AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS: Hamas commander who ‘directed’ October 7 terror attack killed in airstrike.
Archive for 2023
November 1, 2023
ROBERT SPENCER: Jihad, Nazism, and the Cult of Masculinity. “It all points up a fact that Islamic apologists in the West do their best to conceal: Islam in general is a religion for males, and in particular, for sexually avaricious adolescent males. Islam is a cult of masculinity, and in this, its appeal is very much like that of National Socialism. Both indulge in a kind of idolatry of masculinity, confusing genuine masculine strength with brutality, bloodlust, domination, and the exaltation of violence and brute force. This is why both National Socialism and Islamic jihad groups such as Hamas often attract weak men who are overcompensating for their lack of real masculinity and who often also wish to deny and suppress their homosexual inclinations.”
Read the whole thing.
RACIAL CLASSIFICATION in Higher EDUCATION ADMISSIONS BEFORE AND AFTER SFFA: That’s the title of my forthcoming article, which you can download here. Some readers are old enough to remember when the “Hispanic” classification was “Mexican American” or “Spanish surname,” and when Asian Americans were sometimes eligible for affirmative action preferences in higher education, rather than facing discrimination. How and when did these things change? Read the article and find out.
FRANCE’S NIGHTMARE IS YOURS NOW:
Make no mistake: This timeline does not diminish the ground-breaking aspect of what happened on Oct. 7. To the contrary. Pogroms are old news, of course. What makes this whole sequence new is that these killers publicized their actions live, in real time.
And it worked. During one of the first pro-Palestinian rallies in Times Square, shortly after Oct. 7, a demonstrator proudly exhibited on his iPhone screen the ravaged, naked body of one of the Israeli victims—a woman of course. (That women paid and continue to pay the heaviest price for the events of Oct. 7 is a fact that should be examined more closely; in France, some days ago, a Jewish feminist student was surprised to discover a tweet from one of her activist friends justifying the rapes.)
In 2015 in France, ISIS’s most gory videos were also the most efficient ones at motivating jihadi recruitment. In the same breath, would-be terrorists would deny that atrocities were happening in Rakka (it was all Western propaganda) and feel enthralled by those same snuff films because they were proof that “it was really happening.” As it turns out, the public performance of sadistic acts is the most efficient way to break down every moral barrier across the world. By duplicating and diffusing the terror and the horror, and by making this duplication part of their “military” strategy, Hamas aims at controlling the narrative of what’s going on as it happens, winning admirers and gaining new supporters and recruits, who commune together in a worldwide social media loop of Jew-lynching, backed by proof that it is really happening.
I know exactly what this looks like for Jews in France, and for the rest of the country. The specific nature of the horrors it will produce when enacted on a global scale remain to be seen.
Read the whole thing.
FIGHT THE POWER: Meet the libertarian professor who raised a ruckus at USC.
“The progressive monolith hates being called out for the intolerant structure that it is.”
That according to University of Southern California emeritus Professor James Moore, who said that despite the fact that an offer to teach during retirement was rescinded by USC, he still plans to keep his longtime employer in his crosshairs.
The university initially asked him to teach two classes in retirement, but recalled the offer, he said. The industrial and systems engineering scholar, who taught at USC for 36 years, also said his emeritus designation was nearly refused over a history of disagreements with administration and his rejection of “illiberal” thinking.
Moore made headlines in recent years for, among other things, telling the school during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings that sometimes people lie, as well as hanging a Blue Lives Matter flag on his office door and refusing to take it down.
USC Executive Director of Media Relations, Emily Gersema, did not respond to a request for comment.
Lol.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: White House indicates people making ‘violent antisemitic threats’ not classified as ‘domestic terrorists.’
The White House indicated Tuesday that people in the U.S. making “violent antisemitic threats” were not going to be classified as “domestic terrorists.”
The comments, made by National Security Council spokesman John Kirby during the White House press briefing, ran in stark contrast to parents concerned about their children’s education previously being described as “domestic terrorists” in a letter that prompted a directive from the Biden administration for the FBI to investigate.
“The people in this country making violent antisemitic threats. Are they domestic terrorists?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Kirby.
“I don’t know that we’re classifying people as domestic terrorists for that. I mean, that’s really a question better left to law enforcement. I’m not aware that there’s been such a characterization of that,” Kirby responded.
Just think of the Biden administration as Obama’s third term and it all makes sense. Or think of it as:
For anyone wondering what would Twitter during 9/11 would have been like with Al Gore as president.. you're living it. imagine the the New York Times explaining why NYU students taking down missing World Trade Center victim posters down was nuanced and necessary for a ceasefire
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 1, 2023
WHEN PEOPLE TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: Hamas Official: We Will Repeat the October 7 Atrocities Again and Again. “Nobody should blame us for the things we do.”
STAND UP AGAINST TERROR AND BIGOTRY: Video: Pro-Israel students counterprotest pro-Hamas classmates.
