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Simone Biles Hits Riley Gaines for Wanting to Save Women’s Sports Biles would rather deluded men in pigtails win all the women’s competitions. Robert Spencer

Posted By on June 9th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/simone-biles-hits-riley-gaines-for-wanting-to-save-womens-sports/

Gymnast Simone Biles, who has won seven Olympic gold medals, is enraged at Riley Gaines, a 12-time NCAA All-American swimmer who has become a warrior in the fight to preserve women’s sports from the incursions of big lunkheads who claim to be women and win all the competitions. Biles think the fake women should be allowed to win all the women’s sports competitions, and that Gaines is an awful person for thinking otherwise. Yes, the world has become this absurd.

Fox News reported Saturday that Gaines “took to X on Friday to call out the Minnesota State High School League for posting a picture of the new state champions, Champlin Park High School. The school has made headlines because its dominant performance on the way to the title game was led by junior pitcher Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete competing on the team.” Gaines noted that when it posted a photo of Champlin Park’s championship softball team, the Minnesota State High School League turned off comments, and remarked: “Comments off lol. To be expected when your star player is a boy.”

This drew a heated response not from Rothenberger or his teammates at Champlin Park High, but from Biles, who seemed to have been driven into a wild rage by Gaines thinking it improper for a guy like Rothenberger to be pitching for a girl’s team. Biles wrote: ” You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser.” That was a reference to Gaines finishing in a tie with a man, Lia Thomas, in the 2022 NCAA championships.

Biles continued: “You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!” For good measure, Biles added: “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.”

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Conservative Colombian Presidential Candidate Shot in the Head Matt Vespa

Posted By on June 9th, 2025

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/06/08/conservative-colombian-presidential-candidate-shot-in-the-head-n2658373

As if this weekend couldn’t get more chaotic as Los Angeles descends into a pro-illegal alien rager that’s required the deployment of National Guard units, in Colombia, conservative presidential candidate Miguel Uribe is reportedly in stable but critical condition after being shot in the head during a campaign event in Bogota (via Bloomberg):

Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot at a campaign event in Bogota on Saturday in an act reminiscent of the drug-fueled political violence that roiled the nation in the 1980s and early 1990s. 

The 39-year old senator from the opposition Democratic Center party was rushed to a medical center. He was stabilized there before being moved to a major hospital in north Bogota, according to the Attorney General’s office. 

Footage posted by local media showed Uribe’s head and back covered in blood.

The gunman has been detained, Bogota Mayor Carlos Galan said on X. Attorney General Luz Camargo said that a 15-year-old youth was arrested, after being beaten up by members of the public, and that authorities captured a 9mm gun. The minor is currently in a medical center, she said. 

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As Rioters Burn Cars and Clash With Cops, CNN Cites ‘Lawful Protests’ and Broadcasts Broadway Play CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem, who called to slash tires of truckers protesting COVID-19 restrictions, now downplays LA unrest

Posted By on June 9th, 2025

https://freebeacon.com/media/as-rioters-burn-cars-and-clash-with-cops-cnn-cites-lawful-protests-and-broadcasts-broadway-play/

As anti-ICE rioters torched cars and clashed with police in Los Angeles on Saturday, CNN described the chaos as “lawful protests” with “some unrest.” The comments came after the network cut away from its broadcast coverage of the violent protests to air George Clooney’s journalism-themed Broadway musical.

“So there’s unrest. Let’s start with, there’s protests, lawful protests, which is allowed in this country,” said CNN senior national security analyst Juliette Kayyem, who is also a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School. “There is some unrest, generally dealt with by local law enforcement and if there needs to be state support through state police, and sometimes even national guard under a governor’s authority.”

Kayyem’s comments came after CNN turned its focus away from Los Angeles and toward Manhattan’s theater district, where it aired a “special” live broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney’s Broadway adaptation of the 2005 film chronicling former CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow.

