“Iranian terror attack” stopped with hours to spare: Antisemitism at Harvard and the power of ideas
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
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Police in England arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals, over the weekend in what is being described as one of the largest counter-terrorism operations in recent years. Authorities report that the “Iranian terror attack” was foiled with just hours to spare. Speculation mounted that the target may have been a synagogue or another target linked to the Jewish community. If so, we can only wish to be surprised.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. I'm Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's |
| 0:08.0 | daily article is written by our co-founder, CEO, and good friend Dr. Jim Denison. Police in England |
| 0:15.9 | arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals over the weekend in what is being described as one of |
| 0:22.5 | the largest counterterrorism operations in recent years. Authorities report that the Iranian |
| 0:28.5 | terror attack was foiled with just hours to spare. Speculation mounted that the target may |
| 0:34.7 | have been a synagogue or another target linked to the Jewish community. |
| 0:38.3 | If so, we can only wish to be surprised. |
| 0:41.3 | Yemen's Houthi rebels have announced a comprehensive aerial blockade repeatedly targeting Israel's airports. |
| 0:49.3 | This, after a missile strike Sunday hit near Ben-Gurion airport, the latest in a string of attacks. |
| 0:56.0 | In response, some 20 Israeli fighter jets struck targets in Yemen last night. |
| 1:01.0 | Closer to home, the New York Times reported recently that a task force at Harvard University found anti-Semitism has |
| 1:09.0 | infiltrated coursework, social life, the hiring of some faculty members, |
| 1:13.7 | and the worldview of certain academic programs. |
| 1:17.1 | The rabbi and theologian David Walp recently spent a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard |
| 1:22.7 | where he saw personally how the October 7th massacre of Jews by Hamas, quote, intensified hatred against Jews on an already hostile campus. |
| 1:33.2 | He reports that Jewish students were insulted, shunned, harassed, and hounded in a hundred different ways, in quote. |
| 1:41.5 | One student, having walked through Harvard Yard while being screamed at by protesters, said to him, |
| 1:47.5 | they don't just hate what I believe, they hate me. Such sentiment illustrates the warning of French |
| 1:53.3 | philosopher, Emil Chartier, nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. |
| 2:02.6 | Four days of celebrations in the UK begin yesterday to commemorate 80 years since Sir Winston Churchill declared victory over Germany |
| 2:09.3 | in World War II. King Charles III and the royal family took part along with huge crowds and a military |
| 2:16.4 | parade. An estimated 15 to 20 million people in |
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