The University of Oregon has long faced controversies over the alleged political bias on its campuses, including celebrating the career of a professor who physically attacked pro-life students as a model of activism. It has been criticized for monitoring off-campus speech and unconstitutionally censoring dissenting faculty. Now, Law Professor Ofer Raban is accusing the Law Review and school administrators of discriminating against an Israeli professor who was allegedly rejected for publication because of his association with an Israeli university.
Prof. Raban offered the following account:
The events unfolded in 2024, after an Oregon Law Review editor recommended the publication of an article written by the Israeli professor. Conceding the article’s merits, a second law review editor rejected the recommendation because the author was a faculty member at an Israeli university. The law review management agreed, claiming that publishing the article would be perceived as an endorsement of Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—although the article dealt with environmental law and had nothing to do with that conflict.
When the original reviewer objected that this may amount to unlawful discrimination, the matter was taken to a high-ranking law school official. A meeting was held, and the official reportedly gave the green light to the discrimination. At least two law school administrators, possibly more, were aware of the stated basis for the rejection and connived in it. A concerned member of the law review (who did not attend the meeting) was told that the law school’s administration had cleared the discrimination.
…The University of Oregon’s Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance has been investigating the matter since February, with little to show for it. To date, as far as we know, no action has been taken against any official at the law review or the law school, and the sole action by the university has been a muted request for anti-bias training for new members of the Oregon Law Review.
If true, the account is a shocking exercise of discrimination based on national origin and a rejection of core values of intellectual exchange in higher education. As Professor Raban noted, The Ninth Circuit has long barred “discrimination by proxy” where “the defendant enacts a law or policy that treats individuals differently on the basis of seemingly neutral criteria that are so closely associated with the disfavored group that discrimination on the basis of such criteria is, constructively, facial discrimination against the disfavored group.” Davis v. Guam, 932 F.3d 822, 837 (9th Cir. 2019). He also cites Pac. Shores Props., LLC v. City of Newport Beach, 730 F.3d 1142, 1160 (9th Cir. 2013) (“In a case of proxy discrimination the defendant discriminates against individuals on the basis of criteria that are almost exclusively indicators of membership in the disfavored group.”). He adds that the record of the University of Oregon could offer further evidence to support a finding of discrimination:
Unfortunately, open discrimination against Israelis is the unsurprising culmination of messages emanating from the highest levels at the University of Oregon. Like many other institutions, the University experienced anti-Israel demonstrations that included the by-now familiar “from the river to the sea” banners and other denials of Israel’s right to exist. The University of Oregon’s response to these protests has been a shameful capitulation. A 2024 agreement between the university and the protestors included the issuance of a statement by the University of Oregon President calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza (a position long advocated by Hamas); the creation of two new faculty positions (presumably tailored to the ideological preferences of the demonstrators); and a taskforce that would consider the university’s economic divestment from Israel.
This February, four University of Oregon departments (Sociology, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality), along with one University Institute (the Global Studies Institute) and one academic center (the Global Justice Program) co-sponsored and paid for a visit to the university by a pro-Palestinian activist who denies Israel’s right to exist (which passes for the same thing in some circles), had celebrated the October 7 atrocities, and has since declared that she stands by that sentiment.
Again, we have not heard the opposing side from the University of Oregon. However, the account of Professor Raban is deeply disturbing and should be a concern for not just the university but the legislature.
Kudos: Reason
At what point in life do you realize there are fantasies which will never come true. The dream of dominance of governance by the democrats had its day and is being exposed it seems on a daily basis; the issue of today’s blog proves that point. The King had his guards protecting his assets, we in America have bureaucrats protecting our assets who have shifted so far off course they’ll use any means necessary to retain control of the levers. They keep applying the brakes on the train forward, yelling this and that, wasting time and resources: all the while professing the status quo is jim-dandy! It’s quite all right that we have invaders taking lives, barbarians in the Library, and a legal system tittering at the out of control judges who have swelled their ego’s to a national level, the educational system also should be included where 8th graders (ain’t very good ciphering) or comprehending, at the University level, their teaching an arcadian attitude, using treat of authority as a means to control speech. The Democratic Party and its member are so blinded by conceit that they’ve become vile people in the eternal quest to control.
Just open your eyes and unplug your ears, and you’ll view the tyranny of the left.
I really, really appreciate the Professor’s neutrality. Yes, yes. Let’s see what the other side presents. I would delighted to be surprised. But I *expect* yet another example of why higher education in this country has become anathema to virtually everything we stand for as a free and equal people.
You wonder what happened to America. The vote was intended to be severely restricted by state legislatures. Elected officials lost their ability to be leaders above the fray. Turnout was 11.6% by design in 1789. The first rational restriction is the age of 21. The next is vesting by way of net worth, which was approximately 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres.
You let every Looney Tune in town vote, and you wonder why the whole place is a nuthouse; have you ever seen Allhysteria O’crazio Corkheads, who voted that —- in?
I’ll give those Chinese one thing: They don’t let Looney Tunes vote.
