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March 2018

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 16, 2018 29 Comments
Schools all over the country allowed students to participate in walkouts to protest and demand gun control. But what would happen if students wanted to stage a walkout to protest something like abortion? Would the politics of such a demonstration be equally accepted? California high school teacher Julianne Benzel posed this question to her class. Now she has been placed on leave.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on March 16, 2018 11 Comments
Earlier this week, the government of Israel organised  the three-day #DigiTell18 conference aimed at formulating strategies to counter anti-Israel campaigns, hosting 60 pro-Israel advocates from 15 different countries in Jerusalem. I had the privilege to represent my grassroots group Indians For Israel at the event. “For the first time, BDS [anti-Israel boycott campaign] groups are on the defensive,” said Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy, highlighting the recent successes of the pro-active approach adopted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to combat these vicious and well-coordinated online campaigns.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 15, 2018 43 Comments
In 2015, then-14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was caught up in leftist "zero tolerance" policies when he brought a homemade clock to school.  The clock, school officials said, looked like a bomb. The teen was sent to the principal's office when his clock started beeping in English class.  He was subsequently suspended from school for three days and arrested for making a "hoax bomb."  The charges were later dropped.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 15, 2018 42 Comments
An American Idol episode filmed last fall and aired this week has created some controversy.  Katy Perry, a judge on the show, surprise-kissed a young man on the lips just before his audition. He told the NYT that this was his first kiss, and that he had been saving this milestone for his first relationship.
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