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Anti-Zionist activity among University of California faculty surged tenfold after Oct. 7, new report says

The report cites numerous examples of faculty-driven anti-Zionism, including a UC Santa Cruz professor writing, ‘Zionism [sic] is not welcome on our campus.’

By Dion J. Pierre, The Algemeiner

Anti-Zionist faculty within the University of California (UC) system are doing more than ever before to make Zionism anathema on their campuses, according to a new study published by AMCHA Initiative, an antisemitism watchdog group.

The report — titled “Academic Agitators: The Role of Anti-Zionist Faculty Activism in Escalating Antisemitism at the University of California After October 7, 2023” — found that incidents of faculty engaging in anti-Zionist advocacy increased 1,100 percent between Oct. 7, 2023 and March 15, 2024.

Professors, especially those involved in the anti-Zionist group Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP), have used their classrooms to indoctrinate students into becoming anti-Zionist and aided student groups in their efforts to alienate and defame Jewish students as “privileged” and “genocide deniers,” according to the study.

The report cites numerous examples of faculty-driven anti-Zionism, including a UC Santa Cruz professor writing “zionism [sic] is not welcome on our campus,” a UC Berkeley graduate student teacher awarding academic benefits for participating in anti-Zionist events, and the UC Merced Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department posting a statement that described Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 massacre as “genocide” and denied that Hamas is a terrorist group.

“Campus administrators are scared to enforce university policies and state laws that clearly prohibit such faculty abuse. The Regents, who are trying to address one small piece of the problem with a new policy prohibiting political statements on departmental websites, are struggling to do even that,” AMCHA executive director and co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin told The Algemeiner in a statement. “Unless and until the Regents can take back the reins and govern the university as is their mandate under the California constitution, including by ensuring university policy and state law are enforced, Jewish students will not be safe on UC campuses.”

UC faculty transfer their attitudes as well as a vocabulary of anti-Zionism to students, the report adds. Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel, anti-Zionist students have used language that can be directly traced to ideas espoused by their professors, and, at other times, students and teachers collaborate.

UC Santa Cruz’s Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department, for example, said, “Skip school and work. Do not look away from the genocide,” in a message to students promoting a Students for Justice in Palestine’s “Shut It Down for Palestine” demonstration held in November.

“Anti-Zionist faculty are out of control at the University of California. They are using their academic positions, departmental infrastructure, and university resources to spread hatred of the Jewish state and its on-campus supporters, and in so doing, are fomenting the harassment and even assault of Jewish students — all with impunity,” Rossman-Benjamin added.

Some of the problems described in AMCHA’s report are now on the radar of federal lawmakers.

Last week, the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce launched an investigation into alleged antisemitism at the University of California, Berkeley, three weeks after a mob of anti-Zionist students stormed a campus building and verbally attacked and spat on Jewish students attending a talk by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier.

UC Berkeley came under scrutiny last month after a mob of hundreds of pro-Palestinian students and non-students shut down an event at its Zellerbach Hall featuring Israeli reservist Ran Bar-Yoshafat, forcing Jewish students to flee to a secret safe room as the protesters overwhelmed campus police.

Footage of the incident showed a frenzied mass of anti-Zionist agitators banging on the doors of Zellerbach. The mob then, according to witnesses, eventually stormed the building — breaking windows in the process, according to reports in The Daily Wire — and precipitated the decision to evacuate the area.

During the infiltration of Zellerbach, one of the mob — assembled by Bears for Palestine, which had earlier proclaimed its intention to cancel the event — spit on a Jewish student and called him a “Jew,” pejoratively.

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Experts predict haredi draft disputes won’t topple the government

Seventy percent of Jewish Israelis polled between Feb. 28 and March 4 said they wanted changes to the military deferments that haredim enjoy.

By David Issac, JNS

The issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) army enlistment reached a boiling point this week as the Netanyahu government failed, despite feverish efforts, to draft legislation to address the issue before a High Court-mandated Wednesday deadline.

In a last-minute maneuver, the government requested a half-day extension to file its final response. The court hasn’t yet responded, as the government filed its request only a few minutes before midnight.

