Antisemitism still surging, don’t forget Taiwan – Latest News
Conservative: Antisemitism Still Surging
The post-Oct. 7, 2023, flare-up in antisemitism “seemed primed” to fade as Hamas’ assaults fell “further in the rearview mirror,” however the hate-spike is “acting funny,” warns Commentary’s Seth Mandel. A definitive Tel Aviv University report finds more Jews have been killed worldwide in 2025 than in any 12 months in more than three a long time; three years after Oct. 7, “violent anti-Semitism is still rising across parts of the West”; to “be Jewish in some parts of the world now is to feel more like a target than ever.” Time to “stop pretending” that “constant vilification” of Israel has no “dangerous consequences” for Jews. Who is aware of “if the surge will taper off any time soon”? Antisemitism “continues to defy predictions in the worst way possible.”
Defense beat: Don’t Forget Taiwan
“The conflict in Iran should be a reminder of, not a cause to divert attention from, U.S. interests in the West Pacific,” argues Seth Cropsey at The Hill. “America’s war in the Middle East demonstrates the necessity of allies to American strategy.” Notice: “The U.S. imported more goods last year from Taiwan than from China, while the U.S. for the first time in a quarter-century became Taiwan’s largest export partner,” at the same time as Taiwan fosters “massive growth of the semiconductor ecosystem in the U.S.” Sustaining the US-Taiwan “partnership requires accelerating military transfers and improving defense-industrial and operational links.” The prez should “resist the temptation” to “diminish this essential partnership” in his May assembly with China’s Xi. “Taiwan is a linchpin in America’s Indo-Pacific security and the region’s freedom.”
From the fitting: Va Gerrymander Blatantly Illegal
Virginia was long “considered the gold standard among states rejecting gerrymandering,” however its new Democratic leaders have rammed via the “most radical gerrymandered map in the nation,” notes Jonathan Turley at Fox News. The state’s prime court docket should deal with the “shockingly dishonest and misleading” marketing campaign to go the decision that allowed this, together with the “deceit” baked into the decision’s “obtuse and vague” and the “abridged and unprecedented” course of to get it on the poll. The state lawyer normal gives solely “babbling spin” in protection of all this, betting that the court docket will “shrug away the problems” moderately than make “Democrats face the ultimate disaster.” But the “unlawful means” used to impose this gerrymander “destroy the credibility” of the Democrats’ declare to “being defenders of the Constitution.”
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White House watch: Unexpected Hero’s Journey
“The expectation” earlier than the White House Correspondents dinner “was that President Trump would turn the tables” after Barack Obama “humiliated him” on the 2011 dinner, recollects The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Hennessey. Trump’s “scheduled stemwinder was billed as payback”; now it’s “unlikely” to be given. It’s all half of the “hero’s journey”: Trump grew a small fortune “into a big one,” misplaced it, then “built it all back.” He was “charming on TV,” however when “he dipped his toe into politics, the pointy-heads” laughed. Yet after that 2011 dinner, he resolved “to show them” — and did. So the elites “hounded him,” impeached him twice; assassins tried to kill him. “Yet the people lifted him up.” “No one knows where the journey ends” — however “it’s a hell of a story.”
Politics: Face Facts on Left’s Violence
The “familiar chorus of voices” calling for “lowering the temperature” of divisive political rhetoric “pretend” that each side are at fault, notes The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson, however the truth is “only one side in America today” has a “problem with political violence,” and everybody is aware of it’s the left, which “foments violence” by promulgating “false propaganda” and by “funding the supposed right-wing extremists they warn about.” Conservatives are “in a life-or-death contest with bloodthirsty radicals” who want to “orphan our children.” If this implies “dismantling institutions controlled by the left, then we must dismantle them” as a result of “they are resorting to unjust force, and only just force will stop them.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
