Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state

[tsubaki]

this really should have prompted a walkout by all foreign press in solidarity, but it will not

 

[Wizard]

this really should have prompted a walkout by all foreign press in solidarity, but it will not

Not sure I agree. We need people on the ground reporting what is going on. If all the foreign press leaves then it’s all just Netanyahu’s propaganda.

 

[Ruairi77]

She gave a lawyer's response to a politician's question. It's a problem of relative risks. Fail to hedge, and sooner or later some student sues the university over conduct policies. Hedge, and give a hostile politician an opening.

She needed to see that the bigger fish to fry was public perception, accept that Stefanik had her in a no-win, defuse the bomb and apologize to legal afterward.

That wasn't a fatal mistake, but add in the plagiarism and it gets hard to see how she belongs in the office of president. If she can't conduct her own research in a manner beyond reproach, and she can't navigate treacherous political shoals, then she's bringing the wrong kind of publicity to a university notorious for being fussy about that sort of thing.

Yup, I agree with you here and I'm not sure what the end result of the plagiarism stuff was but it'd be hard to survive that.
Again, politicians were out for blood.
The way it was all rolled in to an anti DEI campaign and used as a stick to beat the idea of DEI with was so transparent.
Again, I think her only real fault was naivety. She'd only been in the position a matter of months and had no idea how to deal with the vultures.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Operation genocide commencing

 

[Yarrgh]

Operation genocide commencing

Commencing?

You're a bit late to the IDF's eradication of Palestinians.

 

[tsubaki]

I hope a lot of people in the UK are watching Netanyahu drive his entire country into a position of international isolation (and ultimately existential risk), because we have many of the same type of people in our politics right now and it is vital for our safety as a nation that we cease voting them into positions of power or influence.

 

[Wizard]

Hamas have accepted the latest ceasefire proposal which has been mediated by Qatar and Egypt. Not sure what the terms are but let’s see how Israel respond. Not holding my breath for a positive response from them but fingers crossed

Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Israel hits Rafah as Hamas accepts truce deal

Israeli army says it is striking targets after Hamas announces it accepted a truce proposal put forward by mediators.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[tsubaki]

Hamas have accepted the latest ceasefire proposal which has been mediated by Qatar and Egypt. Not sure what the terms are but let’s see how Israel respond. Not holding my breath for a positive response from them but fingers crossed

Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Israel hits Rafah as Hamas accepts truce deal

Israeli army says it is striking targets after Hamas announces it accepted a truce proposal put forward by mediators.

www.aljazeera.com

It certainly should put Biden, Sunak and Scholz in a bit of a bind - this is what all three support, all three have had their governments say the Rafah operation must not occur (or must not occur without a comprehensive evacuation beforehand) and yet here is Netanyahu ignoring them yet again.

 

[Ruairi77]

The minute Bibi agrees to any ceasefire and brings a bunch of hostages home, he'll lose a vote of no confidence and be out on his ear.
He wakes up every morning and chooses violence.

 

[coollino]

 

[Ruairi77]

Havent heard anything from Maclemore in ages
but he nails it here.
Biden is sleepwalking in to trouble here.

 

[Billy Dean]

 

[GoldenToffee]

Saw that last night, in any normal world that should be the end of those peoples' political careers and they'd have a warrant out for their arrest. Unfortunately it'll probably work.

 

[coollino]

 

[tsubaki]

Saw that last night, in any normal world that should be the end of those peoples' political careers and they'd have a warrant out for their arrest. Unfortunately it'll probably work.

Doubt it, at least in the long term.

They might be able to scare them off now but when the ICJ makes its final ruling and finds the Israeli state guilty (which it almost certainly will of some charges, such as the incitement for genocide which even the Israeli judge thought was plausible) they are going to face international legal strife in a big way.