Comments on: Roundup

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:31:06 +0000

Neo.
I think the question might be whether the/any university would have a Middle East Center if they had to pay for it themselves.
When I was at Enormous State University going on sixty years ago, you could aim your non-major required classes in various directions. I chose SubSaharan Africa. History, anthropology, econ, geography. There were profs in each of these fields who were specialists in the continent and between them coordinated an interdisciplinary course selection.
That took away from their more mainstream teaching hours, so additional instructors had to be found. That, as far as I know was the only added expense. No “Center” pushing issues outside the classroom.

By: Erasmus

Erasmus — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:14:35 +0000

Turkey and the lovely Tayyip have no business being in NATO.

By: Mike Plaiss

Mike Plaiss — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:52:00 +0000

The little monsters that run this paper are going fit right in at the NYT when they graduate.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/yale-newspaper-censors-piece-pro-israel-writer-unsubstantiated-claims-hamas-raped-women

By: Bill K

Bill K — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:02:09 +0000

Bauxite, as in fracture NATO? Or have Turkey turn against us?

By: Bauxite

Bauxite — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:10:53 +0000

Re Turkey – I’m not sure how much faith I have in our European allies vis-a-vis Israel. Turkey plus Europeans could put is in an interesting spot if we get drawn into war in the middle east.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:58:06 +0000

Oops. I see that that an article similar to Harsanyi’s was already linked to by AF…
Apologies…

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:50:32 +0000

Related:
David Harsanyi….
“Liberal Jews Have No Reason To Be Surprised By Progressive Antisemitism”—
https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/30/liberal-jews-have-no-reason-to-be-surprised-by-progressive-antisemitism/
H/T Instapundit.
Opening and closing grafs:
‘In the Los Angeles Times, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law School, tells us “nothing” has prepared him for the prevalence of antisemitism on campus.
‘ Nothing?….’
‘ …Maybe, just maybe, giving unfettered loyalty to a president who played footsie with likes of Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright and who was good friends with former PLO spokesperson and agitprop Rashid Khalidi was a clue that this kind of thinking would be normalized on the mainstream left. Of course, not only did Obama (and, to a similar extent, Biden) bolster the Islamists in Iran — an effort to blunt Israel’s regional power — but he also reached out to Hamas and pumped millions into Gaza and Hamas.
‘ Our elite schools and protest movements where philanthropic Jews drop millions every year sign petitions defending baby killers? Intersectionality. Decolonization. They’re all intertwined with identitarianism and antisemitism. Berkeley, like most campuses, is teeming Jew-baiting race-hustlers and pseudointellectuals who function in closed-minded havens for extremists. Sooner or later, those extremists are going to be emboldened. Sooner or later, they were going to be in positions of power.
‘ Sooner is now. ‘

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 06:08:40 +0000

(f) Going straight to the root of the matter, Steven Hayward cites David Horowitz the archetypical Changer from Left to Right.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/the-issue-is-not-the-issue.php

Ever since David Horowitz broke from the radical left back in the 1980s, he has been trying to warn conservatives that they don’t really understand the core principle of the left, and the depths of the left’s power-mad depravity. Conservatives too often think that the Israel-Palestine conflict, or civil rights, crime, income inequality, transgender ideology, climate change, etc, etc., are discrete issues to be argued against the left with reason and facts. To which Horowitz replies: The issue is not the issue—the issue is revolution! (And a key corollary is: the more violent, the better. Hence the approval and celebration of Hamas on October 7.)

The aftermath of October 7 ought to have revealed this truth more vividly than any event of the last 50 years. October 7 provided the spark for massive pro-Hamas demonstrations throughout the world and especially on college campuses. It is legitimized and brought out of the shadows the anti-Semitism long latent on the left, just waiting for a catalyst to organize spontaneously to vent their rage and hate. But it represents more than this.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:53:34 +0000

(d) Another mugged liberal, who didn’t have the sense to keep his eyes open walking down the dark streets. Glenn Reynolds justifiably says, “I told you so.” (h/t Powerline)
https://instapundit.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-party-pal

(e) A clear-eyed conservative, who taps a deep knowledge of the history of dark streets to explain why Israel’s choices now are very limited; see the comment by “Jim Reynolds” as well. (also via Powerline today).
https://victorhanson.com/a-therapeutic-middle-east-versus-a-tragic-one/

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:39:07 +0000

(c) Another group of liberals discovers what most of us realized long ago: the agenda of the Feminists is not the support of women, but the acquisition of power.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/feminists-are-consenting-to-hamas-rape-culture

No excerpts, because the author’s complaints will be obvious to most readers here, but worth looking at for the possible tipping points from Left to at lease Center.