UC Santa Cruz “Pro-Palestinians” Demand Boycott Of Jewish Groups

Remember, we’ve been confidently told that this is all about Israel being mean and the poor, downtrodden Palestinians being killed and starving, it’s totally not about Jew hatred

Pro-Palestinian ‘Encampment’ Demands Boycott of Jewish Groups at UC Santa Cruz

An encampment launched by Students of Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California Santa Cruz has issued starkly antisemitic demands that include the university severing ties with Jewish community organizations.

SJP set up its “encampment” on campus on Thursday, joining an effort that has seen dozens of campuses taken over by activists calling for the destruction of Israel, demanding the abolition of police, and slamming the United States.

The City on a Hill Press, the student-run weekly paper at UC Santa Cruz, reported that the activists were acting on instructions from overseas (emphasis added):

UC Divest organized the rally, and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) of Santa Cruz, with the support of SJP National, are operating the encampment. Although the events were not  explicitly linked, there was overlap among participants, with the workers’ rally expressing unity with Palestine.

Our SJP local is answering a call which came down from the SJP National, which came down from organizers in Palestine and in the Palestinian Youth Movement,” said Dax, a participant and media representative for the encampment.

The pro-Hamas kiddies, acting on orders from what are certainly Islamist groups overseas, want the school to cut ties with the Hellen Diller foundation, Koret foundation, Israel Institute and Hillel International, four leading Jewish organizations. But, totally not anti-Semitic

Leaked Students for Justice in Palestine texts show support for massacres of Israelis

Texts written by Boston University students belonging to the university’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization chapter show them enthusiastically celebrating the October 7 massacre on the day it occurred, according to leaked texts obtained by N12.

During the discussion, some students called the Hamas terrorists “freedom fighters” and hoped that the situation would erupt into a genocidal war against Israel.

Several students voiced active support for violent Palestinian “resistance,” saying slogans such as “Long live the intifada!” (snip)

The correspondence between the students in the group indicate consistent positions that support the violent Palestinian “resistance,” as early as 2021, the same year as Operation Guardian of the Walls. The group’s members sent messages that read “Long live the intifada” and those that glorified the first intifada, according to N12.

The group (it’s a very long article, but, if you really want to know how all this works, well worth the read) was founded in 2001 at the U of Berkeley, almost certainly backed using the Muslim Brotherhood playbook, much like the Muslim Student Association. In fact, a primary founder, Hatem Bazian was the president of the MSA at Berkeley. They initially pushed hatred of Israel, then moved on to making 1st World American student hate Jews. They very much want a one state solution, ie, eradicating Israel and replacing it with an Islamist nation. The Anti-Defamation League notes

Numerous SJP chapters released inflammatory statements in support of Palestinians seizing control of Israeli territory, including some which explicitly endorse the use of violence and attacks on civilians.  “We reject the distinction between ‘civilian’ and ‘militant.’ We reject the distinction between ‘settler’ and ‘soldier,’” The George Washington University SJP wrote. “A settler is an aggressor, a soldier, and an occupier even if they are lounging on our occupied beaches.” The SJP chapter of CUNY Law shared, “If you support Palestine understand that necessitates supporting our right to defend ourselves and liberate our homeland by any means necessary.”

These are not peaceful people, yet, they are allowed to operate at American universities. They lost their free speech rights when they advocated for violence.

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Ithaca, NY, Looks To Extend Their Green New Deal, Patronize Marginalized People

They keep telling us this is about science, but, they also keep telling us that marginalized people will suffer the worst from a tiny increase in global temperatures. And, you know who they always think are the marginalized and poor folks?

After adopting its own Green New Deal, a college town sets a new target

Five years after setting some of the most ambitious climate targets in the nation, Ithaca, N.Y., is hoping to set a new standard. The city council unanimously voted this week to require that half the funding spent on its energy transition and on major infrastructure investments go toward those residents most at risk from climate change. (snip)

“It’s impossible to separate economic and social injustice from the impacts of climate change,” said Ithaca mayor Robert Cantelmo in an interview just after the council voted unanimously to adopt the new framework, called Justice50. The legislation, he said, is an attempt to right the city’s history of putting poorer communities in the path of more pollution and environmental disinvestment. (snip)

The Justice50 framework will require that half the city’s spending on major infrastructure upgrades and its Green New Deal reach communities most vulnerable to climate change. That includes the city’s historically Black Southside neighborhood, much of which the federal government recently designated a flood-risk zone. New investments could include greater flood protection in at-risk neighborhoods, and helping lower-income residents reduce energy costs, the mayor said.

