Post by kriss on Dec 9, 2023 15:50:55 GMT -5
The moral collapse of the West
Refusing to distinguish between Hamas aggressors and their Israeli victims, liberals scream for a ceasefire. No one is calling for Hamas to surrender, which would stop all the killing immediately. Op-ed.
Students from American universities provided impassioned testimony this week to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce about the antisemitism crisis on campus. The problem isn’t just people picking on Jews; worse, it’s being fueled by others who should know better but who are facilitating it.
They claimed that university administrators and faculty were either turning a blind eye to the intimidation of Jewish students or actively participating in it.
Congress heard about physical assaults on Jewish students, calls on campus to “gas the Jews” and taunts that “Hitler was right.”
Eyal Yakoby, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke about how he and other students had been forced to take refuge in their rooms as classmates and professors chanted for the genocide of the Jews. They had spoken of “the glorious October 7” and said things like “You’re a dirty little Jew, you deserve to die.”
MIT student Talia Khan, the daughter of a Jewish mother and an Afghan Muslim father, said that 70% of Jewish students on campus felt forced to hide signs of their Jewish identity.
After one post-doctoral student asserted that Jewish people wanted to enslave the world through a global apartheid system, falsely claimed that Israel harvested Palestinian organs and implied that the average Israel was a Nazi, his department’s diversity officer stated, said Khan, that none of this was “hate speech” and that the organ harvesting theory was “confirmed.”
Other diversity staff at MIT had claimed that Israel had no right to exist, while faculty members told Jewish students that if they were scared they should just “go back to Israel.” The presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT—Claudine Gay, Liz Magill and Sally Kornblut—also appeared before the committee. Their responses caused jaws to drop.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asked them whether the genocidal chants heard on campus, such as “Long live the intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” violated these universities’ own policies against bullying or harassment.
To Stefanik’s mounting incredulity and disgust, the three refused to give a straight answer and said it all depended on the “context.” What conceivable context can there be to find acceptable any calls for the genocide of the Jews?
When Rep. John James (R-Mich.) asked the three presidents what they were doing to fight anti-Jewish hatred, he was met by silence as they looked at each other to check that they were all in line—in doing nothing.
The behavior of these three Ivy League school heads was shocking in the extreme. But how can anyone really be astonished, given what’s been happening to education over the past several decades?
more: www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381633
Refusing to distinguish between Hamas aggressors and their Israeli victims, liberals scream for a ceasefire. No one is calling for Hamas to surrender, which would stop all the killing immediately. Op-ed.
Students from American universities provided impassioned testimony this week to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce about the antisemitism crisis on campus. The problem isn’t just people picking on Jews; worse, it’s being fueled by others who should know better but who are facilitating it.
They claimed that university administrators and faculty were either turning a blind eye to the intimidation of Jewish students or actively participating in it.
Congress heard about physical assaults on Jewish students, calls on campus to “gas the Jews” and taunts that “Hitler was right.”
Eyal Yakoby, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke about how he and other students had been forced to take refuge in their rooms as classmates and professors chanted for the genocide of the Jews. They had spoken of “the glorious October 7” and said things like “You’re a dirty little Jew, you deserve to die.”
MIT student Talia Khan, the daughter of a Jewish mother and an Afghan Muslim father, said that 70% of Jewish students on campus felt forced to hide signs of their Jewish identity.
After one post-doctoral student asserted that Jewish people wanted to enslave the world through a global apartheid system, falsely claimed that Israel harvested Palestinian organs and implied that the average Israel was a Nazi, his department’s diversity officer stated, said Khan, that none of this was “hate speech” and that the organ harvesting theory was “confirmed.”
Other diversity staff at MIT had claimed that Israel had no right to exist, while faculty members told Jewish students that if they were scared they should just “go back to Israel.” The presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT—Claudine Gay, Liz Magill and Sally Kornblut—also appeared before the committee. Their responses caused jaws to drop.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asked them whether the genocidal chants heard on campus, such as “Long live the intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” violated these universities’ own policies against bullying or harassment.
To Stefanik’s mounting incredulity and disgust, the three refused to give a straight answer and said it all depended on the “context.” What conceivable context can there be to find acceptable any calls for the genocide of the Jews?
When Rep. John James (R-Mich.) asked the three presidents what they were doing to fight anti-Jewish hatred, he was met by silence as they looked at each other to check that they were all in line—in doing nothing.
The behavior of these three Ivy League school heads was shocking in the extreme. But how can anyone really be astonished, given what’s been happening to education over the past several decades?
more: www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381633
