Ok. However, if the university is made ineligible to participate in federally-subsidized student loan programs, Pell grants, professor research grants, etc. because it is violating federal eligibility guidelines by enabling anarchy and endangering targeted student groups then the student body would be less incentivized to attend unruly gatherings, etc.
Yeah, who do you think is going to do that? Anti-Semites in Congress don’t care, Biden hasn’t given a shit about Israel since his days in the Senate…it was already discussed re: colleges/higher learning indoctrinating. It would never pass. They’re a mess.
No he hasn't. If Biden had a spine and any moral integrity he would be out explaining the moral case for Israel over Hamas and the Palestinians. The indiginous people of Israel are the Jews for 3000 years. The Temple mount and surviving Western wall of the Second Jewish Temple are 1000 years older than the Al Acqsa Mosque. The Jews were removed by the Romans thru a protracted war in AD 70 and the Muslims moved in in AD 700. This is not taught in any Muslim country.
After millennia of persecution, Jews were awarded their historical homeland, but this was opposed completely by the Muslim usurpers. The entire Arab population has consistently acted to destroy Israel with violence. They have consistently avoided any serious peace negotiations because they deny the right of the Jewish Nation to exist. Based on History, Morality and Justice Israel clearly has a right to exist. It is appalling that the grand children of those who participated in rounding up Jews to be annihilated are now chanting "From the river to the sea" a call for a new Jewish Holocaust.
Furthermore, it is a gross, deliberate distortion to call the Israeli action in Gaza a genocide. While I am saddened by the amount of lost life, I also admire that the IDS can wage war in a congested area with 2 million residents and only have 25,000 casualties, with at least half being HAMAS. This is far less collateral damage than any war of which I am aware. If Israel were committing a genocide, as the Germans did, there would be at least 20 fold more casualties. We also know that Hamas hides behind woman and children, which increases the death toll many fold. This cowardly act is rewarded with enormous public relations benefits.
Are the Palestinians really so innocent? They voted for HAMAS in 2006. Hamas has done everything possible to make life worse for the Palestinian people while doing everything possible to foment war with Israel. Most agree that the populace in GAZA were then trapped by the violent leadership of Hamas. I think that was true, however, over 80% of Gazans cheered the brutality of October 7th and a majority supported Hamas. So a majority of Palestinians aid and abet Hamas. If they really want to improve their lives as much as they want JEWS to DIE the Palestinians could choose to expose Hamas members rather than shelter them.
Israel is the historical Jewish homeland. Islam lies about this to their adherents. The history of constant persecution for 2000 years illustrates that the Jewish People deserve a homeland in which they can be safe. It is morally negligent to say otherwise.
“the moral case for Israel over Hamas and the Palestinians.”
I know and very much agree with the moral case of Israel over Hamas, but what’s the moral case over the Palestinians as a people? I mean, I’m a lifelong supporter of Israel - for all intents and purposes a Zionist - but I can still recognize that Palestinians are human beings who got a raw deal and understand their anger while condemning their tactics and their shortsightedness. I do not support the right-wing, religious-zealot government of Netanyahu which he put together purely for selfish purposes, just as he’s prosecuting this war for largely selfish purposes (and, incidentally, courting American Republicans for selfish purposes). I think his government is overtly racist, provocative, and happy to turn a blind eye to Palestinian human rights - and perhaps international law - under the claim of self-protection. It was an Israeli who trashed the closest thing these two peoples have known to peace. Hamas et al followed suit to trash it further with the Second Intifada - morally reprehensible.
“it is a gross, deliberate distortion to call the Israeli action in Gaza a genocide”
I agree.
“the grand children of those who participated in rounding up Jews to be annihilated are now chanting "From the river to the sea" a call for a new Jewish Holocaust”
I’m confused. Who are these grandchildren? Who are their grandparents? Germans? Poles?
As for your historical justification of the state of Israel, while I’m no expert in the brain-breakingly complicated story, I’m not sure yours is fully accurate. Anyway, just to complicate things and not because I think it belies Israel’s right to exist, by your argument, why don’t Native Americans who did suffer a verifiable genocide at the hands of verifiable new-arrivals, White Europeans, and were expelled from the land they were the first humans to occupy over 23,000 years ago (as compared to Jews’ <4,000 years of existence) and were thereafter rounded up and persecuted for hundreds of years… why don’t they have a right to re-establishing sovereignty over the entire land masses of North and South America?
colleges and universities that tolerate and effectively support this craziness should lose their tax exempt status fund raising advantages. Starve the monsters.
The Buydem-votes administration is currently doing the exact opposite of this. Not only are they not cutting funding. They are forgiving billions in student debt, effectively paying the bloated tuitions of these "institutions".
Democrats control the Senate and the White House. Some actively support Jew-hate while many others just tolerate it, including President Cease Fire. They don't even speak out against what's happening. Thus, there is zero chance of any legislation taking meaningful action against the schools that allow menacing and violence against Jewish students.
You do know that would hurt the many, many Jewish students who go to these universities? Not sure what you’re after. And it just gets is into a divisive, unhelpful tit for tat. I mean, personally, I’m not keen on my tax dollars underwriting religious institutions - schools or places of worship - whose missions are contrary to just about every right I hold dear, but I accept that this is what it is to live in a diverse society with all the benefits that confers.
