#jew-hate

The reason I find this fascinating is simple. From a purely pragmatic, small-scale perspective, White Supremacy from a White Person's perspective makes sense. You, as a White person, are told that you should be on top, that the rest of the world owes you their subservience, that you are the default, the natural state, the baseline of humanity from which all others are deviations or derivations. It's a seductive, attractive, pernicious lie, but if you're someone whose highest accomplishment in life was to be born White, there is a logic behind accepting it as your worldview, if only from a purely self-serving perspective.

However, none of those factors exist for a White person to accept and promote Arab Supremacism, which is an ideology that underlies a tremendous amount of the propaganda that exists within the "Pro-Palestine" movement. And the really fascinating thing is, they behave in the same fashion as White Supremacists--the same acts of bigotry, the same violent racism, and more, to the point that the MAGA movement and the Hamasnik movement can only really be differentiated based on which group they view as being entitled to engage in terrorism without pushback.

Is it suicidal empathy? Self-hatred and a desire to atone for the perceived sins of colonialism? The black-and-white worldview of "My people are Evil, therefore these other people are Good"? Something else? Some combination of all of the above?

by Larry Sand

The findings are nothing short of alarming:

55% of Jewish students have personally been victims of antisemitism at their schools.

43% did not feel safe enough to report the incidents.

Of those who did report, 87% believe their school failed to investigate properly.

43% hide their Jewish identity from their classmates out of fear.

72% feel unwelcome in certain spaces on campus simply for being Jewish.

67% say Jews are completely excluded from their school’s DEI initiatives.

69% are blamed for the actions of Israel—actions they have no control over.

67% feel their university did not take sufficient action to protect Jewish students in the wake of the 10/7 massacre.

43% would not recommend their school to fellow Jewish students.

At the University of California at Davis, which was number 17 on the list of 25, 81% of students have experienced antisemitism, 93% do not feel safe expressing Jewish identity, 93% do not feel welcome in many spaces on campus, 100% of students feel they are blamed for Israel’s actions, and 87% said they do not feel safeguarded by the school.

At UCLA, Zionism is taboo. It is included on a list of qualities that are an impediment to hiring, and personnel can be removed from their position if they support it. The school lumps Zionism in with racism, white supremacy, homophobia, misogyny, and “all other hateful/bigoted ideologies.”

There is some pushback, however. In Virginia, after a group of students defaced George Mason University’s student center in August, spray painting messages that warned of a “student intifada,” GMU suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and pursued a criminal investigation of two female members who are suspected of being involved in the incident.

Also, on a positive note, Tufts University in Massachusetts recently extended a suspension of its SJP chapter until January 2027 after first deactivating the group in October, a school spokesman confirmed last month.

Additionally, the University of Michigan has initiated disciplinary proceedings against one of its most outspoken and controversial anti-Israel groups, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE)—an SJP spinoff—the result of which may be a suspension of up to four years.

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities has reportedly suspended and demanded financial restitution from seven pro-Hamas activists who were arrested for commandeering an administrative building on Oct. 21, an action which aimed to pressure school officials into enacting a boycott of Israel. According to a statement from SJP and other anti-Israel campus groups that was posted on social media, “seven of eight students charged with misconducting themselves on that day have been ‘found guilty’ by a university disciplinary tribunal. Each has been fined about $5,500, the statement further alleged, and suspended for periods ranging from one to five semesters.”

On another optimistic note, in November, President-elect Donald Trump announced measures “to defeat antisemitism and defend our Jewish citizens in America. My first week back in the Oval Office, my administration will inform every college president that if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support. I will inform every educational institution in our land that if they permit violence, harassment, or threats against Jewish students, the schools will be held accountable for violations of the civil rights laws.”

Trump emphasized that “Jewish Americans must have equal protection under the law.” And he promised that “[m]y administration will move swiftly to restore safety for Jewish students and Jewish people on American streets.”

What else can be done?

We must end taxpayer funding of private colleges. Currently, there are about 4,000 for-profit colleges in the U.S., and they receive the great majority of federal tax dollars for higher education—which is about $201 billion. In fact, there are only 22 colleges in the country that refuse any public funds. It is disgraceful that as a taxpayer and a Jew, my tax dollars go to schools that foster antisemitism.

Me: Curious, goes to check

#Jumblr tag:

This person posted the same Jew-hating screed hundreds of times in a matter of a few minutes.

Which means that it's time for another round of the ever-popular Jumblr game:

Isn't it fascinating how they're always "I'm an anarchist, and I oppose the sole Jewish state in the world, and support the formation of another majority Arab state"?

by Nils A. Haug

"Since October 7 [2023], a sort of quiet boycott of Israeli researchers has begun, of the kind that has never been seen before. This boycott is reflected in the cancellation of invitations to joint conferences, the rejection of articles for publication, the rejection of grants to Israeli researchers, and more." — Israel's National Council for Civilian Research and Development, December 2023.

"Antisemitism was always premised on redefining Jewish existence as unnatural and artificial. Jews were being denounced as colonizers as far back as the days of Pharaoh.... The Jews, being Semites, do not belong in Europe. The Jews, being European, do not belong in Israel. The Jews, being Zionists, do not belong at progressive institutions like Harvard or Columbia. And the Jews, being occupiers, do not belong in London.... it's not about Israel [but] has everything to do with the Jews." — Daniel Greenfield, journalist, JNS, August 24 2024.