Steven Plaut debunks the mythology of the Palestinian refugees and the claim of both a Palestinian state and a Palestinian "right of return" to Israel.
The spirit of Rachel Corrie lives on in a new pro-terrorist organization that carries her name and in a city government agency that subsidizes her fellow terrorism-sympathizers at the International Solidarity Movement.
Fifteen deans from the University of Washington praise the Supreme Court's muddled decision in the Michigan Law School case supporting "diversity" in higher education.
We believe the benefits of diversity, so cogently described by the Supreme Court, must be available to students at the University of WashingtonWell yes, exposure to diversity of life experience, talents, ideas and aspirations is invaluable to one's education. But the only form of "diversity" these deans seem to be interested in is diversity of skin color.
Meanwhile, William Raspberry, who calls himself an "affirmative-action advocate" argues that "the fight over undergraduate affirmative action is a diversion". After all, he points out, affirmative action was introduced to counter racial discrimination, but if the university administrators [like the ones at Michigan and Washington] want to bend the rules to admit more minorities, then discrimination against minorities in academia is no longer the problem it used to be. Raspberry mentions the research of Ronald Ferguson
There are serious problems facing black children, and, at the risk of seeming to blame the victims, there are serious things black parents can do about them.Indeed.But our toolboxes will have to include more than just the hammer of racial accusation.