Now, the larger question of whether or how much our tax dollars should be going to private institutions (including in the form of student loans and grants!), whether religious or not, is a valid one with valid arguments on many sides. One valid argument, however, is *not* that we - meaning a faction - don’t like what these students say. In my opinion.
PS For the record, none of this means I don’t think people who violate either school policies or the law shouldn’t be held accountable.
Miss Waterlow - Thank you for responding. My statement is in response to the very thing stated in your P.S., not about the political or religious positions of the protestors. The anti-Semite gatherings appear to be escalating to bullying, harassment, intimidation and even assault of persons of a specific people group. These behaviors go against nearly every university standard of conduct and do not fall under the right to free speech or assembly protections. Yet, it seems there is weak governance by the universities that is not holding the gatherings accountable to institution community standards and are allowing one specific group of persons to be put at increased risk to their civil rights and bodily safety. The institutional accreditation processes designed to gate-keep American university standards and purpose should be triggered by this blatant disregard by administrators of their responsibility to hold the communities they govern and lead to communal standards. Accreditation is what enables federal funding streams. The Ivy-League cohort of universities are the flagship of the American university system, led by Harvard. As they go, so will the others in time. Time for the US Higher Education Commission to activate some interim reviews, if they aren’t already looking into this problem.
Best wishes for your recovery and safety, Sahar. The masks indicate mentally ill cowardice. You may have an injured eye, but your assailants are blinded by hateful ideology.
The adults are letting the inmates run the asylum. These same students melted down over the words trap house and the defense of wearing what you want on Halloween. Where is President Salovey?
Oh my Lord. Shame on you for leading me to click on that link. I had to close it after about two minutes. Couldn't take any more. I may go back to it and skip to the end to see the clowns and circus animals come out, confirming that this is a joke. That seems much more likely than that this is something that Yale put out.
I am so far beyond fear or sadness at this point. I’m rip roaring pissed. These people need to be dressed down so ferociously by their mothers. And what of their mothers? This is the natural progression of a culture that allows our educational systems to drive a wedge between families. Filling children’s heads with nonsense and mania until they grow into adults that act like this.
If anyone thinks this is only going to affect the Jews…these will be our lawyers and judges, our professors and teachers (already there), our doctors and nurses and surgeons. The moral rot has grown so deep into the bones of our country. This is no longer a silly “university” issue. This is malicious, cancerous madness.
When I get old, I will make sure none of my doctors graduated from any of these universities. I don't want to risk being treated by any of these morons.
My anger at these incidents is absolutely incandescent. I am so sick of this nation that uses double standards for what constitutes free speech. If silence is violence as we were so loudly instructed a few years ago, then what is happening now is the opening act to a truly fearsome play. I am not Jewish but I am a Zionist and if I were younger, I’m almost 70, I’d pick up my gardening hoe and proudly stand by your side. I am a lifelong Democrat and liberal but the silence from my party nauseates me.
Can you please stop mindlessly, reactively throwing out "your voting behavior led to this" every time someone says he or she is a Democrat? This commenter is 70. I have no love left for the Democratic Party but it is absurd to think the GOP was always the "right" party to vote for or the Democratic Party was always the "bad" party to vote for over a course of 70 years, or 52 years of you want to count only the years when she could vote. The Republicans had been awful in their own right in my lifetime too and I'm not as old as OP. Saddam Weapons of Mass Destructions anyone?
This reactive, indiscriminate "your voting behavior" whine make you sound like an automaton. I don't say this to support voting any Dems on the federal or state level right now or even in the last 10-15 years. But it's stupid to talk as if the GOP was a party of angels. Even now they're no prize.
QX, my comment was reactionary, but, certainly not mindless.
I say this because it hasn't been Republicans in control of education and the indoctrination stations they call universities.
100% Democrat.. You may not like it, but it is still true.
It is especially true in the last 30 years (I matriculated in the mid 80's).
No, I will not stop blaming the Democrats for ALL of this crazy shit going on! Corruption, greed, race baiting, dividing Americans, killing babies, shutting down our country for the flu, changing our language and trying to re-write history, teaching pornography and gay sex to children, castrating and surgically mutilating our teens, allowing an invasion at our southern border, out sourcing manufacturing, fucking unions (especially fucking public sector unions), spending tax dollars all over the globe and adding to the deficit...... and the list could go on for another 3 pages.
I do not dislike what you said. And I take back “mindlessly” then. The only reason I replied with what I said was because you made your comment to OP who is 70 years old. I felt it wasn’t fair to accuse her of voting wrongly given how long she has lived and she doesn’t deserve to be blamed for voting Democrat 40, 50 years ago when the country was at a different place and if she felt there were reasons to vote that way back then. My response to you applies to this specific individual. (Call me crazy but I still try to respect the elderly.)
