[IsraelTimes] Henry Swieca’s resignation comes amid protests by other supporters of elite universities in response to schools’ handling of campus protests in wake of Israel-Hamar war
A Jewish billionaire investor and philanthropist quit the board of Columbia Business School, saying the campus had become unsafe for Jews since the launch of the Israel-Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... war.
"With blatantly anti-Jewish student groups and professors allowed to operate with complete impunity, it sends a clear and distressing message that Jews are not just unwelcome, but also unsafe on campus," Henry Swieca said in an October 30 letter obtained Tuesday by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "My resignation is an expression of my deep concern for the direction in which the university is heading."
The Board of Overseers is the school’s main fundraising arm.
Swieca, 66, is the founder in 2010 of Talpion Fund Management and the cofounder of Highbridge Capital Management, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase in 2008. The child of Holocaust survivors, he has been a member of the business school’s Board of Overseers since 2014. Forbes lists his worth as $1.9 billion.
His resignation, which he did not announce publicly, comes amid a flurry of protests by Jewish supporters of elite universities in response to the schools’ handling of the Israel-Hamas war following October 7, when Hamas launched a shock onslaught, killing some 1,400 people and injuring thousands — mostly civilians — and taking at least 240 men, women and kiddies to Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... as hostages.
Prominent supporters of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania have announced that they will or might no longer support their alma maters because of the presidents’ response to the war, and the private equity CEO Marc Rowan is reportedly trying to get others in the finance field to withhold donations over the issue.
In his letter, Swieca refers to a chant that has proliferated in anti-Israel protests since the launch of the war, "From the river to the sea," which is widely understood by its critics to call for a Paleostinian state that supersedes Israel.
"Statements from the university are meaningless when pro-Hamas students march on campus calling for the complete destruction of Israel," he said. Defenders of the phrase say it has evolved since it was coined in the 1960s, when it represented longings for Israel’s removal, to a call for a binational state.
The letter did not specify incidents. The Columbia campus has long been a hotbed of pro-Paleostinian activism, and student groups there called immediately after the attack for the school to cut ties with a program in Tel Aviv. On October 16, a 19-year-old allegedly assaulted a Columbia student who was putting up posters on campuses featuring hostages taken by Hamas during its attack. The campus was also briefly closed to the public because of unrest.
On October 30, the day Swieca dated his letter, Jewish students at the New York City university held a presser demanding more robust action to protect Jews. They noted that the university had not mentioned Hamas in its statements about the war.
The Jewish students cited as incidents of antisemitism the discovery of a swastika painted in a bathroom and listed other allegations, including that pro-Paleostinian students carried signs saying "resistance is not terrorism" during an on-campus walkout and that, at Columbia’s law school, a student said "F— the Jews" to a visibly Jewish student. They also said Jews were targeted with antisemitic tropes in group chats and demanded that Columbia specifically condemn Hamas which it had not done until then.
Talpion’s website says Swieca is the child of Holocaust survivors and grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City. It lists a number of philanthropies it backs, including the American Israel Education Fund, an arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Meor, a Jewish heritage study program. He runs a grant program that pays out $10,000 for programs that advance Jewish education and outreach.
According to the Washington Post, Swieca also funded the expansion of an Israeli organization that aims to rebuild the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, a holy site for Moslems, an ambition that is widely understood as anti-Moslem.
Talpion’s website says that "the name of the company derives from the Biblical word ’Talpiot’, meaning a castle’s turret, and is also the name of a highly elite intelligence unit of the IDF."
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A billion here, a billion there, and soon it begins to add up even in the Ivy League.
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A better tactic would be for these rich board members to go back to their first donation to the school and loudly demand that the school return all donations made by said rich person during his / her lifetime, then sue them when they don't comply. At a minimum they'd be adding needed PSI on the school hacks.