It’s interesting how climate cultists, who are mostly Democrats, always think that black folks are poor, vulnerable, and can only survive with the helping hand of government, eh? Totally not a racist attitude, right?

Op-Ed: Climate Change Poses Severe Risks to Vulnerable Jersey City Residents

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is affected more of them all? As an international public health student, I’ve observed that climate change affects different populations unequally, regardless of their geographic location or country. People with fewer economic resources and certain racial/ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected due to climate change. In the state of New Jersey, heat events are predicted to increase both in intensity and duration. This summer in Jersey City, we must acknowledge that climate change isn’t just an environmental issue but also a significant public health concern. (snip)

Increased heat can pose a threat to human health, causing heat exhaustion, heat cramps, or heat stroke, with symptoms such as fatigue, high body temperature, profuse sweating, nausea, or vomiting. However, does everyone experience the effects of rising temperatures equally? Well, the answer is no. The impact is not equal; people with fewer economic resources and certain racial/ethnic groups like non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic populations are disproportionately affected by heat waves due to substandard housing without proper insulation and limited access to cooling. As heat waves become more intense and persistent, air conditioning is now considered a basic necessity. Unfortunately, residents with fewer resources often lack access to air conditioning, leading to increased heat-associated deaths, which are predicted to rise in the coming years.

What the hell is a “non-Hispanic Black”? Anyhow, Democrats love thinking that blacks and Hispanics are always poor, downtrodden, and cannot survive without lots of government help. They apparently cannot afford A/C, and are too stupid in Liberal World to keep from dying from the heat. Racism.

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If All You See…

…is a lake that is drying up from carbon pollution drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on a WHO top dog telling Israel to stop pursuing Hamas.

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Reuters Explains Why Hamas Can Count On American Students But Not Arab Nations

Will Reuters hit the mark? Let’s find out

Why Palestinians can count on American students but not Arab allies to protest

Palestinians may be gratified to see American university campuses erupt in outrage over Israel’s offensive in Gaza, but some in the embattled enclave are also wondering why no similar protests have hit the Arab countries they long viewed as allies.

Demonstrations have rocked U.S. universities this week, with confrontations between students, counter protesters and police, but while there have been some protests in Arab states, they have not been nearly as large or as vociferous.

“We follow the protests on social media every day with admiration but also with sadness. We are sad that those protests are not happening also in Arab and Muslim countries,” said Ahmed Rezik, 44, a father of five sheltering in Rafah in Gaza’s south.

These protests are also happening in many other nations which far away from the conflict, allowing the students to do their virtue signaling thing, wearing Intifada keffiyehs, writing and chanting slogans, doing TikToks, all while really having no skin in the game.

Reasons for the comparative quiet on Arab campuses and streets may range from a fear of angering autocratic governments to political differences with Hamas and its Iranian backers or doubts that any protests could impact state policy.

American students at elite universities may face arrest or expulsion from their schools, but harsher consequences could await Arab citizens protesting without state authorisation.

And U.S. students may feel more motivation to protest as their own government backs and arms Israel, while even those Arab countries that have full diplomatic relations with it have been strongly critical of its military campaign.

When asked about the conflict, Arabs from Morocco to Iraq have consistently voiced fury at Israel’s actions and solidarity with Gaza’s embattled inhabitants, leading to muted Ramadan celebrations across the region last month.

Well, those are good reasons, including the discussions of protests. Free speech, protesting peaceably, and the Constitutional right to petition for redress of grievance are not things really present in Arab nations. But, none were scared enough to forgo protesting during the Arab Spring, right? Even the people got out in Iran with the green revolution.

What is failed to be mentioned is that most of these college kids and other young folks, and older folks, know who the Palestinians are. They know that are both implicitly and explicitly linked to terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and, of course, Hamas in Gaza. They know, and their political leaders know, what happens when you let large groups of Palestinians into their nations: at best they are heavy burdens, at worse they try and create their own military and cause a civil war. Those few Arab nations who have a Palestinian population tend to keep them isolated and controlled. They do not allow assimilation because they know they won’t assimilate, and do not want to take anymore in.

Palestinians align heavily with the tenants of the Muslim Brotherhood, for which quite a few Arab nations want nothing to do with. Egypt bans them, because they are the root of most Muslim terrorism and extremism. And while a good chunk of Muslims hold extremist views, they want nothing to do with it themselves, and do not want it affecting their own lives. They just do not want to be involved with the Palestinians, and do not care enough to even protest. There is a reason Egypt has a big wall at their border with Gaza.

