AS ROBERT A. HEINLEIN SAID “AGAIN AND AGAIN, WHAT ARE THE FACTS?” IF YOU CHOOSE TO IGNORE THEM, YOU FALL INTO:  Dangerous Tales.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  Premodern Diversity Vs. Civilizational Unity.

IF PRO-HAMAS PROTESTORS, AKA SUPPORTERS OF ATTROCITIES, ARE NOT CITIZENS DEPORT THEM. IF CITIZENS, EXPELL THEM:  Israeli Students at MIT Terrified as Pro-Hamas Protesters Chant ‘Intifada’ and ‘One Solution’.

MORE LIKE THIS TOO:  IDF Kills Hamas Head of Intelligence Directorate Who Helped Plan Oct. 7 Massacre.

MORE LIKE THIS:  Pushback: Fired director of college’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion department accuses movement of promoting bigotry.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT THEY’RE VERY DIVERSE:  Hedge fund billionaire vows to stop donating to Columbia University amid students’ Israel protests.

THOSE #@!$ JEWS SHOULDN’T WEAR THEIR SKIRTS SO SHORT:  Controversial NYU law student president filmed defacing posters of Hamas hostages.

‘COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT’ IS WHAT YOU EARN WHEN THE FOLK YOU ELECT START A WAR:  California city the first in US to condemn Israel, accuse Jewish state of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza.

CHASER:  ‘Doxxing trucks’ expand to Columbia, UPenn to expose campuses’ ‘leading antisemites’.

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE IS SAUCE FOR THE GANDER:  Harvard ‘doxxing truck’ parks outside homes of students who blamed Israel for Hamas attacks.

AND ALL SOROS AND THE TIDES FOUNDATION GOT IN RETURN WERE A COUPLE TOTE BAGS:  Liberal dark money network has donated $10M to anti-Israel causes.

OBVIOUS FAKE! NO WAY SHE’S HALF THIS LUCID:  Greta’s diary: I stand with Gaza. Hope he stays sober.

IT’S COMPANY POLICY:  BBC drags its feet over Hamas-supporting reporters.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

WHY THE DELAY? Running on Empty? “There have been many questions asked about the Israeli delay in the invasion of Gaza. Some say that the US and other nations are responsible for the delay. Perhaps the answer has more to do with military tactics. Israel is not allowing fuel deliveries into Gaza. When the fuel for generators is depleted, Hamas fighters will have to leave their tunnels and face Israeli armor and air strikes.”

JOHN PODHORETZ: Rather than protecting Jews, we’re being told to hide — again.

In 2023, three weeks after Jews in Israel were set upon by marauders who murdered 1,400 and injured nearly three times that many, in cities around the world and now in New York, the Jews outside Israel are under attack as never before in recent history — rather than finding themselves protected as never before.

No, they must stay inside.

Like Anne Frank, trapped for two years in an attic because any outdoor public breath would mean capture and death — and captured anyway because someone in the house below the attic ratted the Frank family out.

Stay inside.

Like the pianist Władysław Szpilman, played by Adrien Brody in “The Pianist” 20 years ago, who did not talk to another person for more than a year as he remained silent and all but motionless in a room in Warsaw after his family was deported to and slaughtered at Treblinka.

In my 62 years of life, I have thought every day of the blessing America has been to the Jewish people — a blessing unlike any my people have ever known.

And this, the most Jewish city in the world outside of Israel, has been a blessing as well.

At this moment, though, the Jews had better hide.

I cannot tell you how terrifying this is.

As David Mamet wrote on Monday in, “How the Democrats betrayed the Jews:” “Many good German Jews in the Thirties ignored their brothers and sisters to the East, and later died with them. My generation, born right after the Holocaust, wondered: ‘Good God, didn’t you see what was happening around you? Are you literally willing to die rather than admit you were mistaken?’ The answer, today, to many liberal American Jews, is ‘Yes’. In response, the world’s Leftist media calls for the chastisement of Israel and support for Palestine, while those who consider themselves mere ‘liberals’ moderate their cowardice by calling for a ‘ceasefire’ — which is to say, a pause while Hamas re-arms. This is where the libel of the hospital bombing is instructive. It is, quite literally, another example of the West’s oldest, most reliable, and most permissible sick entertainment: the call for Jewish extinction. The invitation, here, is no different from that of the carnival barker: thrills, chills, and excitement galore.”

UPDATE:

"Librarians bolted the doors and approached the identifiable Jewish students and told them they could hide in the attic if they wanted to"

"In the attic"….hide the Jews in the attic…in 2023https://t.co/1cXHV5IExZ

— mallen2024 (@mallen20243) October 26, 2023

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches new 3-astronaut crew to Tiangong space station.

DEMOCRATS SURE GOT IT GOOD: Jeffries says Bowman doesn’t deserve censure for pulling fire alarm.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that fellow Democratic New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman doesn’t deserve censure for falsely pulling the fire alarm before an important vote last month.

Bowman pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor for the fire alarm incident in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Republicans have accused him of pulling the alarm to sabotage the vote, with some calling for punitive action.

“Not in my view,” Jeffries responded at a press conference when asked whether Bowman should be censured, accusing Republicans of hypocrisy.

“[M]any of these lawmakers on the other side of the aisle who had their hair on fire about what appears to have been an inadvertent action taken by Congressman Bowman, to which he is now being held accountable for, within the criminal justice system, regularly defend violent individuals who overran the Capitol on Jan. 6, as part of an effort to halt a peaceful transfer of power,” he said.

“Inadvertent:”

🚨 NEW FOOTAGE: Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman removes warning signs before pulling the fire alarm in a House office building last month pic.twitter.com/dhwOQN2G6y

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 26, 2023

Related: Never Forget: Hakeem Jeffries Is an Election Denier.

(Classical reference in headline.)

THE HAMAS POGROM AND THE NADIR OF JOURNALISM:

I’ve seen some mad media corrections in my time, but the one from the BBC this week was on an entirely new level. It wasn’t a correction as such, it was an ‘update’. ‘This post replaces an earlier story which has been updated’, said a tweet from BBC News. It concerned the story of Yocheved Lifschitz, the 85-year-old Israeli woman who was seized by Hamas during its genocidal pogrom in southern Israel on 7 October. Mrs Lifschitz was released on Monday evening. ‘Released Israeli hostage shakes her captor’s hand’, gushed the BBC, encouraging us to think this elderly lady must have got on pretty well with her Hamas keepers. Then came the new post, the updated one, the correction, the truth. ‘I went through hell, says 85-year-old hostage released by Hamas’, it said.

That is some turnaround. From a handshake to ‘hell’, in two tweets. From fawning over a kidnap victim and her kidnapper briefly shaking hands to admitting that the kidnap victim actually had a horrific time. It seems the BBC, belatedly, caught up on some of the things Mrs Lifschitz said after she was released. It was ‘hell’, she said from her wheelchair in a hospital in Tel Aviv. ‘They stormed into our homes. They beat people’, she said, seeming ‘overwhelmed’. She herself was thrown on to a motorbike by the terrorists: ‘My head was on one side and the rest of my body was on the other side.’ Her watch and jewellery were stolen. And she was battered with sticks. With Herculean grace she said: ‘They didn’t break my ribs but it was painful and I had difficulty breathing.’

Why would any journalist worth his or her salt focus on a touching of hands rather than the near breaking of ribs? On the briefly humane ending of a racist and unjust false imprisonment rather than on the inhumanity of the imprisonment itself? You could say ‘Shame on the BBC’ virtually every week. (This week, for example, it was revealed that the Beeb’s channel for kids, CBBC, asked an academic who’s jus