antisemitism Archives

14 Jan, 2026

To Trap Academe

August 8, 2025 Buck Banks

The Trumpian questions run from unseemly to impolite,
Drawing universities into a war they don’t want to fight.
The boorish queries take the tack
Of that familiar linguistic trap:
“Have you already stopped being an antisemite?”

AOC Cuts Loose on House Floor

February 3, 2023 Buck Banks

Tag: antisemitism

To Trap Academe

AOC Cuts Loose on House Floor

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Why are prices so high under Joe Biden?”

— House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), talking to reporters in January 2026.

“If I were you, Mr. President, I would kill the leadership that are killing the people.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), on Fox News, urging President Trump to kill Iran’s supreme leader.

“A tyrannical theocracy has shut down the internet for an entire country so the world can’t see the brutal tactics it plans to use to crush a free Iran. In my view, this is the biggest free-speech story in the world right now.”

— Greg Lukianoff, head of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, on X.

Numerati

51.6%

15 million

335,000

New data reveals that a staggering 335,000 federal workers left government work last year, with the vast majority quitting or retiring — only 11,000 were a result of layoffs from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Washington Post reports.

10%

$1.5 trillion

“One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in is they shut down all the press and any means of conveying information.”

— “Elon Musk said that X, his social media platform, could have saved Jews from the Holocaust after visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday,” The Forward reports.