Many American campuses during the last month have seen student demonstrations where Israel is denounced for being a colonial-settler and apartheid state, cruelly oppressing the Palestinians. Chants of support for Hamas and its “resistance” are screamed out, faculty members sign collective letters denouncing Israel, and university administrators offer weak or nonexistent condemnations of antisemitism and Hamas atrocities. Derron Borders is an example of antisemitism on campuses. More on Borders can be found here.
Derron Borders was a senior “Diversity and Inclusion” official at Cornell University (Cornell) when Borders wrote pro-Hamas and pro-terror Instagram posts in October 2023.
The incident occurred following a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were carried out on October 7, 2023.
On October 8, 2023, Borders reportedly posted on Instagram Stories: “When you hear about Israel this morning and the resistance being launched by Palestinians, remember against all odds Palestinians are fighting for life, dignity, and freedom – alongside others doing the same – against settler colonization, imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, which the United States is the model.”…
Yes, according to Derron Borders, nothing says we are “fighting for life, dignity, and freedom” like decapitating babies, burning children alive, gang-raping and murdering young girls, gouging out eyes, cutting off genitalia, and slicing off breasts,, killing children in front of their parents, and parents in front of the children. That is real “resistance” that Derron Borders wants people at Cornell and the world to support.
The post continued: “Let it be known the fight for Palestine against colonization, is a fight for the imagination that other worlds are possible, that genocide should not be accepted, and that people always have the choice of refusal and the right to resist. Free the land.”…
Are you aware, Mr. Borders, that in 1967, when Israel took possession of Gaza, its population was 400,00, and it rose to 1.3 million by 2005, when every last Israeli left the Strip? Do those numbers support the charge of “genocide”? Gaza’s population is now 2.2 million. And in the West Bank, the Arab population in 1967 was 810,000, when Israel took control of the area, and is now three million. Genocide, Mr. Borders? What genocide?
On October 28, 2023, Borders posted [slide 3] on Instagram Stories a video clip of terrorist Ghassan Kanafani explaining why Palestinians should not engage in peace talks with Israel.
Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
Derron Borders apparently admires the late Ghassan Kanafani, a leader of the terror group PFLP that has been responsible for many terror attacks, including that at the Lod Airport in 1972.
As of October 2023, Borders was listed online as the director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) at Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the SC Johnson College of Business in Ithaca, New York.
Also as of October 2023, Borders was listed online as “Chair of the Measurement and Accountability Committee as part of the SC Johnson College of Business Dean’s Leadership Council on Combatting Racism and Promoting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.”…
Borders’ remit at Cornell is the promotion of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at the S. C. Johnson Business School. I wonder if his squalid antisemitism — for only that could explain his embrace of Hamas — has now been sufficiently on display for those higher up in Cornell’s administration to reconsider his fitness for such a job.
On October 10, 2023, Cornell reportedly admitted to being “made aware of” Borders’s comments but that Borders “has been on a leave of absence from the university for several months.”
Borders has been on a “leave of absence” for several months. Why was that? Did he post antisemitic remarks on social media, or make antisemitic statements to colleagues? There must be some very good reason why he was put on leave.
And now, following Borders’ posts on Instagram, offering his wholehearted support to Hamas “resistance” one day after the October 7 massacre, Cornell has to do the right thing, especially since it has been getting quite a reputation for being a distinctly uncomfortable place for Jewish students. Do the right thing, Cornell. For his endorsing as legitimate “resistance” the atrocities of Hamas, a recognized terrorist group, Derron Borders needs to be dismissed.
FYI says
The Rainbow flag AND the BLM badge.
Wait a minute!Something is missing..That pic is not inclusive enough.
Where is the keffiyeh scarf so beloved of the Lefties?Is that the Pali flag incorporated in the rainbow badge.Isn’t that disrespectful to the Pali people?
Other badges might help:”Queers for hamas” or something.
Where is the Trans lives matter badge?You have to wear ALL the badges you know otherwise you are discriminating against a persecuted minority.
eximius says
I have a strong personal relationship with Cornell, but I am sickened by what they have become in the last decade. A large portion of their students used to be NY Jews. I’m guessing that has changed.
I never thought this silly version of the ala mater would come true, but it has:
High above Cayuga’s waters
There’s an awful smell
Some say its Cayuga’s waters
Some say its Cornell.
James Lincoln says
As a side note, Rod Serling’s Cayuga Production Company was named after that lake.
