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In The Mailbox: 11.07.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 7, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.07.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: I Can’t Wait Until We Have Socialized Medicine
EBL: Even Bernie Sanders Rejects A Ceasefire In Gaza, also, Five Nights at Freddy’s
Twitchy: “Spelled MURDER Wrong”, If Gaza Has No Electricity How Do They Explain This? and Two Officers To Be Fired Over Leak Of Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto
Louder With Crowder: We have obtained EXCLUSIVE access to the Nashville Covenant shooter’s manifesto, “Listen to the screams:” Female field hockey player severely injured by male allowed to play on girls’ high school team, and Woman confuses Black Hebrew Israelites for Jewish school, drives car through building in EPIC antisemitism fail
Vox Popoli: Ben Shapiro and the Inevitability of Defeat, GenX Critique of Boomer Pride, Why EVERYONE Hates the Media, and In Which I Express A Heartfelt Apology
Draw & Talk Comics: The Secret Problem In Comics Is…The Fans?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Clueless Kunstler
American Conservative: Can a Hedge-Fund Patriot Win a U.S. Senate Seat in Pennsylvania?
American Greatness: House GOP to Introduce FISA Reform Bill Blocking Surveillance of Americans’ Phone Records, The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites, and This Time Israel Will Finish The Job
American Thinker: Pennsylvania’s 2020 Election Was Invalid — Says Who? The DNC Con Job to Come, and Keep Your Head on a Swivel
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: If Latin American ‘solidarity’ doesn’t kill Cuba, it won’t be for lack of effort, Rationed bread roll thrown at Cuban government office was so hard, it broke the plate glass window, Cuban troops in Angolan war earned the Castro dictatorship between $4.8 and $9.6 billion, and Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship acts like a socialist regime, cancels opposition elections
Baldilocks: I Only Know What I Read
BattleSwarm: How Bad Off Is The Russian Ruble?, also, Spongebomb Squareboom Meets The Stainless Steel Throwbot
Behind The Black: Astra defaults on debt agreement, Commercial hi-res Earth imaging satellite constellations limiting Gaza imagery to the public, Middle East Arabs know Hamas is wrong and Israel is right, even if America’s stupid college students don’t, and Galaxies within galaxies within galaxies
Chicago Boyz: Edward Said
Commander Salamander: Germany’s Delusions Come Home To Roost
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora, Don’t complain about the systems you built! Rules for the Next Season of 1997 of the Short Season Draft League, and The migrant crime wave is here
Don Surber: Israel’s 15 Ceasefires
First Street Journal: Rashida Tlaib thinks that you are too stupid to understand what Hamas are, also, In Which Trudy Rubin Tells Us That She Doesn’t Understand War
Gates Of Vienna: Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Mujahid, The German State Pays the Jizya, Geert Wilders: “It is an Ideological Conflict, Not a Conflict Over Land”, and There Will Be Blood
The Geller Report: Rape Jihad: Hamas Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women Follows Islamic Doctrine, CHAOS: Screaming “Allahu Akbar!” Pro-Terror, Genocidal Rioters Storm White House Fence, Try To Tear it Down, Attack Secret Service, Statues Desecrated in DC, WATCH: Young Muslims in Germany and Belgium say they will become the majority, abolish the Constitution and Institute Sharia law, and Hamas Had Planned Massacre During Passover But Iran Forced Delay Until They Got Biden’s $6 Billion
