Obamas profound hypocrisy, ending Hamas aid racket and other commentary

After “former President Barack Obama applauded Harvard University for standing up to the Trump administration” in defense of the school’s First Amendment rights, Reason’s Robby Soave charges Obama with “profound hypocrisy,” since his “administration carried out the exact same policy against ..

.virtually every college and university in the country,” compelling “schools that receive federal funding to change their sexual misconduct policies in ways that undermined basic due process” and “harmed free speech and academic freedom.” “Moreover, the Obama-era policies were stridently opposed by Harvard’s law faculty,” but theuniversity caved.

“It’s a good thing that Harvard has found its spine,” but “it’s risible for Obama to complain” about the federal government stifling academic freedom.There’s “just no denying” anymore that “Hamas controls humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza,” notes Commentary’s Seth Mandel, and “The Wall Street Journal reports that” Israel’s decision to cut off that aid “is making it impossible for Hamas to keep its terrorist foot soldiers paid.” How? “The terror group hijacked food aid” and then impoverished civilians” by selling it back to them at highprices.Some aid groups got digital cash but to buy their food, “Gazans then have to use a money-changer” that reportedly “works for Hamas” and charges 20% commission.

Now Israel has cut off aid and says it killed a key money-changer that financed Hamas.“This is how you defeat a terrorist army.” “Deprive it of physical goods and money and watch it disintegrate.”UK women saying the “basic truth” that men and women are biologically distinct have been “written off as bigots, conspiracy theorists, hysterics,” thunders Graham Linehan at Spiked.

“But they were right.And now it’s official,” thanks to a Supreme Court ruling affirming “what a lot of women found themselves, to their surprise and disma...