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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wake-forest-university-to-host-pro-hamas-speaker-on-october-7/

Wake Forest University will host a pro-Hamas speaker on October 7, one year after the terrorist organization attacked Israel, to discuss “One Year since al-Aqsa Flood: Reflections on a Year of Genocide and Resistance.”

Rabab Abdulhadi, who will deliver the talk, is slated to speak at Wake Forest on the evening of Monday, October 7, according to a poster obtained by National Review. The school’s Humanities Institute, Department of Politics and International Affairs, and Middle East South Asian Studies Program are co-sponsoring the event. Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups named the operation, during which terrorists invaded Israel and murdered 1,200 civilians, “al-Aqsa Flood.”

Abdulhadi is a Palestinian scholar who is an associate professor for San Francisco State University’s ethnic-studies program. On October 8, Abdulhadi responded to Ilhan Omar’s statement on the attacks, in which the congresswoman condemned Hamas’s “senseless violence” and “horrific acts.”

“Seriously @IlhanMN? ‘Senseless,’” Abdulhadi said in response. “#PalestineUnderAttack are merely defending themselves. Are you saying that #Palestinians should be exceptionalized from the right to defend themselves against colonial & racist violence? Check your facts! #FreePalestine #IsraeliCrimes.”

On October 7, the professor said on social media that “it‘s worth remembering how vicious colonists act when the colonized dare #breaktheirChains from @Palestine . . . No innocent bystanders here.” 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/affirmative-action-doesnt-work-and-mit-knows-it

Several highly selective colleges and universities in the U.S.—including MIT, Yale, Princeton, and now Harvard—have finally revealed the racial makeup of their incoming freshmen, the Class of 2028. This is the first group to be admitted since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA), last year.

Supporters of racial preferences anticipated that the ruling would lead to a decline in black and Hispanic enrollment at America’s top schools. Opponents anticipated the opposite, contending that progressive university officials would find ways to evade SFFA and continue discriminating in favor of underrepresented minorities.

Both groups now have data that seem to vindicate their arguments. At MIT, the percentage of black enrollees in the freshman class dropped to 5 percent from 15 percent in the previous year; the percentage of Hispanic enrollees dropped to 11 percent from 16 percent; the percentage of white enrollees dropped to 37 percent from 38 percent; and the percentage of Asian enrollees rose to 47 percent from 40 percent. Yet at Duke, the combined share of black and Hispanic freshmen increased (compared with last fall), while the share of white and Asian freshmen fell. Meantime, at the University of Virginia, the racial makeup of the Class of 2028 remained virtually unchanged from that of the Class of 2027. Clearly, some universities, such as MIT, are taking SFFA more seriously than others.

Indeed, MIT’s President Sally Kornbluth and Dean of Admission Stu Schmill directly attributed the decline in black and Hispanic freshmen at the university to SFFA. Kornbluth, in a recent announcement to the MIT community, said: “The class is, as always, outstanding across multiple dimensions. What it does not bring, as a consequence of last year’s Supreme Court decision, is the same degree of broad racial and ethnic diversity that the MIT community has worked to achieve over the past several decades.” Similarly, Schmill told MIT News during an August 21 interview: “I have no doubt that we left out many well-qualified, well-matched applicants from historically underrepresented backgrounds who in the past we would have admitted—and who would have excelled.”