Our conversation with former Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence about the escalating clashes on college campuses and his views on Brown becoming one of the first US universities to consider divesting from Israel.

NEW: Northwestern Hillel ED Michael Simon steps down from the school's antisemitism committee, along w/ its co-chair.

Simon hoped the committee would make a 'good-faith effort' toward fighting hate & harassment.

'It has become apparent that the Committee is not able to do so.'

'One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'

My sister Lishay Lavi Miran
and Omri's father Dani embody Tennyson's Ulysses, and their spirit guides us.

My interview with Bianna Golodryga & Zain Asher.

.Columbia University issues statement as NYPD enters campus and mass arrests begin:

“After the University learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalized, and blockaded, we were left with no choice.”

Noa Fay, a Jewish Columbia student says this about her Jewish classmates involved in the pro-Palestinian protests:
“Take them as seriously as we all take Blacks for Trump and Gays for Trump. It’s absolutely a fair comparison, it’s the same tokenization. That’s how seriously we…

Not only Jews view it as a fig leaf for bigotry. “they draw a distinction between anti-Zionism, which describes opposition to the Jewish state of Israel, and hatred toward Jewish people in general. It’s an argument many Jews see as a fig leaf for bigotry.” nytimes.com/2024/04/29/nyr…

NEWS

The International Criminal Court is being warned by members of Congress in both parties that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with U.S. retaliation.

Legislation to that effect is already in the works.

Andrew Solender scoops…

Columbia says it has begun suspending students at 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…

🚨Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Biden Sunday to help prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials in connection with the war in Gaza. My story on Axios
axios.com/2024/04/29/net…

“I don't think Netanyahu wants to skip Rafah, I think this is his raison d'être these days, winning the war in an outright victory as he defined it.”

Few journalists are as close to Netanyahu’s thinking as Israeli political journalist עמית סגל Amit Segal

Our conversation in full:

Columbia University has given students a 2pm deadline to leave the encampment and commit to all university policies or face suspension and ineligibility to finish the semester in good standing.

Israel scrambles as Netanyahu, defense chiefs face possible ICC arrest warrants haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

🚨🚨🚨A new Israeli proposal for a possible hostage deal with Hamas includes a willingness to discuss the 'restoration of sustainable calm' in Gaza after an initial release of hostages on humanitarian grounds. My story on Axios
axios.com/2024/04/27/isr…

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thereset.news/p/the-islamic-…

I do not recall numerous reports of Russian students fearing for their safety on college campuses in the spring and summer of 2022…

The week that shook Columbia on.ft.com/49YyGsZ

“A Northeastern spokesperson blamed ‘outside professional organizers with no affiliation with Northeastern’ for co-opting the demonstration and said people were yelling ‘virulent antisemitic slurs, including ‘Kill the Jews.’”
bostonglobe.com/2024/04/27/met… via The Boston Globe

Columbia student protest leader who said in video 'Zionists don't deserve to live' was banned from campus, university spokesperson says cnn.it/3QnB45v

Get the sense that we talk about on-campus harassment and intimidation differently when the subjects are Jewish students?

In 2017, an anonymous jerk put flyers with a Confederate flag and cotton around American University's campus. They read 'Huzzah for Dixie' or similar.
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Tune into CNN this hr for a piece of my intv w/ Sec Blinken in Beijing. He said there’s evidence of China attempting “to influence & arguably interfere” in US elections.. & “it’s a concern” that China is seeking to mirror Russia’s playbook of influence campaigns in the US.

Lebanese Hezbollah is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, destroyed Lebanon, and played a leading role in campaigns that killed thousands of Arabs. Those who display its flag may seem to be no more than useful idiots for Tehran’s propaganda machine, but their…