NinaBernstein1

NinaBernstein1, 15 days ago to random

Terrific and important op-ed. Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan | Arielle Angel | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/us-university-protests-antisemitism-free-speech

NinaBernstein1, 16 days ago to random

Behind the scenes, the raw power of millions and an unhappy donor moved Shafik to call in the cops. An object lesson in how private philanthropy in the age of billionaires is bad for academic freedom. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/columbia-university-donor-angelica-berrie.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 17 days ago to random

“Israel is trying to control the narrative, and it is trying to deprive even the Israeli audience from seeing the atrocities in Gaza,” said Jamil Dakwar, a law professor at New York University and a founding attorney of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

A spokesman for the U.S. State Department, Matthew Miller, said on Monday, “We think Al Jazeera ought to be able to operate in Israel, as they operate in other countries.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/world/middleeast/al-jazeera-israel-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 19 days ago to random

Closing off a country to information, news and ideas from abroad has long been a hallmark of repressive governments.

“The legitimacy of any democracy turns in part on its citizens having unrestricted access to foreign media,” Mr. Jaffer said.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/06/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 23 days ago to random

That “precision” police operation that Eric Adams bragged about with edited video? A cop fired his gun “accidentally” in Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, THE CITY confirms — scooping the media establishment. It’s under DA investigation. https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/

NinaBernstein1, 25 days ago to random

Delicious pan of Erik Larson’s latest, on the Civil War, but minus Black people.
« The green horns show. » by Alexis Coe.
#GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/review/the-demon-of-unrest-erik-larson.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.6L62.0FTc_o3kCLC_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 25 days ago to random

The lead editorial in Haaretz, Israel’s dissident newspaper, on a government minister’s remarks advocating genocide of Palestinians. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-04-30/ty-article-opinion/smotrich-must-pay-the-price-for-his-repeated-calls-for-genocide-of-palestinians/0000018f-3084-d0b5-a59f-31c5ca320000

NinaBernstein1, 25 days ago to random

Footage from the police bust at Hamilton Hall — what Columbia’s president didn’t want the news media to see. Does it look like safety for students?
And she has asked the NYPD to stay on campus through May 17 to secure graduation, turning the university into an armed camp.
There will be more protests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T3shB7wYdI

NinaBernstein1, 26 days ago to random

« I will be the first to say: If the students really end up being proven wrong on this one, let's punish them the way we punished the people proven wrong on Iraq:

Magazine contracts, think-tank posts, and media gigs. »

https://open.substack.com/pub/anandwrites/p/notebook-on-the-antiwar-protests?r=ad0yf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

NinaBernstein1, 28 days ago to random

The NY19 Congressional district election could determine whether Democrats take back the House. So why is the Josh Riley campaign so silent? How is this appealing Democratic responding to the Republican incumbent, Marc Molinaro? Google Josh Riley and see that the response dates from September 2023!
Despite signing up for email from his campaign, I’ve received nothing. What is his campaign manager, Daniel Fleiss, doing? https://joshrileyforcongress.com/press/riley-to-molinaro-do-your-job-or-dont-get-paid/

NinaBernstein1, 29 days ago to random

“We are the generation of school shootings, the generation that is tasked to deal with climate change. We’ve just been dealt the short end of the stick time and time again. I’m not going to say that it feels expected because I feel like at some point of our lives we should know normalcy but it’s been a lot.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/style/campus-protests-college-graduation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

“Tonight, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, not in spite of our Judaism, but because of it,” Miriam Levine, a 22-year-old Yale student who helped organize the Seder, told the crowd through a microphone. “Tonight we proclaim that our liberation is intertwined.”
#GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/campus-protest-seders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.2ece.Mn1erzrEUXho&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

“Two things can be true at the same time,” she said. “You have a lot of cynical weaponization of false accusations and conflating of criticism of Israel with antisemitism, alongside the fact that antisemitism is very real and on the rise.”
There is a hopeful conclusion to this good piece by Mara Gay about the rise of progressive Democrats. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/progressives-democratic-party-aoc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.dbHL.I1cT5KXkIxrE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/opinion/passover-empathy-bible-suffering.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE0.rqQf.pOQ9yg_InNHY&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

Gaza aid flotilla plans to challenge Israeli blockade, organizers say
“our governments have thus far done nothing but we call on them to start now, to uphold their own obligations under international law, to demand that Israel allow the flotilla safe passage to Gaza.” “Anything less than this is collaborating with the illegal siege on Gaza, and we don’t think that is what the Turkish government will do.”
#GIFTLINK

https://wapo.st/3JvWlGt

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

“What could be more absurd and hypocritical than the putative Republican nominee selling Bibles and promoting an America with draconian abortion laws during his trial over a $130,000 payment to keep a porn star from telling voters about their dalliance?”#GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion/melania-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l00.hXqB.T8Wuegef8HHB&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

Satisfying. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/16/opinion/thepoint/trump-trial-trapped-courtroom?unlocked_article_code=1.l00.NxQJ.0UwWE_yej62V&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

“The Israeli military dropped a bomb on a compound in Gaza used by the International Rescue Committee. The IRC says that the near-fatal strike was caused by a 1,000-pound American-made bomb, dropped from an American-made F-16 fighter jet. And when an American-made aircraft drops an American-made bomb on an American aid group in an American-supported war, how can that not com back to Biden ? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/opinion/biden-gaza-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk0.3m8g.oNG_wYlC_Ua7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=m

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

“Israel champions itself as a democracy and a bastion of press freedom in the region. Its actions tell a very different story. The high rate of journalists’ deaths and arrests, including a slew in the West Bank; laws allowing its government to shut down foreign news outlets deemed a security risk, which the prime minister has explicitly threatened to use against Al Jazeera; and its refusal to permit foreign journalists independent access to Gaza….”https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/opinion/gaza-journalists-censorship-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE0.efaz.ulTjsBhke8fS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=m

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

Terrific piece by Peter Maas. We crossed paths in Bosnia in 1992.
#GiftLink
“I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them. “

https://wapo.st/3TUjTtp

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said on X and in a statement, “Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I’d suggest they find a federal prison.”

#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3PLroS2

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

« any successful strategy to protect or restore abortion rights must understand reproductive rights and representative democracy as inextricably linked. »
Excellent editorial. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/opinion/abortion-drug-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk0.jHgA.BR2UcelQmse_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=m

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-sexual-assault.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.ytEf.pXQeA8bfhViS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=m

NinaBernstein1, 2 months ago to random

Jamelle Bouie: “It is the refusal to enforce the rules — enforce the law — against Trump that has put him in a position to win the White House a second time. It is the impunity, as much as if not more than the cultivated sense of victimhood, that anchors his political appeal. “
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/opinion/trump-trials-bond-invincibility.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.6VPP.K7cP9hIlM0nf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=m

NinaBernstein1, 3 months ago to random

Inspiring obituary of the 99-year-old architect of Franco-German reconciliation after WWII, born a German Jew, who fled the Nazis at age 8. Also a critic of Israeli treatment of Palestinians:
“One cannot expect young Palestinians to mourn the victims of horrific attacks if the suffering of their own people goes ignored.” #GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/world/europe/alfred-grosser-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE0.mYw-.4RKWUydVgliV&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare