Andrew E. Harrod (@AEHarrod): #IanLustick’s
"musings at the University of Pennsylvania are yet another example of lavish, yet wasted, public and private expenditures on Middle East Studies, which repeatedly maleducate and misinform and must, therefore, reform or end."
meforum.org/campus-watch/res…
Matthew @Continetti:
"Conservatives who believe in the Constitution, limited government, the rule of law and the Declaration of Independence’s principles of liberty and equality confront a dire prospect: Nov. 3 may foreshadow a period of progressive governance in both parties that would leave Americans poorer, weaker and less free."
wsj.com/opinion/the-maga-coa…
I don’t like the reasoning, but I do think that US aid to Israel has been going on for decades too long and should be ended. It both undermines the Israeli economy and it distorts the US Israel alliance.
#HillelFrisch came to a similar conclusion in 2017, in "Myth: Israel Is the Largest Beneficiary of US Military Aid." An excerpt:
"Israel is not even a major beneficiary of American military aid. The numerical figure reflects official direct US military aid, but is almost meaningless compared to the real costs and benefits of US military aid – which include, above all, American boots on the ground in the host states."
besacenter.org/dispelling-my…
Is U.S. military aid to Israel really exceptional?
The $3.3B in annual financing is highly visible. The costs of U.S. troops and bases abroad are less so.
My new paper compares these security commitments and the benefits they provide.
Full Paper: misgavins.org/en/yakoby-is-u…
Daniel Pipes دانيال بايبس 🇺🇦 retweeted
I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.
The @NYPost relied on @MEForum’s investigation into @AbdulElSayed for today's article, "El Sayed courted voters at mosques where speakers dubbed US ‘House of Satan’ and called for ‘final annihilation of Jews’."
More proof that he, unlike Omar, Tlaib & Mamdani is a true #Islamist, i.e., he wants to apply Islamic law in the United States.
nypost.com/2026/10/31/us-new…
This striking screenshot of a Hamas video from before May 2021 (but aired only yesterday on Al Jazeera) shows commanders of Hamas' military wing meeting in a tunnel under Gaza.
More striking yet: Israeli forces have executed every one of them, including Mohammed Deif (at the top), Marwan Issa, Raad Saad, Muhammad Shabana, Muhammad Sinwar, Ahmed Ghandour, Ayman Nofal, Rafa’a Salameh, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Mohammed Odeh, Hakem al-Issa, Raed Thabet, Ghazi Abu Tama’a and Bassem Issa.
timesofisrael.com/al-jazeera…
Now, @PeggyNoonanNYC calls for a Republican collapse. She wants a "big, big wave" that serves as "a clear and obvious rebuke—a rejection, a rebellion, a rout" for Trump and MAGA. American needs a "trauma … to inch toward rough political health."
"If MAGA takes it full in the face on Tuesday, it will begin to shatter on the state level, where it matters. In that shattering, room will be created in which not fully MAGA figures can start to rise. The Republican Party has to get healthy again."
wsj.com/opinion/the-case-for…
.@GerardTBaker also agrees, wants the GOP to undergo a "thrashing":
"When a party has failed us and our values, a thrashing at the polls is the necessary route to remedy and redemption."
Indeed.
wsj.com/opinion/these-republ…
I care less about which party wins the Senate and the House than I care that @AbdulElSayed loses.
(Seen below with Hasan Piker, @hasanthehun.)
The press is lambasting @RobertKennedyJr for his statements about Islam vs Islamism. True, he makes errors. But his distinction is basically correct, even admirable.
I have transcribed and posted his interview yesterday on @RealAmVoice, which begins: "Islamism is not Islam, and talking about the Muslim Brotherhood is not Islamophobia." Take a look.
danielpipes.org/rr/2026-10-2…
Great explanation of the Israeli elections, by @AmitSegal:
"The public wasn’t convinced that the war had been a total victory, as Netanyahu claimed, but it also refused to buy the opposition’s claim that it was a total failure. It was repelled by Haredi draft-dodging, but didn’t think the solution was a minority government propped up by draft refusers and anti-Zionists. It was disgusted when ultra-Orthodox protesters chanted 'We do not believe in the rule of the Zionists,' but it was just as shocked when 'Biladi, Biladi,' the Palestinian national anthem, was sung at the Joint List’s headquarters last night."
freebeacon.substack.com/p/it…
Good news out of @Harvard University! I cannot even remember the last time that happened.
Maybe, just maybe, this course marks a turning point, where professors unapologetically teach the best the humanities have to offer?
wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl…
Believe it or not: The UK's National Health Service (@NHSuk) classified a 44-year-old mother of two, #HollyPassmore, as a “vulnerable adult” because she advocated for Israel. Indeed she supports Israel "to the point that she has travelled to Israel.” Imagine that!
As a result, she received a house visit from two plainclothes police officers wanting to know why she had recently visited Israel.
When Holly Passmore heard a knock at her front door at about 11am on July 4 last year, she assumed it was an Amazon delivery.
Instead, the 44-year-old mother-of-two from County Durham found two plain-clothes police officers on her doorstep wanting to know why she had recently visited Israel ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
It surprised me that @Gadi_Eisenkot, the face of failure in Israel's security establishment, emerged as the leader of the opposition to @Netanyahu.
In an excellent article, "What qualifies Eisenkot to be prime minister?" @DrorEydar shows why he is very much the wrong person to become prime minister. For one, he is "a quintessential product of the Oslo school of thought, the old strategic mindset that interpreted the conflict between Israel and its neighbors in rational, territorial terms."
israelhayom.com/opinions/wha…
