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There's a special place in purgatory for people who take a political position that everyone they know agrees with, and then pronounce themselves brave because a lot of people they never interact with disagree.

This is how these conversations go:

Them: I oppose Israel because it's an ethnostate.
Me: So you oppose a Palestinian state?
Them: I support a state with a Palestinian majority, but with full rights for a Jewish minority.
Me: Of the two biggest Palestinian factions, though, one…

'Hamas agrees to ceasefire only if it means that it wins the war.'

An explanation from David Bernstein on what many are getting wrong about the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

Like the Soviet dictators he once admired, Bernie plans to go out feet first.

This is not 'peaceful.'

Apparently, the myth that the Kent State massacre was a product of someone's (never clear whose) desire to repress protest rather than of itchy-trigger-fingered nervous and poorly trained (at least for peacekeeping on campus) national guardsmen has taken hold as official…

Follow up from an earlier tweet: Northwestern Dean Dugo did not 'join' the rally, as some erroneous reports led me to believe, but she did attend as an observer a rally *on admitted students day* that included remarks protesting the existence of Hillel at NW, and she (and to be…

How about eliminating a genocidal antisemitic group that promises to kill 7.5 million Israeli Jews? Any inklings of the relevance?
One of the many remarkably dishonest takes on the war that's taken hold on the left is that Israel has mobilized for war with 400K reserves called…

'especially on the anniversary of the Kent State massacre.' Drama kings and queens.

Open to all (if you pay the entrance fee).

This who is teaching your children sociology... and this is why no one wants to major in subjects like sociology any more. You can get insipid political cant for free anywhere, why pay for it with tuition dollars?

Hint: when you see the magic ellipses from a tendentious commentator, assume he is intentionally distorting the statement quoted.

After months of international pressure, Israel opened the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza to facilitate delivery of humanitarian aid. Over the weekend, Hamas sent a missile barrage at the crossing, killing four Israeli soldiers, and forcing Israel to close the crossing. Hamas…

a ceasefire is by nature only indefinite, it‘s not a peace agreement.

Al Jazeera is state controlled media, like Russia Today, and the state, Qatar, is allied with Hamas, with which israel is currently at war.

These students are under tremendous pressure, and they caved. Yes, condemn the violence by outsiders. But referring to the pro-Hamas encampment that used physical force to block Jewish and other students from going where they had every right to go as a“mostly peaceful”…

It’s kind of funny that history professors invoke the history of civil disobedience in the United States to criticize their university for arresting lawbreaking students. First, civil disobedience comes with the willingness to be arrested for breaking the law. Second, civil…