Let me clarify. I am the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants from the Ukraine and the daughter of a man who served this nation in WWIi on DDay. They worked hard and believed there could be a place where their personal beliefs and those beliefs arrived at for the good of all -even if they didn’t agree 100% - could co exist. The Democrats today are not the Democrats of JFK or even RFK. And the GOP is most definitely not the party of Ronald Reagan. When I was in college it was fashionable to proclaim yourself a “ Communist”. I never ever fell for that claptrap but did support the Dems efforts to protect workers rights. I thought Phyllis Schlafly was a hypocrite, but neither did I like the strident voices of some feminists. Since I grew up in a neighborhood where BOTH parents worked out of necessity and saw those families remain intact, I found the idea of women working would lead to the dissolution of the family as just plain nonsense - an idea promoted by dare I say Republicans. There have been elections where the choice was easy and elections where I voted but felt I had to choose the lesser of two evils and elections where I simply wanted to say “ pass”. It is all of our faults that we have arrived at a place where such behavior as we have seen at Yale and Columbia can occur. We are all responsible for maintaining civil discourse and for refusing to validate obnoxious speech. If you are happy with your political party of choice - fine. I for one expect more from the party I supported for many years. All of us are absolutely capable of falling into the easy space of saying “it’s their fault”. But saying why can’t we be better - that’s hard and believe me at my age I don’t want to but I feel I must.
The point is the pendulum swings and we sadly have to deal with the situation as it goes. 50-70 years is a long time and there were reasons to vote one way or the other over the course of time when someone like OP is 70 years old. My comment would've have applied if we're talking about some idiot voting for Biden, re-electing evil incarnates like Newsome and Pritzker or the Soros-backed AGs.
Sadly true. This didn’t happen over night. Arguably the partnership of the teachers Union who has paid what I would call protection money to the DNC for decades, got us the education system we have and the indoctrination of our young that yielded these entitled thugs at Yale. So yes. Supporting a leftist movement has led us here. Now they are so emboldened as to do their dirty work in plain sight. Without any concern for retribution.
Completely agree! I’m 72 and remember campus unrest in the days of the hippies (I wasn’t one). This seems more personal, threatening other students, not distant politicians. It’s appalling.
Thank you for your reporting and best wishes on your recovery. The student protestors who injure or harass Jewish students need to face academic consequences such as suspension or expulsion. The professors who condone this terrorist sympathizing behavior should be fired if not tenured, or at the very least, removed from teaching since they can’t meet the Title VI rights of their Jewish students. Increasingly, the Ivies pursued a radical, activist student body that thrives on critical theory and chaos. The inmates are literally running the asylum. These once elite institutions will become irrelevant if they don’t rehabilitate their pedagogy, curriculum and admissions practices. Diversity of perspective is just as important, and I would argue more important, than diversity of identity. And fire the administration immediately if they are not willing to call out the antisemitism or restore order. Then fire the Board…
100%. There is tons of video out there. Absolutely no reason why they shouldn’t be charged. If the school doesn’t take action, we will know their words are empty threats.
Nothing will happen to the university pr the professors. They'll just go on like drones. Idk why any Jewish students don't transfer out already. Paying hundreds of thousands of $$$ in tuition to be abused. These universities today are trash.
In a saner country, arrests, expulsions, deportations, anti-racketeering laws, etc., would be brought to bear on these rotten, preening, ignorant cowards.
Exactly. The ones on student visas NEED to go - that’s what has to happen first. Send them back to their miserable countries - where they don’t have the freedom to do this bullshit - and get them out of mine. Evil, ignorant children.
Yup. But, the US has been worn down by "Kindness & Understanding" (no judgement no shame), DEI/DIE (no such thing as women), Cultural Marxism (Oppressor/Colonizer v. Oppressed Ideology), Biden as the great national healer in chief v. Loud Orange Man (of Abraham Accords) who saw fine people on both sides of the statue debate and has a Jewish son in law and Jewish converted daughter as an antisemite (Trump not wanting an old church in Washington DC burnt down was bad), and - wait, weren't the riots of 2020 wonderful and holy and just? Who cares about property as long as it is just the little people who lose it?
There is no major media reporting on the WPATH Files or the Cass Review out of the UK. "Admiral" Levine has not been fired and NPR continues to receive taxpayer funding and none of our medical societies have dropped "affirmation".
The people holding up roads and bridges are doing more than protesting. Any of them or those at Yale and Colombia who do not have full US citizenship should be deported by the end of the week.
George Floyd should be alive but owes his overdose death to himself, etc.
This is horrible. I am so sorry for what is happening to you and to Jews across the world right now. I feel compelled to add, however, that these protesters who want Yale to change its financial policies are mind-blowingly hypocritical. If they feel so strongly that Yale is handling its money immorally, they should drop out at the end of the semester. Why are they giving money to such a corrupt institution? They obviously don't actually feel that strongly about the policies. Seems more like an excuse to protest and hate on Jews.
I seem to remember a group of students surrounding a professor and just screaming at him because he wouldn’t condemn another professor’s ( his wife) opinion that certain Halloween costumes should not be banned. If I remember correctly her opinion was that Yale students weren’t children and didn’t need such guidelines. She was wrong. With a few exceptions yourself included, Yale students seem to BE children and feral at that.
Jew-hating scum! This filth should immediately be expelled, charged criminally and deported for life if they are foreign students. Create a public registry identifying these creatures, a registry that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Universities are cesspits.
I’m so sorry and saddened (and enraged) that you have had to endure this, and also so impressed by your courage. If those with some authority would display but a fraction of such courage then these hypocritical, racist thugs would receive the justice they deserve. Someone must step up and hold these disgusting people accountable. As a Catholic I pray for Israel and all Jewish people who are experiencing such sickening hatred. Please know that you do not stand alone. God bless and peace be with you.
