I have been a university professor for over 28 years now. The moral rot at many campuses, including my university (but not my law school) has been obvious for a long time. For those of you who are first being exposed to it, know that it’s not a new phenomenon, and while Jews are…
I've learned from "X" that the "pro-Palestine" movement lives in a fantasy world where, putting mythology regarding 10/7 aside (for the uninitiated, please note that every single one of these beliefs is utterly false)...
--There was a country called Palestine, where Muslims and a…
Advice to Jewish students and Hillel and Chabad professionals: if you are at an event and feeling physically threatened by SJP thugs and the like, but are not in immediate danger, and the campus police want to shunt you out the back door, decline. Tell them if the campus police…
From a politically moderate Jewish student at an elite law school: “I'm doing better right now than my Jewish friends on the left. They are truly adrift. They look around and see their lefty friends celebrating the massacre of Jews, and they know that they are completely and…
@BillAckman
@Harvard
@MIT
@Penn
Their inability to say anything about what they are doing to address antisemitism on campus, despite their obligations under Title VI to not discriminate against Jewish students and prevent a hostile environment, suggests that a bill cutting off federal funding should be…
This speech, I think, reflects the strongest argument against how many universities have been behaving since 10/7. It's not their failure to crack down on "hate speech," it's their failure to enforce their own rules about demonstrations, harassment, vandalism, trespassing, and so…
"On October 7th, Israel was attacked. Since October 7th, American Jews have been under attack."
Do yourselves a favor and watch this jaw-dropping speech. With students like this, the future of our people is bright.
Them: "Israel bombed a refugee camp and killed 400 civilians!"
Israel: "Actually, we bombed a terrorist bunker and killed several dozen terrorists."
Them, hours later: "Israel bombed a refugee camp and killed 50 civilians, almost all of whom happen to be young men of military…
This whole “I don’t hate Jews, I just hate all the Jews in Israel (half the world’s Jews) and the well over 90 pc of diaspora Jews who support Israel’s existence” thing is getting tired. If you are hating 98 pc of the world’s Jewish population, you hate Jews.
Over the last six weeks I've heard from many Jews that they were aware of antisemitism on the far left, but they thought that more of their progressive allies would stand up against it. I've heard from many conservative non-Jewish friends that they are shocked at how much…
Telling that almost none of the people who were outraged that so many Gazans lived in poverty ever expressed outrage that Hamas stole aid money and goods and had enough of it to not only make tens of thousands of missiles and acquire various other weaponry, but to build a tunnel…
Sam Harris:
"Of course, the boundary between Anti-Semitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern—and I’m not sure that it is always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t distinguish between collateral damage in a necessary war and…
Another reminder to Jewish university students. "Hate speech" in general is not illegal. However, other students blocking your way to class, harassing you individually, physically intimidating you, or otherwise engaging in actions that are illegal are in fact illegal, even if…
The Dean of Students at Northwestern University, Mona Dugo, attended a rally protesting Hillel, the international Jewish college student group. Let me repeat that. The DEAN OF STUDENTS joined a protest of the campus student group. There is already a government antisemitism…
Dear Jewish donor class. Don't be suckers. Inevitably, some universities will react to bad publicity re antisemitism on campus by asking you to fund a new or expanded Jewish studies program or Israel studies chairs. DON'T. First, Jewish and Israel studies are infected with many…
@briebriejoy
Avoiding innocent civilians being caught up in war is why international law dictates that armies must fight in uniform. Hamas, of course, does not, because it not only doesn't care about international law, or the well-being of its civilian population, but welcome harm to…
Campus police are treating these events like a frat party that got a bit out of hand. That's not acceptable, the thugs are violating your civil rights.
As a law professor at this university, I’m embarrassed. If the issue is filming the student in a public place, that’s not doxing and it’s constitutionally protected. If it’s about Stopantisemites posting the video, they aren’t students, and posting information that’s in the…
Just to keep one's eye on the ball, Hamas's only victory here has been a propaganda victory among useful idiots in the West. Hezbollah didn't go to war. Iran didn't go to war. No intifada on the West Bank. No uprising among Israeli Arabs. No break of the peace agreements with…
To elaborate on my point re 1/6, yesterday rioters blocked I-5, a federal highway, for hours. They were allowed to leave without arrests. If the feds aren't going to track down prosecute at least the ringleaders, the way they are tracking down and prosecuting every 1/6…
There are several levels of anguish being felt among American Jews today. One that hasn't received much attention is that the most visible, vocal, violent antisemitism now isn't coming from white nationalists in Idaho or Klan types in Mississippi. It's coming from place like…
@jacremes
If they hadn't engaged in criminal behavior after multiple warnings, they wouldn't have been arrested. If that bothers you, feel free to resign.