The government asked for a delay after the Attorney General’s Office, which has been at odds with the government over its haredi enlistment bill, circulated its draft response to the court regarding the proposed legislation, stating that conscription of haredim must start on April 1.

The attorney general argued that the state will lack the authority to do otherwise as a temporary order delaying the haredi draft expires on Monday.

The attorney general also said that the funding of yeshivas whose students don’t comply with the draft will be gradually halted; the state would continue funding the yeshivas until the end of the current school year, which ends on the fast August 13.

While nearly all Israelis agree that haredim must play a larger role in Israel’s national defense, coalition members have questioned the behavior and timing of the High Court, the attorney general and certain members of the coalition, accusing them of dual motives, namely, seeking to collapse the government.

The haredi parties have for years made up the most stable element of Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc, their constancy won by the prime minister’s readiness to continue funding their seminaries and providing other benefits.

According to reports, in a meeting with Netanyahu the haredi political leaders told him that if he passes a law with which they don’t agree, they will quit his government, but that if it’s the court that imposes a solution, they will stick by him.

Analysts told JNS that the issue is unlikely to bring about the government’s collapse.

A casual observer could be forgiven for assuming that the coalition is at risk, as it has appeared shaky in recent days.

On Monday, New Hope chairman Gideon Sa’ar quit with his four-seat party (though not specifically over the haredi issue), while headlines blared that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told ministers: “Without a draft law, there will be no government.”

On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that he would not support the coalition’s haredi proposal as it didn’t go far enough toward resolving the problem. The same day, Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz, who leads the National Unity Party, said he would bolt the government if the Knesset passed the bill.

Gilad Malach, director of Israel Democracy Institute’s Ultra-Orthodox in Israel Program, told JNS that even if Gantz quit, the government would still have a 64-seat Knesset majority. The only scenario he could see in which the former chief-of-staff’s departure might threaten the government is if it resulted in mass protests, as were seen over judicial reform.

“Demonstrations are now on a low burner, but if the public decides that Gantz’s withdrawal means Israel is no longer in an emergency situation, and that they can take to the streets, then that could snowball,” he said.

Four hours of marathon meetings on Tuesday between the attorney general’s office, the haredi parties, the prime minister and the justice minister failed to reach a consensus on the government’s plan.

Netanyahu on Tuesday canceled a meeting originally intended to give the draft bill the stamp of government approval.

Haredi parties blamed Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara for the impasse (earlier this week she said she couldn’t defend the bill without substantive changes, including the inclusion of specific recruitment numbers). Ultra-Orthodox sources painted her as hostile to the current government. “No solution is agreeable to her, only elections,” they said.

The United Torah Judaism Party reportedly threatened to pull out of the government if the proposal was altered to include high recruitment targets or significant penalties against those who refuse to serve.

MKs Yitzchak Goldknopf (l.) and Moshe Gafni seen during a meeting of the United Torah Judaism party at the Knesset, Nov. 21, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

However, “It’s very hard to see the haredi parties resigning from the coalition,” said Malach. “Even if the Supreme Court were to tell the government that it needs to conscript haredim immediately, everybody understands that it won’t happen right away.”

“The haredi parties are not going anywhere,” agreed Sharona Zablodovsky, a member of Forum Dvorah, an women’s group comprising experts in foreign affairs and national security. “The haredim have a very strong bond with Netanyahu…. Young haredim—not the political leadership, not the rabbis, but the young haredim—adore him.”

Zablodovsky doesn’t rule out the possibility that Gantz and Gallant are seeking to capitalize on the haredi issue to gain public support, telling JNS that certainly Gantz “in the next elections will be challenging Netanyahu” for the premiership.

Calling for haredi enlistment won’t hurt them politically. It was a popular position before Oct. 7 and has only become more so afterwards, she said. “If Israelis had a belly full before, let’s just say their bellies are even fuller,” she added.

Israelis called up on reserve military duty in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre have been serving for months without a real break, she noted. “They are exhausted. Most of them have families,” she said.

