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Do No Harm Board Member Edward Blum Named 2023 Man of the Year

It’s not clear that the Civil Rights Movement could have succeeded without the Jews.

Henry Moscowitz helped W.E.B. Du Bois found the NAACP. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel joined Martin Luther King Jr. in King’s march on Selma. Jewish donors supplied the capital for numerous civil rights organizations and black colleges, and in 1964, Jews made up half of the participants in the Freedom Summer project, a voter registration drive aimed at black Mississippians.

So it’s only fitting that the civil rights hero of our own time is himself a Jew—born to Yiddish-speaking cobblers, no less.

Since the 1990s, Edward Blum has worked tirelessly to dismantle a sordid, state-backed regime of racial discrimination that has structured and subverted nearly every institution in the United States. His first victory, in 2013’s Shelby County v. Holder, chipped away at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a patently unconstitutional law that gerrymanders electoral districts based on race and assumes all minorities vote the same way.

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Gov. Mike DeWine Vetoes Bill Protecting Kids From ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill to protect minors from experimental transgender medical interventions that are euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.” DeWine, a Republican, framed his veto of House Bill 68 on Friday as an effort to bring consensus on a divisive issue and to avoid having the government decide what medical decisions are […]

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Penn affiliates want merit and ‘intellectual diversity’ to guide university

The University of Pennsylvania should reorient itself to support “intellectual diversity” and merit, according to some students, faculty, and alumni. “A Vision for a New Future of the University of Pennsylvania,” comes after Penn’s former president, Liz Magill, resigned earlier this month following remarks she made regarding antisemitism on campus in a hearing with federal lawmakers. The constitution calls for a […]

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Major medical association slammed for offering ‘segregated’ scholarships to students

The largest association of physicians in the U.S. is limiting some of its scholarships to only students of certain racial groups, drawing criticism from a healthcare researcher. The American Medical Association (AMA) is currently offering 14 scholarships under its “Physicians of Tomorrow” program. The program gives $10,000 in tuition assistance scholarships to medical students entering […]

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The Biden Admin Is Investigating Elite Colleges For Antisemitism — But Don’t Expect Any Repercussions

While Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are under investigation by the Biden administration following a rise in antisemitic incidents at the universities, it’s unlikely they’ll face any serious consequences, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Following several high-profile instances of antisemitism on campuses, the Department […]

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At Georgetown Med, the Doctors of Tomorrow Aren’t Hiding Their Support for Terrorism

At Georgetown University Medical School, a flurry of social media posts from future medical professionals justifying Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre is raising a troubling question: Can doctors support terrorism? An array of Georgetown Med students since the attack have taken to Instagram to praise the “Palestinian resistance” and argue that violence against innocent civilians is […]

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OCPA Continues Defense of Ban on Child Sex-Change Measures

OCPA joined with Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals, to defend SB 613 in an amici curiae brief filed in the case. The two groups jointly filed their latest brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of affirmance of Heil’s denial of the preliminary injunction. “No reliable scientific evidence justifies the […]