[NY Post] Consequences for being Assholes? That are Unpossible! Three Columbia University deans have been "permanently removed" from their posts for sharing "very troubling" texts that "disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes," school officials said Monday.
The three administrators — Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick and Cristen Kromm — have been on leave since last month since it emerged they’d been involved in the disparaging text exchange that unfolded during a panel discussion about antisemitism on campus.
"This incident revealed behavior and sentiments that were not only unprofessional, but also, disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes," Columbia president Minouche Shafik said in a statement.
"Whether intended as such or not, these sentiments are unacceptable and deeply upsetting, conveying a lack of seriousness about the concerns and the experiences of members of our Jewish community that is antithetical to our university’s values and the standards we must uphold in our community."
Susan Chang-Kim, Columbia College’s vice dean and chief administrative officer, was among the university brass placed on leave in the wake of the exchange.
Provost Angela Olinto said that "the three staff members involved have been permanently removed from their positions at Columbia College and remain on leave at this time." It was not immediately clear what their current status was on staff.
Josef Sorett, another dean who was also involved in the text exchange, will remain in his post but will publicly apologize for his role in the ordeal, Shafik added.
The developments come weeks after images of the group chat emerged publicly after being captured by an alumnus sitting in the crowd during the May 31 panel about Jewish life on campus.
The group had exchanged the messages — including one featuring a vomiting face emoji — as speakers discussed the impact that rising antisemitism stoked by Israel’s war against Hamas has had on the Ivy League’s Jewish students and faculty.
In some of the texts, the administrators had accused Jewish students of asserting "privilege" — and mocked them for needing a place to "huddle" to avoid antisemitism and harassment on campus.
"Laying the case to expand physical space! They will have their own dorm soon," said Patashnick, associate dean for student and family support, in one text, prompting Chang-Kim, vice dean and chief administrative officer of Columbia College, to respond: "Comes from such a place of privilege."
In another exchange, Kromm, the dean of undergraduate student life, had used the vomiting emoji in reference to an op-ed in the student-led Columbia Spectator — titled "Sounding the alarm" — that was written by the school’s campus rabbi, Yonah Hain.
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^ The consensus among eyewitnesses was that Streicher did not receive a quick death from spinal severing. As with at least several others, the bungled hanging was caused by the wilful incompetence of the hangman, Master Sergeant John C. Woods.[76]
I love a good ending
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#1 I imagine that the Ivies will be a bit more cautious picking up fired for-cause antisemitism Who do not belong to a protected group
[AIT.LIVE] The 8th batch of the re-integration of low risk and minors of 560 repentant Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Militants have commenced training in Maiduguri, Borno State, North-East Nigeria.
The essence of the training is to prepare them for life after camp.
The re-integration training will be on between 6 and 9 months.
According to Brigadier General Abdullah Ishaq retired, who is the Borno State Special Adviser on Security Affairs, the trainees will be introduced to trades on different skills, before they are finally taken back to their respective communities.
He says they will be receiving lectures for 2 weeks from academicians, the police, the National Orientation Agency, religious leaders and other relevant sectors of the society.
They will also receive Starter packs at the end of the programme, before being returned to their communities who had screened them for the training.
U.S. officials say Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i nationals will be offered temporary protected status (TPS) for another 18 months in a move that a former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director is calling an "extreme risk for this country’s security and safety."
The announcement on Monday by the Department of Homeland Security — which means that Yemeni nationals living in the U.S. will be further protected from deportation and can apply for work permits — comes as Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels continue to destabilize the Middle Eastern country.
"Yemen is a special interest alien country. We got to be careful of who we are allowing into the country because they have terrorist ties," Tom Homan, a former acting director of ICE, told Fox News Digital. "We have already shown our current vetting is not as sufficient to keep us out of harm’s way, because most people with terrorist ties, gunnies in this world — you can’t find them in any database.
"We don’t know who most gunnies [are], so I think it’s an extreme risk for this country’s security and safety," he added.
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[KavkazUzel] The Department of Fatwas and Reconciliation of the Muftiate of Dagestan has been abolished. The Mufti justified his decision by saying that the department "does not respond in a timely manner to the challenges of the time."
