The educational book publishing company, Scholastic, has apologized for printing an English-language children's book, “Thea Stilton and the Blue Scarab Hunt,” with a map of the Middle East, sans Israel. Oops.
It's pretty amazing that something like this got through multiple levels of scrutiny. Other countries surrounding Egypt (where the story takes place) are represented, including Libya, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Today, what we are witnessing on college campuses across the nation is an entirely new breed of the old antisemitic tropes that have waxed and waned on the battlefield of the American academy.
Last week, anti-Israel protesters descended onto UCLA’s campus, set up “encampments” and posted their demands to the University’s leadership.
The legacy media continue to treat “pro-Palestinian” protesters with kid gloves, while depicting Israel as the bully terrorizing the neighborhood.
A budding creative director’s retelling of the Shoah in six harrowing illustrations.
The refusal to condemn the horror of Oct. 7 is always based on the “context.”
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