A Yale Professor Wrote an Op-Ed About Anti-Semitism on Campus. The University Spent Over a Year Investigating Him. - "Yale University spent more than a year investigating a Jewish professor for six words of an op-ed he published in a pro-Israel newspaper, raising questions about the school’s approach to anti-Semitism and free speech as the campus continues to cope with the fallout of the Israel-Hamas war. Evan Morris, a professor of biomedical engineering at Yale School of Medicine, penned the 2022 op-ed in the Algemeiner along with 14 other professors. They described a pattern of anti-Semitism in the Yale Postdoctoral Association, a group that runs social and academic events for researchers. The authors listed several examples of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bias. In one aside, they claimed that a researcher at the medical school, Azmi Ahmad, had "blocked an Israeli postdoc from speaking" at an October 2021 screening of a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Those six words triggered a marathon investigation by the medical school’s Office of Academic and Professional Development—a body responsible for disciplining professors for "unprofessional behavior"—that began in February 2023, over six months after the op-ed was published, and concluded in April 2024. The office told Morris that it had been "tasked with assessing the accuracy" of the six-word statement, according to an email reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. It did not tell him who filed the complaint, what policy he had allegedly violated, or what the consequences of that violation could be but said the review was likely to be completed by June 2023. Instead, it dragged on without updates for over a year, according to Morris and emails reviewed by the Free Beacon. During that time—including in the post-October 7 era—Yale repeatedly declined to sanction students and professors for vicious anti-Israel speech, citing the importance of free expression. The university took no action against Zareena Grewal, a professor of ethnicity, race, and migration, after she called October 7 "an extraordinary day" and stated that "settlers are not civilians." Nor did it investigate a Yale Law School student group that called for "armed struggle" against Israel and said that Hamas should be delisted as a terrorist organization. "Yale is committed to freedom of expression," a university spokesperson, Karen Peart, said of Grewal’s remarks. "The comments posted on Professor Grewal’s personal accounts represent her own views." By contrast, Morris earned a rebuke from the head of the university’s professional development office, Robert Rohrbaugh, who on April 11 shared the findings of the school’s investigation in an email. "We were not able to substantiate the allegation that one postdoc was blocked from speaking by the postdoc identified in your article," Rohrbaugh said. "Our request to you for the future is that when attributing conduct to a named university community member, particularly a trainee, you be as diligent as possible to be sure information presented is accurate."... "Yale spends its resources and 2 years investigating 6 words in an OpEd by its faculty but fails to discipline professors who call for the annihilation of the Jewish people." Pnina Weiss, a pediatrician at Yale Medical School who did not sign the 2022 op-ed but reviewed the correspondence between Morris and Rohrbaugh, said the investigation was "hard to reconcile" with Yale’s stated commitment to free speech. "The administration has defended the right of professors like Zareena Grewal to post on social media—celebrations of the rape, kidnapping, and cold-blooded murder of Israelis on October 7," she told the Free Beacon. "Yet when a group of 15 Jewish faculty write an op-ed about anti-Semitism and the suppression of an Israeli postdoc’s speech, the faculty are ‘investigated’ and reprimanded for misusing the word ‘block.’" Double standards, Weiss continued, "are the cornerstone of anti-Semitism."... Administrators stood by for days as protesters occupied a university plaza, defaced a World War II memorial, and harassed Jewish students who attempted to film the chaos, culminating in an April 20 confrontation that injured one student and prompted a sheepish apology from protest organizers. Additional encampments and occupations—one of which shut down a major intersection—sprung up sporadically in the following weeks. Those disruptions followed a string of quieter scandals at the Ivy League university, where the campus aftershocks of Hamas’s assault fueled charges of hypocrisy and double standards. At Yale Law School, for example, the Schell Center for International Human Rights—which in 2022 sponsored a talk on Israeli "apartheid"—resisted calls to host an event about Oct. 7, telling one Jewish student that the situation was "complex." "What kind of 'Center for International Human Rights' would refuse to host an event condemning the largest pogrom since the Holocaust," Jewish students at the law school asked in an open letter. "Does the Schell Center not think that Israelis are entitled to human rights, too? Or is it perhaps because they were Jewish?" The center only agreed to host an event after weeks of pressure, including from Jewish alumni. In the interim, several students posted defenses of the Oct. 7 massacre on a law school-wide listserv, which soon devolved into ad hominem back-and-forths... The law school’s hands-off approach to those posts contrasted sharply with its response to Trent Colbert, a second-year law student, when he invited students to his "traphouse" in 2021. Within hours of sending the invitation, Colbert was hauled into a meeting with school administrators who demanded he sign a pre-drafted apology and hinted he could face discipline—including consequences with the bar—if he refused. They would later claim the encounter had been misconstrued. "We would never get on our letterhead and write anything to the bar about you," Yaseen Eldik, then the law school’s diversity director, told Colbert a month after their first meeting. "You may have been confused." The backpedaling foreshadowed the tactics Yale used with Morris: launch an investigation, raise the possibility of discipline, then suggest after the fact that the probe’s target overreacted and imagined the threat."
