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

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Anonymous wrote:Ms. Israel 2013 is black and beautiful.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/former-miss-israel-slams-black-lives-matter-for-not-supporting-jews-after-hamas-attacks/

Can someone explain to me why she is addressing BLM? Are BLM and Israel allies or what am I missing?

I don’t know what her particular comment is about, but BLM has in the past tied Israel to racism and colonialism in the Soviet-style way that all Marxist movements reduce and distort. There is also a strong vein of scapegoating Jews in Black nationalist movements. And finally, the language of demonization for "privilege," "proportion," and "hidden power" that informs a lot of BLM rhetoric is scarily compatible with the vocabulary of old-fashioned antisemitism. It has been very easy for too many people who support BLM to make that leap.

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Anonymous wrote:Ms. Israel 2013 is black and beautiful.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/former-miss-israel-slams-black-lives-matter-for-not-supporting-jews-after-hamas-attacks/

Can someone explain to me why she is addressing BLM? Are BLM and Israel allies or what am I missing?

Some of the BLM groups have essentially shown support for the terrorists through their rhetoric and their print material.
She is essentially calling them out for their hypocrisy.... they claim to be for human rights, unless those rights involve Jewish people.

It looks like only 2 factions did, and the BLM National organization commented that it is distinct from these factions.

So if BLM claims to be for human rights, they have to fight for everyone's human rights? Was Israel supporting BLM when they were fighting for black lives in America?

I agree with the hypocrisy part of the factions that supported Hamas or inferred support fir Hamas after the massacre last week. But I don't get the rest.

BLM seems to be focused on supporting the rights of black people in America. I don't see why they should be expected to support Israel. They do not support African groups either.

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

The homeland where you lived 2000 years ago? So if a Native American pulls you out of your house in the middle of the night and tells you to leave because his tribe once lived there would you happily oblige and pack up and go to Mexico?

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

The homeland where you lived 2000 years ago? So if a Native American pulls you out of your house in the middle of the night and tells you to leave because his tribe once lived there would you happily oblige and pack up and go to Mexico?

Jews have lived in what is now Israel since it was the Kingdoms of Judea and Israel. Continuously. Yes in smaller numbers due to multiple genocides, but we have always been there.

500,000 Jews lived in Mandatory Palestine in 1945.

So your analogy is deeply flawed.

But really, I am shocked at your callousness towards a ship of stateless Holocaust survivors wanting to join their people in Mandatory Palestine and be free.

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

The homeland where you lived 2000 years ago? So if a Native American pulls you out of your house in the middle of the night and tells you to leave because his tribe once lived there would you happily oblige and pack up and go to Mexico?

One of the dumbest posts I’ve seen recently.

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

Nearly 80 years ago. Let's talk about now and what the Israeli government is doing now and has been doing.

You want to know why some BLM groups are critical of Israel it's because of how the government has treated Ethiopians- Ethiopian Jews returning to what they consider their homeland.

Look into those human rights violations.

Calling for the murder of Jews is wrong.
Hamas murdering civilians is wrong.
It's also wrong when the Israeli government commits human rights abuses and we can't keep excusing it or overlooking it because of what happened to us 80 years ago.

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

Nearly 80 years ago. Let's talk about now and what the Israeli government is doing now and has been doing.

You want to know why some BLM groups are critical of Israel it's because of how the government has treated Ethiopians- Ethiopian Jews returning to what they consider their homeland.

Look into those human rights violations.

Calling for the murder of Jews is wrong.
Hamas murdering civilians is wrong.
It's also wrong when the Israeli government commits human rights abuses and we can't keep excusing it or overlooking it because of what happened to us 80 years ago.

Show me where BLM is purely just advocating for Ethiopian Jews (who occupy leadership positions in the Israeli government) and aren’t calling for the eradication of Israel.

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Anonymous wrote:Another college professor influencing our youth......

