Bizarre moment Suella Braverman is blanked after confronting masked pro-Gaza activists who set up camp at Cambridge - as US-style protests force university to move graduation ceremonies - "The former Home Secretary was filmed walking around the camp trying to engage with the protesters about what 'their message is'. In the clip Ms Braverman introduces herself to one group of three masked protesters and says she is 'keen to understand your views and what you are protesting about.' But when the camera pans around all three stand with their arms crossed staring blankly ahead, in complete silence. She presses on with a new group, who are all also masked, this time asking specific questions: 'What's your message to Israel? To Hamas? Do you think the hostages should be released now?' Yet again all her questions are met with blank stares and silence and she is forced to move on."
Clearly, the activists are brave and stunning and believe deeply in their cause and understand it greatly
$1M gone — Donors desert UWindsor after pro-Palestinian protester deal - "Large donors are abandoning the University of Windsor following its controversial deal with pro-Palestinian protesters — including business magnate and philanthropist Barry Zekelman, who withdrew a $1-million gift and future support. The Star has learned that once-faithful donors have withdrawn pledges to help, or stopped donating to, various initiatives, ranging from addressing the housing crisis to renovating the university’s law school. Jay Kellerman, a prominent Toronto lawyer and UWindsor alumnus, has withdrawn a pledge to donate “tens of thousands of dollars” over time to the law school... Stephen Cheifetz, a Windsor lawyer and president of the Windsor Jewish Federation, also pulled funding for a law school bursary over the university’s encampment deal... The Star could not reach two other donors who reportedly withdrew donations."
On reddit, people were only talking about Zekelman and bashing him for being a Trump supporter. And that's how they continue subsisting in their delusions
Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Breaking: The UW Madison SJP issues a threat against the Jewish community. They state organisations such as Hillel and the Jewish Federation will be “treated accordingly” and students will be prohibited from "walking around our campus." SJP is a modern day Hitler Youth."
Meme - David Frum: "The revolution will be catered"
The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial: "Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'"
Campus Reform | Columbia University anti-Israel group says they're 'fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization' - "An anti-Israel group at Columbia University said they’re fighting to “eradicate” Western civilization. Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Columbia University’s Bengali Student Association made the statement in an Instagram post discussing the uprising in Bangladesh. ”We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada is an internationalist one-we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people. We reject every genocidal, eugenicist regime that seeks to undermine the personhood of the colonized,” the organizations wrote. ”As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness becomes ever more explicit and irrefutable, we seek community and instruction from militants in the Global South, who have been on the frontlines in the fight against tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist world order,” they added."
Left wingers will pretend that these people are just criticising their country because they want to improve it, because they love it, when they openly proclaim that they want to destroy not just their country, but Western civilisation as a whole
Australian Jewish Association on X - "Student, Freya Leach bravely speaks at the University of Sydney. Terrorist-supporting students were cheering for the atrocities of Hamas and laughing. A Motion calling for the destruction of the Jewish state passed. The University of Sydney has fallen. It is no longer safe for Jewish students. The weakness of Vice-chancellor Mark Scott has caused this."
Judge rules Harvard must face lawsuit over antisemitism claims - "A federal judge told Harvard University it will have to face a lawsuit over claims it did not protect Jewish students against antisemitism. On Tuesday, Aug. 6, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns denied Harvard’s motion to dismiss the suit from six Jewish Harvard students."
