As my experience at Stanford in November abundantly illustrated, Stanford and other American universities today are not centers of higher learning where ideas are evaluated and accepted and dismissed on their merits, but centers of hard-Left indoctrination in which dissenting views are misrepresented and ruthlessly suppressed. This professor, David Palumbo-Liu, with his ties to violent Antifa fascists, is just one of many. The entire system needs a thorough and comprehensive reform, beginning with the withholding of all federal funds from public universities that refuse to allow dissenting views a hearing.
“Antifa Thugs Find a Champion and Leader in Stanford Professor,” by John Rice-Cameron and Anna Mitchell, Stanford Review, January 15, 2018:
A new class of violent thugs prowls our streets. Donning black clothes, masks and red bandanas, the so-called Anti-Fascist movement, or “antifa,” issues threats and commits acts of violence, intimidation, and vandalism against those it brands as “fascists.” The group represents one of the most extreme elements in the intensifying political turmoil of the past few years.
Fringe figures, such as white nationalists, are by no means the only target’s of antifa’s violence. At college campuses across the country, antifa has disrupted lectures by mainstream conservatives and libertarians, often brutally assaulting event organizers and attendees. At UC Berkeley, in February, 2017, antifa caused $100,000 in damages in an attempt to derail a scheduled appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos, violently punching, kicking, beating, and pepper spraying Trump supporters. At the University of Utah, antifa operatives stockpiled firearms and viciously attacked attendees of Ben Shapiro’s campus lecture. The Department of Homeland Security and FBI have designated these actions by antifa as “domestic terrorist violence.” Like other recognized terrorist organizations, antifa is a non-state entity that employs violence against civilians to advance a political agenda.
And yet, an antifa ring-leader, David Palumbo-Liu, holds court on Stanford’s campus. Palumbo-Liu, a professor of Comparative Literature, is certainly no stranger to controversy, as he is one of the most prodigious anti-Israel academics in the country. Palumbo-Liu is a staunch advocate of the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel and has praised the website “If Americans Knew,” a site extensively associated with Holocaust deniers and white supremacists.
While many students understandably take offense at Palumbo-Liu’s extreme views, he certainly has every right to promote his ideas in the classroom. However, Palumbo-Liu recently took his extremism beyond the realm of ideas. In August 2017, Palumbo-Liu, along with Purdue University professor, Bill Mullen, founded the Campus Antifascist Network (CAN). The group was founded to serve as “a big tent” for “anyone committed to fighting fascism.”
Palumbo-Liu and Mullen can mince words all they want: their organization is undeniably a chapter of a terrorist group, championing the same kinds of violent resistance that have muzzled free speech across the country. CAN aims “to build large, unified demonstrations against fascists on campuses when they come.” According to Mullen, CAN’s purpose is to “to drive racists off campuses.” Given the paucity of self-proclaimed “fascists” on college campuses, antifa has decided to designate anybody with whom they disagree — namely, Trump supporters and conservative speakers — as would-be totalitarians. Thus, this group’s objective is not a noble fight against fascism and tyranny, but rather, the violent intimidation and forcible silencing of right-leaning students and faculty. On campuses across the nation, antifa has targeted, physically intimidated, and assaulted College Republican activists. All in the name of tolerance!
Do we really want to bring this type of vigilante thuggery to Stanford by enabling a professor who promotes it? Palumbo-Liu’s Facebook page is filled with antifa propaganda. He has posted a number of photographs on his page from an August 27 incident at Berkeley, during which masked antifa brutally assaulted attendees of a peaceful pro-Trump rally. Palumbo-Liu has a history of encouraging violent and militant leftist tactics, including by his own students. In 2015, Palumbo-Liu congratulated several of his students for taking part in an anti-Israel protest that caused car crashes and blocked traffic on the San Mateo Bridge for an hour, allegedly preventing a 3-year-old child in medical distress from reaching the hospital. Apparently, inconveniencing and injuring people on their commute is how Palumbo-Liu and his anarcho-leftist pupils intend to win hearts and minds.
Moreover, given Palumbo-Liu’s extensive connections to the most extreme elements of the anti-Israel movement, is it unreasonable to assume that pro-Israel students will soon be on the receiving end of antifa’s violent outbursts? Antifa’s intent to intimidate pro-Israel students is in plain sight: on the anti-Israel hate-site “Electronic Intifada,” Bill Mullen, who worked closely with Palumbo-Liu to co-found CAN, wrote “we need to de-Zionize our campuses.” William Jacobsen, Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School, has been tracking the BDS movement for years. In Jacobsen’s words, “The teaming of the BDS and Antifa movements is the single most dangerous development I have witnessed in the many years I have been covering campus BDS. Antifa will give BDS even more muscle to intimidate and threaten those who oppose the BDS agenda.”