The Harvard Law Review – same thing. See today’s letter from HHS:
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/anti-semitism-task-force-statement-on-additional-harvard-grants.html
Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus. This is just the latest chapter in Harvard’s long-standing policy and practice of discriminating on the basis of race as recognized by the Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, where the Court rebuked Harvard for its unlawful race discrimination in admissions. That shameful legacy has continued on as recognized by Harvard’s own Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias, which lays bare an appalling reality: Jewish students were subjected to pervasive insults, physical assault, and intimidation, with no meaningful response from Harvard’s leadership. Recent reporting has exposed the Harvard Law Review’s (HLR) pattern of endemic race discrimination when evaluating articles for inclusion in its journal. Even more troubling, the HLR awarded a $65,000 fellowship–meant to “serve the public interest”–to a protester who faced criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student on campus. The decision was reviewed and approved by a faculty committee, demonstrating just how radical Harvard has become.
Harvard’s campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination. This is not leadership; it is cowardice. And it’s not academic freedom; it’s institutional disenfranchisement. There is a dark problem on Harvard’s campus, and by prioritizing appeasement over accountability, institutional leaders have forfeited the school’s claim to taxpayer support. As a result, eight federal agencies across the government are announcing the termination of approximately $450 million in grants to Harvard, which is in addition to the $2.2 billion that was terminated last week.
The Task Force fully supports the Trump Administration’s multi-agency move to cut funding to Harvard, demonstrating the entire Administration’s commitment to eradicating discrimination on Harvard’s campus. As we have made clear time and again, this Task Force will not waver in its mission to root out discrimination, hate and bigotry at institutions entrusted with public funds. Harvard, and its leadership group who are tainted by the egregious infractions under its watch, faces a steep, uphill battle to reclaim its legacy as a lawful institution and center of academic excellence.
Thanks Kansas. It’s a bright day but their investment earnings were greater than the amount withheld by the US government. Endowment income is also down. I Hope they lose their tax free status. That will help make them sweat.
They need a complete change of leadership, from Penny Pritzger on down, and including Alan Garber, whose emails show no self-awareness of Harvard’s moral degradation. Same with Claudine Gay after the SFA v. Harvard decision came down. Both of these awful Harvard presidents have only been defiant in the face of credible and verified accusations of wrongdoing. A fish rots from the head down, and that’s what we’ve seen at Harvard.
It is still money they have to do without.
But the best solution is just to eliminate federal funding of colleges and universities, and let them do whatever they wish.
That will subject them to the discipline of the marketplace.
If they survive – so be it.
For years, as a compromise of ideas, I’ve argued that cutting the number of four-year colleges in half would improve education. Without government funding, the colleges that survive would be stronger. Who funded our earliest colleges? The question arises: how will we adequately educate the next generation for high-tech jobs? High-tech and other companies will pay to train their future employees. People will still donate with or without tax incentives to get their names on the door. Who used to train plumbers, electricians, and blacksmiths? Apprenticeship.
S. Meyer– “Who used to train plumbers, electricians, and blacksmiths? Apprenticeship.”
Same with lawyers. Lincoln never went to law school. I doubt Marshall did either.
Ilya Shapiro says critical legal theory in law schools is destroying the profession.
“destroying the profession.”
Young, CLT is the way forward to make law school more expensive and less worthwhile. It’s a path to learning Latin, making parents crazy (loco parents—from loco parentis, of course)… or should I say, Lenin?
The answer to all your questions is in the markets.
Absolutely no matter what the markets solve all our problems.
They do so BETTER with less government interference.
But even in the USSR problems were solved by the markets – Black Markets.
Russians could not survive without them.
Government exists to preclude the use of force or fraud in markets.
To assure that we do what we agree to do,
and that when we inadvertantly harm others we make them whole.
That and to provide national security.
Those are tasks only government can do. Those are the ONLY tasks only government can do. All else should be left to the markets.
While not utopia – utopia is unatainable, perfection is impossible. but improvement is not, and more rather than less improvement is also possible.
We would be best if we cut off universities from the government teat just as we hopefully are doing with NPR and PBS.
I do not hate NPR or PBS – I also do not care if they change – that is up to them.
What I care about is that government should not fund them, and it should not have any power to dictate to them.
That only happens when there is ZERO entanglement.
I would much prefer to see ALL federal funding to universities ended and have those colleges tell Trump to pound sand as he tries to dictate policies to them.
Don;t get me wrong – I like Trump’s policies – mostly. But they should be driven by the markets – by the people footing the bill for colleges and universities – not the government.
If Harvard wants to discriminate against jews and asians – let them – it hat is what students, parents, and donors want.
All colleges should be free to make their own choices.
Government should have no say. Those who fund them shoudl control.
And that should not be government.
But I will not get what I want anytime soon.
But we ARE now headed in the right direction atleast.
“But we ARE now headed in the right direction atleast.”
Yes! That only happened because we brought together many ideas, unified them under a common purpose, and pushed forward as a group rather than as individuals.
LOL! you sound jealous. I know you are clueless about aviation and it shows. Throwing insults and ad homimen attacks is your get to retort when you don’t have anything to offer besidess that.
You couldn’t remember how to do the calculation for the distance to get the minimum exposure rate. Any nuclear engineer would have known immediately. I’m sure google helped out a lot.
