UCLA disgraced itself this week by hosting a symposium on terrorism on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 that featured radical critics of US counterterror policy, and a lawyer for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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Son of 9/11 victim asks exploiters to stop; they spend the week using it on UCLA instead.
“The kid whose father got killed on 9/11 stood at Ground Zero and asked the professional mourners to knock it off, and four days later the New York Post found a law school panel to be furious about instead. That's not an accident, that's the business model — the grief pays out on a September schedule, and somebody's paycheck depends on the account staying open. Follow the outrage instead of the grief and it lands on a UCLA panel, a mayor's guest list, and a British courtroom — not once on the thing the son actually asked for.”
“Nobody's disputing the son's grief, but UCLA put a lawyer for al Qaeda's mastermind on a panel during the actual anniversary week, and calling that out is not exploitation, it's standards. As for the Post going after Mamdani over a signing ceremony with "a terrorist's lawyer" four days earlier — that's — okay, that's technically the same move, but it's different because — did I say that? That's not what I meant to say.”
The receipts
Rightwing podcaster Ben Shapiro blasted the New York Times for its coverage of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as its website displayed two stories referencing Islamophobia.
Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 Americans and others and sparked a worldwide US-led war on terrorism that has left nearly one million people dead , some relatives of 9/11 victims pleaded that their grief must not be weaponized in the form of anti-Muslim bigotry. Michael…
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