Wednesday Potpourri

First, you will be dismayed to learn that ant-Semitism is alive and well at MIT.

Powerline blog has the story:

Some of the worst anti-Semitic campus outbursts of recent weeks have been at MIT. Pro-genocide activists physically prevented Jewish students from attending classes, and refused to disperse when ordered to do so by university officials. Normally you would assume that a student who engaged in such barbaric conduct would be expelled. Yet MIT has treated its anti-Semites with kid gloves. Why?

MIT’s President Sally Kornbluth has now made a statement that apparently explains MIT’s inaction:

“After exhausting all other avenues for de-escalating the situation, we informed all protesters that they must leave the lobby area within a set time, or they would be subject to suspension,” wrote Kornbluth.

“Many chose to leave, and I appreciate their cooperation. Some did not. Members of my team have been in dialogue with students all day.

Anyone who uses the formula “in dialogue with” should be fired for abusing the English language.

Have you noticed how many of the great university presidents that have been bending over to allow anti-Semitism on their campuses are female? Let’s not call them profiles in courage.

Repeat after me-- strong, empowered women.

Of course, when push comes to shove strong, empowered leaders are the first to cave. 

Second, in a prior post I suggested that the Hamas terrorists who brutalized women and children were acting like gods. If not gods, the laws of war would make them into sniveling cowards. 

Now Stephen Green makes the same point on Pajamas Media:

They must have felt like gods, the Hamas terrorists who invaded southern Israel on October 7. Indeed, they enjoyed almost godlike powers, first blinding Israel's remote-control border cameras and then bulldozing through the security fence as though it were hardly there. 

Third, Green continues that, for Hamas, it must now feel like the Gotterdammerung, the Twilight of the Gods:

"The Hamas organization has lost control in Gaza: Terrorists are fleeing south, civilians are looting Hamas bases. They have no confidence in the government,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday. Hamas' days are numbered, twilight is upon them, and every Hamas knows it.   

The German word for it is Götterdämmerung, "the twilight of the gods."

Comparisons to Hitler's Germany almost write themselves. Flush with easy victories over Poland, Norway, the Low Countries, and even France, Hitler believed he could take the Soviet Union with as much ease. “We have only to kick in the door,” Hitler assured his generals, “and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.” 

Fourth,  Joanne Mason makes this observation on Twitter:

I'm no expert and I don't have a degree in Sociology, but perhaps raising an entire generation to believe that everything they think, do, and say is uniquely and deeply important, and *any* challenge is grossly unfair was not the best strategy to build strong, healthy individuals.

The IDF provided 300 liters of fuel for urgent medical purposes to the Shifa Hospital, but there was a problem that prevented the fuel from getting to its destination.

Why? Because the CEO of the Hamas Health Ministry, Yosef Abu Rish, forbade it. 

Third, and then there is Greta Thunberg, a modern day Joan of Arc for the climate change lobby:

Yesterday, Greta Thunberg shared the stage with Sara Rachdan. My quick Instagram research shows: Rachdan celebrates Hamas' attacks against Israeli civilians, admires terrorists and trivializes the Holocaust. Apparently, non of that is a problem for Greta.

Fifth, on the transmania front, a woman playing in a pool tournament withdrew-- because she refused to play against a male pretending to be a female:

The Daily Mail has the story:

A female pool player forfeited the final of a tournament after choosing to walk away from the showpiece before a ball had been struck, rather than face her trans opponent on Sunday, with the crowd cheering her decision.

The final of the Women's Champions of Champions tournament in Denbighshire, Wales, took place on Sunday, but saw a perhaps unexpected ending as Lynne Pinches ceded the result before the first break. 

Pinches was drawn to take on Harriet Haynes in the showpiece at the weekend, with her opponent holding a slight height and reach advantage going into the clash, with each player paying a £70 entry fee. 

Video from the shocking moment shows Pinches take to the table where both players took lag shots, to determine who indeed would break in the first frame, before Haynes went to sit down.

 

However, rather than prepare for the first frame of the tie, Pinches then approached the referee to seemingly inform them of her decision to forfeit the game, and wave goodbye to a chance at winning the tournament. 

Sixth, on a lighter note, America’s young people, the most sexed-up generation perhaps in human history, are no longer having very much sex.

It’s not because they have seen too much or too little porn. The reason lies in the fact that they no longer know how to conduct everyday normal relationships, even friendships.

From the Daily Caller:

[Mary] Rooke explained that young Americans are not forming social relationships and taking any risks or experiencing any adventures, leaving members of Generation Z to be unable to form sexual and loving relationships.

“We have an issue where it’s not even just that they’re not having sex anymore, these kids are not even getting together in real life, period,” Rooke told Daily Caller editorial director Vince Coglianese on WMAL’s “The Vince Coglianese Show.”

