Princeton smiles on antisemites, big savings for New York and other commentary
Campus watch: Princeton Smiles on Antisemites
Protesters at 'an event at Princeton featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett' called Jewish students ' 'inbred swine,' among other slurs' as they disrupted the guest's address, but the school says no student will 'be disciplined for their premeditated disruption and blatant antisemitism,' laments Danielle Shapiro at Real Clear Politics.
Princeton pretends it can't ID those 'who were shouting antisemitic slurs' since 'it was dark and they were wearing masks.'
Bull. The message is clear: 'Wear a mask and you can abuse Jews on campus.'
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'Princeton's president constantly talks about Princeton's free speech rules, and yet when tested, the university will not enforce them.'
Indeed, 'If Princeton won't take basic steps to protect its students,' then the 'Department of Education must.'
Eye on Congress: Big Savings for New York
'Look alert, New Yorkers: Congress has a chance to cut the cost of living,' cheers The Wall Street Journal editorial board.
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Rep. Nick Langworthy's House bill 'would reduce the cost of federally funded construction projects' in New York, which unlike the other 49 states places 'absolute liability on property owners and contractors for construction workers' gravity-related injuries.'
'High liability means expensive insurance,' so 'many construction companies refuse to work in New York.'
The House bill would 'determine liability based on which parties are to blame for the accident' for 'any project that receives federal money or tax incentives, or 'is subject to Federal permitting requirements.' '
With the feds running the Penn Station revamp and the Gateway NY-NJ rail project, Langworthy savings of 'at least $2 billion in federal tax dollars over the next 10 years.'
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Speech beat: Tyranny Rules Britannia
'Lucy Connolly is Britain's foremost political prisoner,' rails Dominic Green at The Free Press.
The mother and nanny is 'serving a 31-month sentence for 'stirring up racial hatred' in a single tweet that she deleted less than four hours after posting.'
Her 2024 post 'called for the mass deportation of foreign-born criminals' after Axel Rudakubana 'went on a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed children's party' in England's north.
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'Plenty of more serious offenders escape prison terms.' Britain's government is simply 'intimidating the law-abiding majority into silence.'
'Lucy Connolly is in prison' purely 'to 'deter' other British people from venting their dissatisfaction about immigration and its discontents on social media outlets that, being American companies, the government cannot control.'
Censorship desk: Rubio Takes on EU Bullies
Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week 'shocked many of our allies by issuing a new visa restriction policy that bars foreign nationals deemed 'responsible for censorship of protected expression' in the U.S.,' hails Jonathan Turley at The Hill.
Until now, 'Europe has faced no consequences for its aggressive efforts at transnational censorship,' particularly its 'draconian' Digital Services Law, which 'allows for sweeping censorship and speech prosecutions' — leading the EU 'to threaten' US corporations for refusing to censor Americans and others on social media.
It's 'time for the U.S. to treat this as an attack on our citizens from abroad' and 'get serious about the European threat to free speech. And Rubio is doing just that — finally imposing real consequences for censorship.'
Conservative: Greta's Narcissistic Gaza Mission
Greta Thunberg heading to Gaza on a sailboat seems far more like 'Western narcissism . . . than an actual attempt to effect change,' snarks Ian Haworth at the Washington Examiner.
'What is a small boat of a dozen professional agitators going to achieve by trying, and inevitably failing, to reach an active war zone?'
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Plus, 'Thunberg is actively supporting' Hamas, 'the brutal terrorist group that carried out the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.'
She may not 'care about Hamas's Israeli victims,' but should about its 'Palestinian victims.'
'Thunberg is a participant, willing or unwilling, in the latest pseudo-religious cult that provides members with the same frenzied levels of purist adulation as the climate change cult.'
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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