Pomona falls to ADL, Brandeis Center for Antisemitism, no mention of Islamophobia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a Jewish friend whose daughter got suspended for participating in pro-Palestinian protests. None of this is about protecting Jewish students. It’s about protecting a nation-state from criticism.

From a recent article in the Guardian evaluating anti-semitism allegations against universities since Oct 7, 2023: “According to the report, only one of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel.” It went on to say, “The surge in complaints has been in part the work of a small group of pro-Israel actors. Of the investigations analyzed in the report, at least 24% originated with groups or individuals unaffiliated with the university in question. Pro-Israel organizations were behind 78% of the complaints.”

There has been a very orchestrated effort by pro-Israeli groups to bring charges and complaints to these universities. None of this is organic. It’s not that individual Jewish students just felt they were treated unfairly and complained, but the pro-Israeli groups made a point to launch these complaints on behalf of pro-Israeli students to get the silencing-criticism-of-Israel response they wanted from the institutions.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/university-anitisemitism-investigations

Suspended for participating in protests?

Not likely. The vast majority of suspensions have been for violence, trespass, vandalism, property damage, etc.

Your friend’s daughter broke the rules. She got punished.

Nope, she didn’t do any of that. She got suspended for participating in a silent protest after students had been told they were no longer allowed to protest.
And a lot of the violence and other allegations have been manufactured by pro-Israeli students.
For example, one of the violent “antisemitic” incidents that occurred at Harvard was that, when Palestinians students were lying on the ground holding a die-in, and grad student proctors were there to observe, one of the pro-Israeli students tried to step on one of the protestors. The proctor pushed the pro-Israeli student away to protect the student on the ground and the pro-Israeli student filed charges of a violent anti-Semitic attack.

What actually happened at Harvard: student stops to film protesters, proctor and students surrounded and pushed the student, thereby committing assault and battery. Proctor had to go through a pre-trial diversion program. So, yeah, that’s absolutely an act of violence (and as such, a crime).

As for your friend’s daughter, please name the college. I’m quite familiar with the protests nationwide and am not aware of any “silent protesters” being suspended, except where they were also involved in building takeovers, classroom disruptions, or other egregious time/place/manner violations.

[Anonymous]

Lots of issues at the 5Cs these days. Leadership transitions, political issues, censorship, political and socio-economic divides ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a Jewish friend whose daughter got suspended for participating in pro-Palestinian protests. None of this is about protecting Jewish students. It’s about protecting a nation-state from criticism.

From a recent article in the Guardian evaluating anti-semitism allegations against universities since Oct 7, 2023: “According to the report, only one of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel.” It went on to say, “The surge in complaints has been in part the work of a small group of pro-Israel actors. Of the investigations analyzed in the report, at least 24% originated with groups or individuals unaffiliated with the university in question. Pro-Israel organizations were behind 78% of the complaints.”

There has been a very orchestrated effort by pro-Israeli groups to bring charges and complaints to these universities. None of this is organic. It’s not that individual Jewish students just felt they were treated unfairly and complained, but the pro-Israeli groups made a point to launch these complaints on behalf of pro-Israeli students to get the silencing-criticism-of-Israel response they wanted from the institutions.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/university-anitisemitism-investigations

Suspended for participating in protests?

Not likely. The vast majority of suspensions have been for violence, trespass, vandalism, property damage, etc.

Your friend’s daughter broke the rules. She got punished.

Nope, she didn’t do any of that. She got suspended for participating in a silent protest after students had been told they were no longer allowed to protest.
And a lot of the violence and other allegations have been manufactured by pro-Israeli students.
For example, one of the violent “antisemitic” incidents that occurred at Harvard was that, when Palestinians students were lying on the ground holding a die-in, and grad student proctors were there to observe, one of the pro-Israeli students tried to step on one of the protestors. The proctor pushed the pro-Israeli student away to protect the student on the ground and the pro-Israeli student filed charges of a violent anti-Semitic attack.

What actually happened at Harvard: student stops to film protesters, proctor and students surrounded and pushed the student, thereby committing assault and battery. Proctor had to go through a pre-trial diversion program. So, yeah, that’s absolutely an act of violence (and as such, a crime).

