Mamdanis privileged path, liberals Supreme Court hypocrisy and other commentary

At Britain’s Glastonbury music festival, punk duo Bob Vylan’s lead singer led “tens of thousands” in “shouting, ‘Death, death to the IDF,’ ” frets Ayaan Hirsi Ali at The Free Press.This wasn’t just chants against Israeli’s military but part of an “ideological insurgency against the Jewish people.” Calling it the “Free Palestine” movement is a “smokescreen”; it’s actually a “weaponized” form of “Islamism soaked in Maoism.” What makes it “uniquely dangerous is the merging” of the two: “Islam brings the fire,” Maoism “the strategy.” The goal of this “cultural movement”: “Erase not just Israel” but “the Jewish people from the moral map”; “force” Jews to “choose between their dignity and their safety.” And it doesn’t end with Israel — they’ll “come” for non-Jews, too.“Democrats griped when conservative judges blocked their plans.

Their views have changed now that Trump is President,” mocks The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley.“Liberals are fuming over the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Trump v.

CASA, which curtails universal injunctions.” Yet it “merely means a single judge can’t block a government policy nationwide,” and not long ago “liberals were raging against overreaching orders by Republican-appointed judges.” When one jurist blocked the FDA’s “approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, President Biden bristled that the injunction was ‘completely out of bounds.’” Dems also fumed when a court blocked Team Obama’s work authorizations for dreamers.Liberals want such the injunction tool “available to serve their political ends even as they complain when conservatives deploy it to advance their own.”Zohran Mamdani, the child of cosmopolitan parents, “grew up in an environment that was affluent, privileged, and high status; but also strongly disdainful of Western values,” Peter Wood explains at The Spectator.

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