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Your Fault: More Meteorites Are Disappearing In Overheating Antarctic

No matter the issue, the climate cult will blame it on hotcoldwetdry

A ‘shocking’ number of meteorites — and their secrets — are sinking into Antarctic ice due to global warming

Antarctica has long been loved by astronomers for hosting rocks from outer space — more than 48,000 meteorites cataloged were found here, and about 1,000 new ones are recovered each year, thanks to their dark profiles that are easy to spot on the icy white plains of the frozen continent. However, as human-driven climate change raises temperatures in the isolated South Pole at twice the rate as elsewhere on Earth, approximately 5,000 meteorites are heating up and sinking into the ice every year and becoming inaccessible, a new study finds.

“This is shocking — you are losing five times as many meteorites as you are finding,” says Harry Zekollari, a glaciologist at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and the co-author of the new study. “I wasn’t expecting we’d lose so many.”

How dare you cause this!

About 300,000 to 850,000 meteorites are yet to be collected from Antarctica’s ice sheets, and in recent years researchers have already found them to be perched partly in the ice sheet, rather than fully exposed. Even when temperatures are well below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), the sunlight warms the meteorites, whose dark profiles soak up solar radiation more easily than other types of rocks, says Tollenaar. The warmed meteorites then melt underlying ice into pools of water which over time deepens into a hole, sinking the rocks. After the water refreezes into ice during local winters, the meteorites become inaccessible.

So, it’s the sun that’s doing this? Not you driving a fossil fueled vehicle?

The findings are based on a machine-learning model developed by Tollenaar and her colleagues, which estimates the number of meteorites visible across various regions in Antarctica under different warming conditions. Using the algorithm, the researchers had previously created a treasure map depicting 600 unexplored meteorite-rich zones, to aid the search for meteorites. In the latest study, the researchers forecast how many meteorites would be lost under varying climate change conditions, based on their previous climate-modeling work. The findings indicate that over the next few decades, somewhere between 4,000 to 6,000 rocks in such zones will sink into the ice every year, while over 75 percent would disappear by the end of this century, according to the study, which was published this month in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Under current policies, which may cause global warming of about 4.7 F (2.6 C), nearly 30 percent of the space rocks will become unrecoverable by 2050, the study finds.

So, computer models while using a silly scaremongering doomy prognostication of temperature, even though it’s only gone up around 1.5F since 1850. Regardless, the sun is going to do what the sun does, and hits hard at the poles during peak summertime in the Antarctic.

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Niger Lets Russian Troops Into Air Base Holding US Forces

Just another fine example of Biden failing on the world stage, putting America into an embarrassing situations

Russian troops enter base housing US military in Niger, US official says

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanRussian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger’s junta to expel U.S. forces.

The military officers ruling the West African nation have told the U.S. to withdraw its nearly 1,000 military personnel from the country, which until a coup last year had been a key partner for Washington’s fight against insurgents who have killed thousands of people and displaced millions more.

A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russian forces were not mingling with U.S. troops but were using a separate hangar at Airbase 101, which is next to Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger’s capital.

The move by Russia’s military, which Reuters was the first to report, puts U.S. and Russian troops in close proximity at a time when the nations’ military and diplomatic rivalry is increasingly acrimonious over the conflict in Ukraine.

It also raises questions about the fate of U.S. installations in the country following a withdrawal.

Hopefully, this withdrawal won’t be as bad as Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal. And we should be taking everything from both bases, which we spent quite a bit of taxpayer money on, or destroying it to deny the Russians and Nigerians.

Remind me, didn’t Obama pick Biden as his VP because of his “vast foreign experience?” And then Russia took Crimea, Obama blew off the Iranian Green uprising and the Arab Spring, saw the rise of ISIS, turned Libya into a civil war zone full of Islamic extremists, and so much more? And how’s all that working out internationally now? Even though he campaigned on how much better America would be in the world if he won instead of Trump?

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Doom Today: Snakes Could Migrate Due To Global Heating

This could have been avoided if you had given up your modern lifestyle. Or, at least paid lots in taxes and fees

Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating, says study

climate cowClimate breakdown is likely to lead to the large-scale migration of venomous snake species into new regions and unprepared countries, according to a study.

The researchers forecast that Nepal, Niger, Namibia, China, and Myanmar will gain the most venomous snake species from neighbouring countries under a heating climate.

Low-income countries in south and south-east Asia, as well as parts of Africa, will be highly vulnerable to increased numbers of snake bites, according to the findings published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health.

