“Waste that s—t”: That’s John Fetterman’s advice to Donald Trump about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear facilities.
In an interview with the Free Beacon‘s Jon Levine, Fetterman dismissed the administration’s ongoing negotiations with the Islamic regime—as well as the notion that opting to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to the outbreak of regional war.
“You’re never going to be able to negotiate with the kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities,” he said. “And remember, all of these so-called experts were wrong. You know, they’ve been saying for years and years that Hezbollah was the ultimate badass … Well, I guess it turned out they couldn’t fight for s—t. And Hamas, literally, are just a bunch of tunnel rats with junkie rockets in the back of a Toyota truck.”
“Fetterman’s remarks come as the Trump administration barrels forward with negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program that have so far been defined by mixed messages,” writes Levine. “Going into the talks, the administration said any deal would require Tehran to dismantle its nuclear program. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff later suggested a deal could allow Iran to enrich uranium up to a certain level. Then he walked back that walk-back, saying Iran must agree to ‘stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment’ to ink a deal.”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: On Tuesday night, disturbing videos emerged of Yale’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, known as “Yalies4Palestine,” blocking Jewish students from accessing parts of campus amid a short-lived encampment. By Wednesday afternoon, Yale had stripped its status as a recognized student group.
In a statement addressing the encampment, Yale pointed to flagrant violations of school rules and “disturbing antisemitic conduct at the gathering” and said it had notified Yalies4Palestine that “the College is withdrawing its status as a student organization.”
“The decision,” our Jessica Costescu writes, “may give insight into how Yale president Maurie McInnis, who called the police to arrest student protesters in her last job, will combat anti-Israel agitators at the Ivy League university.”
Kicked to the curb: In just two weeks, R&B singer Kehlani was supposed to headline Cornell’s annual spring concert, Slope Day. Not anymore.
Kehlani’s history of anti-Semitic statements—she’s endorsed “intifada revolution,” advocated for “resistance in all of its forms,” and called Zionists “the scum of the earth” who should “go to hell”—caused an uproar among Cornell students and parents. First, university president Michael Kotlikoff said it was too late to make a change. He reversed course on Wednesday, citing “grave concerns from our community that many are angry, hurt, and confused that Slope Day would feature a performer who has espoused antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments in performances, videos, and on social media.”
“Cornell announced Kehlani as the Slope Day headliner on April 10, just two days after White House officials confirmed they had frozen more than $1 billion in funding to the school amid a civil rights probe into campus anti-Semitism,” our Jessica Schwalb reports. “Slope Day is funded through Cornell’s Student Activities Fee, which is mandatory for all undergraduates. … While it’s unclear how much Kehlani would have been paid, $350,000 was allocated to talent last year, according to the student-led Slope Day Programming Board, which organizes the event.”
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Away from the Beacon:
- Here we go again: Columbia students plan to erect two new encampments this week, roughly one year after their first one upended the Ivy League university, NBC News reports. Under the plan, students would launch one encampment today at Columbia’s main Morningside Heights campus and “disperse before nightfall.” They would then launch a second on Friday at the business school campus and remain “indefinitely and expect arrests to be made.”
- Not a joke: Democrats in the Colorado House passed a bill that would put cigarette-style labels on gas pumps warning drivers that burning fossil fuels “releases air pollutants and greenhouse gases, known by the state of Colorado to be linked to significant health impacts and global heating.”
- Anti-Semitic U.N. “special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories” Francesca Albanese can now be “sued, denied entry into USA, and sanctioned,” according to watchdog group UN Watch, which argues that the U.N. illegally renewed her term.
This article was originally published at freebeacon.com
