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At Columbia University on Tuesday, pro-Hamas thugs assaulted a Jewish student. This took place as pro-Hamas protestors, many from outside the university, shattered the glass of the university’s main building and occupied it. All that happened months after Columbia administrators met with a student and heard him speak openly about murdering Jews.
Not only did they opt not to expel him and allowed him to remain on campus, but they watched as he became the leader of the encampment protests. Amid all this, it’s not surprising that the Biden regime’s Department of Education would be opening a civil rights investigation into Columbia’s mistreatment of students. There’s just one catch: the DoE isn’t investigating Columbia’s allowance of open and menacing Jew-hatred. The Biden wonks are examining Columbia’s alleged mistreatment of “Palestinian” students.
Yes, we have really descended to this level of absurdity. USA Today reported Friday that “the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on Thursday opened an investigation into Columbia University for how it’s treated Palestinian students and allies, lawyers said.” The Biden apparatchiks have filed a complaint that “alleges unequal treatment by Columbia administrators, including President Minouche Shafik.” Yes, this is the same Minouche Shafik about whom the Washington Post reported Friday that “several Republican lawmakers have accused her of not taking rapid action against protesters and not doing enough to make Jewish students feel safe on campus.”
In the bizarro world of Palestinian Arab victimhood, however, it isn’t the Jewish students who feel unsafe. The USA Today report continues: “Four students and the student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, told federal officials they experienced harassment, death threats and doxing on campus since the start of the war, according to the complaint filed by Palestine Legal, a legal aid organization.”
In a fine froth of indignation, Radhika Sainath of Palestine Legal complained: “For months, Columbia has not only failed to take action to protect Palestinian students and their allies speaking out for Palestinian freedom from racist harassment and discrimination, but actively engaged in differential treatment. This investigation could not have come at a better time, as we just saw Columbia escalate its crackdown against Palestinian students and their allies by bringing in the NYPD to brutally arrest student protesters for the second time in less than two weeks.”
This civil rights complaint couldn’t possibly be more absurd, and in pursuing it, the Biden regime once again demonstrates its true colors and deep hatred of Israel. Are Jewish students breaking into and trashing university buildings? Are Jewish students assaulting Palestinian Arab students? There is abundant justification for a civil rights investigation of how Jewish students are being treated at Columbia, but the Students for Justice in Palestine and Palestine Legal know how to play the game: they know that victimhood is a coveted status in our sick society, and that consequently, being the first or loudest to claim that status is a quick pathway to preferential treatment and even pecuniary reward.
The Biden regime is acting on behalf of an extremely unsavory organization. Students for Justice in Palestine has no national leadership apparatus, but it does have a national website enunciating its motives and goals. The National Students for Justice in Palestine site states that it is “supporting over two hundred Palestine solidarity organizations across occupied Turtle Island, we aim to develop a student movement that is connected, disciplined, and equipped with the tools necessary achieve Palestinian liberation.”
“Occupied Turtle Island” refers to North America. Turtle Island is a name for the continent taken from Native American folklore, and of course it is “occupied” today by the evil white oppressors who are, in SJP’s view, also responsible for the supposed occupation and oppression of Palestinian territory. As absurd as this locution is, in light of the fact that no one aside from woke millennial Leftists, not even Native Americans themselves, refers to North America as “Turtle Island,” the National SJP website uses the term consistently and without irony. It invites visitors to the site to “learn more about recent victories in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses across Turtle Island, and beyond!”
The site speaks more frequently and thoroughly about another land that exists only in fantasy and propaganda, although in this case that propaganda has been far more successful and is much more pervasive today: occupied Palestine. Despite the fact that no independent state of Palestine ever existed in history, and that the Palestinian nationality is an invention dating from the 1960s, the National SJP website maintains the fiction that it represents an endeavor to liberate an oppressed people.
SJP was founded at the University of California Berkeley in October 2000. It is the brainchild of a professor of “Islamophobia” named Hatem Bazian, who has engaged in thuggery himself. He has openly called for an intifada, a violent uprising, not in Israel only, but in the United States as well. And regarding supporters of Israel, he has declared: “We need to harass them.”
In a sane society, Hatem Bazian would under investigation himself. Instead, he is a respected professor at a prestigious university. He is a prime example of how our academic institutions have lost their way, deserve no public funding, and are in radical need of reform. What has happened of late at Columbia illustrates that anew. But also in radical need of reform is the Washington bureaucracy, which, instead of acting against the pro-Hamas thuggery at Columbia and other campuses, is aiding and abetting it.
How about taking care of American citizens in distress and true need BEFORE taking care of: 1. Those in our country who HATE America. 2. Illegal alien invaders that broke US immigration laws by breaching OUR borders. 3. Palestinian refugees. 4. footing the ridiculously high cost of Ukraine’s war it cannot win. 5. Lifting sanctions that empower our adversaries to kill Americans and allies.
Trump wanted to stop bringing in Muslim fanatics. How many liberal Jews called him a racist for that?