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on July 1, the Mufti of Dagestan announced a fatwa banning the niqab. On July 2, the head of the fatwa department of the Muftiate of Dagestan stated that there were no grounds for a general ban on the niqab, but a temporary ban could be introduced for security reasons. On July 3, the Muftiate of Dagestan announced a temporary ban on niqabs until a new theological opinion. The decision of the Dagestan Muslim Spiritual Directorate to ban the niqab is not mandatory, it will be followed only by those for whom the Muftiate is an authority, and this is far from all residents of the republic, religious scholars interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" indicated.
Statements by representatives of the Islamic clergy on the issue of the fatwa on the niqab have sparked a debate about the presence of "radical" mosques in Dagestan and, on the contrary, those loyal to the muftiate. Disputes have also arisen about whether the ban is mandatory or advisory in nature. The "Caucasian Knot" reference " Fatwa on the ban on the niqab - a law or a recommendation " contains expert opinions on whether the ban of the Dagestan muftiate will be implemented.
Mufti of Dagestan Akhmad-Afandi Abdullaev held a meeting today with employees of the fatwa and reconciliation department. "It was decided to abolish the fatwa department due to the fact that the department does not respond to the challenges of the time in a timely manner," reads a message today on the muftiate's Telegram channel.
The mufti also said that further changes in the structure of the muftiate will be made in the coming days, the statement said.
The Telegram channel of the Fatwa Department of the Muftiate of Dagestan has not commented on the abolition of the department by 9:15 p.m. Moscow time. The last message is dated July 6 - it is a repost from the Muftiate's Telegram channel "Dua, recited on the last day of the year." Earlier that day, the Fatwa Department posted a link to a fatwa issued in 2021 on the question of whether Muslims can congratulate each other on the arrival of the new year according to the lunar calendar. The response states that congratulating on holidays is a "desirable action."
In the "Documents of Organizations" section of the "Caucasian Knot" an " Explanation from the Fatwa Department of the Muftiate of Dagestan regarding the ban on niqabs " was published.
Let us recall that on July 3, the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus stated that wearing the niqab and burqa in modern conditions causes practical harm to Muslims and threatens discord in interreligious and interethnic relations. On July 4, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Karachay-Cherkessia introduced a temporary ban on wearing niqabs in the republic. On July 7, the Muftiate of Kabardino-Balkaria stated, citing the opinions of Islamic scholars, that wearing the niqab is a custom, and not an obligation for Muslim women. On July 8, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of North Ossetia recommended abandoning the wearing of niqabs, while the deputy mufti of the republic emphasized that a complete ban on niqabs would contradict Russian laws.
Mufti of Dagestan Akhmad-Afandi Abdullayev announced a fatwa banning the niqab after the head of the region, Sergei Melikov, spoke out against wearing niqabs following attacks by militants in Derbent and Makhachkala. The Dagestan Muslim Spiritual Directorate, as a religious organization, can issue a fatwa banning the niqab, but this is only a recommendation, and violators of it face a maximum of censure, Islamic scholars have pointed out.
On June 23, militants attacked a synagogue and Orthodox churches in Derbent and Makhachkala. As a result, 22 people were killed and 46 were injured. Among the attackers were the sons and nephew of the head of the Sergokalinsky District. "Kavkazsky Uzel" prepared reports " The Main Thing About the Participants in the Attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent " and " Attacks on a Church, Synagogues, and Security Forces in Dagestan."
In addition to the head of Dagestan, the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, spoke in favor of banning niqabs. "We need to ban all of this urgently," he said. Bastrykin also stated that the attacks in Dagestan were carried out by "Islamists." Ramzan Kadyrov criticized Bastrykin for these words, calling for him to "be extremely careful" in his statements about religion.
Earlier, on May 28, State Duma Deputy Speaker Vladislav Davankov proposed to empower legislative and municipal assemblies to introduce a ban on wearing religious clothing in public places. State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Matveyev and Sergei Obukhov also prepared a bill that proposes introducing fines for wearing clothing that conceals the face in public places.
The Kremlin is not discussing the issue of banning niqabs in the republics of the North Caucasus Federal District, the presidential press secretary said on July 4. The relevant committees of the State Duma are also not discussing this, and issues of religious clothing are within the competence of the clergy, the deputies pointed out.
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[Regnum] Eight people continue to receive treatment in hospitals in Dagestan after the terrorist attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent, Assistant to the Minister of Health Alexei Kuznetsov told journalists on July 8.
“Eight victims in Derbent and Makhachkala remain in hospitals,” Kuznetsov said.
