USC and Columbia Protests

[Anonymous]

Bad move by both university presidents. How do these people get paid huge salaries and then make such stupid decisions. Arresting students by NYPD police in riot gear? Of course, that is going to end badly. Stupid move by USC too. And who has a graduation with no outside speakers? These high level administrators seem completely clueless and out of touch with their student bodies.

[Anonymous]

There’s already a thread on this. Talk about clueless.

[Anonymous]

STUDENTS AT NORTHWESTERN University, in the Chicago suburbs, woke up on October 25 to face an unexpected allegation. “Northwestern complicit in genocide of Palestinians,” declared the school’s venerable student newspaper, the Daily Northwestern, in a front-page story.

The students, however, weren’t really looking at the Daily Northwestern. Instead, they had found the Northwestern Daily, a parody newspaper attacking the school’s stance on Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

The mock front page featured fake quotes from school officials, accusations of Israeli war crimes, and a fake ad for Birthright Israel — the travel abroad program that sends young American Jews to Israel — with the tagline “One man’s home is another man’s former home!” Overnight, someone had pinned the mock papers on bulletin boards, spread them on desks in lecture halls, and even wrapped the false front pages around roughly 300 copies of the Daily Northwestern itself.

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/05/northwestern-criminal-charges-palestine-newspaper-israel/

So here was another one. They charged to two students with a rarely used law. The administration is criminal.

[Anonymous]

^^

Following the investigation, local prosecutors brought charges against two students for theft of advertising services. The little-known statute appears to only exist in Illinois and California, where it was originally passed to prevent the Ku Klux Klan from distributing recruitment materials in newspapers. The statute makes it illegal to insert an “unauthorized advertisement in a newspaper or periodical.” The students, both of whom are Black, now face up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

“I have never seen anyone charged with theft of advertising,” said Elaine Odeh, a lawyer who formerly supervised public defenders in Cook County, Illinois, which includes Evanston, where Northwestern is based.

Jon Yates, a spokesperson for Northwestern, told The Intercept and Responsible Statecraft, “The Students Publishing Company, independent publisher of The Daily Northwestern, pursued a criminal complaint related to the publication of the ‘fake Daily’ this fall. As required by law, University Police pursued a criminal investigation, which led to a citation for violating state law that was issued to multiple students.” (SPC is independent from the university, though several professors and students sit on its board of directors.)

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/05/northwestern-criminal-charges-palestine-newspaper-israel/

Prominent journalists are on the board of directors…what were they think?

[Anonymous]

Following a dispute between a student and professor at Tulane University and the subsequent arrest of an advocate supporting the student last week, members of Tulane’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society alongside local activist organizations are joining together to challenge sanctions against protesting.

On March 13, Rory Macdonald, Tulane student and member of the Tulane chapter of SDS, was in an altercation with Tulane professor Walter Isaacson at a New Orleans Entrepreneur Week Panel.

Professor and former CNN CEO(?)attacked a student.

I began to say something that I had thought about a lot, specifically talking to the representative of Louisiana State University. LSU and Tulane are both involved in the US-Israel Energy Center, which is providing research and taking grant money for these universities from the government to provide research to help Israel steal fossil fuel resources from Palestine,” they said. “As soon as I began speaking, he stood up and came over to me very aggressively.”

Macdonald expressed confusion over their treatment from the Tulane professor, as they said the demonstrators prior had been asked to leave politely or left on their own after saying their piece, according to Macdonald. They were the eighth person to speak during the panel.
“It was like being latched on to and so I wasn’t really sure how to respond. I started backing out of the room as much as I could while being sort of grabbed and also trying to keep speaking. He started screaming at me and cursing like, ‘Get the f— out of here,’ things like that.” Macdonald said, describing their experience. “I was just shocked because no one had been handled that way.”

https://loyolamaroon.com/10042009/showcase/resistance-erupts-at-tulane-protest-for-palestine/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s already a thread on this. Talk about clueless.

