Last December three Ivy League presidents refused to categorically condemn a hypothetical call for the “genocide of Jews” to Congress poison-ivy-league. The October 7 attack on Israel was actually “exhilarating” per one Cornell professor. As we have witnessed recently, the poison ivy ideology has clearly trickled down from administrators and professors to the privileged youth who attend these schools (as it was surely intended).
What Exactly is This About?
Jewish students are harassed more than ever since last October 7, but college administrators refuse to enforce their own strict conduct codes and they ignore Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act which is designed to protect students (among others) from the type of harassment made commonplace the last few weeks. They enforce the rules only when it is convenient to their political ideology.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/TitleVI
Simple justice requires that public funds, to which all taxpayers of all races [colors, and national origins] contribute, not be spent in any fashion which encourages, entrenches, subsidizes or results in racial [color or national origin] discrimination. President John F. Kennedy, 1963 on the Civil Rights Act
The Left’s most prominent spokesperson, former President Obama, maneuvered to the middle ground on this issue, posing as less radical than college administrations who condemn harassment of certain groups (e.g. blacks, gays, transgenders) while tolerating, if not outright supporting the harassment of others (e.g. Jews, Christians, Caucasians):
. . . what Hamas did was horrific and there’s no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable.
President Obama too is dishonest. He is as sympathetic to protestors as college administrators. He blames Israel for the plight of Palestinians, but he doesn’t tell the whole story.
Seventy percent of Jordan, itself established in 1946 (just prior to the creation of Israel in 1948), are Palestinians. Why shouldn’t Jordan be considered a Palestinian homeland? In 1979, Israel gave land back to Egypt. In 1994 (Oslo accords) Israel allowed the Palestinian Authority partial control over the West Bank (originally known as Judea and Samaria) within Israel itself. In 2005, Israel completely ceded the Gaza Strip to two million Palestinians; it was an honest-to-God Palestinian homeland. It should be clear to all, Israel has made numerous efforts to accommodate the Palestinians. These concessions have not ended the unrest.
Why do we need yet another Palestinian homeland? If life is so unbearable for Palestinians, perhaps its own leaders should be held to account. They use their people as human shields and then praise them as martyrs. They demand humanitarian aid and then use it only for their fighters. Where also are calls for Muslim countries to take in Palestinian refugees? No public pressure has been placed on them the last 75 years. If this is truly a crisis, why is Israel alone asked to cede even more land?
Per American student protestors, nothing should remain of Israel from the Jordan River in the East to the Mediterranean Sea in the West. “From the river to the sea. Palestine shall be free.” is the popular refrain on campus. What land will be left for seven million Jews currently living in Israel? Palestine from the river to the sea effectively means the end of Israel.
This slogan is a somewhat veiled threat, but American students have not been so subtle in recent days. They demand their schools divest from Israeli businesses. They call for intifada, a violent resistance employed against the Jewish state by Palestinians in years past. Columbia students directed not-so-subtle chants towards Jewish students: “Burn Telaviv” and “Jews go back to Poland”. They also express sympathy for Hamas: “Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too!” and “October 7 a thousand more times”. Hamas is a terrorist organization who rules Gaza, has canceled elections the past twenty years, brutally killed women, children, and peace-loving kids at a music festival on October 7, still holds Jewish hostages, many of them American, and mistreats its own citizens. Why would anyone support them? https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/04/22/hamas-we-love-you-list-chants-statements-columbia-universitys-gaza-solidarity-encampment/.
Hold My Beer and Watch Me
These kids who deem themselves modern day revolutionaries know very little.
One student, who was taken seriously by Columbia administrators, openly contemplated the deaths of white supremacists and Zionists. “Zionists: they are Nazis . . . They’re supporters of genocide. Why would we want people who are supporters of genocide to live?” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/banned-columbia-anti-israel-camp-ringleader-khymani-james-once-said-they-hate-white-people-and-wanted-to-work-for-aoc/ar-AA1nLUSI. This language was too much even for sympathetic administrators, but nevertheless, these administrators created the environment for such thoughts to fester. Mr. James is simply a manifestation of an ideology they foster.
