Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP. I’m a moderate Democrat, not Jewish, who voted for Harris and I don’t have problems with this. They can’t make campus safe for their students, the protestors are entitled and ignorant narcissists, and their professors encourage the violence. I don’t want to pay for that nonsense.
Let the Gulf States that are funneling propaganda and money to these schools make up the difference.
This. Completely. The people on here claiming the protests are peaceful either haven't seen the videos or are outright lying. Are there peaceful protestors? Probably. That is not the same thing as saying these protests have remained peaceful.
As I wrote earlier - I was on the Columbia campus last spring. The protests I saw were peace. The counter protest agitators were (1) not students and (2) were much more aggressive (yelling in people’s faces, blocking entrances).
I’d love to hear first hand accounts from others bit those are missing from this thread.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This will last about 15 minutes before it is overturned on First Amendment grounds, but maybe the pro Israel folks can take a half minute to reflect on how bad it looks that they are lining up to support someone whose playbook is looking surprisingly Hitleresque, and what this might mean for the long term support of your country?
As someone who married into the tribe, I can honestly say I don’t not care one bit if Israel seeks to exist tomorrow because I’m sick of them meddling in my country. And they only have themselves to blame.
Assume that this marriage is past tense.
Present. And my actively Jewish spouse is sick of their crap, too. We live in America and not Israel for a reason.
And she, like you, “doesn’t care if Israel [ceases] to exist”?
Strange sort of “actively Jewish” spouse you have.
Does a Jewish person HAVE to be pro Israel ?
Are the only 2 choices (1) not caring if Israel ceases to exist, or (2) being “pro Israel”?
Obviously not.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP. I’m a moderate Democrat, not Jewish, who voted for Harris and I don’t have problems with this. They can’t make campus safe for their students, the protestors are entitled and ignorant narcissists, and their professors encourage the violence. I don’t want to pay for that nonsense.
Let the Gulf States that are funneling propaganda and money to these schools make up the difference.
This. Completely. The people on here claiming the protests are peaceful either haven't seen the videos or are outright lying. Are there peaceful protestors? Probably. That is not the same thing as saying these protests have remained peaceful.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/us/columbia-university-grants-canceled-trump/index.html
Sounds good to me. No way should students be able to take over buildings, keep threatening Jewish students on a campus in NYC????? And these students who take over the building and block access get no punishment from the University….
Ah, retribrutive authoritarianism. That's nice.
Seriously - these cuts to grants to the school are not related to grants for programs that may have been deemed anti-semitic. Instead they are expressly designed to punish the school for the protests that happened earlier. Trump can cancel anything at any time for anything anyone has done any time in the past. No one sees a problem with this?
Nope. All good. These antisemitic protest are continuing. As a Jewish person I am disgusted that Columbia is still allowing this. They are protesting Jewish people, not just Israel here.
He should cut all their funding if the school can’t cut down on this.
Anonymous wrote:I only hope that Trump takes racism on college campuses seriously enough to care when black and Hispanic students are maligned.
https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/20/hundreds-of-black-faculty-students-say-dartmouth-college-is-racially-hostile/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.
This.... it's taking education to a dark place.
It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.
Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.
These actions reek of DEI, ironically.
The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.
Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.
Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!
Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?
DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.
I guess you’re not following current events? Trump has demanded NATO and the Ukraine pay the US back. We cannot keep giving Israel, a double standard for everything. Israel must repay the US in full.
Oh in no way is Israel a democracy and supporting Israel is not in any way in the US interest. Pay up.
Trump is also asking Israel to pay with his proposal to develop Gaza. I don’t think it’s actually going anywhere because it’s not a realistic idea but don’t think he’s not trying to recoup $.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is committed to buying and owning Gaza, but could allow sections of the war-ravaged land to be rebuilt by other states in the Middle East.
“I'm committed to buying and owning Gaza. As far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it, other people may do it, through our auspices. But we’re committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that Hamas doesn’t move back.”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.
This.... it's taking education to a dark place.
It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.
Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.
These actions reek of DEI, ironically.
The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.
Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.
Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!
Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?
DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.
I guess you’re not following current events? Trump has demanded NATO and the Ukraine pay the US back. We cannot keep giving Israel, a double standard for everything. Israel must repay the US in full.
Oh in no way is Israel a democracy and supporting Israel is not in any way in the US interest. Pay up.
Trump is also asking Israel to pay with his proposal to develop Gaza. I don’t think it’s actually going anywhere because it’s not a realistic idea but don’t think he’s not trying to recoup $.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This will last about 15 minutes before it is overturned on First Amendment grounds, but maybe the pro Israel folks can take a half minute to reflect on how bad it looks that they are lining up to support someone whose playbook is looking surprisingly Hitleresque, and what this might mean for the long term support of your country?
As someone who married into the tribe, I can honestly say I don’t not care one bit if Israel seeks to exist tomorrow because I’m sick of them meddling in my country. And they only have themselves to blame.
Assume that this marriage is past tense.
Present. And my actively Jewish spouse is sick of their crap, too. We live in America and not Israel for a reason.
And she, like you, “doesn’t care if Israel [ceases] to exist”?
Strange sort of “actively Jewish” spouse you have.
Does a Jewish person HAVE to be pro Israel ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.
This.... it's taking education to a dark place.
It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.
Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.
These actions reek of DEI, ironically.
The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.
Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.
Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.
This.... it's taking education to a dark place.
It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.
Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.
These actions reek of DEI, ironically.
The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.
Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.
Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!
Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?
DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.
I guess you’re not following current events? Trump has demanded NATO and the Ukraine pay the US back. We cannot keep giving Israel, a double standard for everything. Israel must repay the US in full.
Oh in no way is Israel a democracy and supporting Israel is not in any way in the US interest. Pay up.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.
This.... it's taking education to a dark place.
It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.
Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.
This.... it's taking education to a dark place.
It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.
Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.
These actions reek of DEI, ironically.
The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.
Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.
Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!
Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?
DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.
This.... it's taking education to a dark place.
It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.
Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.
This.... it's taking education to a dark place.
It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.
Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.
These actions reek of DEI, ironically.
The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.
Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.
Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!
Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?