We all know that had the demonstrators had a Confederate flag or noose or burned a Quran or had a sign that said "men cannot become women and vice versa" there'd be prompt action, condemnation and likely expulsions.
One more to add to the assaulted list from 3 days ago. Yoseph Haddid, an Iaraeli-Arab and former IDF member was also assaulted, just outside the Columbia campus. He was scheduled to speak at Columbia later that day.
Knocked down from behind, then sucker punched. Here's the video.
My best wishes to each for full healing, including Sahar, the author of this article. And for the assailants, full accountability. For the universities, I can offer nothing but to recognize these are failed institutions.
But of course we all know that’anti-zionism’ isn’t antisemitism….
Not sure how these blinkered and self righteous bastards have so thoroughly taken over our institutions so overwhelmingly that the mainstream press continues to gaslight and refuse to report how widespread this hatred has become.
this is an essential point. These people were identifiable as Jews. Even if they were Zionists, assault is off-limits (especially from the crowd wanting the violence to end). But they were only identifiable as Jews.
Therapist groups (psychologists social workers etc) all across the country are removing people and banning them solely for having jewish names. There are ‘lists’ being created by therapist groups of ‘zionist’ therapists to boycott… one in Chicago includes 26 Jewish therapists, based solely on their Jewish identity.
This is being tolerated and rationalized by the governing institutions.
but I happen to know from one of the people targeted, that he does not post about Israel or anything related, but he is visibly Jewish and has a Jewish name and he was on that list.
If this had been in California and you had lost your eye, under California law that could have constituted aggravated mayhem, for which the punishment is imprisonment for life. (Cal. Pen. Code, §§ 203, 205.)
It depends on the county. San Francisco's woke former DA was recalled by the voters and the new one is the real thing. A recall effort against Alameda County's woke DA was certified for the ballot a couple of days ago. She probably will be recalled, even though that county includes Oakland and Berkeley. In San Bernardino or Riverside counties, the DA would prosecute to the max. Same in most counties in the Central and San Joaquín valleys. California isn't just Berkeley; it's also Bakersfield, Visalia, Nevada City, Porterville, and Redding. Much of California is a vivid red, though the most densely populated areas are solid blue to light blue.
I signed the petition to recall DA Price (Alameda County). It's going to be a tough recall election, though. There are people in Oakland who sympathize with the criminals even when they end up being crime victims.
Exactly. In the very liberal San Francisco Bay Area, there are hundreds of thousands of registered Republicans. As of early in 2021, the figure was 607,567. I can't find the most recent data, which is too bad, because GOP registration has risen here.
Statewide, the number of registered Republicans and decline-to-state (party-unaffiliated) voters outweighs the number of registered Democrats.
And even in über-über-lefty San Francisco, less than 2/3 of voters are registered Democrats (63.9%, to be precise, per recent data). To be sure, maybe a bunch of the rest belong to the Fifth-tendency Albanian Communist Revolution Party or ¡Cuba Libre! Party.
So why don't Republicans do better electorally? The California GOP is split between two factions. Right now, the sensible moderates, who have winning messages, are in the minority among the party activists. The majority faction within the activists clings to ideas like no same-sex marriage, no abortion access (or very little), and Trump Trump Trump. That doesn't sell among the voters, even among GOP voters.
Oh really? Calif has one third of the nation's homeless defecating in the streets. They have the most radical leftist universities in the nation. They have some of the highest state taxes in the nation and the highest state debt in the nation.
Suspend federal dollars to the institutions. Tax payers should not be underwriting this dangerous anarchy.
Unfortunately, it seems that majority of $ to many universities comes from Qatar and China. Follow the money rules.
Ok. However, if the university is made ineligible to participate in federally-subsidized student loan programs, Pell grants, professor research grants, etc. because it is violating federal eligibility guidelines by enabling anarchy and endangering targeted student groups then the student body would be less incentivized to attend unruly gatherings, etc.
Yeah, who do you think is going to do that? Anti-Semites in Congress don’t care, Biden hasn’t given a shit about Israel since his days in the Senate…it was already discussed re: colleges/higher learning indoctrinating. It would never pass. They’re a mess.
Biden hasn’t given a shit about Israel? What?
No he hasn't. If Biden had a spine and any moral integrity he would be out explaining the moral case for Israel over Hamas and the Palestinians. The indiginous people of Israel are the Jews for 3000 years. The Temple mount and surviving Western wall of the Second Jewish Temple are 1000 years older than the Al Acqsa Mosque. The Jews were removed by the Romans thru a protracted war in AD 70 and the Muslims moved in in AD 700. This is not taught in any Muslim country.
After millennia of persecution, Jews were awarded their historical homeland, but this was opposed completely by the Muslim usurpers. The entire Arab population has consistently acted to destroy Israel with violence. They have consistently avoided any serious peace negotiations because they deny the right of the Jewish Nation to exist. Based on History, Morality and Justice Israel clearly has a right to exist. It is appalling that the grand children of those who participated in rounding up Jews to be annihilated are now chanting "From the river to the sea" a call for a new Jewish Holocaust.