Princeton Poised To Promote Professor Who Occupied Campus Building - "Princeton University is on the verge of promoting a professor who participated in the occupation of a campus building that disrupted university operations and led to more than a dozen arrests... The university has recommended that the classics scholar Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who along with 13 anti-Israel student protesters stormed Princeton’s historic Clio Hall in April, be promoted from associate to full professor, pending the approval of the university’s board of trustees. Peralta already has tenure, but the promotion would make him eligible for university leadership roles, including deanships... The promotion comes as Princeton’s peer universities have taken a soft-on-crime approach to the unlawful and at times violent protests that have rocked campuses since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. The Harvard Corporation this month reversed its decision to withhold degrees from 11 students who led an encampment in Harvard yard, one of whom is a Rhodes Scholar set to attend Oxford University next year. Other schools, including Northwestern and Middlebury, ended their encampments by negotiating with protesters and acceding to many of their demands. At Princeton, Peralta played a leading role in the most disruptive protest the campus had experienced in years. He and another professor, sociologist Ruha Benjamin, joined 13 students in occupying Clio Hall, the home of Princeton’s graduate school administration, as 200 additional protesters cheered them on from the outside. Police eventually warned the occupiers that they would be arrested if they did not exit the building. Peralta and Benjamin did so, but the students did not. After a chaotic effort to stop the police—at one point the crowd surrounded a bus where two of the protesters were being held—all 13 students were arrested while the professors who had encouraged them escaped without sanction... A classicist who argues that "whiteness" is inseparable from classics, Peralta is perhaps Princeton’s most prominent scholar-activist. He spearheaded a faculty letter in 2020 that called on the university to give minority professors extra pay and sabbatical time—compensation for their "invisible work," the letter said—and is a vocal supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which calls for an economic boycott of the Jewish state... Unlike Harvard, which promised harsh sanctions before walking them back, Princeton was lenient from the get-go: A university spokeswoman announced in May that the students were unlikely to get more than probation."
At some points, universities are going to collapse under the weight of their excesses
Joanna Baron: Sorry, Palestine protestors. You can’t just hold universities hostage forever - "Justice Koehnen did not find that UofT had persuasively proven the worst of its insinuations against the encampment: he did not find there was evidence that the encampment was violent or antisemitic. There are reasons, though, to be skeptical of the judge’s conclusion. Guidelines posted at the entry to the encampment dictated that “All messaging should be pro-the right to resist,” which presumably encompasses the view that the October 7 pogroms were justified resistance. The encampment was also widely decorated with inverted red triangles, evoking target symbols from the Al-Qassam Brigades’ radar footage indicating a human target about to be killed, as well as signs exhorting Zionists to go back to Poland. The protestors posted an image of UofT’s Jewish president depicted with contorted, bloody hands, evoking blood libel tropes. None of these examples rely on hearsay evidence to prove. Justice Koehnen waved these disturbing incidents away by calling the protestors “young idealists,” but I’m not sure their arrogance and ignorance ought to be countenanced. Conversely, the judge found that speech directly outside the perimeter of the encampment, and clearly connected to its spectacle, “no doubt” rose to the level of hate speech. A small sampling of comments accepted into evidence included “[w]e need another holocost [sic]” written in chalk on sidewalks, “Death to the Jews, Hamas for Prime Minister,” “Itbach El Yahod” (”slaughter the Jews”), and “You dirty f*cking Jew. Go back to Europe.” Even if none of these statements were attributable to encampment residents, as the judge found, it’s clear the encampment had become a moral hazard and the university properly had a reasonable basis to act to curtail it. Ultimately, though, it was not the abhorrent speech that formed the basis for the decision. Justice Koehnen decided to grant UofT an injunction on the basis of property rights and under the ordinary statutory power of the Trespass to Property Act. Protestors, without lawful excuse or permission, appropriated the university’s front campus and prevented others from accessing it, whether for their own expressive purposes or simply to enjoy the beautiful enclosed green space surrounded by the majestic stones of Convocation Hall, Knox College, and University College in the centre of downtown Toronto that is King’s College Circle. Evidence showed that the protestors had implemented a gate marshal system whereby encampment representatives screened would-be visitors, asking them where they were from and how they heard about the encampment. This policy was allegedly to reduce the risk of altercations by screening out visitors who were judged to be adversarial, but UofT argued, and Justice Koehnen agreed, that this begged the question of why UofT could not enforce its own standards and rules to prevent violence on its own campus if a group of interlopers could. Indeed, permitting protestors to seize the front campus by some sort of adverse possession would set a precedent for allowing what Justice Koehnen called a “brutal free-for-all” where no principle could prevent a stronger group from coming and deciding to seize the area for themselves. The protesters argued that the considerations under the Trespass Act did not apply where the property in question was public property or where there were free expression issues. The judge rejected both claims: UofT was the legal title holder of King’s College Circle, and no legal precedent could establish a claim where a court allowed someone to appropriate either public or private property for extended periods of time in order to exercise the rights of expression... In the current cycle of the culture wars, many progressives are clamouring for the Charter to apply to universities to cloak the pro-Palestine encampments in the rights to peaceful assembly and free speech, over and above whatever property rights or other functions of university space the institution might claim. Lawyers for the encampment called the university quad a “quintessentially public space.”