As for your friend’s daughter, please name the college. I’m quite familiar with the protests nationwide and am not aware of any “silent protesters” being suspended, except where they were also involved in building takeovers, classroom disruptions, or other egregious time/place/manner violations.

I heard the student was trying to step/almost stepped on the protestors and that may be true. Depends who you ask. Pro-Israeli students are constantly out filming protesters on all these campuses. Maybe to make their doxxing, harassment and intimidation lists and edit the videos to make the pro-Palestinian protesters look bad. There is a very well-funded, organized, orchestrated, pro-Israel movement going around figuring out how to silence the protestors and silence criticism of Israel on university campuses and elsewhere. They submit edited and one-sided info and make allegations and lawsuits to accuse universities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The BBC has issued guidelines to news staff to the effect they may question the actions of Israel but not the existence of Israel itself, in other words anti-Zionism is considered antisemitism, despite Zionism being the ideological foundation of ethnic cleansing and genocide through mass murder, mass starvation and the most grotesque forms of torture.

Settlements at UCLA, Columbia and Pomona as demanded by the US government, with undoubtedly more to come, indicate that the same applies to the US as well.

Meanwhile, a Zionist mob ran wild at UCLA, attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment, while UCLA police watched and did nothing.

Wait, are you actually suggesting Israel shouldn't exist? Yeah, that's a problem

Not as a theocracy, apartheid state, no. Your defending it is the problem.

A multicultural Palestine with federalism and protected minorities, including Jews? Sounds good to me.

DP.

To label Israel a theocracy is stupid. We have literal theocracies in the region to compare it to, there are a crap ton of secular politicians and judges in Israel.
To call it an apartheid state is stupid. There are arab muslims in the knesset and on their supreme court.
It is the most liberal democracy in the middle east by a fairly wide margin.

Almost all the other states in the region are islamic states with islamic laws. If you want a one state solution for Israel, you effectively want yet another islamic state in the region. We don't have to look very hard to see what happens to jews in islamic states.

You can protest the violence, people have always protested wars because they want it to stop but the japanese killed 2000 americans at pearl harbor and we proceeded to kill millions of them. We did not stop until they offered UNCONDITIONAL surrender. Until Hamas surrenders unconditionally, this is war. War is hell, nobody argues that its not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jewish students don't say that. Don't be an a**hole just spouting random stuff. And it's not analogous anyway to the previous post.

Honestly some stiff is not far off. If someone says “Palestinians deserve their own state” a lot of times people claim to hear that as “Israel must be destroyed”.

Palestinians had at least 3 opportunities for their own state and each time they chose violence instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The BBC has issued guidelines to news staff to the effect they may question the actions of Israel but not the existence of Israel itself, in other words anti-Zionism is considered antisemitism, despite Zionism being the ideological foundation of ethnic cleansing and genocide through mass murder, mass starvation and the most grotesque forms of torture.

Settlements at UCLA, Columbia and Pomona as demanded by the US government, with undoubtedly more to come, indicate that the same applies to the US as well.

Meanwhile, a Zionist mob ran wild at UCLA, attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment, while UCLA police watched and did nothing.

Wait, are you actually suggesting Israel shouldn't exist? Yeah, that's a problem

Not as a theocracy, apartheid state, no. Your defending it is the problem.

A multicultural Palestine with federalism and protected minorities, including Jews? Sounds good to me.

DP.

To label Israel a theocracy is stupid. We have literal theocracies in the region to compare it to, there are a crap ton of secular politicians and judges in Israel.
To call it an apartheid state is stupid. There are arab muslims in the knesset and on their supreme court.
It is the most liberal democracy in the middle east by a fairly wide margin.

Almost all the other states in the region are islamic states with islamic laws. If you want a one state solution for Israel, you effectively want yet another islamic state in the region. We don't have to look very hard to see what happens to jews in islamic states.

You can protest the violence, people have always protested wars because they want it to stop but the japanese killed 2000 americans at pearl harbor and we proceeded to kill millions of them. We did not stop until they offered UNCONDITIONAL surrender. Until Hamas surrenders unconditionally, this is war. War is hell, nobody argues that its not.