Thread by @sfmcguire79 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The Princeton protestors have to be some of saddest/funniest of all. First, they leaked documents (adapted from Columbia) outlining their plans and strategy before they even started: Then they set up an encampment… …only to take it down five minutes later after being threatened with arrest: Next they occupied Clio Hall with faculty members… But the faculty members left before getting arrested and at least one later called herself a “non-participant observer”: The students were immediately arrested: In the aftermath, they shut down the “Black Princeton” group chat after messages were leaked to @abigailandwords and on Reddit: As the encampment continued, they began a hunger strike: They were not allowed to have tents, BTW, and public safety even took down a tarp they had strung up: So they were forced to sleep under tarps on the ground, sometimes in the rain. They made Blair Witch Project clips updating their status: Meanwhile, they infamously complained that Princeton wasn’t checking their vitals even though they were shaking and immunocompromised: They did have supporters, though. Several non-participant observer faculty at Princeton wrote letters and op-eds, while others joined the hunger strikers for a 24-hour fast: It turned out to be a “rotary hunger strike” (probably after the original strikers saw the faculty go out for brunch on Saturday): Finally, President Eisgruber said the encampment had to end and made some shameful concessions that were still totally unsatisfactory to the protestors. When admin showed up the next day to discuss clearing the camp, the students put out a call for their fellow students to encircle the camp but no one came. Today they announced the hunger strike is over, noting the university administration has “been forced to tone down their violent rhetoric.” And while they have events planned for today, the encampment is expected to be shut down as the university plans for year-end activities. Their parting message:"
Steve McGuire on X - "BREAKING: The Princeton encampment is officially done. “We are capable of more than we ever knew possible.” “The student intifada is here, and it is here to stay.” “Remember, Princeton: this is not one camp. This is a movement. See you at Reunions.”"
Princeton Protests: Saga of the ‘Black Princeton’ Chat Purge - "On Wednesday, I posted a screenshot taken from the “Black Princeton” group chat consisting of students and alumni. The image shows that undergraduate Kennedy Primus enticed people to join the pro-Palestinian protest on campus with the promise of bagels, and further reassured new recruits that there were “masks, hats, and umbrellas available for anyone who is concerned about their identity being revealed.” Then, she requested help for an “urgent need”: “PLEASE send me videos of our protestors looking peaceful! Our lawyer says that these are desperately needed.” (A stunning Freudian slip: Looking peaceful.) Shortly after I shared that image, the group chat devolved into a struggle session... Student and subpar detective Jordan Johnson wrote, “whoever leaked these messages please identify yourself. i have evidence to make a reasonable conclusion as to who it is, and if you don’t respond in the next minute i will kick the person or people out whose social media have been tied to the person on twitter.”... Then, three people (whom I haven’t spoken to since I graduated last year) were expelled from the chat. A new standard was born: If you follow Abigail on Twitter, then you ain’t black... I received a link to a Reddit thread that included more screenshots showing some chat members using monkey emojis and racial slurs in reference to black university administrators, including the university vice president, Rochelle Calhoun. Coulibaly, who in 2022 was awarded $5,000 by Princeton University to pursue the summer project “Yoga for Self-Actualization,” suggested that black administrators and staff had committed “coon behavior” when they were arguing with the crowd outside Clio Hall, the building that pro-Palestinian activists occupied on Monday. When I visited the Reddit website on Thursday morning to read the comments, the images had been censored by moderators; a few hours later, a student sent me the screenshots originally posted on Reddit, which I then posted on Twitter... The Daily Princetonian, a student-run publication, ran a story about this episode. Obviously, the newsworthy discoveries are that a pro-Palestinian protester admitted to providing masks for the purpose of