The Holocaust of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism on America's Campuses

These are indeed dangerous times, and the spread of leftist hatred has the imprimatur of the Democrat Party and the Obama administration. It's not just shocking. It's truly frightening. It's already like France for American Jews. A matter of life and death.

Are America’s Liberal Colleges Breeding Anti-Semitism? http://t.co/FvwzDbUXnr pic.twitter.com/gVLBXvkMvh

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 19, 2015

At the Daily Beast, "Berkeley’s Swastika Problem: Are America’s Liberal Colleges Breeding Anti-Semitism?":

A majority of Jewish college students, 54 percent, reported being subjected to or witness to anti-Semitism on campus during a six-month period, according to a 2014 survey published by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Trinity College. Not only was this survey undertaken before the violent summer conflict in Gaza, which researchers Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar said led to a “worldwide flare-up in anti-Semitism,” but they also noted that the “data suggest there is an under-reporting of anti-Semitism through the normal campus channels.”

Even more disturbingly, students reported that they often felt universities did not take their concerns about anti-Semitism seriously. “The response of many university faculty and administrators to Jewish complaints and outrage often shows that their threshold for the definition of the existence of the crime of anti-Semitism is set ridiculously high,” write Kosmin and Keysar.

At schools where students strive to protect the rights of ethnic and racial minorities, stomp out sexual and gender discrimination, and regularly remind people to “check their privilege,” hate speech against the Jewish community has become a pernicious problem.

“We still find anti-Semitic slogans written on bathrooms. We see swastikas on doors still, but they’re kind of dismissed. They’re painted over because there are just so many things that happened,” says Ori Herschmann, a senior at UC Berkeley who serves in the student government. “A lot of students find swastikas and come to me. [They see it] on dorms, on bathroom stalls, just random places on campus.”

Herschmann said the during the conflict in Gaza this summer, he also came across sidewalk graffiti on campus that exhorted “Death to Israel” and “Kill all the Jews.” (Herschmann shared a photograph of the former remark painted on a sidewalk but did not have one of the latter).

Herschmann says the Jewish undergraduates who come to him are often scared. He believes that part of his responsibility as a student leader is to make the Berkeley campus safer. Herschmann sponsored a bill condemning anti-Semitism on Berkeley’s campus and calling for the creation of a committee to deal with anti-Semitism. “I take this extremely seriously. The more I let the anti-Semitic rhetoric get me down, the less I can do my job,” he says. The Berkeley measure passed on February 25.
After initially telling The Daily Beast that they had not heard any reports of anti-Semitic graffiti this academic year, a rep with UC Berkeley later investigated and confirmed that they had been made aware of reports of swastikas on campus, as well as the “Death to Israel” graffiti.

In the case of the “Death to Israel” graffiti, the rep, Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs, maintained the graffiti was technically off-campus, near a popular restaurant called Freehouse. “It looks to me like we can account for that graffiti on the sidewalk, but that was in a public area not on campus,” said Mogulof. “The restaurant was in the city, not on campus. It’s impossible to know if that was someone from the surrounding community, high school kids, or someone affiliated with the campus.”

Hershmann noted that the graffiti was “right across from campus. It's literally across the street…for the university to dodge the question and say it's not part of campus is disgraceful. Students live all over Berkeley. If anti-Semitic events occur all over Berkeley, they [the administration] should make students feel safe.” Freehouse also happens to be only 413 feet from the UC Berkeley Hillel house, according to Google Maps.

The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations

At Commentary, "A Statement on the Crisis in the U.S.—Israel Relationship":

The relationship between the United States and Israel is in jeopardy because, from the moment his administration began, Barack Obama has consciously, deliberately, and with malice aforethought sought to jeopardize it. He did so in part because he is committed to the idea that Israel must retreat to its 1967 borders, dismantle its settlements, and will a Palestinian state into existence. He views Israel’s inability or unwillingness to do these things as a moral stain.