Seventy percent of Jewish Israelis polled by the Israel Democracy Institute between Feb. 28 and March 4 said they wanted changes to the military deferments that haredim enjoy.

Ultra-Orthodox receive near-blanket exemptions from military service in what started as an exemption for about 400 Torah scholars at the state’s establishment. The haredi population since exploded, and deferments were expanded.

While the non-haredi public demands change, IDI’s Malach said he hasn’t seen the same recognition among haredim, whose leadership continues to discourage military service, seeing it as a distraction from Torah study.

“Most of them think that the arrangement in place should continue. At the margins, we see some change. If before, 10% said that we need to do something, now the number is around 20%. It’s mostly modern ultra-Orthodox. People who are not just living within ultra-Orthodox society but have some connection with other Israelis,” he said.

“The main point is that the events of Oct. 7 had a huge effect on the majority population, the secular, moderately religious population. But the feeling is that it didn’t affect at all ultra-Orthodox society or the political leaders of that group,” he added.

Although the number of haredi men studying in yeshivas and eligible for IDF service is estimated at between 63,000 and 66,000, since Oct. 7, only 1,140 haredim have enlisted, of which 600 were over the age of 26.

According to Zablodovsky, the problem is not so much ultra-Orthodox politicians as the rabbinical leadership.

“They decide at the end of the day if haredim go to the IDF or not,” she said. “They are very afraid that if the haredim serve, the sector will fall apart,” as haredi youth will grow estranged from their way of life during their army service, she explained.

To address this, the government’s plan includes the establishment of a separate haredi battalion, that would cater to the group’s religious sensibilities.

As a community, haredim have many positive qualities and would integrate quickly if the rabbis would let them, said Zablodovsky. They are accustomed to study and would pick up military training quickly, “and they know how to help each other. They have this very strong aravut hadadit [sense of mutual responsibility]. It’s in their DNA,” she added.

Despite the current setbacks, and the ongoing debate, Zablodovsky remains optimistic. The horrors of Oct. 7 will have far-reaching effects on Israeli society, she predicted. It will ultimately bring the haredim further into the Israeli fold.

“There will be a compromise, a few hundred maybe to start, but it will be the beginning of a new era of haredi people who will join and serve. I think that Israelis will no longer accept a situation the day after the war where they do not serve. It’s too much,” she said.

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RIP Senator Joseph Lieberman

He was deeply interested in defending America and the world against the threat of terrorism.

By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine

Unlike a lot of elected officials who stay on well past the point of faintest competence, Sen. Joseph Lieberman left public office a long time ago. And yet when I spoke to him some months ago, he was remarkably sharp and on the ball.

At an age where a lot of his former peers, including Biden, ramble, freeze up and go in circles, he gave considered answers, spoke at length but in depth, did not need to consult notes and never lost focus.

I obviously had plenty of political disagreements with him, but Sen. Lieberman deserves credit for sticking to his principles and repeatedly challenging his party.

Recently, he appeared on FOX News to speak out against Biden and Sen. Schumer’s campaign to stop Israel from destroying Hamas. By then he had long since become an Independent.

Sen. Lieberman’s opposition to Islamic terrorism had so infuriated the Left that it did everything possible to topple him. But he survived his last election with the aid of Republican voters. And while he left office, he wasn’t done.

He remained deeply interested in defending America and the world against the threat of terrorism. And was involved with the Center for Security Policy among other groups trying to counter the Jihad.

Tellingly, many of the trending obituaries for Sen. Lieberman are from Republicans, not Democrats, who had long ago disavowed him. When the people who remember you fondly are Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Tom Cotton, not Joe Biden, the party has left you behind.

Compare that to Obama’s “Joe Lieberman and I didn’t always see eye-to-eye, but he had an extraordinary career in public service.”

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the consummate Independent… and the silver lining in that campaign
God rest his soul pic.twitter.com/nylXK99tpi

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) March 27, 2024

I was honored to do a @Newsmax TV interview with Sen. Joe Lieberman with @SchmittNYC in December.