The Health Ministry representative added that the victims are in a moderate or mild condition, and doctors are noting positive dynamics in each of them.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, armed terrorists attacked two Orthodox churches, two synagogues and a traffic police post in Derbent and Makhachkala on June 23. Law enforcement officers eliminated six terrorists. It turned out that the militants included the children of the head of the Sergokalinsky district, Magomed Omarov.
On June 24, the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov, announced that he had fired the official, since full responsibility for the terrorist attack should be taken. On June 26, the court arrested Omarov for 10 days for swearing in the street, and the next day it became known that five of Omarov's children had been administratively arrested for petty hooliganism.
On June 27, the Supreme Court of Dagestan declared that Magomed Omarov's son founded a gang that carried out terrorist attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent.
On July 1, it became known that the death toll from the militant attack had increased to 22 people. According to the head of Dagestan, 21 people died directly during the terrorist attacks and one police officer died the next day from serious injuries. Earlier, the Dagestan Ministry of Health reported that the actions of the terrorists also killed the rector of the church, Father Nikolai, and the head of the police department of the city of Dagestanskie Ogni, Lieutenant Colonel Mavludin Khidirnabiyev.
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[REGNUM] Mass protests are taking place in the northern regions of Syria controlled by Turkey. The strikes that began have resulted in armed clashes between local residents and the Turkish army. The reason for the tension was reports from Turkey.
Waves of pogroms and attacks on objects associated with Syrian migrants swept through Kayseri and later other cities in the country. The cause of the unrest was the news of a Syrian man molesting an underage girl.
This is the narrative that informs the publications covering the latest events in the Turkish-Syrian borderland. However, the problem is multi-layered and has deeper roots.
NON-INTEGRATED MIGRANTS
First of all, the current tensions are a direct consequence of Turkey's active role in the Syrian crisis, as well as Ankara's nearly ten-year military presence in the north of the country.
After the start of the "Arab Spring" in the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), the Turkish government almost immediately sided with the Syrian opposition and opened the borders to refugees.
The result of this policy was the migration of a huge number of Syrians to Turkey. As of 2024, there are more than 3.6 million of them. It is important that only a small part of the refugees were able to integrate into Turkish society. This is the first reason for the discontent that arises among the Turks.
The second is of an economic nature.
Turkey has been experiencing hyperinflation since 2018
…it’s expensive to swan around the world like you really are a neo-Ottoman empire instead of a mere wannabe subsidized by Gulf Oil money…
and millions of residents are barely making ends meet. Against this backdrop, the population considers the costs of social support for migrants an unnecessary burden for the Turkish economy.
Moreover, after the conclusion of the agreement between Ankara and Brussels on refugees, Turkish society increasingly views its country as a “migration hub” for Europe, and this is clearly at odds with national interests.
Considering that Syrians make up the largest proportion of the total number of refugees, it is they who are the focus of public discontent.
Meanwhile, there are also tensions between Syrians and Turks on the other side of the border. Since 2015, Ankara has carried out three military operations in the SAR and created two military protectorates in the north and northwest of the country.
The first is governed by the Interim Government of Syria, the political body of the Syrian opposition, and the second by the Syrian Salvation Government, an administrative and political body created by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
…formerly Jabhat al Nusra, before that Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, which remained loyal to the home office when ISIS spun itself off…
(an organization banned in Russia) in 2017.
The socio-economic security of these zones is directly linked to the southern Turkish provinces adjacent to the Syrian border.
In addition, Ankara is the main sponsor of the Syrian National Army, the armed wing of the Syrian opposition.
It would seem that the population of the northern and northwestern regions of Syria should be grateful to Ankara for its support. However, it is not that simple. The residents of these regions have accumulated fatigue from living in an uncertain status.
It is obvious that the opposition's coming to power in Damascus by armed means is unrealistic. The option of a political settlement with major preferences for the opposition is also not in sight.
In the current situation, the population of the northern regions blames the Turkish authorities, who entered into negotiations with the allies of the Syrian government.
In addition, there is discontent in society with the Turkish military presence. Opposition media often report on various tragic incidents involving Turkish soldiers. All this also leads to anti-Turkish demonstrations by local residents.
LOCALS DON'T WANT DAMASCUS TO RETURN TO POWER
Another reason that has provoked the increase in violence in the northern regions of Syria is the ongoing process of normalizing relations between Ankara and Damascus.