The study modelled the geographical distribution of 209 venomous snake species that are known to cause medical emergencies in humans to understand where different snake species might find favourable climatic conditions by 2070.

“Likely.” “Forecast”. “Modelled.” You know what’s not mentioned in the article, or in the parts of the “study” I read? The notion that this is actually happening. Facts. Data. Now, I certainly think that a slightly warming world will see migration into new areas. Just like has always happened on Earth for animals, humans, insects, and water life. But, they are not showing proof that this is happening, just future scaremongering, and it being All Your Fault. Because facts, proof, and science are not required for the climate cult.

How California’s Ban on Diesel Locomotives Could Have Major National Repercussions

American federalism is struggling. Federal rules are an overwhelming presence in every state government, and some states, due to their size or other leverage, can impose their own policies on much or all of the country. The problem has been made clearer by an under-the-radar plan to phase out diesel locomotives in California. If the federal government provides the state with a helping hand, it would bring nationwide repercussions for a vital, overlooked industry.

Various industry and advocacy groups are lining up against California’s costly measure, calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny a waiver needed to fully implement it. In the past month, more than 30 leading conservative organizations and individuals, hundreds of state and local chambers of commerce, and the U.S. agricultural sector have pleaded with the EPA to help stop this piece of extremism from escaping one coastal state.

The ban would cause issues all across the country, and cause prices to skyrocket, especially when there really is no “net zero” alternative that can power a loaded train. And train companies can’t just say “we’ll skip California”, because of the huge number of goods coming into People’s Republik Of California ports, as well as all the produce coming from the PRC.

Most importantly, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulation would have all freight trains operate in zero-emission configuration by 2035. At the end of the decade, the state is mandating the retirement of diesel locomotives 23 years or older, despite typically useful lives of over 40 years. Starting in 2030, new passenger locomotives must operate with zero emissions, with new engines for long-haul freight trains following by 2035. It limits locomotive idling and increases reporting requirements.

And this is all being implemented by unelected appointed bureaucrats who no compulsion to be responsive or accountable to the actual voters.

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If All You See…

…is horrible Spring heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on cops finding improvised weapons at a Portland pro-Hamas camp.

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Here We Go: Pro-Hamas Demonstrators See A Global Struggle Against All Sorts Of Things

I’m actually surprised it’s taken this long for the pro-Hamas folks to start adding in all sorts of their typical pet peeves, because there’s nothing like a bunch pampered, entitled, and often rich (at least their parents are) college kids yammering and giving speeches and holding signs and such while not actually doing anything (non-paywalled at Yahoo)

It’s Not Just the Gaza Strip: Student Protesters See Links to a Global Struggle

Talk to student protesters across the country, and their outrage is clear: They have been galvanized by the scale of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip, and will risk arrest to fight for the Palestinian cause.

For most of them, the war is taking place in a land they’ve never set foot in, where those killed — 34,000 so far, according to local health authorities — are known to them only through what they have read or seen online.

But for many, the issues are closer to home, and at the same time, much bigger and broader. In their eyes, the Gaza conflict is a struggle for justice, linked to issues that seem far afield. They say they are motivated by policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, discrimination toward Black Americans and the impact of global warming.

Well, now it’s in the open. It’s like somewhat like Occupy Wall Street: while initially they had an idea that most could agree with, how Wall Street was being given tons of money at the expense of Main Street, they quickly went down the route of pushing all their other hardcore leftist beliefs. And had filthy encampments. Of course, most do not agree with how the current lunatics are essentially taking the side of Hamas while calling for the destruction of Israel, killing Jews, and a global Intifada.

In interviews with dozens of students across the country over the past week, they described, to a striking degree, the broad prism through which they see the Gaza conflict, which helps explain their urgency — and recalcitrance.

Ife Jones, a first-year student at Emory University in Atlanta, linked her current activism to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, which her family had participated in.

“The only thing missing was the dogs and the water,” Jones said of the current pushback to demonstrators.

I’m quite confident that there’s a huge difference when you’re advocating for eradicating Jews from the face of the Earth. As she protests from a school which costs almost $60K a year in tuition alone, so, it’s not like she’s some poor, oppressed minority. Just cosplaying at it, like most.

In interviews, the language of many protesters was also distinctive. Students freely salted their explanations with academic terms like intersectionality, colonialism and imperialism, all to make their case that the plight of Palestinians is a result of global power structures that thrive on bias and oppression.

“As an environmentalist, we pride ourselves on viewing the world through intersectional lenses,” said Katie Rueff, a first-year student at Cornell University. “Climate justice is an everyone issue. It affects every dimension of identity, because it’s rooted in the same struggles of imperialism, capitalism — things like that. I think that’s very true of this conflict, of the genocide in Palestine.”

