Analysis
Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Annette Poizner, Stacey Love, Andria Spindel et al Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, Feb. 3, 2023 “When the far left think they are “punching up” and “sticking it to the rich,” they are now mimicking the type of trope that motored barbaric antisemitism in the past and feeds into today’s target: people of white privilege.” Owing […]
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Annette Poisoner Times of Israel, July 27, 2022 “We are learning about … students, forced to write papers that parrot the ideologies taught in school, finding themselves betraying their Jewish values or risk being mocked for expressing perspectives which differ from the school party line.” A recent study analyzes the Twitter feeds of 741 Diversity, Equity & […]
Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, Feb. 27, 2023 “Further research is required to better understand the lived experience of these students, the stressors they face, and the extent of the problems such as those identified herein. This study continues. Students are invited to share their experiences while maintaining anonymity.” Antisemitism in Canadian social work […]
Richard Klagsbrun Aish, No Date “Students are in a vulnerable position and dread officially attaching their name to complaints against a professor in a program like Social Work. Aside from determining grades, they fear one bad word from a professor to a social agency can eliminate their employment prospects.” Picture the following: A […]
Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Yaroslav Trofimov WSJ, Feb. 25, 2023 “The Biden administration took a gradualist approach to arming Ukraine that White House officials have described as ‘boiling the frog.’” Two days before the Russian invasion of his country, on Feb. 22, 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was welcomed to the White House. As he greeted President Biden and senior […]
Guy Taylor Washington Times, Feb. 20, 2023 Part Two: Russian critics emerge to shred Putin’s strategy Part Three: Fallout from Russia-Ukraine war reshapes global order “The war is not going to end in April 2022, as everyone was expecting last February, [and] it’s extremely likely that it’s not going to end in April 2023.” More than […]
Ben Wolfgang The Washington Times, Feb. 21, 2023 Second of three parts “He’s in danger of being outflanked by the very political constituency he created. The chauvinistic, nationalistic, arguably fascistic right wing that was his support base is now castigating him for not going far and hard enough.” The West hoped its heavy military […]
Boris Johnson and Lindsey Graham WSJ, Feb. 22, 2023 “After a year of slaughter, the West needs to do more to show the people of Russia what they are losing under Mr. Putin’s misrule.’ It has been a year since Vladimir Putin launched his vicious and unnecessary war in Ukraine. So far he has failed. He has […]
Tuesday, February 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Alyssia Finley WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 “The concept of natural immunity isn’t scientifically controversial, yet it was disparaged by public-health officials who associated it with opposition to lockdowns and the Great Barrington Declaration in autumn 2020.” The Lancet medical journal this month published a review of 65 studies that concluded prior infection with Covid—i.e., […]
John Tierney The Free Press, Feb. 27, 2023 “There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop.” We now have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by wearing masks during the pandemic: approximately zero. The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither […]
Smriti Mallapaty Nature, Feb. 14, 2023 “The researchers concluded that the virus was probably shed by humans, but Rasmussen and others are keen to take a closer look at the raw data, which included swabs from a defeathering machine, to see whether they can identify animal species.” The World Health Organization (WHO) […]
Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 “Despite the agencies’ differing analyses, the update reaffirmed an existing consensus between them that Covid-19 wasn’t the result of a Chinese biological-weapons program, the people who have read the classified report said.” The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most […]
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