+1

[Anonymous]

On November 3, 2023, the Jerusalem Post released an editorial note in which the author claimed that anti-Zionist Jews had relinquished their Judaism and were no longer a part of Klal Yisrael, the Jewish community. The author referenced an infamous 2021 article that coined the term “un-Jews” to describe anti-Zionist Jews. On November 17, 2023, an op-ed arguing the same thing said “members of Jewish Voice for Peace are neither Jews nor seekers of peace, and a pig in a yarmulke is still a pig.” Horrifying though it was, I laughed it off. Even the authors themselves admitted that their position was a divergence from mainstream Jewish thought and that the general philosophy is, “Once a Jew, always a Jew.”

Unfortunately, my time on Columbia’s campus has proven to me that I was naïve to dismiss their words as fringe opinions. Though I would be considered Jewish by all the strictest standards of Jewish law, I have come to realize that in the eyes of my pro-Israel Jewish peers, I am not one of them. It does not matter that both my parents are 100 percent ethnically Jewish, that I went to an Orthodox day school for 12 years, that I attended synagogue every Shabbat growing up, that I participated in Jewish summer camp and Jewish youth group in high school, that I have worn my kippa proudly since seventh grade, or anything else. The moment I chose to stand with Palestine, in their eyes, I forfeited my Jewishness and became an un-Jew.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/16/on-the-un-jews-of-columbia/

I guess it is a purity test for some. Very chilling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s already a thread on this. Talk about clueless.

Where?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

On November 3, 2023, the Jerusalem Post released an editorial note in which the author claimed that anti-Zionist Jews had relinquished their Judaism and were no longer a part of Klal Yisrael, the Jewish community. The author referenced an infamous 2021 article that coined the term “un-Jews” to describe anti-Zionist Jews. On November 17, 2023, an op-ed arguing the same thing said “members of Jewish Voice for Peace are neither Jews nor seekers of peace, and a pig in a yarmulke is still a pig.” Horrifying though it was, I laughed it off. Even the authors themselves admitted that their position was a divergence from mainstream Jewish thought and that the general philosophy is, “Once a Jew, always a Jew.”

Unfortunately, my time on Columbia’s campus has proven to me that I was naïve to dismiss their words as fringe opinions. Though I would be considered Jewish by all the strictest standards of Jewish law, I have come to realize that in the eyes of my pro-Israel Jewish peers, I am not one of them. It does not matter that both my parents are 100 percent ethnically Jewish, that I went to an Orthodox day school for 12 years, that I attended synagogue every Shabbat growing up, that I participated in Jewish summer camp and Jewish youth group in high school, that I have worn my kippa proudly since seventh grade, or anything else. The moment I chose to stand with Palestine, in their eyes, I forfeited my Jewishness and became an un-Jew.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/16/on-the-un-jews-of-columbia/

I guess it is a purity test for some. Very chilling.

Thank you for posting this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s already a thread on this. Talk about clueless.

You are a dummy because that thread is only about USC

[Anonymous]

No matter how hard you push the pendulum always swings back toward the middle.

[Anonymous]

USC doesn’t want a Bill Ackman situation on their hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USC doesn’t want a Bill Ackman situation on their hands.

They are stupid, the students are their primary “customers”. These universities erode their own brand and influence when they take actions that are so antithetical to their purported value proposition.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

STUDENTS AT NORTHWESTERN University, in the Chicago suburbs, woke up on October 25 to face an unexpected allegation. “Northwestern complicit in genocide of Palestinians,” declared the school’s venerable student newspaper, the Daily Northwestern, in a front-page story.

The students, however, weren’t really looking at the Daily Northwestern. Instead, they had found the Northwestern Daily, a parody newspaper attacking the school’s stance on Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

The mock front page featured fake quotes from school officials, accusations of Israeli war crimes, and a fake ad for Birthright Israel — the travel abroad program that sends young American Jews to Israel — with the tagline “One man’s home is another man’s former home!” Overnight, someone had pinned the mock papers on bulletin boards, spread them on desks in lecture halls, and even wrapped the false front pages around roughly 300 copies of the Daily Northwestern itself.

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/05/northwestern-criminal-charges-palestine-newspaper-israel/

So here was another one. They charged to two students with a rarely used law. The administration is criminal.

What laws did they break?