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Harvard president announces advisory council to combat antisemitism on campus: 'No longer'

Story by Stephen Sorace •

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Harvard President Claudine Gay on Friday announced the creation of an advisory council to combat antisemitism on campus after weeks of intense criticism over the university’s response to the Israel-Hamas war that broke out on Oct. 7.

Gay delivered remarks at the Harvard Hillel Shabbat Dinner, saying that "we are witnessing a surge in anti-Jewish incidents and rhetoric across the nation — and on our own campus," where she said that she has heard "story after story" of "Jewish students feeling increasingly uneasy or even threatened."

"As president, I am committed to tackling this pernicious hatred with the urgency it demands," Gay said in her remarks. "Antisemitism has a very long and shameful history at Harvard. For years, this University has done too little to confront its continuing presence. No longer."

Gay said that a group of advisors including faculty, staff, alumni and religious leaders from the Jewish community will begin the "vital work of eradicating antisemitism from our community."

>>19831845

only reason i poasted

harvard prez what a joke

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Ex-North Dakota lawmaker charged with flying to Prague with intent to rape a minor

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former longtime North Dakota lawmaker is charged with traveling to Prague with the intent to rape a minor, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.

Ex-Republican state Sen. Ray Holmberg was arrested Monday in Grand Forks, according to an arrest warrant. He is also charged with one count of receiving images depicting child sexual abuse, according to the indictment filed Thursday in federal court in North Dakota.

It accuses the 79-year-old Holmberg of traveling from his home state to the Czech Republic from about June 2011 to November 2016 with intent to rape a person under the age of 18. The other charge dates from about November 2012 to March 2013.

Holmberg served more than 45 years in the North Dakota Senate until his resignation last year, after local media outlet The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead revealed he exchanged dozens of text messages with a person who was jailed on charges related to child sexual abuse images.

Holmberg's attorney, Mark Friese, said he was not immediately available for comment. A text message sent to Holmberg was not immediately returned and voicemail on his phone was not set up, so a message could not be left.

Holmberg's initial court appearance was scheduled for Monday afternoon. The U.S. Attorney's Office in North Dakota planned to issue a new release and otherwise declined to comment, spokesperson Terry Van Horn said.

Holmberg, a retired school counselor, chaired the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which writes budgets.

He was reimbursed roughly $126,000 for nearly 70 out-of-state trips from 2013 through mid-April 2022 to places that included four dozen U.S. cities, as well as China, Canada, Puerto Rico and several European countries, according to an Associated Press review of his travel records.

Law enforcement searched his Grand Forks home in November 2021, seizing video discs and additional items.

Holmberg announced in March 2022 he wouldn’t seek reelection. He cited stress and “a weakened ability to concentrate on the matters at hand and effectively recall events" before ultimately resigning.

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Bizarre Moment Newsom Falls Right Into Chinese Child, Then Grabs and Spanks Him

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A common critique of many career politicians is that they don't know how to assimilate into normal, everyday life.

And why would they? Politics and real life, as intertwined as they can be, are in two totally different realms.

Even so, California Gov. Gavin Newsom will have a tough time explaining away this awkward interaction he had with children when he visited China recently.

In what appeared to be a perfunctory photo op, Newsom was seen playing some basketball with the local youths during his trip.

Newsom, who appeared to think he was a Harlem Globetrotter with some of the dribbles and ball spinning he was attempting, clumsily dribbled into a pair of children.

That incident, in and of itself, is hardly noteworthy.

Newsom is not a basketball player, and nobody is expecting him to look like Larry Bird on the court.

But it's what followed Newsom's clumsy crash that is raising some eyebrows, if only for how bizarre it was.

You can watch the whole incident for yourself below:

Dribble charging!

Gavin Newsom,The governor of California is in a primary school in Beijing. pic.twitter.com/NgJf9GRK5E

— Sharing Travel (@TripInChina) October 29, 2023

After Newsom bowls over a child with this basketball moves, he awkwardly wraps the child up before hitting him suspiciously close to his rear.

It was enough of an incident that various X users began calling out Newsom for "spanking" the boy.

"Gavin Newsom tackles a little Chinese kid, grabs him and spanks him," conservative pundit Benny Johnson posted to X. "So creepy."

Johnson added: "Perfect replacement for Joe Biden."

It's that last line from Johnson that adds a new wrinkle to this awkward interaction from Newsom.

If Newsom were just the Democratic governor of California, with no grander ambitions, perhaps people would just chalk up this bizarre incident as a blip and move on.

But there is ample, mounting evidence that Newsom, along with former first lady Michelle Obama, are largely viewed as two potential replacements for President Joe Biden should the incumbent president be unable to seek re-election.

No, this is not to say that it's somehow "better" for a governor to awkwardly spank a child on a basketball court, as opposed to the president.

But a governor just represents 1/50th of the United States, and perhaps critics just chalk it up as "Oh, California."

The president? Try 50 out of 50 states – and no such benefit of the doubt.