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From the proper: Keir’s Pathetic Palestine Fantasy
“If you want a state, kill some Jews,” grumbles Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “recognition of a State of Palestine while Hamas continues to hold half-starved Jews in its dank tunnels.” “The Foreign Office has already updated its maps of Israel and the Palestinian Territories to reflect the PM’s decree that a State of Palestine should exist,” however: “Do these people think it’s still the 1920s and puffed-up ministers in London’s opulent offices of state have the ‘right’ to redraw the map of the Middle East as they see fit?” Starmer says Palestinian statehood “is about ‘keeping alive’ the hope of peace.” Yet he “has taken action that directly boosts the moral fortunes” of “Jew-killers” as he and his allies “fantasize that the violent haters of the West can be pacified with pieces of political fruit.”
Campus watch: The Politics of Hate
Knowing how to “disagree respectfully” is important, agrees John Ellis at The Wall Street Journal, however that doesn’t handle what “political hatred on college campuses is about, or what it is doing to us.” If it had been nearly “political differences,” then being “more tolerant” could be high quality. But a dichotomy between “a group of people who are wronged and another who are the wrongdoers” dominates faculty campuses. “In this kind of politics, hatred isn’t a matter of style” however the essence of ideological positioning. “If you ask a campus radical to give up hating, you would be asking him to give up his political framework.” It is unclear how long America can “tolerate a system of higher education that is poisoning” the nation.
From the left: Let Haters Fail on Their Own
“Don’t do it, President Trump,” pleads Racket News’ Matt Taibbi: don’t let FCC Chair Brendan Carr “turn the federal government into broadcast media police,” as it might finish “the spectacle of people like Jimmy Kimmel suffering” — “the greatest Schadenfreude robbery in history.” If Carr follows via on his threats to implement obscure, decades-old broadcast “standards,” we’ll be caught with “already-dispatched figures like Kimmel and Stephen Colbert reanimated and turned into martyrs.” Please, “Let the dead sleep, instead of waking them and forcing citizens like me to defend them.” Step back: “The market is doing its job, in a big, funny way. Why put a stop to that?”
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Libertarian: Free-Speech Culture Besieged
“The true foundation for free speech in the U.S. has always been a culture that supports unfettered expression,” argues J.D. Tuccille, however now “it’s obvious that free speech culture is besieged.” Some have fun Charlie Kirk’s homicide, whereas Attorney General Pam Bondi “threatened to crack down on ‘hate speech,’” and FCC Chair Brendan Carr “leaned on ABC to fire a comic who got mouthy about Kirk.” Siccing the authorities on people over speech, as soon as “championed by the illiberal left,” is now “a position also taken by the nation’s top cop.” Most Americans nonetheless assist “free speech for everybody,” however “a sizeable” 41% assume it must be curbed in some circumstances. The First Amendment “won’t be enough if its foundations in the culture continue to erode.”
Eye on Africa: Christian ‘Cleansing’ in Nigeria
“It has been a harrowing year for Christians in Nigeria,” laments The Free Press’s Josh Code. “Since 2009, Islamist extremists in northern Nigeria have destroyed more than 18,000 churches and killed over 50,000 Christians nationwide,” plus “another 5 million Christians have been displaced within the country.” This yr, “over 7,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed.” Some US lawmakers have referred to as the homicide and persecution of Nigerian Christians ‘religious cleansing,’” however the State Department has but to categorise Nigeria “as a ‘Country of Particular Concern.’ ” Sen. Ted Cruz has launched a invoice making that designation and “imposing sanctions on officials there.” Sadly, Western media “coverage of the persecution of Nigerian Christians has been sparse and grim.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