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Ditto at Harvard University in Cambridge Mass last month as well. Sooner or later, these colleges will have to pick a side when it comes to these protesters, or staff sympathetic to the horrific killings of innocent Israeli citizens. Only time will tell, if these colleges come to heel or not, and put a stop to this crap.
The doxing of the protesters in Cambridge following their protests was interesting. I remember Occupy Wall Street, when the protesters did this to police officers, and others they didn't like. One reaps what they sow. Some companies and firms have been asking for the identities of these protestors when it comes to future employment.
[IsraelTimes] With rising antisemitic incidents on campuses, Secretary Miguel Cardona says federally funded schools are obligated to protect Jews and other minorities
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said American colleges could lose federal funding if they fail to address antisemitism and other bigotries, following up on a meeting last month with Jewish leaders alarmed by rising antisemitism on campuses in the wake of the Israel-Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... war.
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Two colleges already received funding cuts, after the way they mis-handled 9-11. I quit donating to their alumnus appeals, and when they called me I (civilly) told them why, and they never called again.
[IsraelTimes] University says support for Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... is not protected by institution’s free speech principles; SJP will no longer receive funding or be able to hold activities on campus
Brandeis University is revoking recognition of the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Paleostine, saying the group "openly supports Hamas."
Brandeis informed the student group on Monday about its decision, which means that the group will no longer receive university funding or be able to hold activities on campus. The group canceled a "Vigil for Paleostine" that had been scheduled for Monday night as a result.
"This decision was not made lightly, as Brandeis is dedicated to upholding free speech principles," the university wrote in its letter, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency obtained.
SJP, which has a national umbrella group and campus chapters across the country, has spoken out in support of Hamas’s invasion of Israel. Brandeis said support for Hamas, which the United States has designated as a foreign terror group, is not protected by the university’s free speech principles.
"Students who choose to engage in conduct in support of Hamas, or engage in conduct that harasses or threatens violence, whether individually or through organized activity, will be considered to be in violation of the University’s student code of conduct," the letter says. "Students who wish to express their support for the rights of Paleostinian civilians may form another student organization, through established procedures, that complies with University policies."
The decision follows controversy at the university after its student senate voted down a resolution condemning Hamas — a move that others in the university community soundly rejected, including through an open letter that garnered more than 1,000 signatures in one day. The episode attracted national attention, in part because of Brandeis’s history as a non-sectarian school founded by the American Jewish community in the wake of the Holocaust.
It also follows pressure by Jewish groups for universities to withdraw funding for SJP in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, when the group described the attack as "a historic win for Paleostinian resistance." Florida’s public university system banned SJP last month at the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Going to bet the discussion in the administrative meetings goes something like this: "We are not going to be the defendants next Oberlin lawsuit..."?
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Hudna
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[Jpost] A move towards a peace-loving leadership in Palestine is the most desired outcome in the Israel-Hamas conflict, British foreign minister James Cleverly said on Wednesday, reiterating Britain's support for a two-state solution. As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
"In the short term, it is inevitable that Israel, because they have the troops in Gaza, will need to have a security responsibility," Cleverly said at the G7 summit in Japan. A glimmer of practicality?
Peace-loving leadership on the Arab side has always been the goal since 1947, when both the Jews and Arabs were offered homelands in the Palestine Mandate. I’ve seen nothing to suggest that this generation has produced anything of the sort. Nor will the next, so long as there is outside money feeding them the poison of hate.
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Pro-peace Palestinian leadership does not exist.
Armenia has reportedly entered into an agreement with the Indian company Zen Technologies Ltd. (Hyderabad) contract worth $41.5 million for the purchase of anti-UAV systems. pic.twitter.com/MsX1kQMxF3
[IsraelTimes] French president will speak with PM Netanyahu after Thursday event, Elysee Palace says; French official notes Israel has ‘an interest’ in improving humanitarian situation.
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He will be merciless against an "enemy" he doesn't even dare name.
The issue is Theocratic Islam.
Theocratic Islam is not "hate."