Furthermore, it is a gross, deliberate distortion to call the Israeli action in Gaza a genocide. While I am saddened by the amount of lost life, I also admire that the IDS can wage war in a congested area with 2 million residents and only have 25,000 casualties, with at least half being HAMAS. This is far less collateral damage than any war of which I am aware. If Israel were committing a genocide, as the Germans did, there would be at least 20 fold more casualties. We also know that Hamas hides behind woman and children, which increases the death toll many fold. This cowardly act is rewarded with enormous public relations benefits.
Are the Palestinians really so innocent? They voted for HAMAS in 2006. Hamas has done everything possible to make life worse for the Palestinian people while doing everything possible to foment war with Israel. Most agree that the populace in GAZA were then trapped by the violent leadership of Hamas. I think that was true, however, over 80% of Gazans cheered the brutality of October 7th and a majority supported Hamas. So a majority of Palestinians aid and abet Hamas. If they really want to improve their lives as much as they want JEWS to DIE the Palestinians could choose to expose Hamas members rather than shelter them.
Israel is the historical Jewish homeland. Islam lies about this to their adherents. The history of constant persecution for 2000 years illustrates that the Jewish People deserve a homeland in which they can be safe. It is morally negligent to say otherwise.
“the moral case for Israel over Hamas and the Palestinians.”
I know and very much agree with the moral case of Israel over Hamas, but what’s the moral case over the Palestinians as a people? I mean, I’m a lifelong supporter of Israel - for all intents and purposes a Zionist - but I can still recognize that Palestinians are human beings who got a raw deal and understand their anger while condemning their tactics and their shortsightedness. I do not support the right-wing, religious-zealot government of Netanyahu which he put together purely for selfish purposes, just as he’s prosecuting this war for largely selfish purposes (and, incidentally, courting American Republicans for selfish purposes). I think his government is overtly racist, provocative, and happy to turn a blind eye to Palestinian human rights - and perhaps international law - under the claim of self-protection. It was an Israeli who trashed the closest thing these two peoples have known to peace. Hamas et al followed suit to trash it further with the Second Intifada - morally reprehensible.
“it is a gross, deliberate distortion to call the Israeli action in Gaza a genocide”
I agree.
“the grand children of those who participated in rounding up Jews to be annihilated are now chanting "From the river to the sea" a call for a new Jewish Holocaust”
I’m confused. Who are these grandchildren? Who are their grandparents? Germans? Poles?
As for your historical justification of the state of Israel, while I’m no expert in the brain-breakingly complicated story, I’m not sure yours is fully accurate. Anyway, just to complicate things and not because I think it belies Israel’s right to exist, by your argument, why don’t Native Americans who did suffer a verifiable genocide at the hands of verifiable new-arrivals, White Europeans, and were expelled from the land they were the first humans to occupy over 23,000 years ago (as compared to Jews’ <4,000 years of existence) and were thereafter rounded up and persecuted for hundreds of years… why don’t they have a right to re-establishing sovereignty over the entire land masses of North and South America?
Congress needs to pass legislation making it illegal for foreign governments and their proxies to donate or fund U.S. educational institutions.
great idea
colleges and universities that tolerate and effectively support this craziness should lose their tax exempt status fund raising advantages. Starve the monsters.
if you are waiting for biden to do that I have student loan that needs to be forgiven
The Buydem-votes administration is currently doing the exact opposite of this. Not only are they not cutting funding. They are forgiving billions in student debt, effectively paying the bloated tuitions of these "institutions".
Absolutely
Contact your congressional representative and/or Elise Stefanik
She’s got elite institutions on the heels.
Suspended accreditation = suspended eligibility to federal funding programs until ineligibility criteria are resolved.
The state and federal accrediting oversight organization(s) should do a review of all institutions enabling this behavior.
Democrats control the Senate and the White House. Some actively support Jew-hate while many others just tolerate it, including President Cease Fire. They don't even speak out against what's happening. Thus, there is zero chance of any legislation taking meaningful action against the schools that allow menacing and violence against Jewish students.
You do know that would hurt the many, many Jewish students who go to these universities? Not sure what you’re after. And it just gets is into a divisive, unhelpful tit for tat. I mean, personally, I’m not keen on my tax dollars underwriting religious institutions - schools or places of worship - whose missions are contrary to just about every right I hold dear, but I accept that this is what it is to live in a diverse society with all the benefits that confers.
Now, the larger question of whether or how much our tax dollars should be going to private institutions (including in the form of student loans and grants!), whether religious or not, is a valid one with valid arguments on many sides. One valid argument, however, is *not* that we - meaning a faction - don’t like what these students say. In my opinion.
PS For the record, none of this means I don’t think people who violate either school policies or the law shouldn’t be held accountable.
Miss Waterlow - Thank you for responding. My statement is in response to the very thing stated in your P.S., not about the political or religious positions of the protestors. The anti-Semite gatherings appear to be escalating to bullying, harassment, intimidation and even assault of persons of a specific people group. These behaviors go against nearly every university standard of conduct and do not fall under the right to free speech or assembly protections. Yet, it seems there is weak governance by the universities that is not holding the gatherings accountable to institution community standards and are allowing one specific group of persons to be put at increased risk to their civil rights and bodily safety. The institutional accreditation processes designed to gate-keep American university standards and purpose should be triggered by this blatant disregard by administrators of their responsibility to hold the communities they govern and lead to communal standards. Accreditation is what enables federal funding streams. The Ivy-League cohort of universities are the flagship of the American university system, led by Harvard. As they go, so will the others in time. Time for the US Higher Education Commission to activate some interim reviews, if they aren’t already looking into this problem.