CNN ran a segment on Los Angeles around 6 p.m. eastern time before cutting to interviews with Clooney and the play’s director, a Washington Free Beacon review found. A “pre-show” special then aired from 6:30 to 7 p.m. before the play aired uninterrupted from 7 to 9 p.m. CNN also aired a post-show panel hosted by Anderson Cooper, cutting away from it at one point to detail the clashes in California and break the network’s roughly three-hour gap in coverage. Kayyem then joined for much of the 10 p.m. hour.

The violence in Los Angeles unfolded as protesters attempted to impede ICE raids taking place in the city. They burned an American flag, vandalized cars, setting one on fire, and pelted rocks at law enforcement officials, injuring one. Dozens were arrested throughout the day for “imped[ing] agents in their ability to conduct law enforcement operations.”

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Voters Keen On Cutting Deficits, But Disagree How Best To Do It: I&I/TIPP Poll Terry Jones

Posted By on June 9th, 2025

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/06/09/voters-keen-on-cutting-deficits-but-disagree-how-best-to-do-it-ii-tipp-poll/

If Congress thinks it can once again kick the can down the road when it comes to federal debt and deficits, it might be surprised if it thinks voters really won’t pay much attention. They will, and yes they care about the future danger posed by soaring deficits and debt, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.

Congress’ current debate over how much spending to cut, whether to extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, and whether to increase the current $36 trillion debt ceiling by $4 trillion, will all depend on how voters view those moves – and whether they view them as cynical or good-faith efforts to rein in debts, deficits and spending.

To gauge current public sentiment, the national online I&I/TIPP Poll (which sampled 1,395 adults from May 28 to May 30) asked voters the following question: “How concerned are you about the federal budget deficit, which is projected to stay above $2 trillion yearly?”

If you thought they wouldn’t care much, you would be wrong. Three-fourths said they were either “very concerned” (41%) or “somewhat concerned” (34%). Only 15% professed to being either “not very concerned” (11%) or “not at all concerned” (4%). Just 9% were “not sure.”

For a change, opinions on this topic were almost uniform across the political spectrum: Democrats (76% concerned, 16% not concerned), Republicans (79% concerned, 15% not concerned) and independent/third-party voters (72% concerned, 14% not concerned) were eerily identical in their responses.

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Journalists for Genocide The media constitutes the eighth front in the war to exterminate IsraelMelanie Phillips

Posted By on June 9th, 2025

https://melaniephillips.substack.com/

Next month, the London freelance branch of Britain’s National Union of Journalists is to hold a meeting to discuss ”the ethics and realities of reporting genocide when the only journalists on the scene are being slaughtered.”

The meeting is being sponsored by the hard-left Labour MP and former Corbyn apparatchik John McDonnell, who has accused Israel of murder and called for its economic and military isolation.

So a fair, balanced and objective discussion, then.

Accusing Israel of “genocide,” when it’s fighting a just war against genocidal attack, when it’s allowed into Gaza tens of thousands of tons of food and other aid, when it’s repeatedly moved Gaza’s civilians out of harm’s way and has killed a far lower proportion of civilians to combatants than any other military in war, denotes either illiteracy, imbecilism or malice.

As for “the only journalists on the scene being slaughtered,” a number of those individuals have been exposed as terrorists masquerading as journalists.

Yesterday, the Israel Defence Forces said it had killed two Islamic jihadi terrorists who had posed as journalists and who had operated from a command centre in the courtyard of the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza. So not only were these individuals not journalists but they were terrorists engaged in the war crime of using a hospital as cover for terrorism.

Will the NUJ meeting discuss the “ethics and realities” of that?

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Corrupt case: Netanyahu trial politically driven, legal experts say Analysts tell JNS the case has collapsed from an evidentiary point of view. David Isaac

Posted By on June 9th, 2025

https://www.jns.org/corrupt-case-netanyahu-trial-politically-driven-legal-experts-say/

Now in its fifth year, the cross-examination of Israel’s prime minister began this week with Benjamin Netanyahu taking the stand in the Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday.