This is really unbelievable, except it's not. Jewish student
@UMassAmherst
gets punched in the face by another student. Here is the message the university sent out in response: “Antisemitism, Islamophobia, or any form of bigotry have no place in our community.” The progressive…
@mhdksafa
(1) There was no country called Palestine before 1948;
(2) The land that became the League of Nations-sponsored British Mandate for Palestine was indeed an undeveloped backwater under its previous rulers, the Ottomans;
(3) Israel did not invade Palestine in 1948. The UN enacted…
After dealing with moral imbeciles on X this weekend who support Hamas, time to post this Sam Harris comment: "Of course, the boundary between Anti-Semitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern—and I’m not sure that it is always important to find it. I’m not…
The only think that's truly surprising to me about the far left's reaction to the Hamas massacre is that none of them are really even pretending that they find Hamas and its ideology particularly objectionable. Let's recall that Hamas's explicit ideology is a mixture of Nazi-like…
(1) Arabs (a) expelled 800K Jews from their homes; (b) would have engaged in genocide against Jewish people in 1948 had they won the relevant war; (c) offered shelter to Nazi war criminals after World War II (Egypt, Syria); (d) have been the primary conduit for Nazi and Soviet…
Arabs didn't perpetrate genocide against Jewish ppl: Europeans did. Palestinians didn't turn boats with Jews escaping the holocaust away: The US did
Antisemitism is not a creation of Palestinians and Muslims. Wìhy are they being punished for the crimes of Germans and Americans?
Weird dynamic. On anti-Israel X feed, author says something absurd, such as "Israel has killed 20,000 children." You point out that this is wildly false, with citations. The author doesn't dispute the accuracy of your response, but instead says "you are an apologist for…
@smccurry3
I'm a chaired law professor, and I can say with some certainty that what "a university stands for" is emphatically not that "you get to break the law if we agree with your political position," which seems to be what you think it stands for.
I try to be understanding of at least some of the anti-Israel protestors, but I keep coming back to the same point. In the immediate aftermath of 10/7, Students for Justice in Palestine campus groups celebrated 10/7 (as at my university), as did other radicals.
This was a time…
The soul-searching going on among many liberal Jews about how they could have so misjudged many of their progressive allies is familiar to me. I wrote the following in 2020:
I attended Brandeis University, where, in addition to my classes and socializing, I spent a lot time in…
@KarenAttiah
It's a good thing Muslim conquerers never engaged in violence, especially against Africans, or Karen's entire worldview might be problematic.
@sincerely_arden
No one silenced you. They just requested that you vacate property that doesn't belong to you and that you had commandeered, and you refused.
@mamoun_linda
Say “I wish Hamas would release the hostages and surrender to end the war, end the suffering of Palestinians, end he threat to Israel and the ordeal of the hostages, and give Gazans a chance to have a decent government instead of being governed by genocidal theocrats with no…
@kthalps
What can you even say about someone who thinks it's generous for a genocidal, theocratic, terrorist group to release women and children it has kidnapped after torturing and murdering their relatives?
Every single Jewish family visiting college campuses this fall needs to ask at admissions presentations, "what are you doing to protect your Jewish students from a wave of campus antisemitism." And don't take bs for an answer.
Let's review the Chemerinsky incident:
Student shows up to celebratory graduation dinner at the dean's house with a speaker system, begins political tirade. Dean and wife plead with her to stop, then ask her to leave multiple times, as they have every right to do. She refuses.…
I'd say the fact that Columbia had to shut its campus because it couldn't control pro-Hamas demonstrators and it knew Jewish students, especially visibly Jewish students, felt physically unsafe, suggests that it's in violation of Title VI. I don't expect the Biden Education…
One of the organizers, Michael Grant, is a public school teacher. Is it ok for public school teachers to be leading riots? (Let's not mince words. Blocking a highway and causing a 6 mile backup is not a "peaceful protest," it's a riot.)
Leftist Western academics have played a huge role in perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Adopting propaganda devised and spread by the USSR and giving it a scholarly gloss, they helped spread the notion the Israeli Jews are settler-colonialists, like the French in…
@CornelWest
This is about as blatant antisemitism as one is likely to see from an Ivy League professor. How are any of the named individuals responsible for anything going on in Gaza beyond being Jews? What does Ed Blum have to do with Christine Gay beyond being a Jew? I guess Cornell really…
Imagine resigning from the US government because the president has taken the side of a democratic US ally against genocidal terrorists affiliated with a US-designated terrorist group supported by Iran. If true, good riddance.