Glenn Reynolds: The Wheels Are Coming Off The Biden Administration
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Dance of the Asteroids, An Astronomer Uses a Telescope, and A Binary Asteroid
Hollywood In Toto: Royal Hotel Wallows in Toxic Masculinity, To Hell and Back: TV’s Best Depictions of Hell, Adam Carolla: Gavin Newsom Is a ‘Sociopathic, Tyrannical Dictator’, and Best ’80s Vampire Movies
The Lid: Poisoning The Jews, Then And Now
Legal Insurrection: Army Plans Major Cuts to Special Forces – Over Objections, “Cornell really needs to get a handle on the poisonous ideology which has now inflicted campus”,‘Pro-Palestinian’ Students Arrested at Dartmouth College for Trespassing After Threat Virginia: Today’s Election A Big F’ing Deal As Democrats Fear-Monger Abortion, Gun Rights, and MAGA, Oh My! U.S. Naval Academy Sued Over Use of Race in Admissions, Jewish Students at Cornell Question Their Allegiances to Left Wing Groups After Pro-Hamas Controversies, Rashida Tlaib Gaslights on ‘From the River to the Sea,’ Gruesome Nova Festival Footage Proves She’s Lying, and Multiple Students Hospitalized After Boozy Lingerie Party at Rice University
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, All Saints’ Sunday, and Reflecting on Coach Knight
Outkick: God-First C.J. Stroud Playing As If He’s A Gift From Heaven For Houston Texans, Field Hockey Captain Slams Massachusetts Law Allowing Boys On Girls Teams After Brutal Injury To Her Teammate, Mike Vrabel Is Patriots’ ‘Home Run Choice’ To Replace Bill Belichick: REPORT, JJ Watt Sounds Off On Out Of Control NFL Fines: ‘This Is STEALING’, NBA Official Embarasses Himself By Letting Draymond Green Berate Him For 40 Seconds Without Blowing Whistle, Alabama Saved Its Best For LSU, And For The Last SEC West Duel Between These 2 Division Dynamos, and Paige VanZant Calls Out Haters With Spicy Instagram Post
Power Line: Genocide Is Popular, A Paid Agent of a Foreign Power, and Obama’s Subtle Tactics of Division
Shark Tank: Rubio Condemns Political Violence In Honduras
Shot In The Dark: History Talking
The Political Hat: School Smut Hypocrisy, Florida Edition Redux
This Ain’t Hell: A-10 vs. F-35 report released – sorta, Astronaut RADM Ken Mattingly, USN passes away, Crypto-Clown Guilty, and Chinese sub allegedly down
Transterrestrial Musings: The Gaza Tunnels, Starship, World War III, Science Influencers, and Europe’s Rocket Woes
Victory Girls: Ponzi Scam Artist Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty On All Counts, Ilhan Omar Just Can’t Add It Up, and Anne Frank Not “Diverse” Enough In Germany Anymore
Volokh Conspiracy: S. Ct. Will Hear NRA’s Case Alleging That N.Y. Government Coerced Companies to Stop Doing Business with NRA
Watts Up With That: Shell Pulls Out of US Offshore Wind Farm Contract, Judge Interrupts Just Stop Oil Protestor’s Flight to India, and California EV HELL: QUEUING for chargers at MIDNIGHT!!!
The Federalist: Every Ohio Pastor Has A Duty To Urge His Congregants To Vote No On Issue 1, Rolling Stone Dishonestly Demonizes Speaker Mike Johnson For Protecting His Son From Porn, How To Pump The Brakes On Runaway Government Spending Without Ramping Up Inflation, With More Smoke And Mirrors About Hunter Biden Charging Decisions, DOJ Covers Up A Cover-Up, Destroying Robert E. Lee’s Statue Marks A Historic Low Point, But Hungary Shows It Doesn’t Have To Be The Endpoint, and National Review’s Guilt-By-Association Smear Of The Heritage Foundation Is Cowardly Nonsense
Mark Steyn: Interstellar with Dr Mann Super Villain, Light My Fire, and The Flagging Spirit

