IDF targets and kills food aid workers

[Goose]

Doc

That was from the heart.

[Hards Alumni]

Yes, Doc's hero really built up his antisemitic points with that one ... as if kowtowing to Putin, accepting support from the Proud Boys, pumping up MTG, dining with Fuentes, and praising very fine people who were chanting "Jews will not replace us!" weren't enough.

Just so we're clear, if this gets locked, and I know it will be.  I 100% blame you.

You don't need to make everything about Trump or Elon Musk.  If you're better than 4elder, start acting like it.

[Uncle Rico]

"Four more years...(pause). Four more years...(pause)" what a joke, hey?

https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1783532839096447362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1783532839096447362%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=about%3Ablank

What does that have to do with Israel's quagmire?

[4everwarriors]

What quagmire? Doesn't seem like there is one accordin' to The Jerusalem Post, hey?

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-792001

[Uncle Rico]

What quagmire? Doesn't seem like there is one accordin' to The Jerusalem Post, hey?

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-792001

Huh.  Here's an article from today, hey?

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-798695

[Skatastrophy]

"Four more years...(pause). Four more years...(pause)" what a joke, hey?

https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1783532839096447362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1783532839096447362%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=about%3Ablank

Lol what a snowflake

[rocket surgeon]

it's a good thing weekend's release of those billion$ of dollar$ to Iran can only be used for humanitarian purposes, but the mooolas say otherwise?  it's their money to use as it pleases? 

    fool weekend once, twice, three times?   aww the hell with it

I thought he said DON'T

[MU82]

You don't need to make everything about Trump or Elon Musk.

Damn - I forgot to mention Musk.

[jesmu84]

Here's what you're not being told: The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus, certain faculty members, and third-party organizations that dox undergraduates. Frankly, I regret the fact that writing to confirm the safety of Jewish Ivy League students feels justified in the first place. I have not seen many pundits hand-wringing over the safety of my Palestinian colleagues mourning the deaths of family members, or the destruction of Gaza's cherished universities.

https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia

I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don't Believe What You're Being Told About 'Campus Antisemitism'

[MU82]

1-point plan to solve this new Biggest Problem In America:

Call in the military and introduce the protesters to darkness.

[Hards Alumni]

1-point plan to solve this new Biggest Problem In America:

Call in the military and introduce the protesters to darkness.

https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1783543295135617195

Prem Thakker
@prem_thakker
Think about how fast this country sent hordes of riot police with tear gas, batons, and tasers to arrest anti-war students & their teachers.
Now think about every medical bill you've paid, every homeless person you've seen, every school that relies on bake sales to buy supplies.
12:07 PM · Apr 25, 2024
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[MU82]

So what you're saying is that brilliant, failproof plan has a chance?!?!

[Hards Alumni]

So what you're saying is that brilliant, failproof plan has a chance?!?!

Hey man, some kids gotta die before anyone takes it seriously!

[MU82]

In 2019, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott proudly signed a law protecting free speech on college campuses in common outdoor areas as long as they were not breaking the law or disrupting the regular functioning of the school.

This week, he sent in 100 state troopers to arrest those protesting Israel even though the protesters were not breaking the law or disrupting the regular functioning of the school.

From the Washington Post:

Abbott's office did not respond to a request for comment on the rationale for his action nor criticism of it. But on social media, the governor responded approvingly to the law enforcement response, saying the protesters "belong in jail" and that any students taking part in "hate-filled, antisemitic protests" at public colleges should be expelled.

State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt (D), whose district includes the Austin campus, said the politics involved in the response "is not going to let this go, and that's deeply, deeply troubling."

"I've not yet heard any evidence of property damage or personal injury, and so the response — the police response — seems to have been in anticipation of something that didn't happen, that ultimately didn't happen," Eckhardt said.

On Thursday, protesters said the show of force ordered by Abbott was striking but not surprising.

"Gov. Abbott is taking a very political opportunity to enforce his agenda, a very right-wing agenda focused on control, not on governance," said Chelsea Collier, a doctoral student at the school of information and a native Texan who spent her entire academic career at UT.

Varun Jawarani, 21, a senior from Austin majoring in computer science, said the message he received was "Don't have a dissenting opinion from state government or we'll send in the police."

[Jockey]

Abbott is a fascist authoritarian.

[MU82]

From the NYT DealBook newsletter's Andrew Ross Sorkin:

Many business leaders have told me they are deeply concerned about incidents of harassment against Jewish students that have taken place at and around universities like Columbia and appear to be increasing.

Inside corner offices, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about the most blatant examples, like antisemitic signs and chants or the assault of an Israeli student. But there has been little action from corporations, which have a synergistic relationship with the schools where they recruit employees.

Some executives are privately pondering what they can do. The most common course of action so far has been to pull back on individual donations. The New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, for example, said this week that he was "no longer comfortable supporting Columbia University."

But businesses have other levers that affect universities, and some of those levers would undoubtedly put more pressure on universities to take action against antisemitism.

Here's one out-of-the-box thought experiment: Most businesses scrutinize their vendors quite carefully and maintain approved lists of vendors whose policies align with their own. Companies could scrutinize universities, a main source of their talent, as they would any other vendor. They could tell universities that they won't hire their students unless the schools take decisive action to stem antisemitism.