The antifa movement is a violent domestic terrorist movement. Contrary to popular usage, there has not been a true re-emergence of “fascism” in America. The fascists in Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy wanted to “kill democracy and establish a dictatorship,”, a mission which clearly has nothing to do with the Trump agenda. While there has arguably been a resurgence in hate groups in America, using the label “fascists” to describe Trump supporters is a shamefully dishonest excuse for antifa members to commit appalling acts of political violence against the right at large. Antifa thugs who use domestic terrorist tactics to silence their political opposition act uncannily like the Brownshirts 80 years before them….
Read the rest here.
CRUSADER says
UC Berkeley bonfire enthusiasts have a point about taking an axe to the Stanford tree.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO CRUSADER — Please let me jump in here near the top of this comment stream, to ask all JW readers this: CONTACT THE 2 AUTHORS OF THIS STANFORD REVIEW ARTICLE.
Thank them for having the courage to write it. They have put themselves at risk for career shredding and Leftist smears, perhaps even physical violence by Antifa Thugs.
It will be fascinating to visit www [dot] stanforddaily [dot] com — the campus student newspaper — and see what the reaction is regarding a professor who masquerades as an scholar, but underneath is a Jew-hating supremacist Brownshirt.
CRUSADER says
Thanks to Peter Thiel, as well, he founded Stanford Review….
jihad3tracker says
IF WE WANT TO SEND HIM AN EMAIL — GO HERE: palbolio@stanford.edu
I strongly recommend creating a new email address, so your MAIN REGULAR inbox is not drowned by spam crap.
GMAIL MAKES IT EASY. For an address, use your first name + zero to nine (0123456789) or reversed (9876543210).
For a password, use your current or previous street address + zipcode, such as 1234mainstreet22222
Andy says
Political Correctness Has To Stop!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uCyBVD-9U
Andy says
Leftism has been a disaster for the United States–and everywhere else.
“Why I’m Suing UC Berkeley and Antifa…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqsA0CBAzRg
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxgfDBcnvpg&feature=youtu.be
LeftisruiningCanada says
Nice work
Andy says
Thomas DiLorenzo: This is How Cultural Marxism Destroys Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSdB9Sr1BxQ
LeftisruiningCanada says
Oh yes, listen to this man,
BC says
I strongly disagree with the statement , he has the right to promote his ideas in the classroom. No he does not he is paid to teach his subject nothing more. If he uses his lectern to promote his political ideas he should be dismissed.
J D S says
I won’t blame everything on the professors….There is a different breed of young people out there… what happened to the young thinkers and leaders of yesteryear….are our college students of today
just followers following those pie eyed piper college professors who are leading them down the left roadway and they follow aimlessly.
Oh I’m not saying all the young college people are in this class…No there are some who will not follow but will stand for what they believe to be the truth and right.
mortimer says
Stanford University is teaching students to use the STRAW MAN METHOD to misrepresent ideas and then attack the fake misrepresentation.
Stanford University’s staff are basically DISHONEST in their approach and therefore Stanford LOSES ITS STATUS as a reputable institution.
A school that does not promote OPEN, WIDE-RANGING QUESTIONING of different points of view is not a school of higher learning but merely a MARXIST PROPAGANDA FACTORY.
CRUSADER says
Gov Leland Sr would be very disappointed with what has become of his son’s namesake.
Lady Jane was probably murdered by anti-capitalists / anarchist.
This type of thing has been with society for a long while….
mortimer says
John Rice-Cameron and Anna Mitchell are to be commended for their courageous stance against the DOGMATIC NEW INQUISITION led by Palumbo-Liu and company.
Palumbo-Liu is the new Torquemada.
mortimer says
Quote from John Rice-Cameron and Anna Mitchell “vigilante thuggery”.
Yes, they are!
CRUSADER says
Mortimer,
you are more of a scholar and researcher than most of those blokes at LSJU.
Bravo.
gravenimage says
Agreed, CRUSADER.
mortimer says
Thank you both. Islam cannot withstand being placed under the microscope of intellectual scrutiny. Islam cannot survive questioning of its 1) historicity 2) logic 3) ethical system, because Islam is 1) ahistorical (obscurantist), 2) self-referentially incoherent and 3) opportunistic and amoral.
CRUSADER says
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AntiFa is Anti- First Amendment!!!
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Leftists want to destroy US Constitution….
Islamists want to replace it with Shari’ah….
Beware the Red/Green AXIS….
mortimer says
EXACTLY! Antifa believes: “Free speech for me, but not for thee.”
gravenimage says
Antifa fascists find a champion and leader in Stanford Professor David Palumbo-Liu
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Good piece–and very grim. I’m just surprised the Stanford Review published it.
