The long shadow of the 1960s looms over “Thorn Tree,” a sprawling second novel by Brooklyn-based author Max Ludington. Set largely in Los Angeles in 2017, the book concerns two baby boomers dealing with the fallout from their countercultural pasts. It’s a novel of regrets and reckonings, traumas repressed and returning. Commentary on the allure of dangerous subcultures, combined with fleeting references to the Trump administration, suggests that the conflicts and divisions of the 1960s remain,...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday condemned the “anti-Semitic mobs” that have recently taken over college campuses across the United States, calling on Americans to speak up against anti-Semitism before it spirals out of control.
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The Calculator app could finally make its way to the iPad with iPadOS 18, and we could see the debut of some exciting new features and powerful upgrades in the process. Apple's redesigned Calculator app could make its way to iPad as well Last week, we published an exclusive report on Apple's Project GrayParrot detailing the revamped macOS Calculator application Apple is developing. A new report now claims that the iPad will receive a Calculator app of its own, for the very first time. ...
President Joe Biden on Monday gave his first public remarks on anti-Israel
The Netherlands has had a caretaker government for almost five months and there is no sign of a quick resolution, given little progress is being made in the coalition talks on tricky issues such as immigration and manure. Now Frans Timmermans, leader of the GroenLinks-PvdA alliance, has said he would welcome having a role in the negotiations, but not with the far-right PVV. Speaking to current affairs show Nieuwsuur on the eve of the party’s national congress, Timmermans said that
The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday gave many elite American universities failing grades on their campus climate of anti-Semitism.
House speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) and other Republican representatives traveled to Columbia University on Wednesday to denounce the rampant displays of anti-Semitism on the campus. "A growing number of students have chanted in support of terrorists," Johnson said in an address facing the student protest encampment on the campus lawn. The House speaker said […]
Anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas rallies have been spreading like hateful wildfire across American universities, with encampments spouting up in UT Austin and Harvard on Wednesday. And on CNN News Central that afternoon, Harvard professor and former Obama DHS official Juliette Kayyem demanded that universities like hers “allow space” for those mini-Nuremberg rallies. “And I'm pretty clear about this,” Kayyem declared. She demanded that schools “allow space for students to protest” in favor of Hamas....
Anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas rallies have been spreading like hateful wildfire across American universities, with encampments spouting up in UT Austin and Harvard on Wednesday. And on CNN News Central that afternoon, Harvard professor and former Obama DHS official Juliette Kayyem demanded that universities like hers “allow space” for those mini-Nuremberg rallies. “And I'm pretty clear about this,” Kayyem declared. She demanded that schools “allow space for students to protest” in favor of Hamas....
Democratic Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), and Summer Lee (Pa.) posed for photos with a fundraiser last week who has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and founded a Facebook group where Hamas terrorists are praised.
On Tuesday's CNN This Morning, while right-leaning contributor Jonah Goldberg was condemning the anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas rhetoric used by far-left protesters on college campuses, New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro got snippy as she jumped in to cut him off and argue against the use of police against anti-Israel protesters harassing Jewish students. After host Kasie Hunt had just interviewed Congressman Josh Gottheimer -- a Jewish moderate Democrat from New Jersey -- about his visit to...