I HAD BEEN ASSURED BY ALL THE SMARTEST PEOPLE THAT THE BUD LIGHT BOYCOTT WOULD GO FLAT: Beer giant AB InBev’s US sales plunge more than 13% on Bud Light fiasco. “The US is the brewer’s largest market – and where it seemingly cannot overcome the disastrous fallout from a marketing campaign in April with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.”
It wasn’t the marketing campaign. It was the disdain that motivated it.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Welcome to Far-Right Extremists Extremism Land. “Johnson’s rise to power at the end of October gave the Democrats a new monster under the bed just in time for Halloween.”
LOL, HE SHOULD LOOK AT HARVARD IF HE’S LOOKING FOR NAZIS: John Oliver Is Worried about Nazi Homeschoolers.
Related: ‘I Wouldn’t Have Gone Along With The Nazis In 1939,’ Says College Student At ‘Kill The Jews’ Rally.
Seen on Facebook: “Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a Harvard student their grandfather’s SS rank.”
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education. “In Campbell’s Knox County school district, public school enrollment declined 16 percent during the last six years. Over the same period, the county’s number of home-schooled students grew 80 percent.”
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
THEY WOULD NEVER SAY THIS ABOUT BLACK STUDENTS: University of Wisconsin-Madison Calls Jewish Students’ Fear “Exaggerated:” Two years ago the university raised $50k in private donations to remove a racist rock.
Priorities, you know. In the world of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, some people get more equity and inclusion than others.
GET IT WHILE IT’S HOT: My book Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classifications in America is out in paperback. It’s widely (and correctly, I gotta say) credited with influencing the Supreme Court’s opinion in June in the Students for Fair Admissions affirmative action case, via an amicus brief I filed based on the book.
CHANGE? Muslim immigrant running to unseat Ilhan Omar, speaks out from Israel: ‘We are not like her.’
A Muslim immigrant and Minnesota Republican congressional candidate joined “Fox & Friends” to call out far-left Democrats for their failure to stand with Israel against Hamas terrorists.
“I’m telling you, Hamas is a terrorist group, and whoever supports these terrorists don’t belong to the United States of America, the land of the free,” said Dalia al-Aqidi, who is running to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who she called the “No. 1 antisemitic lawmaker in the United States.”
“When they call for a free Palestine and call ‘from the river to the sea,’ this is a call for a genocide. Black Lives Matter and all these far-left progressives have no clue what they’re chanting about.”
Al-Aqidi, speaking from Israel, said she traveled there three days ago to “show my support and solidarity with the Jewish people,” declaring that the people of Minneapolis – where Omar was raised – support Israel.
“We are not like her (Omar). We support the Jewish people, and we are fighting the same fight,” she told host Ainsley Earhardt, explaining that Omar’s district has become “ground zero for antisemitism” under her leadership.
Sadly, that doesn’t say much about al-Aqidi’s chances against Omar.
ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW: Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Figures Out That Face Masks Are Fueling Crime.
HE WAS CLEARLY RIGHT: Elon Musk on why he bought Twitter. “He’s responding to Joe’s prompt to tell us why he bought Twitter, and — warning that it would sound melodramatic — he says he thought that Twitter had taken the mindset of the San Francisco area and amplified it and made it dominant to the point where all life on Earth was in danger.”
IT’S ALMOST LIKE UNIVERSITIES ARE BEING RUN BY THE AUTHORITARIAN LEFT: Aaron Sibarium reports: “The only student on [Stanford] law school’s search committee, Matthew Coffin is the co-president of Stanford OutLaw, the LGBT student group that led efforts in March to disrupt a Federalist Society event featuring Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan.”
PARIS PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939 AGAIN: Paris: Jewish Homes, Stores Marked With Stars of David.
BIG MAC INDEX REVEALS ALL: McDonald’s insane new prices chart supersized toll of Bidenomics.
IRAN’S ALLIES IN YEMEN: Houthis say they launched ballistic missiles, drones at Israel.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they launched a “large number” of ballistic missiles and drones towards Israel and warned of more attacks to come.
Israel earlier said it destroyed an unidentified “aerial target” over the Red Sea on Tuesday morning.
“There was no threat or risk to civilians,” the Israeli military said.
The incident triggered air raid sirens in the popular Red Sea tourist resort of Eilat and sent residents running for shelter.
Separately, the Israeli military said that it used the “Arrow” aerial defence system for the first time since the October 7 outbreak of the war with Hamas to intercept a surface-to-surface missile in the Red Sea fired towards its territory.
Yahya Saree, a spokesperson for the Houthi’s military, said the operation was the third targeting Israel and threatened to carry out more strikes “until the Israeli aggression stops.”
Previously: Progressive activists get a big foreign policy win. It’s been an uphill battle.
The House passed a resolution Wednesday, February 13, to end US support for the war in Yemen. It’s the culmination of a years-long effort by progressive activists and lawmakers to claw back war-approving authority from the president and end US participation in a war that has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.
The war in Yemen, directed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS, as he’s commonly referred to in Washington), has killed more than 50,000 people, according to one independent estimate, and has left more than 20 million Yemenis in need of humanitarian assistance.
Progressives have long sided with Iran’s Houthi terrorist outfits.