There are other troubling things about Professor David Palumbo-Liu. He is heavily involved in the anti-Jewish BDS movement targeting Israel.
Even worse, he has condoned the “Knife Intifada”, where Muslims stab Jewish people.
More on this creep here:
https://canarymission.org/professors/david-palumbo-liu/
LeftisruiningCanada says
ugh, what a nasty piece of work.
CRUSADER says
Thank goodness Stanford Review is different from Stanford Daily.
Now, if only Joey Gibson of Patriot Prayer
can get to speak at the Plaza Claw on campus, that’d be spectacular!!!
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Exiled Maritimer says
Antifa – anti fascists too stupid to realize they ARE the fascists!
CRUSADER says
Patriot Prayer Joey Gibson
Schools AntiFa On Nine Line (medivac rescue) – –
….The Ignorance Is Strong….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqq90jnuG0I
“Christ is nothing but Love, man.”
{Joey don’t waste your time.
I do have a lot of respect for what you are trying to do,
but really you would have more chance changing the mind of a Spoon.}
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Steve says
Antifa and ISIS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5018141/ISIS-connection-anarchists-revealed-Ed-Klein-book.html
Indiana Tom says
The antifa movement is a violent domestic terrorist movement. Contrary to popular usage, there has not been a true re-emergence of “fascism” in America. Yo ho. See the next sentence.
Antifa thugs who use domestic terrorist tactics to silence their political opposition act uncannily like the Brownshirts 80 years before them…. Really, not a re-emergence of fascism in America? Really?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Since they are all left wingers anyway, i suspect they really are the new fascists.
eagle says
Did anyone see this one in the news? https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/16/portland-police-officer-arrested-in-massachusetts/
CRUSADER says
Well, she couldn’t’ve been drunk….
Does this mean she will be drummed out of the police force system?
Matthieu Baudin says
“…The entire system needs a thorough and comprehensive reform, beginning with the withholding of all federal funds from public universities that refuse to allow dissenting views a hearing…”
Absolutely right, a very good idea. The universities are operating as ‘closed shops’ as they degenerate further into intolerance, authoritarianism and the censorship of ideas.
Jinn and Tonic says
Stanford is not a public university.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Woah, David Palumbo-Liu looks like Asian Trotsky.
Chris Malan says
Palumbo-Liu, a professor of Comparative Literature – there you have it; another arts and humanities monkey taking the field for Islam. All of you will know that by far the majority of the pro-Islam group at universities come from the arts and humanities faculties. Take away the arts and humanities from universities and the pro-Islam agitators will nearly disappear from universities.
Why should the taxpayer pay for faculties delivering an abundant crop of terrorist supporters? It’s not that society will grind to a halt without these people.
TassieR says
A man can be either a Palumbo or a Stanford professor. Any effort to mix ‘em gives a very bad smell (as we may witness)
UNCLE VLADDI says
It won’t be long now before the entire next generation is a part of this and even worse social justice (fascist) movements.
Why do Millennials embrace socialism? Why do two thirds of the population – the psychopaths and undecided – vote so consistently for it, even while being ripped off again and again by it? It’s because of corporate education.
Just try telling them that socialism is slavery because it doesn’t allow for any individuals to own any property.
They will reply with “So what? I don’t own any property, and at least under socialism the government will have to give me stuff, and feed and clothe me, by taking it from all those Makers who hoard it and won’t give it to me!”
Having been raised apparently enslaved by parents who controlled everything, and in school systems where they all were treated like criminals and prisoners, they don’t know anything else and so cannot imagine owning anything!
The only dreams they have are rising to the top of the socialist crime-gang by extorting more from the Makers!
Monkey-see, monkey-do! Corporate gangsters own and control government gangsters and they all sell slavish pity for criminals as being the height of virtue, and being angry at criminals for committing crimes as a vile sin.
“Authority” is slavery – because the authority has all the rights and not responsibilities, while their subjects have no rights to defend them selves or their property from said authorities, but only the responsibility to become and remain their slaves.
But it also allows the slaves to avoid personal responsibility, and this was the implicit benefit of the Rousseau version of the so-called “social contract.”
Like children, psychopaths live in the moment, paying little attention to information received or to facts in general, because they really only focus on their own internally paranoid, slanderous voices and then project them outwards at everyone else. They can’t deal with their own emotions, but always try to suppress and ignore them, because they were never told or taught and haven’t taken the time to understand what they really are.
THE PROBLEM OF “MENTAL ILLNESS” SOLVED!
Our emotions are mere reflections of the three basic states of space-time (the static past, the fluid present, and the nebulous future, respectively): static fear, fluid greed, nebulous hope. Not exactly worth defending!
