Erik Simon @erikbiz

@Scaonekayulp @erikbiz @ProfDBernstein Their stated goal is largely irrelevant. They could be campaigning for subsidised dining halls. The issue is that they are bullying, initimidating and harrassing anyone who disagrees with them, and especially targeting Jewish students who do not vocally support their cause.

It would appear that there are people who think of themselves as enlightened who ACTUALLY THINK that I should, as it were, channel it into Jewish students' airpods that Israel should not exist. As if the issues are that uncontestable. When you think others have opinions but you…

@homoluigi If a group of anti-immigration zealots had engaged in tactics that made Latino students fear for their physical safety, with objective reason (threats, etc) no one (sensible) would be pointing to the Latino members of the anti-immigration group as evidence that the other Latino…

I'd say the fact that Columbia had to shut its campus because it couldn't control pro-Hamas demonstrators and it knew Jewish students, especially visibly Jewish students, felt physically unsafe, suggests that it's in violation of Title VI. I don't expect the Biden Education…

Free speech must be protected on public college campuses. Also, violation of the law is violation of the law. These are illegal protests that are designed to intimidate, obstruct, and harass Jewish students in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. As everyone knows, if…

Two comments on the two videos posted below: 1. Many protest leaders are surprisingly honest about what they want: Jewish blood. 2. The extent of the totalitarian mindset among these college students bodes ill for the future of democracy.

AG @AGHamilton29

a day ago

One of the Columbia students leading the “protest” posted this video stating that “Zionists do not deserve to live” Some in the media ignoring the words of the organizers and students involved because it’s inconvenient to the spin they prefer is irresponsible.

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Worth a few minutes of your time on the history of Israel and the Jews. I welcome a discussion on what facts elicited here are disputed, if any.

Eitan Chitayat @EitanChitayat

2 days ago

No mobs. No hate. No screaming. Just facts. The story of Israel in 3 minutes. By @naftalibennett

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The “intifada” was a series of murders directed against civilians in Israel: buses, cafes and markets blown up. Now contemplate what “globalize the intifada” means when chanted over and over again by students (and their professors?)

Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university, George Packer writes in @TheAtlantic: “A university is a community, but it is a community of a special kind -- a community devoted to inquiry. It…

My advice to university presidents is that your policy should be as follows: We honor freedom of speech and therefore do not impose and will not impose viewpoint-based restrictions on speech. We will, for the sake of protecting everyone's rights to teach and learn, strictly and…

Scott Galloway points out the appalling double standard applied to Israel: “2,200 American servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor. We [America] go on to kill 3.5 million Japanese, including 100,000 in one night. 2,800 Americans in 9/11. We [America] go on to kill 400,000 people in…

We must defend the right to attack Jews on campus!

For a second, imagine that black students at Columbia were taunted with chants of "Go back to Africa." Or imagine that a gay student at Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the eye with a flagpole. Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that they…

"What is actually needed to resolve the conflict and bring dignity and freedom to the Palestinian people — and what I wish these students would advocate for — are mature, empathetic, and compassionate leaders on both sides willing to work together to build towards coexistence,…

Universities remain strikingly incurious about where all the anti-semitism (as distinct from opposition to Israeli policy) has come from? How and why have students come to think and act this way? Might the pedagogy of faculty and policies of administrators have anything to do…

How would @Columbia respond if the students took over campus in support of the KKK and called for the genocide of other ethnic minorities? Would @Columbia continue to support the demonstrations on the basis of a commitment to free speech or would the University’s code of conduct…

People view foreign aid as contrary to America First, but in reality you cannot have an America First policy without foreign aid. This was explained perfectly by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides: "Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often…

I can’t believe my eyes. I can’t believe this is happening in my lifetime. I can’t believe the world is allowing this to happen. I can’t believe there are still people who deny it. I can’t believe how fast institutions like Columbia and Harvard went from super prestigious…

Many think kindness and weakness are twins separated at birth. In fact, they have very different parents. Weakness is the progeny of fear. It mimics kindness in order to hide. To be truly kind is to be unafraid. To stay kind is to have strength. They couldn’t be less related.