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Israel’s Army Radio reported Tuesday that the manager of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza told interrogators that Hamas terrorists had commandeered the hospital and forced staff to do its bidding, believing that the IDF would not strike there.

An interrogation tape of Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Kahlut, the manger of the hospital, apparently released by the Israel Security Agency (ISA), was the source of the report.

In the video, Kahlut is seen saying that he had joined Hamas in 2010 and attained a high military rank within the organization.

Kahlut is seen on the video telling an interrogator that Hamas used to hide its fighters in the hospital, convinced that they would not be targeted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Kahlut also said that hospital staff members joined Hamas, and that the hospital had effectively been transformed into a military installation for the organization, including for holding hostages. He also admitted that Hamas had used private ambulances to transport hostages and to transport the bodies of Hamas terrorists.

He added that the leaders of Hamas had turned out to be “cowards” who had abandoned Palestinians to fend for themselves while they themselves hid. “They destroyed us.”

As Breitbart News noted, 70 terrorists in the hospital surrendered to Israel after a firefight last week, and Israeli soldiers discovered weapons inside the hospital — including guns that were hidden inside the NICU unit.
 
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https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-778632

IDF kills top Hamas financier in Gaza airstrike

Subhi Ferwana, who helped transfer tens of millions of dollars to benefit the Hamas terror organization, was recently killed in an IDF airstrike in Gaza, according to a Tuesday military statement.

In an operation in the city of Rafah, an IDF warplane under the guidance of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Military Intelligence Directorate took out the Hamas financier.

According to the IDF statement, Ferwana and his brother moved large amounts of funds to Hamas, which were used for terrorists' salaries and the buildup of military equipment, among other things. They did this by funneling the money through their company, Hamsat.

"The ability of Hamas's military wing to fight depends on the funds transferred to it through money changers," the IDF statement read. "Without them, its ability is significantly impaired."

Hamas uses these financiers and money changers to acquire funds from all over the world via money laundering, thus avoiding the use of closely monitored international banking systems, according to the IDF.




Suitcases of cash found in the home of a senior Hamas member in Gaza. December 18, 2023 (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
 
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Especially considering the bloodbath occurring in Ukraine.
It is not about Israel controlling civilian casualties, it is about controlling Israel.


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"Fresh allegations of plagiarism" from Claudine Gay.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/...gainst-claudine-gay/


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The reliably left-wing Boston Globe is not satisfied with Harvard University’s decision to wave away mounds of evidence that its president, Claudine Gay, committed plagiarism in one scholarly work after another, and the paper is demanding an accounting on the grounds that the school is hurting American scholarship.

In a December 18 op-ed attributed to the Globe’s editorial board, the paper notes that Harvard seems to admit that Gay engaged in “inadequate citation” of her sources at the very least. However, the paper can not understand how the university can then go on and claim that Gay’s lax citations and verbatim lifting of passages do not violate “standards for research misconduct.”

Harvard’s desire to shield Gay led the paper to deliver a stark “Huh?” in reply to the head-turning proclamations of her innocence.

The Globe feels that the entire episode is a blot on Harvard’s reputation as well as a problem for all of academia. “The rest of American higher education looks to Harvard for guidance on academic norm,”

The media have been full of examples of Gay’s papers containing verbatim copying of other people’s writing without citing sources and presented as if Gay herself wrote the entries — a classic example of plagiarism. The instances have been so numerous that the National Association of Scholars (NAS) called for Gay’s removal, citing her “shoddy professional work” and her “record of plagiarism.”

Despite the growing number of instances of blatant plagiarism, the governing body of Harvard University proudly stood up for its president and announced on December 12 that it “unanimously stand[s] in support of President Gay.”

Being from Boston, home of Harvard, the Globe certainly has a vested interest in safeguarding Harvard’s reputation as one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning. But the paper is correct in that by excusing its own president’s long history of plagiarism, Harvard is tearing down standards for the whole of American academia.
 