Sources with direct knowledge confirm many high ranking Muslim appointees are strongly considering resigning. The Biden Admin isn't listening to them during this crisis, their communities are frustrated w/ them, & Islamophobes are targeting them & questioning their loyalties.
Pictures are circulating of multitudes of Gazans enjoying the beach. These photos don't suggest that Gazans in general aren't suffering because of the war, of course they are. What it does show is that the wild claims that Israel is indiscriminately killing civilians, or engaging…
I once again need to point out that the vast majority of antisemitism historically was not eliminationist, Nazi antisemitism, where the antisemites would murder you solely for your Jewish ancestry, regardless of anything else. In the USSR, you could generally get by with Jewish…
Maybe the White House,
@jaketapper
, and others who are convinced that Columbia is unsafe for Jewish students because of the Gaza solidarity encampment should do what CNN reporters
@CelinaTebor
and
@zoe_sottile
did — talk to Jewish students at Columbia.
What besides antisemitism explains pro-Hamas sentiment on the far left?
These folks have imbibed and adopted a version of anti-racist, anti-colonial theory that divides the world into two classes by group: the oppressors and the oppressed. The oppressors, in this worldview, are…
@AymanM
Let's start with "who has had a trial in a judicial system that protects the rights of the accused and was convicted for attempted murder" vs "who was kidnapped from their home and held hostage." Or does that framing make it all too clear?
DeSantis’s policies will likely lead to Florida universities being unable to recruit and retain top humanities scholars. And this will affect Florida not at all, bc not having the top feminist/post-modernist/Queer studies/Marxist etc won’t be missed by anyone out of those fields
@ryangrim
Along with everyone sane, Bill Clinton disagrees:
“I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down...,” Clinton said (referring to Camp David 2000).
@NaytDX
I gather that facing the looming threat of civil war when the British announced they were withdrawing from Mandatory Palestine, the UN voted to partition the land b/n a Jewish and a Palestinian state. The Jewish side grudgingly accepted partition, the Palestinian side proceeded…
Notice how the death count mysteriously declined from 400 to 50 (and who knows if that's even true!) Still tragic for people caught near a strike on a terrorist hq, but how many times are the media going to parrot Hamas propaganda without verifying it?
If the university tries to penalize any university affiliate who took the video, it would be looking at a slam-dunk first (well, really 14th) Amendment lawsuit.
Instead of escorting Jewish student out of back doors, into attics, etc., the authorities need to start sending in riots squads and arresting the rioters. If not, Jews will need to start organizing in self-defense. I will not be going out back doors, thank you very much.
WATCH: Tonight close to 20 Jewish students at
@ASU
had to leave a campus building thru a back door with a police escort together with their
@Chabad
Rabbi Shmuel Teichtel to return to the Chabad House for safety after a Antisemitic incident.
The students attended a Arizona State…
@NathanJRobinson
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards headquarters was located next to the Iranian consulate (not embassy) and was not itself the consulate, but a military headquarters using the neighboring consulate as a shield. And has attacked or tried to attack through its agents multiple actual…
@yashar
290k people, one moderately offensive sign, no genocidal chants as at various anti-Israel rallies around the world. No rioting. No burning American flags. I'll take it.
And my friend is someone who even knows people who know the DA! If someone like him can't get a felony charge against their assailant after a brutal assault, imagine the level of attention the average Joe Victim is getting.
@YonahLieberman
Obama is certainly complicit. Israel had an opportunity to wipe out Hamas in 2008-09, but were given the message by the incoming Obama adminsitration that they had to wrap things up before inauguration day, leaving Hamas in power.
Remember that "chemical warfare attack" on pro-Hamas demonstrators at Columbia that allegedly involved a highly toxic substance and sent multiple students to the hospital, including one who claimed to have long-term symptoms because of it? And my wondering why despite the…
Out of 296 professors at top 2 law schools surveyed, six, or just over 2 percent, described themselves as conservative (4) or very conservative (2). This should be extremely embarrassing to the legal academy.
Understanding pro-Hamas sentiment on the left: It's not just antisemitism, it's a Manichean worldview that assigns moral worth based on whether a group is identified as "oppressors" or the "oppressed". The result is that nothing is permitted to the oppressor (Israel), nothing is…
DEI, in practice, has never been about "inclusion" etc. It was a way to give a power base inside university, government, and corporate bureaucracies to a radical leftist identitarian agenda that includes only a limited group of identities deemed politically useful, and only for…
@la_louve_rouge_
There once was a poet named Boyer.
Who had a great thought in the foyer.