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‘Kill All You Little Crackers’

Posted on | November 6, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Kill All You Little Crackers’

“I’d be willing to speculate,” my brother Kirby said, when I mentioned that the Nashville shooter’s “manifesto” had finally been leaked, “that this person’s brain got poisoned during the lockdown. They went down a rabbit hole, and never came back.” And that’s almost certainly correct.

Like me, my brother is a longtime student of criminal behavior — a tendency I attribute to our mother’s love of TV detective shows — and one can imagine Lieutenant Columbo waving his cigar as he’s about to depart his interview with the prime suspect: “Oh, just one more thing . . .”

The lockdown hit in early 2020, but it was not until three years later, in March 2023, that Audrey “Aiden” Hale went on her/“his” murder spree. We know that Audrey/“Aiden” identified as transgender, but what we don’t know is when (or if) she/“he” started getting testosterone injections. How far had she/“he” gone down the “transition” road and what, if anything, did this gender obsession have to do with the attack on The Covenant School (which Hale had previously attended)? What purpose was achieved by murdering three 9-year-old children?

Answer: We don’t know.

Thanks to Steven Crowder, however, we at least know what Audrey/“Aiden” scrawled on three notebook pages:

Louder with Crowder has exclusively obtained three pages of Nashville shooter AudreyHale’s alleged manifesto.
Hale, a transgender 28-year-old man going by the name “Aiden” Hale, entered The Covenant School on March 27, 2023 in Green Hills, Tennessee – killing six, before being shot and killed by responding officers.
The manifesto detailed thoughts Hale had leading up to what was referred to as “DEATH DAY”, as well as a timeline in which the shooting would take place.
Audrey Hale: “Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready…I hope my victims aren’t.”
Hale: “I hope I have a high death count.”
Hale: “Kill those kids!!!”
Hale: “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
Hale: “Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little faggots w/ your white privileges”
Hale: “There were several times I could have been caught especially back in the summer of 2021.”

Weird. Considering that Hale was part of the “LGBTQ+ community” (as we’re supposed to call it), why would she/“he” use the slur “faggot” to disparage her/“his” intended victims? And considering that Hale was as white as a mayonnaise-and-Wonder-Bread sandwich, why would she/“he” use the anti-white slur “cracker”? Again, we have no answers to these questions, because the FBI seized the manifesto, and has suppressed whatever information they found in their so-called “investigation” of this incident, leading many (myself certainly included) to deduce that the “investigation” is, in fact, a cover-up.

However, as I said last week (“Carnac the Magnificent Knows the Answer,” Oct. 31), there is one thing we do know:

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS

You can take that to the bank.

UPDATE: Because Big Tech has become a willing servant of the federal “Deep State,” this was entirely predictable:

Who gave the order to suppress this? DOJ? CIA?



 

Category: Crime, The Transgender Cult

Rule Five Sunday: O, Canada

Posted on | November 6, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Your seasonal reminder that the N in National Hockey League does not stand for los Estados Unidos, and that as long as Canada’s Sun newspapers are still publishing their Sunshine Girls, not everything has turned to crap north of the border in the Old Country*. This week’s example of Canadian pulchritude is Caroline from the Calgary Sun, who likes beer and yoga and sports. Sounds like a good combo to me.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Code Duello Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Melania, “Wagon Train”, What’s Your Opening Line? All The Light We Cannot See, Claire Lise, Weirdo Democrats In Virginia, The Gilded Age Season 2, Is Dracula Misunderstood? A Very Vintage Halloween, “Monster Mash”, Shadow Of Doubt, Painkiller, and Reptile

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Will the Real Mary Nabokova Stand Up?, Fish Pic Friday – Christin Kruger, I Believe I Can Fly, Wednesday Wetness, Happy Halloween!, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Better Than Eating Bugs I Guess and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for November 3

STICKS, STORIES, & SCOTCH: Rule Five Warships – Sao Martinho

AVERAGE BUBBA: Lady Liberty Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

*Paternal grandfather was from Prince Edward Island. 

