ries. It’s worse, I suspect, when those small countries have a reputation for peace and prosperity and order and competence in areas other than academic scholarship. Australia is one such country. And Australia is responsible for about half—perhaps more—of the settler-colonial theory now exploding metaphorically all over US university campuses and literally all over Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon.
It's worth reading in full. Her conclusion:
Everyone on earth is living on “stolen” land. Move on.
Einat Wilf again:
Stop talking about a ceasefire. Lebanon should be at PEACE with Israel, says former member of Knesset Dr. @EinatWilf. pic.twitter.com/dSREA9nXgm
— Israeli Citizen Spox (@IsrCitizenSpox) January 28, 2025
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Now the malign influence of Tehran/Hezbollah has gone, why not?
The situation with Hamas looks intractable: there seems to be no way that Gaza can be rid of them, simply because there's no alternative. There's no civil society to replace them. The destruction of Hezbollah, on the other hand, might well turn out to be the most significant positive effect of Israel's military campaigns since October 7th.
Philip Colbert's lobsters have escaped the Saatchi Gallery, and now infest Duke of York Square on King's Road:
You noticed the urinal homage to Marcel Duchamp on that top lobster? Of course you did. Possible homage to Van Gogh with the sunflowers and Warhol with the soup? And Yayoi Kusama with the polka dots?
Colbert's website: "I became an artist when I became a lobster."
report on the leaked document: “This new approach risks swamping already stretched counterextremism interveners and counterterror police with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of new cases, making it more likely that dangerous people will be missed.
“Some of the definitions of extremism also threaten free speech, defining aspects of normal and legitimate political debate as extremist.”…
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said it was draconian to describe those making claims of two-tier policing as extremists. He said: “Commenting on police response to incidents is not far-right. We live in a democracy and people are entitled to debate the way we are policed. That’s not far-right; that’s part of legitimate debate in a democracy. You can agree or disagree with these views but freedom of speech means they have the right to express them.”
In the next few days we will hear a lot “But, but, but what will replace UNRWA?”
My answer?
Simple: Palestinian Responsibility. https://t.co/4FE2DemOa7— Dr. Einat Wilf (@EinatWilf) January 28, 2025
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See here for more from Einat Wilf on UNRWA.
Upsetting the French is surely a core function of the Royal Navy https://t.co/pBxAldpHWX
— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) January 27, 2025
Male athletes are so talented! We see their triumphs frequently in women's cycling, but they're also super good at women's track & field.
Sadie Schreiner had a poor start and his spikes almost fell off, but he still won on Friday!
Those @NCAA DIII women need to train harder. pic.twitter.com/zmTfwnBWov
— 🚲 (@i_heart__bikes) January 26, 2025
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And the Democrats wonder why they lost.
or enlightenment.
The true story cannot be told often enough – not only as history of terrible events we are duty bound to commemorate, but as an honest reckoning with the aftermath. And we Jews have to stop being apologetic about repeating it.
g a phone call with his girlfriend, which officials labeled a “serious example of capitalist cultural infiltration.” The student faced a Socialist Patriotic Youth League criticism session and received four months of forced labor before being allowed to resume studies. His classmates who “failed to take his crime seriously” were punished with a month of campus cleaning and guard duty.
“Following the unified command’s offer of leniency for voluntary confessions, several students came forward with prepared statements about past infractions,” the source said. “Despite following pre-written scripts, they received lighter treatment for coming forward voluntarily. Instead of criminal punishment, officials ordered self-criticism letters and ideological training sessions to ‘rearm themselves with revolutionary ideology.'”
The officials concluded by warning that reactionary thought and culture represented “a grave threat that could spark a national crisis” and constituted “an enemy trick to erode youth ideology and decay the revolution’s future.” They announced plans to “strengthen the system for self-reporting, complaints, and informing on others, while intensifying ideological inspections of professors and students.”
How different from our own freedom-loving universities!
one in his way. That’s why his egregious withdrawal of security detail from John Bolton and Mike Pompeo is so instructive. Trump is no longer fond of these men, so he has all but invited a foreign hostile government to murder them. His embrace of anti-police vigilanteism at home is matched by his removal of sanctions on the violent settlers in the West Bank this week. He’s a thug who loves thugs.
But for all this, a large part of me is exhilarated by this first week. Yes, exhilarated. Liberated even. I wasn’t quite expecting this, but I can’t deny it. I suddenly feel more oxygen in the air as the woke authoritarianism of the last four years begins finally to lift. And let me put the core reason for this exhilaration as simply as I can. On the central questions of immigration and identity politics, what Trump is proposing is simply a return to common sense — a reflection of the sane views of the vast majority of Americans, who support secure borders and oppose unfairness in sports and medical experiments on children. My conservative soul is glad.