While the trial continues, legal experts tell JNS the case has collapsed from an evidentiary point of view. Netanyahu had been right, they say, the case is politically driven, something more and more Israelis have begun to understand.

“Having followed the case closely from its initiation until now I have no doubt that Netanyahu’s claim from the outset that this is political persecution is correct,” Talia Einhorn, professor of law and a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, told JNS.

Haim Shain, an attorney and legal lecturer at Shaare Mishpat College in Hod Hasharon, concurred, explaining to JNS that Israel’s political opposition realized it couldn’t win back the parliament so it focused on taking control through non-electoral means, namely the Supreme Court, the Attorney General’s Office, the press and academia.

“What they failed to do in elections, they are doing through the judicial system, with the backing of academia and the media. For some time, we have understood that these are phony cases,” he said.

Netanyahu faces corruption charges in three separate cases—Cases 1000 and 2000 (the charge is “breach of trust” in both instances), and Case 4000 (bribery, fraud and breach of trust).

This week’s cross-examination began with Case 1000, led by prosecutor Yehonatan Tadmor. Each case has its own team of prosecutors. (Analysts say the trial will cost the state many millions in legal costs.) Yet despite the resources invested, the prosecution has conducted itself in a negligent and unprofessional manner, experts say.

For instance, in Case 1000, the prime minister is accused of taking valuables over the course of three years, mainly in the form of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cigars and champagne from two wealthy businessmen, Australian James Packer and Israeli Arnon Milchan.

Although cigars and champagne are the items most associated with the Netanyahu trial in the mind of the public, Einhorn said that the charge is based entirely on the word of one witness, Hadas Klein. No evidence, or additional testimony supports her claim and no investigation was undertaken to corroborate it.

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Chief Myron Demkiw and a blast from the Plast

Posted By on June 9th, 2025

https://dianebederman.com/chief-myron-demkiw-and-a-blast-from-the-plast/

December 19, 2022, Ukrainian Canadian Myron Demkiw, a 30-year veteran of the Toronto Police Services, was sworn in as the chief of police in Toronto. Mr. Demkiw, who was born to Ukrainian parents and raised in Toronto, grew up as a proud member of his community and was an active member of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in his youth. During the Second World War, Plast scouts were used as allies by Nazi Germany. After the war, the Plast organization was preserved among Ukrainian diaspora in Australia, Argentina, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

Plast  is a Ukrainian youth organization for patriotic, inclusive self-development. Patriotic, because Plast nurtures a love of the Ukrainian community and fosters a willingness to work for its wellbeing. Plast members are effective citizens of countries in which they live. Inclusive – because Plast encourages its members to fulfill their potential, able to both act independently and to cooperate in a group and acquire leadership skills. In Canada, Plast established branches across the country. Today there are Plast centres in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, St.Catharines, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary. Plast in Canada aided in the development of the reborn organization in Ukraine, often with the support and sponsorship of Canadian government programs.

Mr. Demkiw is the top police official in a city of some 3 million people, heading the largest municipal police agency in Canada.  Under his command, he oversees 5,000 police officers and 2,000 civilian employees with a budget of 1.2 billion dollars. Mr. Demkiw studied law at the University of Toronto, later completed university courses in policing, management and psychology, and graduated from the Police Leadership Program at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He said:

“Although I have many priorities in my new role, my first is improving trust in our service and working with our communities to earn and maintain that trust. Secondly, under my leadership, we will accelerate police reform and the professionalization of the Service by continuing to collaborate with our communities to implement their recommendations and by exploring new opportunities to become the modern, community-centric Service our city deserves and expects. And, as my third priority, I will continue working with our members and residents, community organizations, government agencies and our partners in law enforcement to ensure that every resident in every neighbourhood is safe and thriving.”

