Music worlds anti-Israel blinders, restore parents opt-out rights and other commentary

Culture critic: Music World’s Anti-Israel BlindersCommentary’s Seth Mandel wasn’t “surprised” by the Coachella anti-Israel “sloganeering”; bands think slamming it will further their careers.But it’s “strange” that music artists pay “so much attention” to the Israel-Hamas war without acknowledging how it started: “with the biggest music festival massacre in history.” Indeed, “it requires an extraordinary level of sliminess to use the music stage to boost the army that carried out that massacre.” And Nova is just “one of the many ways that the world’s support for Hamas against Israel has exposed the hypocrisy of the self-styled liberal humanists.” When Recording Academy head Harvey Mason did recognize Oct.

7 in 2024, he contextualized it and never even mentioned Israel.Better than what’s most common: “Nova victims get nothing — or worse.”Schools beat: Restore Parents’ Opt-Out Rights“When my local school board stripped away parents’ right to opt out of storybooks that promote controversial gender ideology, I knew I had to act,” sighs Billy Moges at RealClearPolitics.

The Supreme Court must “uphold the principle that it is parents — not government authorities — who should guide their children’s education.” The Montgomery County Board of Education introduced new storybooks that “went beyond teaching virtues and instead spotlighted themes like pride parades, gender transitions, and inappropriate romance for pre-kindergarten students,” and parents didn’t want their children exposed to them.Before the opt-out ended, Maryland law and school-board policies allowed parents to have their kids skip “classroom lessons that violated a family’s faith.” Parents, the county should realize, are “our children’s primary teachers, not obstacles.”Foreign desk: An Untenable Ukraine-Peace PlanThe terms of the Ukraine peace talks “are unacceptable to all parties to this conflict save the Kremlin and the Tr...