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Proud Parent Installs 'My Kid Didn't Go To Harvard' Bumper Sticker On Car
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I mean, really. Could they be any more obvious? Roll Eyes

https://twitter.com/EndWokenes.../1737230079132918240

Comparing 2 recent Harvard presidents:

Lawrence H. Summers: over 150 scholarly papers, multiple books, World Bank Chief, Treasury Secretary, Director of NEC, and more.

Claudine Gay: 11 papers total (mostly about race and gender), 40 plagiarism allegations, Professor of African American Studies, and not much else.

Summers was forced out by the board after talking about women & men having genetic differences.

Gay has the full backing of the board despite plagiarism and defending calls for genocide.


 
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Harvard is fast becoming a second rate college with flexible morals. Brown usually fell in that category but no longer.
 
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https://toCarol Swain, an award-winning political scientist and former professor.

On Sunday, Swain penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal explaining why the “damage” to her “extends beyond two instances of plagiarism identified by researchers Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet.”

The parts allegedly lifted from Swain were from her groundbreaking book, “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress,” published in 1993, and from an article she authored in 1997 titled, “Women and Blacks in Congress: 1870-1996.

"When one follows in the footsteps of a more senior scholar, one is expected to acknowledge the latter’s contribution to the field and how one’s own research and ideas refute, affirm or expand knowledge in the area. Ms. Gay ignored the substantive importance of my research, which she should have acknowledged and engaged. A single citation or two wouldn’t usually be considered intellectually honest.

When scholars aren’t cited adequately or their work is ignored, it harms them because academic stature is determined by how often other researchers cite your work. Ms. Gay had no problem riding on the coattails of people whose work she used without proper attribution. Many of those whose work she pilfered aren’t as incensed as I am. They are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own"

“Tenure at a top-tier institution normally demands ground-breaking originality; her work displays none,” Swain wrote. “In a world where the privilege of diversity is king, Ms. Gay was able to parlay mediocre research into tenure and administrative advancement at what was once considered a world-class university.”

Swain explained why Harvard has stood behind her even though a white male who committed the same offenses would’ve likely already been shown the door.

“Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard,” the scholar argued. “This harms academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races, who had to work for everything they earned.”
 
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Harvard is fast becoming a second rate college with flexible morals. Brown usually fell in that category but no longer.


IIRC Brian Stelter, Andrew Cuomo and Lori Lightfoot have/had positions at Harvard.




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Hansen's comments about Claudine Gay, gives a pretty scathing commentary as voiced in the attached video. As an academic at an 'elite' institution, Hansen is able to provide perspective into that world and the demands/expectations in the world of academia. He points out how Claudine Gay was able to side-step all of them due to racial favoritism and accommodation by white-liberal senior administrators and complicit university trustees, go to around the 8-min mark in the below podcast.

She only wrote eleven papers and has zero books published.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show: Dr. Gay still President at Harvard and The Odyssey


PS- His first comments is his complaint about the problems he's had with his Dodge pick-up Big Grin
 
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Any updates on the Israel war?


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It's looking like this antisemitic fraud will eventually be forced to resign. When CNN is acknowledging the issue, you know a leftist is in trouble.

When she goes, it will be a victory. Don't get me wrong- it is glaringly obvious that Harvard's administration is overwhelmingly antisemitic and this intellectual property thief will be replaced by another hater of Jews, but removing this smug bitch, when Harvard and most of the faculty oppose this removal, is a victory.

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https://twitter.com/realchrisr.../1737653137996136839

 
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Harvard’s embattled president quietly built “diversity” ideology into every facet of campus life.

Harvard president Claudine Gay has been embroiled in controversy for minimizing Hamas terrorism and plagiarizing material in her academic work on race. Both scandals have discredited her presidency, but neither should come as a surprise. Throughout Gay’s career at Harvard—as professor, dean, and president—racialist ideology has driven her scholarship, administrative priorities, and rise through the institution.

