Wealthy donors pull funding from from Harvard and U Penn for failure to denounce “antisemitism”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People like this are teaching our youth. I hope donors to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago take action.....

This lady should be fired. How can she be expected to teach a Jewish art student or art major?

From the picture he looks to be quite the handsome fellow.

And will claim to be the real victim in all of this before it is all said and done. Mark my words.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Mika has now recanted his words in another letter.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not just Harvard though. The 2017 women's march was led by a lot of these same Palestinian liberation types and ultimately the whole thing fizzled when many women had to distance themselves from the march due to anti-Semitic remarks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People like this are teaching our youth. I hope donors to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago take action.....

This lady should be fired. How can she be expected to teach a Jewish art student or art major?

She apologized.... Not sure I would want to be in her class if I were Jewish. Or, any other race/ethnicity/religion.

A Chicago art professor who was blasted online for calling Israelis “pigs” and “very bad people” after the Hamas attacks has said she is “deeply sorry” and does not stand behind her antisemitic comments.

Dr. Mika Tosca, a climate scientist and associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), issued an apology on her Instagram Wednesday for her incendiary post amid the Israel-Hamas war.

“Yesterday I wrote some things on my Instagram story that I unequivocally reject and do not stand behind,” Tosca wrote.

“I am deeply sorry for writing what I wrote, and for hurting many people with my words, and I am especially sorry to Israeli people that I broadly placed at fault for the war.”
“[Israelis] did not — and do not — deserve [what I said], and I was wrong to post what I posted; I know that my words perpetuated harmful stereotypes,” the lengthy statement read.

“I allowed my reaction to the violence in Israel and Palestine to take an inappropriate and offensive form, and I am taking proactive steps to learn how I can do better and be better.

“To the many Israeli and Jewish people who I hurt with my words: I am truly sorry. I own my mistake and promise to be better. I hope you can forgive me,” she concluded.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/19/dr-mika-tosca-chicago-professor-apologizes-for-calling-israelis-pigs-and-very-bad-people/

The bolded? LOLOL. Liar

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Citibank employee said "No wonder Hitler wanted to get rid of all of them" on social media.

Citibank really had no choice. You can't have an employee fostering that level of hatred in the workplace.

Why are so many women saying such antisemitic things?

You are finally seeing who the real Nazis are....................And it isn't conservative women.

Own this.

THIS. The "Nazi" and "fascist" accusations always rang hollow (and stupid), but now more than ever. Democrats always accuse others of that which they are guilty of.

Completely true. They boldly came out and stated what they thought, thinking that the world would be behind them. Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People like this are teaching our youth. I hope donors to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago take action.....

This lady should be fired. How can she be expected to teach a Jewish art student or art major?

From the picture he looks to be quite the handsome fellow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not just Harvard though. The 2017 women's march was led by a lot of these same Palestinian liberation types and ultimately the whole thing fizzled when many women had to distance themselves from the march due to anti-Semitic remarks.

DP. Exactly. Antisemites have *always* been LWNJs.

[Anonymous]

this mike tosca affair is so bizarre. she denounces words she posted the day before? uh, then why the hell did she post them? i'm surprised that a non-passing transwoman would be so against israel anyway, israel is very friendly and tolerant of trans. in palestine she would be killed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this mike tosca affair is so bizarre. she denounces words she posted the day before? uh, then why the hell did she post them? i'm surprised that a non-passing transwoman would be so against israel anyway, israel is very friendly and tolerant of trans. in palestine she would be killed.

I think the explanation you’re looking for is: she’s an idiot.

[Anonymous]

There are antisemites on the left and on the right. Both are equally dangerous. Frankly the left has been sabotaging reproductive rights for the last 20 years - which is why we’re at where we’re at. If the New Left cannot safeguard access to reproductive healthcare, reduce gun violence, or protect my kids from violent antisemitism - what are they doing exactly? Sole message cannot be Trump is a corrupt/racist/rapist/sociopath. I mean, that’s all true, but that can’t be the message.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this mike tosca affair is so bizarre. she denounces words she posted the day before? uh, then why the hell did she post them? i'm surprised that a non-passing transwoman would be so against israel anyway, israel is very friendly and tolerant of trans. in palestine she would be killed.

I didn't know she was trans until I read this! I guess she passes well enough to me.
She's trash either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this mike tosca affair is so bizarre. she denounces words she posted the day before? uh, then why the hell did she post them? i'm surprised that a non-passing transwoman would be so against israel anyway, israel is very friendly and tolerant of trans. in palestine she would be killed.

I didn't know she was trans until I read this! I guess she passes well enough to me.
She's trash either way.

I think someone needs to educate her on LGBTQ rights in Gaza and the West Bank https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_State_of_Palestine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this mike tosca affair is so bizarre. she denounces words she posted the day before? uh, then why the hell did she post them? i'm surprised that a non-passing transwoman would be so against israel anyway, israel is very friendly and tolerant of trans. in palestine she would be killed.

I didn't know she was trans until I read this! I guess she passes well enough to me.
She's trash either way.

I think someone needs to educate her on LGBTQ rights in Gaza and the West Bank https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_State_of_Palestine

She would be thrown off a roof in Egypt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this mike tosca affair is so bizarre. she denounces words she posted the day before? uh, then why the hell did she post them? i'm surprised that a non-passing transwoman would be so against israel anyway, israel is very friendly and tolerant of trans. in palestine she would be killed.

This is what I don’t understand. Why on earth does the LGBTQ community - and liberals in general - support Palestine, a place that despises LGBTQ people and executes them? It makes zero sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this mike tosca affair is so bizarre. she denounces words she posted the day before? uh, then why the hell did she post them? i'm surprised that a non-passing transwoman would be so against israel anyway, israel is very friendly and tolerant of trans. in palestine she would be killed.

I think the explanation you’re looking for is: she’s an idiot.

DP. As is anyone supporting terrorists.