Many students protest peacefully and appropriately, but a great many others take over administrative buildings, destroy property, clash with police, disrupt classes, force commencements to be canceled, and demand no consequences for these actions.
Antisemitic riot at Columbia University escalates as rebels take over Hamilton Hall | Fox News
Other footage showed the agitators in New York smashing windows, unfurling a Palestinian flag over a window and chanting: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Palestine will live forever.” Outside the facility, the anti-Israel rebels, many of whom wore masks, locked arms in front of Hamilton Hall to form a human barricade.
Some students have no idea what they are protesting. Many organizers are non-students, professional protestors, no less, who arrive on campus to stir up trouble. They lead clueless students, blindly following their friends.
“I think the main goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stop … I honestly don’t know all of what NYU is doing,” one admitted when asked about the protest’s purpose.
Asked if there was “something NYU is doing,” the student meekly replied: “I really don’t know, I’m pretty sure they are…”
She then turned to her friend and asked, “Do you know what NYU is doing here?”
The friend, who was wearing a face mask, then bluntly asked: “About what?”
“About Israel. Why are we protesting, here at NYU specifically?” the student asked.
“I wish I was more educated,” her friend confessed.
Nick Shirley, an independent journalist, found students who refused to answer questions when he entered their encampment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZFGbQvVmlU. Do they not know what to say or are they hiding something?
A PHD student leader at Columbia is in her mid-thirties, but still has no understanding of life. I would never allow my kids to be influenced by someone so ignorant:
https://news.yahoo.com/watch-columbia-protester-mocked-asking-040731315.html
In an impassioned plea, Johannah King-Slutzky, a PhD student in English and comparative literature, warned that students illegally occupying university property could “die of dehydration and starvation” if they were not given supplies.
“Like, could people please have a glass of water?’’ Ms King-Slutzky, 33, told reporters outside Hamilton Hall, which had been overrun by protesters.
“Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you? If the answer is no, then you should allow basic… I mean, it’s crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for,’’ she added.
Her exaggeration of her own and her fellow students importance leads to such absurd comments. There is no need for humanitarian aid to college students occupying an administration building and there is no risk of anyone dying from dehydration.
Another student was asked about three janitors who said they could not leave the occupied administration building during the Columbia student occupation. She was very uncomfortable with these question and eventually walked away from the journalist (another future politician perhaps?). Did any students ask if the janitors might die of dehydration?
UCLA students demonstrated a similar lack of intelligence and fortitude when providing the school a long list of food items and other supplies for their encampment https://www.foxnews.com/us/ucla-anti-israel-protesters-ask-supporters-vegan-gluten-free-food-zip-ties-shields-epipens. These students need to leave school for a year or two, work in a real job, learn to care for themselves without care packages from home, and finally grow up.
Al Sharpton on MSNBC said something cogent for the first time in years: “How can Democrats say January 6 was wrong when we have the same pictures on college campuses?” Indeed, the pictures are quite similar (I would say far worse than January 6).
Journalist Ami Horowitz brought an American flag to a New York campus to determine how a counter protest would be treated, He summarizes his experience, saying he was attacked for doing nothing but walking in their midst with this symbol of freedom. Ultimately, Horowitz concludes, these kids hate America.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ami-horowitz-guerrilla-journalist-says-102000016.html
Mr. Horowitz is correct. These kids cannot determine good from evil. They enjoy the freedom to protest for causes without understanding how rare such freedom is. They live in this wealthy and blessed country, often coming from wealthy families themselves, yet pretend they are victims and play at being revolutionaries (they actually look a bit Halloween kids with their pretend terrorist garb). They attack American symbols and values, unaware they are protected by American principles. They are ignorant, stupid, and sometimes dangerous (well, maybe not dangerous at this moment: they can barely take care of themselves much less exhibit any level of testosterone).