@George
This is one of your most revealing comments yet. There is no question you are paid, and you are likely under 40. Pfft. No one cares, George, and ‘George’s’ employers. You just unequivocally outed yourself. Go blow. We don’t care.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took his grandchildren swimming in an unsafe creek with a high bacteria count because of sewage runoff.
In a post to X on Sunday, Kennedy revealed that he spent Mother’s Day swimming with his family in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek.
“Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek,” the secretary wrote.
The Washingtonian noted that the waterway was dangerous because sewage flows directly into it.
The National Park Service officially forbids swimming and wading in the creek.
There are multiple signs warning of the danger.
“Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health. Please protect yourself and your pooches by staying on trails and out of the creek. All District waterways are subject to a swim ban – this means wading, too!”
You really can’t make this sh!t up.
Now my MAGA moron friends, kindly regale us with your nonsensical justifications for this idiocy.
Dipsh!t takes a dip in sh!t.
The creek’s fecal load skyrocketed after he jumped in.
Perhaps they protected themselves by taking the proper vitamins first.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard says Biden-era domestic terrorism policy ‘must end,’ calls it an abuse of power
” Just the News reported last week that a June 2021 domestic terrorism policy memo allowed federal agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security to surveil and question Americans if an agent believed they had been involved in “concerning non-criminal behavior.” Gabbard is nullifying that policy.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/tuetulsi-gabbard-says-biden-era-domestic-terrorism-policy-must-end
Good for her.
@Upstate
I sure appreciated that one. It was downright demented what the Biden years did to people expressing an opinion or concerns. Unprecedented. There is no question that 2020-2024 were the most corrupt years this nation has ever seen, and by a mile.
Outta the Fryer and into the Frying Pan
This is not the end of the Surveillance State.
With new Data Silos (for Block-Chain records) are being completed,
We are only beginning to see the A.I. Surveillance machine learning about You.
Machine Learning – Learning about YOU and making a permanent blockchain record of your Life.
The technological Freight Train is rolling and unstoppable.
Yes you may be right. There are people who’ll meet and talk in person only.
That is the most airheaded kind of comment imaginable, not to mention contemptuous and cliched. It’s little wonder he posted it anonymously.
No wonder his skin looks so nasty. The man swims in sewage. Eww.
The communists are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they hire an idiot like George to spout garbage on legal blogs.
@Anonymous
It doesn’t work here, clearly, but it must work in some places, or they wouldn’t keep pumping dollars into it. I will say I think it works less and less. Hopefully even more so going forward. They are not fooling anyone anymore.
Something much more interesting, the Financial Times is reporting,
“US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, who was attending the IMF spring meetings in Washington, met China’s finance minister Lan Fo’an to discuss the near complete breakdown in trade between the world’s two biggest economies, according to people familiar with the matter.
The previously unreported encounter was the first high-level meeting between US and Chinese officials since Donald Trump’s inauguration and the launch of his tariff war. The Treasury declined to comment on the secret meeting.
The talks culminated this weekend in Geneva with Bessent and He Lifeng, China’s vice-premier, agreeing a ceasefire that would slash respective tariffs by 115 percentage points for 90 days.”
https://www.ft.com/content/a541bd15-86b2-4e20-868b-c9ecca57ec09
Note,
Chinese Delegation Spotted Entering Treasury Department, Demands Photos Be Deleted: Report https://t.co/CRh07l2K1Z
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 25, 2025
The impairment assessment seems to be limited to the upper segment. It would be prudent to report where he was on the creek, so people do not follow with an impaired assumption.
HEALTH and HUMAN SERVICES
Please provide a citation of the Constitution for any power to tax for, fund, operate, or regulate HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, whatever the —- that is.
Health is what private doctors do within the property lines of the private property of their private practices in the private free markets of the private sector.
Health and Human Services is a ridiculous title derived from communist theory, aka the Communist Manifesto for those of you in Rio Linda.
Communistic Health and Human Services is an unconstitutional non sequitur in the Founders’ United States of America.
I sort of agree with you.
You didn’t provide a citation of the Constitution for any power to tax for, fund, operate, or regulate HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, whatever the —- that is.
It’s simple; provide a citation, please.
Of course, you cannot because it can’t be done because no such power exists anywhere in the Constitution.
The American Founders severely limited and restricted government while they provided maximal freedom to individuals.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The most notorious figures in American history are the nation’s antithetical and treasonous communistic judges and justices.
They had one duty: to ensure that actions comport with statutory and fundamental law.
They didn’t. They couldn’t. They failed.
ATS – yes – YOU can make this shit up.
There are no actual cites to your claims.
Your post presumes that all waterways anywhere near DC are poluted with human feces.
That is both unlikely – and a failure of GOVERNMENT.
You only know where Kennedy bathed by name. There are many rivers with the same name, and all each waterway may go for dozens even hundreds sometimes thousands of miles.
I highly doubt that any govenrment agency has forbidden swimming in an entire waterway.
Because it is very rare that an entire waterway would be polluted.
Finally humans have been swimming in shit since the dawn of humanity.
One of the great left wing nut myths is of the great care of the environment taken by indiginous and aboriginal people. In FACT they did NOT respect nature. They polluted the crap out of wherever they lived, which is why they moved frequently.
Regardless, your “story” here is that Kennedy took his family swimming something in a river that may or may not be polluted and may or may not be polluted where he took his family swimming.