She’d resign from her job,
And show those Jew slobs,
But it turned out everyone just ignored her.
@smccurry3
Well, the protesters were breaking the law, were warned to stop, and refused. Generally, when people are brazenly breaking the law, especially when given a chance to stop, the police are called. Why should they not be called in this instance?
@JCAndersonNYC
A “final” solution to capitalism you say? By destroying a country with 10 million (((people)))? Not even trying to hide our Jew-hatred, are we?
@JonHaidt
Note also it's illegal. Jews, like other minority groups, are a protected class under Title XI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. If you treat hostility against them differently than hostility against other groups, you are engaged in discrimination against Jews, which is, again,…
@crimdefend
The stats aren't "wrong." They are reporting what's being fed into them. What's being fed into them, however, doesn't represent actual crime levels in New York. You're welcome.
if there is non-violent behavior that should make you unemployable as a lawyer, disrupting a dinner at your dean’s house because he’s (check notes) Jewish and you think that gives you an excuse to engage in said disruption even after being repeatedly asked to stop should be it.
This longer video of the confrontation at Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Fisk’s home shows in more detail just how insufferable these students are.
And Chemerinsky has confirmed it’s a private residence (see below), which, as you can see, they were asked to leave repeatedly.
10/7 was a Kristallnacht moment, in the sense that everyone who had persuaded himself that Hamas "didn't really mean it" now understands that they do, the genocidal rhetoric isn't just talk, it's what they would do to every Jew in Israel if they had the opportunity. Therefore,…
"With so may serious people accusing Israel of genocide, how can you not take it seriously?"
Because these are not, in fact, serious people, and many of them have been accusing Israel of "genocide" since well before 10/7. In case you don't believe me, I did a google search for…
(I should note that not every one in the "pro-Palestine" movement believes everyone of these things, though many pretend to even if they don't, and others just go with the flow without knowing much of anything. But each of them is common enough to be "mainstream.")
Get the f*ck out of here all you ugly a*s little Jewish people in this b*itch!"
says Grace Obi-Azuike, the Loyola Law School's Anti-Racism Fellow, to her classmates.
Yes, Grace is the Loyola Law School’s Anti-Racism Fellow.
The Anti-Racism Fellow.
@ninaturner
How about World War II? The Civil War? Should Lincoln have said, "more than 6K minors [Hamas, undoubtedly exaggerating nevertheless, is claiming minors, not children] will die if we preserve the Union and end slavery, so I guess that's that, let the South secede?
Oh, that's…
@cenkuygur
Or you'd have to believe, as is well-documented, that Hamas interspersed its military infrastructure intricately with civilian infrastructure, so only when Israel was willing to engage in this level of destruction could it be defeated. Hamas doing so is a war crime. Israel…
@AOC
Hamas could end the war by releasing its hostages and surrendering. Haven’t seen that you’ve called on them to do so. They surely have more responsibility for their own citizens than Israel does.
@ShaykhSulaiman
Tel Aviv was a Jewish city founded and built by Zionists. It was a city within the 1923 League of Nation Palestine Mandate. There was no “Palestine” otherwise. It’s funny to claim a Zionist, Jewish city as Palestinian, unless you’re pointing out that Jews living in Mandate…
@stevesalaita
Since 1936: Start a war, lose. Start another war, lose. Start yet another war, lose again, ad infinitum, while refusing any compromise offered along the way. And then cry about how you are the the victim. And then start another war...
@marclamonthill
Good, maybe the university can find someone who doesn’t advocate for the genocide of the Jewish population of Israel (“river to the sea”) to spend the money on.
@BigMeanInternet
Soviet propaganda, often laden with antisemitism, about Israel was spread through the Western left starting in the 1960s through the 1980s. The Soviets hired right-wing antisemitism Russian nationalists who had been released from the gulag to lead the campaign.
@RepRashida
Your colleague's niece is a student at Barnard College, not Columbia. And she has been suspended for knowingly violating school rules, not for "protesting" (imaginary) "genocide."
@KarenAttiah
Odd that you left out Jews, the victims of the Holocaust, as well as ethnic cleansing from the Middle East. Oh, I forgot, you're an antisemite.
Miss this at the time. Antisemitic or not, it implies that she was somehow privileged and neglects the fact that racial categories in Nazi territory didn’t match US conventions, Jews were a persecuted racial minority, so it reflects deep ignorance.
@AlissaShira
Assuming Hamas's figures could be trusted to begin with, which is a heroic assumption, Hamas's figures for "children" include all teenagers, including combatants. So probably at least half of those "children" are teen Hamas terrorists. And no one appointed you to speak for Jews,…