Hamas is a creation of Israel, you fool. They have been funding it for decades with money siphoned via Qatar to keep an actual Palestinian peace process from happening. Now they are using Hamas’ existence as an excuse for genocide. Genocide has the plan for the Palestinians all along. They just had to set up the right conditions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The BBC has issued guidelines to news staff to the effect they may question the actions of Israel but not the existence of Israel itself, in other words anti-Zionism is considered antisemitism, despite Zionism being the ideological foundation of ethnic cleansing and genocide through mass murder, mass starvation and the most grotesque forms of torture.

Settlements at UCLA, Columbia and Pomona as demanded by the US government, with undoubtedly more to come, indicate that the same applies to the US as well.

Meanwhile, a Zionist mob ran wild at UCLA, attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment, while UCLA police watched and did nothing.

Wait, are you actually suggesting Israel shouldn't exist? Yeah, that's a problem

Not as a theocracy, apartheid state, no. Your defending it is the problem.

A multicultural Palestine with federalism and protected minorities, including Jews? Sounds good to me.

DP.

To label Israel a theocracy is stupid. We have literal theocracies in the region to compare it to, there are a crap ton of secular politicians and judges in Israel.
To call it an apartheid state is stupid. There are arab muslims in the knesset and on their supreme court.
It is the most liberal democracy in the middle east by a fairly wide margin.

Almost all the other states in the region are islamic states with islamic laws. If you want a one state solution for Israel, you effectively want yet another islamic state in the region. We don't have to look very hard to see what happens to jews in islamic states.

You can protest the violence, people have always protested wars because they want it to stop but the japanese killed 2000 americans at pearl harbor and we proceeded to kill millions of them. We did not stop until they offered UNCONDITIONAL surrender. Until Hamas surrenders unconditionally, this is war. War is hell, nobody argues that its not.

Jewish state is imbedded in the Basic Laws of Israel. Amnesty international long ago labeled it an apartheid state; it is not stupid to say so, though undoubtedly you disagree. Educate yourself. Lots of details in this report:
https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Full-Report.pdf

P.S. There is no democracy in the Middle East, precisely because of Israel: to prop up the apartheid state, America has long since propped up oil rich kingdoms in the Middle East so they look the other way. The last thing America or Israel wants is democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The BBC has issued guidelines to news staff to the effect they may question the actions of Israel but not the existence of Israel itself, in other words anti-Zionism is considered antisemitism, despite Zionism being the ideological foundation of ethnic cleansing and genocide through mass murder, mass starvation and the most grotesque forms of torture.

Settlements at UCLA, Columbia and Pomona as demanded by the US government, with undoubtedly more to come, indicate that the same applies to the US as well.

Meanwhile, a Zionist mob ran wild at UCLA, attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment, while UCLA police watched and did nothing.

This is the most violent campus attack nationally from around this time of which I am familiar. (To characterize the perpetrators as uniformly Zionists appears to be speculative, however.)

I know, I know. You prefer us in cattle cars headed to the slaughter. The Jews are most useful when we are weak, submissive and quiet. Use us for our brains, our dedication to humanity as we cure diseases, create lifesaving tech, turn deserts into farms, write all your favorite Christmas songs.

But that’s where our utility ends. We aren’t allowed to fight back when provoked or dare we win a war.

This x1,000 thanks for speaking out

There’s nothing brave about typing propagandistic nonsense on DCUM. You want change? Help get the literal antisemitic-supporting president who is beginning a white nationalist coalition that will drop the “judeo” from judeochristian as soon as it’s politically favorable.

He’s the best friend Jews have ever had in the White House. But sure, keep calling him bad names.

Nope. One crook (Trump) supporting another crook (Netanyahu). Just as the vast majority of Americans do not support Trump, the vast majority of Israelis do not support Netanyahu

I’m not here to discuss Trump’s approval ratings. You called him an antisemite and I’m here to say he isn’t. Netanyahu should step down now that the war is over. The buck stops with him- 10/7 was on his watch and most Israelis agree.

