Anonymous wrote:The math classroom is not the place for promoting individual political views! What will these universities do next - devote 30 minutes of each class to unrelated individual promotion - bring your flags, your drums, have a dance party and promote your next event! Sorry but the (again, very expensive) classroom with limited time has a structure - one which has been well thought out by many professionals to present learning of very specific material.

For all I’ve heard about safe spaces in recent years (Demands for safe spaces), the classroom as a safe space for learning (math!) I should think would be such a space! For “ALL” we say - do we really mean that, or not?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look Bill Ackerman, a white dude, is critiquing a brown/black man for supporting the human rights of Muslims and attempting to dox him. Billionaire vs student. What a jerk.

Good grief. Does *everything* boil down to race with you?
This is about an obnoxious protestor (or two or three) interrupting a class to spout their hate. This is nothing more than a performative disruption that prevents students from doing what they went to college to do - learn.

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Anonymous wrote:This pro-Israel demonstration in Rockville is absolutely wild. The level of socially acceptable racism and hate is completely and utterly astounding. Knowing that they're local, I now understand who it is that is posting on these political threads day in and day out. And it makes so much more sense.

https://twitter.com/yousefmunayyer/status/1723051440560619745?s=42&t=CjYah8aRcPR-pKSS0zmNGA

the highlights - "we will take your heads....we will take your life...because we are white and you are murderers". Just wow.

What the guy said was obviously atrocious, but I'm pretty sure that he said "because we are right" not "white".

Anonymous wrote:Oh look Bill Ackerman, a white dude, is critiquing a brown/black man for supporting the human rights of Muslims and attempting to dox him. Billionaire vs student. What a jerk.

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Anonymous wrote:This pro-Israel demonstration in Rockville is absolutely wild. The level of socially acceptable racism and hate is completely and utterly astounding. Knowing that they're local, I now understand who it is that is posting on these political threads day in and day out. And it makes so much more sense.

https://twitter.com/yousefmunayyer/status/1723051440560619745?s=42&t=CjYah8aRcPR-pKSS0zmNGA

the highlights - "we will take your heads....we will take your life...because we are white and you are murderers". Just wow.

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Anonymous wrote:This pro-Israel demonstration in Rockville is absolutely wild. The level of socially acceptable racism and hate is completely and utterly astounding. Knowing that they're local, I now understand who it is that is posting on these political threads day in and day out. And it makes so much more sense.

https://twitter.com/yousefmunayyer/status/1723051440560619745?s=42&t=CjYah8aRcPR-pKSS0zmNGA

the highlights - "we will take your heads....we will take your life...because we are white and you are murderers". Just wow.

"Rockville is my hometown.. so f*off"..

Rockville is my hometown, too, and he can f*off himself.

That Jewish dude is racist as f*.

Anonymous wrote:This pro-Israel demonstration in Rockville is absolutely wild. The level of socially acceptable racism and hate is completely and utterly astounding. Knowing that they're local, I now understand who it is that is posting on these political threads day in and day out. And it makes so much more sense.

https://twitter.com/yousefmunayyer/status/1723051440560619745?s=42&t=CjYah8aRcPR-pKSS0zmNGA

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia suspends SJP and JVP for the semester. The school’s rationale sounded reasonable.

And UPenn student who praised Hamas is arrested for stealing an Israeli flag.

And UCLA students chant "Beat the f***ing Jews" while hitting a Netanyahu pinata.

And NYC advocates tearing down hostage posters assault a woman, tearing off her Star of David necklace.

And, and, and....

The UCLA one is quite disturbing. Also, as an aside, the anti-Israel people took many swings at it but failed until someone started ripping it. Weird.

And, there is MIT.....

To all students at MIT,

Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA.

This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin’s silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT.

Many Jewish students fear leaving their dorm rooms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews. This message is compounded by the public and private warnings of Hillel and many faculty that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today, November 9th, 2023.

Instead of dispersing the mob or de-escalating the situation by rerouting all students from Lobby 7, Jewish students specifically were warned not to enter MIT’s front entrance due to a risk to their physical safety. The onus to protect Jewish students should not be on the students themselves.

MIT administration recently announced guidelines to avoid illegal and unsafe protests on campus. The CAA, which planned the protest, knowingly and proudly violated these requirements, and even invited people from outside of MIT to join them. Their actions inhibit the possibility of safe and peaceful dialogue and endanger Jewish students on campus.

The CAA hosted a blockade that not only disregards MIT guidelines, but also obstructs Jewish students from attending classes.

Some Jewish students who saw the administration’s failure to respond to the targeted harassment of Jews on campus by the CAA came together to support each other and peacefully together stand against this threat to their safety.

Four hours after the blockade started, at 12 pm, the MIT administration passed a letter to all students, threatening their suspension if the crowds did not disperse from Lobby 7. Only the Jewish students left immediately. The CAA protesters did not cooperate. Indeed, the CAA proceeded to invite more students and non-MIT protestors to join them in calling for a violent uprising (“Intifada”) and justifying the terror attacks of Hamas on Israeli civilians.

At 5 pm, all students on campus were warned through MIT’s emergency notification system to “avoid Lobby 7” –– officially recognizing the danger present to students as a result of this violent protest. No Jewish or Israeli students were present at this point.

As of 10:30 tonight MIT has officially decided not to academically suspend CAA students who repeatedly violated the administration's guidelines and threats. They have shown that actions against Jews at MIT do not have consequences. Additionally, in an email to DUSP students, the Department Head indicated that he would protect any DUSP students involved in violating MIT’s rules today by protesting with the CAA. Not only do Jewish students feel unsafe on campus, but now they also feel excluded from and unsafe in DUSP.

Today, on the 9th of November, on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, Jews at MIT were told to enter campus from back entrances and not to stay in Hillel for fear of their physical safety.

We are seeing history repeating itself and Jews on MIT’s campus are afraid.

Signed,

The MIT Israel Alliance and its supporters

Anonymous wrote:MIT!!! Who is running these (very expensive) classes?? This is not the town square!

Well, all these schools are sending a message loud and clear. I’m not Jewish but if this is how things are run, I’m not interested.

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