#Upenn

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May 4, 2024 - CNN writes about how the mean anti-genocide protesters silenced a lone counter-protester at the University of Pennsylvania:

How did they silence him, you ask? They drew a circle around him in chalk, and labeled it "Designated Dingus Area":

[belovedbibliophile]

survived my first year of grad school & I have the photos to prove it 🤞

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No one at UPenn would talk to CNN so they talked to a random 19 year old who wasn’t involved. Unfortunately for these bad-faith actors, the student had an informed opinion.

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Today, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) reacted to a brand-new Congressional report, “Antisemitism on College Campuses Exposed.” ZOA thanked Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and her U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce for their hard work. ZOA condemns in the strongest terms the documented examples of college administrators tolerating and promoting antisemitism by pandering to antisemitic terrorist sympathizers at the universities and disregarding the rights of Jewish and other pro-Israel students, faculty, and staff. The report can be found here.

This report was published after a year-long investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce majority. It shows how antisemitism has engulfed college campuses since the massacres of October 7, 2023. ZOA knows from our previous work on campus antisemitism that the problem of indifference to antisemitism predates the atrocities committed by Islamic terrorists last year. The report documents the frequent occurrences where many college administrators intentionally prioritized the desires of woke students and faculty over the safety of Jewish and other pro-Israel students, faculty, and staff. These include the following disturbing examples:

At Northwestern, administrators put radical anti-Israel faculty in charge of negotiations with anti-Israel students supporting terrorism with the aim of appeasing them. (Pg. 9) The appeasement worked, and Provost Kathleen Hagerty approved the boycotting of an Israeli company, Sabra Hummus. (Pg. 12)

University leadership promised to hire an anti-Zionist rabbi and the Northwestern President, Michael Schill, appears to have misled Congress on the matter, which could be a crime. (Pg. 15)

At Harvard, the leadership intentionally failed to condemn the terror group Hamas in their widely criticized 10/9/23 statement about the massacre. (Pg. 34) They also refused to mention the fact that Hamas was holding hostages and refused to characterize Hamas’ actions as violent. (Pg. 35)

University administrators explicitly asked Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker not to call the antisemitic chant “From the River to the Sea” antisemitic. (Pg. 41)

At Columbia, the administration excessively disciplined Jewish students falsely accused of using ‘chemical agents’ when in fact administrators were present at the scene, and knew the charges were false. Subsequent administration statements failed to correct the false narrative used to vilify Jewish students. (Pg. 48)

11 universities utterly failed to enforce their rules and impose discipline for antisemitic conduct violations. (Pg. 58) These included Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, and UCLA.

Administrators at Columbia, Harvard, and Penn expressed hostility and contempt for congressional oversight and criticism of their record. (Pg. 114)

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Dion J. Pierre

The lawsuit dismisses concerns about rising antisemitism at Penn, describing efforts to eradicate it as a conspiracy by “billionaire donors, pro-Israel groups, other litigants, and segments of the media” to squelch criticism of Israel and harm Arab students and academics. It also castigates the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, calling it a tool of a “militant minority which believes that Israel can do no wrong.” The IHRA definition and its use by the House Education and Workforce Committee in its investigation into antisemitism at Penn, the lawsuit continues, is “unconstitutional” and part of a larger plan of a “‘social engineering movement to repeal the First Amendment.”

If successful in disrupting Congress’s investigation into Penn, the lawsuit could conceal from lawmakers, and thereby the public, evidence indicating that Fakhreddine — who has praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel as a “new way of life” — and other Penn officials involved in organizing “Palestine Writes” intentionally invited antisemitic speakers to campus.

Held in September, the “Palestine Writes Literature Festival” outraged Jewish community members, as well as non-Jewish leaders and lawmakers, for its inclusion of anti-Zionists who have weaponized classic antisemitic tropes to undermine support for Israel. Speakers listed on the event’s initial itinerary included University of Gaza professor Refaat Alareer, who said in 2018, “Are most Jews evil? Of course they are,” and Salman Abu Sitta, who once said in an interview that “Jews were hated in Europe because they played a role in the destruction of the economy in some of the countries, so they would hate them.”

Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd frontman, was also a scheduled speaker. Last year, a documentary revealed fellow musicians detailing Waters’ long record of anti-Jewish barbs. In one instance, a former colleague recalled Waters at a restaurant yelling at the wait staff to “take away the Jew food.”

By the time former Penn president Elizabeth M. Magill — who resigned in December — appeared before the House Education and Workforce Committee on Dec. 5 to testify about her handling of the event — which included refusing to cancel it — anti-Zionist protests at the university amid the Israel-Hamas war had descended into demagoguery and intimidation of Jewish students, as activists berated pro-Israel counter-protesters for condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7 onslaught.

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Incantation bowl with Hebrew inscriptions from the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, dating back to 400-800 CE. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

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Free Penn online courses that sound interesting

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry

Wonders of Ancient Egypt

Greek and Roman Mythology

Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors

Introduction to Ancient Egypt

Hollywood: History, Industry, Art

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Police Clear Pro-Palestine Occupation at UPenn

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This little poetry class I’m talking is starting to get a little spicy 🤕

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your ‘context’ is my life. resign.

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I’m reposting this in response to the appalling defense of antisemitism and genocide mounted by the morally-bankrupt Presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT in front of Congress this week. They should all resign or be fired.

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Source

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Letter on Israel's predicted genocide of Palestinians from 1992:

this was not out of nowhere

nothing came "out of the blue"

the carnage has been present for decades

the only question remaining is:

what will people do?

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Naur my cousin goes to Princeton and I went to visit him the party we went to was lowkey crazy. Trust these nerds can party too. Work hard play hard. Nothing like an FSU party tho

nah i go to princeton p frequently and we always either take the train to penn or go to rutgers bc there’s nothingggg going on

nothing like a good southern tailgate tho

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It's official

This coming fall, I will be starting my PhD in Mathematics at Upenn!