GUESS THAT PARTY: Colorado lawmaker calls Israel war “genocide.”

You have to make it to the sixth paragraph before her party is mentioned and even that is semi-oblique, referring to a “fellow Democratic state” lawmaker.

THIS IS CNN: Arrest made in death of Jewish protester who fell and hit his head.

A 50-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of a Jewish protester who fell and hit his head during Israel-Hamas protests in Southern California earlier this month, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Thursday.

Loay Alnaji was arrested Thursday on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and his bail will be set at $1 million, the news release said.

Alnaji was arrested within the hour and does not yet appear in the Ventura County inmate roster. CNN is trying to determine if he has legal representation.

Paul Kessler, 69, died after suffering a head injury following an interaction with a pro-Palestine protestor during dueling rallies on November 5.

Witnesses said Kessler was “involved in a physical altercation” with at least one counter protester while pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rallies were being held in Thousand Oaks, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said in an earlier news release.

It is unclear what interaction Kessler and Alnaji had before the incident.

Really? The London Daily Mail reported last Wednesday that “Loay Alnaji, who teaches computer science at Ventura Community College in California, allegedly hit Paul Kessler with a megaphone knocking him to the ground.”

Alnaji’s profession in academia is also “unexpectedly” absent from CNN’s article:

UPDATE: How dare those crazed bloodthirsty Neocons at NRO commit actual journalism and write a headline that actually tells the story! California Professor Arrested on Manslaughter Charges in Pro-Israel Demonstrator’s Death.

DEAL OF THE DAY: ThermoPro Lightning 1-Second Instant Read Meat Thermometer. #CommissionEarned

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: A Supernova ‘Destroyed’ Some of Earth’s Ozone for a Few Minutes in 2022: A new study suggests that explosive events in space have the potential to temporarily switch off the natural shield that protects us from harmful solar radiation. “The effect was detectable for just a few minutes before the ozone repaired itself, so it was ‘nothing serious,’ Dr. Ubertini said. But had the supernova occurred closer to us, he said, ‘it would be a catastrophe.'”

GREAT MOMENTS IN MORAL EQUIVALENCE: CBS’s Gayle King to Father of Israeli Hostage: ‘Innocent…Palestinians…Are Dying’ Too!

REMEMBER, CHINA CONTROLS TIK TOK: Osama Bin Laden is Going Viral on TikTok and This Seems Very Bad.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: You’ll Smash Your Kid’s Smartphone After Reading This.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT MONOPOLY COLLEGE CAMPUSES SUCH CESSPITS OF ANTISEMITISM? Sammy Tweedy, son of Wilco frontman, became a ‘pariah’ on his college campus after speaking up for Israel.

Some young adults who say they were handed a one-sided perspective on Israel have gotten involved in criticizing the country from a Jewish point of view. IfNotNow, for example, was founded in 2014 by graduates of Jewish day schools and summer camps to oppose Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its war on Gaza at the time.

Tweedy went a different direction. After his Birthright trip, he enrolled in history classes about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and found himself defending Israel. When students in class argued that “the Jewish connection to the land of Israel is completely fabricated,” he would speak up, offering historical perspective about the Jewish history in the region that dates back to biblical times. He says he was soon labeled a “racist” around campus.

“I was like, ‘What did I say that was racist? Why are they saying that?’ It’s because ‘you said Jewish people are indigenous to Israel.’ And I was like, that’s not f—ing racist. That doesn’t mean that Palestinians shouldn’t be able to live in that land or call it Palestine or whatever,” he said.

Tweedy also felt dismayed when the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter endorsed “armed struggle” against Israel and honored Khaire Alkam — who shot and killed seven Israelis at a synagogue — on a “wall of martyrs” in a campus building shortly after the attack this past January.

As word got around about his views, Tweedy was hit with a wave of social media messages from fellow students calling him out. Since Hamas’ attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza, the barrage increased. One post shared with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency read “the blood of gaza is on your hands.” In another, a student admitted to harassing him. He sometimes joined in arguments, as shown in messages he shared with JTA.

He filed a bias incident report to administrators on Nov. 11, after he saw the campus SJP charter say in an online post that U.S. media is “controlled by Zionists.” He said the school determined that the use of the word “Zionist” made the post acceptable.