And, more about this person:

Since that Oct. 10 post and others drew attention on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Decristo made her account private. The bio, which remains visible, describes her account as “black anarchist dyke things.”

Her profile on the UC Davis website appears to have been scrubbed. Before it was taken down, her bio read: “I am an Assistant Professor in American Studies. I focus on the interplay between sound, race, gender, and embodiment.”

Decristo and UC Davis did not respond to a request for comment.

In another post to X, Decristo wrote, “to the US embassy. US out of everywhere. US GO HOME. US GO HOME” along with three fire emojis. The post was in response to another post showing protestors marching towards the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

In yet another post to X, the professor celebrated the fire set at the Israeli embassy in Jordan, responding to the news with “HELL YEAH” and three Palestinian flag emojis.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/uc-davis-professor-under-fire-over-posts-threatening-zionist-journalists-and-their-families/

This is frightening. It appears some of these universities are radicalizing students like a few of the mosques do.
How does this person even have a job here?

OMG - is this person even still employed at UC Davis?

And isn’t making terroristic threats a felony? Why haven’t they been arrested / charged??

I am one of the posters who has been voicing support for civilians in Palestine. This professor and their rhetoric is unacceptable, they should be jailed for trying to incite violence against civilians.

You might fall over from patting your own back so hard

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

The homeland where you lived 2000 years ago? So if a Native American pulls you out of your house in the middle of the night and tells you to leave because his tribe once lived there would you happily oblige and pack up and go to Mexico?

One of the dumbest posts I’ve seen recently.

She doesn’t even realize the Jews were given what is essentially a reservation. The only difference is, Americans here aren’t attacking reservations from all sides

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciated this article reflecting on the attitudes of "the left" (which of course means different things to different people). It is specifically addressed to Jews who previously considered themselves part of it and are now feeling ostracized, but it was a good summary of the progressive position regarding Jews who get too Jewey.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/jews-of-the-left

Here's a paragraph everyone should read to understand how classic antisemitism fundamentally informs anti-Israel attitudes:

Today, your progressive friends need a scapegoat. For imperialism, for colonialism, for white supremacy. For the indelible sins etched into their own histories. Will they leave their own “settler-colonies”? Will they stick out their own necks to be cut by the “oppressed”? No. They’ll outsource that to Jews, in keeping with a tradition based on a Jew who was tortured to death to absolve us of all sin. A Jew whose death may have been tragic, but was also necessary to redeem the world.

I’m not Jewish but thought that was a very good article as a formerly leftist woman watching the surge of misogyny in progressives with dismay.

So what do you consider yourself now?

Moderate independent. I am in the process of changing my political party affiliation to independent versus Democrat, and I have stopped my political donations to Democrats for the most part. There are some isolated instances where I still donate to Democrats, but they are limited.

I am in the same process, but it's because I think Biden sending arms to Israel is beyond the pale.

Interestingly, Biden’s ability to unequivocally and clearly state that the people who torture and burn children alive are evil has made me wonder whether I should change or not. He exhibited decency and moral clarity that I thought the progressive left had stamped out of the Democrats entirely.

I’m a Biden fan and a committed Democrat. I too am proud of the way he’s been crystal clear that Hamas is a terrorist group and is not to be tolerated.

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It has been asked before, but I ask again: where is the outrage at Hamas firing rockets into Israel’s civilian areas?

And no, b-b-but Iron Dome is not a morally correct answer.

The bias against Israel is abhorrent.

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

The homeland where you lived 2000 years ago? So if a Native American pulls you out of your house in the middle of the night and tells you to leave because his tribe once lived there would you happily oblige and pack up and go to Mexico?

One of the dumbest posts I’ve seen recently.

She doesn’t even realize the Jews were given what is essentially a reservation. The only difference is, Americans here aren’t attacking reservations from all sides

Yup. The Brits gave Jews that land because they were the ones who owned it.

What’s happening now is like Native American tribes fighting over land, not like the Brits fighting indigenous people.

