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Saturday Miscellany

First, money talks. In the case of Columbia University money is the only language the school seems to understand.

Now that the Trump administration has pulled hundreds of millions in federal funding, the university has discovered that the anti-Semitic mobs that took over the campus quad and Hamilton Hall last spring need to be punished.

The New York Post reports:

Some of the anti-Israel protesters who besieged a Columbia University academic building last spring have been tossed or suspended — while some who have since graduated lost their diplomas temporarily, officials said Thursday.

The series of punishments were doled out by Columbia’s judicial board, the Ivy League revealed nearly a year after keffiyeh-clad agitators caused chaos over Israel’s battle in Gaza after Hamas terrorists’ deadly attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

The level of discipline was based on school officials’ “evaluation of the severity of behaviors,” it said in a campus-wide alert.

And also:

@Columbia reportedly just expelled the president of the grad student union for his arrests in the encampment and building takeover last spring.

Second, but that’s not all folks. If Columbia wants to get its money back, it will now have to fulfill certain conditions, laid out in a letter from the Trump administration to the university.

The Free Press reports:

The letter, sent Thursday and seen by The Free Press, states that “Columbia has. . . fundamentally failed to protect American students and faculty from antisemitic violence and harassment” and “outlines immediate next steps that we regard as a precondition for formal negotiations regarding Columbia University’s continued financial relationship with the United States government.”

Sent to Columbia’s interim president Katrina Armstrong and co-chairs of the Board of Trustees David Greenwald and Claire Shipman, the letter states that in order to get its funding back, the university must make changes to its disciplinary procedures, including enforcing actions against the protesters who stormed Hamilton Hall last spring.

“Meaningful discipline,” according to the letter, “means expulsion or multi-year suspensions.” The letter also states that Columbia must ban masking and abolish the university’s Judicial Board, leaving all disciplinary decisions to the discretion of the university president’s office.

Columbia must have seen the letter coming. An hour before it was sent, the Columbia University Judicial Board announced plans to suspend students involved in the break-in and occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring. In some cases, the university announced it will expel students and revoke degrees. Police arrested 46 people on trespassing charges for the break-in, though nearly all of the charges were later dismissed by the district attorney’s office.

The letter goes on to state that Columbia must “implement permanent, comprehensive time, place, and manner rules to prevent disruption of teaching, research, and campus life.” 

Additionally, the letter calls for the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department to be placed under “academic receivership” for a minimum of five years, meaning faculty will lose control of their department.

Third, Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the decline and fall of great American universities.

By the 1970s, non-profit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and non-partisan.

Instead, they customarily violated the corpus of iconic civil rights legislation by weighing race, gender, and sexual orientation in biased admissions, hiring, and promotions.

Graduation ceremonies became overtly racially and ethnically segregated. The same was true for dorms and “theme houses.”

So-called “safe spaces,” in the spirit of the Jim Crow South, reserved areas of campus solely for particular races.

Affluent foreign students often openly protested on behalf of designated terrorist groups like Hamas.

First-Amendment-protected free speech all but vanished on elite campuses. Any guest speaker who dared to critique abortion on demand, Middle East orthodoxy, biological males dominating women’s sports, or diversity/equity/inclusion dogmas was likely to be shouted down, or on occasion roughed up.

University administrators either ignored the violence done to the Bill of Rights or quietly approved when their rowdy students were turned loose on supposed conservatives.

Elite universities did not grasp that the more they began warping their curricula with diversity/equity/inclusion gut courses, radical green agendas, and postmodern race and gender theories, the less time they had to offer students their once gold-standard general education curricula of Western Civ, history, literature, philosophy, math, and science.

Soon employers started to notice that the new therapeutic courses were also married to race and sex-based admissions.

The SAT and ACT were, for a time, dropped. So were comparative rankings of high school grade point averages.

Soon, once iconic degrees were no longer any guarantee of the ability to write and speak well, think analytically, or compute competently.

Employers often began to prefer graduates from those state schools where DEI was muted, admissions were competitive, and teaching remained rigorous and non-ideological.

Finally, after October 7, 2023, growing anti-Semitism on campuses became unapologetic, overt, and violent.

