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Israel strikes Gaza as Blinken heads to region to try to help close cease-fire deal
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Every graduate of NYC's elite Jewish Ramaz high school avoids Columbia for first time in decades
[NYPOST] None of this year's graduates of an elite Upper East Side Jewish high school will be attending Columbia University's premier liberal arts college for the first time in decades at least partly because of antisemitism.

''For the first time in over 20 years, we will not have a Ramaz graduate enrolling in Columbia College,'' Ramaz said in a statement Sunday to The Post.

One Ramaz student enrolled at Columbia's school of General Studies, and three students enrolled in Columbia-affiliated Barnard College for women — but none at the college, it said.

Ramaz indicated that anti-Israel protests and hostility toward Jewish students at Columbia during the previous semester had a factor in its graduates not attending Columbia College.

''Ramaz provides as much information as possible about the situation at various colleges of interest, and we have given priority to issues surrounding the horrific rise in antisemitic instances at some schools, so that our students and their families are able to make informed decisions about which colleges are right for them,'' a Ramaz rep said in an e-mail.

Rory Lancman, a top Jewish civil-rights activist whose two daughters graduated from Ramaz and who is a Columbia Law School graduate, said he would not recommend Jewish students to apply or attend Columbia at the moment because of Jew-bashing.
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The SEC has better football. And you won't be tainted by a Columbia diploma.
Big Ten's good, too, but the winters....
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/19/2024 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  it is disgraceful that any graduates of Ramaz attended last year or the year before

Columbia U's antisemitism didn't just happen last year. It has been obvious for a decade or more.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/19/2024 10:02 Comments || Top||


#4  If all the student Hamasniks all decided to boycott attendance in the coming fall terms at their colleges & universities, that might amount to a big financial hit for the schools.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 08/19/2024 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  ...Those Jewish students going elsewhere will not be alumni to tap for the 'Endowment Fund'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/19/2024 14:35 Comments || Top||

#6  ^More places for deserving African/undocumented-Americans!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/19/2024 14:41 Comments || Top||


Europe
'Camorra Puppies': Italian Youth Take Over Old Mafia Bosses
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Vladimir Dobrynin

After a wave of violent showdowns and shootings in 2017, the term "child gangs" entered police usage. These groups are made up of teenage criminals and are distinguished by a rigid hierarchical structure.
[REGNUM] In Naples, in the square of the church of San Vincenzo, in the Rioni Sanità quarter, a bronze composition has been installed - a young man dressed in a shirt and jeans is trying to pull out a ball stuck between two slats of a boulevard bench. A metal plaque attached to the base of the composition tells anyone interested that this is a monument to Gennaro Cesarano, a boy who died from a Mafia bullet late in the evening of September 6, 2015. He will forever remain seventeen years old.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 08/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Seems like the perfect time to kill off a generation and end the crime families.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/19/2024 9:58 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Media Hide Biden-Harris' Huge Migrant Flood in Campaign Season
[Breitbart] More than 170,000 migrants crossed President Joe Biden’s borders in July, but the TV networks and establishment media pretend the inflow was just 56,048 migrants during the run-up to the 2024 election.

The July 2024 inflow of more than 170,000 migrants is triple the number touted by Biden’s pro-migration border chief and his media allies. It is also four times the 40,000 illegal migrants who appeared at President Donald Trump’s southern border in July 2020.

Most of the 170,000 migrants are being welcomed into the United States under a series of recently invented and quasi-legal pathways.

That legal maneuver helps campaigning Kamala Harris and her media allies to hide most of the wealth-shifting economic migration into American’ communities, housing, schools, and workplaces.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/19/2024 09:33 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


WaPo looking into taylor Lorenz (WaPo columnist) calling Biden a war criminal
[MSN] The Washington Post is looking into a social media post allegedly made by high-profile columnist Taylor Lorenz calling President Biden a "war criminal."

In a screenshot obtained by New York Post's Jonathan Levine, a masked Lorenz is seen taking a selfie at Wednesday's White House Creator Economy Conference, with Biden speaking to a group of online influencers behind her.

"War criminal," the image is captioned with a frowny face.
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Lorenz subsequently denied doing it then denied her denial.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Hamas



Home Front: Politix
Mayor of Chicago calls Gaza war ‘genocidal’ ahead of DNC
[ALJAZEERA] Brandon Johnson
...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023...
, the mayor of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel…
, has referred to Israel's war on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
as ''genocidal'' in an interview with Mother Jones magazine, ahead of the Democratic National Convention, which begins in Chicago on Monday.
A vain attempt to mollify the ravening horde. Do enjoy your little political convention, my dear.
''What's happening right now is not only egregious, it is genocidal,'' Johnson, a progressive Democrat, said.