Sen. Lieberman was a patriot who fought for the US-Israel relationship & standing up to the threat from Iran. His principled national security leadership will be missed. @A1Policy pic.twitter.com/pjPFZikmze

— Fred Fleitz (@FredFleitz) March 27, 2024

Saddened to learn that former Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has died. He was a truly ethical, moral, thoughtful man with a good heart. He was on our advisory board at the Center for Security Policy. Blessings for his soul and his family. pic.twitter.com/gB0iucclCZ

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) March 28, 2024

Sad to hear of Senator Joe Lieberman’s passing. He was one of the last remaining centrist Democrats who tried to find common ground & save his party from itself. He was also a good man who loved his family & his country. My thoughts are w/ his wife Hadassah & his family pic.twitter.com/OcuMpuJX8D

— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) March 27, 2024

Joe Lieberman loved our country and dedicated his life in service to it. He was a patriot who believe in a strong, confident America. I appreciated his friendship and advice over the years. Anna and I join Arkansans in mourning his loss, celebrating his life, and sending our…

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) March 27, 2024

Heidi and I mourn the passing of Joe Lieberman, a statesman who earned the respect of people from across the political spectrum. His contributions to America and to our policy debates are undeniable. Our condolences go out to his wife Hadassah and the rest of his family. May his…

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 28, 2024

Andrew McCarthy wrote about his own experiences with Sen. Lieberman.

When I was prosecuting terrorists, he was one of the few who saw that we were dealing with a jihadist war, not a crime wave… Senator Lieberman worked with national-security hawks on both sides to fashion an effective government response tailored to the threat to the United States as it really was.

He was dedicated to the protection of our country and wouldn’t get trapped in Obama-era delusions that our response to our enemies, rather than our enemies, was the problem.

Life is baffling sometimes. And we live in a world in which Carter clings to life like a presidential dracula and Biden, who can’t finish a sentence, is in the White House, but Sen. Lieberman, who was so remarkably articulate not so long ago, has passed on.

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Highly successful Shifa raid is hitting Hamas hard says IDF commander

Each terror organization took control of different hospital wards, intelligence has revealed.

By Yaakov Lappin, JNS

As more details emerge from the Israel Defense Force’s surprise raid on Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which began on March 19, one thing has become clear: Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad absorbed a painful setback that will have strategic reverberations on their capabilities in northern Gaza.

The IDF has categorized the raid as one of its most successful operations in the entire war, due to the number of terrorists who surrendered, the number of terrorists killed in the hospital complex, and the intelligence gleaned from those being questioned.

So far, more than 180 terrorists inside Shifa and around the compound have been killed in the battle, and more than 500 have been arrested, including a string of senior terror commanders.

These Israeli military achievements will have “a huge effect on Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told journalists on March 25, adding that it was the most enemy combatants killed and captured in a single raid in the war, which will cause “severe damage” to terror organizations in the northern Gaza Strip.

“It concerns Hamas very much to know who are the ones that we have arrested,” said Hagari. “And the numbers, the huge numbers, concern them most of all. This is why we keep on pressing. This is our target in the war, dismantling the armed elements, to do that with the operatives and also with the leadership.”

Senior terrorists captured at Shifa include Bakr Ahmed Bakr Qanita, head of department in Hamas’s Security and Protection Unit; Radwan Younes Kamal Tafesh, head of department in the Weapon Manufacturing Unit of Islamic Jihad; and Hashem Muhammad Hasan Albatash, responsible for the financial affairs of Islamic Jihad’s Gaza City Brigade.

“These terrorists provide us with valuable intelligence during their interrogations that will lead us to further operations,” Hagari said on March 26. “And we keep on doing everything we can to kill the leadership of Hamas. And we are looking at following the intelligence … to other Hamas leaders whom we will capture or kill, I hope, in the future. This is a main effort for the IDF.”

Before launching the operation, the IDF used its intelligence units to learn how Shifa Hospital became, once again, a terror headquarters. This time, instead of the previous destruction of organized military Hamas structures in northern Gaza, the IDF took on smaller Hamas and PIJ cells that had taken over Shifa.

