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AN EXAMPLE OF WHY PEOPLE WHO GET THEIR NEWS FROM NPR ARE ILL-INFORMED: Check out the contrast in coverage. Does anyone believe that NPR’s omission of the students’ support for terrorism and the violent destruction of Israel was a mere oversight?

(1) NPR:

(2) Student journalist via the Free Press:

Posted at 11:12 pm by David Bernstein

OPEN THREAD: This is my open thread. There are others like it, but this one is mine.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS LIVE UPDATES: Anti-Israel protesters swarm Penn Station and crowd subway during rush hour, wild video shows.

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters could be seen on the steps of New York City’s Penn Station before taking a rush hour train toward Columbia University, video shows.

A group of approximately 150 anti-Israel protesters congregated at New York University’s campus on Tuesday, calling for the university’s administration to reevaluate their negotiations with the protesters, as demonstrations heat up in the Big Apple.

Columbia students who took over Hamilton Hall are now facing expulsion, according to a memo sent out by the Ivy League school.

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters could be seen on the steps of New York City’s Penn Station and later swarming the train hall, video shows.

Protesters were seen beelining toward the doors of Moynihan Train Hall, where Amtrak and the LIRR runs.

When inside, demonstrators marched and stood for the uptown A train in swarms.

Trains, eh? It seems bad form by the protesters to remind voters of anti-Semites’ historical obsession with them.

As is this: Oh Look, A Night of Broken Glass at Columbia.

And from America’s Newspaper of Record:

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

2024 IS WAY TOO CRAZY FOR EVEN THE BABYLON BEE TO SATIRIZE:

“Marxian lens,” huh? Why so reactionary?

Flashback: Berkeley students angry that they have to read Marx, not because he was, well, a Marxist, but because he was yet another dead white European male: “The course syllabus employed a standardized canon of theory that began with Plato and Aristotle, then jumped to modern philosophers: Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Foucault, all of whom are white men. The syllabus did not include a single woman or person of color.”

As James Lileks wrote in response, “Marx is in foul order in Berkeley not for his ideas, or the heaps of corpses accumulated in his name, but because he had a prostate. By the way, Foucault died of AIDS, so you can dismiss everything the students wrote. Homophobes and haters. No, kids, don’t bother defending yourselves. As your heroes would no doubt say: If it wasn’t true, we wouldn’t have accused you.”

Related: Karl Marx Calls Mexicans Lazy. Will Social Justice Warriors Demand Noted Racist Karl Marx Be Banned From Study on Campus ?

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

COLUMBIA NOW SHOWING SIGNS OF CONSIDERING THINKING ABOUT TAKING STEPS TO POSSIBLY ACQUIRE A BACKBONE:

But:

Background: Columbia Students Storm University Building and Hoist Banner Calling for ‘Intifada.’

Posted at 4:27 pm by Glenn Reynolds