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POSITIVE NEWS FROM ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

Posted By on June 8th, 2025

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com 

After World War II, between 1945 and 1960, three dozen nations in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy or outright independence from their European colonial rulers. Israel was decolonized from England in May 1948 after 30 years of oppressive and duplicitous rule.

Despite wars and genocidal terrorism from Arab enemies, Israel is one of the crown jewels of the break-up of the British, French, Belgian and Portuguese empires. It is a diverse democracy with outsize contributions to healing the scourges of famine, drought, disease, and natural disasters  throughout the globe as Michael Ordman discloses in his weekly postings. rsk

 

Civilian startups are battlefield life-savers. (TY WIN) The IDF is turning  civilian tech into battlefield tools, thanks to Innotal – a program that fast-tracks Israeli startups into military service. It integrates breakthrough civilian technologies – medical, food tech, energy, drones, AI, logistics, infrastructure and more.
https://tps.co.il/articles/medical-drones-ai-therapy-and-foodtech-israeli-civilian-startups-are-becoming-battlefield-lifesavers/  https://ddrd-mafat.mod.gov.il/en/mafat-for-startups/innotal
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-tech-innovations-gaza-operations
 
From lab to battlefield in 18 months. (TY JNS) The inside story of the unprecedented successful development timescale of Israel’s new laser defense system. Already operational for several months, the rapidly deployed system’s success rates surpassed all projections.  https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/05/29/how-israels-secret-laser-weapon-went-from-lab-to-battlefield-in-18-months/
 
Promoted to Brigadier at 80. At 80 years old, lifelong armored corps veteran Moshe Peled was busy hauling tanks on reserve duty – until the IDF Chief of Staff surprised him with a promotion to Reserve Brigadier General in front of his proud family. IDSF article reflects his dedication and loyalty to the Jewish State.
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-elderly-idf-armored-division-reservist-honored-with-surprise-promotion/
https://idsf.org.il/en/interviews-en/playing-into-the-hands-of-hamas/
 
Teens rebuild farm of fallen hero. The first Israel Youth Conference of HaShomer HaChadash (see here previously) opened with hundreds of teens from across Israel rehabilitating the Philip Farm in the Negev. The farm’s manager, Yochai Hershberg, fell fighting Hamas on Oct 7 2023 and the farm had been unattended since.
https://www.jns.org/wire/from-loss-to-legacy-teens-rebuild-farm-of-fallen-hero-in-israels-south/
 
The first brit milah since Oct 7. Itay and Moran, who survived Oct 7 2023 at Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri, held the first brit milah ceremony there since the attack. They named their newborn son Bar Shavit after Moran’s parents Yuval and Maayan Bar – murdered by Hamas, and Shavit Lev – the IDF soldier who rescued them.
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/hjwk8t6glg
 
Kibbutz Nir Oz celebrates Shavuot. For the first time since Oct 7 2023, Kibbutz Nir Oz residents gathered to mark the Shavuot holiday in the community’s fields. The traditional agricultural exhibition was led by former Israeli hostage Gadi Moses who blessed the volunteers and Thai workers.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-856222
 
“Eternity of Israel”. An exhibition of Israeli resilience replaces the usual posters that are displayed on the walls of the departure escalator at Ben Gurion airport. “Eternity of Israel” takes passengers on a journey through history showing how the nation survives and recovers from every tragedy, as it will after Oct 7 2023.
https://www.israelunwired.com/ben-gurion-airport-is-featuring-something-that-will-blow-you-away/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-zteZi1GQ
 
It wasn’t bad before. Arab blogger Hoda Jannat exposes the truth about Gaza before Hamas launched its attack on Oct 7.   https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/hamas/the-gaza-you-thought-you-knew-versus-the-real-gaza/2023/12/25/
 
