[NYPOST] A UCLA student government official who has faced repeated allegations of antisemitism refused to hire Jewish applicants and even put them on a ''no hire list,'' a complaint filed with the school's judicial board claims.
Cultural Affairs Commissioner Alicia Verdugo rejected every single Jewish student who mentioned their faith in their employment applications, and even texted her colleagues to be on the lookout for ''zionists,'' the complaint alleges.
''We've been sounding the alarm about Verdugo for years,'' student Bella Brannon, 21, who filed the complaint, told The Post.
''[Verdugo] is single-handedly dragging UCLA's reputation through the mud. This actor makes us fear for our safety.''
Students who identified themselves as Jewish, without mentioning Israel or their views on the war against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... , on their job applications were all rejected by Verdugo's office, which is part of the school's Undergraduate Students Association Council, the complaint claims.
One student was rejected after identifying themself as Jewish on their application and saying that ''the right to express one's religion'' was ''imperative'' in response to a question about a social or political issue that was important to them.
Brannon’s petition to the judicial board is not the first time Verdugo has faced criticism for alleged antisemitism.
Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... attacks on Israel that killed around 1,200 people, Verdugo’s office posted a statement to Instagram affirming its support for "Paleostinians in their struggle for liberation from Israel." At the next USAC meeting Oct. 10, 2023, multiple speakers criticized Verdugo’s office during the meeting’s public comment period.
"Those who did this (a social media post by CAC), ought to apologize and take it down and learn something about what’s really been going on," said former USAC General Representative Eliana Sisman during the meeting. "If they are not willing to do that, then they should not be in these positions claiming to represent us and getting our money."
United States Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, previously claimed in a letter to UC leaders that Verdugo "had previously been involved in the targeted harassment of students" who disagreed with the Commission’s position on the Israel-Hamas war.
According to the judicial board’s rules, the board must grant or deny the petition for consideration within three business days. In an emailed statement, Chief Justice Mithra Venkatesh said the board will begin review on the petition Wednesday.
If three members of the seven-justice board vote to grant the petition for consideration, the board — which has not tried a case in at least two years — will formally hear the case.
WOW: The President of Turkey calls for the end of Western Civilization: “Western civilization will collapse, our divine and humane civilization will flourish.”
They took an excellent shot at it and nearly got there. But things weren't the same for the Turks after their defeat at the gates of Vienna in 1682. And Erdogan isn't exactly Süleyman the Magnificent.
#8
When Erdogan goes on a trip, he's
Like, way out there, man! Will the hippies
Who drooled over Gandhi
All give him a hand?
"Tee hee hee... Western Civ!"
Filthy Yippies.
[GEO.TV] The UN General Assembly on Tuesday called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories and pushed for the creation of a Palestinian state, convening an international conference in June to try to jumpstart a two-state solution.
In a resolution passed by a 157-8 vote, with the United States and Israel among those voting no, and seven abstentions, the Assembly expressed "unwavering support, in accordance with international law, for the two-state solution of Israel and Palestine."
Support is all the General Assembly can do. They’re a talk shop — all the power to actually do anything belongs to the Security Council.
The Assembly said the two states should be "living side by side in peace and security within recognized borders, based on the pre-1967 borders."
It has called for a high-level international meeting in New York in June 2025, to be co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, to breathe new life into diplomatic efforts to make the two-state solution a reality.
That’s the conference French President Macron ws so enthusiastic about a few days ago, though that was before his prime minister’s government fell in a No Confidence vote He may be less sanguine about the probability that he will be able to attend by now.
The assembly called for "realisation of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, primarily the right to self-determination and the right to their independent state."
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[MSN - WSJ] The surprising advance by opposition forces in Syria’s civil war poses a conundrum for Israel and the West: Victory by either side presents risks.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is allied with Israel’s enemy, Iran. The resurgence of the war threatens to invigorate that relationship, undermining Israel’s effort to weaken Iran’s web of allied countries and militias throughout the region.
The rebel group now challenging Assad’s rule, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization that Israel sees as dangerous to its interests.
“The best option for Israel now is a mutual weakening of those forces, not a decisive victory of any of them,” said Harel Chorev, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University.
Rebel forces from HTS are holding Aleppo after a lightning offensive to reclaim Syria’s second city late last month, a move that exploited the distraction among Assad’s allies—Iran, Russia and Hezbollah—while they engage in other conflicts.
In recent years, Israel has preferred “the devil we know” in Assad, over instability and insecurity created by the Islamist rebel groups, said Eyal Zisser, who follows Syria at Tel Aviv University.