And that is giving you credit that any part of your unsourced story is true.
You are not credible.
The rest of us are tired of collusion delusion, or russian disinformation nonsense.
You are not trustworthy – nor are those you get your nonsense from.
Do you have sources for ANY of this ?
BTW as a child I swam regularly in a river that had runnoff from farms. I am sure there was plenty of bacteria.
Healthy humans do not die or get sick from exposure to bacteria – there is bacteria everywhere.
We get sick when we aren’t healthy, or when things infect cuts and we allow them to go untreated.
We are actually LESS healthy when we live in hermatically sealed bubbles with no exposure to pathogens.
The mental and physical health of our children is declining specifically because they live in hermatically sealed bubbles where they are not exposed to the ideas or germs that build up our system.
John Say
As usual another of John Say’s incoherent, rambling posts offers a window into an extremely disturbed mind.
He makes the truly bizarre and demented claim:
” You only know where Kennedy bathed by name. There are many rivers with the same name,”
Kennedy specifically identified the creek as Rock Creek in the Dumbarton Oaks Park in DC.
I’m sure there are literally thousands of Rock Creeks located in many parks named Dumbarton Oaks Park.
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1921609958631575969
John Say also highly doubts that the government would forbid swimming in an entire waterway.
Well the NPS has done just that.
” All District waterways are subject to a swim ban – this means wading, too!”
https://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/stay-dry-stay-safe.htm
The creek is only about 30 miles long, and where it runs through Dumbarton Oaks Park is the final 4 or 5 miles. If it is polluted anywhere then it must be polluted in the last stretch before it enters the Potomac.
John Say also makes the utterly absurd claim:
” Healthy humans do not die or get sick from exposure to bacteria”
Humans most certainly do get sick and die from PATHOGENIC bacteria and viruses, especially the ones found in human and animal waste.
John Say proves once again that his deeply disturbed mind is totally incapable of rational thought.
Why do you feel the need to spring to the defense of a self-confessed heroin addict whose brain has been eaten by worms ?????
OT
I have no opinion about this man’s guilt or innocence.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/utah-oil-tycoon-james-jensen-wife-kelly-arrested
But I have a big problem with the law enforcement theater of sending combat equipped squads with battering rams to arrest someone like this. The ‘No Knock’ bash in the door practice seemed to start in the Seventies when drug users could hide evidence or reach for guns. But it has expanded grossly.
The Mar a Lago raid looked pure Gestapo. There were already federal agents on the premises and no indication that Trump would not cooperate. I still suspect it was staged to provoke an incident to justify Trump’s murder.
The horrors of Waco could have been avoided by quietly picking up Koresh on the street but the government wanted to make a big show attacking the compound as if it were Pork Chop Hill and ended up killing many children. Before that Ruby Ridge. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Clinton administration tally showed more Americans killed by excessive law enforcement than actual foreign enemies. At Ruby Ridge they killed a mother holding a child and standing in the doorway of her home. But they skipped a chance to get Osama Bin Laden. How did that work out?
Law enforcement, particularly federal law enforcement, needs to dial it way back when dealing with non-violent offenders…even if they are domesticated pet squirrels. Odd to think that the ‘heroes’ of New York State will use what is essentially a swat team to arrest a cute squirrel but won’t go near armed illegal alien gang bangers because of ‘rights.’
Change is needed.
Ruby Ridge – where the cops became the criminals. Committed involuntary manslaughter of the mother and baby. Was not ultimately prosecuted.* I say, f**k that.
*The decision to prosecute was dropped after the Ninth Circuit en banc panel voted that the offending officer did not have immunity.
Didn’t they give the sniper award… ?
He got promoted. That’s what you got in those days for homicide of a mother and baby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi
Oldman, it was all manufactured by the feds. They wanted him to join a local extremist group and be an informer. He had nothing to do with that group and had no desire to mix with them so he declined. So they sent a ‘buyer’ for a legal shotgun he wanted to sell and the buyer demanded he saw off part of the barrel or he wouldn’t buy. So he sawed it off for the undercover fed and was charged with a weapons violation. Then they sneaked onto his property and murdered his son and wife. I wouldn’t mind if FBI and ATF were completely abolished. FBI agents can go back to being accountants and lawyers sifting through paperwork and not trusted with guns or operations or SWAT teams.
Yes, the no knock is unheard of and some people just had their door blown down by grenade? It was the wrong house?
@Young: We can add the more recent pre-dawn no-knock murder of the Denver airport director, when he could have easily been picked up and questioned at his office at any time.
Pointing out a fact does not make one racist. If the large percentage of violent crimes are committed by a race that is only 13% of the population, it is not racist to point that out; it is a fact. We need to deal with facts.
Disagreement with a government does not make one anti-government. Disagreement with a moslem government does not make one islamaphobic. Disagreement with the policies of Israel does not make one one anti-semetic.
Shutting down speech and critique with baseless accusations is a detriment to civil society.
Arthur,
Good comment, even to: “Disagreement with the policies of Israel does not make one one anti-semetic.”
There is disagreement with Israeli policies even within Israeli cabinet meetings.
But attacking Jewish students on campuses is illegal and certainly is antisemitic and it is at times justified under the mask of opposing Israeli policies.
