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Mideast desk: America’s Hamas Helpers
A new lawsuit reveals “a fair amount of evidence” that teams like Students for Justice in Palestine “aren’t merely pro-Hamas in outlook but that they coordinate their messaging and actions with Hamas,” thunders Commentary’s Seth Mandel. SJP posted “We are back!!” on its long-dormant Instagram three minutes earlier than the butchery started; different teams “named in the suit also echoed Hamas’s public pronouncements.” “The examples are endless,” and the claims of materials help for terror “will be adjudicated in court” the place “the defendants and their supporters will argue that these groups’ actions are permitted under the law.” But “whatever happens in the courtroom, this lawsuit should be required reading for all the reporters, pundits, activists, and politicians who have so shamelessly whitewashed anti-Semitism in America since Oct. 7.”
Media watch: Inflammatory, Anti-Cop Coverage
“There was virtually no chance for a conscientious New Yorker to get an accurate story about the” incident final yr when police shot Derrell Mickles after he brandished a knife within the subway “if their media diet consisted of The New York Times, public radio” and social media, moans Mike Pesca at The Free Press. The Times’ protection insisted “it was a story about a fare evader who happened to have a knife, rather than about an aggressive knife-wielder who happened to be evading a fare.” Meanwhile, WNYC wrongly reported that it was legal for Mickles “to carry the knife he had,” although that was “demonstrably false.” Sadly, “the inherent bias of the legacy media,” make it powerful to get “accurate reporting on important issues . . . like whether the police did their jobs appropriately.”
From the appropriate: Hope in Cuomo’s ‘Homeless’ Past
In 1986, Andrew Cuomo based HELP USA to allow homeless households to “transition out of homelessness through a combination of intermediate-length shelter stays and a service-rich environment,” recollects City Journal’s Stephen Eide. But now, working for mayor, Cuomo should face the challenges wrought by his “misguided mental-health policies” as governor. He ought to undertake Mayor Adams’ “mental-health policy” strategy and “embrace his [own] old conception of the continuum of care and transitional-housing programs.” By rejecting the “current Housing First regime,” Cuomo “can credibly make the case for quality transitional services that emphasize values such as work and sobriety.” “Long political histories create baggage for candidates, as Cuomo well knows — but they can also offer opportunities.”
More From Post Editorial Board
Conservative: Don’s Distracting Impeach Push
President Trump’s call to question Judge James Boasberg for blocking his bid to deport Tren de Aragua gangsters arms the prez’s “enemies a stick they can use to beat him,” laments The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. It additionally “distracts from a constitutional argument, of which Mr. Trump has the better side.” It’s “overreach” for judges to stop Trump from “implementing the policies he was elected on.” And it’s not “a new problem.” In 2018, “Justice Clarence Thomas said the court had a constitutional obligation to take on the federal judiciaries’ increasing resort to nationwide injunctions.” Ultimately, the Supreme Court will determine the TdA case, and Trump “has the friendliest Supreme Court in decades, and a credible constitutional case.” Best he “stick to it.”
Campus beat: Stealth Schemes To Save DEI
After the feds froze $175 million within the University of Pennsylvania’s funds “for violating gender anti-discrimination policies,” reviews Paul de Quenoy at Chronicles, “an internal message informed the faculty that despite the new requirements ‘a familiar and dedicated team’ staffing its newly created ‘Office of Equal Opportunity and Engagement’ will essentially continue its old DEI work under a new name.” Similar resistance comes at Columbia University, making an attempt to avoid wasting its own federal funding whilst its “sprawling, DEI-infused infrastructure accommodates large numbers of potentially bad actors.” “If real institutional reform is to be achieved,” Team Trump should crack down. “The bar to recover those funds must be set very high and watched for years to come.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