At the end of the day, Trump, it turns out, was right about more things than I can count
Rather than turtles, this Administration seems to consist of vile truth-inverted imbeciles all the way down. BTW, isn’t Hank Johnson worried that taking in ten million illegal aliens in three years will cause Turtle Island to capcize?
The colossal idiot was worried that Guam might capsize from too many Marines stationed on one side.
Hank Johnson is glad to let Grifter Joe’s stupidity eclipse his own.
Al Gore is glad to let Sleepy’s chronic compulsive lying remove attention from Gore’s compulsive habit.
Jerald Nadler is happy to allow Sleepy to draw more attention for crapping himself.
Hillary is sorta glad to see Sleepy’s corruption take attention away from hers. (Her bribe mill, The Clinton Holyland Foundation had a good run.)
FJB and the mail-in ballots he rode in on.
This is hard to believe; but in today’s insanity–especially at our formerly great universities, like Columbia–nothing is beyond belief now.
Are these “Palestinians” claiming that, as they work(?) for a B.A. in, say, Classics, their professor, or a Jewish classmate, “harassed” them as they were studying and discussing, say, Horace’s Odes, or Vergil’s Aeneid? Or perhaps Catullus’s (sometime admittedly titillatingly pornographic) love poems?
Or did they object to a serious, rigorous course on U.S. History and the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights…perhaps on the claim that both were ‘in violation’ of Sharia, and therefore “offensive to Islam”?
As long as American schools, colleges, and universities continue to tolerate this insanity, it will continue, and will get worse–much worse.
And Western Civilization will complete its voluntary jump over The Edge of the Cliff, and fall at a rate of 32 feet per second, per second.
No, they are claiming they are being harassed because they haven’t been given everything they demand on a platter.
Things like turning up to class and handing in work are harassment, and as for not being delivered Jewish students bound and gagged at their feet so they can beat the shit out of them, well the lack of that is just sheer bastardry levels of harassment.
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.” ― P.J. O’Rourke,
Could also add James Burnham’s prescient 1964 classic, “Suicide of the West” along with Orwell of course and visionary Aldous Huxley.
All saw that cliff-edge coming.
Western civ is falling to the velocity raptors.
To every Muslim, to every Leftist protester, to every Marxist extremist, and all their fellow travelers, I say this:
I’m a Christian.
I can’t be reasoned with.
I can’t be bargained with.
I won’t compromise or surrender.
And I absolutely will not stop – EVER – until Jesus is Lord of all.
We will need some Old Testament to get this job done. The story of the Shibboleth comes to mind. When a student, or professor at these schools cannot utter the words, “Israel is a rightful nation amongst nations”, or “Hamas needs to be run to ground and eliminated for peace to occur” or any phrase that will be their shibboleth, they will be escorted off campus and banned in perpetuity.
Interesting thought, although I think that you and many other commenters are confusing the purpose of American universities with the purpose of forced reeducation internment camps. Something tells me that turning the university in question here into Stalag-Columbia Internment Zone 3 and replacing existing faculty with religious police handpicked by the peanut gallery at FPM won’t exactly go over very well with applicants, donors, or anyone with a background in U.S. Constitutional law.
“Palestine” is not a country or nation.
There is no such a thing as Palestinians.
Anybody who uses the word Palestinian is part of the problem. They are just promoting the BIG lie that there is such a nation as Palestine.
Those people are just part of a terrorist organization with one purpose only, to kill all Jews.
100% correct on that.
If there was a state, it is made up of cowards who have demonstrated time and time again that they are incapable of leading a civilised life.
And destroy the U.S.
They can only destroy the US if we the honorable and decent citizens of this country go all wobbly in the knees and hide in a closet or under a bed and mewl in fear like frightened puppies and do nothing.
There are two constants in this world that applies all throughout nature: the law of the jungle and survival of the fittest. Consequently, the strong survive, the weak perish. Humans are no exception to that reality.
Liberty and freedom are only meaningful to those who have the will and the means to defend them. It’s a concept we veterans know and understand better than most.
The Fakestinians were invented by Gamal Abdul Nasser and the KGB in 1964.
I am sure Biden the Stupid will Investigate all those who refuse to allow mobs of Looters, Arsonists and Rioters from Burning down aa whole City Since Biden is a Globalists just like Both the Clintons Bush(Father & Son)Obama and the rest of them
The legal fallout from these universities protecting terrorists is going to bankrupt most of them. Administrators are going to found aiding and abetting which will result in their bankruptcy as well.
In long run this correction in higher education will result in better and much smaller institutions
These cry bullies attack and then play the victim if the person they attack blocks their punches or counter punches. Shame on the Biden regime for encouraging and emboldening them.
So happy to hear the cry bullies whine that “Zionest thugs” released rats into their encampment at UCLA. Too funny!
SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT CONSIDERING COLUMBIA INVITED IRAN’S AHMADINEJAD and he had a similar goal to, “WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP”, when their Mostly Peaceful Terrorist Supporters screamed, “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA!”
