Opinion

There are three branches of government: the Executive, led by the president; the Legislative, consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives; and the Judicial, with the United States Supreme Court as the highest court.

Since the October 7 massacre by Hamas, there has been an exponential increase in anti-Semitic incidents globally. In addition, Israel and its supporters have been attacked throughout our country and the world. We see in America the pro-Palestinian rallies, whether on city streets or on college campuses. More members of Congress have turned against Israel.

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, commented that “Instead of giving us his full backing, Biden is busy with humanitarian aid and fuel [to Gaza], which goes to Hamas. If Trump [were] in power, the US conduct would be completely different.” This is a view that many QJL readers agree with.

Sunday was the 100^th day since Hamas massacred 1,400 Jews and took about 240 hostages. Most of the hostages are still in captivity, and the war rages on.

The jury in the federal case brought by E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump awarded her $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages. Although the number may end up being reduced on appeal, it did not come as a shock.

Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard who was forced to resign, decided that she was not going away quietly. She wrote a column in the January 2 edition of The New York Times titled “What Just Happened at Harvard is Bigger Than Me.” She took a page out of the Donald Trump playbook: (a) play the victim, (b) do not admit that you did anything wrong or excuse your conduct, (c) attack the motives of those who accuse you of misconduct, and (d) claim that what is being done to you is part of a greater strategy to attack those who agree with you. Trump’s repeated claims are meritless and so are Professor Gay’s.