concealing identity and further disclosed that a “lawyer” believes “videos of our protestors looking peaceful” are “desperately” needed. Surely, if the protesters had been entirely peaceful, then any footage would be appropriate and there’d be no cause for desperation. Moreover, the Great Group Chat Purge illuminates the militant enforcement of groupthink on campuses: Innocent people were deemed guilty without trial on the basis of mere social-media association. Finally, the causality is relevant. I didn’t seek out any screenshots. Rather, some black students were so frustrated with the hostile group-chat environment that they took initiative and contacted me... More fromAbigail Anthony The Revolution Is Catered ‘Trad Bosses’ Are the New ‘Girl Bosses’ But the Daily Princetonian decided that the newsworthy event was not what was said in the chat but that I had shared the screenshots. The story it ran therefore obscures the relevant material by selectively quoting. (This is hardly surprising, given that the student journalists explicitly want to be “amplifying” the pro-Palestinian demands.)... it was less than a month ago that the Princeton French Department removed a course slide deck that included gorilla images that had “inadvertently caused offense.” And, in previous years, the Daily Princetonian didn’t hesitate to run lengthy articles about university members who used racial slurs. Ultimately, the story published yesterday is a journalistic failure because it does not provide important facts for readers to consider in order to form an opinion — so I’m sure the reporters can expect a job offer from CNN upon graduation. I do, however, give credit where it is due. The Daily Princetonian did publish damning quotes — except they were not sourced from the screenshots. The Black Student Union board told the newspaper that “the Black Princeton chat has become a cultural institution within our community” and deleting it was “a great loss.” Here’s some unsolicited advice: Avoid describing a group chat with slurs as a “cultural institution.” Junior undergraduate Bétel Tenna stated, “I hope that whoever is responsible for the leaks can feel remorse about this and have a desire to rebuild our community too despite any politics or other beliefs.” Ironically, Tenna had suggested creating two new group chats in which “all members should have to be approved.” What precisely would be the approval process if there was no consideration of beliefs? Perhaps she wants a DNA test... Since posting the images on Wednesday, I have been accused of “doxing” a “private chat.” But accurately attributing a statement to a person’s name is not “doxing,” and I did not disclose any sensitive information (like home addresses, phone numbers, or employers). The chat was hypothetically limited to black Princeton students and alumni, yet there was no verification process. In any case, a theoretically exclusive chat is not necessarily private. It had nearly 1,000 members and therefore lacked any reasonable expectation of privacy. I couldn’t claim my statements were “private” if I addressed a crowd of 200 people, let alone a thousand. I will affirm what I wrote in National Review last year: If doxing means “sharing something I wrote,” then please dox me."
Meme - Stu @thestustustudio: "BREAKING: The George Washington University Encampment projects flames onto the American flag with text that reads... "Gaza lights the spark that will set the empire ablaze"
Other messages included "Long live the Student Intifada" "Down with the Settler-State" "Glory to the Martyrs of Palestine" "Stained with the Blood of 44,000 Palestinians""
The media and other terrorism supporters still pretend that this is about "protesting" "genocide"
Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "Nothing says “young students fighting injustice” like a picture of a bunch of middle aged ultra orthodox extremists from Neturei Karta, a fringe group that wants to destroy Israel"
Toronto Star @TorontoStar: "Despite facing threats and opposition from the administration, young students persist in their determination to oppose injustice, violence and denial of the basic human rights to their fellow Palestinians. #Opinion"
Four universities in Halifax release call to school administrators: divest and disclose funding ties to Israel - "In response to emails sent from Dr. Shannon regarding the rights and responsibilities for students and faculty to speak truth to power, and exercise their academic freedom: an apology from, and the resignation of, the President of NSCAD University, Dr. Peggy Shannon.