But the depth of Obama’s anger toward Israel and Netanyahu suggests that there is far more to it than that. Israel stands in the way of what the president hopes might be his crowning foreign-policy achievement: a new order in the Middle East represented by a new entente with Iran. Netanyahu’s testimony on behalf of his country and his people is this: A nuclear Iran will possess the means to visit a second Holocaust on the Jews in a single day. His testimony on behalf of everyone else is this: A nuclear Iran will set off an arms race in the Middle East that will threaten world order, the world’s financial stability, and the lives of untold millions. Simply put, Obama finds the witness Israel is bearing to the threat posed by Iran unbearable.

Elliott Abrams has called the speech kerfuffle a “manufactured crisis.” He is right, and the assembly line has been rolling without letup for six years.

Read it all.

The editors point out that the Democrats have increasingly become anti-Israel, and it's apparent that the sources are both bottom-up and top-down. On the one hand, the virulent racist anti-Semitism on college campuses has seeped upward into the precincts of the Democrat Party establishment (at the presidential nominating conventions, for example), and on the other, the Israel-hatred at the Obama White House has tricked-down, providing über-legitimacy for the entire spectrum of Israel-hatred on the political left.

'If you're anti-Israel then you're anti-America...'

A message to scummy leftists reading this blog, from Howard Stern:

HOWARD STERN: "If you're anti-Israel then you are anti-America." #StandWithIsrael pic.twitter.com/jQ87Sr1ey7
— slone (@slone) March 20, 2015

'Obama Loathes Netanyahu More than Any Other World Leader'

Once again, the inimitable Dr. Krauthammer speaks truth to despicable leftist hatred:

Why Islam Needs a Reformation

From Ayaan Hirsi Ali, at WSJ, "To defeat the extremists for good, Muslims must reject those aspects of their tradition that prompt some believers to resort to oppression and holy war."

A freakin' outstanding piece, excerpted from her new book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.

The 'Righthaven' Aftermath

From Steve Green, at the O.C. Register, "At Chapman forum, 'Righthaven' copyright outfit still controversial five years later."

It was through Mr. Green, who contacted me for comment, that I first found out about my Righthaven lawsuit. See "Beating Righthaven."

I'm pretty proud of myself that I fought back and defended myself against those fuckers.

The Rape Epidemic on Campus Does Not Exist

Of course it doesn't. It's being ginned up, to enormous effect, by terrible people.

At Minding the Campus.

Charlotte McKinney in Denim Buffalo

Lovely.

At Egotastic!, "Charlotte McKinney Is Big and Busty and Racktastic for Denim."

BONUS: "Charlotte McKinney Panties Flashing Robe Malfunction Outside DWTS."

"All he said was: 'The right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls. Left-wing organizations are busing them out. Get out to vote, bring your friends and family, vote Likud in order to close the gap between us and Labor'..."

Max Boot discusses the rift between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, at the L.A. Times, "More 'daylight' between Netanyahu's Israel and the U.S. -- is that what Obama wants?"

"Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls."

Boy, that's really "racist." But with idiot leftists, that's all they've got.

Hateful. Leftists are nothing but hateful.

A Complete Timeline of Obama's Anti-Israel Hatred

An astonishing fit of hatred from this president.

From Ben Shapiro, at Breitbart.



More, "Barack Obama and the War Against the Jews."

The Army's Fort Hood Disgrace

The army's top brass is a disgrace, not the grunts terrorized by Nidal Hasan. And Barack Hussein bears ultimate responsibly. He's virtually a cancer of political correctness ravaging the country.

From Kathy Platoni, at WSJ, "No one who supervised the shooter has been held to account, but the victims are denied pay and benefits":

It was more than five years ago that the gunshots rang out, but those of us who survived can still hear their echoes. On Nov. 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist named Nidal Hasan—an American radicalized by extremist Islamic beliefs—opened fire on his fellow soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas, killing 14 people, including an unborn child, and wounding 32.

I was there. A beloved friend, Capt. John Gaffaney, died at my knees. I was slated to become the shooter’s direct supervisor and later learned I was at the top of his hit list.