Students are also led astray by administrators re-living their own pipe dream revolutionary days through these kids. We need to rescue these kids before they lead the future generations astray as well.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
Who is Behind All This?
While protests have escalated steadily the last couple weeks there is speculation about dark money and professional protestors supported by folks like George and Alex Soros. Of course, Soros involvement is denied vehemently by PolitiFact, Snopes, and the other truth deniers. But then, what does Soros, himself a Jew, who lived in Hungary during the Nazi occupation, think of Hamas and the rest?
“America and Israel must open the door to Hamas,” Soros once urged in an editorial. “Neither Hamas nor Hezbollah can be treated merely as targets in the war on terror, because both have deep roots in their societies,” he argued in yet another editorial. “AIPAC must bear its share of responsibility for aiding and abetting policies such as Israel’s heavy-handed response to Hezbollah last summer and its insistence on treating Hamas only as a terrorist organization.”
Mr. Soros made the obligatory condemnation of terrorism following the October 7 attacks, but a few days later reverted to form.
On Oct. 9, J Street issued a statement denouncing the attacks and stating that “we stand in solidarity with the Israeli people and with the Israeli armed forces that have been battling desperately to protect them. Two days later, J Street was back on track, condemning the “occupation of Palestinian Territory,” and 10 days later was labeling Israel’s campaign to stop Hamas as an “escalation.” What happened behind the scenes at the leftist group?
Just like Presidents Obama and Biden, Soros supported Israel for a moment, then talked about the bad on all sides, and finally strictly focused on concerns with Israel’s policy. There is no moral equivalence between the two sides in this conflict. Israel was attacked first by Hamas on October 7. They responded in a measured fashion, not using the full capacity of their overwhelming military superiority. They provided humanitarian aid for their enemy’s populace (when has this ever been done?). All the while, the other terrorist group in the region, Hezbollah, lobbed missiles into Israel daily. Did anyone besides Israeli citizens notice? When Israel was attacked again in April, this time by Iran, American college kids went full revolutionary and school administrators and politicians quickly appeased them. This is the insanity these kids have immersed themselves and us into.
I have little doubt the Soros’s are fully engaged in this lunacy. They have the capacity and have demonstrated the political will repeatedly in the past. In fact, the NYC mayor and Deputy Police Commissioner, acknowledged students are being helped by outside agitators.
Speaking to “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, the mayor said:
“These were professionals that were here, and I just want to send a clear message out that there are people who are harmful and who are trying to radicalize our children and we cannot ignore this,” the mayor said.
The police deputy added:
“This is not what students bring to school, okay?” Sheppard said, showing off the chain. “This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities. These are heavy industrial chains that were locked with bike locks and this is what we encountered on every door inside of Hamilton Hall.”
Are these kids simply exercising their first amendment rights, learning to influence the political system, or is there more behind all this? Mayor Adams continues:
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyu-pro-palestinian-protest-campus-security
“We strongly believe that is the case right now. That there are people who are here – they latch on to any protest. To see our police officers having bottles thrown at them, chairs,” [NYC mayor] Adams said. “The number of bottles that were thrown, chairs thrown at them. People who peacefully protest an issue, they’re not throwing bottles and chairs.”
Adams said some people have come to “aggravate” the situation and “to use this to cause violence in our city, and we’re going to seek them out. And we’re going to identify them.”
“Why is everybody’s tent the same? Was there a fire sale on those tents? There’s some organizing going on. There’s a well-concerted organizing effort, and what’s the goal of that organizing? That’s what we need to be asking ourselves,” Adams said. “We can’t have outside agitators come in and be disruptive to our city. Someone wanted something to happen at that protest at NYU, and police officers didn’t respond to it.”
There are also groups like the “Students for Justice for Palestine” ostensibly funded by foreign countries with the goal of agitating idealistic and not-so-smart students.
