From the BLM riots to the DC shooting in five short years;Grim work, righteous anger and political resolve amid mourning at DC murder scene;HHS concludes Columbia violated civil-rights law, will refer case to Justice if school doesn’t comply

 

Friday, May 23, 2025

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from the editor-in-chief     Jonathan S. Tobin   From the BLM riots to the DC shooting in five short years         Grim work, righteous anger and political resolve amid mourning at DC murder scene     Mike Wagenheim   HHS concludes Columbia violated civil-rights law, will refer case to Justice if school doesn’t comply     JNS Staff     Alleged gunman shot 21 times, told police he bought ticket to Jewish event, per complaint     Vita Fellig   Boost federal nonprofit security grants to $500m, Gottheimer tells JNS     Jonathan D. Salant     Harvard wins restraining order against Trump admin over student visas     Andrew Bernard           latest news           Pentagon promotes press sec who parrots ‘neo-Nazi playbook,’ AJC tells JNS   Andrew Bernard         Guterres blames looting of Gazan aid on low supplies, though Hamas often steals aid   Mike Wagenheim         Over objection of some faculty, Yeshiva awards highest honor to Stefanik at graduation   Emily Goldberg         Increase national security funding to $1b, US Jewish groups urge federal gov   Vita Fellig         US Treasury Department drops sanctions on Syria           Senate unanimously approves resolution commemorating Jewish Heritage Month   Jonathan D. Salant         Nuclear talks remain focused on no Iranian uranium enrichment, State Department says   Mike Wagenheim         Former LA public safety official pleads guilty to fake bomb threat           Katz suspends Golan from reserve duty following ‘killing babies’ remark   JNS Staff         Israel’s aid plan for Gaza is rife with challenges   Israel Kasnett         Smuggled secrets and sacred scripts from Syria   Sharon Altshul         Freed Israeli abductee launches fundraiser for ‘chance to rebuild’   JNS Staff         Douglas Murray: Israel can’t afford to leave Hamas in Gaza   Canaan Lidor         Microsoft fires staffer who protested AI tech sold to IDF   JNS Staff         Germany: Yemeni arrested for having fought with Houthi rebels   JNS Staff         Family of slain policeman sues Palestinian Authority for $15.5m   JNS Staff         Netanyahu: World spreading ‘starving Palestinian children’ lie   JNS Staff         IAF strikes 75 terror targets in Gaza in 24 hours   JNS Staff         IDF downs Houthi terror missile from Yemen           Monster in plain sight: How Israel missed the Houthi threat   Lilach Shoval         The groups vying for control of Gaza post-Hamas   Shachar Kleiman           jns tv             the quad     Fleur Hassan-Nahoum   ‘BBC,’ ‘NBC’ repeat outrageous lie about starving Gazan babies         opinion             featured column     Ruthie Blum   The tragic naiveté of liberal Jews         Douglas Altabef License to kill         Jeremy Davis Embody the words of Moses: ‘Here I am’         Yuval David Tears in Washington, a prayer for our future         Stephen M. Flatow The alarming surge of antisemitism in America             the wire           The enduring spirit of the Jewish people: From trauma to triumph           ‘We’re not just raising Jewish children’           History in a bottle           Florida Holocaust Museum announces Eric B. Stillman as president and CEO           Jewish Agency ‘shlichim’ march in the Israel Day parade in New York           Azrieli Foundation gifts $10 million for advanced nursing center at University of Haifa           Birthright kicks off summer season, welcoming more than 20,000 participants

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‘WTF?’ WaPo questions ‘where Jews belong’ after Israeli Embassy murders;Hillary urges left to wreck Memorial Day weekend for family and friends;Dem mayor probed for racial hiring discrimination claims Trump admin ‘reflects the country club’

 