''We have to acknowledge and name it for what it is and have the moral courage to exercise our authority.''

US Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris
It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day
is expected to face antiwar protests during the convention, including from delegates from the ''uncommitted'' movement.
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/19/2024 0:44 Comments || Top||


#3 
"Mayor of Chicago calls Gaza war ‘genocidal"

It sure is, and the Israel has been defending itself for 100's of generations from Islamic's radicals and National Democratic Socialists like Hitler and now the Harris / Walz team.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/19/2024 4:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Conehead Johnson has room-temp IQ. This week should be fun
Posted by: Frank G || 08/19/2024 4:33 Comments || Top||

#5  It's nice of Marxists and their supporters to self identify.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/19/2024 7:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Aiding and abetting terrorists is a crime.....and supporting terrorists is a crime.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/19/2024 9:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Scottish party Whip suspended for saying Israel not committing genocide
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/19/2024 13:06 Comments || Top||

#8  If Israel is committing genocide, why are there any Gazans left? If Israel operated like the Nazis did, they would be rounding up Gazans and sending them to gas chambers. Or just leveling entire cities.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/19/2024 14:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Red Palestine whines from its cava,
"You Genocide Jews chanting Hava
Nagila
[cue song]
Are all doing it wrong!
Can't you nazis remember Warszawa?"
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 08/19/2024 14:55 Comments || Top||

#10  It is called plagues, war, and economic collapse. Not genocide.
Posted by: Glavinter Peacock7962 || 08/19/2024 15:31 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas official ends interview when asked if he accepts blame for civilian deaths in Gaza
[NYPOST] A top Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
official abruptly ended a CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
interview on Saturday after he was asked if the terror organization accepts responsibility for the deaths of Paleostinian civilians killed in the war.

Hamas member Osama Hamdan suddenly ended his interview with CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto after he was asked if Hamas regretted its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed hundreds of Israeli civilians — as Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Health Ministry officials say 40,000 Paleostinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in the war.

In response, Hamdan accused Sciutto, who was reporting from Tel Aviv, of taking Israel's side in the decades-long conflict.

''Well, it seems to me you are giving the Israelis the right to kill Paleostinians when you ask if we feel regret for what Israel has done,'' Hamdan said. ''You have to understand that Israel has been killing the Paleostinians for the last 76 years.''

The two then went back on forth as Hamdan accused Sciutto of only viewing the conflict through ''Israeli eyes.''

''You didn't see the Israelis killing thousands of Paleostinians in those 20 years,'' Hamdan said, claiming Sciutto wasn't knowledgable of the thousands of Paleostinians who were killed in the 2008 and 2014 wars in Gaza.

Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Son of Hamas founder claims war 'not going to stop' while Ayatollah lives
[NYPOST] One-time Israel double agent and son of a Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
founder Mosab Hassan Yusef warned there is ''no such thing'' as a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas until Iran's supreme leader is removed from power.

''This is an open war, and I'm afraid that we haven't seen the worst of it yet,'' Yusef told Fox News Digital. ''And let me tell you something: This whole thing is only for one purpose — to just bring the hostages back, and whenever there is an opportunity to just bring the hostages, I think this is where Israel is compromising.''

''But, eventually, this war is not going to stop until Islamists are removed from power, and I'm afraid now that we are coming to realize, without removing ayatollah from power, the Middle East would never experience peace and prosperity,'' Yusef said.

The son of a Hamas founder details in his new book, ''From Hamas to America,'' the deeply psychological impact of his harrowing life as a member of Hamas, his time as a double agent working for the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) and his exit to America after a decade of service.

This provides Yusef a unique perspective on the conflicts in the Middle East, and his message is stark: ''A cease-fire now, a temporary cease-fire that could bring some of the hostages back home alive is not a bad thing, but I'm afraid that this is just a temporary situation.''

''The approach of the current administration that is hesitant, that is trying to please everybody, to win votes— well, this is a short, political interest at the expense of the fundamentals of the country,'' Yusef argued.

''I think this is where Hamas can sense the compromise, when they see their hesitation, when they see the conflict within the administration, when they sense hypocrisy, they know that the politicians have been compromised,'' he said. ''And this is when they can actually find a way to infiltrate and to press toward creating more division and more chaos.''
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Son of Hamas founder claims war 'not going to stop' while Ayatollah lives

The solution appears quite obvious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/19/2024 3:39 Comments || Top||

#2  ^There are other Ayatollahs.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/19/2024 3:47 Comments || Top||



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