After all, no company in this day and age would use an executive search firm with employees who openly engaged in antisemitism.

To be clear, companies would need to define antisemitism and the satisfactory actions to mitigate it — currently both topics of fierce debate.

And it is important to differentiate between peaceful protesters against Israel's war in Gaza (who include many Jewish students, and who say they are being unfairly painted as antisemitic to distract from their objectives) and people who are calling for the death of Jews, harassing students and creating an unsafe environment. A decision to stop hiring all students from a particular school would inevitably punish some who have nothing to do with the worst offenders on campus.

But these corporate actions would put real pressure — including the pressure that would inevitably come from those uninvolved students — on college administrations to police blatant antisemitism.

There is another pressure point that Wall Street, private equity and venture capital firms may uniquely have to influence action against antisemitism on university campuses: They could threaten to stop managing their endowments. Most elite universities in America rely on venture capital firms for their relatively high investment returns.

Many university endowments send questionnaires and conduct due diligence on the internal policies of the Wall Street firms — examining their D.E.I. policies, for example. What would happen if the Wall Street firms also sent such questionnaires to the universities before deciding to work with them as clients?

"That's a really interesting thought experiment," said Charlie Eaton, the author of "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in U.S. Higher Education" and an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced. He said that such a decision would most likely have a big impact on the decision-making of universities, but would also raise big questions about "who is able to exercise what kind of power" in our economy.

Businesses may be unlikely to rush into formally patrolling universities' policies by adopting either of these theoretical maneuvers, but they might amp up the pressure in some other way through their informal preferences. As Darren Woods, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, said of campus protests in an interview with CNBC this week: "If that action or those protests reflect the values of the campuses where they're doing it, we wouldn't be interested in recruiting students from those campuses."

[forgetful]

There have been 100's of reports of assaults, and hate crimes against Palestinian and Arab students on Columbia's campus, including one where 8 students were assaulted with a chemical weapon (skunk spray) by former Israeli soldiers. Six of these students were hospitalized. The perpetrators weren't even arrested (after months 1 was finally suspended; and even then there was some Jewish public outcry about discrimination against the suspended student, who assaulted people). These attacks and hate crimes are almost never reported on. And either investigations are minimal, or non-existent.

There have also been assaults on Israeli students, they are actually significantly smaller in number, but they reach the front page of all major news outlets, and it is discussed as creating an unsafe environment for Jewish students.

Then suddenly, some donors are threatening defunding Columbia if they don't crack down harder on mostly peaceful protesters. They apparently have no problem with the 100's of reports of assaults and hate crimes against Palestinian/Arab students, and for a long time they covered up that over 300 female students were sexually assaulted by a Columbia University physician. None of these events were worthy of "defunding" Columbia, or congressional calls to action.

None of these students should have to deal with being unsafe on a campus, and all these assaults are wrong.

But, if we are going to have an honest discussion on the problems on campuses, incidents and reports need to be treated equally. They are not.

This is evident at Columbia, it is evident at UT, where Abbott proudly broke his own laws, and pretty much every campus seeing protests. It is evident in the narratives on here, and in the media.

It is in part why there are these protests to being with. They coincided with the Columbia University president speaking about anti-semitism on campus, because of congressional demands. The focus was on anti-semitism and cracking down on speech by students (including Jewish students) opposition to Israeli military action, and human rights abuses against Palestinians. What was left out of the questioning, and congressional actions, was the 100's of attacks and hate crimes against Palestinian/Arab students.

If these were "blue-lives matter" or "all-lives matter" protests being treated this way, people would be up in arms about the suppression of free speech. And any assaults of counter-protestors would be blamed on "Antifa-instigators".

How would people on here react, if this was a crackdown on encapments/protests by Jewish students? Encampments setting up Shabbat tables for all the victims of the Oct. 7th attacks, provided that they were equally disruptive and created an equally "unsafe environment feeling" for some students.

[rocket surgeon]

  tik tok shows a 50-1 pro-terrorist vs pro Israeli

[Pakuni]

  tik tok shows a 50-1 pro-terrorist vs pro Israeli

Source?

[jesmu84]

Where are all those tough Texas police when the uvalde shooting was happening?

[jesmu84]

Any instances of the state breaking up peaceful protest is literally a first amendment violation.

[MU82]

Where are all those tough Texas police when the uvalde shooting was happening?

Turning tail.

[forgetful]

This is a good article.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/opinions/yale-student-palestinian-protests-berlin/index.html

[rocket surgeon]

Source?

   https://www.instagram.com/theisraelguys/reel/C3GG6dnoMDt/

depends on the source I guess, this one states 36-1 and other sources are 8-1

still pretty wide chasm-hard to believe the world has developed such a pro terrorist viewpoint...until their ass gets bombed or wife gets raped and beheaded, I guess it's the way it goes-sad

[forgetful]

   https://www.instagram.com/theisraelguys/reel/C3GG6dnoMDt/

depends on the source I guess, this one states 36-1 and other sources are 8-1

still pretty wide chasm-hard to believe the world has developed such a pro terrorist viewpoint...until their ass gets bombed or wife gets raped and beheaded, I guess it's the way it goes-sad

That's not a source, and pro-palestinian does not equal pro-terrorist. 35% of Israeli Jews want a 2-state solution, by your assessment, and your sources assessment, they would be pro-terrorist.