... if he was wrong and the Charter did apply, the university’s request for an injunction constituted a reasonable limit on the protestors’ rights, particularly because the protestors were still permitted to gather and protest on campus freely, with the caveat of not protesting between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. and not occupying campus. And in any event, a Charter claim could not surpass a strong prima facie case of trespass. Indeed, the encampment had the effect of undermining the free speech rights of everyone besides its residents. Justice Koehnen noted that the university “is not preventing the protestors from expressing their views on campus; it is preventing the protestors from silencing other voices on Front Campus.”... the encampment’s righteous indignation hung like a spectre over the entire hearing, as though their cause and moral clarity should allow them to supersede property rights, reasonable limits on expression, the interests of others in the university community, and even the need for their fellow students to get some sleep."
Of course, the Freedom Convoy protests, which were in 100% public spaces, were unacceptable, because they threatened the left wing agenda
Michael Geist: The University of Windsor ends its pro-Palestine campus encampment—but violates antisemitism and academic freedom standards - "The University of Windsor recently reached an agreement with protesters in a campus encampment that raises serious concerns of antisemitism and infringement on academic freedom. While most universities across Canada were relying on the University of Toronto court ruling that the encampments were unlawful trespass in order to clear them, the University of Windsor instead reached an agreement that has sparked alarm among many groups. Indeed, given evidence at the House of Common Justice committee of harassment, antisemitism, and hate speech on the Windsor campus, it is astonishing that the university has ignored those threats and instead concluded a discriminatory agreement that fuels fears that Jews are no longer welcome on campus. There is much to criticize in the agreement, notably including one-sided political statements that sacrifice the university’s position as a neutral forum for discussion, debate, and learning. But it is the creation of unique double standards for Israeli institutional agreements when compared to other countries that constitutes a textbook example of antisemitism according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition that has been adopted by both the federal and Ontario governments... As Jeffrey Sachs notes in his informative X thread on the issue, the full list of current Windsor academic partnerships can be found here. The university has five active exchange partnerships with Chinese institutions alone. While some are on hold, does it plan to end all of the exchanges based on the standards it identifies? Does it plan to cancel its exchanges with Turkey or India, which have also faced concerns on some of these issues? Further, in considering whether to conclude or cancel an agreement, there is only one country that it now identifies as requiring specific United Nations-approved determinations: Israel. No other country faces similar requirements, a double standard that falls within the examples provided by the IHRA definition of antisemitism. In addition to the institutional double standards, the agreement raises serious academic freedom concerns for both students and faculty. From a student perspective, the law faculty has featured social justice internships with multiple Israeli NGOs that serve Arab-Israeli communities, including Adalah, Al-Marsad, and ICAHD... The implications for faculty academic freedoms are potentially even more extensive"
China's state media support protests on US campuses but not at home - "State media in China, where social protest is strongly discouraged or punished, have been vocally supporting the pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. campuses while decrying what they describe as a heavy-handed crackdown on free speech by authorities. "Can blindly using violence to suppress students be able to quell domestic dissatisfaction with the government?" wrote Jun Zhengping Studio, a social media account operated by the News Broadcasting Center of the People's Liberation Army, in an April 26 commentary... Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying echoed that comment and implied the U.S. government was cracking down on protests at home while supporting protests abroad... Critics were quick to point out Beijing's double standard when Chinese state media backed U.S. college protesters. Sean Haines, a British man who worked for Chinese state media from 2016 to 2019, told VOA that Chinese state media's extensive coverage of Western demonstrations is a consistent policy. "At Xinhua, when we chose the running order for news, foreign protests were always promoted," he said, "especially if it was around election times. 'Look how scary foreign democracies are, aren't you glad China doesn't have this?'" He said footage of protests is easy to find in places with a free press, such as the United States and the West, while there are almost no images of protests in China, a one-party authoritarian state where public demonstrations are quickly stopped. "It's ironic." he said. "China is using [the] West's free speech, openness, right to protest — against itself." Although Chinese authorities have not declared support for any side in the Israel-Hamas war, they were reluctant to condemn the militants' October attack and repeatedly blamed Israel and the U.S. for the conflict in Gaza. At the same time, antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments, including conspiracy theories, have been allowed on China's highly censored social media. A popular claim is that U.S. support for Israel is not because of history and democratic values but because a Jewish cabal secretly controls U.S. politics and business."
