are predicting a bounce-back the likes of those seen after a natural disaster.”

"If you’re hoping the economy stays in the crapper to help your electoral aspirations, you might be a Democrat.

"To be fair, Democrats aren’t technically anti-economic growth in post-pandemic America, but they are gravely concerned that any quick bounce-back will give Trump an opportunity to brag about an economic come-back. Or so says a report from Politico." . . .

The President's Press Secretary stands alone against the media forces who want to eat her alive

On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace and Jonah Goldberg tore into her.

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Turns Briefing On Its Head, Demands Answers From The Press  . . . “ 'I laid out a series of questions that any good journalist would want to know about why people were unmasked,” McEnany began, asking whether anyone in the room had followed up on her questions.

“ 'Oh, not a single journalist has posed that question?” she asked, introducing her slides and suggesting that they all consider the answers to her questions over the holiday weekend. “Maybe you’re visual learners and you guys will follow up with journalistic curiosity,” she added."
"Her questions were as follows:

1. Why did the Obama administration use opposition research, funded by a political organization and filled with foreign dirt, to spy on members of the Trump campaign?
2. Why was Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn unmasked by Obama’s chief of staff, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, and others?
3. Why was Flynn’s identity leaked — a criminal act — to the press?
4. Why did the DOJ learn about the FBI’s interest in Flynn’s conversations with the Russian Amb. from a conversation with Obama in the Oval Office?
5. Why did James Clapper, John Brennan, Samantha Power and Susan Rice privately admit under oath that they had no evidence of collusion while saying the opposite publicly?

“It’s a long weekend,” McEnany concluded. “You guys have three days to follow up on those questions and I certainly hope the next time I ask, some hands go up. Because Obama’s spokesperson should be asked those questions, because President Trump’s spokespeople certainly would be.”
"With that, McEnany closed her folder and walked out of the briefing room." . . .

In praise of Kayleigh McEnany  . . . "Most press secretaries, however able, seem reflexively on the defensive. McEnany is cheerfully outgoing, a patient but no-nonsense camp counselor in charge of the problem kids. I like her air of calm competence, her well-put-together sense of style, and her frank but uncloying affirmation of religious commitment, signaled by the discreet golden cross that she wears on her necklace.

     "All this drives the press nuts, of course, as does her habit of turning questions back on the questioner. This makes the game of ‘Gotcha!’ very difficult for the munchkins of the Fourth Estate. At a May 6 presser, one bemasked scribe attempted to taunt McEnany with a comment she made a few months back on Fox News before she was appointed Press Secretary. ‘President Trump,’ she said, ‘will not allow the coronavirus to come to this country.’
     "Gotcha? Nope. Not only had the little man torn the statement utterly out of context — the context being President Trump’s efforts to keep Americans safe from such banes as terrorism and the Chinese virus — but it also totally ignored the prevailing narrative." . . . Roger Kimball's article continues..

Quarantine Game! The Kim Jong Joe Plan

. . . Rationale: After hearing every six minutes on MSNBC that “the black vote is not monolithic!” apparently African Americans agreed this ONE TIME to make an exception and vote monolithically for Joe Biden.Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina said, We’re all voting for Biden, and black voters said, Yep, OK, done. Even in normal circumstances, the Democrats are a little too beholden to the Al Sharptons of the party. . . ."

Ann Coulter "We’re all going crazy and running out of things to do during this endless shutdown. We’ve painted the dog, counted pavers in the backyard, and rearranged the spice rack alphabetically and also by color. What we really need right now is a new game!
"Herewith I present the Quarantine Game that I, Ann Coulter, have invented.
"The rules are simple. Imagine you’re the Democratic Party. You have a stellar opportunity to win the White House and also ensure that the opposition party never regains it as long as Homo sapiens walk the Earth.
"But in a series of developments too bizarre to recall (have they finished counting the ballots in Iowa yet?), you find yourself stuck with a 77-year-old candidate whose campaign is causing no excitement anywhere in the land, even in his own brain — although, in fairness, Joe Biden is unaware that he’s running for president.
"You have 12 minutes to come up with at least two (2) answers to this question: What can you do to get your party out of this mess?
"Answers will be scored on rationale, probability and advantages.
"Think about it. Your opposition is Donald Trump. For all the reasons Republicans salivated over running against Hillary –- she was a repugnant human being, her every calculation was based on what was good for her and her family, scandals broke out whenever she was around, half the country already hated her — you are salivating looking at Trump." . . .

