Hugh Fitzgerald

Between one-third and one-half of those “students” taking part at Columbia in the frenzied mob protests against Israel and for Hamas turn out not to be students at all, but older people, some of them professional left-wing agitators with long records of fomenting violence., and always eager to join any group of troublemakers willing to “stick it to the man.” Most often, nowadays the “man” in question is the “apartheid, settler-colonial, genocidal state” of Israel. More on James Carlson can be found here: “‘Violent' Columbia protester is heir to ad empire, has mansion, model babymama — and long rap sheet,” by

As the Prime Minister of Israel, the one and only Jewish State, I pledge here today, from Jerusalem, on this Holocaust Remembrance Day, if Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

In Austria, there is now an attempt to better regulate the number of “family members” that immigrants who are already in the country can bring in under the family reunification program, given how much fraud there is in the system, with non-family members being falsely claimed as family. These family reunification programs are in place all over Europe, and even in the United States. These programs have been riddled with fraud; a great many of those claimed by migrants to be their family members turn out to be completely unrelated. They have paid their “anchor relative” to claim them as family members.

The Jerusalem Post's editors take a dim view of Biden's threat to halt military aid — 500-pound bombs, 2000-pound bombs, artillery shells — if the IDF goes beyond the outer perimeter of Rafah. They soberly set out all the reasons why the Bidenite distancing itself from its ally, Israel, makes no strategic or moral sense. More on their response to what can only be called a great betrayal of an ally can be found here: “Betrayal of allies: US pauses munitions, while threatening Israel's security – editorial,”

The journalist Micah Halpern finds the hypocrisy of the Bidenites, presuming to lecture Israel on the need to “do more” to minimize civilian casualties (something the IDF does better than any other army in the history of warfare) hard to take. More on his response can be found here: “The US's hypocrisy is infuriating – opinion,” by Micah Halpern,

Stung by the findings of statisticians who concluded that the figures Hamas has provided on casualties in Gaza could not possibly be true, the United Nations has now halved the estimated number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to UN data published on May 6 and 8. More on this astonishing development can be found here: “UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed,” by Yuval Barnea,

Just how crazed has the anti-Israel furor become in Europe? So crazed that the aptly named Bambie Thug, Ireland's competitor in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, “cried with my team” when she learned that Israeli singer Eden Golan had been voted to be a finalist. More on this unpleasant and lachrymose nitwit can be found here: “Eurovision contestant Bambie Thug ‘cried' over Israel's Eden Golan making it to grand final,”

Joe Biden is now taking a hard line on Israel, holding back delivery of certain weaponry — 500- and 2000-pound bombs, and artillery shells — that he insists will not be delivered if the IDF goes deep into Rafah. But if the IDF does as Biden wants, and does not enter Rafah, it will be unable to rout the four intact battalions of Hamas still in the city, allowing the terror group to claim a victory, as Hamas, albeit with the number of its operatives greatly diminished, would still be standing. Why has Biden chosen to turn his back on Israel at its moment of maximum peril?

The murder of Polish Jews wasn't entirely a German affair.

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