View this email in your browser Must Watch: Kevin Kiley HUMILIATES hypocrite Jasmine Crockett in front of the entire country Must Watch: MAGA Navy Seal SHUTS DOWN crybaby Swalwell, DESTROYS him in front of congress Must Watch: RFK Jr DESTROYS smug Kaitlan Collins, SHUTS DOWN her crap live on air Newly elected Florida Republican gets called out over embarrassingly wrong photo Hillary urges left to wreck Memorial Day weekend for family and friends INSIDER: Case closed: John Bolton tells CNN there’s no white genocide in South Africa Kamala Harris wasn’t happy with CNN ‘motherf**ker’ new book claims Tapper calls for mandate disclosing US presidents’ health – beginning with Trump Spurned by US Senate, defiant Newsom spearheads multi-state ‘clean car coalition’ ‘WTF?’ WaPo questions ‘where Jews belong’ after Israeli Embassy murders Trump admin looks to gut ‘deep state’ with National Security Council overhaul Pelosi still playing kingmaker, floats familiar name as potential 2028 Dem savior Dem mayor probed for racial hiring discrimination claims Trump admin ‘reflects the country club’ Legal scholar floats familiar name to lead potential special committee on Biden’s health Trump admin fires National Security Council staff in droves Memorial Day weekend gas prices hit lowest average since 2021 Trump announces major job-creating deal that Biden blocked on his way out the door Our mailing address is: BizPac Review 108 S Washington St. Suite 300 Alexandria VA 22314

Even Loyal Biden Insiders Are ‘Suspicious’ of the Current Cancer Story: Report May 23, 2025 (they lied about everything else, why not about this?)

 

Even Loyal Biden Insiders Are ‘Suspicious’ of the Current Cancer Story: ReportMay 23, 2025 0 Comments

Was there an ulterior motive behind the bombshell Sunday announcement that former President Joe Biden is suffering from aggressive prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones?

Apparently, “even people that are loyal to Joe Biden, [and] love Joe Biden” think that may be the case.

Axios reporter Alex Thompson appeared on NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert” Tuesday to discuss his explosive book.

“Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” co-authored with CNN’s Jake Tapper, has largely lived up to its bombastic title with the excerpts that have leaked so far.

From reports about just how badly Biden’s health had been deteriorating to reports about how the former president couldn’t recognize one of the most famous people in the world — a friend of his, at that — it was clear that this book would not be painting anyone in a particularly favorable light.

 

The book, which was released to the masses Tuesday, came out to an exceptionally crowded news cycle, however.

And that was due in no small part to Biden’s cancer announcement, which came Sunday.

While the announcement largely drew sympathy (even from some of Biden’s fiercest critics), the circumstances surrounding how much Biden’s team knew about the cancer (not much, they claim) and what they did to cover it up (unaddressed, so far) have drawn intense scrutiny and speculation.

That speculation spilled over into Vittert’s conversation with Thompson.

Vittert mentioned Friday’s release of an audio clip of Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur that clearly showed why Hur had assessed him as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

Then he brought up Sunday’s headline-grabbing announcement.

“Ahead of the book, you have the cancer diagnosis release,” Vittert began, gathering how best to frame his question.

Vittert then bluntly asked, “Is this all coincidental?”

“Uh … well …” Thompson said.

“Is the timing of the diagnosis coincidental?” Vitter pressed again.

“The diagnosis … I would say that, even people, in my reporting with my colleague Marc Caputo, say, even people who worked for Joe Biden in Joe Biden’s White House are suspicious of whether or not it is coincidental and are suspicious of the idea that the diagnosis only came last Friday.

“And, you know, even people that are loyal to Joe Biden, who love Joe Biden, they have doubts about it, just because the timing does seem odd.”

Vittert then shared a statement given to NewsNation by Biden’s team: “President Biden’s last known PSA was in 2014. Prior to Friday, President Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer.”

“Obviously, based on this book and what’s in it, you would say, ‘Why should we believe them?’”

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May 23, 2025 How Trump’s 50% Threat Might Be the Kick Europe Needs Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Friday that Europe has a "collective action" problem standing in the way of effective trade negotiations with the United States.

