Columbia University is paying a student 395,000 dollars to settle a lawsuit claiming he was unfairly suspended for spraying a group of pro-Gaza protesters with a noxious chemical. Columbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campusContinue reading “Lawsuit Establishes “He Who Smelt it, Dealt it” Precedent”
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Slipping the Right a Rufo
There is a stark divide on the American right separating supporters and opponents of Israel. The anti-Israel sentiment of the “far” right originates in opposition to Jewish power and influence, what we’re conditioned to call “anti-Semitism”. Here at least the charge “anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism” is apt. On the near side of respectability is the pro-IsraelContinue reading “Slipping the Right a Rufo”
Israel Slaughtering Children, Jews Hardest Hit
A British writer of comic fiction named Howard Jacobson complains in The Guardian that media outlets reporting on the record-setting rates of child casualties among Israel’s civilian victims in Gaza invokes the antisemitic “blood libel” of the medieval era: It says something for the conscience of the Church of England that, in 1955, it putContinue reading “Israel Slaughtering Children, Jews Hardest Hit”
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