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Seems Kind of … Insurrection-y

Posted on | November 5, 2023 | Comments Off on Seems Kind of … Insurrection-y

Some insurrections are more equal than others:

A group of anti-Israel protesters who participated in a large demonstration Saturday in Washington, DC, attempted to storm the White House and chanted slogans such as “Allahu Akbar” while calling for the destruction of Israel in favor of a Palestinian state. . . .
There were reports of protesters desecrating and vandalizing war memorials in the vicinity of the White House as well . . .
Protesters also yelled obscenities about the president, whom they resent for backing Israel’s war effort against Hamas terrorists.

I’m in favor of yelling obscenities about Joe Biden, without regard to the motives of whoever does it, but I’m also in favor of rounding up everybody who yells “Allahu Akbar” and deporting them to Gaza.



 

Category: Israel

FMJRA 2.0: Miracle on East Capitol Street

Posted on | November 5, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Miracle on East Capitol Street

— compiled by Wombat-socho

In the long and mostly inglorious history of the Washington Senators in Pete’s continual draft league, there is no team that has defeated us more often than Dom Carden’s Minnesota Twins, now the Kansas City Royals. So it was with some foreboding that our lads awaited the arrival of the Royals at RFK last week, but when the dust had cleared, Marichal and Coleman had notched their 18th and 12th victories, and Dobson had missed his 12th by *that much*. The Curly W flag continued to wave as the Senators went to the Launching Pad and took two of three from the Braves before returning home for another two wins, this time against Pete’s struggling Brewers. It probably would have been a sweep had I not started Jim Kaat in the third game, having forgotten that Pete’s lineup absolutely destroys left-handers. Still: six out of nine wins this week gets us to within 7.5 games of the A’s, and we have a long break before heading to Anaheim for a series against the Angels.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Senators win! Senators win!
-Shelby Whitfield*, August 16 1971

While Hamas Supporters Terrorize Jews, Can You Guess What Noah Berlatsky Considers a More Important Menace?
The Daley Gator
First Street Journal
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Doom-Scrolling a New Holocaust: TikTok’s Pro-Hamas Propaganda
The Pirate’s Cove
The Daley Gator
Average Bubba
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Dinosaur Tales
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Halloween Treats
Average Bubba
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.30.23
Daybreak Bulletin
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Carnac the Magnificent Knows the Answer
The Daley Gator
Flappr
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.31.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Engineering Majors Are Dangerous: Feds Arrest Student Who Threatened Jews
The Daley Gator
Living In Anglo-America
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.01.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

An Addition to the ‘Do Not Date’ List
The Daley Gator
Average Bubba
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.02.23
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘The Freedom Struggle’
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.03.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

*Play-by-play announcer for the RL Senators in 1969-70.

Top linkers for the week ending November 3:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  (tied) 357 Magnum and A View From The Beach (10)
  3.  The Daley Gator (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Rolling Stone Has Become the SPLC?

Posted on | November 4, 2023 | Comments Off on Rolling Stone Has Become the SPLC?

One sentence in this Rolling Stone article caught my attention:

Dolly Parton knows Kid Rock can be, uh, polarizing but she decided to release “Either Or,” her duet with the Bud Light-blasting personality anyway. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Country Music (and Rock & Roll) Hall of Fame member said she could accept Kid Rock for who he is. The recording will feature on her upcoming Rockstar album.
“Of course I did that before the controversy that he had, but somebody was talking to me the other day, ‘How could you do this [song] with Kid?’” she said. “I said, ‘Hey, just because I love you don’t mean I don’t love Kid Rock. Just because I love Kid Rock don’t mean I don’t love you.’ I don’t condemn or criticize. I just accept and love.” (Note: It’s unclear which controversy Parton was referring to when she said she recorded it “before the controversy,” since Billboard has a timeline of Rock gaffes that goes back to 2004.)