Columbia staff removed from positions after mocking Jewish student concerns - "Three Columbia University staff members who had mocked the concerns of the Jewish student body in leaked text messages were permanently removed from their positions... Former vice dean and chief administrative officer Susan Chang-Kim, associate vice dean for student and family support Matthew Patashnick, and dean of undergraduate student life Cristen Kromm had been suspended in late June after an audience member had photographed their text message exchange at the May 31 “Jewish Life on Campus: Past, Present, and Future” panel"
'Racist': York University pro-Palestinian protesters demand president, administration resign - "Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered at York University’s Keele Campus Thursday where they accused the university’s president, Rhonda Lenton, and her administration of being “racist.” York Federation of Students Vice President of Campaigns & Advocacy, Somar Abuaziza, said “We have seen the extreme rise of anti-Palestinian racism on-campus in the last eight months. But these actions did not start in 2023. In fact, in 2019, the university allowed for the invitation of the IOF (Israel Occupation Forces) on our campus.”"
Interesting. Other people literally existing is racist. This is the polar opposite of equally unhinged trans rhetoric about rejecting any of their demands meaning denying their existence
Opinion: Court's dismissal of antisemitism at U of T encampment a slap in the face - "Judge Koehnen admitted that, “There can be no doubt that some of the speech on the exterior of the encampment rises to the level of hate speech.” Among many examples, he cited comments like, “We need another holocost (sic),” “Death To the Jews, Hamas for Prime Minister” and “you dirty fu–ing Jew. Go back to Europe.’ ” Despite the encampment fostering this hate speech, the judge took a more sympathetic tone towards those occupying the encampment, stating that, “None of the named respondents and none of the encampment occupants have been associated with any of these statements.” Judge Koehnen claimed that the “automatic conclusion that those phrases are antisemitic is not justified.” He appeared to dismiss key antisemitic indicators, including “a photograph of the university president (who is Jewish), which was described as depicting the president as a devil with the caption ‘blood on your hands’ in bold letters beneath,” the “inverted triangle” which Hamas uses to mark its targets, along with the phrases “intifada,” “Free Palestine by any means necessary” and “From the river to the sea,” which is often condemned as a call for the genocide of the Jewish people."
