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| Paleo-love/Jew hate at America’s universities: week of 5/11-5/17/2025 |
| 2025-05-18 |
A bunch of articles seen at Legal Insurrection: U. Maryland Students Hold ‘Sit-In’ to Demand School ‘Stand Up’ to TrumpThe Diamondback reports over a dozen student groups took part, including members of Indigenous UMD, Campus Queers and Allies, and the Anti-Imperialist Movement at UMD. According to a statement from UMD’s 17 for Peace and Justice chapter, sit-in participants came up with seven total demands which university officials need to heed. These include not cooperating with federal officials regarding “requests to monitor students and staff” and providing “identifiable information,” not assisting ICE and “other federal agencies targeting university community members,” and providing “institutional and financial support to university community members impacted by new policies.” Sit-in participants “wrote postcards” to UMD President Darryll Pines “demanding action” on these and other items, …and did all the usual protest nonsense. So derivative, (Pines is one of over 400 university “presidents, chancellors and officials” who signed a letter via the American Association of Colleges and Universities “expressing their strong opposition to political interference in higher education,” The Black Explosion reports.)House Committee Requests Interview With President of Northwestern Regarding Campus Antisemitism A U.S. House committee has sent a letter to Northwestern University President Michael Schill requesting that he interview regarding recent instances of anti-Semitism at the school. The April 28 letter from the Committee on Education and the Workforce, led by Chairman Tim Walberg, demands a transcribed interview and further accountability from Schill over escalating anti-Semitism on campus. The committee initiated its investigation in 2024 following a wave of assaults and harassment against Jewish students. Despite Schill’s prior testimony and promised reforms—including increased security, revising student conduct codes, and creating a task force—the committee stated that it finds the university’s follow-through inadequate. Key allegations include a Jewish student being spat on and told to “go back to Germany and get gassed,” widespread harassment during a 2024 anti-Israel encampment and anti-Semitic graffiti during Passover. “Since your testimony at the Committee’s May 23, 2024 hearing, despite Northwestern’s claims to the contrary, the Committee has not seen your commitments to discipline, enforcement, and security come to satisfactory fruition,” the letter states. New York Lawmakers Blast CUNY Leader After Anti-Israel Chaos Erupts at Brooklyn College “It is unacceptable but not surprising that almost two years after October 7th — after an investigation into CUNY and several public hearings — we are still grappling with disruptive and criminal behavior against Jewish students, encampments and masked agitators on campus,” reads a May 9 letter to Brooklyn College chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez exclusively obtained by The Post. The letter was signed by Councilmembers Inna Vernikov, Farah Louis, Mercedes Narcisse, and Robert Holden, and Assemblymembers Kalman Yeger, Lester Chang, Eric Ari Brown, Jamie Williams and Alec Brook-Krasny. Arizona Outlaws College Campus Protest Encampments at Public Universities “You still have the right to protest peacefully, but encampments do not have a legal right to be on campus” Anti-Israel Yale Students on Hunger Strike Told Their Demands Will Not be Met “They’re demanding that Yale divest from defense contractors, sever ties with Israel, and adopt a rigid political agenda” All six members of Yalies4Palestine. Faculty Association at U. Toronto Votes to Divest From IsraelvSeparately, up nawth in Canada: One of the prominent driving forces behind the motion was the UofT Faculty and Librarians for UPP Divestment group. It announced that all people who pledged support to the motion were anonymous, due to alleged fears of a “penalty for taking a public anti-war, anti-apartheid or anti-occupation position.” The faculty also said it was fearful of “doxxing,” particularly against “indigenous colleagues, colleagues of color, [and] junior [or] precarious colleagues.” The motion passed by 52% of the vote [X]
NYU says student denied diploma after he ‘lied’ about graduation speech condemning Israel Logan Rozos’s speech on Israeli ‘genocide’ draws applause from some in audience, condemnation from pro-Israel groups; university says he ‘lied about the speech he was going to deliver’. NYU, which is attended by Trump’s son, Barron, has largely avoided the president’s ire so far. Rozos, an actor and member of the Gallatin Theater Troupe, was selected by fellow students to give the liberal arts program’s address. He said he felt a moral and political obligation to speak to the audience about what he called the atrocities in Gaza. The speech drew loud cheers from the crowd along with a standing ovation from some graduating students. “They are bending over backward to crack down on speech that runs counter to what the current administration in Washington espouses,” said Andrew Ross, a professor of social and cultural analysis at NYU. “Myself and many of my colleagues are frankly appalled at the decision that’s being made to deny a student speaker his diploma,” Ross added. “This is a very good example of an administration falling down on the job.” Yourself isn’t nearly as well educated as you fondly imagine, if that this the grammar you think appropriate when representing yourself as an elite educator.
Report finds 11 percent of arrested Columbia protesters use they/them pronouns [CampusReform] Nine of the students that were arrested at Columbia University for taking over the school’s library reportedly ask to be referred to with 'they/them' pronouns. Those numbers are according to a report by The Washington Free Beacon, which noted that one of the students’ senior thesis was on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Released Columbia U protester, Mohsen Mahdawi, claimed built guns to 'kill Jews', arrested at border as drug mule The allegation is contained within U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford’s April 30 opinion on Mahdawi’s motion for release. In the alleged incident, Mahdawi visited a Vermont gun shop in the summer of 2016, expressing interest in purchasing a “sniper rifle and an automatic weapon.” Mahdawi said, according to the government’s allegation, that he “had considerable firearm experience and used to build modified 9mm submachine guns to kill Jews while he was in Palestine.” There also appears to be corroborating evidence for Mahdawi making statements about “killing Jews.” “The store owner gave the police the name of a fellow gun enthusiast who stated that he had a similar conversation with Mr. Mahdawi at the ‘Precision Museum’ in Windsor where the enthusiast served as a volunteer tour leader,” Judge Crawford’s opinion states. “During that conversation, Mr. Mahdawi allegedly told the enthusiast, ‘I like to kill Jews.’” According to Crawford’s opinion, the government also pointed in its brief “to an incident in January 2019 when Mr. Mahdawi was stopped at the border and found to be carrying drugs.” Cornell students raise thousands for pro-Palestine concert after school drops anti-Zionist singer The students created the concert following the cancellation of an anti-Israel singer, Kehlani, at the main event run by the school. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 ^ But could you get one decent electrician out of the bunch? "This is a Jew wire. Haram!" |
| Posted by: Matt 2025-05-18 08:50 |
| #1 If only all these "students" were set to learning a trade. Snark O'The Day |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-18 02:33 |