That day has faded from the minds of most Americans. But the survivors and the families of the deceased continually relive its horror. They also continue to face betrayal by the government they served...

A great piece. RTWT.

The Death of Free Speech on College Campuses

From A. Barton Hinkle, at Reason, "From trigger warnings to 'free speech zones', the First Amendment is in peril on campus":

Episodes such as these [at the link] – along with the increasing demand for “trigger warnings,” the campaigns to stamp out “microaggressions,” and so forth – neatly illustrate the snake-swallowing-its-own-tail nature of political correctness. Its support for diversity produces demands for conformity. Its insistence on inclusivity requires it to exclude those who, say, swell with pride at the sight of Old Glory. Its efforts to make the classroom a “safe space” have made classes unsafe for those whose views deviate from the campus norm. It deploys macro-aggression – coercion and compulsion – to punish such non-aggressive acts as the peaceful withholding of consent.

The campaign against hate speech – or merely offensive speech, or just any speech the listener disagrees with – rests on a couple of different rationales. The first is that hateful speech can lead to hateful acts: Racial epithets might lead to lynching, for example. But there is no real empirical evidence to support that claim. Indeed, on today’s campus any violence is more likely to be directed at the offending speaker, rather than at his intended target. (E.g, when an anti-abortion protester showed up a few days ago at the University of Oregon, he didn’t change any minds, but students did snatch his poster and tear it up. “This is not part of your First Amendment right,” they said.)

'Gwen Stefani proves that you can still look sexy when covered in her wax jeans and sky-high heels...'

Check out the slideshow.

ONLY Gwen Stefani could make jeans and a turtleneck look THIS sexy: http://t.co/vnWdstYgUp pic.twitter.com/k7SkJ1r8tR

— Harper's Bazaar (@harpersbazaarus) March 16, 2015

American Airlines Dad and Pilot Daughter Fly Together for the First Time

Feels good.

At ABC News, "American Airlines Dad and Pilot Daughter Duo Take Flight."

And London's Daily Mail, "Father and daughter co-pilot American Airlines flight together for first time - and mom came along for the ride."

The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror

Buy Jamie Glazov's book, United in Hate.

Plus, more specials at Amazon, Spring Cleaning - Shop Now.

Martese Johnson Arrest

Pretty soon you won't be able to arrest a black man in America. Political correctness will demand a universal pre-amnesty from the consequences of any and all forms of black thug behavior.

At BuzzFeed, "UVA Student Bloodied During Arrest By State Liquor Agents; Governor Orders Investigation."

Court records show Johnson was arrested on two misdemeanor charges of obstructing justice without force, and public swearing and intoxication. He is expected to appear in court next week.

And at the Daily Cavalier, "State, University, community responses to Martese Johnson's arrest." (Via Memeorandum.)

Amazing Video of Young Girl's Reaction at Seeing Train for the First Time

This is something else.

It certainly looks like she's seeing a train for the first time.

Watch: "A Sweet Little Girl Sees a Train for the First Time."

Dieudonné M'bala M'bala Convicted of Condoning Terrorism on Facebook

Not funny.

At NYT, "Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, French Comedian, Convicted of Condoning Terrorism."

Netanyahu Foils Obama's Plot to Depose Israel's Likud Government

Here's Ezra Levant:



And at the Los Angeles Times, "U.S. support for Israel at the U.N. is in jeopardy, White House says." Obama's a fucking sore loser. See the Guardian UK, "Obama snubs Netanyahu and criticises Israeli PM's 'divisive rhetoric'."

More from Noah Rothman, at Hot Air, "Sour grapes on the left over Netanyahu’s landslide victory."

San Francisco Saint Mary's Cathedral Drenches Homeless with Sprinklers to Keep Them Away

Now this is just cruel.

At CBS San Francisco, "Homeless At Saint Mary’s Cathedral Intentionally Drenched With Water While Sleeping."

And at Memeorandum, "Saint Mary's Cathedral Drenches Homeless With Water to Keep Them Away."

Plus, here's the statement from the archdiocese.