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Fifth Column

UF taking firm stance on campus pro-Hamas protesters

2024-05-01

[FOX35ORLANDO] The University of Florida is taking a firm stance on campus protesters amid ongoing demonstrations at schools across the country in support of the Paleostinians in the ongoing conflict with Israel.

"The University of Florida is not a daycare"

Campus police and the Florida Highway Patrol reported the arrest of nine individuals on Monday for failing to adhere to protest regulations.

UF, like many other colleges and universities, has been grappling with protests by students and faculty. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
recent measures have been implemented, with the campus administration announcing new rules and warnings that violators would be treated as trespassers.

"The University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children — they knew the rules, they broke the rules, and they’ll face the consequences," the university said in a statement.

"For many days, we have patiently told protesters — many of whom are outside agitators — that they were able to exercise their right to free speech and free assembly. And we also told them that clearly prohibited activities would result in a trespassing order from UPD (barring them from all university properties for three years) and an interim suspension from the university," the statement continued.

The Times of Israel adds more about other schools:

At some recent rallies, protesters have been met with counterprotesters accusing them of fomenting anti-Jewish hatred. The pro-Paleostinian side, including some Jewish activists opposed to the Israeli actions, say they are being unfairly branded as antisemitic for criticizing Israel’s government and expressing support for human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
In dealing with the protests, university officials have struggled to strike a balance between allowing freedom of expression and stamping out hate speech.

The issue has taken on political overtones in the run-up to the US presidential election in November, with Republicans accusing some university administrators of turning a blind eye to antisemitic rhetoric and harassment.

White House spokesperson John Kirby on Tuesday denounced non-peaceful forms of student protests, calling the occupation of campus buildings "the wrong approach."

"Hate speech and hate symbols have no place in this country," Kirby added. "A small percentage of students shouldn’t be able to disrupt the academic experience... for the rest of the student body."

BIDEN AGAINST ’INTIFADA’
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg......
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
condemned protesters’ use of the term "intifada" during the latest spate of demonstrations, the White House said.

For Israelis, the Arabic word "intifada," literally "uprising," conjures traumatic memories of mass waves of deadly terror attacks in 1987-1993 and again in the early 2000s.

Extremist protesters have regularly called for a renewed intifada against Israel and for "globalizing the intifada" in protests that have wreaked havoc across campuses in recent weeks.

Biden "condemns the use of the term ’intifada,’ as he has the other tragic and dangerous hate speech displayed in recent days," White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. "President Biden respects the right to free expression, but protests must be peaceful and lawful."

"Forcibly taking over buildings is not peaceful — it is wrong. And hate speech and hate symbols have no place in America," Bates added.

Biden opposes last night’s takeover of a building at Columbia University by anti-Israel protesters, the White House said.

"The president believes that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach. That is not an example of peaceful protest," National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says during a press briefing.

The College Democrats

...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
of America, the US Democratic Party’s student organization, released a statement in support of the protests, calling the actions of the protesters "heroic."

"There is nothing more American than the right to protest peacefully for what is right," the statement read, commending "the bravery of students across the country who have been willing to endure arrests, suspension and threats of expulsion to stand up for the rights and dignity of the Paleostinian people.

"Our position is clear:

Very clear, indeed. Jeremy Corbyn had nothing on you lot,

We stand with those protesting for peace and we find all calls for violence, such as those against Jewish and Moslem students, wrong," the statement said. "Those spreading hate have no place in the movement for peace."

ARRESTS IN CALIFORNIA, DEALS ELSEWHERE
Students at dozens of campuses from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to New England have set up similar tent encampments to demonstrate their anger over the Israeli operation in Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
At Cal Poly Humboldt University, police early on Tuesday swarmed the campus, where students were occupying a school building, and starting detaining people, local media reported. Some 25 people were said arrested. Police on Monday had declared the protest an unlawful assembly and warned people they faced arrest if they did not disperse. According to The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, protesters at Humboldt had taken over Siemens Hall and redubbed it "Intifada Hall," spraying graffiti inside and vandalizing the campus president’s office.

Civil rights groups have criticized law enforcement tactics on some campuses where police have clashed with protesters and have used chemical irritants.

Police detained about 30 protesters at their encampment at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill early on Tuesday, according to a university statement, noting that students had trespassed into classroom buildings overnight.

At the University of Texas at Austin, police arrested dozens of students whom they hit with pepper spray at a pro-Paleostinian rally on Monday.

Northwestern University reached an agreement with demonstrators that will see them take down their "Gaza solidarity encampment." The students agreed to take down all but one of the nearly 100 tents erected on the school quad since Thursday. In exchange, Northwestern agreed to take several steps to expand student engagement in the school’s financial investments.

Northwestern also agreed to fund the tuition of five Paleostinian undergraduates and hire two visiting Paleostinian faculty members in addition to providing a temporary space on campus for Middle Eastern and Moslem students until their existing house finishes renovation.

Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed the agreement.

"Today, Northwestern University declared itself a safe space for antisemitism," the Israeli Consulate in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
tweets. "We are appalled by Northwestern’s decision to turn its back on Jewish and Israeli students who have been targets of hateful harassment and intimidation. This decision rewards the pro-terror, anti-Israel, and anti-America aggressors on campus."

Brown University in Rhode Island also reached a deal, with students removing their encampment from school grounds in exchange for the institution listening to their arguments for divesting from Israel. The move represented a first major concession from an elite American university.

In a statement, Brown President Christina Paxson said students had agreed to end their protests and clear their camp by 5 p.m. local time Tuesday and "refrain from further actions that would violate Brown’s conduct code through the end of the academic year."

In turn, "five students will be invited to meet with five members of the Corporation of Brown University in May to present their arguments to divest Brown’s endowment from ’companies enabling and profiting from the genocide in Gaza.'"

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg......
The Washington Post reported that a Jewish student is suing Columbia University for failing to provide adequate protection for Jewish students. According to the report, the lawsuit claims Columbia allowed the protests to drive Jewish students off campus rather than take steps to ensure their safety. The decision by the faculty to offer remote learning for students who felt unsafe as a result of the protests created "two very different educational experiences for Jewish and non-Jewish students," the report cited the lawsuit as stating.

Separate but unequal. Eventually one university will proudly declare that its quota for Jews is 50% — like that one fabled university in imperial Russia, each Jewish student will have to bring his own non-Jew, and ensure that he manages to make it all the way to graduation.

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