May 11, 2024

MY SHOCKED FACE IS GETTING TIRED: In Bob Dylan’s “Neighborhood Bully” about Israel (and Jews) being the world’s pariahs, one line of the lyrics says:

“His enemies say, he’s on their land/They got him outnumbered, about a million to one/he got no place to escape to, no place to run.”

So the report from Just the News that The United Nations General Assembly on Friday approved a resolution granting expanded rights to Palestine, permitting it to operate within the U.N. framework in a form of non-voting pseudo-membership shouldn’t shock anyone.

“This is a reward for terrorism and will only strengthen Hamas and make peace impossible. It is one of the most destructive resolutions ever presented in the UN made possible due to the antisemitism and political interests that are so prevalent at the UN,” [said Israeli U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan.]

The fact that something isn’t a surprise doesn’t mean it isn’t repulsive.

Posted at 7:55 am by Charles Glasser

NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Liberal media is still in denial about post-Oct. 7 antisemitism.

Seven months of an unprecedented surge in antisemitism that has turned American college campuses and even K-12 schools into hostile environments for Jews has changed a lot of minds about the issue. The willingness of much of the political left to downplay or even justify the atrocities of Oct. 7—and then to flip the narrative about the war that Hamas started to one in which the victims of terrorism are somehow the real villains of the story—has shocked even many political liberals into rethinking their assumptions about where the real danger lies.

But not The New York Times.

As two lengthy news features published in the paper this week confirmed, the flagship of liberal journalism in the United States hasn’t let events or the reality of a post-Oct. 7 world interfere with their ideological or political agendas.

In one story, the newspaper devoted the time of four reporters to take a deep dive into contemporary antisemitism. But the result of what is described as their extensive research is that they have come to the conclusion that the real culprits are not the people who seek the destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet, legitimize a genocidal terrorist movement as justified “resistance” or attempt to allow those responsible for the mass murder of 1,200 people to get away with it. Instead, the Times believes that the problem rests with (surprise!) Republicans who are rallying in support of a beleaguered State of Israel and who are opposed to the deluge of Jew-hatred on display in the American public square since the current war began.

In another, the paper reported a congressional hearing about the growing problem of antisemitism in K-12 schools throughout the country as primarily one about how those in charge of these institutions scored points against members of Congress who care about the issue.

These are just two prominent examples out of many that could be pointed to that show how the Times and other liberal media outlets manipulate coverage of this issue to promote their own partisan agendas. They are worth noting precisely because they illustrate how ideological agendas work to present a distorted picture of a crisis that serves primarily to deflect attention from the real cause.

As Glenn wrote in March, “You can always count on the NYT staff to side with the barbarians.” Just ask Walter Duranty — and his modern day successors.

Related: Don Surber: We don’t want journalism back. “Thus the answer to [Matt] Taibbi’s question ‘Is Journalism Back?’ is no. Journalists abandoned objectivity. Readers have decided that they do not want the journalists back.”

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

“JUSTICE:” Oh, So That’s Why DOJ Isn’t Going After Pro-Terrorism Agitators. “Top Justice Department official Kristen Clarke’s “history of association with known antisemites” may hamper her ability to properly investigate recent civil rights violations at Columbia University, House Republicans said Tuesday.”

Yep, they’re on the same team.

Posted at 7:18 am by Glenn Reynolds

May 10, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

GRETA THUNBERG IS GARBAGE, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF GARBAGE PEOPLE OUT THERE ON THE LEFT:

And not just in Europe:

Posted at 7:44 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE LEFT, AS USUAL: The Long March Through the Institutions Arrives At Fascists’ Favorite Target. “Why? Because, for the left in the US, Canada and Europe, the Jewish state represents so much they hate, wrapped into a single package: capitalism, nationalism, Western religion and economic prosperity success thanks to hard work, intensive education and merit.”

Posted at 7:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE MOSTLY PEACEFUL PRO-HAMAS CAMPUS DEMONSTRATIONS: The Guardian: “An independent non-profit that tracks political violence and political protests around the world found that 97% of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza that have taken place in the US since mid-April have been peaceful.

But wait: “[The study] defines peaceful protests as ones without serious physical violence or property damage, Doyle said. Its bar for categorising a demonstration as violent includes “physical violence that rises above pushing or shoving” or property destruction that involves ‘breaking a window or worse,’ he said.”

Get it? You can push, shove, form human chains to keep “Zionists” from moving about, threaten, intimidate, chant “death to the Jews,” vandalize, trespass, even shoot at someone so long as you miss, and more, and the authors of the study would still say your protest has been “peaceful.”

Posted at 7:36 pm by David Bernstein

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Paxton Sues NGO For Aiding Illegal Alien Invasion. “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took time out from his busy schedule of suing the Biden Administration to sue an NGO aiding the Biden Administration’s illegal alien invasion.”

Posted at 4:53 pm by Stephen Green

MOST HILL AIDES BACK TERM LIMITS: Are you as shocked as I am by this?

Posted at 4:50 pm by Mark Tapscott

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Bit Off More Cop Than He Could Chew. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news and this week we have Florida Man’s Hannibal Lecter impersonation, the world’s most brazen shoplifter, and the lamest police chase in Texas history.”

Posted at 4:22 pm by Stephen Green

NEO: Biden’s betrayal: “But for Michigan?”

I have long said that although it’s very clear that Joe Biden is very cognitively challenged compared to just a few years ago, he still has plenty of agency and his brain is not so far gone that he’s unaware. Plus, he was Obama’s VP from 2009 to 2017, in full possession of whatever were his native faculties, and he did Obama’s bidding on this and on just about every other topic.

So this is not some recent thing nor is it the result of his age-related cognitive problems. It’s a result of who he is: a corrupt and ambitious viper – or weasel, if you prefer – who would sell out anyone for a dime or for career advancement.

Which brings us to a famous exchange from A Man For All Seasons. No, it’s not the one I often post here, about “cutting down” the laws. It’s this one:

That’s where I got the idea for the title of this post. Biden has betrayed Israel, the Jews, the US, the West, and Congress to win the presidency (he thinks) by winning the votes of the Muslims in Michigan who would dearly love to see Israel and the Jews destroyed, and the US and the West in their current forms as well.

Past performance is no guarantee of future Trunalimunumaprzure:

UPDATE: Biden 2006: Civilian Deaths Are No Reason to Demand Israel Stop Defending Itself From ‘Cowards’ Hiding Among Them. “If nothing else, pick this up at the 2:45-ish mark and watch Joe Biden then absolutely demolish the current version of Joe Biden when it comes to fighting terrorists. It’s the exact opposite of his position regarding Rafah and Hamas. Also, note how much more coherent Biden was in 2006, and compare it to his speech these days. This ain’t a ‘stutter,’ folks. It’s creeping senility.”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll