Posts Tagged ‘campus antisemitism’

Under the Fedora Catching UP The Dog that didn’t Bark, The Sunshine State that Did, What a difference a few minutes make, This Puts the Fear of God in the Left, And SCOTUS strikes Back

Posted: April 17, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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After four days of Pinball it’s time to catch up on a few things:

The Iranian attack on Israel took place while I was at Pintastic. There was an excellent graphic showing where the various missiles and drones came from. I think it quite significant that none came from Lebanon.

Why? Lebanon is in range of an Israeli invasion and can do so without having to cross any other border.

Do you think Iran would have dared to attack if an Israeli army could reach them directly?

The supporters of Iran were busy shutting down airports and bridges around the country, however in Florida thing went a bit differently:

Ron DeSantis had something to say about this as well:

I don’t like heat and I don’t like bugs but I must say Florida is looking better and better as a place to live

The President of Columbia University and their board testified today on antisemitism on campus.

When asked under oath if a professor who praised the attack of Oct 7th was on a particular committee she claimed: “he is no longer a chair of that Committee.”

Yet a few minutes later:

Mafiosi dream to be as feared by their prey as these college presidents are of these supporters of terror.

There are a lot of fears that the left has with this upcoming election, the bad economy, the border crisis, the protestors blocking bridges, but if I had to pick one thing that scares them the most, it would be this:

The Bodega and Small Business Group (BSBG), which represents thousands of bodegas in New York City, has issued a statement backing President Donald J. Trump, slamming local District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and hitting out at local politicians who have ignored the widespread criminality occurring in the city.

“The Bodega and Small Business Group (BSBG)… is honored to host President Donald J. Trump at the Blue Moon bodega in Manhattan where Jose Alba was arrested for simply defending himself and his business against a convicted felon, the statement began.

If the left thought for one moment that the Spanish speaking community was starting to lean Trump the border would be sealed tighter than a drum.

Right now a case is being argued at the Supreme Court that will have a huge impact on many of the J6 defendants.

The question of selective prosecution came up and Justice Gorsuch make short work of US Solicitor Elizabeth Prelogar

The funny thing is none of those examples listed by Justice Gorsuch were hypothetical. All of them where things the left have actually done.

I’m hoping that in ten years we will look back at these days in Amazement and ask ourselves how we ever let this happen?

Question: How Do You Know People From MIT are Smarter than People From Harvard and Penn?

Posted: January 5, 2024 by datechguy in culture, education, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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Answer: Because their president knew when to shut up.

It’s been a month or so since the presidents of Penn, Harvard and MIT made fools of themselves in their congressional testimony. The President of Penn resigned that week, the President of Harvard, being a woman of color, needed a month and massive evidence of plagiarism to get her out the door. 

Now as we near the end of the Christmas Season only Sally Kornbluth the President of MIT remains and although Bill Ackman has turned his attention to her and a lecturer has resigned this week over their response to antisemitism on campus Kornbluth still stands.

Why because after her disastrous performance before congress she did the one thing that neither Gay of Harvard nor Magill of Penn did, she managed to keep her mouth shut and her head down.

Both Gay and Magill put out videos declaring loudly once they were not under oath what they should have said under oath. Kornbluth remained silent. In fact if you do a google search for news stories with the word “Kornbluth” and sort by date you will note very few stories concerning her during the period from the time between Magill’s resignation and Gay’s. In fact the most significant story in play was this from the Times of Israel:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth, who came under fire after her testimony on the university’s response to antisemitism, attended a screening of a compilation film showing Hamas atrocities carried out on October 7, Prof. Retsef Levi says on X, formerly Twitter.

Levi, a critic of Kornbluth, says he also attended the screening, as did chairman of the MIT board Mark Gorenberg and other faculty.

The screening of the tightly controlled film, which was put together by the IDF, was hosted by the MIT Chabad house

This silence clearly paid dividends. A full month has passed since the base hearing, she can point to her attendance of the screening above while still staying married to the narrativeTM as demonstrated by this memo which came out yesterday:

We will soon announce a new Vice President for Equity and Inclusion (VPEI). With this new role, we have an important opportunity to reflect on and comprehensively assess the structures and programs intended to support our community and create a welcoming environment.

While we address the pressing challenge of how best to combat antisemitism, Islamophobia and hatred based on national origin or ethnicity in our community, we need to talk candidly about practical ways to make our community a place where we all feel that we belong.

While she doesn’t have the advantages of Gay’s racial bona fides she also doesn’t apparently have any of the plagiarism issues to worry about.  Combine that with her pushing of DEI along with repeating the canard that “Islamaphobia” as an issue that needs to be combated on campus and she has put the left on notice that she is on board and no amount of Hamas atrocities are going to derail her from the cause.

Given her history at Duke university this is no surprise.

So while the focus might turn to MIT and some may put some effort in bringing heat toward MIT in general and Kornbluth in particular I’m predicting that Kornbluth will still be president of MIT when this year’s class graduates and the next semester’s class enters.

After all there is nothing that draws those arab billions to a US college like a Jewish president willing to play ball and smart enough to dodge the consequences of same.

Unexpectedly of course.

Bonus Thought: Harvard and Penn are both known for their Law Schools, You would think people who run law schools would know the first rule of law, particularly if you know you’re guilty is to SHUT UP! MIT may not do law but as a school known for more practical skills and thus figured this out.

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Four Reasons Why Nobody Should Be Surprised at Gay, Kornbluth and Magill Answers under Oath

Posted: December 7, 2023 by datechguy in culture, education, Israel
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Jedediah Tucker Ward: It’s not hypothetical to Dr. Pavel, he wrote it.

Michael Grazier: So he says.

Jedediah Tucker Ward: So he says under oath.

Class Action 1991

There are three reasons why we should not be surprised at either the testimony of these “ladies” who are running elite colleges concerning calling for the genocide of Jews

or the sudden volte face when no longer under oath from Penn

and Harvard

Let’s take them in Order

1. Under Oath

You see when under oath you are in a position that there are sanctions for lying so as long as they were under oath they didn’t want to assert something that would have been provably false. Particularly with GOP representatives ready to call them out on it.

But once they were no longer under oath, they could make any assertion they wanted without fear of the law.

2. Support for Antifa & BLM

The second reason is less legalistic. At colleges all over the country we have seen people support and even join in on the looting and torching of American cities since 2018. We have seen such actions defended and even promoted by groups on campus with facility and administration giving very public support to such things.

Given those facts how could they credibly claim that such statements are violations the policies of their universities.

3. He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune:

The third reason is a bit more mercenary and can be summarized in one word: CASH:

Over 200 US universities including elite institutions Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been accused of raking in $13 billion in “undocumented contributions from foreign governments,” according to a new report.

A sizable portion of the funds were said to be donated from authoritarian regimes around the globe including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China and the UAE, the report from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) claimed.

Furthermore consider this:

I’ll say this for these universities, when someone buys them they stay bought.

4. No Enemies on the Left

Finally let’s look at a simple reality.

If I walked onto the campus of Harvard, or MIT, or Penn or frankly almost any university in Massachusetts and sat down to pray my Rosary with a sign next to me that said:

  1. There are two genders
  2. Transgenderism is a form of mental illness
  3. Marriage is between a man and a woman

I would likely at best be escorted forcibly off campus and at worst surrounded and attacked by a raging mob of leftists with no consideration of my 1st Amendment rights. After all I’m a conservative Catholic who actually believes

But the reality is that those people who are screaming “From the River to the Sea” and calling for the death of Jews are reliable votes for Democrats and for all the failings of modern Universities they can do the Ghastly Tom Hagen Math:

Right now the left has the Gays and the Transgenders and the Hollywood elites & media in which they are overrepresented and they figure that’s the best things to have, but in America Islam is a thing of the future.  In 20 years the children of Muslims now being raised on the tenets of Sharia law in America will be old enough to vote and Democrats going to make sure they get those votes when the time come, not now but 10-20 years from now.

It’s only been seven years since I wrote those words but they are certainly coming true.

Frankly if they wanted to deflect the question all they would have had to say, is something like:

“While I and the university find such speech horrific as long as it’s just speech it’s not actionable under the Constitution. The first amendment doesn’t have an exception for ‘evil'”.

Alas for them, such a statement would be the source of many lawsuits for all those who have been cancelled, fired and harassed over the last few years for having mainstream conservative opinions.

The left never expels useful idiots until their usefulness is over.

Rewriting History’s Unintended Consequences

Posted: November 10, 2023 by datechguy in culture, Israel, middle east, Uncategorized
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Lt Harry Welsh: [watching Dutch women being shorn of their hair] What did they do?

Van Kooijk: They slept with the Germans. They are lucky. The men who collaborated are being shot.