JOHN LLOYD SCHARF says
It’s all about
Division
Inequity and
Entitlement!
FYI says
Derron
Do you know who is eating all the Donuts at Cornell?Is..is it..you?Do we need an intervention?
Donuts Matter
Valhella says
Just another bloated bone headed useful idiot for the apologists of islamic lunacy.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Cornell once had Vladimir Nabokov on its faculty.
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Now it has Dellon Borders on its staff — or, one hopes, “had.”
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
I wouldn’t send my child to Cornell even with free tuition, free room and board – and a $2000 a month stipend.
And all clear thinking alumni should cancel any future donations.
I’m serious as a heart attack.
Westman says
I could be in error, as a thought ocurred that we may be seeing both hatred for Israel and the United States in both the UN vote and the international demonstrations supporting Hamas. UN members who might fear the results of directly threatening the US have little to lose by figuratively ganging up on Israel, viewed as a US proxy.
Derron Borders loves the US, to wit:
“….against settler colonization, imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, which the United States is the model.”
Yes, Derron must have suffered all of these privations and assuaged his heavy heart, so burdened with disgust for being forced to live under capitalism, at Krispy Kreme, Tom Horton’s, and Duncan’.
Is this really how Cornell views America? And the good future of your students is in what other nation?
Falsch says
Nothing new. He as many of the US citizens is completely unaware of the history of Europe and Asia. How both Western and Eastern Europe have fought against Islam for centuries. How nearly the whole mediterranean are(the african and asian part) has basicly been eradicated of both native people and as to say previous conquerors. (The vandal and alan kingdom was already pacified by that time by the Eastern Roman Empire, yet some vandals, aka german tribes still lived there. It is why occasionally among arab population ginger, and blonde haired people are born.)
Egypt, only has actually about 8 million egyptians, the rest are arabs. Just like in Palestina, most of the “true palestines” are not arabs, but the jews, the druz, and basicly everyone who lived there even under the arabian islamic invasion and managed to keep their faith and culture. Those that were assimilated betrayed their faith and their people. They became arabs the perfect people.
The arabs have swept through the mediterranean and made many nations and peoples extinct, just like the ottomans, the syrians, and basicly every islamic country you can imagine.
And sorry to say this, but most of the US citizens are like this, and always were. but recently with the emotional thinking getting more into the focus things are even worse. They are most of the time unable to draw the simplest conclusions regarding historical or political events.I do not know why nobody has yet made a video about the history of islam with exact or estimated numbers how many people they killed and enslaved at each of their wars. Within 1300 years i would say it adds up to quite a sum considering that they are almost never at peace.
Westman says
A very interesting suggestion. Perhaps in the future there will be a documentary showing how Islam purposefully wiped out the history of nations while also altering their genetics to become a different society. Killing all the adult men of a conquest and using the captive women for reproduction would alter both the conquered and the conquering tribes.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Westman.
The average IQ of the invaded country definitely drops.
James Lincoln says
If this morbidly obese DEI officer gets in trouble, he can always trot out the Twinkie defense:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense
tgusa says
He is a guy who never skipped a capitalist buffet. The USA has the most well fed complainers in the history of the world. Can you imagine this guy in a communist bread line? Can you imagine him in that line when the bread runs out? He would be a lot more fit than he is right now, that’s for sure. Just wondering, is Derron the type of leftist warrior we are likely to face. Asking for my dogs.
tgusa says
I’m mainly concerned about that thing on his face below his bottom lip. I dont want my dogs to get any creepy leftist whatever that is.
Dani says
This repulsive tub of lard is too ignorant to know his fat arse would be thrown from a roof in gaza. What a useful idiot.
RichardL says
Derron has got it all: charm, beauty, wit, great job, ADHD, great degrees. And when he down to the cafeteria the staff there are so in love with him that they let him have a go at the trash until everything is gone… All you guys here are just envious…
James Lincoln says
If this morbidly obese DEI officer gets in trouble, he can always trot out the Twinkie defense:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense
OLD GUY says
Cornell is a beautiful campus and community that just got ugly. I wouldn’t send my dog there now.
gravenimage says
Derron Borders, ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Officer at Cornell, and Hamas Cheerleader
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Oh, great–it seems like that “inclusion” includes lauding beheading babies and kidnapping wiomen to use as sex slaves.
And this is what our children are being taught…
DazzleMe says
The hilarious part is how stupid he is, should muzlims have the opportunity they would kill his queer ass!