Thousands of Middle Eastern guest students brazenly cheered on Hamas terrorists.

The campus Marxist orthodoxy that Jews and Israel were “victimizing white people” and Palestinians were noble “non-white victims” ensured that Jewish students were chased and physically attacked on campuses.

A disgusted public watched invertebrate administrators either greenlight the anti-Semitic violence or ludicrously deny it.

So, there was bound to be a public reckoning. And now it has arrived.

Congress will soon pass legislation that will tax the annual multimillion-dollar income from multibillion-dollar endowments at somewhere between 15 and 20 percent.

Fourth, on the feminism front, many of us are shocked to see feminists supporting Hamas. After all, Hamas supports honor killing, wife beating, wife rape and homophobia. And let’s not forget the horrors that Hamas visited on Israeli women and children.

Leave it to resourceful feminists to ignore all of that, and to support Hamas in opposition to those colonizing Israelis.

Sonya Michel explains, via Berkeley:

It was predictable that Hamas officials and their radicalised international supporters would deny that sexual violence against Israeli women and men was committed on 7 October 2023. But denials from the academic field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are more surprising because they appear to violate two of the field’s salient principles: support for women’s sexual autonomy and insistence that women who lodge charges of sexual violence should be believed. Instead, a number of academic feminists have not only rejected Israeli claims, they have also embraced Hamas, along with all the reactionary patriarchal baggage of radical Islam, thereby abandoning their own stated values.

Is this just another instance of raw cowardice?

Fifth, then there is Scott Bessent, our current Treasury Secretary, someone who is not notably MAGA.

"When I was on the other side of the wall, I never really liked the term 'Fake News.' Now that I am on the inside, and I can see what they're reporting, I think the term Fake News probably isn't strong enough.

Sixth, from the Economist, a study that shows the difference between migrants who have or do not have advanced education. Not all migrants are created equal:

A recent study of Danish data by Jan van der Beek of the Amsterdam School of Economics … finds that migration is only fiscally beneficial on average if immigrants have at least a bachelor’s degree. Migrants from parts of the world with lower human capital are likely to be a fiscal drag. The Danish finance ministry calculated in 2019 that migrants from Western countries made an average fiscal contribution of 52,000 krone, then $7800 per person. Those from the Middle East and Africa were on average costing the state 74,000 more in spending than they contributed in taxes.

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Who Is Mahmoud Khalil?

He won’t be missed. He in this case is Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, lately become a culture hero to the radical left.

You see, the Trump administration has revoked his student visa and his green card. It has charged him with promoting anti-Semitic agitation on the campus of Columbia University.

His followers are horrified that he does not have the right to organize anti-Semitic rallies and to prevent Jewish students from going to class at Columbia. They are fighting for his constitutional rights, such as they are.

According to the law, this qualifies him for deportation. Brooke Goldstein explains:

There is a false controversy surrounding the arrest and hopefully deportation of Mahmoud Khalil. I’m going to put it to bed. Khalil’s deportation has nothing to do with your free speech. Khalil is facing deportation because of his conduct, including, allegedly, organizing a violent takeover of US campuses with pro-terror elements, conspiring to commit civil rights violations and trespass, building takeovers — this is criminal activity that endangers public safety, and of course endorsing and espousing terrorist activity in contravention of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Better yet, we have the words of Secretary of State, Marco Rubio:

No one has a right to a student visa! We have a right to deny you for any reason. Being a supporter of Hamas… being complicit in crimes… if you told us, that’s what you intended to do when you come to America, we would’ve never let you in! And if you do it once you get in, we’re gonna revoke it and kick you out.

Hannah Meyers offers her views in the City Journal:

Whether it’s restoring order on campus or formulating a new policy on Gaza, the same principle applies: anonymous violence is unacceptable. Gazans don’t deserve to live next door to Israel if they use tunnels and masks to make Israel unlivable for Israelis. Columbia and Barnard students don’t deserve to attend the university if they remain intent on undermining education and menacing Jews. And Mahmoud Khalil does not deserve American residency if he uses his time here to support a murderous international movement.

