American Aid to Lebanon Is a Gift to Iran
A policy of defending a state run by Hizballah from Israel.
June 7, 2023
CUNY’s Problem Goes Much Deeper Than One Anti-Semitic Commencement Speaker
A longstanding problem receives sudden attention.
Last month, Fatima Mousa Mohammed gave the valedictory speech at City University of New York (CUNY) Law School’s graduation ceremony. Rather than urge her classmates to pursue their dreams or utter other benign platitudes, Mohammed made various absurd claims about Israel’s supposed evildoing, condemned the metropolitan police as “fascist,” and praised her school for being “one of the very few legal institutions created to recognize that the law is a manifestation of white supremacy.” Her tirade attracted a fair amount of criticism—not only from Jewish organization, but also from Mayor Eric Adams and from a group of state legislators who are threatening to take punitive action. Benjamin Kerstein comments:
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The Fatal Attack on the Israel-Egypt Border Should Lead to Concern, but Not Panic
A tactical rather than a strategic failure.
CUNY’s Problem Goes Much Deeper Than One Anti-Semitic Commencement Speaker
A longstanding problem receives sudden attention.
What Does Holiness Mean in a Secularizing World?
An economist asks a rabbi.
Recreating the Balm of Gilead
Scientists extract the resin of the pistachio tree using ancient methods.