Band of Brothers Replacements 2001

One of the things we have seen a lot from the left in general and our Arab friends in particular is the re-writing of history when it comes to Israel and the Jews. This consists of both the rewriting of the ancient history of Jews in Israel to the rewriting of the events of Oct 7th last month.

This lie is not only designed to justify themselves but to avoid the uncomfortable truths. You see if the Jews have been in Judea since the days when Abraham was still called Abram and if they are not the oppressors that they claim then the Arabs have to see what they’re doing in the light of truth and then the decision to slaughter Jews in any way possible becomes not a righteous cause but a choice between good or evil and while many might well decide is it “good” claiming an religious imprimatur, other might see things as they are and repent, and we can’t have that.

Put simply it’s more comfortable living with history’s re-write than dealing with the uncomfortable realities of history

But while this rewrite of history is the Arab dilemma, our response to this and unwillingness to deal with it properly comes from a re-write of our own. A rewrite accidently illustrated by these words from of all people Nathan Sharansky:

Sharansky, an Israeli human rights activist who spent years in a Soviet gulag, said schools such as Harvard and Yale have become bastions of support for terrorism—a big difference from World War II, when the vast majority of the Western world opposed the Nazi regime.

“All the world was against the Nazi regime, and nobody was sorry with [it] being destroyed,” said Sharansky during a discussion with the Jewish Institute for National Security of America on Wednesday. “Today, the legitimacy for the regimes like Hamas is coming from Oxford, from Harvard, from Yale, from Penn, from all these centers.”

Emphasis mine

In a lot of books, movies etc these are the words of the west not only about how World War 2 was fought but what people thought of the Nazis and of the extermination of the Jews.

It’s not.

Before the start of World War 2 the Nazi regime was much admired by many in the west. Time made Hitler their man of the year. There were big fans of both Hitler and Mussolini in the US in both academic and political circles not to mention among the many German and Italian American communities (as a rule the Sicilians didn’t care for Il Duce as he cracked down on the Mafia but that’s another story…).

In fact I remember watching one of the Charlie Chan Movies: Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) where his oldest son qualifies for the US Olympic swimming team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics and on the trip there is a mystery involving a murder and a stolen device made for the US Military. In the Germany Chan teams with a German police inspector Inspector Strasser to find the murderer and recover the equipment. All throughout this movie you see lines like this when Chan beats the steamship to Germany and he along with Inspector Strasser meet the ship :

Inspector Strasser: Exactly! You see Mr. Chan, German methods are very thorough.

Charlie Chan: Have greatest admiration for well known efficiency

And as there are a series of thefts, assaults’ and more there is a line constantly repeated by the inspector:

Inspector Strasser: It’s impossible! Things like this can not happen in Berlin!

In the images actually taken from the film of the Olympics there are crowds of people giving the Nazi salute as the Olympic torch is brought in and the flame lit with no thought at all that it might be controversial to moviegoers worldwide and of course the German police arrive just in time to save the day.

As for Antisemitism it was prevalent in a portion of the population, many of them elite in what would become the allied countries as well as in Germany.

When war with Germany came first to the UK and then the US (which interned plenty of Germans and Italians as well as Japanese but that gets little press as it doesn’t serve the left’s narrative) suddenly admiration of the Axis was no longer chic (In fact in the US the left embraced the Nazis after the non aggression pact with Soviets and didn’t reject them until Hitler invaded Russia) and once the horrors of the death camps was not only exposed but were shown to troops en masse and to dignitaries so they could not be denied, open antisemitism was unthinkable.

Thus came the mutually beneficial myth that all were united against the Axis as it gave cover to many whose real opinions and sympathies might have been an embarrassment and it not only allowed a sense of unity to take place but allowed international stances against many of the horrors that had been common to humanity for thousands of years to be advanced and codified into international law at a time when those who might have objected were not only be isolated in their defense but might want the financial aid of the very rich proudly Christian US who along with Canada and Australia (both still highly Christian and proud of it) who were advancing these ideas.

And thus came the myth of the unity against the Nazis and against the horrors and evils they advanced.

And because of this myth many who held these views needed a release for them, and thus came the alliance of the anti-Semites with the Marxists and the Arabs who didn’t want any part of the Jews.

That’s the real secret here. The antisemitism was always there, but because of the comfortable illusion of unity people let it be.

I’m sure they thought it was a good idea at the time, but we’re paying for it now.

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