#College Campuses

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ANTISEMITISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES EXPOSED

Committee on Education & the Workforce. U.S. House of Representatives

KEY FINDINGS

Key Finding: Students who established unlawful antisemitic encampments—which violated university polices and created unsafe and hostile learning environments—were given shocking concessions. Universities’ dereliction of leadership and failure to enforce their rules put students and personnel at risk. o Finding: Northwestern put radical anti-Israel faculty in charge of negotiations with the encampment. o Finding: Northwestern’s provost shockingly approved of a proposal to boycott Sabra hummus. o Finding: Northwestern entertained demands to hire an “anti-Zionist” rabbi and Northwestern President Michael Schill may have misled Congress in testimony regarding the matter. o Finding: Columbia’s leaders offered greater concessions to encampment organizers than they publicly acknowledged. o Finding: UCLA officials stood by and failed to act as the illegal encampment violated Jewish students’ civil rights and placed campus at risk.

Key Finding: So-called university leaders intentionally declined to express support for campus Jewish communities. Instead of explicitly condemning antisemitic harassment, universities equivocated out of concern of offending antisemitic students and faculty who rallied in support of foreign terrorist organizations. o Finding: Harvard leaders’ failure to condemn Hamas’ attack in their widely criticized October 9 statement was an intentional decision. o Finding: Harvard President Claudine Gay and then-Provost Alan Garber asked Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker not to label the slogan “from the river to the sea” antisemitic, with Gay fearing doing so would create expectations Harvard would have to impose discipline. o Finding: The Columbia administration failed to correct false narratives of a “chemical attack” that were used to vilify Jewish students, but imposed disproportionate discipline on the Jewish students involved.

Key Finding: Universities utterly failed to impose meaningful discipline for antisemitic behavior that violated school rules and the law. In some cases, radical faculty successfully thwarted meaningful discipline. o Finding: Universities failed to enforce their rules and hold students accountable for antisemitic conduct violations. o Finding: Columbia’s University Senate obstructed plans to discipline students involved in the takeover of Hamilton Hall. o Finding: Harvard’s faculty intervened to prevent meaningful discipline toward antisemitic conduct violations on numerous occasions. o Finding: Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker acknowledged that the university’s disciplinary boards’ enforcement of the rules is “uneven” and called this “unacceptable.”

Key Finding: So-called university leaders expressed hostility to congressional oversight and criticism of their record. The antisemitism engulfing campuses was treated as a public-relations issue and not a serious problem demanding action. o Finding: Harvard president Claudine Gay disparaged Rep. Elise Stefanik’s character to the university’s Board of Overseers. o Finding: Columbia’s leaders expressed contempt for congressional oversight of campus antisemitism. o Finding: Penn’s leaders suggested politicians calling for President Magill’s resignation were “easily purchased” and sought to orchestrate negative media coverage of Members of Congress who scrutinized the University

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thatpeterfox

2024 is full of surprises.

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#IsraelPalestineConflict #Democracy #HumanRights #CollegeCampuses #FreeSpeech #Protest #UnitedStates #Israel #Genocide #IndigenousRights #CollegeStudents #ProtestSuppression

[cata613]

A very important read.

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i don't value much...

the mouths or the conducts of neighbors, and i’m just beginning to tolerate better both noise and air pollution. i don’t find much value in anything when it comes to getting praise and acknowledgment because it’s all bogus anyway. i certainly don’t intend to acknowledge or praise a lawless America. Seems to me now the only thing to do is to complain to God alone while all the activism on college…

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Groups Behind Protests Seizing College Campuses Get Bad News as Senators Send Letter to IRS

We should not need to remind you of the heinous support NSJP chapters across the country have voiced for Hamas, the letter states.

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by Abigail Shrier

In the abstract, if “Huzzah for Dixie” is worth the full mobilization of university resources and law enforcement, then waving the flag of a terrorist group, or writing “burn you filthy zio” to a student chat, or telling Jewish students to “go back to Poland” where millions of Jews were murdered in gas chambers, or pulling down the American flag over a statue of John Harvard and replacing it with the Palestinian flag, or painting “Ziosgetfuckt” on UPenn’s statue of Ben Franklin, or calling Jews “Hitler’s children”—all insults hurled at Jews on campus—are at least as menacing. 