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) If you tune into tonight’s episode of The Other Podcast (7 p.m. ET), you’ll probably hear my friend John Hoge, who used to be a recording engineer in Nashville, share some Dolly Parton anecdotes which (as usual with John’s anecdotes) won’t have anything to do with the point I’m trying to make, which is that many journalists nowadays seem to think it’s their job to act like Grand Inquisitors pursuing heretics. Like the Southern Poverty Law Center, they compile dossiers on people who’ve somehow strayed into Wrongthink, so that they can expose these Thought Criminals and destroy their careers.

Let’s be clear about what the glib phrase “cancel culture” actually means: The Left wants to prevent anyone who disagrees with them from earning a living in any occupation that has cultural or political influence. If you look at the climate on university campuses, you see what we’re facing if this neo-Stalinist project succeeds. “Cancel culture” is a very serious thing, and its methods are being enthusiastically embraced by journalists like this Rolling Stone writer who gleefully exults, “A-ha! We have here a list of every ‘gaffe’ that Kid Rock ever made!” To wit:

May 2011: Defends Use of Confederate Flag
Rock was slammed for his notorious use of the Confederate flag onstage and accused of racism by protesters, which he defended was an act of homage to his idols Lynyrd Skynyrd. “I’ve never flown that flag with any hate in my heart. Not one ounce,” Rock said after receiving an award from the NAACP’s Detroit chapter for his work in the community. “I love America. I love Detroit, and I love Black people.”

Love that adjective “notorious.” Some first-class objectivity there. It would be both unnecessary and tedious for me to recount here what I’ve explained before that, in the 1970s, when Lynyrd Skynyrd toured the world with a giant Confederate battle flag as their stage backdrop, the flag was seen as signifying a regional identity, not a symbol of racist belief.

Jimmy Carter was president, OK? He was the first president from the Deep South elected in a long, long time, and expressions of Southern pride were not remotely controversial in the 1970s, when the whole family tuned into CBS on Friday night to watch The Dukes of Hazzard, with Bo and Luke Duke riding in the General Lee.

Maybe it was Daisy Duke that most of us tuned in for, but the point is, nobody in 1979 was looking at that and yelling, “White supremacy!”

Is it surprising that Kid Rock, who was 7 years old when The Dukes of Hazzard began its seven-season run on CBS, should think the Confederate flag is cool? He grew up in the Detroit suburbs of Macomb County, Michigan, and nobody ever accused him of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — until he openly supported the Republican Party.

But sure, anyone associated with that flag is a racist.

Oh, y’all expected us to forget that one, did you? In their attempt to turn America into a one-party totalitarian dictatorship, Democrats emulate Stalin in their efforts to re-write history and erase any “problematic” issues from the past that might impede their ambitions. But while we’re expected to forget anything that reflects unfavorably on the Democratic Party, liberal journalists emulate the SPLC in compiling dossiers on their chosen enemies, chronicling every “gaffe” and controversy that might aid their character assassination campaigns.

Dolly Parton wants no part of this vindictive agenda:

Speaking of God, Parton invoked her faith in the interview as the reason why she doesn’t like cancel culture. “I think that’s terrible,” she said of cancel culture. “We all make mistakes. We don’t all get caught at it. But also when somebody makes a mistake, it depends on who they are. That’s what God is there for.
“Now I happen to believe in God; I’m a faith-based person, so therefore I am able to see it like that,” she said. “A lot of people don’t, but even still, everybody deserves a second chance. You deserve to be innocent until you’re proven guilty. Even when you’re proven guilty, if God can forgive you, so can I. If God can forgive you, we all should forgive one another.”

