The latest Yalla يلا | The Good News interview is with Tom Hand, whose daughter Emily was kidnapped and wife murdered by Hamas . Moving to Israel from Ireland, Tom said he was sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. The 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and life experience altered his thinking.

Why do US universities tolerate campus terrorism? “What [MIT President] said is that foreign students have been violating school policy, but academic suspension or expulsion would terminate their ability to remain in the country” AND PAY FULL TUITION⁩. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

TikTok is a weaponized tool of the Chinese government and poses a serious threat to US national security. There’s no doubt about that. The only question was whether TikTok’s army of lawyers and lobbyists would succeed in preventing Congress from acting on that threat.

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The useful idiots of the “Jewish flank of the Palestine solidarity movement” would be slaughtered, raped, burned, or kidnapped by the Hamas terrorists they are glorifying and emboldening. And, given the opportunity, their Jew-hating, pro-Hamas lawn buddies would lead the way.

Columbia Protestors Clarify They Only Want Death To America After America Is Done Paying Their Student Loans buff.ly/3UdP6rz

Props to Joe Scarborough & Scott Galloway for this well reasoned analysis of the absurdity of anti-Israel protests. No joke, this is very well done:

I spent yesterday afternoon at Columbia University, walking the streets, meeting Jewish students, and observing the situation firsthand. I was shocked by what I found. 🧵

The scenes playing out on US campuses, streets, bridges, airports, shops, synagogues are reminiscent of 1930s Germany, when an emboldened army of Jew haters hijacked a nation and drove it, and the rest of the world, off a cliff.

Jews are always the first, but never the last.

Hard truth by فيصل ابراهيم الشمري in Arab News: “Both Obama and Biden practiced a policy of appeasement toward Iran. However, it backfired. Their granting of concessions to an aggressor such as Iran fuels the desire of the Iranian regime to destabilize the Arab and Islamic world.”

Biden’s failure to impose direct consequences on IRGC despite consistent acts of aggression—incl. 170 proxy attacks/killing of 3 US soldiers—largely shaped IRGC calculus for direct strikes on Israel as it believes it can get away with escalation without repercussions from US 4/11

In addressing Reza Pahlavi and the audience at the IAC event, the group’s CEO and fmr US Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Elan Carr said, “We don’t accept the legitimacy of this regime. …We pray that the brave people of Iran will soon have a government worthy of them.”

Weak interview.
What we learned:
1. The regime intended to fail 99% 👌
2. Its nuclear program is peaceful (except no peaceful usage requires more than 3% enrichment—the regime’s is 60%+)
No questions about targeting journalists, hostages, assassination attempts on US officials…

I trust Erin Burnett CNN will be as tough on the IRGC spokesman as she would be on an average Republican guest. The questions below are a good start.

Just days before the regime in Iran attacked Israel, Alan Dershowitz spoke about that possibility at the IAC event: 'If only HRH Reza Pahlavi was now in charge of Iran, we would be living in a very different world. ...There must be regime change in Iran.'

1. I have referred TikTok and their parent company ByteDance to the financial crimes regulator AUSTRAC following credible reports they violated anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws, and lied about it:

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A bombshell scoop from Hailey Fuchs of POLITICO

“The Chinese Embassy has held meetings with congressional staff to lobby against the legislation that would force a sale of TikTok, according to two of the Capitol Hill staffers.”

April 17 - from Stage of Freedom (Stage Of Freedom) :
“Today the British Iranian and Israeli community stood united outside Westminster Palaces as a sign of solidarity against the Islamic Republics attack on Saturday night.
United their message was that the attack on Saturday

Exactly 1 year ago, Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and Princess Yasmine Pahlavi became the most prominent Iranians to ever visit Israel. They bridged 2,500 years of history, dating back to Cyrus the Great, and reconnected both peoples’ shared destiny.

When the Trump Adm designated #IRGCterorrists as part of the maximum pressure campaign, we were criticized by the usual suspects in the #IranLobby , but it was the obvious (and the right) thing to do. Not doing it today is cowardly appeasement.

No, if Iran changes the rules of the game by attacking Israel directly, that is not Israel pushing the U.S. into a trap of conflict with Tehran. It is Iran making a deliberate and avoidable choice to play with regional fire. That's simple unless your aim is to distort.