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Emotions are not thoughts, much less virtues or morals, and they can be wrong: one may feel love for one who is bad for one, and distrust of one who means one no harm. As such, emotions of feelings are also neutral “virtual objects,” which one can (and manipulative psycho-paths frequently do) use as weapons against others, at will.
While they are not thoughts, they are also not ‘forces’ beyond our control, much less ‘inevitable’ ones, to be used by criminals as alibis to excuse their crimes. Unlike the 19th-century’s “pneumatic” or steam-driven hypothesis, they are not “pent up” and so they don’t “have to be released!” When someone who is enraged gets distracted or corrected, they literally forget that they were enraged; their blood pressure quickly drops back to normal, and all is forgiven and forgotten. So our emotions are merely cognitive concepts like thoughts, after all!
So contrary to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross et al, there are not “FIVE stages of Grief” (or of fear) but only THREE: to instantly and fearfully Submit to fear, to run or ignore it, (flight) or to angrily, hopefully fight it – and these three responses are also based on the three most basic states of space/time and emotions, respectively! Psychopaths will always end up back at response # 1 – to SUBMIT to their own fears!
But it always seems binary (fight/flight) because ignoring fear as “Fear” IS still a form of Submitting to it!
Psychiatrists up until today haven’t been busy sorting symptoms at all – they’ve been too busy selling each mere symptom or effect as a separate cause or syndrome! As such, they remain criminally negligent victimologist salesmen, objectifying and selling people out as helpless victims of mysterious and unknowably unknown (yet also somehow predictably “inevitable”) forces, in order to sell them selves as much-needed expert authorities!
Criminal psychopaths are libertines because they pretend ignoring one’s fears (by causing the pain-causing problems; i.e: Satan’s famous credo of “Who Dares, Wins!”) is not really also to Submit to them, but a virtue! And heeding one’s fears, to become usefully angry at an external cause of pain, is a sin! So they also pretend that useless pity is a virtue, and useful, ultimately hopeful anger is a sin.
They have also all literally de-ranged their own senses, by choosing to substitute static internal images and idolatrous conclusions and pre-conceptions for dynamic perceptions, ignoring cause-and-effect by choosing to be about might-makes-right, not right-makes-might – where it’s always perfectly acceptable to become angry with and inflict pain and fear, no matter who started it, on larger individuals (men vs women) and groups (on the local white “majority” ignoring that world-wide, whites are only a minority of 15% of the global population) always championing the “marginalized oppressed minority” as opposed to metaphorically “punching or kicking downwards!”
Their incessantly contentious arguing is how they submit to their own fears by ignoring, deflecting and projecting them onto other people, blaming their victims.
It’s also why they become “activists” and seek out “oppressors” to challenge (extort) and even create entirely new victim-group classifications to do so, rather than do something useful like make and sell things.
In sum, thinking is based on problem-solving, to avoid damage and pain. That means prioritizing one’s fears as useful warnings, in order to earn the right to achieve hope of less or no damage, pain, and fear.
Psychopathic criminals idolize fear AS additional pain, and so prioritize working to avoid fear, not pain or damage! They see their own fears as dangerous, painful threats, to be instantly Submitted to, ignored and/or fought, in order to cancel them first, because that’s easier than having to fearfully think about and solve any actual damage and pain-causing problems! Libertines are, by nature, lazy and delinquent in their habitual criminal negligence.
Rational people heed fears to attack problems to avoid damage and pain, but psychopaths attack fear by causing the very same worst-case scenario problems which cause the pains they fear the most.
This constant habit of avoiding “fear” (aka “thinking”) by blaming and attacking others leads to both “ADHD” and “PTSD!” These modern “mental illness syndromes” are not illnesses at all, but only bad choices made into bad habits!
All so-called “neuroses” ARE “psychoses” because they result from thought-killing fear-avoiding and cause-and-effect ignoring and reversing idolatry (seeing “fear” and “pain” as static objects, not as separate dynamic circumstantial and situational events). They always want to take the short-cut and end up cutting short their own attention spans by doing so.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Spencer, what do you mean by dissenting views ? you mean your hate propagandas against muslims to exterminate them ? Will call for the same against your Masters the evil Jews ?
Ï know that such scholars never suppress intellectual freedom and exchange of ideas. such myopic hate speeches are debunked on the floor, not cooked indoctrination like what mithraist church do expecting followers to take pagan doctrines hook, line and sinker.
LeftisruiningCanada says
And yet you’ve not been able to sustain one single argument to support your mithraist Bible claim.
It’s you Ibrahim, who are accepting lies without bothering to check out the sources people are using to deceive you with.
I’m still interested in talking about the Ellerbe book with you. I looked at page 16 and didn’t know which point you were talking about.
Or what about all those Talmud lessons you were going to give me?
Andy says
Sucking up to……
The Dark Side Of Political Correctness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMl4kIxw-jo