Meanwhile on the International front....

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...ith-congo-others-on-taking-in-gaza-emigrants/

The Times of Israel’s Hebrew sister-site Zman Yisrael reports that Israeli officials have held clandestine talks with the African nation of Congo and several others for the potential acceptance of Gaza emigrants.

“Congo will be willing to take in migrants, and we’re in talks with others,” a senior source in the security cabinet tells Shalom Yerushalmi.

Yerushalmi quotes Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel saying at the Knesset yesterday: “At the end of the war Hamas rule will collapse, there are no municipal authorities, the civilian population will be entirely dependent on humanitarian aid. There will be no work, and 60% of Gaza’s agricultural land will become security buffer zones.”

 

This is up there with Britain sending asylum seekers to Rwanda as craziest plan that has no regard for the people affected

 

collateral damage

How a Proxy Fight Over Campus Politics Brought Down Harvard’s President

The resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, on Tuesday followed a lengthening catalog of plagiarism allegations that appeared to steadily sap her support among the university’s faculty, students and alumni. But for many of Dr. Gay’s critics, her departure was also a proxy victory in the escalating ideological battle over American higher education.

Taking down Dr. Gay was a “a huge scalp” in the “fight for civilizational sanity,” Josh Hammer, a conservative talk show host and writer, wrote on the social media platform X.

“A crushing loss to D.E.I., wokeism, antisemitism & university elitism,” wrote the conservative commentator Liz Wheeler.

“This is the beginning of the end for D.E.I. in America’s institutions,” said the conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who had helped publicize the plagiarism allegations.

 

McCarthyite witch hunt?

 

Growing plants without soil is called hydroponic

Legislating without good faith is called Stefanik

 

Interesting though how Stefanik took that line of questioning, and Rufo had the plagiarism stuff all cued up.

Almost as if the target all along was DEI.

 

Plagiarism is either wrong across the board or it's not.

 

I'd ask @doctorquant to weigh in on this, but there's a little more "flexibility" in academic writing because it's so citation-heavy.

 

Just to clarify the "McCarthy" thing, I'm referring in part to the high-profile accusation and counter-accusation coming out of Congressional hearings. A witch hunt for sure, but televised and with an official imprimatur.