Students For Palestine, Students For Justice in Palestine, and so many other campus groups of that sinister ilk, have been disrupting colleges and universities across the country, making demands of various degrees of malevolence and absurdity. More on these demonstrators can be found here: “Ithaca College President Rejects Anti-Zionist Group’s Demands,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, April 1, 2024:
The president of Ithaca College, a school located in New York, has rejected the demands of an anti-Zionist group on campus that staged a “die-in” at the school’s Peggy Ryan Williams Center while events for newly admitted students took place there.
According to The Ithacan, the official campus newspaper of Ithaca College, President La Jerne Terry Cornish refused to accede to three demands made by Students for Palestine (SFP): issuing a statement acknowledging a falsely alleged genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, shuttering Ithaca Hillel’s Birthright program for Jewish students, and, in the paper’s words, [conducting] an audit “that would provide access to information about if the college receives funding from any Israeli or Zionist corporations.”
Through the college’s public relations office, Cornish told the paper that she has higher priorities.
President Cornish told them that her sphere of influence and focus remains on representing the entire Ithaca College community, and that the best use of her voice is in advocating for dialogue across differences and in encouraging further opportunities for education, both inside and outside of the classroom,” college spokesperson Dave Maley said in a statement.
This response was not nearly good enough. Cornish should not have answered the Justice for Palestine demands by claiming she was just too busy on other things that had a higher priority. What President Cornish should have said it that the demands by Students for Palestine were outrageous, and that: primo, Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza; secundo, that the campus Hillel’s Israel Birthright program has not violated any campus rules and will remain open; terzo, there will be no audit to uncover, and presumably to cancel, any funding the college receives “from Jewish or Zionist corporations.”
“President Cornish has great concerns about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and she stands by her previous statements to the campus community expressing her horror at the ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel; her support for the college’s Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian students; and her condemnation of all forms of hatred and bigotry, including Islamophobia and antisemitism,” Maley continued.
At a time when the college’s “Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian students” are attempting to bully the administration into submitting to its demands, this was hardly the moment to declare “support for the college’s Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian students.” Why would they need such a declaration of support? It is not they who are being berated and attacked on campus, not they who are subject to constant hostile chanting. They don’t feel threatened; it is they who are doing the threatening. And why, in deploring the “ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel,” did President Cornish make no mention of the Israeli hostages? Have they already been forgotten, and the world’s attention focused only on all those “innocent civilians” whom Hamas claims have been killed by the IDF in Gaza?
One student told The Ithacan that Students for Palestine intends to take further action, such as “showing the administration how many students are disappointed and unhappy and angry with them.” He suggested that a legion of students will join them to “keep pushing that it is not okay to stay silent.”
That’s a threat to hold a mass demonstration against the college administration. Who is to be master at Ithaca College? The pro-Hamas, anti-Israel students seeking to disrupt the campus, or the administrators whom they are trying to disrupt?
“Sit-ins” and “die-ins,” demonstrations in which anti-Zionist students unlawfully occupy a building and lie on the floor for hours until campus officials give them what they want, have occurred at higher education institutions across the country since Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of civilians in southern Israel.
These “sit-ins” and “die-ins” right outside or even, in some cases, inside the administrative offices, in an attempt to massively disrupt the workings of colleges, can cause university presidents to cave to the Justice for Palestine bullies now spreading their venom on so many campuses. But not all have done so.
Last week, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee suspended over a dozen students belonging to an anti-Zionist group that occupied an administrative building and refused to leave, according to the school’s official newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler. During the demonstration, students performed in full view of their peers private bathroom functions, including relieving themselves in plastic bottles. The suspended students are banned from campus until further notice.
At Vanderbilt, a dozen students who occupied an administrative building were suspended. Perhaps they had simply gone too far, not so much by taking over an administrative building and preventing staff from entering, but by urinating in public, which attracted a great deal of publicity and outrage, that required the administration to act. Will those students be permanently expelled? Let us hope so.
Another sit-in at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, staged by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), has lasted nearly a week despite the college’s president, Sarah Willie-LeBreton, saying that the demonstration is against school policy and has interfered with official business, including serving students who are disabled.
“Disruption is necessary when injustice is occurring,” SJP said on Sunday in a statement attached to a petition which defends the group’s actions. “There can be no status quo during genocide, at Smith College, or anywhere. There is no disability justice, no equity and inclusion, no protection from legal discrimination, no class justice than can exist without a free Palestine.”
My, my. Talk about narcissism and navel-gazing. Ever more absurd, at Smith the Students for Justice in Palestine believe that nothing good can happen anywhere without a “free Palestine.” And “free Palestine” means the destruction of the tiny Jewish state and its replacement “from the river to the sea” by a twenty-third Arab state. Without that state of “Palestine,” they claim, preposterously, that there is no “disability justice” (?), “no equity and inclusion,” no “protection from legal discrimination,” “no class justice,” and so on. Everything depends on “justice for Palestine.” Apparently, the moral arc of the universe cannot bend toward justice — remember that phrase Obama liked to quote, believing that it came from Martin Luther King, when, in fact, King lifted it, without attribution, from the nineteenth-century abolitionist Theodore Parker — unless “Palestine is free.” That freedom for “Palestine” is the central issue of our time, that must be resolved if there is to be justice anywhere, on any matter, from China to Peru. Nothing good can happen anywhere, about anything, until Israel is replaced by Palestine.