The sad fact is that being anti-Israel apartheid as an Israeli, in Israel, is protected more than being anti-Israel apartheid at….Pomona College.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jewish students don't say that. Don't be an a**hole just spouting random stuff. And it's not analogous anyway to the previous post.

Honestly some stiff is not far off. If someone says “Palestinians deserve their own state” a lot of times people claim to hear that as “Israel must be destroyed”.

Palestinians had at least 3 opportunities for their own state and each time they chose violence instead.

This is another Israeli propaganda myth that dissolves quickly if you learn the actual history. The reason pro-Palestinian sentiment is growing is that people aren’t just accepting Israeli propaganda but are studying on their own what actually happened in these supposed peace processes and who actually instigates violence in the region. It’s eye-opening and not favorable at all for the Israeli side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of issues at the 5Cs these days. Leadership transitions, political issues, censorship, political and socio-economic divides ...

+1

very hard to have any kind of nuanced conversation there. everyone is very uptight and easily triggered and judgemental.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of issues at the 5Cs these days. Leadership transitions, political issues, censorship, political and socio-economic divides ...

+1

very hard to have any kind of nuanced conversation there. everyone is very uptight and easily triggered and judgemental.

Just making things up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of issues at the 5Cs these days. Leadership transitions, political issues, censorship, political and socio-economic divides ...

+1

very hard to have any kind of nuanced conversation there. everyone is very uptight and easily triggered and judgemental.

Lmao. Claremont has students doing labor union work, advocating for Amazon workers, a republican chapter, TPUSA, an abundance agenda chapter. It’s one of the most diverse LACs in terms of actual political thoughts being allowed on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:President’s letter is a better link:

https://www.pomona.edu/administration/president/statements/posts/resolution-ocr-complaints

Notably:

“It’s important that we clearly reject discrimination and harassment motivated by antisemitism, including the targeted harassment of these members of our community because of their Zionism. Many Jewish students experience anti-Zionism as an attack on their Jewish identity, ethnicity, religion and/or ancestry, which means these students experience anti-Zionism as antisemitism.”

I guess anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism. Can’t believe a college president said that, but she did…Orwellian.

People mock POC unmercifully when they say they experience attacks on elements of Black culture as racist but here we have a university saying that they will discipline students because other students experience their criticisms of Zionism as anti-semitic.

I would not be surprised if 99% of Pomona students disagree with this. Classes are over for the semester and the last day of finals are tomorrow, which is why this was announced when it was.

This is exactly why president starr sent this. Students are exhausted but pissed that this was even sent to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jewish students don't say that. Don't be an a**hole just spouting random stuff. And it's not analogous anyway to the previous post.

Honestly some stiff is not far off. If someone says “Palestinians deserve their own state” a lot of times people claim to hear that as “Israel must be destroyed”.

Palestinians had at least 3 opportunities for their own state and each time they chose violence instead.

This is another Israeli propaganda myth that dissolves quickly if you learn the actual history. The reason pro-Palestinian sentiment is growing is that people aren’t just accepting Israeli propaganda but are studying on their own what actually happened in these supposed peace processes and who actually instigates violence in the region. It’s eye-opening and not favorable at all for the Israeli side.

Tell us what actually happened I’m all ears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The BBC has issued guidelines to news staff to the effect they may question the actions of Israel but not the existence of Israel itself, in other words anti-Zionism is considered antisemitism, despite Zionism being the ideological foundation of ethnic cleansing and genocide through mass murder, mass starvation and the most grotesque forms of torture.

Settlements at UCLA, Columbia and Pomona as demanded by the US government, with undoubtedly more to come, indicate that the same applies to the US as well.

Meanwhile, a Zionist mob ran wild at UCLA, attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment, while UCLA police watched and did nothing.

Wait, are you actually suggesting Israel shouldn't exist? Yeah, that's a problem

Not as a theocracy, apartheid state, no. Your defending it is the problem.

A multicultural Palestine with federalism and protected minorities, including Jews? Sounds good to me.

This is hilarious. I’m laughing. There has never been a sustained multicultural Arab country where Jews or Christians for that matter have been protected. We are forced to pay tax and be second class citizens, and then come the pogroms and we are either forced out or fortunate enough to escape.