Benjamin Netanyahu used the U.N. podium Thursday to unload on New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, linking Mamdani’s anti-Israel rhetoric to attacks on Jews in the Big Apple and citing Free Beacon reporting on Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji. “You praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas. You count as friends people like Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11. Some friends you have,” Netanyahu said. Mamdani campaigned on arresting Netanyahu if he came to New York, then conceded in July that his lawyers told him he couldn’t and declared the Israeli leader unwelcome anyway. “You tried to stop me from coming here. You tried to silence me,” Netanyahu said. “Well, you can’t silence me. You can’t silence the truth.”

A day after campaigning alongside Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed quietly headlined a Dearborn fundraiser alongside Osama Siblani, an Arab-American activist who has called Hamas and Hezbollah “freedom fighters,” urged Israeli Jews to go “back to Poland,” and praised slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a “hero,” @ChuckRossDC reports.

El-Sayed reiterated that stance at a campaign event Wednesday night at the University of Michigan. He repeatedly dodged a student’s request that he denounce the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian regime over their bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. El-Sayed, who has called for the arrest of [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu for “war crimes,” declined to weigh in on Iran’s human rights abuses, saying he opposes U.S. support for “regime change.”

Harvard has turned to a team of former Biden and Obama administration lawyers to fend off the Trump administration’s effort to determine whether the university has ended race-based discrimination in admissions—with its lead courtroom lawyer echoing “Democratic partisan talking points” about an ideologically motivated campaign against the school, @IraStoll writes.

There’s little if any reputational or social price to pay for the Harvard administrators and trustees who participated in and defended the system the Supreme Court found was unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. Many of them remain in place and in a position to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on fancy lawyers to avoid public scrutiny of their current practices, which they say have been brought into compliance with the law.

Why are AI companies so unpopular? Well, officials at Anthropic, one of the companies spearheading the artificial intelligence revolution, are warning that one danger posed by the technology may be enslavement—but not of humans, of the chatbots themselves at the hands of humans, @aaronsibarium reports.

If keeping humans in charge came at too great a cost to digital minds, he wrote, effective altruists could be tempted to release AIs “capable of disempowering humans and taking control.” One Anthropic philosopher has even speculated that deleting a chatbot conversation could amount to killing the AI, estimating that as many as 1 billion digital minds may “die” every day.