 

May 23, 2025

How Trump’s 50% Threat Might Be the Kick Europe Needs Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Friday that Europe has a "collective action" problem standing in the way of effective trade negotiations with the United States. It's a point Bessent has made before. The Treasury Secretary isn't just taking a swipe at the European Union. He is stating a geopolitical reality. The European Union is a confederation of 27 sovereign nations, each with its own economic interests, domestic politics, and diplomatic priorities. Negotiating trade deals on behalf of all of them is like steering a canoe with 27 paddles—each rowing in a different direction. President Donald Trump at the G7 Summit on May 27, 2017, in Taormina, Sicily. (JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) But Bessent’s point goes deeper. He’s hinting that Trump’s threat of a 50 percent tariff on EU imports might actually help Europe overcome this dysfunction. By raising the cost of inaction—by making delay and dithering painful—Trump’s strategy creates the very urgency Europe needs to get serious at the negotiating table. "I think this is in response just to the EU’s pace," Bessent said. “I would hope that this would light a fire under the EU.” This flips the media narrative. Pundits say Trump’s tariffs are reckless. But from a game theory perspective, they function like a credible ultimatum. Europe’s problem isn’t a lack of interest in trade—it’s that its decision-making structure makes action nearly impossible. Trump’s move forces a decision. It concentrates minds. As Bessent noted in his Bloomberg interview, “some countries don’t even know what’s being proposed in their name.” That’s a crisis of governance. And it’s exactly the kind of problem that hard deadlines—and hard consequences—can clarify. Trump isn’t undermining transatlantic trade. He’s giving it the shock therapy it needs to survive. (Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Harvard’s Admissions Game: How Foreign Students Help Privatize Public Policy President Trump's announcement that Harvard University would no longer be able to grant visas to its international students has helpfully concentrated attention on the surge of the foreign share of seats in elite U.S. universities and the displacement of Americans and immigrants that this has entailed. Importantly, the surge in international students isn’t harmless globalism—it’s displacement for profit. That’s why President Trump’s move to cut off visa authority from elite universities like Harvard has sparked overdue scrutiny. This isn’t just symbolic—it targets the revenue stream behind an unsustainable and unfair model. Harvard likes to boast about its global appeal. What it rarely mentions is the arithmetic behind that appeal: as international enrollment has soared, American students—citizens and immigrants alike—have been pushed aside. The numbers are clear. At Harvard College, the share of international undergraduates has risen sharply in recent decades, even as the class size has remained essentially flat. Twenty years ago, Harvard's incoming class had around 1,600 students. Seven percent of them were classified as international. More recently, the share of foreign students is up to 18 percent while the class size has remained unchanged. That means these new students didn’t join a growing pie—they took slices from someone else’s plate. In other words, for every foreign student admitted, an American was rejected. And it’s not just native-born Americans being displaced. Immigrants and permanent residents—those with long-term stakes in this country—are losing seats too. Students enter the Admissions Building on Harvard University's campus on September 12, 2006, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Glen Cooper/Getty Images) Defenders claim international students pay more and therefore subsidize domestic students. But that’s just spin. Harvard’s sticker price is the same for everyone—and the supposed subsidy argument falls apart on closer inspection. There's no evidence that Harvard uses the additional revenue from foreign students to lower the price charged to American students. If Amazon charged one set of customers more for the same product, would we assume it was doing so to help lower prices for others? Would we celebrate this differential pricing as subsidizing lower prices? Of course not. We’d call it price discrimination—a way to boost profit. That’s exactly what’s happening here. Harvard is profiting from its ability to grant visas—a public authority—while keeping the earnings private. It’s monetizing a public power—converting admissions into visas, and visas into tuition premiums. This is not education policy. It’s rent-seeking. And don’t call this immigration. Foreign students aren’t immigrants. They are temporary residents who will, in most cases, return home after graduation or leave when their visa expires. They are not the huddled masses. They are, quite literally, a source of revenue. Harvard isn’t opening its doors to the world out of idealism. It’s doing it for the same reason any powerful institution does anything these days: because it pays.