Theocratic Islam is a genocidal totalitarian ideology.
[ZH] A revolt is brewing within the Biden administration over how the White House is handling the Israel-Gaza war, as the civilian death toll and mass Palestinian displacement soars, and as Biden's top officials continue to say "no conditions" have been placed on how Israel uses US-supplied weapons. Pressure from the press pool is also piling on, with near daily spats and antagonistic back-and-forth exchanges on display in the State Department and White House briefing rooms.
This week there have emerged reports of scathing 'dissent memos' criticizing White House Israel policy being circulated, collecting many hundreds of signatures chiefly from among State Department and USAID staff. A primary theme of the pushback and pressure is that President Biden must change course on the Gaza crisis.
First, on Monday Politico obtained and published portions of a memo issued by State Department personnel giving a blistering critique which according to the publication argued that "among other things, the U.S. should be willing to publicly criticize the Israelis."
It was issued after the Biden's Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, repeatedly made clear that the US does not back a ceasefire, but is only sheepishly calling for brief humanitarian 'pauses'. Politico points out the memo represents a "growing loss of confidence" among Biden's corps of diplomats:
The message suggests a growing loss of confidence among U.S. diplomats in President Joe Biden’s approach to the Middle East crisis. It reflects the sentiments of many U.S. diplomats, especially at mid-level and lower ranks, according to conversations with several department staffers as well as other reports. If such internal disagreements intensify, it could make it harder for the Biden administration to craft policy toward the region.
The memo has two key requests: that the U.S. support a ceasefire, and that it balance its private and public messaging toward Israel, including airing criticisms of Israeli military tactics and treatment of Palestinians that the U.S. generally prefers to keep private.
The memo, marked "sensitive but unclassified' was sure to leak, and that was likely the point. It bluntly underscores that Biden's policy is hurting America's standing in the world as much of global opinion has been appalled at the Gaza death toll which this week surpassed 10,500.
The memo sates that the gap between Biden officials' private and public messaging "contributes to regional public perceptions that the United States is a biased and dishonest actor, which at best does not advance, and at worst harms, U.S. interests worldwide."
"We must publicly criticize Israel’s violations of international norms such as failure to limit offensive operations to legitimate military targets," the dissent memo continues. "When Israel supports settler violence and illegal land seizures or employs excessive use of force against Palestinians, we must communicate publicly that this goes against our American values so that Israel does not act with impunity."
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Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, repeatedly made clear that the US does not back a ceasefire, but is only sheepishly calling for brief humanitarian 'pauses'.
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Gazans are just 'useful idiots' of the Iranian mullahs. The incredibly vicious initial attacks were to make sure Israel had no choice but to do what it is doing. In the process it will divide the West to the point it will not be able to come to the aid of Israel once the pan-Islam assaults begin. And that would mean (I think) the end of Israel - and quite possible the nuclear destruction of much of Iran. Next question is whether Iran itself is the useful idiot of China...
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Oh, no! Not "scathing memos"! We must end this war now!!!
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...Y'know, the Very Best People(TM) told me during the Trump Administration that when the staff vehemently disagreed with the President, that meant the President must be wrong and therefore must resign.
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The news being reported today, is that Israel has agreed to four hour daily pauses in Gaze.
Couldn't help thinking about my Uncles who served in WW2 in Europe and the Pacific, and wondering what they would make of this? Sure they wouldn't be happy with this, and seriously question the people in Washington. If the U.S. and allies did this during that war, it would have lasted a lot longer than it did.
Read Rantburg’s archives, dear Vortigern Phert8938. Money from Qatar, from Iran more money, training, weapons, and alliances with other client groups. The other client groups of interest at this particular moment being Hezbollah and the Houthis (Ansarullah) in Yemen.
Jeez, next you’re going to tell us that Shiite Iran would never, ever ally with Al Qaeda.
It doesn’t do to take your lord’s name in vain when you don’t know enough on the subject to challenge your audience. Whether it’s ok when you do is a question better addressed by your mother.