Amen, sister! And speaking of forgiveness, forgive me for reminding you of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Music, Racism

In The Mailbox: 11.03.23

Posted on | November 4, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.03.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Elon Musk v. George Soros
Director Blue: Exclusive Hamas v. Israel Cheat Sheet
EBL: What’s Your Opening Line?
Twitchy: Rashida Tlaib Doubles Down, Spits In Our Eyes, & Tells Us It’s Raining – Nobody Liked That, Dana Loesch & A Multitude Of Others Drag James Patterson For “Weapons In The Hands Of Farm Boys” Take, and J.K. Rowling Calls Forced Pronouns In Court “State-Sanctioned Abuse”
Louder With Crowder: Dolly Parton still REFUSES to cancel Kid Rock, even though the media keeps trying, says “I love Kid Rock”, Loudoun County students stage walkout over policy adults put in place demanding boys be allowed to use the girls’ bathroom, Ohio Woman Identifies As A Vampire But Not One Of The Bad Ones, Says She Follows A “Higher Path”, and Jason Aldean breaks silence about feud with woke pop tart Maren Morris, seems unsure what a Maren Morris is
Vox Popoli: Mailvox: Why International Opinion Matters, also, Hultgreen-Curie, Naval Edition
According To Hoyt: You Can’t Get There From Here, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, and How Full Of Brambles Is Our Workaday World
Monster Hunter Nation: The new and improved version of Residue by Steve Diamond
Jon Del Arroz: The Marvels Disaster For MCU As Full Cringe Plot Leaks Online

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: A Gathering Migration Storm South of the Border
American Greatness: Watchdog: Afghanistan has Received $11 Billion in Aid from U.S. Since Withdrawal
American Thinker: Misunderstanding Islamism and the Gaza War, How Palestinians’ Supporters Dox Themselves, and Standing up for Civilization
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Code Duello Friday
Babalu Blog: Food rations for November in communist Cuba only offer 3 pounds of rice and sugar, Che Guevara’s daughter trashes Israel and calls on all Arabs to fight, and They are not listening to Joe, Kamala, or Alejandro
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For November 3
Behind The Black: Lucy discovers second small asteroid orbiting Dinkinesh, Apollo astronaut Ken Mattingly passes away at 87, Norway inaugurates its Andoya spaceport, Musk: Starlink “has achieved breakeven cash flow”, Red China launches military satellite, and Real pushback: “We won’t hire your bigots!” say 42 law firms to top universities
Cafe Hayek: Any Such ‘Misinformation’ Is What Economists Call “Inframarginal”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Let’s Do the “Enfield Rifles, Israeli Tanks & Palestinian Lies” about Gaza Post Again
Don Surber: Our children are not for sale
First Street Journal: Will Russell Rickford fight for that in which he believes? #FreedomOfSpeech does have consequences when what you say is just boneheadedly stupid, and The Usual Suspects are very, very upset that Andy Beshear hasn’t supported Hamas
Gates Of Vienna: Enemies of the State, Jihad Naïveté, and Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any More Vile
The Geller Report: Blinken Arrives In Israel, Pressuring Netanyahu for Ceasefire
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, What’s Up for November, 2023, and Is X Better Than Twitter?
Hollywood In Toto: Woke Mob Shuts Down Anti-Trans Doc – Where’s the Outrage? also, Are Other Streamers Attacking Critics Like HBO’s Casey Bloys Did?
The Lid: LEADING FROM BEHIND: Obama Has Been ‘Quietly’ Advising Biden Admin — Here’s The 411
Legal Insurrection: Campus Antisemitism Problem Didn’t Start on 10/7, How Did Patrick Dai Become Radicalized At Cornell? Knesset Members Break Down After Viewing Video Of Hamas Atrocities, Illegal Palestinian Migrant Accused Of Plot To Attack Jews In Texas, Rashida Tlaib Includes “From The River To The Sea” In Her Anti-Israel Video, and Two High-Stakes Detransitioner Lawsuits Filed In RI
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Patrick Beverley Says Clay Travis Is ‘On Drugs’ For Claiming High School Boys Can Beat WNBA Champs, Deion Sanders Demotes OC Sean Lewis, Who Left A Head Coaching Job For Colorado, Elevates Pat Shurmur In Wild Move, RGIII Was Furious When Novice Jeff Saturday Got A Coaching Job, Now Wants Novice Marshawn Lynch To Get A Coaching Job, Brock Purdy Pretends To Be A Farmer During Bye Week, Sorry Michigan, You Can’t Spin The Connor Stalions Narrative, Patrick Mahomes Wants In On Olympic Flag Football, So All Other Nations Can Stay Home (Unless He Gets The Flu Again), and Rangers Nathaniel Lowe Puts On Championship Parade Clinic; Anniahlates Beer From Fan, Immediately Goes Tarps Off
Power Line: Cease Fire? You Can’t Be Serious, The second war against the Jews, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Reluctantly Votes For “Poisoned” Israel Aid Bill
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: What to Do about Terrorism
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, The military needs to accelerate changes to meet new and emerging threats, and Unmanned U.S. Navy water drone fires missile in an exercise
Victory Girls: Dear Gen Z: We Need To Talk About Israel & Hamas
Watts Up With That: California’s EV Conundrums, Court Blocks Pennsylvania from Joining RGGI, and Fine Dining in London is Now a Climate Guilt Experience?
The Federalist: Proponents Of Ohio’s Abortion Amendment Don’t Want You To Know How Barbaric It Is, Male On Women’s Field Hockey Team Hospitalizes Opponent With ‘Significant Facial Injuries’, Reprimand Of Indiana AG Shows State Bars Have It In For Conservatives, Paul Krugman Doesn’t Understand The IRS Or How Money Works, Knowing They Will Lose At The Ballot Box, Soros-Funded Leftists Turn To Lawfare To Defeat Trump, and Leftist Fans Of Killers Of The Flower Moon Overlook The Ultimate Villain In The Osage Murders: The Federal Government 
Mark Steyn: The Great Transitioning