Anti-oppression training for ALL faculty and administration at NSCAD, focusing particularly on Queerness, indigeneity, and anticolonialism.
Free tuition for all students.
Free housing for all students.
The implementation of a Palestinian Art History course.
A scholarship offering free tuition and housing for one student currently living in Palestine.
That the NSCAD Board of Governors be made up entirely of students, faculty, and staff, with at least 50% +1 seat on the Board being held by students.
That NSCAD university moves all its banking to a credit union.
The immediate breaking of the lease of NSCAD with the Port Authority, regarding NSCAD’s Port campus, and a commitment of no financial dealings with the Port Authority going forward.
That all funds divested through the process of realizing the above demands be reinvested in the rebuilding of universities from the Gaza Strip that have been destroyed."
Amazing. Such a long wishlist. Of course, you're going to get massive returns investing in a terrorist state where everyone dedicates themselves to a perpetually losing attempt at genocide
Clearly if you can get someone to resign, you are still powerless and repressed, and the one you get fired is still powerful and oppressive
Amsterdam university cancels classes after violence erupted at a pro-Palestinian rally - "In the Netherlands, the board at the nearly 400-year old University of Amsterdam issued a statement saying it could not guarantee the safety of anyone on campus after a group of masked agitators barricaded doors and spray painted slogans on the walls. The mayhem on Monday followed a peaceful walkout of staff and students against the Israel-Hamas war and the university’s response to earlier protests. “They (the university) called in the police after people wouldn’t remove their face coverings but the police came in balaclavas,” political science professor Enzo Rossio told The Associated Press, describing Monday's events. He had returned to his office following the walkout, only for the building to be evacuated minutes later... last week’s protest grew into the thousands, with demonstrators chanting slogans including, “Palestine will be free!” and “Cops off campus!”... According to the University of Amsterdam, the peaceful protest was “hijacked by violent elements” who left behind “wanton destruction.” Higher education institutions in the Netherlands published guidelines on Tuesday for student protests. They include a ban on remaining overnight, occupying buildings and wearing face coverings. Last week, the University of Amsterdam already announced it would not hold talks with any protester who refused to show their face."
Time for the terrorism supporters to blame "Zionists" for their own violence and thuggery
Nearly half of Canadians oppose Pro-Palestine encampments at Canadian universities - "Nearly half (48 percent) of Canadians surveyed oppose the pro-Palestine protest encampments. Thirty-one percent support them... Nearly half of respondents (44 percent) agreed that encampments should be immediately dismantled since they threaten campus safety and students. Meanwhile, 33 percent agreed the encampments should only be dismantled if protestors voice antisemitic views or hate speech. Nearly a quarter (23 percent) agreed that they should be completely tolerated as a form of freedom of speech and association"
Of course, the freedom convoy wasn't "freedom of speech and association", since the left disapproves of that
David Bernstein on X - "Hillels new survey is getting a lot of attention for its data on Jewish college students' experiences of antisemitism and the like since 10/7, but there is very interesting data at the end. Despite constant claims from @peterbeinart and others about how "progressive" young Jews are, more Jewish college students identify as conservative than progress, and about the same number as moderate or conservative as progressive/liberal. This is, by the way, very similar to adult data, except it underestimates conservatism among college-age Jews, because the Orthodox are under-represented."
Richard Hanania on X - "If this is accurate it’s a massive political shift. Every poll of college students shows them being overwhelmingly progressive, with the number of conservatives being negligible. I think it’s possible that Jews become among the more conservative white ethnicities in a generation."
UNC Chapel Hill abolishes DEI department and transfers all funds to campus cops after frat brothers were left to defend the flag from anti-Israel mob - "UNC Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees voted Monday to cut funding for diversity programs in next year’s budget - and approved a change that would divert $2.3 million toward public safety and policing... The campus made national headlines after members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity took it upon themselves to shield the US flag after protesters replaced it with the Palestinian flag... 'It’s important to consider the needs of all 30,000 students, not just the 100 or so that may want to disrupt the university’s operations,' Kotis said. 'It takes away resources for others.' Budget chair Dave Boliek said the decision gives the university an 'opportunity to lead on this' and get ahead of the vote by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors’ on its diversity policy. Last month, the statewide board’s Committee on University Governance voted to reverse and replace its DEI policy for 17 schools across the state."