[GEO.TV] United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... said on Wednesday that the number of civilians killed in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip shows that there is something "clearly wrong" with Israel's military operations against Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... Paleostinian murderous Moslems.
"There are violations by Hamas when they have human shields. But when one looks at the number of civilians that were killed with the military operations, there is something that is clearly wrong," Guterres told Rooters NEXT.
"Every year, the highest number of killings of children by any of the actors in all the conflicts that we witness is the maximum in the hundreds," Guterres said.
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The next Republican president needs to move the UN to Gaza City, or at least out of the US.
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"There are violations by Hamas when they have human shields."
Too stupid or too evil to connect the dots?
And no, these are not "violations", these are WAR CRIMES.
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I suspect the leaders of the 2 billion Muslims in the world would readily accept an even trade of 16 million of their own for all the 16 million Jews left in the world. Proportional warfare and all that.
[IsraelTimes] As Israel is pressured to agree to pause in fighting, brass hats in terror group laud ’great act’ of Oct. 7 and say they never intended to ’improve the situation in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’.The goal of Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7 massacres in southern Israel was to "change the entire equation," bring permanent war to Israel’s borders and renew attention to the Paleostinian cause, a senior member of the terror group’s politburo in Qatar
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[IsraelTimes] With support from the Shoah Foundation, virtual repository October7.org documents eyewitness accounts of the Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... atrocities and translates them into four languages and counting.
Just two days after the October 7 Hamas massacres, as the first horrific testimonies of survivors became publicly known, Raz Elipsur and Adi Clinton, an Israeli brother-sister team, realized their stories had to be told to the world.
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[FreeBeacon] Paleostinians and their allies have justified and even celebrated Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... ’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel as a blow against Jewish oppression. But the 2 million Arab citizens of Israel have overwhelmingly responded by drawing closer to the Jewish state.
Among Arab Israelis, prominent media personalities have helped lead an unprecedented surge in support for their country and opposition to their self-proclaimed liberator Hamas. Pro-Israel arguments that were previously almost unspeakable in the Arab mainstream have in recent weeks gotten a respectful hearing.
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Israeli officer: “Most of the horrendous crimes were committed by Gaza civilians. Hamas terrorists mostly killed soldiers and moved on. Civilians did most of the lynching, mutilating, slaughtering, beheading, and burning.” pic.twitter.com/Bjdii6nbPb
[The Drive] A group of A-10s deployed the Middle East last month to help deter Iran and its proxies amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict.
Though the U.S. Air Force's A-10 Warthog ground attack jets look increasingly to be in the twilight of their careers, they are still being sent to places where they could find themselves in harm's way. Last month, a group of Warthogs touched down in the Middle East as part of a surge in U.S. forces into the region in response to the eruption of the latest Israel-Gaza conflict. Newly released pictures now offer an interesting look at the weapons loadouts on some of these jets as they sit ready to respond to contingencies.
U.S. Air Forces Central (AFCENT), the service's top command in the Middle East, posted the pictures of the A-10s belonging to the 354th Fighter Squadron loaded with a variety of live ordnance online earlier today. The Pentagon announced the 354th's Warthogs had arrived at an "undisclosed location" in the Middle East on October 12.
The new images show four A-10s all with the same basic warload. Very much a see pics at the link post
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A-10 is so obsolete they wanted to retire it decades ago, but the military conflicts have continued to be so obsolete that the A-10 remains the best arrow in the quiver. Too vulnerable to fighters - but these enemies don't have them. Vulnerable to SAMs - but at the typical engagement altitude most of those won't work. Still the best (though not invulnerable) at surviving small arms fire in close ground support. Curious the MIComplex never actually tried to refill that important niche in air power - guess they couldn't find a way to make it epensive enough.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[The Drive] A group of A-10s deployed the Middle East last month to help deter Iran and its proxies amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict.
