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Terror-loving, Israel-bashing, Jew-hating Hamasites prep mayhem as schools reopen THANE ROSENBAUM Distinguished University Professor Touro College
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ntisemitism is headed back to school. The summer recess was well spent, with Middle East faculty militarizing their lesson plans and pro-Hamas coffers resupplied by Qatar and Iran. Students have been practicing their anti-American, anti-Israel, antisemitic slogans (there are so many to learn nowadays, and being out of sync is uncool). Many took time away for intensive flag-burning weekend retreats. Back-to-school shopping this year includes Kevlar vests and an assortment of paramilitary gadgets and gear. Pepper spray is positively de rigueur. Keffiyeh scarves are being sold at student bookstores, often embossed with the college’s colors and team mascot. The one for Notre Dame is especially fetching. Go figure: Catholics wearing keffiyehs.
Student activism is now an official major within the Illiberal Arts. Genocide Post-Colonial Anti-Racist Gender Queer Studies is a mandatory course — even for math majors, although the math, science and engineering curricula are all being re-evaluated for racial bias. Last year’s nationwide campus turmoil, where the Hamas savages of Gaza were shown more love than college football teams, convinced students, and especially faculty, that college is nothing but a progressive playpen — a laboratory for the undoing of democracy. Twisted notions of academic freedom and “shared governance” mean that henceforth, university life will provide a safe haven for bored students demanding advanced credit in socially-acceptable antisemitism. f you thought last year’s pro-Hamas encampments and building takeovers were bad, in all likelihood this year’s will be worse. The lesson of last year is that nearly anything can be done in the name of Palestinian liberation. All will be forgiven — no disciplinary measures, no See Hamasites prep on page 2
I Hamasites gather in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 14, 2023.
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Haifa hospital goes deep to prepares for the worst
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By Etgar Lefkovits, JNS HAIFA — The rows of hospital beds with adjacent oxygen units line the underground parking lot. Four operating rooms, a maternity ward and a dialysis center are among the facilities that Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus has set up three levels down in its parking garage. The largest hospital in northern Israel has created the biggest underground hospital in the world in anticipation of what could be an all-out war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The three-floor, $140 million Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital was constructed following the Second Lebanon War with the terrorist organization in 2006, when the Iranian proxy fired about 70 missiles on this northern port city over a month, shaking the hospital in an era before the Iron Dome aerial-defense system was in place. “We made a commitment that this scenario cannot happen again,” recalled hospital director Professor Michael Halberthal during a tour of the facility on Sunday.
Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital in Haifa.
The 2,000-plus bed underground emergency hospital is essentially a 1,500-car garage that has been seamlessly converted into a fortified hospital for warfare, and which can be put in full use within eight hours. Two decades after the last major war with Hezbollah, the Shi’ite terrorist group has been raining down missiles on Israel almost daily since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre. Hezbollah has a missile stockpile experts estimate at 150,000 projectiles capable of striking virtually the entire country — and Haifa is the major Israeli city closest to Hezbollah’s base in southern Lebanon. Halberthal said that the Israeli military assessment for an allout war is that Hezbollah would fire a missile at Haifa every four minutes for 60 days, leading to thousands of casualties. “We wanted peace of mind so we can continue to work, and to reduce exposure time if there is a sudden missile attack on northern Israel,” he said. The facility, which was based on a model in Singapore, reSee Hospital goes deep on page 2
YU will open health campus in Midtown Manhattan Yeshiva University will significantly expand its presence in the healthcare field by establishing a new state-of-the-art campus in Herald Square. YU said this week it will add over 160,000 square feet of space to the
university’s already meaningful footprint in Midtown, entering into a 32-year leasehold condominium for several floors in the historic Herald Center at the corner of 34th Street and Broadway. It was built in 1902 as the original Saks store.
“As a values driven university, we look forward to becoming an even greater participant in the New York Midtown neighborhood and its community by bringing new energy to the area through student life, educational activities and economic
development,” said Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, president of YU. Yeshiva University has long stood as an educational leader in the Health Sciences and has recently expanded its leadership footprint in the field by launching
world-class and top-tier graduate programs in its Katz School of Science and Health, such as the Nursing program opening in the Fall, Occupational Therapy and SpeechLanguage Pathology programs. Reporting by YU