Opinion: Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee Claims That Biden Did Not Really Make Bigoted ‘You Ain’t Black’ Remark

Almost every encounter I have with black people in our city has been friendly, pleasant and uplifting; where on earth do these angry, scowling people in Congress come from? TD

Analyzing America

. . . "During an interview on “The Breakfast Club” with co-host Charlamagne Tha God, Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
     "Lee spoke on the topic during an appearance on Fox News.
     “ 'I mean, you would say to somebody in your district who’s an African American, who perhaps enjoyed the historically low African American unemployment, the support for historically black colleges and universities, the prison reform and justice reform, and they said, you know what, I’m going to vote for Donald Trump,” Baier said. “They are not less black tonight, right?”
     “ 'I don’t believe anyone who saw that exchange would in any way suggest that anyone is blacker, blackest, or less black,” Lee claimed. “That exchange was in jest, but on second thought, it could have been spoken differently.”
     “ 'And what I would say to you is that that was not what the vice president said in terms of those words,” Lee falsely claimed.
     "Bret Baier concluded the segment by saying, “He did say what he said, and he apologized.' ” . . .

The corrupt press and those who dare stand up to them

Kayleigh McEnany Responds to Chris Wallace's Criticism of Her Press Briefing: ‘Journalists Are Not Above Being Questioned’
. . . “ 'What I was saying was, I was asked 11 questions as to why churches would be allowed to reopen. It was a bit peculiar to be asked these 11 questions in a row. And for the onus and the focus solely to be on why churches are essential, I’ve never been asked why liquor stores was essential," she continued. "So I was merely pointing that out. And to the point about questioning the journalists and asking why they’re asking certain questions, I field hundreds of questions a day. Journalists are not above being questioned themselves. Journalism is a great and noble profession, but there’s been a dearth of journalists asking the real questions for President Obama, the criminal leak of Michael Flynn's identity, who leaked that identity, the dossier which was used to launch a three-year investigation into this president and spy on his campaign. Why aren’t those questions being asked? It’s journalistic malpractice not to ask those questions and I can count on one hand the journalists who are like Maria Bartiromo and Catherine Herridge, but where is the lack of curiosity from the current press corps? There's extreme lack of curiosity at play.' " . . .

Alabama Secretary of State Shreds CNN Host for Saying Absentee Ballot Voter Fraud Doesn't Exist

Alabama Secretary of State Jim Merrill put CNN in their place when host Brianna Keilar said voting fraud only takes place at the in-person polls. 

 McEnany urges White House press corps to ask Obama officials about 'Obamagate'

"White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany challenged the media on Friday to demand answers from former Obama administration officials about their reasons for spying on the Trump campaign in 2016 and unmasking former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
“Why did the Obama administration use opposition research, funded by a political organization and filled with foreign dirt, to surveil members of the Trump campaign?” she asked, referring to the so-called Steele dossier that led to FBI surveillance.
2222222'Ms. McEnany also urged the media to question why Flynn was unmasked in intelligence documents “not by the intel community entirely, but by Obama’s chief of staff, by the former Vice President Joe Biden, by [Obama national security adviser] Susan Rice, by the Treasury Secretary.” . . .

They've earned someone like Kayleigh  The latest from the talking heads club is that some, from Chris Wallace to Jonah Goldberg, find Kayleigh McEnany a little "Indefensible and Grotesque."
"I've seen a couple of Kaleigh's performances, and it's hard to think of her as "grotesque."  She is self-assured, but grotesque?