Young – true as far as that goes. However, disagreement with Israel can be used as a cloak for antisemitism, for example, if it employs double standards. There are ways to tell ordinary disagreement from that which crosses the line. If you see double standards (which are very, very common), demonization (again, very common), or delegitimization (e.g., “from the river to the sea”), then you’re looking at antisemitism, and not merely legitimate criticism.
The test is intended to draw the line between on one hand legitimate criticism of Israel, its actions and policies, and on the other hand antisemitism hidden behind a facade of anti-Zionism. The three Ds test is intended to rebut arguments that “any criticism toward the State of Israel is considered antisemitic, and therefore legitimate criticism is silenced and ignored.” This test was adopted by the U.S. Department of State in 2010, but later replaced by the Working Definition of Antisemitism in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Ds_of_antisemitism
#. It’s the repetition of an archetypal story of David and Goliath. What appears to be small fighting a Goliath of many is repeated in history because mankind is limited in what he can do. I can only wash my hands over and over because it’s all I know to do. There is also the spiritual component to these archetypes. The spirit is hidden.
Sounds like the DOJ should take it up. Professor Turley has faced this harassment. It’s relentless and the harassed endures it in hallways, in whispers, in looks and in very real sabotage of one’s work causing the work to be hostile mentally, physically and in spirit. It’s against the law. It’s disguised as political and not religious. Pam Bondi is up to the task.
Um, let’s remember that these kinds of things were done to South African scholars in protest over apartheid. Now they’re doing it in protest of the Israeli government’s complete lack of intent to allow any Palestinian presence at all in Israel (which it has wanted to do for a long time). I don’t remember many people jumping to the “racist” South Africans’ defense. But, maybe, I missed something.
What is your basis for saying that Israel does not allow any Palestinian presence in Israel? Did you know that almost 20 % of the population of Israel (not the West Bank) is Arab?
Arabs are members of the Knesset, Justices on Israel’s Supreme Court, and officers in the Israeli military. They are integrated into all walks of life. Matthew’s comment is ignorance on display.
I don’t know how Dunn can act so stupidly in a world filled with verifiable facts. Israel has one of the most diversified populations in the world, including within its political structure. If you don’t know something, ask. Otherwise, one can only laugh at such ignorance.
This is a shameful example of:
Why we should not submarine [any] perspectives for the proneness of their intellect.
Why we should not condone a Group as a whole.
Why we should remain open to analysis of: diverse, adverse, and conjectured narrative & opinions, without a predisposed bias.
Why we should be able to judge the the merits directly on our own.
-Freedom of Speech-
[EN] Since this Post brought it to my attention, I for one, would now like to see what Mr. Raban had to say.
Because it has sparked my interest as I am concerned about the ‘environment’ of this Planet.
No matter from what proclivity and direction it may come from – We are One Planet.
Re:
“… The law review management agreed, claiming that publishing the article would be perceived as an endorsement of Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—although the article dealt with environmental law and had nothing to do with that conflict. …”
Environmental Law is a branch of law that regulates human activities and their impact on the environment. It encompasses a wide range of legal frameworks and treaties aimed at addressing environmental issues and promoting sustainable practices. This includes laws related to air and water quality, waste management, pollution, chemical safety, and the protection of wildlife.
George Mason University’s – George Mason University Press – The Mason Publishing Group
Has published Mr.Raban work before – perhaps The Mason Publishing Group will publish or he will find another Publisher for his work(s).
Ref.:
https://publishing.gmu.edu/press/catalog/the-silent-prologue-how-judicial-philosophies-shape-our-constitutional-rights/
Spelling Correction:
Why we should not submarine [any] perspectives for the prowess of their intellect.
I am not sure why the anti-Israel (jew) sentiment is so loud and persuasive. I am absolutely at a loss to explain how this happened. I am not taking sides on who is right on the two state solution or Palestinian grievances. There is a complicated history. But, I am shocked that it is so blatant anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian. How do these Professors face their Jewish counterparts? How do these institutions of higher learning act like white supremacists of the past? Is it me or do these institutions seemingly revel in their inability to show any balance at all?
I do take comfort in that history teaches this insanity shall pass at some point. I just hope it is not the distant future.
Quiet man
The left hate Israel and the Jews.
Why? I have no idea, they just seem to hate everything.
Dustoff,
Yep. The modern Democrat party has nothing to offer but hate and rage. They have no solutions. And what they do offer is stupid and crazy.
Upstate.
Lets hope they keep this up. Prez Trump may just win reelection again. (-:
Yep. The modern Democrat party has nothing to offer but hate and rage.
UF, Americans do not believe that the Democrats are sincere in their statements nor protests. Until Americans see self-immolation on behalf of Democrats, it is all just tragic theater with ugly actors
OTOH, new economic data indicate inflation is lowest today than in it has been in the past 4 years. Not sure if Joe Biden’s handlers will self-immolate, or perhaps his handlers will use Joe as the sacrificial pig, but it could be interesting to watch what they will do next. Throw Democrat Rep Jasmine Crockett into a volcano to appease their pagans gods by sacrificing a virgin?
So much for Economists largely agreeing that Trump’s tariffs would lead to higher inflation.