During questioning by the IDF Intelligence Corps’ Unit 504, captured terrorists said they returned to Shifa because they felt they’d be secure there, and because there is electricity, running water and available food.

Each terror organization took control of different hospital wards, intelligence has revealed.

Hamas also took over the offices of the Shifa Hospital director.

The IDF seized envelopes inside the hospital containing 11 million shekels ($3 million) of terror financing.

As such, Hamas and PIJ’s hope to turn the hospital into a terrorist hornet’s nest in northern Gaza has been shattered. There is no safe place for surviving cells in the area, and this message will further demoralize Hamas.

The fight at Shifa is not over. Hundreds of terrorists have been killed and captured after they opened fire at the IDF from the hospital’s courtyard, emergency room, “Qatari Building” and maternity ward.

Firefights continued on Wednesday as terrorists barricaded themselves in sections of the hospital, firing on Israeli forces and hurling explosives at them.

Hamas’s actions have caused heavy damage to the hospital compound. Earlier in the operation, Hamas terrorists in the hospital ordered cells outside of the hospital to fire mortars at the hospital buildings to try and force the IDF to evacuate it, according to Hagari.

Remarkably, the IDF’s operation has seen no harm come to a single patient, doctor, medical staff member, or civilian seeking refuge in the hospital.

The IDF evacuated patients to a safer location where they are receiving medical treatment. The army also provided more than 1,000 types of medications, food and water to these patients, while assisting Palestinian medical teams.

The military is proceeding with caution in an effort to avoid damaging the hospital and to secure its own forces on site, which include Israel Navy commandoes (Shayetet 13) and members of the 401st Brigade and the Nahal Reconnaissance Battalion, operating under the IDF’s 162nd Division, which is managing operations in northern Gaza.

On Tuesday evening, the IDF announced that it had initiated what it described as a focused operation at Khan Yunis’s Al-Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza.

The operation began following intelligence on Hamas activity in the hospital and was preceded by the safe evacuation of civilians, patients, and medical teams.

The IDF is demonstrating that not only does it have freedom of movement and access to these sites, but also that Hamas and PIJ will hijack any possible facility to try and continue to function as a terrorist threat.

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Washington Crossed a Fatal Red Line with the Crocus Attack

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Collective Punishment, Cowardice and Criminality

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The Alleged Sexual Assaults on Rikers Island Are Shocking

Me Too was often portrayed as solely focused on elite women’s concerns. That would be news to the prisoners at New York’s Rikers Island who have used a Me Too–inspired law to seek justice for over 700 alleged sexual assaults by guards in the jail.

A New York City Department of Correction officer at Rikers Island. (James Keivom / New York Daily News / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

In recent years, those eager to dismiss the issues raised by the Me Too movement have fixated on the phenomenon’s elite origins. After all, the outcry started with a 2017 New York Times investigation into the serial predation of Harvey Weinstein, a Hollywood executive who preyed on young and up-and-coming actresses. His violations were numerous and criminal, and he is now in prison. But the rarified circles in which Weinstein and some of the women he preyed upon moved meant that for many, it has become easy to dismiss the issue as an intra-elite affair.

Yet while much of Me Too’s oxygen was taken up by white-collar or rich women — those with access to major platforms, or writers who could pen the stories themselves — such unequal visibility plagues most every social movement in the United States. Social hierarchies are reproduced in the media, biased as it is toward flattering and satisfying those at the top of the hierarchy who comprise its desired readership and distorting the picture of the issue for the average reader.

But that distortion doesn’t mean sexual violence doesn’t affect poor and working-class people, or that such people aren’t fighting it. In reality, workers and the poor are particularly vulnerable to sexual predation, just as they are vulnerable to other types of exploitation and abuse. And as Me Too wended its way through the culture, those people, too, tried to use the moment to win protections for themselves.

As Me Too wended its way through the culture, those people, too, tried to use the moment to win protections for themselves.