JOSEPH MASSAD, a man I knew as an undergrad here at UNM in the ’80s, must be the most hated Columbia professor on campus since the petition to have him fired is at 37,000 signatures while 300 colleagues signed another one in support of him. He kicked a Jew out of his class years ago.
MASSAD learned well from Gerry Bradley, the Head of the NM Marxist Educators for Socialist Action and the NM Peace Council, an affiliate of the SOVIET KGB LED WORLD PEACE COUNCIL! His fellow student, AHMAD ASSED, is now the President of the Islamic Center of NM. His sister Samia is NM’s Linda Sousour. Another Bradley recruit is BOB ANDERSON, the head of ANSWER, Solidarity Network, Stop the War Machine, co-head to The Party for Socialism and Liberation, with all SPONSORS AND DIRECTORS OF THE PROTESTS NOW FOR DECADES! (He was at a UNM protest a month ago, so I called UNMPD to inform them that Anderson is banned from campus. They removed him. He was looking at me while I was calling. He then attended the UNM Encampment which I saw on TV which means he doesn’t care… PROBABLY BECAUSE HE’S ONE THE PAID LEADERS/RECRUITERS like a middle-aged woman from Jewish Voice for Peace who I met and pretended to agree with the group but then I said, “I support Hamas.” I said that at other rallies, many agreed. Eventually she said, “Hamas didn’t do enough!”
If this were 1938 and Kristallnacht were occurring, Biden would issue a stern warning to German Jews “not to endanger German Aryans with your burning synagogues, looted businesses and broken glass. DON’T!”
And do not bleed on our sharp looking storm trooper uniforms. The dry cleaning is getting expensive.
The Dulles brothers were still doing business with Germany.
This is just the Biden administration trying to keep the Hamas vote in Michigan and Minnesota
Fornicate um all.
Bizarro world, indeed. As I say to my conservative friends, “Topsy-turvy world, eh?” Queers for Palestine! Chickens for KFC.!
And Turkeys for Thanksgiving! Apropos, Turkey last week announced a trade boycott of Israel which, in dollar terms, was to Turkey’s advantage. So Turkey loses business, including losing a shipping route through Israel to Jordan and the Gulf countries. Talk about cutting your nose to spite your face …
Proof positive that having an incompetent dementia patient as the front man for a communist muslim mafia led by a former president and his money men is never a good idea.
Dox Hatem Bazian. Where does he live? We know where he “works.” Pay him a visit. Show him some Americana up close and personal.
Not that I condone violence, of course. That would be illegal.
There should be more ill eagle (can’t say illegal) treatment for sick birds.
Quote from Victor Davis Hanson …..
“The Left-wing Democrat Base”: The old idea that Antifa, BLM, the Squad, the Obamas, the green extremists, the radical transgendered, and the Hamas/Hezbollah, anti-Semitic base threatened the Democrat Party has been exposed as a sort of fraud.
No major Democrat politicians, Joe Biden, especially, can simply condemn the anti-Semitic violence and hate speech— constituting 99 percent of the protestors’ creed—
without citing the mythic danger of Islamophobia, of which there is little sign on these campuses.
In other words, Democrats would rather airbrush anti-Semitism with moral equivalence blather than dare suggest the pro-Palestinian movement is anti-Semitic.
B.L.M. = “BLUE LIVES MATTER”.
Also From Victor Davis Hanson ….
Democrats are terrified the entire revelatory circus will get Trump reelected.
The Democrat Party is the Squad.
Biden is the most radical president of the last half-century. He and his associates in the Senate want to replace the
elected government of Israel; they favor Iran over the moderate Arab regimes.
DEI, ESG, abortion on demand, radical transgenderism, open borders, and reparations have now become mainstream Democratic agendas.
All these protesters, all these ‘professors’, all these students, absolutely desperate to show their support for fakestine.
So round them all up, every last one, along with the crooked administrators, and ship them out to rafah.
They can really support their terrorist heroes then.
DEATH TO HAMAS and all their little Swine.
GOD BLESS ISRAEL.
M.A.G.A.
OSAMA >> OBAMA>> OBIDEN
THEY ARE ALL GIVING US THE 4-FJNGER MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SALUTE.
IN RETURN LETS GIVE THEM THE MIDDLE FINGER SALUTE AND A KNUCKLE SANDWICH
These terrorist on our campuses should be treat to baseball beatings and deportations to gaza
This administration is protecting these agitators and terrorists at the expense of what is happening to Jewish students
Well for one thing there are no Palestinians. They are just Arab Muslims calling themselves that for political reasons. There never was a Palestinian nation or people, they are a fiction invented for political purposes, first by the Roman emperor Hadrian after he crushed the Bar Khokba revolt and renamed the region Syria Palestina, after the Philistines who had vanished from the world centuries before to erase all Jewish connection to the land. In modern times Arab Muslims use the name for the same purpose.