Safe schools for a Jewish kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the perspective of myself and several Jewish people I know. We are horrified by the October 7 terrorist attacks. We are also horrified by the loss of life of innocent Palestinians. We are not safe in a world with Hamas and they are hiding in Gaza behind innocent civilians. This is a no-win situation. We want more humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We don’t understand why Egypt isn’t allowing Palestinians through the Rafa crossing and Muslim countries aren’t allowing them to immigrate. We believe Palestinians have the right to live in peace and would like to see Hamas wiped out and then have those Palestinians seeking peace return to live a safer and better life. We find it difficult to hear students saying innocent Israelis had this coming but that is the official stance of these groups protesting. I would never ever say innocent Palestinians had anything coming. Every innocent life is valuable. Every single one. What my kids have a problem with is the hate crimes around their campus. People targeting others purely for their religion. People defacing their dorm room doors with offensive images and language. They do not feel safe.

Israel is not only saying that but showing it, so . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Given the current situation, I can certainly understand where OP is coming from. Don't be a tone-deaf PP. No, I am not Jewish.

Agree. Cornell grad here, and a month ago I’d have sworn that Cornell would be a safe place for a Jewish person without giving it a second thought. I am absolutely shocked as to what is happening there now. Shocked and appalled.

To be fair to Cornell, my understanding is that the thread is NOT coming from Cornell community. Someone unrelated to the school posting threatening on social media. Feel free to correct me if my understanding is wrong/old.

The threats were on a Cornell specific forum. Still not known who exactly posted them. There were words like “F—- Israel” spray painted on campus. A Cornell professor who called the events of 10/7 “exhilarating”. I wouldn’t recommend it to my Jewish friends at this point.

Was that professor fired? Because he is patently harmful to student wellbeing.

[Anonymous]

There were "rape lists" posted on campus walls

Asian students get straight up assaulted just walking a block away from campus.

There were 49 bomb threats made against HBCUs in 2022.

Call it all out. College students are targeted because they all represent some kind of promise for the future. Some people who feel threatened by that promise (i.e. LGBTQ rights, females in positions of power, détente between Israel and the wider Muslim world, full civil rights for the Rohingya, etc.) see students as targets.

It is completely F'd up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Those groups may all be marginalized but no one is marching around calling for their murder. Jewish students are under particular threat right now. Please open your eyes and acknowledge it!

Really? No one is walking around calling for the murder of Muslims or in fact murdering them? Do you watch the news? A man murdered a Muslim CHILD for being muslim in IL a week ago. A Muslim pediatrician was murdered YESTERDAY in MD for being Muslim. Police are out here murdering unarmed black people everyday and have been for years? An entire political party is not out here trying to exterminate LGBTQIA people? Please!

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Those groups may all be marginalized but no one is marching around calling for their murder. Jewish students are under particular threat right now. Please open your eyes and acknowledge it!

Jewish people in the US are freaking out because people are saying mean words. Meanwhile muslims, black people, Asian people, and LGBTQ people are actually getting murdered.

[Anonymous]

Seems like Cornell was targeted because it has a high Jewish population (about 20%) but would you want your child at a school with very few Jewish students instead? Online posts (as terrible as they are) would not stop me from sending my child to a particular school. We know that bad things happen all over the US to ordinary people doing things we all do.

--Parent of Current Cornell student

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Those groups may all be marginalized but no one is marching around calling for their murder. Jewish students are under particular threat right now. Please open your eyes and acknowledge it!

Really? No one is walking around calling for the murder of Muslims or in fact murdering them? Do you watch the news? A man murdered a Muslim CHILD for being muslim in IL a week ago. A Muslim pediatrician was murdered YESTERDAY in MD for being Muslim. Police are out here murdering unarmed black people everyday and have been for years? An entire political party is not out here trying to exterminate LGBTQIA people? Please!

+1, a man drove a car into a rally to support Palestinians in Minnesota last week, too.

I think increasingly people only see the harm to the group they are aligned with, and simply choose to believe that it is worse than what anyone else is experiencing. The truth is that violence is increasing against Jews and pro-Palestinian identities in the US and abroad.

[Anonymous]

I was saddened to read that Brandeis is struggling to unite

https://www.jta.org/2023/10/25/united-states/at-brandeis-u-founded-as-a-nonsectarian-jewish-university-resolution-to-condemn-hamas-fails-student-senate#:~:text=That%20changed%20on%20Sunday%2C%20when,release%20all%20of%20its%20hostages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Those groups may all be marginalized but no one is marching around calling for their murder. Jewish students are under particular threat right now. Please open your eyes and acknowledge it!