Trying to shed some more light on the issue, Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld, husband of the Tiger Mom, offers a balanced legal analysis. He opens with the obvious fact that if Khalil were a citizen, there would be no problem. He would have a constitutional right to militate, against America and against Israel. He would have a right to work to destroy Western civilization.

If Khalil were being prosecuted in a criminal case, as Abrams was back in 1919—for example, under a statute prohibiting seditious dissent—his First Amendment rights would be violated and would protect him. But Khalil is not being prosecuted; he is in deportation proceedings. And those who support Khalil’s deportation will say this makes all the difference, because as the Supreme Court held in 1953, “Courts have long recognized the power to expel or exclude aliens as a fundamental sovereign attribute exercised by the Government’s political departments largely immune from judicial control.”

So, we need to be able to distinguish between criminal proceedings and deportation proceedings. Khalil is being deported; he is not being prosecuted.

Rubenfeld continues:

 In other words, Khalil was on notice that if he chose to come to this country on a student visa, America’s hospitality was conditional on his refraining from endorsing terrorist acts. People can consent to limitations on their constitutional rights when they accept governmental benefits. By choosing to come to this country and enjoying America’s protections and educational system—the argument would go—Khalil accepted the conditions that Congress imposed on him and cannot now try to evade them.

The law professor concludes that if the case is heard in Manhattan, the Hamas supporter will be allowed to stay in the country. But, if the case is tried in Louisiana he will be shipped off to Syria or to Gaza. 

Crime Down Under

Even if you have never been to New York City you know about its subway system. A relic of a bygone era, the system is ugly, noisy, dirty and dangerous. The perfect symbol of today’s subway system occurred when New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, went down into its bowels to announce that it was perfectly safe. As this was happening, an illegal migrant was setting a woman on fire, murdering her on the subway.

I myself have precious little first hand knowledge of the New York Subway system. I have more knowledge of the Paris Metro.

If you have been to Paris recently you know that its subways are modern, quiet and clean. The trains run on rubber tires, thus reducing noise. And, a recent addition, stations have large transparent plastic doors that only open when the train is in the station. This means, you cannot push someone onto the tracks even if you want to do so.

The French promote the subway system by making it something that people would normally want to use. And yet, Paris shares one negative aspect with New York-- illegal migrant crime. 

The issue has been widely debated over here. Some people defend migrants on the grounds that they are no more likely to commit crimes than are citizens. Others point out that if the migrant had not been allowed to enter the nation illegally, he would not have committed the crime.

Anyway, France opened the doors to mass migration in 2016, The result, a spike in sexual violence, especially on the subways.

Paul Joseph Watson explains:

There has been an 86% rise in sexual violence on public transport in France since 2016, with much of the surge happening as a result of mass migration….

44 per cent of victims were located in the Paris region, with women being the victims on 91 per cent of occasions, with 75 per cent of victims being under the age of 30 and 36 per cent of those being minors.

It’s not just France that has a problem with migrant crime. Watson explains:

Similar data is seen in Germany, where 59 percent of all sexual assaults on German trains are attributed to foreigners, with sexual crimes doubling since 2019.”

The result, for one of the most modern subway systems in the world, is that women do not want to ride the trains:

The study also found that 56 per cent of women were afraid to ride on public transport in the Ile-de-France (Paris) rail network, while 80 per cent said they were constantly on alert.

The tragic irony is that women are more likely to support increased migration. You do not imagine that feminists in these countries are up in arms about the violence against women. As you might have guessed, the silence of the feminists is deafening. They are not marching in the streets demanding that criminal illegal aliens be deported. Of course, feminists in America are not doing so either. They are more likely to be defending the constitutional rights of terrorists.

Wednesday Potpourri

First, a few words of wisdom from Van Jones. Among the liberal and Democratic commentators who fill the airways, Jones is one of the precious few who continually make sense.

The other day, he said this about today’s Democratic Party:

"We're screwed-- defending a broken status quo and offending most of the country turns out is not as popular as my party thought it was gonna be."

Second, on the Doge front, Insurrection Barbie raises some questions about where all the money went. Waste, fraud and abuse does not do it justice:

12 billion dollars was allocated to the Navy for submarines and not one submarine was built. 