Over the course of her career, Gay quietly built a “diversity” empire that influenced every facet of university life. Between 2018 and the summer of 2023, as the dean of the largest faculty on campus, Gay oversaw the university’s racially discriminatory admissions program, which the Supreme Court found unconstitutional. Even after the court issued its ruling earlier this year, Gay said that it was a “hard day” and defended the university’s policies, which were deemed discriminatory against Asian and white applicants. Gay promised to comply with the letter of the law, while remaining “steadfast” in her commitment to producing “diversity”—a not-so-subtle message that Harvard would find a way, as the University of California has done, to evade the law in practice.

While affirmative action has been a longstanding practice at Harvard, other programs led by Gay were new. Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Gay commissioned a Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage, which released a series of recommendations the following year for engaging in the “historical reckoning with racial injustice.” The recommendations included a mandate to change “spaces whose visual culture is dominated by homogenous portraiture of white men.” In particular, the report maintained, administrators should “refresh” the walls of Annenberg Hall, which “prominently display a series of 23 portraits, none of [which] depict women, and all but three of [which] depict white men.” Who were these white men and why were they honored in the first place? The report does not say—their race and sex alone provided sufficient justification for their banishment.

In 2022, Gay implemented an initiative at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for “denaming” any “space, program, or other entity” deemed racist by the faculty and administration. According to the report, commissioned by then-president Lawrence Bacow, these decisions would be “based on the perception that a namesake’s actions or beliefs were ‘abhorrent’ in the context of current values.” In other words, Harvard would use the standards of present-day social-justice activism to pass judgment on men who lived hundreds of years prior—at best, an ahistorical and deeply ambiguous method. As part of this project, Gay sent an email to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences community soliciting “requests for denaming,” promising to address the situation “through the lens of reckoning.” Since then, the university has grappled with denaming multiple buildings, including Winthrop House, named after John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and his great grandson, also John Winthrop, a Harvard professor and president.

As president, Gay leads a sprawling DEI bureaucracy—officially, the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging—that seeks to influence how students speak, think, and behave in relation to race. Though the university deleted nearly all DEI materials from its website following President Gay’s disastrous congressional testimony related to the Hamas terror attack, I have recovered some of these documents through an Internet archive. Harvard’s DEI administrators encourage students to internalize the basic narrative of critical race theory: America is a nation defined by “systemic racism,” “police brutality,” “white supremacist violence,” and the “weaponization of whiteness.” In another resource, students were invited to “unpack” their “white privilege” and “male privilege,” and to consider their “white fragility,” which stems from “the privilege that accrues to white people living in a society that protects and insulates them from race-based stress.”

What is one to make of Gay’s record as a whole? She is hardly a “scholar’s scholar,” as the university magazine tried to portray her, having published, according to her curriculum vitae, just 11 academic papers—nearly half of which include plagiarized material. Nor is she a competent administrator, having botched the response to rampant anti-Semitism on campus and, by one estimate, lost the university more than $1 billion in donations. But she plays one role perfectly: the dutiful racialist, skilled at the manipulation of guilt, shame, and obligation in service of institutional power. For instance, she wrote last year in a message to the campus announcing a report on Harvard’s historical connection to slavery: “We have been excluded and denigrated for centuries from an institution where we now work, study, and lead. Our presence here should not feel so extraordinary. But now we see it was anything but inevitable.”

The irony: Gay was, in fact, somewhat inevitable. In the long season of racial guilt and animus that followed George Floyd’s death, the university was desperate to recruit a “first,” as Gay put it in her inaugural address, and disrupt the university’s nearly 400 years of whiteness. As Harvard is now learning, however, naming as president someone who sees race and sex not as incidental human attributes but as ideological constructions that must be imposed on the institution comes with a significant downside. Consequently, Harvard’s trustees find themselves in a bind: they hired Gay in large part for her identity and cannot fire her for the same reason. They seem resigned to muddling through the “racial reckoning,” however long it lasts and whatever further damage it inflicts on America’s oldest university.
 
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Harvard University president Claudine Gay accused of 40 acts of plagiarism in new complaint

https://nypost.com/2023/12/20/...sm-in-new-complaint/


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from Harvard Law Professor Mark Ramseyer:

"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998.

The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen.

The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy.

We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is.

The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want.

They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.

We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

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