Indeed, before the rebel offensive, Israel had nurtured hopes that Assad could be lured away from Iran through funding and closer ties to more Western-friendly Gulf states, according to Israeli and Arab officials. The Arab league had readmitted Syria after expelling it from the group for its alliance with Iran and Hezbollah. Assad’s forces were lukewarm in support for Hezbollah in its war with Israel, permitting weapons transfers but not committing troops.
With Assad’s regime now facing its greatest challenge in years, Israel worries that those gains are at risk. The rapid rebel advance has also created fresh instability and threatens to upend the regional order. Also, U.S. officials fear that America, which has roughly 900 troops in eastern Syria, might get dragged deeper into the conflict.
For over a decade, Syria has been a crucible for a great-power contest that has drawn in an array of state actors. On Assad’s side, Iran and Russia, along with Hezbollah, have propped up the regime with weapons and fighters. Turkey supports some Syrian opposition groups, as part of its own fight against Kurdish separatists. The U.S. partners with Kurdish-led militias in Syria’s northeast in a campaign against Islamic State extremists.
Israel took a back seat at the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, but as Iran’s presence in that conflict deepened, and the war drew in Hezbollah, that stance changed. By 2014, Israel had begun what it termed “the war between the wars” in Syria, mostly focused on disrupting the flow of arms and other illicit supplies to its enemy Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon intensified in recent months, Israel has stepped up the pace of its strikes in Syria, including an audacious special forces raid to destroy an alleged Iranian missile factory producing weapons for Hezbollah.
“We’re constantly monitoring what is happening in Syria,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday after rebels swept into Aleppo.
In recent years, Assad had attempted to mend ties with Arab states that opposed his alliance with Iran and Hezbollah. The Arab League voted in 2023 to normalize ties with Syria and reinstate it as a member. The decision was contingent on Syria engaging with Arab states to find a political solution to the civil war, something it hasn’t so far done in any meaningful way.
There were signs, too, that the Syrian regime was reluctant to throw its forces behind Hezbollah in its war with Israel in the past year. Assad didn’t send the group military aid or troops, and his forces refrained from retaliating for the killing of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah. But the Syrian leader did allow the flow of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah to continue through his country’s borders.
Israel in the past funded the Free Syrian Army opposition forces as they took territory close to its border. It also offered medical treatment in its hospitals to injured fighters from the Nusra Front, an Islamist rebel group that was the precursor to HTS.
But that rebel group’s blend of nationalism and Islamism, which echoes the ideology of Afghanistan’s Taliban and Palestinian Hamas, is regarded by Israel as a dangerous threat, particularly were it to come to power in neighboring Syria.
The fighting in Syria also risks Israel’s cease-fire in Lebanon, which is already strained by exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel’s military has significantly degraded Hezbollah’s leadership and military capabilities in the past months of intensive fighting, but hasn’t uprooted the group. Israeli strikes to prevent Hezbollah rearming risk straying into cease-fire violations.
Netanyahu said that Israel would act to prevent Hezbollah rearmament through Syria’s territory. “We are committed to defending the critical interests of the State of Israel, and also to preserving the war’s achievements,” Netanyahu said Sunday.
Israel’s military launched an airstrike on Damascus on Tuesday, saying it was targeting Hezbollah’s representative to the Syrian military.
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Israeli Officials have reportedly told the U.S. and Regional Allies, that they will launch a Ground Operation into Southwestern Syria to establish a “Buffer Zone” if Rebel Forces manage to Capture the City of Homs.
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#1
only took 6 days for rebel alliance to advance from Aleppo to Hama (about 100 miles)
I found that astounding
it is another 70 or so miles to Homs
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All reliables were manually disabled in Lebanon pager attacks and Iran's lack of AA support?
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Seeing reports that there was a dedicated electronic warfare component, especially concerning communications, from team Not-Assad, as well as sophisticated drone coordination.
#5
Honestly be better off getting an arcade surplus copy of Steel Talons.
Back In The Day...there was a Marine Recruitment Station near an arcade which had this 'game'. When school got out, a recruiter would be there playing this 'game' on 'simulation' and would Barishnikov his helicopter around the arena. Always drew a crowd. I'd get in after the demonstration and try, and this was when a $1 play was expensive, especially when the first sessions would last 5 minutes doing the Besoeker link.
Whether I was above the curve or not, got good, and started passing arenas. Got noticed, asked me in for an interview, loved my ASVAB score, and recruited harder than the Navy Nuke Sub People.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