Best wishes for your recovery and safety, Sahar. The masks indicate mentally ill cowardice. You may have an injured eye, but your assailants are blinded by hateful ideology.
The adults are letting the inmates run the asylum. These same students melted down over the words trap house and the defense of wearing what you want on Halloween. Where is President Salovey?
Yale is trying to upstage Harvard for most insane campus. Perhaps someone can reimagine this cringey Yale admissions video: https://youtu.be/64ujJviaPzQ?si=ItJtbIWPPpOeOCuc
Oh my Lord. Shame on you for leading me to click on that link. I had to close it after about two minutes. Couldn't take any more. I may go back to it and skip to the end to see the clowns and circus animals come out, confirming that this is a joke. That seems much more likely than that this is something that Yale put out.
Looks like a Saturday Night Live satire
Dreadful!
I am so far beyond fear or sadness at this point. I’m rip roaring pissed. These people need to be dressed down so ferociously by their mothers. And what of their mothers? This is the natural progression of a culture that allows our educational systems to drive a wedge between families. Filling children’s heads with nonsense and mania until they grow into adults that act like this.
If anyone thinks this is only going to affect the Jews…these will be our lawyers and judges, our professors and teachers (already there), our doctors and nurses and surgeons. The moral rot has grown so deep into the bones of our country. This is no longer a silly “university” issue. This is malicious, cancerous madness.
Disgusting.
When I get old, I will make sure none of my doctors graduated from any of these universities. I don't want to risk being treated by any of these morons.
Polyxena, absolutely!!!
My anger at these incidents is absolutely incandescent. I am so sick of this nation that uses double standards for what constitutes free speech. If silence is violence as we were so loudly instructed a few years ago, then what is happening now is the opening act to a truly fearsome play. I am not Jewish but I am a Zionist and if I were younger, I’m almost 70, I’d pick up my gardening hoe and proudly stand by your side. I am a lifelong Democrat and liberal but the silence from my party nauseates me.
Do not vote for parties, vote for individuals.
Party trumps person. Vote for policies and philosophy lower taxes, fewer regulations, smaller government, law & order, etc.
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Your voting behavior has led to this, all your life long.
Can you please stop mindlessly, reactively throwing out "your voting behavior led to this" every time someone says he or she is a Democrat? This commenter is 70. I have no love left for the Democratic Party but it is absurd to think the GOP was always the "right" party to vote for or the Democratic Party was always the "bad" party to vote for over a course of 70 years, or 52 years of you want to count only the years when she could vote. The Republicans had been awful in their own right in my lifetime too and I'm not as old as OP. Saddam Weapons of Mass Destructions anyone?
This reactive, indiscriminate "your voting behavior" whine make you sound like an automaton. I don't say this to support voting any Dems on the federal or state level right now or even in the last 10-15 years. But it's stupid to talk as if the GOP was a party of angels. Even now they're no prize.
QX, my comment was reactionary, but, certainly not mindless.
I say this because it hasn't been Republicans in control of education and the indoctrination stations they call universities.
100% Democrat.. You may not like it, but it is still true.
It is especially true in the last 30 years (I matriculated in the mid 80's).
No, I will not stop blaming the Democrats for ALL of this crazy shit going on! Corruption, greed, race baiting, dividing Americans, killing babies, shutting down our country for the flu, changing our language and trying to re-write history, teaching pornography and gay sex to children, castrating and surgically mutilating our teens, allowing an invasion at our southern border, out sourcing manufacturing, fucking unions (especially fucking public sector unions), spending tax dollars all over the globe and adding to the deficit...... and the list could go on for another 3 pages.
I do not dislike what you said. And I take back “mindlessly” then. The only reason I replied with what I said was because you made your comment to OP who is 70 years old. I felt it wasn’t fair to accuse her of voting wrongly given how long she has lived and she doesn’t deserve to be blamed for voting Democrat 40, 50 years ago when the country was at a different place and if she felt there were reasons to vote that way back then. My response to you applies to this specific individual. (Call me crazy but I still try to respect the elderly.)
Let me clarify. I am the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants from the Ukraine and the daughter of a man who served this nation in WWIi on DDay. They worked hard and believed there could be a place where their personal beliefs and those beliefs arrived at for the good of all -even if they didn’t agree 100% - could co exist. The Democrats today are not the Democrats of JFK or even RFK. And the GOP is most definitely not the party of Ronald Reagan. When I was in college it was fashionable to proclaim yourself a “ Communist”. I never ever fell for that claptrap but did support the Dems efforts to protect workers rights. I thought Phyllis Schlafly was a hypocrite, but neither did I like the strident voices of some feminists. Since I grew up in a neighborhood where BOTH parents worked out of necessity and saw those families remain intact, I found the idea of women working would lead to the dissolution of the family as just plain nonsense - an idea promoted by dare I say Republicans. There have been elections where the choice was easy and elections where I voted but felt I had to choose the lesser of two evils and elections where I simply wanted to say “ pass”. It is all of our faults that we have arrived at a place where such behavior as we have seen at Yale and Columbia can occur. We are all responsible for maintaining civil discourse and for refusing to validate obnoxious speech. If you are happy with your political party of choice - fine. I for one expect more from the party I supported for many years. All of us are absolutely capable of falling into the easy space of saying “it’s their fault”. But saying why can’t we be better - that’s hard and believe me at my age I don’t want to but I feel I must.