But in practice, the two types of incidents—rather, the two targets of the incidents—are treated entirely differently. Punishment is meted out swiftly and mercilessly, and with no consideration for free speech principles, any time Confederate flag flyers are posted, any time students hold culturally insensitive themed frat parties, any time colleges uncover student use of the N-word while in high school (or even a word in Mandarin that sounds like the N-word), or even when students or faculty make the familiar conservative argument that affirmative action sets black students up to fail. Rinse and repeat and repeat.

Speech on college campuses has been stultifyingly narrow—and very far from free—for decades. That pro-Hamas students cheer freely for “intifada” doesn’t make it any freer now. The fact that certain students are allowed to call for the death of their Jewish classmates does not herald a new era of free expression. It only underscores that some bigotries enjoy the official sanction of these schools, and are accepted, tolerated, and rewarded with special dispensations and, indeed, goodies.

Use of the N-word on campus or misgendering a classmate will no doubt be met with as swift punitive consequences as they have been for decades, as have a vast and more minute array of “microaggressions.” I invite anyone who doubts this to parade through any of our elite campuses with insulting cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. 

After weeks of violent, destructive protest, which left campuses trashed and buildings damaged and graffitied, administrators have at last begun to enforce their own rules and call in the police. Perhaps they felt they had no choice: commencement ceremonies loom and lawsuits, recently filed by Jewish students, are on the way. 

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yehudimomrim

Campuses have been breeding grounds for antisemitic indoctrination for years now, but using academic institutions for inculcation is not a new tactic.

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University of Minnesota, Northrop Auditorium

Last week a portion of the roof of the University's Northrop auditorium building collapsed. The building, built in 1929, is an iconic structure on the University's campus, a bookend to the open mall at the center of the campus. It is the largest theater venue in the Twin Cities, seating over 2,600, and has one of the largest stages, making it an ideal venue for dance performances. In 2014 it reopened after an extensive remodel, which reduced the theater's seating capacity, added a second, smaller theater, and made several departmental offices.

Find more photographs of Northrop in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

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This is going out to the people who are in colleges that claim to be one of the safest in the US. A lot of the websites where you see these lists are from domains with little influence and consequence to the people attending universities as a whole. And a lot of the time, the crime data universities put out in public leave out a lot of information (which is federally illegal and you should make a report to the OCR for that). But if literally one funky website calls your university one of the safest campuses in the country with little to no sound evidence, all of a sudden the marketing team is up everyone's asses. There is no standard of data release and methodology for collecting data being enforced, it's just "here are the numbers and names, trust us, we took it from the FBI haha". On one list you're number five to two hundred in the matter of a few years, while during that same period of time you go from not even being on the honorable mentions to number three from a different list. Every list is saying wildly different things, and they change wildly every year, so we can't trust any of them.

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The Po-Po will do their best to handle this shiz, but unfortunately this action will just serve to spur on these clowns … and at some point, someone — probably Biden — will need to call the ball. That means the National Guard — possibly working with the USMC

Just so you know, the US has been under a state of emergency since at least J6, and so it is entirely permissible for the USMC to work with the National Guard on US soil

… the more you know yo

Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎🇺🇸

Welcome to Georgia where they know exactly how to take out the trash 🗑️ 😱👍🏻

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Campus Reactions to the Hamas Attack: A Disturbing Trend of Violence Celebration

Echoes of Violence: Campus Reactions to the Hamas Attack As college campuses settle into a quieter rhythm this fall compared to the tumultuous spring, a disturbing trend has emerged: the unabashed glorification of the violence perpetrated by Hamas during its brutal assault. What stands out this year is the chilling celebration of the massacre that claimed over 1,200 lives on October 7, marking a…

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CBS News interviews parents of Jewish students on college campuses for their thoughts on how the universities are handling these protests.

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Winning minds. Winning hearts.