The only thing she’s occupying now is the couch. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, is unemployed and hawking her used clothes online just months after graduating from the elite Barnard College, she announced in a Tuesday Instagram story. (Instagram) “Unemployment got me,” Hirsi said, including a link to…
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At Duke Medical School, Race-Based Promotion Guidelines Reward Doctors for Recruiting ‘BIPOC Faculty’
Duke Medical School has adopted race-based promotion guidelines that reward doctors for recruiting and mentoring “BIPOC faculty” and “targeting specific groups of people,” language attorneys say appears to violate civil rights law and could put the school in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. The “Appointment, Promotion and…
Trump in the Crosshairs
As an enterprising and hard-working journalist, Salena Zito drives her Jeep a lot. Just not on interstates. It isn’t that she’s avoiding speeding maniacs—you can find them on any Pittsburgh street—but she loves to see the local color and variety one can spy on pre-1950s U.S. highways. This…
Columbia Profs Struggle With Reading Comprehension, Suggest Jewish Board Member ‘Leaked’ Subpoenaed Texts
An anonymous group of Columbia University faculty members released a statement suggesting a Jewish member of the school’s board of trustees “leaked” acting president Claire Shipman’s private text messages to the Washington Free Beacon. In reality, Columbia itself provided the messages to a House committee, which released them…
Columbia President Claire Shipman Issues Internal Apology Over Messages School Said Lacked ‘Context’
Columbia University acting president Claire Shipman privately apologized to a small group of colleagues and donors over leaked text messages, first reported in the Washington Free Beacon, in which she argued that the school needed to get an “Arab on our board” and suggested that a Jewish trustee,…
Columbia President Claire Shipman Privately Said School Needed To Add an ‘Arab’ Board Member—and Remove a Jewish One
Before she became the acting president of Columbia University, Claire Shipman argued that the school needed to get an “Arab on our board” and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy, according to text messages obtained by the House Committee on Education and…
Former Obama Staffer Who Wished Death on Trump Finds New Work for Zohran Mamdani
A former Obama administration staffer who once publicly wished death on President Donald Trump has found new work as a communications consultant for Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani—a democratic socialist who has called for “seizing the means of production”—triumphed in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary last week and officially…
Prestigious Virginia K-8 School Hit with Civil Rights Complaint over Environment ‘Hostile to Jews’
The prestigious Nysmith School in Northern Virginia received a civil rights complaint Tuesday for allegedly expelling three Jewish students who faced anti-Semitic harassment and whom the school’s headmaster told to “toughen up” after they reported the conduct. The Nysmith School, known as one of the top 10 institutions…
Jewish Teen Hid in Locked Classroom as Anti-Semitic Mob Pounded on Door: Lawsuit
A Seattle teen feared for her life in a locked classroom as a mob of students pounded on the door, “threatening to physically assault her based on her Jewish identity,” according to a recently filed lawsuit. The incident was the culmination of anti-Semitic harassment the student, referred to…
Weekend Beacon 6/29/25
“Their friendship was a romance: passionate, tender and tempestuous, full of longing, riven by jealousy.” No, I’m not referring to Trump and Bibi. It’s Ian Leslie’s take on McCartney and Lennon. Dominic Green returns to the Weekend Beacon with a review of John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs. “Bound by ambition…