And before you say “well but Israel is backed by the US,” remember Hamas gets $100 million/year just from Iran.

Both sides have their benefactors.

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Anonymous wrote:It has been asked before, but I ask again: where is the outrage at Hamas firing rockets into Israel’s civilian areas?

And no, b-b-but Iron Dome is not a morally correct answer.

The bias against Israel is abhorrent.

Yep. The number of rockets I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks since the war started is 7,300. All aimed squarely at civilian targets.

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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.

Muslim culture is very conservative. Why is Islam the pet religion of the left? It's very stupid.

Because they are "brown people" and everything is viewed through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism.

How do you not look at Palestinians through a white supremacy and colonial lense?

Because:

1. Jews aren’t white.

2. Colonialism involves seizing land you have no claim to at all and occupying it usually for imperial purposes. Jews have always lived on that land and had an independent kingdom for hundreds of years. Jews have no imperial ambitions and in fact were running from hundreds of years of oppression to reestablish a governing entity that had been taken from us by imperial powers (Romans).

3. White supremacist colonialism has as part of its aim the spreading of “white civilization” and usually Christianity. Jews have never been part of white civilization and were not trying to even spread Judaism. We don’t proselytize so it would make no sense. We were trying to go back to our homeland so we could be safe.

Looking at this through the lens of white supremacy and colonialism ascribes completely inaccurate identity to Jews and gives us massively more power than we had.

If you honestly think Jews right after the Holocaust are akin to Brits or Spaniards building empires in India or the Northern Hemisphere for “gold, god, and glory” then I’m afraid your critical thinking skills are scarily absent.

None of this is to excuse poor treatment of Palestinian Arabs. But one can condemn that poor treatment without overlaying a deeply inaccurate framework onto this situation.

Thanks for this explanation. It is the closest summary of my thoughts on the topic as an atheist. My understanding is that Jews have continuously occupied this territory for millennia, long before Christianity or Islam was even founded.

Yep, that’s true. Of course, Christianity and Islam came out of Judaism, so Jews predated them in the region.

A central theme of Jewish tradition is saying “next year in Jerusalem.” Ever since our kingdom was conquered and we became a diaspora religion, we have wanted to go back.

Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, is a poem that was written in the 1800s, so well before Israel was founded. It’s about that:

As long as in the heart, within,
The Jewish soul yearns,
And towards the ends of the east,
[The Jewish] eye gazes toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

And Zionism is simply the desire to return to the homeland. It’s not as the antisemites and anti-Israel contingent (unfortunately a loud and increasingly dangerous contingent) suggest against anyone or any group or colonial in any way. It’s simply the belief that Jews have a homeland and want to return to it having been run out and enslaved away from their homeland by the Romans and others.

Absolutely.

Here’s an image for the “Israel is a colonizer” people:

Jews sang Hatikvah (hope) when the Allies liberated us. We dreamt of being free in our homeland. Not of going back to Poland or Germany, but of finally going back to our homeland.

But sure — we are imperial colonizers.

Here’s a video of a ship of Holocaust survivors in 1945, singing Hatikvah and raising up the Israeli flag.

https://youtu.be/171nZBA3eTc?si=fwsXsTHpuabfmXJG

The homeland where you lived 2000 years ago? So if a Native American pulls you out of your house in the middle of the night and tells you to leave because his tribe once lived there would you happily oblige and pack up and go to Mexico?

One of the dumbest posts I’ve seen recently.

Yes when you want to live in denial, the truth always sounds dumb. Not my fault if you don’t want to acknowledge history as it happened. Yes there were Jews in Palestine prior to 1947 but the majority of the population was comprised of Palestinians. That is why the Nakba happened where Palestinians were kicked out of their homes and forced to be refugees in neighboring countries. The audacity of you guys to insist that land belongs to you. It all comes down to religion for you because you think you are the chosen people and that is why this land belongs to you because your God ordained so and if other people are kicked out and forced to be refugees then so be it.