Monica_Harris on X - "When the path to diversity, equity and inclusion requires that students be primed to hate white people, hate Jewish people, hate America, hate free speech, and hate capitalism, then you’ve got a big problem— and that problem must be eliminated. Congrats to @UNC for doing what elite universities can’t seem to bring themselves to do: create a campus environment where students feel *safe* physically and intellectually. @ColumbiaUniver @Harvard @Yale @Princeton @UCBerkeley I hope you’re taking notes. You will be graded. #DEI #race"
Meme - Ted Rutland @TedRutland: "In McGill's request for an injunction against the Gaza solidarity encampment, they make what should be a deeply embarrassing claim: they've repeated asked the police to attack their students, but the police have urged them to resolve the situation peacefully."
Copium Dealer @Replying2Trash: "Sounds like McGill wants people breaking clear rules removed from private property and the police have refuses. So much for the rule of law."
This didn't stop the terrorism supporters parroting the obviously nonsensical lie. I guess one cope is that they know that left wing protesters are violent, so the police trying to dismantle left wing illegal encampments will result in them being attacked, which they will then pass off as police violence (but the Freedom Convoy had to be destroyed, of course, since it was a threat to democracy)
Meme - Jarvis @jarvis_best: “Stop covering the college demonstrations please.”
Bernie Sanders @SenSanders: "Maybe, just maybe, the mainstream media can focus a little less on colleges for a moment. Maybe they can take their cameras to Gaza and show us the emaciated children who are dying of malnutrition due to Netanyahu’s policies. Maybe they can show us the suffering going on there."
Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani: "I think a lot of pundits in this country have OCD because no matter what happens in the world -- in this case a massive humanitarian disaster backed by American taxpayers and weapons -- they can't seem to get over their fixation on teenagers and college kids."
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan: ""What we are seeing here is this attempt to deflect from one of the great crimes of our age." - @OwenJones84 to me, on how media and political elites are whipping up hysteria about college protesters to distract from the ongoing carnage in Gaza."
Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli: "So, what did you do as a mainstream journalist in 2024? Did you warn about rising fascism? Did you inform people about white supremacists: the #1 domestic terror threat? Did you show what Israel did to Gaza?"
"No. Something more noble. We helped crush the student protestors."
Damin Toell @damintoell: "Alternate universe in which Wajahat complains that the mainstream media isn't focusing enough on the student protests because they refuse, out of racism, to take them seriously."
When terrorism supporters know that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and get upset when their violence and thuggery are exposed
Of course, anti-Semites attacking Jews, preventing them from moving around and restricting freedom of movement isn't fascism when it's left wing anti-Semitism
Meme - Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo: ".@mel_buer, the UCLA encampment banned police from entering past its border and one of the explicit demands was for police to be abolished. You far-left want police to be your private security when you're met with counter-protesters, and then later you want to able to assault the same police with impunity."
Mel Buer @mel_buer: "UCPD hung up on students who were calling in for help the night that Zionists brutally attacked the camp"
"Student B estimated that police were called more than 100 times throughout the night, both by people inside the encampment and concerned friends and family members. They added that the operators told callers the situation was under control and to only call if it was an emergency, hanging up on multiple people. "You can't continue calling unless you have an emergency,' said a UCPD operator in a recording of a phone call obtained by the Daily Bruin."
Why did a viral attack on a non-Jewish UCLA student make him pro-Israel? - "Senior at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Milagro Jones, found himself at the center of attention on TikTok after a disturbing encounter with anti-Israel protesters disrupted his routine on campus. The incident unfolded as demonstrators blocked his path not once, but twice, before law enforcement intervened, leaving the campus marred by graffiti and litter... "I was stopped by masked, anti-Israel protesters who mistook me for someone of Jewish background," Jones shared with Hemmer and Perino. "They said I was an Israeli agitator. They physically assaulted me on Friday. The last time that I was on campus, they actually punched my brother in the head. They reached into their hoodie pocket and claimed that they had a gun." His account shed light on the escalating tension and violence fueled by the protests. Jones's desire for a campus free from such divisiveness and fear was palpable in his words... Jones's bravery in confronting this challenge resonated with many online, as his TikTok video garnered significant attention, sparking discussions about campus safety and inclusivity. "I was probably equally as brainwashed as these people…I completely changed my views on the situation after experiencing this stuff firsthand, and now I'm just trying to expose the truth and let people know how these organizations operate on college campuses across the US.""