IDF mission to save girl’s life. A Golani IDF battalion commander sent a 21-year-old commando from the Gaza front line to donate life-saving bone marrow to a 5-year-old girl battling leukemia. His saliva sample, taken on IDF induction, was a genetic match and the transplant took place at Hadassah Ein Kerem.
https://www.jns.org/golani-commando-pulled-from-gaza-to-save-a-life-at-hadassah/
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Making an Israeli invention even better. The Israeli-invented CAR-T cancer treatment is saving thousands of lives today. The patient’s own immune T-cells are extracted, increased and put back in the patient. Ben Gurion University researchers have extended T-cell longevity using different shaped surfaces for the growth medium.
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-nanostructures-boost-car-cell-potency.html  
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202412482
 
The immune cells that promote cancer. Tel Aviv University researchers have advanced the 2015 research by Hebrew University scientists (see here previously) and isolated the specific neutrophils that support cancer progression. It boosts the development of new therapies and adds a biomarker for early detection of the disease.
https://emergexint.tau.ac.il/neutrophil_immune_cancer_research  
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-025-00924-3
 
Antibiotics in the “garbage”. More about the discovery (see here previously) by Israeli scientists of the natural antibiotic properties of the proteasome – a protein complex known as the “garbage can” of many cells because it removes non-working proteins. Its antibiotic function, however, was previously unknown.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-scientists-discovery-could-lead-to-new-antibiotics-1001504039
 
Teva promotes its pipeline. Current treatments from Israel’s Teva include Austedo (involuntary movements), Ajovy (migraine), and Uzedy (schizophrenia). It expects soon to launch Olanzapine (schizophrenia), Duvakitug (IBD), Dari (asthma), Emrusolmin (Multiple System Atrophy), and has fast-tracked TEV-53408 (Celiac).
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-teva-gives-aggressive-guidance-on-1001511802
 
Healing the healers. Teva has also has partnered with Israel’s Momentum over the past 20 months to run the “Support the Soul” program for 1,300 mental health professionals. It gives therapists training and safe spaces to release the trauma they absorb from their patients; plus therapy support tools. No Teva remedies involved.
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/hj4mluffll
 
Kids & teens can save lives too. United Hatzalah’s Leight Legacy Heroes Program empowers kids and teens across America to save lives. Each participant is challenged to raise $180 which will sponsor an oxygen tank for a medic in Israel – vital for emergency responses. It also teaches tzedakah and strengthens links to Israel.
https://israelrescue.org/heroes
 
Mobile clinic in the South. Israeli emergency medical NGO United Hatzalah has unveiled a groundbreaking mobile emergency clinic in Ofakim. The clinic is equipped with state-of-the-art treatment beds, smart triage, and medical tech that doubles the capacity of a standard ambulance. It is staffed by doctors and paramedics.
https://israfan.com/p/united-hatzalah-mobile-clinic-israel

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‘Anti-Semitism is an early-warning siren for a sickness in society’ Douglas Murray on the scapegoating of Israel, the fascism of Hamas and the moral disintegration of the West.

Posted By on June 8th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/08/anti-semitism-is-an-early-warning-siren-for-a-sickness-in-society/

Has the West failed the moral test of 7 October 2023? From the moment news emerged that Hamas terrorists were tearing through southern Israel, butchering, raping and kidnapping civilians, a sizeable proportion of Westerners, including among the elites, failed to understand what was at stake. Here was a Western liberal democracy under attack by an army of Islamist anti-Semites, hell-bent on the destruction of the Jewish State. Yet every attempt by Israel to defend itself has been cast as an act of unjustified aggression – or worse, an attempt at genocide. Instead of inspiring solidarity, the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust fuelled a wave of anti-Semitism across much of the West, with self-described progressives at the forefront. Jihadism marched under the banner of social justice.

Douglas Murray’s new book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West, looks at how we got here, the real meaning of 7 October and how we should respond. This week, he joined spiked’s Brendan O’Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show, to discuss all this and more. You can watch the whole thing here.