It was launched in late 2022, when the defense ministers of Russia, Syria, and Turkey met in Moscow. However, by the summer of 2023, the rapprochement between the parties had frozen.
It is noteworthy that during the period of normalization negotiations, anti-Turkish protests took place in the northern regions of the SAR, which are under Ankara’s protection.
In the summer of 2024, the process of restoring relations was restarted. The parties softened their positions, removing the harsh preconditions that had appeared earlier. Moreover, the presidents of the two countries publicly spoke about the prospects for establishing ties.
"Syria has a positive attitude towards normalizing relations with Turkey, if this process is based on respect for its sovereignty and the desire of the Syrian state to restore it over the entire territory of the country," said the country's President Bashar al-Assad.
His Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, returning from the SCO summit in Astana, also announced Ankara’s intention to reach an agreement with Damascus: “We have no reason not to restore diplomatic relations with Syria.”
Erdogan's words were met with hostility by the population of northern and northwestern Syria. Therefore, protests would have taken place in any case, as they already did in late 2022 - early 2023. The pogroms in Kayseri only accelerated the process.
A strong trigger was also the trial opening of the Abu al-Zindine crossing between areas controlled by the official government and areas controlled by the opposition.
Subsequently, the checkpoint was supposed to become a permanent commercial crossing that would strengthen trade and economic ties between the zones.
However, this move was negatively received by local residents, who came out to protest and blocked the road to the checkpoint.
The reaction of the population is indicative: some people are against the normalization of relations between the Syrian and Turkish governments, since under this condition the opposition areas will again come under the control of Damascus.
Thus, the current clashes have a “double bottom”. Firstly, it is the fatigue of the Syrians living in the northern regions of the SAR from the Turkish presence. Secondly, it is the response of local society to the possible normalization between Syria and Turkey.
Opposition-minded citizens are against the return of the official government's power to their areas of residence. In addition, the population perceives Ankara's actions as a betrayal.
At the same time, the anti-Syrian pogroms in Turkey did not become the primary cause of the outbreak of violence, but only accelerated the expected reaction of the residents of northern Syria.
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Our State Department and CIA are a joke. For more than three decades -- beginning with Bill and Hill -- they have been playing kissy-face with Qatar's ruling al-Thani family, and Qatar provides the most important center of Muslim Brotherhood influence in the Middle East. To just now recognize anti-Semitism in Qatar is laughable. The question that hangs-fire, Why Now?
[IsraelNationalNews] The majority of the Israeli public opposes the deal being negotiated with Hamas for the release of hostages, according to a poll published on Channel 14 on Monday evening.
Respondents to the poll were presented with the details of the emerging deal: Israel will withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor and the Netzarim corridor, and Hamas operatives will be able to return and seize terrorist infrastructures that have not yet been destroyed. In return, Israel will receive 18 living hostages, and about 15 bodies.
The data shows that a majority of 53% oppose the deal, 36% support it, while 11% said they do not know. The poll was conducted by the Direct Polls institute among all sectors of Israeli society.
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[IsraelTimes] Internal communications show senior officials in Strip wrote to group’s chiefs in Qatar urging ceasefire despite reluctance of Yahya Sinwar, who may not be aware of war’s toll.
How can he be unaware? Hamas’s imaginary numbers are reported everywhere. No, he just doesn’t care about the death and destruction — or he is pleased about the resultant propaganda points.
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[Ynet] Recent satellite imagery shows major expansions at two key Iranian ballistic missile facilities that two American researchers assessed are for boosting missile production, a conclusion confirmed by three senior Iranian officials.
The enlargement of the sites follows an October 2022 deal in which Iran agreed to provide missiles to Russia, which has been seeking them for its war against Ukraine. Tehran also supplies missiles to Yemen's Houthi rebels and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, both members of the Iran-backed Axis of Resistance against Israel, according to U.S. officials.
Images taken by commercial satellite firm Planet Labs of the Modarres military base in March and the Khojir missile production complex in April show more than 30 new buildings at the two sites, both of which are located near Tehran.
The images, reviewed by Reuters, show many of the structures are surrounded by large dirt berms. Such earthworks are associated with missile production and are designed to stop a blast in one building from detonating highly combustible materials in nearby structures, said Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Three 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[IsraelTimes] Internal communications show senior officials in Strip wrote to group’s chiefs in Qatar urging ceasefire despite reluctance of Yahya Sinwar, who may not be aware of war’s toll.