Jewish people in the US are freaking out because people are saying mean words. Meanwhile muslims, black people, Asian people, and LGBTQ people are actually getting murdered.

Let's try to be real here. Jewish people get attacked and murdered in the US also - because they are Jewish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the perspective of myself and several Jewish people I know. We are horrified by the October 7 terrorist attacks. We are also horrified by the loss of life of innocent Palestinians. We are not safe in a world with Hamas and they are hiding in Gaza behind innocent civilians. This is a no-win situation. We want more humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We don’t understand why Egypt isn’t allowing Palestinians through the Rafa crossing and Muslim countries aren’t allowing them to immigrate. We believe Palestinians have the right to live in peace and would like to see Hamas wiped out and then have those Palestinians seeking peace return to live a safer and better life. We find it difficult to hear students saying innocent Israelis had this coming but that is the official stance of these groups protesting. I would never ever say innocent Palestinians had anything coming. Every innocent life is valuable. Every single one. What my kids have a problem with is the hate crimes around their campus. People targeting others purely for their religion. People defacing their dorm room doors with offensive images and language. They do not feel safe.

Israel is not only saying that but showing it, so . . .

Please read the PP again. Many American Jews are horrified by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and its decision to cut off food, water and fuel.
So I’m not sure what your comment is trying to say….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What schools in Virginia are safe for a Jewish girl??

Everyone understands concerns of an anxious parent but ALL VIRGINIA schools are safe for any Jewish or Muslim girl or boy or binary person. Don't let your anxiety and conspiracy theories drive critical life decisions of your young adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the perspective of myself and several Jewish people I know. We are horrified by the October 7 terrorist attacks. We are also horrified by the loss of life of innocent Palestinians. We are not safe in a world with Hamas and they are hiding in Gaza behind innocent civilians. This is a no-win situation. We want more humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We don’t understand why Egypt isn’t allowing Palestinians through the Rafa crossing and Muslim countries aren’t allowing them to immigrate. We believe Palestinians have the right to live in peace and would like to see Hamas wiped out and then have those Palestinians seeking peace return to live a safer and better life. We find it difficult to hear students saying innocent Israelis had this coming but that is the official stance of these groups protesting. I would never ever say innocent Palestinians had anything coming. Every innocent life is valuable. Every single one. What my kids have a problem with is the hate crimes around their campus. People targeting others purely for their religion. People defacing their dorm room doors with offensive images and language. They do not feel safe.

Israel is not only saying that but showing it, so . . .

Please read the PP again. Many American Jews are horrified by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and its decision to cut off food, water and fuel.
So I’m not sure what your comment is trying to say….

I'm trying to say your actions/support for Israel contradicts what you are saying.

[Anonymous]

At what schools have Jewish kids been harmed so far this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like Cornell was targeted because it has a high Jewish population (about 20%) but would you want your child at a school with very few Jewish students instead? Online posts (as terrible as they are) would not stop me from sending my child to a particular school. We know that bad things happen all over the US to ordinary people doing things we all do.

--Parent of Current Cornell student

I was quite surprised to learn that 22% of the Cornell students are Jewish. It means that about 2/3 of their white students are Jewish, which makes the non-Jewish whites an URM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the perspective of myself and several Jewish people I know. We are horrified by the October 7 terrorist attacks. We are also horrified by the loss of life of innocent Palestinians. We are not safe in a world with Hamas and they are hiding in Gaza behind innocent civilians. This is a no-win situation. We want more humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We don’t understand why Egypt isn’t allowing Palestinians through the Rafa crossing and Muslim countries aren’t allowing them to immigrate. We believe Palestinians have the right to live in peace and would like to see Hamas wiped out and then have those Palestinians seeking peace return to live a safer and better life. We find it difficult to hear students saying innocent Israelis had this coming but that is the official stance of these groups protesting. I would never ever say innocent Palestinians had anything coming. Every innocent life is valuable. Every single one. What my kids have a problem with is the hate crimes around their campus. People targeting others purely for their religion. People defacing their dorm room doors with offensive images and language. They do not feel safe.

Israel is not only saying that but showing it, so . . .

Please read the PP again. Many American Jews are horrified by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and its decision to cut off food, water and fuel.
So I’m not sure what your comment is trying to say….

I'm trying to say your actions/support for Israel contradicts what you are saying.

Then you are making the argument that your own actions support terrorists. Hamas is the government in Gaza and you aren’t willing to condemn the killing of innocents by Hamas? We can’t afford to think in black and white terms or we will never ever find peace. This is a terrible tragedy. I pray for peace and a path forward.