Category: Democracy and Western Civilization
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Some Virginia State Colleges and Universities Host Chinese Government Student Control Organizations
by James C. Sherlock Virginia Tech’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association is the largest international student society at Virginia Tech, with more than 1,000 Chinese students and scholars and their families. It is also one of the largest Chinese student and scholars organizations in the United States. [Go to link and click “translate” in URL…
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A Resolution Concerning the Safety and Rights of Jews at UVa
Jefferson Council President Tom Neale yesterday delivered the following resolution of the Council to University of Virginia president Jim Ryan and the Board of Visitors. — JAB The Jefferson Council, by unanimous agreement of the Officers, Committee Chairs and Board of Advisors, hereby issues the following RESOLUTION supporting the rights of the Jewish students, faculty…
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Never Again
by James C. Sherlock At 78, I have been all over the world often and for long periods of time. I felt myself reasonably immune to cultural surprises. But I had never seen anything like this. It was the Maghrib prayer time about 5 p.m. on Saturday. On the southeast corner of 12th and Pennsylvania…
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Freedom, Consistency, and Tuesday’s Election
by Shaun Kenney One of the great things about being a conservative is that we are inherently an anti-ideology. As the late William F. Buckley Jr. once put it, the great task of the modern conservative movement is to stand athwart history yelling STOP! Yet in a wider sense, it is far easier for conservatives…
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“Good old TikTok: Chinese spy engine and purveyor of virulent antisemitic lies.” Sen. Josh Hawley
by James C. Sherlock Taylor Lorenz, the estimable young Tech and Online Culture columnist for The Washington Post, has been the author of some of the most important reports on the Hamas-Israel war. Today, she published with Drew Harwell, a Post reporter covering artificial intelligence and the algorithms changing our lives, “Israel-Gaza war sparks debate…
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Harvard History Professor to Lead Monticello
by James C. Sherlock She is certainly qualified. On Oct. 17 the Thomas Jefferson Foundation announced that Jane Kamensky, Harvard history professor and director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, will be the next president of Monticello. From an interview with Harvard Crimson. “The combination of celebration, commemoration, and reckoning…
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Will the Left Repudiate this Evil?
(This column was published earlier today by The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy) by Chris Braunlich “You dance with the one who brung ya” goes one of the oldest sayings in politics. It means that when elected officials get into public office, they vote with those who helped put them there. The deadly Hamas…
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What is Actually Taught about the History of the Jews and the Jewish State in Virginia Schools?
by James C. Sherlock What comes first? Sadism or hatred? Does religious radicalism create sadists or do sadists flock there for approval and opportunity? Some on the radical right and the radical left in the United States share a hatred for Jews. The radical right may not be able to remember why, but pursue it…
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Foreign Student Influence in Students for Justice in Palestine Chapters at Virginia Universities and their “Allies”
by James C. Sherlock The SJP organizations at three Virginia state universities, the University of Virginia, George Mason University, and the University of Mary Washington, have been active since October 7th on the Hamas side. Some attempt to thread two needles simultaneously: to separate Gazans from their elected government, the terrorist organization Hamas, and to…
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Hatred of Jews at UVa – A Pot Brewed in the Faculty Lounge Boils Over
by James C. Sherlock Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 7. On October 8, this letter was issued in Charlottesville. “Events” were “a step towards a free Palestine.” On October 11, President James Ryan issued a strong message condemning the savage Hamas massacre in Israel. He deserves credit for that, but has not gotten…
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Lose the Masks
by Kerry Dougherty Last Saturday’s horrors of Hamas were followed here and abroad with another kind of horror. There were anti-Israel rallies at colleges and in major cities across the nation. These heartless people were demonstrating for just one reason: to show support for the barbarians who had just invaded a country, slaughtered innocent people,…
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“Seeking a Better World” by Defending the Beheaders of Babies
by James A. Bacon A week ago the Students for Justice in Palestine at UVA created a furor by publishing a statement defending Hamas’ attack on Israel. “Yesterday’s rebellion was not ‘unprovoked,’ as many have claimed, but is the consequence of years of mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and oppression from Israel,” the group wrote. “The…
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Jew-Hating Student Groups Crop Up Like Cockroaches. Virginia Is No Exception.
by Kerry Dougherty As the world gapes in horror at the atrocities committed against the people of Israel malignant clots of the perpetually disgruntled appear, like cockroaches. These brainwashed fans of Hamas cheer the murder of Jewish babies, the rape of Jewish women and the taking of Jewish hostages. They wave the Palestinian flag. They…
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Virginians Sail Towards Gaza
by James C. Sherlock The U.S. Navy has sailed towards the sounds of battle for more than 200 years. This time it is responding to the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, already in the Mediterranean Sea as part of…
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Thunder in the Pulpits
by Michael Giere “But this was not always so. In fact, for much of our history, it has been just the opposite. Godly men and women who were fearless, bold, strong, and savvy have been central to the American experience.” There has never been anything in history like the US Constitution, signed on September 17,…