“They’re not making friendship connections. The same studies that are showing kids are kind of rebelling against our hyper-sexual nature or hyper-sexual society are the same ones that are reporting 41% of students or kids reported that they were not getting together as teenagers. Like, not going out and playing capture the flag, not taking their bikes and riding them around, not kind of getting into those innocent, adventurous moments as teenagers.”

“So it’s no wonder that if they can’t even take that little risk or that little adventure, they’re not gonna be going out and forming loving or sexual relationships with one another,” the “Trad-ish” host continued. 

Seventh, returning to the anti-Semitism front, Alan Dershowitz recognized that President Obama has a Jewish problem:

I think he always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well. He called me to the Oval Office, and he said Alan, you know I have Israel’s back. I didn’t know he had a target on it. 

He has never been supportive of Israel. And finally, his true feelings have come out now that he’s no longer president, doesn’t have to be elected.”

…"He has contributed enormously to the problem because he is respected among young people. And if he says the occupation is unbearable and that anything can be done to stop it, he is encouraging people to engage in their antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-American attitudes. He should be ashamed of himself. He should apologize, but he won't."

Eighth, in news you can’t use, consider what is happening in boys’ rest rooms in Oregon high schools. The great minds who run that state decided that they needed to place tampon dispensers in boys’ restrooms.

It provoked a wave of vandalism. The boys who make use of said facilities found nothing better to do with the dispensers than to to throw them in the toilet:

The vandalism started last May, during the wind-down of the school year when users of the boy's bathroom took the tampon dispenser off the wall and placed it in a toilet for a maximum political statement. Not once but many times. What they did to the tampon dispenser has made them heroes. Yes, even in woke Oregon.

In May, the principal made a school-wide appeal in a letter sent to parents begging the boys to stop trashing the tampon vending machine in their bathroom because under state law it had to be there and it was costly and cumbersome to have to keep putting it back up.

In her letter to parents last May, Principal Desiree Fisher explained that under Oregon's Menstrual Dignity Act schools are required to provide female menstrual supplies to boys. She said, "Oregon's Menstrual Dignity Act – passed in 2021 as House Bill 3294 – requires schools to provide menstrual products in gender-neutral, male and female restrooms" to make them available to the more than 500,000 students in Oregon schools and universities.

Did you get that? It was called the Menstrual Dignity Act!

Ninth, the American women’s soccer team once played an exhibition match against a bunch of high school boys in Dallas. Funny thing, they lost.

USWNT legend Carli Lloyd shared one of her most embarrassing moments representing the United States, when her team lost to the FC Dallas boys U-15 team.

While answering questions on X, Lloyd was asked by one user “Carli is it true you lost to a bunch of 15 year old boys?”

“Yes it’s true. I know…thousands of people have already brought that up,” Lloyd answered. “They were good.”

Tenth, the Washington Free Beacon asks an obvious question. We know that the Israeli government missed the Hamas massacre, but why did the American government fail to see what was happening?

While the Hamas terror group was working with Iran to launch its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the Biden administration’s intelligence community was ramping up efforts to combat climate change, raising questions about America’s failure to detect the terror attack.

Eleventh, precious few souls have watched the video of the Hamas massacre. Since it is not available for public viewing, we rely on the word of those who witnessed it.

The Financial Times reports:

The “video of hor­rors”, as it has come to be known, will prob­ably never be made fully pub­lic due to its graphic nature and to spare the fam­il­ies of vic­tims. Instead, closed screen­ings have taken place — first in Israel for for­eign media and dip­lo­mats, more recently to offi­cials and journ­al­ists in Europe, the Middle East and the US, includ­ing the White House. The more than 100 screen­ings so far are a vital part of Israel’s mes­sage, even as it comes under grow­ing pres­sure to agree a cease­fire.

Some journ­al­ists who have seen it, includ­ing vet­eran war report­ers, have said it was the most dif­fi­cult thing they had ever watched. Oth­ers, after being told of the con­tent, declined to attend.

Twelfth, Stephen Smith reports his experience of watching the video, for The Hill:

Civilians were the principal target. We see killers going house to house in search of unarmed civilians. Many of the victims were still in pajamas when they were hunted down. Killings are carried out in close quarters, victims executed one by one in their kitchens, bathrooms and bomb shelters. 

Corpses were mutilated. There are missing limbs, with punctures to the chest, broken bones, some burned beyond recognition. Mutilation appears to be coordinated. One radio intercept to Gaza reveals an instruction to bring back the dead body of an IDF soldier and posthumously crucify him. 

Victims were terrified. This was evidenced by many who kept their social media feeds live until the moment of death. The fear in their eyes as their killers approach is captured in their last posts. 

As the killers depart, they take their prey: hostages, maimed and sexually assaulted, thrown into flatbeds. The scene they leave behind is an Armageddon of destruction. Corpses hang out of their cars; people are left for dead under their kitchen table; there are charred remains; twisted broken limbs; a decapitated soldier. 

I have studied genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia, Guatemala, Armenia and the Holocaust. I have rarely seen such carnage carried out with such fervor in such short a period of time. 

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