Wackadoodle. But, not surprising. Climate cultists always try and put everything in context of their cult.

Jawuanna McAllister, a 27-year-old doctoral candidate in cell and molecular biology at Cornell, pointed to the name of the student group she is affiliated with: the Coalition for Mutual Liberation.

“It’s in our name: mutual liberation,” McAllister said. “That means we’re anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist organization. We believe that none of us can be free and have the respect and dignity we deserve unless all of us are free.”

Cornell: $57K a year in tuition alone. Cosplay. And, of course the little wackos are yammering about hating the police….you know, the ones who protect their rich families.

The student movement in support of Palestinians has been built over decades by linking to other issues. Students for Justice in Palestine, a loosely connected confederation that began to emerge in the early 1990s at the University of California, Berkeley, consciously invited other activists — environmentalists, opponents of American intervention in Latin America, critics of the Gulf War — broadening the group’s base.

Today, the group’s national steering committee claims more than 200 autonomous chapters, most of them in the United States. And they often work with other student groups.

And that’s the root of the Jew hatred: they started listening to the Muslim Brotherhood backed students and advisors, getting them to care about the plight of the so-called Palestinians, and then moving the groups to the destruction of Israel and killing Jews while backing Islamic extremism and full on Muslim terrorist groups. This was part of the plan by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Antisemitism, almost all the student protesters said, is a real concern.

But they said they just do not see it around them — not in their encampments, not among the other protesters, not in their chants, such as “from the river to the sea.” (In their view, “from the river to the sea” is not a call to wipe out the state of Israel, but a call for peace and equality.)

Except, Hamas, Hezbollah, the average Palestinian, all see that call as the replacement of Israel with a Palestinian nation. I guess they don’t see Jew hatred in chants of globalizing the Intifada, on backing Hamas, on killing Jews. On wearing Intifada keffiyehs. Etc and so on. They’ve been taught to not see it.

Anyhow, it’s cute they have their language down and are rolling all their pet peeves into one big ball of virtue signaling. Where is their outrage at the gender apartheid in Iran? Innocent women in Iran continue to be tortured and executed but these students ignore them blatantly. Why? Well, have fun with trying to get a decent job after graduation when companies see their links to Jew hatred and support of terrorists.

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“Study” Says NY Plagued By Blackouts From Global Boiling Or Something

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with New York killing off reliable, dependable, affordable energy sources and replacing them with unreliable and expensive energy sources which are dependent on the sun shining and the wind blowing, right? Replacing energy sources which can take weather and can be repaired quickly, can take over loads, with energy that can be knocked offline easily, is hard to fix, and is hurt by weather events, righ?

New York cities plagued by blackouts due to climate change, study finds

stop global warmingClimate change is pushing some New York City neighborhoods into dozens of nearly daylong blackouts per year, a new study has found.

Large swaths of the state’s principal towns and cities faced repeated, protracted and dangerous weather-driven power outages between 2017 and 2020, according to findings published Wednesday in the Public Library of Science.

The risk to the grid is rising as more frequent extreme weather knocks down power lines, damages transformers and threatens the stability of the grid, said first author Nina Flores, a doctoral student at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Researchers found that several neighborhoods in Queens had more than 100 outages over the three-year period: 147 in Jamaica, 138 in Flushing and 104 in Richmond Hills.

Other cities had dozens of outages: 48 in Lewisboro, near the Connecticut state line; 42 in Flower Hill, on Long Island; 38 in Boston, south of Buffalo. Small towns in counties like Nassau, Hamilton and Westchester had 20-30 outages.

So, mostly urban areas which already have transmission issues and are now more and more reliant on solar and wind.

Flooding and extreme levels of rain, hail or snow were the primary causes of outages, researchers found.

The scientists also noted that these outages are more than an inconvenience. If they coincide with heat waves or cold snaps, these outages can harm or kill residents — and at all times, they endanger the lives of people dependent on elevators or electric medical devices.

Would you be surprised that a high percentage of these outages are from winter weather? Who would have thought that snow and ice, along with the associated clouds, would cause problems with solar and wind? Don’t forget that wind turbines are meant to operate with wind speeds of 5mph to 30mph. More can damage the turbines. Snow and ice can likewise affect performance. Solar cannot gather light when it is cloudy, when rain is hitting them, or covered in snow or ice.

And it’s not a barely rising sea or storms which are not getting more extreme and more often, it’s having more power usage in those areas.

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