Estovir,
Good points.
To add, Biden goes to the Saudis, hat in hand to beg them to increase oil production to bring oil/gas prices down. Biden gets greeted at the air terminal by the governor of Mecca. The Saudis response to Biden’s begging was to cut oil production.
Fast forward to today, Trump is met at the air terminal by the crown prince himself and Trump is given a lavish welcome. Trump also signs a $600bn deal with the Saudis to include, Saudi Arabian DataVolt is moving forward with plans to invest $20 billion in AI data centers and energy infrastructure in the United States.
Google, DataVolt, Oracle, Salesforce, AMD, and Uber are committing to invest $80 billion in cutting-edge transformative technologies in both countries.
What was Biden’s accomplishments? Oh! Yeah! High inflation, the likes we have not seen in over 40 years!
Upstate, the US is poised to have a growth spurt. Trump did the impossible. He overcame American inertia. Now let’s see if he can do the same to Congress.
Your sentiment is mostly right, but your moral equivalence and weak sauce wavering about there being two sides to the issue is actually harmful to what is right and just. The Arabs have had many chances to have a two state solution but they have started war after war every time it gets close. The two state solution is dead and buried under the ruble of Gaza.
Name another time in history when one side attacks another side, loses and then makes demand of the victorious side.
Not only is it just that Israel prevail, it is in our (and the entire west’s) interest that they do so.
The western world cannot become the equivalent of Queers for Palestine. We cannot all be suicidal just as a way to virtue signal.
The people that the left marches for are the same people that cheered on 9/11, the same people that toss gays off of buildings, the same people that treat women as chattel and the same people that demand that you adhere to their religion.
The hypocrisy of the left claiming that Georgia voting laws are Jim Crow 2.0 while supporting Hamas says it all.
PS. George, you are making a fool of yourself about 20 times a day and it really is something to behold.
Moral equivalence? Noting the issue is complex is not moral equivalence. Ignoring Palestinian gripes has not led to a solution. One does not have to agree to acknowledge this exists. Not every Palestinian left voluntarily, some were driven off their lands. Unfortunately the Palestinians have been both the fool and played for fools. They have lost the war and have little to show for it.
” Ignoring Palestinian gripes has not led to a solution. “
They wanted Jews out of Gaza. Every Jew was pulled out of Gaza willingly or unwillingly. Even the Jewish grave sites were removed from Gaza. The infrastructure built by Jews was left intact only to be immediately destroyed by Gazans. They were given billions of dollars, but those billions were spent on weapons, tunnels, and missiles. Some of their utilities were provided free or at low cost by Israel. Gazans were permitted to use Israeli hospitals. Even Sinwar’s brain tumor was removed in an Israeli hospital, saving his life so he could later kill many Jews and cause havoc, death and destruction to the Gazan people.
Quiet, I note you are concerned with the fewer Palestinians who left Israel than the Jews who were forced out of the homes they lived in for hundreds to thousands of years. Why is that? That is one of the double standards often mentioned. Additionally, it was wartime when Palestinians left Israel mostly voluntarily. Still, it wasn’t wartime when the Jews were forced from their homes in the Middle East under the threat of death. Do you see what I mean by double standard? You misfocus your concerns.
…And by the way, you should recognize that during that period, there were no Palestinians, even though the Jews were called Palestinians. Look at the NYTimes reporting about peaceful Palestinian farmers who were Jews.
Then justify taking airplanes and investments from that same middle east. Because the world must transform into one big economy , the global economy?
It’s temporary. The working man working for the Saudis? The money will be grifted the poor will be as poor as ever and worse as criminals are imported and murder becomes part of the landscape.
The dems aren’t of good will. They merely want to supplant and become the biggest grifters. That’s all and without talent, morals, ethics nor intelligence. Rule by murder.
As to Israel? Israel will hurl the stone itself against the surrounding ocean of Goliath with no help from Catholics nor Hindus, all alone.
“[W]hy the anti-Israel (jew) sentiment is so loud . . .”
Because Israel is a Western culture. It is pro-science, pro-technology and wealth, comparatively individualistic and free, pro-America. In short, the anti-Western ilk hate Israel *because* of its virtues.
It has long been noted that anti-Western types regard Israel as the “Little Satan” and America as the “Great Satan.”
Sam– “In short, the anti-Western ilk hate Israel *because* of its virtues.”
That is a large component of it but one must not forget base antisemitism and religion as also being major factors.
I kind of like a modified chant: ” From the river to the sea Israel must be free.”
It’s all properly Israeli homeland.
Move the Muslim fanatics out. They have proven time and again that having them near is like having a rabid Rottweiler frothing at the mouth, snapping its jaws, and roaming unchecked in your childrens’ schools.
Antisemitism has existed for thousands of years.
“If true, the account is a shocking exercise of discrimination based on national origin…” What specifically is schocking about this in 2025, professor? Have you not been keeping up on current events?
“‘[F]rom the river to the sea’ banners [. . .] a permanent ceasefire in Gaza (a position long advocated by Hamas); the creation of two new faculty positions [. . .] university’s economic divestment from Israel.”
From a “Maryland man,” to an assassin of CEO’s, to Tesla arsonists, to genocidal terrorists — the modern Left embraces and rewards the world’s bottom-feeders.