'Are you a Zionist?' UCLA checkpoints provoked fear, debate for Jews - Los Angeles Times - "Eilon Presman was about 100 feet from the UCLA Palestinian solidarity encampment when he heard the screams: “Zionist! Zionist!” The 20-year-old junior, who is Israeli, realized the activists were pointing at him. “Human chain!” they cried. A line of protesters linked arms and marched toward him, Presman said, blocking him from accessing the heart of UCLA’s campus. Other activists, he said, unfurled kaffiyeh scarves to block his view of the camp. “Every step back that I took, they took a step forward,” Presman said. “I was just forced to walk away.”... In the days leading up to April 30 — when pro-Israel counterprotesters attacked the camp with fists, bats and chemical spray, and police took hours to stop the violence — frustration had swelled among many Jews: Viral videos showed activists restricting the passage of students they targeted as Zionists. Some Jewish students said they felt intimidated as protesters scrawled graffiti — “Death 2 Zionism” and “Baby Killers” — on campus buildings and blocked access with wooden pallets, plywood, metal barricades and human walls... students who supported the existence of Israel were kept out — even if they opposed Israel’s right-wing government and its bombardment of Gaza. Senior Adam Thaw, 21, said activists blocked him and others from accessing a public walkway to Powell Library. After telling him they were not letting anyone through, a male activist eyed his Star of David necklace: “If you’re here to espouse that this is antisemitism, then you can leave.” “Who are you to tell me where I can and cannot go?” said Thaw, who is on UCLA’s student board of Hillel, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world. As complaints from Jewish students mounted, UCLA declared the encampment “unlawful.”... Ellis didn’t call it a checkpoint. The goal was to exclude and physically block “agitators” — anyone who might be violent, record students or disagree with the cause. “Our top priority isn’t people’s freedom of movement,” Ellis said. “It is keeping people in our encampments physically and emotionally safe.”... Presman, who moved to the U.S. when he was 12 and identifies as a Zionist, was alarmed when he scanned the quad on the first day. He saw signs saying “Israelis are native 2 HELL,” he said, and banners and graffiti showing inverted red triangles, a symbol used in Hamas propaganda videos to indicate a military target. “Do people know what that means?” he wondered... Presman said he had one good conversation: An activist who identified as anti-Zionist admitted not being 100% educated on what Zionism was, but agreed that Israel should exist. They came to the conclusion the activist was a Zionist. But most of Presman’s exchanges, he said, ended negatively when activists realized he was defending Zionism. He said he was called a “dirty Jew” and “white colonizer.”"
Of course, all the stories clutching pearls about the attack on the encampment ignore the violence, thuggery and death threats of the terrorism supporters
Terrorism supporters feel unsafe when in the presence of people who disagree with them. Is this anti-Zionist fragility?
Meme - AG @AGHamilton29: "The GWU encampment finally got cleared out last night. It wasn’t because the protestors were regularly threatening people with violence, had a bunch of outside activists take over, were destroying property, attacked a police officer, or held trials promising to execute University leaders. It was only because Congress called the Mayor and DC police chief to testify to justify their refusal to enforce the law and they couldn’t explain it anymore."
Steve Chenevey FOX5 @stevechenevey: "DC Mayor Bowser expects today's hearing on Capitol Hill where she and DC Police Chief were called to testify will no longer happen after protesters removed from GW campus overnight"
Steve Chenevey FOX5 @stevechenevey: "30 arrests during removal of protesters from GW campus overnight. 29 for unlawful entry, 1 for assault on a police officer"
AG @AGHamilton29: "It's insane that the University is begging for help with clear criminal behavior, but @MayorBowser and the police are refusing to do anything. This is only an issue in a few cities run by far-left progressives who think the laws do not apply to mobs they consider allies."