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MIT Hit with Lawsuit for Allegedly Condoning Rampant Antisemitism

TheCollegeFix.com, 3/12/24, “MIT hit with lawsuit, demands from Congress for allegedly condoning rampant antisemitism” [Excerpts]: Both a congressional committee and Jewish students and alumni have accused the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of allowing and in some ways condoning hardline antisemitism in documents and a lawsuit filed late last week.

The congressional committee charged with investigating antisemitism at universities accused MIT of a systematic “failure to protect Jewish students and faculty” in the months since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and is demanding thousands of documents from the private school regarding its response to antisemitism on campus.

One day prior to receiving the congressional demands, Jewish students filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against MIT that alleges a series of major antisemitism incidents has created a hostile environment.

“Jewish students attested that rather than dispersing antisemitic mobs on campus, MIT warned Jewish students to steer clear of certain areas—effectively sending Jewish and Israeli students underground at their own university—with no repercussions for the students violating school policies and creating an unsafe environment.”

The committee also seeks police records, disciplinary memos, and information related to the funding of anti-Israel groups on campus, the New York Post reported.

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Enigmatic Fossil Plants

ICR.org, 3/14/24, “Enigmatic Fossil Plants” [Excerpts]: The pre-Flood world thousands of years ago was unlike the world of today. Unfamiliar animals and plants were common, and there were a lot of them.

Pre-Flood plants were buried in Flood sediments and fossilized. Petrified trees are found in certain layers of Flood-deposited sedimentary rocks worldwide. Paleontologists often find fossilized leaves, twigs, or fern impressions, and it’s not uncommon to find such impressions looking very recent according, for example, to a research team associated with the National Science Foundation in Antarctica.

“Something, as yet unknown, caused sediment to flood the area rapidly, which helped preserve the plants. [A researcher] splits open a grey slab of siltstone in the quarry to reveal amazingly well-preserved Triassic [mid-Flood] plant fossils, as if the leaves and stems had been freshly pressed into the rock only yesterday.”

Creation scientists suggest the obvious: a massive flood about 4,500 years ago was the agent of this “as yet unknown” watery event. This would explain why the fossil plants look amazingly well-preserved.

Recently, scientists writing in Current Biology stated, “enigmatic fossil plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture” were found in New Brunswick, Canada.

The discovery of the fossil plant’s morphology caused the scientists to state that “plant life in the Early Carboniferous period [around day 40 of the Flood] was more complex than expected,” which is hardly surprising to creationists since they recognize that God created plants and animals complete in the beginning.

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Many Forms of Holocaust Denial

JihadWatch.org, 3/31/24, “Palestinian Arab Leaders’ Many Forms of Holocaust Denial” [Excerpts]: There are many forms of Holocaust denial. One is to claim that it never happened; it was made up by Jews to garner sympathy from the world, and especially, in the version promoted by Arabs, to win sympathy for the Jews who were stealing Arab land in Palestine.

A second form of Holocaust denial is to concede that, perhaps there was some killing of Jews by the Nazis, but nowhere near the figure that is claimed of six million. Mahmoud Abbas, in his book The Other Side: The Secret Contacts Between Nazism and Zionism, for example, finally conceded that some Jews might have been killed by the Nazis, but estimates the number of victims at several hundred thousand.

A third form of denial is these Jews were far from innocent, we are told; they were plotting against the Germans, and the latter, in self-defense, were led to kill them. And the same explanation is given for Hamas’ attack on October 7: it was an act of “resistance” against Jews whose limitless evil toward the Palestinians had brought that attack upon themselves.

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