When did teaching stop being a noble profession?
When Oregon started teaching Sociology, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality.
A permanent ceasefire can be achieved in Gaza when Hamas surrenders.
This university and many others like it are making it easy for the Trump Administration to save money since each outrage such as in this case will likely lead to a civil rights investigation (discrimination based on national origin) and cessation of further funding from the federal government.
It seems that the Law School has failed to appreciate the idea that Justice is blind but law school faculty are deaf, dumb, blind and stupid. They are almost as stupid as Medical School Faculty who teach that humans can change their sex (but only after you pay hefty surgical and pharmaceutical costs)
GEB
Gaza when Hamas surrenders.
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I wish, but they never will. Hamas/Pal have been kicked out of every Arab country they were in.
Israel needs to destroy them once a for all.
“but law school faculty are deaf, dumb, blind and stupid.” Stupid enough so that they control hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide that will not be fixed.
And only when you old guys start a civil war to return us to the America of yore, is you job finishend. Right?
Fact is, you are no longer part of society, you some fringe group of old men infesting the internet, this blog, with a decrepit ideology. You’ll be gone soon enough.
@Anonymous
Just keep telling yourself that. 🙄🙄
https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/
@Anonymous
Oh, and my cohort won’t be ‘gone’ for another 40+ years. Many of us will never vote blue ever again, and that is a promise.
Though it probably won’t make a difference, it’s far more likely the DNC will get tired of losing and simply expunge the radical element from their party. Then you’ll see how tiny your minority actually is, and it is.
No one cares james. you are a nothing.
But James is right. And you know it. That is why you keep losing. Over and over again and again.
“If the thought leaders in the Democratic Party keep encouraging and not rebuking that America is cringe and the people who run Gaza are great, the Democrats are doomed,”
The comedian began the segment by noting how few young Democrats are proud of their country and how others are embarrassed by it, according to some polling. “Embarrassed? Like America’s your mom picking you up from school?”
He continued, “You’re embarrassed to be an American? Well, guess what? The feeling’s mutual, because you have no perspective.”
–Bill Maher
No one cares Anonymous. you are a nothing.
Fixed it for ya.
@Anonymous
Is this David Hogg?
Sure. Telling the DNC to placate privileged frat boys is surely a winning strategy. Pfft.
It may not be until you are very old, but eventually you guys are going to have to face the music and grow the eff up. The rest of us, at this point, honestly don’t care. We do not care. You are irrelevant. We consider you a lost generation, a blip in the continuum, that we unfortunately have to deal with going forward. But nothing more than that. You are a foot itch, and we are scratching it. We will scratch continually more aggressively, have all the temper tantrums you like. 🙄
Wrong. Traits like values, morals, work ethic, character are never a decrepit ideology. What is fringe is, as GEB aptly points out, things like humans can change their sex. Right up there with defending pro-terrorist protesters, criminal illegals, biological males in women’s sports, pornography in elementary school libraries. Us sane and normal people are teaching today’s youth how that kind of fringe thinking is not normal and in some cases dangerous. We are not the ones calling for violence or conducting acts of violence, like in AZ that guy who forced a woman to pull her Tesla over and then punched her in the head with a closed fist several times.
Arizona Woman Assaulted Near Flagstaff For Driving a Tesla
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2025/03/30/arizona-woman-assaulted-near-flagstaff-for-driving-a-tesla/
“A permanent ceasefire can be achieved in Gaza when Hamas surrenders.
GEB, I wish that were true, and I hoped for that in the past, but I am afraid it will not happen even with surrender. Think of the meaning of Taqiyya and its use from the time of Mohammed to the present. Israeli occupation with MacArthur-type control is the only way in Gaza, and even that might not succeed. No one wants them because they are proven to be so violent. Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt all threw them out.
Look what happened after the Israelis and Jews (alive and buried) left Gaza in 2005. Look at all the wars, the intifadas and the almost daily missile attacks.
Once again, the American founders must be congratulated for their wisdom and foresight in keeping religion and state separated. Consider that two Worl Wars began in Europe where most nations consider their vestigial monarchs to be heads of a state religion. Most Islamic “republics” are in fact theocracies and those that are not have giant constituencies made up of religious zealots. While our ally Isreal sees itself uniquely as a democracy, it is hard not to notice that the country’s birthright and many of its laws and traditions emanate from its Jewish heritage.
DeTocqueville called America “exceptional” not because of any superior characteristic but because we were a nation who adopted a Constitution accepted “by the people,” not the monarch. That separated or “excepted” us from the usual sort of governance found throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
Religion for many is a very personal and emotional factor that governs their lives and behaviors. The clash between Israel and Hamas is really an internecine battle among believers of the same god. It’s a throwback to the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe when folks in the name of the same god were blinded or burnt at the stake for simple differences. While this was a difficult time – just as now is a difficult time – we emerged better and more civilized. Let’s hope the good parts of history also repeat themselves.
Is anybody surprised.
The Jew haters are everywhere.
Oregon & WA state are full of haters.
I don’t hate jews. I hate the zionists aping as jews.
But murdering Arabs are OK….
