*The IHRA censors Palestinians by design, not by accident.*

Some pro-occupation activists push the legal adoption of the IHRA's definition of antisemitism with the specific intention of shutting down Palestinians BDS campaign. They claim that even using the expression "Israeli apartheid" is "antisemitism".

That definition, which was designed for data analysis, is not suitable as a criterion for judging a statement as antisemitic or not.

*Biden’s Drug Czar Must Be Someone Willing to Diverge From Our Country’s Failed Drug War.*

I think we should treat any addictive recreational drug as dangerous. For instance, taking enough alcohol to make you tipsy is risking that the habit will develop, gradually over years, into alcoholism. (This does not happen to everyone, but you don't know how it will affect you.) And don't touch an opioid at all unless it is for physical pain you can't bear.

Drugs cause real problems, but prohibition doesn't fix them; rather, it swaps them for worse problems. Prohibition of alcohol only built the Mafia, and prohibition of opioids makes them more dangerous.

We should to treat drug use problems as medical problems and give the people afflicted treatment, not imprisonment.

Videos show Boston thugs attacking BLM protesters and spewing hatred at them.

The hatred is important because it tends to preclude acting like a police office rather than a thug.

I wonder whether the people who started the "violent protests" were real protesters, or right-wing provocateurs. We know that right-wing provocateurs did this in Minneapolis.

The provocateurs succeeded in leading real protesters to go berserk, and that may have poisoned the public's perception of the protests.

I have no specific information, but we know that right-wing extremists communicate around the country and even internationally. If it was effective in Minneapolis, they would surely have tried it in other cities.

*Number of Journalists Murdered in Retaliation for Their Work More Than Doubled in 2020.*

Biden has named Bruce Reed, who wants to cut Social Security, to a White House position, deputy chief of staff.

I don't know whether that position will give Reed much of an opportunity to attack Social Security and other programs to help non-rich Americans, but that Biden would even consider such a person is bad.

Biden praised the stimulus bill as a "model" despite not doing enough to help non-rich Americans. Maybe that's what Biden means by "bipartisanship" — praise the right wing for not being as bad as one could imagine.

As usual, Sanders shows what our model should be.