By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO─ The Horowitz Freedom Center has identified several more universities where anti-Semitism is so rampant that pogroms have occurred there. When the story was checked out, it was discovered that student theatre ensembles on each of these campuses had been performing Fiddler on the Roof.
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ISIS issued a threat against the owner of Twitter and his employees for removing the group’s messages from the social media website. Fortunately, the ISIS tweet contained more than 140 Arabic characters and could not be posted.
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Russian opposition leader Boris Nemstov was shot in the back four times and killed the day before he was scheduled to lead a demonstration against Vladimir Putin and his intervention in Ukraine. After an exhaustive investigation, the Russia police have concluded that it was a suicide.
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Rand Paul won his third consecutive CPAC straw poll. Howard Roark, the protagonist of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, came in second.
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Worried that his speech to Congress might damage American-Israeli relations, Netanyahu’s advisors proposed a last minute alternative: Project a hologram video of the Israeli Prime Minister presenting the speech he delivered to the United Nations in 2012. This would also give Bibi the opportunity to replace the lame bomb chart he held up at the UN with a scarier Photoshop image.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com . San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.