Brendan O’Neill: At what moment after 7 October did you know the West had lost its mind?

Douglas Murray: There was a very specific moment on 8 October, which I describe in the book. I saw a pro-Hamas demonstration taking place in Times Square. At that time, the massacre was still ongoing in the south of Israel. Yet here were hundreds of people in New York, all celebrating and waving placards saying things like ‘by any means necessary’. I just thought, what is happening?

Of course, it’s possible to favour the creation of a Palestinian state. But why would you choose the moment when Hamas’s massacre is still going on to support the people doing the killing? This was before Israel had even done anything in response. I knew something had gone wildly wrong, and that I had better gear up. I realised too that we were about to enter an era of denial. Of hearing statements like ‘it didn’t happen’ and ‘it would be good if it did happen’ spoken simultaneously.

O’Neill: Did it make you think we were in more trouble in the West than you had initially believed?

Murray: Yes. It occurred to me that there is something about the Israelis in the minds of some of the general public which makes them uniquely undeserving of empathy. Survivors of the Nova festival – young people who were dancing in the early hours of the morning, and who were set upon by Hamas terrorists, massacred and raped – are treated wherever they go as if they themselves are the culprits. It’s totally different from the way in which Britain remembers things like the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017. We would be amazed and horrified if two young women who had survived the suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert travelled elsewhere in the world and were treated as if they’d done it. Nobody would tolerate that. But for some reason, the Israelis are uniquely undeserving of understanding.

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Progressives push anti-Israel activism, are surprised by antisemitic violence that follows Liz Peek

Posted By on June 8th, 2025

https://lizpeek.com/news/progressives-push-anti-israel-activism-are-surprised-by-antisemitic-violence-that-follows/?utm_source=newsletter.lizpeek.com

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is running for cover.

After the horrific attack on Jews in Boulder, Colo., the Minnesota representative issued the kind of bland statement meant to deflect blame, posting this on X: “I’m holding the victims and families in Boulder, Colorado in my heart. Violence against anyone is never acceptable. We must reject hatred and harm in all its forms.”

As some noted, it took nearly 24 hours for Omar to issue even that statement, which notably failed to mention that the victims were Jews and the suspect is an Egyptian Muslim who attacked them while shouting “Free Palestine.” A video has now surfaced in which the accused assailant ranted about his faith, saying “Allahu Akbar.” After he firebombed a group of Jews, he told investigators he wanted to “kill all Zionist people.”

One of the victims, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, asked NBC News, “What the hell is going on in our country?” It’s a question everyone should be asking.

Here’s part of the answer: It is a very easy hop from college students intimidating Jewish students and chanting about Intifada and a Muslim man trying to murder Jews. It is similarly but a short leap from Omar, who applauded anti-Israel student protesters at Columbia University for being “brave and patriotic,” voted against an antisemitism resolution in the U.S. House and suggested to aggrieved people acting out of anger that some Jewish students are just “pro-genocide.”

It is also easy to connect student demonstrations with terrorism. For the first time, a protester at Columbia University — an outsider arrested for hate crimes against Jews — has been linked to Hamas. He won’t be the last.

In recent months we have witnessed not only the hideous attempt to burn Jews alive in Boulder, but also the firebombing of Jewish Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home and the cold-blooded murder of two young Jewish people at the Jewish Capital Museum in Washington. All three suspects expressed anti-Israel sentiments, with the alleged perpetrator of the latter killings shouting “free, free Palestine” after he shot the victims 21 times.

The Anti-Defamation League reports that 2024 saw a record number of antisemitic attacks, up 344 percent over the past five years. This is intolerable.

Radicalized students at some of our top schools are part of the problem. Recently, MIT’s graduation was marred by a student speaker, Megha Vemuri, who donned the politically symbolic keffiyeh and told the commencement audience, “We are watching Israel try to wipe out Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.” She also accused MIT of complicity “in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.”