"After all, this is a group of reporters who ask questions like comparing the pandemic death totals to Vietnam casualties, or another blamed the president because someone listened to him in February and died of the virus.  And then there is the CBS lady who took off her mask to play the "Chinese card."
"It's obvious to me that many in this press corps are political activists, such as Jim Acosta of CNN.  They are confrontational to make news rather than to obtain information for readers and viewers.  They are like the umpire who makes controversial calls just to lead the sports report.
"Do you understand now why President Trump is just giving them a taste of their own medicine?  He's tired of political activists with press passes." . . .

"Change," "Hope" … Why They Must be Talking About Joe Biden!

Alexander Cockburn, 2008  “Change” and “hope” are not words one associates with Senator Joe Biden, a man so ripely symbolic of everything that is unchanging and hopeless about our political system that a computer simulation of the corporate-political paradigm senator in Congress would turn out “Biden” in a nano-second.
. . . 
"And Obama picked Biden for the same reason Michael Dukakis chose Senator Lloyd Bentsen in 1988: the marriage of youth and experience, so reassuring to uncertain voters but most of all to the elites, that nothing dangerous or unusual will discommode business as usual. Another parallel would be Kennedy’s pick of Lyndon Johnson in 1960, LBJ being  a political rival and a seasoned senator. Kennedy and Johnson didn’t like each other, and surely after Biden’s racist remarks about “clean” blacks, Obama cannot greatly care for Biden. It seems he would have preferred Chris Dodd but the latter was disqualified because of his VIP loans from Countrywide." . . .

Joe Biden, a hands-on administrator

Flashback: Former Joe Biden Secret Service Agent: We Had to Protect Women From Him, ‘Weinstein Level Stuff’  (All emphases in the original)

“Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude,” Kessler wrote. “Female Secret Service agents find that offensive.”

"A former Secret Service agent assigned to the Vice President Joe Biden residence claims that the Service often had to protect female agents from him.

"Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the agent asserted that,  “We had to cancel the VP Christmas get together at the Vice President’s house because Biden would grope all of our wives and girlfriend’s asses.” The annual party was for agents and Navy personnel who were tasked with protecting the Biden family.

“He would mess with every single woman or teen. It was horrible,” the agent said.

"According to the source, a Secret Service agent once got suspended for a week in 2009 for shoving Biden after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him. The situation got so heated, the source told Cassandra Fairbanks, that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-Vice President.
Additionally, the agent claims that Biden would walk around the VP residence naked at night. “I mean, Stark naked… Weinstein level stuff,” he added.
. . .

"He said that the men on duty would frequently stand in front of female agents and Navy women that were present “like a damn guardian.” On some occasions, they would make up reasons to get the women away from where he was.
"The agent said he was specifically concerned about women in the Navy.
“They weren’t allowed to disobey him at all, but we’d take them away under pretend auspices,” the agent stated." . . .

A viral video may keep Biden’s nasty little habit in the public eye "Even if Leftists successfully obliterate Tara Reade’s story, there’s one creepy Joe Biden narrative that’s not going to go away, and that’s the endless footage of him getting too close to and too touchy with little girls. On Tuesday, a new video emerged with the usual footage showing Biden relentlessly pawing manifestly uncomfortable little girls. What makes this one different is the way it’s paired with statements from Professor Anthony Zenkus (ironically enough, a die-hard leftist and anti-capitalist) who speaks in an old video about how pedophiles groom children:" . . .

CNN On Biden Allegations: 'Some Presidential Candidate Did Something' (From the 
Babylon Bee, a more trusted name in news than CNN, which we regard as parody itself)
. . . " .Some presidential candidate did something," the article reads, "but what difference, at this point, does it make? Besides, it's not really harassment -- it's democratic harassment. His body, his choice." The article then includes a long list of Joe Biden's accomplishments and reminds readers that if they were to do actual journalism on the accusations against Joe Biden, the "Bad Orange Man" might win again this year. "So before you rush to judgment on this old creepy guy, remember that he's our old creepy guy.' " . . .