In the months following the Weinstein investigation, janitorial staff and hotel workers pushed for increased safety measures to protect against workplace sexual harassment. In some cases, they won. McDonald’s employees engaged in walkouts over sexual harassment, which they said was pervasive in their industry — a claim backed up by a 2016 survey which found that 40 percent of fast-food workers are sexually harassed, and 42 percent of those who experienced harassment felt forced to accept it to keep their jobs. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, an organization of farmworkers, has included economic incentives placed on anti-sexual harassment policies as part of its Fair Food Program, a response to rampant sexual abuse in the agricultural industry.

Now formerly incarcerated New Yorkers are seeking justice for sexual violence too. An explosive Gothamist investigation published yesterday analyzes civil lawsuits filed in New York under the Adult Survivors Act, legislation passed in 2022 that provided a yearlong “look-back window,” temporarily lifting the statute of limitations for filing civil suits about sexual assault. (The bill was modeled on the Child Victims Act, which passed in 2019.) As State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal told New York magazine after the filing window closed in November 2023, Me Too–era “awareness around sexual abuse propelled it forward in the legislature.”

The act led to a host of high-profile filings, with well-known men ranging from Donald Trump to Andrew Cuomo to Eric Adams to Sean Combs facing lawsuits. Yet shockingly, Gothamist finds that “nearly 60 percent of the 1,256 lawsuits filed in New York City’s supreme courts during the temporary filing period describe assaults against people held on Rikers Island.”

The allegations are varied, egregious, and disturbing, painting a picture of an organized system of sexual assault of (overwhelmingly, though not entirely) women prisoners by corrections officers.

“’Oh, you’re one of the pretty ones, they’re going to pick you,’” Jeny, a former prisoner at Rikers, recounts fellow inmates of the Rose M. Singer Center (known as “Rosie’s”) told her upon her arrival at the eight-hundred-bed women’s jail. “They” were corrections officers, and the prisoners were right: in the thirty-three days Jeny was at Rosie’s, she alleges that “abusive late-night visits happened at least four times . . . adding that she saw officers slap women or grab them by their hair if they didn’t comply with their sexual demands.”

The routine nature of the assaults is chilling. Jeny describes officers walking past the dormitory guard to return the women they’d just assaulted to their beds. As Gothamist notes, a 2011–12 US Department of Justice survey found that detainees at Rosie’s reported one of the highest rates of sexual abuse at jails nationwide, with nearly 6 percent of people incarcerated in the women’s jail on Rikers reporting sexual victimization by jail staff compared to a national average of 1.8 percent. Says Jeny, “Everyone knew what was happening.”

Asked by Politico New York’s Jeff Coltin about Gothamist’s reporting today, Mayor Eric Adams, who is himself facing a suit filed during the Adult Survivors Act window, said, “This is the first time I became aware of it.”

“I call them the forgotten women of the #MeToo movement,” Adam Slater of Slater Slater Schulman LLP, one of the two lawyers who filed most of Rikers-related lawsuits, told Gothamist. As Slater told the City last year, “This is a citywide problem, it’s a statewide problem, and it’s really a nationwide problem,” he added. “These women are just allowed to be abused.”

It is astounding that the majority of claims filed following legislation spurred by Me Too come from formerly incarcerated women who were assaulted at Rikers. Me Too’s detractors have long characterized the outcry over sexual harassment and assault as so much hand-wringing, a moment of societal hysteria, a product of elite women seeking advance through claiming some sort of victim status. Yet here is a concrete outcome of Me Too: a large-scale claim by hundreds of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who are seeking more than $14.7 billion in damages.

These New Yorkers, survivors of the bastion of lawlessness and abuse known as Rikers Island (which Mayor Adams seems uninterested in moving toward closing, even though the city is required to do so by 2027) offer yet another example of how women are using what few concrete tools that followed from Me Too to try to combat sexual violence. It doesn’t take a genius to understand which people are most preyed upon in a deeply unequal society, and incarcerated women are near the top of that list. There are those who bemoan a cause’s shortcomings, who fixate on the advocates who strike them as annoying or unsympathetic, and there are those who use what openings they have to seek justice.

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