42.5 billion dollars was allocated to hook people up to high-speed Internet, and not one single person was hooked up to high-speed Internet. 

7.5 billion dollars was allocated to build EV charging stations. Only 37 stations were built. Thats 200 million per charging station. 

Where is the rest of the money?

We are confident that Elon will find it.

Third, speaking of free speech, or the lack of same, this comes to us from Ireland, via Cillian:

 BREAKING: Enoch Burke, a Christian schoolteacher in Ireland, will be STRIPPED of his salary after refusing to use they/them pronouns for a "transgender" student. Burke has already spent 500 days in prison, and the Irish Courts are now punishing him further. This is horrific.

But, consider this. Rosie O’Donnell just relocated to Ireland, because she was horrified at the way America dealt with human rights.

Fourth, from the City Journal, written by one Wei Wah Chin, an analysis of a topic near and dear to these pages. The question is whether or not the American educational system is producing enough STEM graduates.

It’s nice to say that foreign tech companies are going to invest buckets of cash in America. We need, however, to ask whether we have the human capital to render those investments functional. Otherwise, we are going to be importing a lot of foreign talent via the H-1B visa program.

Chin writes:

Still, the H-1B fight points to an underlying problem for the United States. At last count, 86 percent of H-1B approvals were for STEM professionals. If American schools were turning out sufficient numbers of competitive STEM professionals, the need for H-1Bs would plummet. If we were to cancel the program tomorrow, U.S. companies would outsource more work to qualified professionals abroad. And if they were prohibited from doing that, they would cease to be globally competitive.

The failure is relatively recent. Chin writes:

The United States once led the world in STEM talent. Top minds produced breakthroughs in everything from aerospace to semiconductors to biomedicine to software. Today, however, fewer and fewer pockets of excellence flourish in American STEM education.

The culprit, as we have remarked in these pages, lies in DEI programs:

Consider Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) in Virginia, for many years the nation’s top-ranked high school. In 2020, “racial-justice” advocates replaced TJ’s race-blind, test-based admissions with an unholy trinity of quotas, “holistic” criteria, and lotteries, sending TJ into a downward spiral of mediocrity. Other renowned merit-based schools, like New York City’s specialized high schools, Boston’s exam schools, and San Francisco’s Lowell High School, have come under similar attack.

This worldview is well-recognized by now in the code words diversity, equity, and inclusion, along with their many offshoots and variations. Activists have used all this terminology to sabotage excellence in education. They’ve done so either directly, by dumbing-down standards and content, or indirectly, by demeaning the values essential for great education—standards, merit, self-discipline, competitiveness, achievement—as “privileged,” “white,” “settler-colonialist,” and “far-right.”

Indeed, the DEI programs have worked long and hard to sabotage excellence in American education. We will soon find out whether the school system can overcome the handicap and move forward.

Fifth,  Columbia University was the first, but it will not be the last university to lose federal funding for countenancing anti-Semitism on its campus.

At Harvard University, the administration is preparing for the worst, by instituting a hiring freeze. 

Newsmax has the story:

As fears over losing federal funding heighten, Harvard University is taking action.

The Ivy League school announced a temporary pause on staff and faculty hiring. The news came in a letter signed by university leadership, including President Alan Garber and Provost John Manning.

"We need to prepare for a wide range of financial circumstances, and strategic adjustments will take time to identify and implement," the leadership wrote. "It is imperative to limit significant new long-term commitments that would increase our financial exposure and make further adjustments more disruptive."

But, do not cry for Harvard. Its endowment sits at something like $52 billion. 

Sixth, it’s an eggy story. Up to now the media has been chock full of stories about the price of eggs. Apparently, their high prices were a sign that the Trump administration has not yet erased inflation.

But, now, egg prices are falling, so you can be sure you will no longer be hearing about the price of eggs.

Matt Margolis reported on PJ Media:

According to Trading Economics, after reaching an all-time high of $8.17 per dozen in early March, egg prices have plummeted to $5.51, which now sits below the nearly $7 average when President Trump took office in January. 

