Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ is meeting today w/ the university advisory committee on Jewish life.

She called the meeting yesterday after earlier this week reaching an agreement w/ 'Free Palestine Encampment' leaders on Tuesday.

Also this week:

I'll be hanging out here tonight — Idan Raichel, Matisyahu, Five for Fighting...it's like I'm 15 again. jewishinsider.com/2024/05/mit-je…

New: I talked to UMich Regent Jordan Acker after a masked anti-Israel protester came to his house in the middle of the night.

'These tactics are fundamentally—whether they’re from the far right or far left—incredibly illiberal'

Read the intvw in JI:
jewishinsider.com/2024/05/anti-i…

Jordan Acker, a Michigan lawyer & member of UM Board of Regents, shared w/ me the document this person posted on his front door in the middle of the night.

Calls to:
- divest from 🇮🇱 'apartheid & genocide'
- boycott 🇮🇱 universities
- stop accusing protesters of antisemitism...

👀 Netanyahu compares Israelis protesting his government/lack of hostage deal to pro-Pales. campus protesters.

“These protests.. don't reflect the majority of the people anymore than the mobocracies in American campuses.. do they reflect the majority of the American people? No.”

not the point, but i'm fascinated by the odd trend of leftist Jews who say 'Israel/Palestine' when referring to the region, & not just *Israel*—like, 'I'm traveling to Israel/Palestine' when what they mean is they're just going to *Israel* to visit friends or study in Jerusalem

The US aims to wrap up Gaza war. How does that square with its goal of toppling Hamas?

The US hasn't directly addressed this apparent dissonance, but two US officials and two other sources familiar offered some more clarity to The Times of Israel (1/18)
timesofisrael.com/the-us-aims-to…

good time to re-up my story from January on how the war in Gaza has upended online dating (and, apparently, IRL dates too h/t Arno Rosenfeld) 🫠 jewishinsider.com/2024/01/how-th…

Fascinating story from Lahav Harkov 🎗️ today — interviewing Ukraine's ambassador to Israel about how both countries are reliant upon U.S. security assistance to fight their enemies
jewishinsider.com/2024/05/israel…

Speaker Johnson said he hoped Biden was having a “senior moment” when he declared he would withhold weapons from Israel if it proceeded with a planned invasion of Rafah.

Today, admin officials made clear POTUS meant every word.

W/ ⁦Jonathan Lemire⁩ politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

UPDATE:
• Hamas leaves talks
• CIA chief leaves talks
• No deal reached
• Qatar, Israel still in Cairo
• Netanyahu defiant against Biden
• Clashes with Hezbollah al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

Milken is cool because one minute you're watching ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gossip about Matt Gaetz (more nuggets on that to come) and the next you're watching the CEO of Mattel, the star of Jane the Virgin & other Hollywood bigwigs talk about the future of entertainment.

NEW Jewish Insider via Marc Rod: “Biden condemns violent campus protests, Oct. 7 denialism and defenders in Holocaust remembrance speech” jewishinsider.com/2024/05/biden-…