Note to college presidents: don’t bother to negotiate with, or take seriously the demands of, these demonstrators who are disrupting campus life. Call in the police, clear the buildings where they stage their ghastly sit-ins, and have them arrested for criminal trespass. Let the state punish them for that, and meanwhile, expel those students — without hope of reprieve — from the schools whose educational mission they are subverting. Once a dozen schools have responded thus, as Vanderbilt has done, with suspensions or expulsions, word will get around and students will discover that they no longer are so enthusiastic about expressing their support for the Cause of Palestine by disrupting both faculty and administrators from fulfilling their tasks.
ruth samuel tenenholtz says
amen to this. and how the woke bend language to their will to create demobabble and paligibberish.
Frank Anderson says
There are no identifiable “Palestinians”.. There are Muslims who want to take Israel first, then Jordan, and then the rest of the world for an Islamic Caliphate. “If Islam is such a great deal, why were millions of Egyptians slaughtered bringing it to Egypt?” Mark Gabriel, PhD, page 52 The Unfinished Battle: Islam and the Jews, PARAPHRASED.
Mind watch says
These mindless individuals are the final outcome of a mixed up mesh, concoction of delusion, anger, idiocy, propaganda and indoctrination etc. They haven’t bothered to look at the dark side of Palestine’s history in the region, and the fact that Palestine’s lot in life is largely the cumulative effect of their character traits and all of the decisions they have made whilst under the influence of confusion, anger, religious dogmatism and suffering etc. Then, of course, Islam basically does not fundamentally enhance anyone’s life as it is not in harmony with one’s natural development from childhood. It stifles natural happiness and inspiration. Similarly, these deluded, self-righteous ”festivity seekers” don’t seem to express any sensitivity whatsoever at the plight of those poor Israeli everyday people suffering horrendous, cruel deaths at the hands of Hamas which shares a common religious and cultural foundation with Palestinians in any case.
Then, they have not bothered to enquire into their own natures – young, impressionistic, ideological and ridiculously self-righteous. How ironical that they subjugate, condemn and undermine their society and culture which nurtured them and sustained them. Some are in a festive mood, which seemingly out-weights all considerations – ‘morality of the moment’ is the easy simple cause they base their rantings and ravings on. Thinking they are on target, they are so far divorced from the reality they are making complete fools of themselves. They have simply rallied to this repugnant world sway which legitimizes subjugation and killings on the basis a complete and utter myth.They have simply lost their faculties and have conveyed and vented their own problems in this cure for all called Islam, which is a centuries old hoax, sham and deception which spreads through threats, indoctrinations and killings.. How this froth and bubble nonsense entrenched itself in mainstream society as recognized legitimate body is an international disgrace. A system of Law base on an ”evil fairytale”.
Apologies for my anger ,but this ridiculous Islam thing should only be the content of a child’ horror fantasy novel. this is the sum total of it. It possesses no attributes or virtues etc to consider it as having any greater worth then this comic book classification. Apologies for my abrupt tone, but this cult / regime is really just too farcical and ridiculous to even discuss it sensibly and seriously. It is utter trash – which doesn’t say much for it’s proponents.
James Lincoln says
Mind watch says,
“Apologies for my anger ”
No apologies necessary.
All clear-thinking people who use factual evidence-based logic feel exactly the same way.
Rick Gordon says
SJP numbers and activity are the result of long term disintegration of American values. The beginning goes back to San Francisco State College in the late 60s. The goal is to break apart America’s melting pot into identity groups that can be pitted against each other – especially anyone who’s white – the world’s oppressors. It will take years to recover our higher education system – as well as public education.
Ray Jarman says
Very valid points and one only needs to look at nations in the north of Africa where people only vote for their tribal members and in nations such as India where it seems that the Hindu and Muslim populations are completely segregated and the vote represents their tribe and not what good for the nation.
somehistory says
People who know better or either willingly evil or they are spineless and faint before the mob of mozlums and their cohorts.
When someone/a group, makes a false claim, it should be exposed as false. The one to whom the claim is made, must stand for Truth and not be mushy, unable to tell the liar to get lost.
Too many in positions of authority are mushy when the ghouls make their demands. This gives power to the ghouls to continue making demands.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“Too many in positions of authority are mushy when the ghouls make their demands.”
Very true.
Pres. Trump is one of the few very prominent exceptions.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
Waller Sieruk says
Many of those young college students don’t know or understand that history reveals that the ancient Philistines recorded in the Bible and history came from the Greek Islands and some parts of the mainland Greece. They have no connection, at all, the to the Arab /Muslim of modern times who called themselves the “Palestinians.”