And the following comes from Red State:

But I noticed something anecdotally a couple of days ago in Texas, as did my brother in northern New Jersey. Suddenly, it looked like our egg prices were going down. 

Now Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is confirming that officially, yes, the prices are dropping. You can see her explaining in the video here. (Unfortunately, X, formerly Twitter, is still experiencing issues Tuesday, so we are unable to preview the video on this page.)

"Good piece of news we just got is average cost of dozen eggs has now gone down $1.85," Rollins said. That was since they introduced their plan to reduce the price of eggs about a week and a half ago on February 26. She said it was possible it might inch back up since we are going into the Easter season when it is generally high, but this was good news, and it looks like it might be on trend in the right direction -- down -- now. 

Seventh, reality bites, even at Columbia University. Apparently, faculty members are just waking up to the fact that the university has just lost hundreds of millions in federal grants. They are not happy.

Steve McGuire reports:

NEW: Columbia has begun notifying faculty of cancelled grants. From an internal source there: “Grant cancellation notices flowing in now. Labs shutting down. Layoffs imminent. Faculty apoplectic at Katrina Armstrong for letting it get to this point. She has to fix this fast.”

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The True Palestinian Cause

Today’s advanced form of anti-Semitism marches under the banner: Free Palestine. Of course, everyone with a minimum of sense knows that Gaza, for example, has not been occupied by anyone for over a decade now. It does not matter. Nor does it matter that Jordan is a Palestinian country. 

So, the inhabitants of Gaza, supporters of Hamas, do not want to be free. They voted for Hamas and thus for Sharia Law. The call to free Palestine is merely a ruse to dupe the gullible. Are you among them?

Now, we discover that Professor David Patterson wrote a book about Muslim anti-Semitism. It is called Judaism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust: Making the Connections (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Robert Graboyes summarizes in his Substack. He emphasizes Patterson’s point, namely that Hamas is a Neo-Nazi movement that has roots during the Nazi period.

In brief, Hamas is an especially fervent local chapter of an organization whose early funding, rituals, and philosophy came directly from Nazi Germany. Hamas’s spiritual mentor was a cleric employed by Hitler to organize Jihadist SS squads to murder Jews in Europe. Hamas’s 1987 founding charter maintained the Nazi/Jihadist goal of exterminating Jews worldwide. Hezbollah’s pedigree differs somewhat from Hamas’s, but they share goals and forebears.

Evidently, Hamas has no interest in coexisting with Israel. Even after Israel walked away from Gaza, its citizens did not set out to build a prosperous free country. They set out to murder Jews:

Knowing this history also reveals the naïveté of those who presume Hamas can be or wishes to be a reliable negotiating partner or peaceful neighbor to Israel. It suggests why Gaza grew more impoverished and depraved after Israel forcibly removed every single Jew from Gaza in 2005. And it speaks worlds of the Western students chanting “we are Hamas,” flying the flag of Hezbollah, telling Jews on campuses “the 7th of October is going to be every day for you,” and spray-painting “Hamas is coming” on monuments.

A brief look at Muslim Brotherhood ideologues shows what Israel has been dealing with:

Similarly, Sayyid Qutb, one of the most influential ideologues of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihadism, maintained not that all Jews were evil but that all evil is Jewish. Therefore the redemption of humanity itself rests upon the extermination of the Jews.

As we know, the Palestinian cause embraced the Third Reich and its exterminationist rhetoric.This has been the case even before there was a state of Israel.

An Arabic translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion came out on 15 January 1926 in the periodical Raqib Sahyun, which was published in Jerusalem. In October 1938 the Brotherhood distributed Arabic translations of portions of Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion at the Parliamentary Conference for Arab and Muslim Countries held in Cairo. And Article Thirty-Two of the Hamas Charter of Allah declares that the intentions of the Jew “have been laid out in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and their present conduct is the best proof of what is said there.” Indeed, the Charter invokes three prooftexts to demonstrate the truth of its claims: the Quran, selections from the Hadith, and the Protocols.

As I said, Free Palestine is a ruse to dupe the gullible.

