Behind Trump’s Israel backing, leftist rot ruins universities and other commentary

Foreign desk: Behind Trump’s Israel Backing

“There are several plain reasons why President Trump has been vocally supportive of Israel’s mission in Iran so far,” explains Commentary’s Seth Mandel.

The prez “loves a winner” and “so far, Trump likes what he sees and doesn’t want to stop seeing it.”

He “said he would stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon” and “the IDF has gotten results.” “If all he has to do is sit back and watch it happen, why wouldn’t he?”

He also likes prefers flexibility, and: “At this point, Trump hasn’t overcommitted to anything and hasn’t ceded control of his own ability to adjust as he sees fit.”

Backing Operation Rising Lion lets him be a winner and fulfill a key campaign promise.

Campus watch: Leftist Rot Ruins Universities

“The radical-left [campus] monopoly is a threat to America’s democracy, institutions and national well-being,” warns John Ellis in The Wall Street Journal.

Treating “criminals as victims” along with “pronoun madness, defunding the police and so on” all began and metastasized at universities, “the national headquarters of the radical left.”

Team Trump is spot-on in aiming to “end wokeness by targeting DEI and critical race theory in universities and the federal government.”

But more’s needed: “Ending woke foolishness and returning universities to their former brilliance is possible only if the political monopoly is broken up.”

With that, the country “would take care of DEI, critical race theory and even antisemitism, because these are all created by the monopoly.”

Republican: Radicals Betray Mexican-Americans

“As someone proud of my Mexican heritage and deeply patriotic about my American identity, I find it offensive” that “American citizens, many of Mexican descent” are “setting fire to vehicles” and “waving foreign flags” to protest Trump policies, fumes Rep. Myra Flores at The Hill.

“President Trump is doing what any responsible leader would: enforcing the laws already on the books,” yet Democrats “deliberately blur the line between legal and illegal immigrants so they can demean Republicans as ‘anti-immigrant’ or ‘xenophobic.’ ”

“They want to lump us all together so that criminals and patriots alike share the same label.” So “the actions of a few radicals now tarnish entire communities.”

No! “We are a nation of immigrants, yes — but more importantly, we are a nation of laws.”

Conservative: Randi’s Power & Dem Corruption

Teacher-union boss Randi Weingarten’s long tenure as a member of the Democratic National Committee “is proof of the open corruption of the Democratic Party,” thunders the Washington Examiner’s Zachary Faria.

While her union “was funneling money to Democrats,” she “was directing CDC guidance.”

Hypocritical Democrats rant “about Republican ‘dark money’ and the undue influence of groups such as the National Rifle Association,” yet “the DNC was happy with this corrupt relationship with Weingarten and her union.”

The liberal media are just as corrupt as they “made next-to-no mention of her DNC role and offered almost no pushback against her as she used her union and DNC influence to write CDC policy and keep schools closed.”

Legal beat: Colorado’s Pro-Trans Oppression

“You’d think that after two significant losses at the U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado would tread more carefully with its anti-discrimination laws,” snarks USA Today’s Ingrid Jacques.

But a new law making “deadnaming and misgendering transgender individuals a punishable offense” has “already attracted lawsuits on the grounds that the law violates the U.S. Constitution, including the First Amendment.”

One federal suit outs the measure’s aim as “suppressing traditional views on sex and gender and punishing those who refuse to address transgender-identifying individuals using so-called chosen names and preferred pronouns.”

A second defends the rights of businesses like XX-XY Athletics to use language “vital to the company’s branding and advertising.”

Any law “requiring citizens to use language that’s simply not true or accurate will never pass muster when squared with the First Amendment.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board