JFK would be so far right of the Squad and Biden he’d make Reagan look liberal.
It’s not Democrats, it’s the grand children of Wilson, Dewey, Marcuse, H Clinton, Obama, and all other Progressives.
Would uniparty work for you?
Why would uniparty work for me?
The point is the pendulum swings and we sadly have to deal with the situation as it goes. 50-70 years is a long time and there were reasons to vote one way or the other over the course of time when someone like OP is 70 years old. My comment would've have applied if we're talking about some idiot voting for Biden, re-electing evil incarnates like Newsome and Pritzker or the Soros-backed AGs.
Sadly true. This didn’t happen over night. Arguably the partnership of the teachers Union who has paid what I would call protection money to the DNC for decades, got us the education system we have and the indoctrination of our young that yielded these entitled thugs at Yale. So yes. Supporting a leftist movement has led us here. Now they are so emboldened as to do their dirty work in plain sight. Without any concern for retribution.
Maybe not entirely fair. At one point, the Democrat Party was fairly sane.
What a JBellend.
Lame
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And you shall ALWAYS have it.
Completely agree! I’m 72 and remember campus unrest in the days of the hippies (I wasn’t one). This seems more personal, threatening other students, not distant politicians. It’s appalling.
Thank you for your reporting and best wishes on your recovery. The student protestors who injure or harass Jewish students need to face academic consequences such as suspension or expulsion. The professors who condone this terrorist sympathizing behavior should be fired if not tenured, or at the very least, removed from teaching since they can’t meet the Title VI rights of their Jewish students. Increasingly, the Ivies pursued a radical, activist student body that thrives on critical theory and chaos. The inmates are literally running the asylum. These once elite institutions will become irrelevant if they don’t rehabilitate their pedagogy, curriculum and admissions practices. Diversity of perspective is just as important, and I would argue more important, than diversity of identity. And fire the administration immediately if they are not willing to call out the antisemitism or restore order. Then fire the Board…
Students who assault anyone should also be dealt with in the fullest by the law. Academic consequence obviously. These students should not graduate.
100%. There is tons of video out there. Absolutely no reason why they shouldn’t be charged. If the school doesn’t take action, we will know their words are empty threats.
Nothing will happen to the university pr the professors. They'll just go on like drones. Idk why any Jewish students don't transfer out already. Paying hundreds of thousands of $$$ in tuition to be abused. These universities today are trash.
In a saner country, arrests, expulsions, deportations, anti-racketeering laws, etc., would be brought to bear on these rotten, preening, ignorant cowards.
Exactly. The ones on student visas NEED to go - that’s what has to happen first. Send them back to their miserable countries - where they don’t have the freedom to do this bullshit - and get them out of mine. Evil, ignorant children.
Yup. But, the US has been worn down by "Kindness & Understanding" (no judgement no shame), DEI/DIE (no such thing as women), Cultural Marxism (Oppressor/Colonizer v. Oppressed Ideology), Biden as the great national healer in chief v. Loud Orange Man (of Abraham Accords) who saw fine people on both sides of the statue debate and has a Jewish son in law and Jewish converted daughter as an antisemite (Trump not wanting an old church in Washington DC burnt down was bad), and - wait, weren't the riots of 2020 wonderful and holy and just? Who cares about property as long as it is just the little people who lose it?
There is no major media reporting on the WPATH Files or the Cass Review out of the UK. "Admiral" Levine has not been fired and NPR continues to receive taxpayer funding and none of our medical societies have dropped "affirmation".
The people holding up roads and bridges are doing more than protesting. Any of them or those at Yale and Colombia who do not have full US citizenship should be deported by the end of the week.
George Floyd should be alive but owes his overdose death to himself, etc.
We are not currently living in a sane country.
Exactly. Why is NOTHING happening?
Right after freedom of speech comes the right to bear arms. Just a thought. Its suddenly dangerous for Jews in America.
Not so suddenly. But it is becoming increasingly clear.
This is horrible. I am so sorry for what is happening to you and to Jews across the world right now. I feel compelled to add, however, that these protesters who want Yale to change its financial policies are mind-blowingly hypocritical. If they feel so strongly that Yale is handling its money immorally, they should drop out at the end of the semester. Why are they giving money to such a corrupt institution? They obviously don't actually feel that strongly about the policies. Seems more like an excuse to protest and hate on Jews.
I seem to remember a group of students surrounding a professor and just screaming at him because he wouldn’t condemn another professor’s ( his wife) opinion that certain Halloween costumes should not be banned. If I remember correctly her opinion was that Yale students weren’t children and didn’t need such guidelines. She was wrong. With a few exceptions yourself included, Yale students seem to BE children and feral at that.
Why is the author a feral child?
I’m a feral child? How because I expressed an opinion you may not like?
No, you referred to the author of the article,S Tartek, as a feral child . Found it puzzling and want to understand why….