From those ancient people, the Philistines, the word “Palestine” .came into being.
There is no genuine ethic group or race who are the “Palestinians.”
Early in the last century a anyone living in that land, Arab or Jew, who lived in that land was called a ”Palestinian.”
Only after 1964 did the Arab/Muslims start to refer to themselves , exclusively , by the word “Palestinian.”
The reason for that is that they felt that by giving themselves that title they would appear to have some kind of valid claim on that land.
Indeed , there never was a “Palestinian state.”
Walter Sieruk says
There is obviously something terribly wrong with a those young people on campus who aren’t Muslim who nevertheless admire and support that vicious dangerous and deadly jihad entity ,Hamas. It might be that they had been deceived, as in lead astray by misinformation by the propagandists for Islam. ?
They, sadly, are confused or outright ignorant or both on the subject of Israel and the religion of Islam with its Muslim terrorist organizations.
Those people must not be aware of the wicked dangers of that demonic jihad entity, Hamas, with is jihadists, have no limits, at all, to its cruel heinous and vile horrendously horrific Islamic evils that it so maliciously and murderously commits.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s sad and even tragic that those brainwashed young college and university students non–Muslims Americans throughout the United States, who are protesting against the State of Israel and who likewise greatly favor Hamas are people who are ,rightly , described ,as the “useful idiots” of the leaders of Hamas and their jihadist members who are dedicated to the cause of conquest for the cause of Islam.
Those Americans who aren’t Muslims the stooges of those Hamas chefs and the other Muslim terrorist, For those of Hamas view all people who are not Muslims as inferior creatures to them and refer to them .
Behind their backs as , “Kafirs,” which is the Islamic derogatory term for “disbelievers”
It’s tragic that those non-Muslims pro-Hamas America protesters against Israel are so very deluded by Hamas that this Islamic terror / murder organization so easily manipulates and uses them as their tools.
Those poor young people are ,truly, their useful idiots.
Walter Sieruk says
Many universities and colleges across the United States and in the United Kingdom have been thoroughly infiltrated and influenced by the insidious stealth jihadists.
There may be little doubt that those stealth jihadists are backed and funded by Qatar as well as oil rich Saudi Arabia.
Walter Sieruk says
Qatar supporting that Muslim terrorist organizations and it doesn’t stop with that insidious evil .Qatar has, the stealth jihad , has infiltrated and influenced many universities and colleges in the United Kingdom and across the United States.
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia also has m, no doubt, its insidious part in the influence for Islam in the UK and the US.
So now those “institutions of higher education” have indoctrinated many young impressionable students to be very anti-Jewish , ant-Israel and even pro- Hamas.
Bull Herman says
Better yet? Add to cost of their non forgivable loans the cost of sending them one-way to the Islamist land of their opportunity and choice.
Not to return. Ever.
Let them take their fight to the people as if they are the next Ceasar or Che.
Hopefully they will be as happy to as we are to get rid of them.
And we can then again enjoy celebrating High Holidays.
bagsgroove says
That’s a great idea. These young uneducated in the ways of the world people are more than likely funded by someone who wishes our society to fail. And we have a good idea who that is,the traitor in our midst. Since when would young students do anything for nothing ?
tim gallagher says
I sometimes think that these demos by the left leaning student types in favour of the Palestinians are just a fashionable, groovy kind of thing to do, maybe even it is the type of lefties who will turn out for any trendy issue (climate change, transgender, etc, etc) and they would be afraid to step out of line with their left wing peer group. Maybe some don’t want to go to university without finding some cause to get out and protest about, a kind of nostalgia to carry on the way leftie students always have from way back to Vietnam war days. They are idiots for siding with the barbaric Muslims, and anybody who supports the scum of the earth from hamas are disgusting people. Hopefully, some of these young people will grow a brain and leave all this trendy bullshit behind.
OLD GUY says
I hope you are correct. Unfortunately our University and colleges have been invaded by islam’s millions of dollars that have bought and brought their propaganda and political educators to our schools. America sells everything to foreigners including our children and their future.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, OLD GUY. I didn’t realise that the Muslims had managed to invade the universities in the USA with their money. That’s a tragic and dangerous situation. Of course, the march of the left wingers, the Marxists among the academics seems to be happening everywhere, indoctrinating young people with left wing crap rather than educating them. It certainly seems to be a big problem out here in Australia. These young people, any people, who support hamas disgust me. They are so clearly supporting extreme evil.
James Lincoln says
Proof positive that the federal government should pivot – and direct funding to vocational / trade schools.
Christopher Watson says
Publish their names and then wait till they apply for jobs. This was done in France after 1968. Very few of that year ever got jobs. Most had to work in shops or small industries. They never got the jobs they were working for; certainly not lucrative government work. I know because I was at a French university in 1970.