Backlash
When students at Southern schools replicated the poisonous Ivy League model, they were shut down abruptly. Thankfully, some sense remains among college administrators and local political officials. Virginia Tech police remove anti-Israel agitators amid effort to restore campus peace | Fox News
My two kids attend small North Carolina colleges, but neither campus displays any of this nonsense. The contrast between our schools and those in DC, New York, New England, California, and other blue states, is stark.
A group of students at the University of North Carolina showed Ivy League kids what courage and sensibility looks like. UNC is very liberal by North Carolina standards, but still there are kids attending who make us proud.
Anti-Israel protesters on Tuesday morning successfully replaced the American flag on Chapel Hill’s quad — which had been flying at half-mast after four Charlotte officers were killed in the line of duty Monday — with a Palestinian flag before UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts responded with law enforcement officers to return the American flag to its place.
Videos circulating on social media show a group of students singing the National Anthem and chanting “USA” as the American flag was returned to the pole.
“When the flag was raised once again, the Greek community began singing the National anthem. As the Chancellor left, the quad erupted into chaos as protestors began removing the flag once again, preparing to destroy it,” Estrada continued. “My fraternity brother and others ran over to hold it up, in order for it not to touch the ground. People began throwing water bottles at us, rocks, sticks, calling us profane names. We stood for an hour defending the flag so many fight to protect.”
School administrators later put a fence around the flagpole to prevent a repeat of raising the Hamas flag. Sometimes, it doesn’t take much to stand up for right.
Protestors freedom does not extend to destroying property or harassing those with differing views. The Ivy League administrators, on the other hand, lack the will, the fortitude, or the sense to do the right thing and they set the wrong example for students.
Where does it All Start?
The problem is manifested with these students, but it starts with leaders. College administrations for some reason negotiate with nuts like Kymanhi James and Johannah King-Slutzky. At other schools, they promise a hearing to students demanding divestment from Israeli businesses.
Minnesota Representative Omar, takes the cake. She is such embarrassment to so many Americans. She proclaims there are pro-genocide Jews and anti-genocide Jews. No ma’am. There are only anti-genocide Jews. In fact, with the possible exception of her and a few of her Congressional colleagues, we are all anti-genocide. There are only folks who can recognize and speak the truth and folks (like Representative Omar) who cannot recognize truth or do not have the courage to speak it.
President Biden is better than Representative Omar, but is a feckless leader nonetheless. He condemned protests, but did not address the central issues.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-campus-protests-arrests-encampments-ucla-columbia-city-college
“Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations — none of this is a peaceful protest,” the president said from the White House’s Roosevelt Room. “Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law. Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education.”
These words are fine and accurate, but he says nothing about leaders like Representative Omar who can’t speak the truth. What about college administrators and professors who encourage these protests? What about money from foreign countries to promote their own values, values antithetical to our own? What about the myopic vision of students who are misdirecting their ire towards Israel? President Biden truly cannot demonstrate what side he is on at any point in time.
The liberal one-channel media largely supports student protestors as well. They lament the treatment of what they see as peaceful protests. Even President Biden acknowledged protests crossed over a line. Vox insists protests keep with the fine traditions of the past:
https://www.vox.com/politics/24141636/campus-protest-columbia-israel-kent-state-history.
“A better analogy for today’s protests might be the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s.”
Sorry. This is a poor analogy. Virtually everyone, young and old, was aligned against South African apartheid, but most Americans are not aligned with the students today. Most of us recognize they have fallen down the rabbit hole. They do not know why they are protesting, do not understand anything about the Middle East, do not understand the countries they align with hate them along with the rest of us, and do not understand the limits of peaceful protests.
Some students protest to enhance their own image. Others follow thinking protest gives purpose to their lives. They have no wisdom or experience. They display no capacity for reason and have no valid moral code to guide them through their revolution. They do not appreciate the freedoms or the blessings they have. They are completely lost and need to focus on learning and listening more instead of showing their ignorance.
Please don’t send your kids to schools supporting this nonsense unless you want them to return ill-prepared for life, indoctrinated in immoral values, and not any smarter than when they left home.
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