Moral Clarity Is Not The Problem
A 23-year-old who survived 505 days in Hamas captivity speaks at a major university. The student government condemns the event. And what should be self-evident, instead has to be argued for. I don’t understand why I am surprised…but I am. University of California Regent Jay Sures confronted this lesson in lunacy a couple of weeks ago, and Sures, writing on Board of Regents letterhead, told members of the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council that he was disgusted and appalled by their formal condemnation of an April Yom HaShoah event. The program featured Omer Shem Tov, who was kidnapped from the NOVA music festival when Hamas launched their sneak attack against Israel on October 7th of 2023. He was freed in a February 2025 prisoner exchange. The council described Shem Tov’s appearance as “selective platforming of narratives that obscure the broader reality of ongoing state violence.” Tell me…where do we grow these piece of shit human beings? Sure...