Meanwhile on the International front....

This is/was just begging to turn into something worse.

This is all horrible, but I cannot imagine what possessed these people to sit across the middle of one the busiest freeways in California.

MSN

(I realized I hadn't put the link in that I intended to -- the reason I posted here. So, here's a story on the issue).

 

Only a little unbelievable.

Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza.

I don't entirely trust the source here, but will update the story later.

 

Do you agree with your buddy?

 

That quote is from the LitHub story, not from the Gessen essay.

 

So far it sounds like the prize may still be awarded, but on a different day in a different venue and without the participation of the Böll Foundation.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-y...ng-palestinians-to-jews-under-nazi-occupation

Masha Gessen on the Holocaust, Israel, and the Politics of Memory

Hannah-Arendt-Preis: Böll-Stiftung zieht sich aus Preisvergabe an Masha Gessen zurück

Hannah-Arendt-Preis an Masha Gessen: Kritik und Rückzug

Criticism of the awarding of the Hannah Arendt Prize for political thought to the journalist Masha Gessen is becoming louder. The Bremen Senate and the Böll Foundations say they are in favor of canceling the event on Friday, and the Böll Foundations in the federal and state governments of Bremen will also no longer take part in the award ceremony. The German-Israeli Society (DIG) in Bremen initially expressed concerns and called for the award ceremony to be canceled.

(via Google translate)

 

Meanwhile, in America . . .



https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4359042-house-antisemitism-harvard-upenn-mit/

 

$100 million gets you what, 3.5 houses in Austin?

 

Yeah, but as we’ve seen with Miami, there’s always room for two schools with the same name.

Elon College (Tx), come on down!

 

Seems like you could have found and posted the original news source. Then again you might agree that Israel is a rogue state committing genocide.

 

and no, I don't agree that Israel is a rogue authoritarian nation committing a genocide.

 

has nothing to do with what I suggested. I appreciate the follow up but you did give the guy clicks. Go LitHub!

 

Has a nice, respectable sound to it, unlike other "hubs" I've ... heard of.