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‘The Freedom Struggle’

Posted on | November 3, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘The Freedom Struggle’

Pro-Hamas protesters in New Orleans

Did you know that Jews are 44% of undergraduate students at Tulane University? Why does this notorious party school in New Orleans — Andrew Breitbart’s alma mater — have such a disproportionate number of Jewish students? My guess is that, because of anti-Jewish discrimination at Ivy League schools in the name of “diversity,” there are a lot of high-achieving Jewish students shopping around for non-Ivy schools with an academic program good enough to qualify graduates for law school, medical school, etc., and Tulane fits that description. Plus, it’s in New Orleans, a funky Spanish-moss-draped old city that has an “exotic” appeal to students from Connecticut or wherever. (For similar reasons, you get a lot of kids from up north attending Charleston College or Savannah College of Art and Design — Yankees just love that whole “quaint” Southern Gothic vibe with live oaks and Spanish moss.)

If you’re a Hamas supporter who wants to express hatred of Jews, what better place to do it than at Tulane University?

Anti-Israel protesters assaulted multiple people at Tulane University in New Orleans on Oct. 26, the most serious being after Jewish students at a rally responded to those aboard a truck who attempted to set an Israeli flag on fire. Several arrests were made. None of those arrested were students, and all have been banned from campus.
A rally organized by Tulane4Palestine, a group that was created a week earlier, was called for 12:30 p.m. at Freret and McAlister. Pro-Israel students took up a position across the street, holding Israeli flags and posters of Israelis who were abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7.
At the same time, Tulane Hillel was co-hosting an Antisemitism Awareness Week event with the university and the Anti-Defamation League, recommending a particular route to the building to avoid the demonstration. Hillel also encouraged students “not to engage in conflict.” . . .

Let me interrupt for a minute to call this to your attention: The pro-Palestinian group had been organized ad hoc, and they deliberately chose to stage their protest in the vicinity of the Hillel event for Antisemitism Awareness Week. Which is to say, this was a deliberate provocation. Now we return to the story:

Tulane President Michael Fitts, in a message to Tulane students on Oct. 26, said the rally “was intentionally staged on the public sidewalk… over which we do not have control.” The block in question connects two sections of the campus but is not technically part of Tulane.
Tulane4Palestine had distributed a map showing where to meet on the public side, cautioning to stay on the sidewalk and not enter the street or the campus territory on the other side of the street. . . .