Jezzzzzzzzzzz
No, you hate Jews. Why else would you single out Zionists? Do you hate Italians that want Italy, Irish for Ireland, Swedes for Sweden, Saudi’s for Saudi Arabia, Iranians for Iran, Egyptians for Egypt or any other group?
Face it, you hate Jews, it is something you need to come to grips with as you go through your ugly, stupid and bigoted life.
Anti zionism is the new antisemitism.
A rose by any other name…
“If true,….”
That’s all that this is based on? An assumption that possibly and reportedly discrimination occurred? Sounds more like hearsay upon hearsay and Turley is left with making assumptions and insinuations without anything being verified as true.
Perhaps professor Turley should have waited for the facts to be confirmed before writing and insinuating that this was indeed a case of discrimination. Must be a slow news day in Turley’s “newsroom.”
There’s plenty of things he could be writing about. Like, Trump openly accepting bribes from the Qatari’s or the fact that corruption, which was a big theme in Turley’s writings when Biden was in office, is not a big deal now.
Maybe he is just providing filler for MAGAs to rage about before the SC hears arguments on Trump’s birthright citizenship case.
More stupidity from george.
George can’t help himself when it comes to stupid comments.
You udder moron.
The 747 is for the US Air force, not Prez Trump.
He already has a great 757.
It’s well known that deceptive obfuscation is one of the tools of the left, (facts are like Kryptonite to them). And it’s an effective tool when proffered to their low IQ base.
“deceptive obfuscation is one of the tools of the left, ..” Really, and what’s your reaction? To use deceptive obfuscation also?
You are a mindless drone.
That 747 will not remain with the Air Force once Trump leaves office.
Why does Trump need another AF1? There are already two in service that are perfectly fine. Waste of money modifying it to presidential standards. I will have to be gutted and fitted with loads of equipment and won’t be ready to use by the end of his term.
It’s a bribe. Plain and simple. Remember, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Why does the plane need to be in the Trump library possesion when it should remain with the Air Force? It’s not going to remain in some hangar for people to ogle at.
Can you justify spending millions to upgrade the aircraft’s systems just to use it for three years and decommission the same equipment at more cost to put it in a hangar for posterity? DOGE would ax that thing in an instant for wasteful spending.
georgie says, ^^^^ “I will have to be gutted”
Boy, you ain’t kiddin’
Obviously a typo. Smarter people get it.
Smarter people get that someone was making fun of georgie for his “typo,” which resulted in dual meaning.
Obviously, this went over your head.
George
That 747 will not remain with the Air Force once Trump leaves office.
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Are you really that dense. No really
The 2 other 747 have reached the end of their usefulness. All air-frames wear out.
Prez Trump has a great 757 that fit his needs.
Mine pretty sure you know nothing about air craft.
ROFL!
Anonymous, I work on aircraft modification all the time, so I do know what I’m talking about.
The current AF1s are perfectly fine to keep flying until the new ones are certified. The Air Force can still keep B-52s flying, and they are over 50 years old. They will keep flying them until 2050 after the re-engine program is completed.
The 747s currently in service have plenty of airframe life. The level of maintenance they receive can literally keep them flying for another 20 years if they want to.
It will take at least a year to modify the Qatari 747 to meet just the minimum requirements and that will still cost millions of dollars. Trump just wants a shiny new plane to show off. He’s probably embarrassed to be flying the old current models compared to other nations having newer aircraft.
george.
So now you claim to be an engineer.
Right you fly aircraft too.
If you are, please go work for Boeing, because they can’t seem to have the two new birds ready. They are years behind and way over cost.
Frankly you have no idea what goes into AF1
Dustoff, I didn’t say I was an engineer. I do fly my own aircraft though.
The problems with the two new VC-25’s are not because they are slow. The pandemic caused a lot of problems. Supply chain issues added to the delays and then there’s the changes demanded by the DOD or the white house that require multiple approvals and reconfigurations that cost time and money and add to the overruns. As long as the DOD or the White House don’t keep adding more requests or changes delays would be kept to a minimum.
You’ve got to understand that any changes or requests trigger a new set of procedures and technical and legal reocord requirements and that takes a LOT of paper work and time and money.
So you work the planes…
Where did you get your A&P.
Not an A&P.
“Anonymous, I work on aircraft modification all the time,”
Yes, plastic airplanes with ten pieces or less.
It is jut amazing all the angst over Hunter Biden making a few million off some foreigners, the President’s son. You all ranted and raged about how corrupt this is. The President (trump) is given a plane worth $400 million and you are all happy as larks.
Look in the mirror. This is grift like never seen before.
Wake up, trump has no friends, he just loves to collect money and people.
Corrupt? You bet your A$$.
It’s to embarrass Boeing and show losers they’ve become. Remember the marooned space station…
George, you must be either well-paid to be such a blithering tool or you seriously believe all the incoherence that you spew. Either way, you are an embarrassment to your mother and you should stop.
georgie just learned the term “hearsay upon hearsay” @ two weeks ago, from an article that I pointed out as his source for his copycatted “opinion.” I still can’t believe, as a newcomer here, that he is here every day, searching through Turley’s new post to find something negative to say.
Professor Turley lives it…
If hypocrisy did not already exist, a liberal would invent it at breakfast merely to survive until lunch.