**she said "with few exceptions yourself included" meaning NOT the author
Jew-hating scum! This filth should immediately be expelled, charged criminally and deported for life if they are foreign students. Create a public registry identifying these creatures, a registry that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Universities are cesspits.
send all of the women and gays directly to Gaza
Why let the men off the hook?
I’m so sorry and saddened (and enraged) that you have had to endure this, and also so impressed by your courage. If those with some authority would display but a fraction of such courage then these hypocritical, racist thugs would receive the justice they deserve. Someone must step up and hold these disgusting people accountable. As a Catholic I pray for Israel and all Jewish people who are experiencing such sickening hatred. Please know that you do not stand alone. God bless and peace be with you.
We all know that had the demonstrators had a Confederate flag or noose or burned a Quran or had a sign that said "men cannot become women and vice versa" there'd be prompt action, condemnation and likely expulsions.
One more to add to the assaulted list from 3 days ago. Yoseph Haddid, an Iaraeli-Arab and former IDF member was also assaulted, just outside the Columbia campus. He was scheduled to speak at Columbia later that day.
Knocked down from behind, then sucker punched. Here's the video.
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1781127589483995440
My best wishes to each for full healing, including Sahar, the author of this article. And for the assailants, full accountability. For the universities, I can offer nothing but to recognize these are failed institutions.
I didn't even hear about this one. My heart is broken.
But of course we all know that’anti-zionism’ isn’t antisemitism….
Not sure how these blinkered and self righteous bastards have so thoroughly taken over our institutions so overwhelmingly that the mainstream press continues to gaslight and refuse to report how widespread this hatred has become.
this is an essential point. These people were identifiable as Jews. Even if they were Zionists, assault is off-limits (especially from the crowd wanting the violence to end). But they were only identifiable as Jews.
So yes, this was full bigotry.
Therapist groups (psychologists social workers etc) all across the country are removing people and banning them solely for having jewish names. There are ‘lists’ being created by therapist groups of ‘zionist’ therapists to boycott… one in Chicago includes 26 Jewish therapists, based solely on their Jewish identity.
This is being tolerated and rationalized by the governing institutions.
Can you imagine if this was happening to Black, Latin or Asian therapists? How about ti LGBT therapists… ?
Seriously? This is chilling. Do you links to articles about this??
It is not being reported anywhere. I know because several of the people on this list are part of a group I belong to.
It looks like one outlet (in Israel) covered it: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/psychotherapy-blacklisted-a-new-cost-of-the-war/ar-BB1l4tUg
but I happen to know from one of the people targeted, that he does not post about Israel or anything related, but he is visibly Jewish and has a Jewish name and he was on that list.
it's been open season on "visible Jews" in NY for years now. This is nothing new.
Because the mainstream press is one of those organizations that was taken over.
If this had been in California and you had lost your eye, under California law that could have constituted aggravated mayhem, for which the punishment is imprisonment for life. (Cal. Pen. Code, §§ 203, 205.)
But in reality, the DA would likely say "naughty naughty don't do it again" and let the perp walk with no punishment.
It depends on the county. San Francisco's woke former DA was recalled by the voters and the new one is the real thing. A recall effort against Alameda County's woke DA was certified for the ballot a couple of days ago. She probably will be recalled, even though that county includes Oakland and Berkeley. In San Bernardino or Riverside counties, the DA would prosecute to the max. Same in most counties in the Central and San Joaquín valleys. California isn't just Berkeley; it's also Bakersfield, Visalia, Nevada City, Porterville, and Redding. Much of California is a vivid red, though the most densely populated areas are solid blue to light blue.
I signed the petition to recall DA Price (Alameda County). It's going to be a tough recall election, though. There are people in Oakland who sympathize with the criminals even when they end up being crime victims.
Interesting data point I heard the other day. In 2020, there were more votes for Trump in California than there were in Texas.
Exactly. In the very liberal San Francisco Bay Area, there are hundreds of thousands of registered Republicans. As of early in 2021, the figure was 607,567. I can't find the most recent data, which is too bad, because GOP registration has risen here.
Statewide, the number of registered Republicans and decline-to-state (party-unaffiliated) voters outweighs the number of registered Democrats.
And even in über-über-lefty San Francisco, less than 2/3 of voters are registered Democrats (63.9%, to be precise, per recent data). To be sure, maybe a bunch of the rest belong to the Fifth-tendency Albanian Communist Revolution Party or ¡Cuba Libre! Party.
So why don't Republicans do better electorally? The California GOP is split between two factions. Right now, the sensible moderates, who have winning messages, are in the minority among the party activists. The majority faction within the activists clings to ideas like no same-sex marriage, no abortion access (or very little), and Trump Trump Trump. That doesn't sell among the voters, even among GOP voters.
Thank you for the good news correction. I wish all the best for Alameda County.
Give me a break. In California the perp would be made into a hero fighting against Jewish suppression of Gaza.
See my comment above. The stereotype of California is just that: a stereotype.
Oh really? Calif has one third of the nation's homeless defecating in the streets. They have the most radical leftist universities in the nation. They have some of the highest state taxes in the nation and the highest state debt in the nation.
And they have a calculating left wing governor.
i wish and I live here
I’m still hoping for California—which is a physical paradise on earth—to come back to its senses. Keep fighting the good fight, TS.
There is a case here for kidnapping, if they detained you, and they seemingly did.