Chris Selley: What's coming after the anti-Israel U of T encampment looks even worse - "the result must be somewhat bewildering for the university: If all it took to disperse this crowd was a court injunction, it becomes all the crazier that it took this long. (“We refuse to give the Toronto Police Service any opportunity to brutalize us,” encampment organizer Mohammed Yassin told reporters earlier in the afternoon, explaining their capitulation. “We are leaving on our own terms to protect our community from the violence the University of Toronto is clearly eager to unleash upon us.” You almost have to admire the chutzpah.) On the other hand, if the protesters are as good as their word, it’s possible the university will soon find itself looking back on the encampment with a degree of nostalgia. When I left the perhaps 500 former encampers and their hangers-on, they had occupied the intersection of Yonge and Bloor streets, having marched for 90 minutes west along College Street, north along St. George, and then east along Bloor. They blocked traffic and transit alike, with police clearing the road for them as they went — while being denounced as racists, naturally — and they vowed there was plenty more of it to come. ”This is not the end,” a protest leader bellowed through a microphone. “Let us be loud. Let us be disruptive. Let us be the nightmare that is in the mind of each one of these (university) administrators who refuse to (divest from Israel).” If the protesters were willing to obey the court’s ruling vis-à-vis King’s College Circle, they were just as eager to insist upon their right — affirmed both by the court and by the university — to protest during daylight hours without setting up camp... Marching in the heat and humidity of summer takes a lot more effort than sleeping in a tent, especially when the university that you utterly despise provides you with toilet facilities and deploys campus security against counter protesters . But if the protesters are true to their word, they could easily make life on campus miserable come September. And if they continue to take their protests off campus, it’ll be a problem for the city at large in a way it never was before... it was a terrible idea to issue deadlines and ultimatums to the encampers, and then not follow through on them. It was a terrible idea to provide the encampers with toilet facilities, while assuring the university community that this “in no way … negate(s) the university’s position that the encampment is unauthorized and constitutes trespass,” Except it does. Of course it does. It was a terrible idea to crack down on that attempted counter-protest encampment, explaining to the university community that it was “smaller,” and thus “on a scale that campus security personnel were able to peacefully remove it without the assistance of (police).” So the right to protest on campus via encampment is dictated by the size of the mob. That’s every bit as bad on principle as outright surrender."
McGill encampment refusing a planned fire inspection : r/montreal - "Why are people downvoting this post?"
"Every post that makes the protestors look in a negative light gets massively downvoted."
OCADU sued for $1M over alleged failure to protect Jewish students - "Kline among other Jewish students were "consistently met with catcalls and written expressions," such as "F–k you Jew," "F–k you Zionist" and "Jews deserve everything that is happening to them.""
FIRST READING: U.S. probes provide clues to where Canada's anti-Israel money is coming from - "a Canadian JVP representative was on Parliament Hill to deliver a press conference stating that the country’s network of pro-intifada campus encampments were not antisemitic. The Canadian branch of the Tides Foundation, notably, was also a key player in the years-long multi-million-dollar activist drive to land-lock Alberta oil. Comer’s letter to National SJP follows on a similar letter out of the U.S. Senate, in which Sen. Josh Hawley petitioned the U.S. Justice Department to probe the “illegal dark money” fuelling anti-Israel encampments on college campuses. “This is not just spontaneous student unrest. It is coordinated and funded by a powerful network of anti-Israel advocates,” wrote Hawley, adding that many of the groups funding the U.S. anti-Israel movement were in direct violation of the terms of their tax-exempt status. “No organization may retain its tax exemption if it backs protests at which members are urged to commit acts of civil disobedience,” he wrote. Similar rules exist in Canada. According to the Canada Revenue Agency, any Canadian organization risks losing its charitable status if it “furthers terrorism” or organizes “against Canadian public policy.”"
Big/foreign/dark money is only a problem when it hurts the left wing agenda
A Boston college blames pro-Palestinian student protests for lower enrollment - "In late April, Emerson students set up a pro-Palestine encampment in a public alley next to Boylston Street... over 100 protesters were arrested at Emerson when the police in riot gear moved in to dismantle the camp. According to the police, the protesters were breaking city ordinances that banned camping on public property... More and more Gen Zs no longer see the value in higher education. A 2023 survey of over 1,800 Americans by Business Insider and YouGov revealed that 46% of Gen Zs surveyed say they don't think college is worth the cost. Additionally, the availability of high-paying jobs that don't require a college degree has also prompted Gen Zs to rethink college. It doesn't help that tuition fees are so expensive that many college graduates find themselves saddled with student debt that they just can't escape."
dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ on X - "University of Toronto jihadists have surrounded a group of Jews with this chant: “Intifada revolution. There is only one solution. Intifada revolution.” If government doesn’t shut down these genocidal, criminal threats, does that mean it supports them?"
Kevin A. Bryan on X - "Followup for people saying "how do I know that many of U of T camp gang weren't students, but just older left folks"? Just look at the ages of the people in video (not mine) today, holding the "Red Review" socialist mag. Of course, students too! But not just "student protest"."