(In other words, these Jew-hating thugs knew exactly how to avoid having their provocative rally shut down by university authorities.)

Dylan Mann, a Jewish freshman studying homeland security at Tulane, told JNS that he saw Jewish students waving Israeli flags and handing out fliers about kidnapped hostages. Across the street, others were rallying against Israel and its actions in the Gaza Strip after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7. Soon, the two groups were responding to one another.
The protesters “were screaming hateful things like ‘From the river to the sea’ and calling us ‘genocide supporters’,” Mann told JNS. “I knew at that point, I wasn’t going to leave. I was gonna stay.”
The pro-Israel activists began calling those across the street “terrorists,” and “it got very hateful very quickly,” he said.
A red pickup truck with two people in the back passed the rallies a few times, then stopped. While one person in the back of the truck waved a Palestinian flag, another began to burn an Israeli flag, and a pro-Israel student ran to the truck to grab it. The person waving the Palestinian flag started hitting the pro-Israel student with a flag pole, and Mann intervened to try to protect the student. The person who had tried to burn the Israeli flag gave a double-barreled middle finger to the pro-Israel crowd.
“The driver starts punching me, and there were a couple of people who joined them,” Mann told JNS. “That’s where someone blindsides me with the megaphone and hits me in the face. And they instantly broke my nose with that.”

You can read the whole thing, but you get the general idea. This group, “Tulane4Palestine,” isn’t officially recognized by the university and was started from scratch in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel with the obvious purpose of harassing Jews at Tulane.

Well, the aftermath of that has been . . . interesting:

The New Orleans-based Tulane Students for Palestine, which the university does not recognize as an official student group, on Wednesday took to Instagram to defend its use of the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which calls for the Jewish state’s annihilation. That slogan, the group said, is merely a call for a state in which “all people, including Jews, could live as equals.” The group also dismissed the threat of Palestinian terrorism, arguing that “white supremacy” is a larger threat to the Jewish people than what it called “the struggle for Palestinian liberation.”
“What we have seen for far too long is that it is Israel and the fantasy of Zionism that results in the expulsion and mass killing of Palestinians, not the other way around,” the video says. “The biggest threat to us as Jews is and has always been white supremacy, not the struggle for Palestinian liberation and self-determination. You are hurting Jews and Palestinians when you conflate the freedom struggle with white supremacy.”

There’s a word for this, and that word is insane.

You can click here to see the full video on Instagram, but when I say it’s insane, I don’t mean to dismiss the danger of this rhetoric. Nor do I think Instapundit’s “LOL” reaction is meant to be dismissive. What he means, I suppose, is that it’s ridiculous for anyone to claim that the “biggest threat” to Jews in America is “white supremacy,” just as it’s absurd to suggest that the Hamas “from the river to the sea” slogan means anything other than the annihilation of every Jew in Israel. (Hamas leaders have been explicit about what this slogan means, even apart from the obvious definitive aspect of their murderous attack on innocent Israeli civilians.)

To a certain kind of left-winger, however, the real enemy — “the biggest threat” — must always be right-wing, and so “white supremacy” is the bogeyman, rather than the Hamas fanatics who are killing Jews. The use of the phrase “freedom stuggle” in this context reminds me of Borat: “Throw the Jew down the well, so my country can be free!”

The “Tulane4Palestine” crew go to great lengths trying to distinguish between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, but if the end result of both is dead Jews, what difference does it make? And you’ll note a similar theme in how the Left claims that being against “white supremacy” is different than being anti-white, but if you pay close enough attention, you may start to think this also is a distinction without a difference.

Buck Throckmorton at AOSHQ highlighted these tweets:



 

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