Meanwhile, at Harvard...
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@Horace said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
There may have been a followup question loaded up regarding the lack of sanctions handed out thus far.
Have there been any cases of explicit calls for exterminating the Jews on these campuses? I know there was in Australia, but given how I still hear the Aussie example thrown around I kind of assumed they haven’t had any cases closer to home.
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@jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
@Horace said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
There may have been a followup question loaded up regarding the lack of sanctions handed out thus far.
Have there been any cases of explicit calls for exterminating the Jews on these campuses? I know there was in Australia, but given how I still hear the Aussie example thrown around I kind of assumed they haven’t had any cases closer to home.
Maybe the time they caught "gas the jews" on video, was in Times Square rather than a campus. By certain framings, a few different catch phrases have been labeled genocidal, but that sort of language ambiguity will be where the bias will once again come into play, and once again against certain political tribes.
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@jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
Have there been any cases of explicit calls for exterminating the Jews on these campuses?
Not those campuses.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/566967/cooper-union-library-jewish-students-hide-protest/
A number of Jewish students at Cooper Union college in Manhattan said they feared for their safety Wednesday when pro-Palestinian protesters banged on the locked door of the library where they were sheltering and chanted “Globalize the Intifada.”
“I really, truly believe they would have done physical assault if they came in,” said one of the students, a first year, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of security concerns. “For me it was like: How could it get to this point?”
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The first-year student, who is 19, said that two Jewish people, one wearing a yarmulke, were sitting by the window, and that the protesters began banging on the glass from outside.The protestors might, might, be ignorant of what "intifada" means, but the Jewish students are not.
Looks pretty cross-burn-ey to me.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
@jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
Have there been any cases of explicit calls for exterminating the Jews on these campuses?
Not those campuses.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/566967/cooper-union-library-jewish-students-hide-protest/
A number of Jewish students at Cooper Union college in Manhattan said they feared for their safety Wednesday when pro-Palestinian protesters banged on the locked door of the library where they were sheltering and chanted “Globalize the Intifada.”
“I really, truly believe they would have done physical assault if they came in,” said one of the students, a first year, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of security concerns. “For me it was like: How could it get to this point?”
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The first-year student, who is 19, said that two Jewish people, one wearing a yarmulke, were sitting by the window, and that the protesters began banging on the glass from outside.The protestors might, might, be ignorant of what "intifada" means, but the Jewish students are not.
Looks pretty cross-burn-ey to me.
What exactly does intifada mean? I always thought it essentially meant revolution
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@LuFins-Dad said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
What exactly does intifada mean? I always thought it essentially meant revolution
Context is important, I'm told.
In this context - revolution against Jewish occupation - IOW, war.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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It means uprising. It means getting The Man off your back through violent and non-violent protest. It’s not a call for extermination though surely many intifada practitioners would push the genocide button if they had one.
@Horace - the ‘gas the Jews’ protest oft referred to was the Australian one I mention.
I have no doubt you could hear it in Times Square or in London during the protests, I just haven’t heard of it being used at US Campuses.
@George-K - yes, very bad and very explicitly intimidation. Stefanik didn’t ask about that, probably because there’s no ‘gothcha’ to be had there.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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@George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
@LuFins-Dad said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
What exactly does intifada mean? I always thought it essentially meant revolution
Context is important, I'm told.
In this context - revolution against Jewish occupation - IOW, war.
I don’t really see an issue with that being spoken or chanted at a campus protest. The word is not the issue. The very evident physical intimation of personal violence is the issue.
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We have a former board member who is the head of the university senate of the other big Ivy League school that made the news a lot due to protests. I was on a call with her today and asked how they avoided being at the grilling.
Their president, a former world bank exec, was at the big global climate meeting (COP28) so they got out of it.
FWIW she blamed the lawyers for why these folks on the stand had to be so wishy-washy.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
Sorry, but this is all a result of decades worth of accepting and even promoting criminal harassment, intimidation, and extortion and calling it free speech, while punishing and belittling those that peacefully assemble and express themselves.
Harassment and intimidation is not a policy issue for Presidents and Chancellors to debate, it’s a policing issue.
Hear! Hear!
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@George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
Is burning a cross "free speech?"
As long as you don't do it in a theater and yell, "Fire!"?
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Most Ivy League Schools Now Have Female Presidents
Mildly interesting
I wonder if a white male would have done any better.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Copper said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
@George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
She's not an academician, she's a bureaucrat.
OK, but how does she feel about climate change?
She trusts the science.
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Get used to the female university presidents. Females are approaching 70% of Masters and around 55% of Doctorates.
I think those percentages will increase.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67655910
A major University of Pennsylvania donor has withdrawn a $100m (£79.3m) grant after a controversial appearance in congress by the school's president.
President Elizabeth Magill met representatives alongside Harvard President Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth of MIT on Tuesday.
But they caused anger after avoiding questions on how students calling for the genocide of Jews would be punished.
The donor, Ross Stevens, said he was "appalled" by her stance.