A Sarah Lawrence spokesperson told JTA that the school does not share information on students with the media.

But Tweedy is far from the first Jewish Sarah Lawrence student to complain about the school’s handling of reported antisemitic incidents. On Oct. 31, Hillels of Westchester — representing chapters at Sarah Lawrence and a handful of other nearby schools — sent a letter to Sarah Lawrence President Cristle Collins Judd alleging that since at least 2014, Jewish students have been “harassed, intimidated, bullied, and ‘canceled’ for simply expressing themselves as Jews, or discussing or identifying with Israel.”

Flashback: Shocked by the Jew-Hate on College Campuses? I Wasn’t.

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SPACE: JWST detects water vapor, sulfur dioxide and sand clouds in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet.

Previously: Webb Telescope Just Getting Started.

GOOD FOR HER FOR ONCE: Hillary Clinton Rejects Calls For a Cease Fire in Gaza: ‘Hamas Must Go.’

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS PUSHES BACK AGAINST CENSORSHIP-SURROGATE NEWSGUARD: Verbatim: NewsGuard’s Inquisitiveness, and RealClearInvestigations’ Reply.

NICE SHOOTING: USS Thomas Hudner shoots down drone launched from Yemen over the Red Sea in act of self-defense. “The official confirmed that the drone originated in Yemen and was heading toward the ship, which was operating in international waters. It’s unclear whether the drone was armed or how close it came to the ship before being shot down.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Al Jazeera Reporter Cuts off Gaza Hospital Interview After Patient Says Hamas Is Hiding Among Wounded. “In the clip, the reporter, whose identity is unclear, then turns away from his interview subject and appears to quickly change the subject. The man continues to talk and tries to follow the journalist, even as he’s walking away from him.”

THEY MISS THE USSR: Leftist tears down YAF Berlin Wall display at Michigan Tech. Of course, tearing down commie walls is good, so. . . .

VICTORIA TAFT: Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry Moment, Part Deux.

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES ARE A SCAM. “Rules preventing the display of book covers with images of bones.” At an anthropology conference. You will not be surprised that the author’s talk this year got canceled for being about gender, which is at this point par for the course.

#JOURNALISM: Matt Taibbi: Expert: Media Insufficiently Hysterical on Subject of Trump.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Over 1 in 5 college students say they sympathize with Hamas: survey..

AND HAMAS IS HAPPY TO REMIND YOU THEMSELVES: Reminder: Hamas Seeks The Death Of All Jews Everywhere.

DON SURBER: Jewish group bets $100 million against The Squad: Meanwhile, lefties finally show their appreciation for Osama bin Laden. “Last night was a mess in DC as anti-Semitic protesters tried to disrupt a vigil for Israel by Jews. The police intervened. Then the anti-Semites attacked the DNC and the cops protected the party headquarters like the Beijing Police protect the CCP headquarters. . . . It’s only an insurrection when Trump supporters do it.”

To be fair, on January 6, the cops let people in to the Capitol. “The rioters are supporters of The Squad — a group of four stooges who have grown in number to seven including their first male, Jamaal Bowman, the fire alarm puller. The Squad is made up of anti-American Marxist people of color who hate Jews and anyone else who is not a person of color.”

Plus: “The Squad is riding the revival of Nazism on college campuses. There is no room for H8 except when it comes to Jews, Asian-Americans and rednecks. In the wake of the worst attack on Jewish civilians since World War II, the bonehead left is breaking out its copies of Mein Kampf and the writings of Osama bin Laden.”

I remember when all the best people told us it was okay to punch Nazis.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: So Much for ‘Nikkimentum.’ “As Haley’s stature grew in the Republican Party, there were a couple of soft shoe drops along the way. The other day, a lead boot hit the ground.”

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: DOJ asked court to hide surveillance of congressional investigators for five years, ex-aide says. “Jason Foster says DOJ’s surveillance of Congress and its staff could have chilling effect on whistleblowers coming forward in future.”

I’m sure that’s the goal.

PROF. JACOBSON: “It’s an anti-Western culture on campuses which is revealing itself as antisemitism.”