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In a non-existent democracy, cowardly, careerist university administrators are bullied by scumbag politicians shamelessly running interference for the Zionist lobby. It doesn't get more despicable than this, but that is the will of the billionaires in the oligarchic US empire.

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In nearly four hours of grueling congressional testimony before the Republican-led Committee on Education and the Workforce, the president of Columbia University, Nemat "Minouche" Shafik, said she had taken serious action against accusations of antisemitism on campus in recent months amid Israel's assault on Gaza, including dismissing or removing five faculty members from the classroom, suspending 15 students and suspending two student groups — Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. Shafik's visit to Capitol Hill is the latest in a series of hearings on alleged antisemitism at elite U.S. private schools. In December, similar hearings led to the resignations of the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Our guests Nara Milanich and Rebecca Jordan-Young, both professors at Barnard College and Columbia University, respond to the televised hearings. "What happened at those hearings yesterday should be of grave concern to everybody," warns Jordan-Young. "What we got was a live performance [of President Shafik] throwing the entire university system under the bus." Adds Milanich, "Antisemitism here is being used as a wedge. It's being used as a Trojan horse for a very different political agenda."

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NOTE: Minouche Shafik has all the earmarks of an "Egyptian gusano". Obviously, she has made a very good career as a privileged operator facilitating and thriving in the imperialist West. Just consider this glowing excerpt from the Wikipedia:

Shafik squirming under her inquisitors' impertinent (and unconstitutional) questions. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously, Shafik served as deputy governor of the Bank of England from 2014 to 2017 and permanent secretary of the United Kingdom Department for International Development from 2008 to 2011.[2] She has also served as a vice president at the World Bank[3] and as deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.[4] Shafik was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to parents who were both educators.[5] Her father was also a scientist and wealthy landowner.[6][7] As a child, she went to Schutz American School. When she was 4, the Egyptian government seized her father's property[8] and the family moved to Savannah, Georgia in the mid-1960s, then to Miami and Raleigh, North Carolina.[9] Master of Science degree in economics from the London School of Economics in 1986; and a Doctorate of Philosophy in economics from the University of Oxford, in 1989.[10] Career After Oxford, Shafik joined the World Bank and held a variety of roles, starting in the research department where she worked on global economic modelling and forecasting and then later on environmental issues. She moved to do macroeconomic work on Europe and the Middle East where she published a number of books and articles on the region's economic future, the economics of peace, labour markets, regional integration, and gender issues.[11] At age 36, Shafik became the World Bank's youngest-ever Vice President.[12][13] Get the picture?

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Garland Nixon
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Garland and Laith discuss the repercussions of Iran's "warning" (or "symbolic") strike on Israel, an effort to serve notice to this lunatically criminal entity that its provocations and international murders will not be further tolerated. The Iranian drone and missile attack on Apr 13 was designed, as previously commented, to cause the fewest human casualties, and to gather intelligence on the Israeli/US AD network. Iran's warning is also good for the "collective West", including the constantly scheming Hegemon itself. In a new development, as Israel has continued its assassinations of Hezbollah commanders, Hezbollah itself has begun to target and destroy Israeli command centers. Laith also comments on the media blockade on the Israeli mass assassinations (and mass graves recently discovered) of Palestinian victims in various hospital settings—Al Shifa, etc., most of them either patients being cared for or hospital staff, a heinous crime under international law that should have made headlines all over the world, but which Western media has simply memory-holed. Of course, not a pip has been heard from the West's top leadership, apparently too busy running interference for the depraved Zionist regime.

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