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Wealthy donors pull funding from from Harvard and U Penn for failure to denounce “antisemitism”
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Anonymous
Have you read the definitions and the exceptions? |
Anonymous
It appears that statute would not apply in these cases: This statute prohibits discrimination on the basis of an employee’s “political activities outside of working hours, off of the employer’s premises and without the use of the employer’s equipment or other property.”[1] N.Y. Lab. Law § 201-d(1)(a). Importantly, New York’s Labor Law defines “political activities” as running for public office, campaigning for a candidate for public office, or participating in political fundraising activities. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
You mean like the women of Hamas? Like…what are you talking about? It’s men and women and, nowadays, the non-binary! ….welcome to antisemitism. It’s everyone! |
Anonymous
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Harvard finds itself in an ideological bind. Following Hamas’s horrific terror attack against Israel, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee issued a statement, co-signed by 33 other student groups, blaming the Jewish state for the murder, rape, and mutilation of its own citizens by Hamas. "Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum," the statement read. "The apartheid regime is the only one to blame."
The reaction was swift. The media, the public, and prominent political figures condemned the students for rationalizing atrocities against innocent people, including women, children, and the elderly. Harvard’s administration, long accustomed to toeing the radical line, hesitated for days before releasing a generic statement of condemnation and writing that "no student group—not even 30 student groups—speaks for Harvard University or its leadership." Meantime, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers expressed surprise, wondering on social media why the university could not "find anything approaching the moral clarity of Harvard statements after George Floyd’s death or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine." It is hard to believe that Summers is being sincere. As anyone in Harvard’s orbit would know—especially a long-time professor and former university president—the politics of decolonization, critical race theory, and anti-Israel agitation has been a staple of public life on that campus for decades. And it is not a cause driven solely by misguided students: administrators, department leaders, and prominent faculty have all developed it, institutionalized it, or at least publicly deferred to the radicals who did. One needs only to browse the current Harvard course catalog to see how deeply the rhetoric of "decolonization" has been embedded. One course, "Global Rebellion: Race, Solidarity, and Decolonization," draws on critical ethnic studies, a subfield of critical race theory, and promises to promote "Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous radicalism"—that is, left-wing ethnopolitics for everyone except whites and Jews. The goal, according to the course description, is to "discuss how BIPOC communities forged cross-racial, internationalist solidarities to rebel against global white supremacy." Another course, "Colonialism and its Postcolonial/Decolonial Afterlives," features readings of Lenin and Frantz Fanon, the latter of whom argued that "violence is a cleansing force" that "frees the native from his inferiority complex" and "restores his self-respect." Five Harvard faculty also issued a statement linking the work of "Palestinian liberation" to the work of decolonizing Harvard, arguing for "a more robust commitment to teaching about Palestine, to incorporating work by Palestinians into our syllabi, to inviting Palestinian scholars and community members to speak at university events, and to supporting campus activism for Palestinian liberation." Montalvo and his fellow travelers make clear that "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor," as the title of a scholarly paper asserts. As Palestinian militants decolonize Israel, the logic goes, domestic academics should decolonize institutions such as Harvard. As we have seen since October 7, the outcome of "decolonization" is barbarism. For Hamas, it means murdering women, children, and the elderly, executing innocent people on the street, and mutilating infants in their homes. For the radical academics, the process is less brutal but barbaric all the same: it means destroying our best institutions, obliterating academic standards, and elevating witchcraft, voodoo, and pseudo-science into positions of prestige. The philosopher Leo Strauss once defined nihilism as opposition to civilization as such—and this is precisely what the decolonizing academics have done, acting out their vengeful fantasies to "abolish" Harvard, once a crowning symbol of Western civilization. Americans need to understand that the massacre in Gaza is not only a foreign outrage. The same ethno-radicals who cheer Hamas’s destruction of civilization abroad also want to commit civilizational suicide here at home. |
Anonymous
Progressives maybe, but not Dems. The real dems - like Joe Biden (and me) - are sane. Unfortunately, the real republicans are just MAGA and insane. That’s why normal republicans are now dems. Antisemitism is part MAGA, no doubt. It’s not part of main stream dems though. |
Anonymous
I think the guy wearing the camp auschwitz shirt on Jan 6 was clearly being ironic. That's why none of his very much not antisemitic fellow protestors didn't seem to mind |
Anonymous
Thank you for this post. Hopefully Harvard gets Bud lighted. The takeover of our colleges by Hamas is sick. There were Hamas speakers at the Penn writers symposium. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
That's all you got? Freedom fries and lousy QB? Women have had to go into hiding for daring to say men can't be women. Have had rape and death threats. I'll own freedom fries all day compared to rape threats from your side when women have the audacity to state human sex is binary. |
Anonymous
I never remember you posting these laws when democrats where gleefully stating they would never hire anyone the believed to be republican. Did you suddenly find this law out? Have you seen the error of your ways? Or maybe you are realizing that people have long memories of abuse. |
Anonymous
I suppose. |
Anonymous
You are finally seeing who the real Nazis are....................And it isn't conservative women. Own this. |
Anonymous
Harvard undergrad has perhaps two or three remaining moderate Republican professors. The Palestine-Israel dynamic gives the suburban freedom fighter students who are steeped in decolonization courses a real life chance, right now, to see how theory becomes action. So thr students becomw very excited. Why this leads to cheering on Hamas, a right wing fundamentalist group, is beyond me. Unless the students are just phonies. |
Anonymous
I’ve known it for 40 years. |