Therapy in the Age of Trump

We have it, on somewhat respectable authority, that very few people are transgendered. The condition, which used to be considered a delusional belief, has now been mainstreamed, to the point where the Guardian opens an article about therapy in the age of Trump by presenting a trans therapist dealing with trans clients.

Apparently, the new Trump administration, for rejecting transmania, is causing significant psychological distress among certain people. One feels obliged to notice that taking cross-sex hormones and having gender-reassignment surgery will, in and of themselves, cause significant psychological distress. Blaming it on Trump is basically a cop-out. As is blaming it on someone using the wrong pronouns.

Perhaps more important, especially for those who suffer from Trump derangement syndrome, is the belief that the meaning of life lies in politics. To be more precise, politics is their religion. Like ministers, therapists are hard at work comforting the faithful and converting the unfaithful. 

The Guardian explains:

Liberal therapists say they sometimes incorporate their political views into the healing process to provide support for clients distressed by Trump’s actions. “You’re taught in school that therapists aren’t supposed to be political, but it’s very political,” one liberal practitioner said. “Now, at least in my therapist friend group, we’re like, ‘Screw that, no, this is very political.’”

Trump’s policies, such as deporting immigrants, go against therapists’ code of ethics that requires them to uphold client’s dignity and worth, she said. That hasn’t precluded her from working with Trump-supporting clients. Some don’t return “and that’s OK”, but she successfully works with a range of conservative patients.

Can it get any dumber? Some therapists believe that deporting illegal migrants, even criminals, contradicts their code of ethics, because said code recognizes the dignity and worth of each individual. Apparently, the code says nothing about citizenship and about following the law.

Therapists insist that they are not in the business of changing anyone’s political views, but surely they are. Most especially, they work to persuade their clients to embrace the truth of certain ideological positions-- like transgenderism-- on faith.

None of the therapists I interviewed said they try to change clients’ political views, but therapy is often about getting people to think about problems in their lives differently – and sometimes there’s overlap.

One therapist I spoke with used the example of some of her clients’ fear and hatred of transgender people. She asks them where those fears stem from, because they are often passed on generationally.

The truth is, most families do not teach their children much of anything about transgenderism. Or, at least, they have not done so until recently when the topic infiltrated classrooms and reading material and the media.

“What kind of things were you taught as a child? If you heard your parents talking about this – do all of your values align with your parents’ values? Have you ever broken from them? Will you feel rejected by your family or community if you think differently?” she asks.

Of course, this is not the first time that these young ideologues have had to deal with a Trump presidency. If they suffered through the first one, they ought to be able to suffer through the new one.

Broadly speaking, therapists say the profound shock and sharp sense of fear that was almost universal among liberal clients after Trump’s first win has been replaced with variations of numbness, hopelessness and resignation.

These people doth protest too much, as the famous Danish prince once put it. They have turned themselves into drama queens and cannot but express their horror at the simple fact that differences of opinion exist. They find it unacceptable that everyone does not hold to the same ideology and does not embrace the same dogmatic truths.

Another therapist has clients accept this new reality. “Normalize that there is this threatening energy that is closing down certain civil liberties and trying to change social norms,” he said, adding that he also urges people to be curious about their numbness.

This doesn’t mean embracing being inactive, however. “Find ways to start honoring the numbness, while starting to move energy, whether that’s physical movement, or getting out, seeing people and finding light in what feels like a dark time for some folks, whether that’s through art, music or nature,” he added.

Honoring the numbness, or, should we say, honoring the numbskulls who are leading this movement.

Most therapists tell their clients to focus on what they can control. Some suggest putting energy into mutual aid projects or partaking in local political action. One therapist is seeing her siblings more, making herself an ally to trans folks. She also likes to listen to the Moth story hour as a healthy escape from reality.

However, another therapist pointed to a meme in which a person is lying in the road, about to get hit by a large truck. In the meme, a nearby therapist waves, shouting: “Just focus on the things you can control!” She finds the advice to be ludicrous. “I feel like an asshole as a therapist sometimes, so I try to not say shit like that.”

Now you see it. Therapists who embrace woke ideology end up feeling like assholes. I wonder what Freud would have said about that.