May 2-3, 2026
"This is the result of the Trump Admin giving a blank check to the Netanyahu govt’s ongoing settlement expansion..."
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Repost from Senator Van Hollen:
Watch: This is the result of the Trump Admin giving a blank check to the Netanyahu govt’s ongoing settlement expansion and its complicity with settler violence against Palestinians.
We cannot look away.
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“O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium...”
We attended the Santa Cruz Symphony’s performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony last night. Still gives me chills...
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The president of the University of Michigan has issued a formal apology for what he referred to as “inappropriate” remarks made by Professor Derek Peterson, president of the Faculty Senate and a winner of a McArthur Genius Award, during commencement exercises this weekend. The university president claimed they were “hurtful and insensitive to many members of our community. We regret the pain this has caused on a day devoted to celebration and accomplishment.”
What is the university administration so upset about? It was one line in Dr. Peterson’s speech, in which he was praising graduates for various accomplishments during their time on campus, that included mention of the “pro-Palestinian activists who have, over the past two years, opened our hearts to the injustice and the inhumanity of Israel’s war on Gaza.”
(The graduates seemed to appreciate it, however. The response to that line was loud cheers and applause.)
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Remembering cartoonist and writer Nicole Hollander, who died this past week at age 86.
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Professor Mark Roseman is a well-respected relatively apolitical senior Jewish Studies professor who recently published a four-volume history of the Holocaust with by Cambridge University. He had been serving ably as head of Indiana University's Jewish Studies program, but the administration has replaced him with a rightwing non-Jewish junior colleague who is an outspoken supporter of the Israeli government and critic of pro-Palestinian activism.
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This Friday in Santa Cruz:
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If a candidate supports unconditional military aid to Israel, they cannot claim to be pro-environment.
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I guess there really is some truth to the accusation that the Democratic leadership is "anti-Christian:" They continue to support unconditional military aid to Israel as that government has been denying Christian Palestinians access to holy places; destroying monasteries, churches, and other Christian sites in Lebanon; and, attacking clergy, nuns, and other Christian leaders in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.