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Cornell's 'Charlottesville Moment' - Chants for 'Intifada' Reflect Anti-Israel 'Death Cult Ideology'

University Presidents "have participated in the creation of a monstrous movement on campuses that uses targeting of Jews and Israel as an organizing mechanism"

Arrested Emory U. Prof. No Victim Despite Leftist Outrage, Admitted She Hit Cop While He Was Subduing Another Rioter

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/05/2013 – Reaction to Israel bombing Syria

Posted by David Gerstman on May 05, 2013 8 Comments

Syria Explodes Professor Jacobson has previously reported on two Israeli strikes: one against Hezbollah and one against Syria. What's going on? Classic thing about the strike on Damascus is how it will be spun by Assad. He'll argue it's "PROOF" he's facing a takfiri-Zionist alliance.— Phillip Smyth (@PhillipSmyth)...

Israel bombs Syria — what we know and don’t know

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2013 4 Comments

For the details at the start of the bombing, take a look at last night's post, Reports – large explosions in Damascus (Update – Syria blames Israel), which has embedded videos and Twitter accounts. The Twitter feed now is at the bottom of this post. This...

Syrian Electronic Army hack of E!Online Twitter account nothing to laugh about

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 05, 2013 6 Comments

Why E!Online? The latest hacking incident on Twitter could be used to spread malicious code in links...

Reports – large explosions in Damascus (Update – Syria blames Israel)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 12 Comments

UPDATE 5-5-2013 7 a.m.-- The attacks are confirmed by various sources and appear to have been Israeli air strikes against several targets in the Damascus area including a storage facility for Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah and other Iranian-Hezbollah linked facilities. We will have...

Saturday Night Card Game (For Chris Matthews, the race card keeps on paying, and paying, and …)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 10 Comments

Chris Matthews loves to hate on the Tea Party and "right-wing" for supposed racism and other isms and phobias. Matthews claims to be opposing hate but exposes his own hate by inventing a reality which exists mostly in his own mind. His ability to see racism is...

Man at George Washington U. Protest Calls Rep. Byron Donalds 'Race Traitor' and 'Uncle Tom'

Washington University in St. Louis Faculty Placed on Leave After Allegedly Assisting Anti-Israel Encampment

U. Utah Women's Week Includes 'Stitch & B*tch: Let's B*tch About White Feminism' Session

Wells College Closing at the End of Semester

U. Buffalo Accused of Restricting Free Speech by Blocking YAF From Accessing $6,000

Columbia Faculty Members Now Protecting Far Left Campus Protesters

Video — aftermath of Israeli air strike at Damascus airport?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 3 Comments

The video below is linked at The Washington Post (h/t Dan Riehl) as showing a large fire on the outskirts of the Damascus airport around the time Israel reportedly attacked a missile shipment destined for Hezbollah: The strike took place about 4 a.m. Friday at an air defense...

And now for a breath of fresh air

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 5 Comments

How lucky are we to have Tim Scott in the Senate? This weekly address was delivered on April 20 (h/t Hot Air): ...

Futile immigration folly

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 43 Comments

Rewarding law breakers is not a good idea, whether we're talking about the securities laws or the immigration laws. The Gang of 8 plan rewards law breakers. We're told that we need to legalize law breakers because it's the humane thing to do. But in so...

People who tell the truth about Benghazi don’t need to remember which story to tell

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 7 Comments

Stephen Hayes at The Weekly Standard documents how the CIA talking points on Benghazi were dumbed down just prior to Susan Rice's now infamous appearance at the U.N. where she insisted Benghazi was just about a movie. Removed from the talking points were references to al-Qaeda...

Movie Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 2 Comments

The first College Insurrection listicle: College Insurrection’s Top 10 College Movies Hoax: Brown Spectator author rips apart inflated campus rape stats Wyoming liberal coed uses Facebook to set-up rape hoax Why are campus hate crime hoaxes so common? Remember that "everyone should go to college" thing? Never mind: Duh of the Day...

NRA’s new liberty culture war not like the old culture war

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 21 Comments

The NRA seems to be broadening the issue of gun control into a broader culture war issue. But it doesn't seem to be the old religious/moral culture war, it's more a liberty culture war. It makes sense from a strategic point of view because it ties...

Did Israel bomb Syria overnight? (Update – hit convoy of missiles headed to Hezbollah)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 14 Comments

That's what some of the cable networks are reporting. It was just mentioned by Jennifer Griffin on Fox News: CNN reports: The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials tell CNN. U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most...

Oberlin update — two white male student suspects but motives unclear

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 2 Comments

It has been over two months since a series of racist, sexist and homophobic slurs were found written on the campus of Oberlin College. When a student reported seeing someone in a Klan outfit -- a sighting which likely was a woman walking wrapped in a blanket --...

Republican Bundler Outraged Media Syndrome

Posted by David Gerstman on May 03, 2013 11 Comments

In a telling editorial last year, the Washington Post railed against Mr Romney's Secret Bundlers: Who are these men and women to whom the campaign is so deeply indebted? Mr. Romney has yet to answer — indeed, he has yet to be directly asked — why...

The silence of Assoc. of Asian American Studies members regarding anti-Israel academic boycott is deafening

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 7 Comments

We have written several times about the academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the Association of Asian American Studies, and how it is part of the greater Boycott Divest Sanction movement meant to delegitimize Israel: A stain on academia — Association for Asian American Studies calls...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/03/2013 – The Benghazi Bungle

Posted by David Gerstman on May 03, 2013 5 Comments

1) The innocence of the Obama administration Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on September 14, 2012: https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/246718237939748865 This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave...

#MASEN boom #2 – PPP finds Markey leads by only 4 pts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 11 Comments

Yesterday we posted how an Emerson College student polling group found Democratic Congressman Edward Markey leading in the June 25 Special Election over newcomer Republican Gabriel Gomez by a mere 6 points. To the extent that student group could be discounted, it's going to be harder...