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Antisemitism
*US public school officials push back in congressional
hearing on
antisemitism.*
A Republican on the committee accused the officials of lying, based on
no grounds, and then threatened them with wrecking their careers.
That's a Republican bully for you.
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| 2:46p |
NO to the foreign influence bill, GEO
Georgia (Sakartvelo)'s government is pushing a repressive law modeled after Putin's
repression of NGOs. Georgians, especially
young
ones, are protesting this.
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| 2:46p |
Filmmaker's incarcerations, Iran
A prominent Iranian film director faces 8 years in prison for making a movie that has
attracted international attention.
The idea that the festival would drop the showing of the movie if the government
flogs him into saying "Don't show my film!" is offensive. Film festivals should
disregard whatever the director and other participants are forced to say, and they
should make sure in advance that torturers know that approach is futile.
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| 2:46p |
Traditional USA "old college try"
*[Sacramento State University] will
pursue
an investment strategy divested from “corporations & funds that profit from
genocide, ethnic cleansing, and activities that violate fundamental human rights.”*
Several other US universities have made agreements with student protesters along
roughly similar lines, including two that had first tried violence against the students.
This is a significant achievement for the student protesters, all the
more so because it is general, not aimed only at Israel.
In and of itself, that is a good goal, but as a means for ending the
bombardment and siege of Gaza, I fear it is too indirect and too slow.
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| 2:46p |
Rafah-invasion explainer
The Israeli army seized the Rafah crossing, the main path for the insufficient aid
that still enters Gaza,
and
closed it. If any US aid travels to Gaza that way, US law (as I understand it)
requires cutting off military assistance to Israel. Promised new routes for aid to
enter Gaza are not possible replacements for the Rafah crossing because they are not
actually ready for use.
I interpret this as Netanyahu's defiance to Biden: "You weakling, I dare you to obey
that law." Since then, Biden has suspended delivery of
one
kind of weapon to Israel. Maybe that was a response telling Netanyahu, "Just you
watch!" Has he found the courage to go further than that one suspension?
Let's not lose sight of
where we want to end up.
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| 8:48p |
The saboteur's project 2025
What the corrupter told an
interviewer he would do if he wins or steals the election.
*To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people
from the country … he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and
deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states
monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would,
at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top
advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order
to prosecute someone,
breaking
with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s
founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking
the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been
convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or
Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut
the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit,
close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and
staff
his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020
election was stolen.*
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