By Stella Paul, AMERICAN THINKER
California is the lifestyle incubator of the nation. And now the trendy anti-Semitic thuggery that debuted at California’s public universities has metastasized across America, all the way to the elite halls of Vassar.
Before we discuss the fashionable pogrom that just took place on the Vassar campus where Jackie Kennedy once strolled in pearls, let’s look back at May 7, 2002. On that day, Professor Laurie Zoloth, Director of the Jewish Studies program at San Francisco State University, attended a “Peace in the Middle East” campus rally, organized by Hillel students, where they sang songs and prayed for peace in Israel. Wrote Professor Zoloth:
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“As soon as the community supporters left, the 50 students who remained praying in a minyan for the traditional afternoon prayers, or chatting, or cleaning up after the rally, talking — were surrounded by a large, angry crowd of Palestinians and their supporters. But they were not calling for peace. They screamed at us to ‘go back to Russia’ and they screamed that they would kill us all, and other terrible things. They surrounded the praying students, and the elderly women who are our elder college participants, who survived the Shoah, who helped shape the Bay Area peace movement, only to watch as a threatening crowd shoved the Hillel students against the wall of the plaza.
“As the counter demonstrators poured into the plaza, screaming at the Jews to ‘Get out or we will kill you’ and ‘Hitler did not finish the job,’ I turned to the police and to every administrator I could find and asked them to remove the counter demonstrators from the Plaza, to maintain the separation of 100 feet that we had been promised. The police told me that they had been told not to arrest anyone, and that if they did, “it would start a riot.” I told them that it already was a riot.”
Eventually, the terrified Jewish students gathered under the flag of Israel and were led by armed police guard back to the Hillel House. “This was neither free speech nor discourse, but raw, physical assault,” wrote Professor Zoloth, who noted with sadness, “Not one administrator came to stand with us.”
May 7, 2002 turned out to be a grand day for Jew-haters, because things only got better from there. Threatening, harassing, intimidating and assaulting Jews is now a venerable tradition on California’s public campuses, protected by taxpayer-funded administrators and enshrined by public indifference.
Let’s flash forward to San Francisco State University today. Mohammad Hammad, president of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS), has recently enjoyed organizing campus art projects that read “My heroes have always killed colonizers,” posing on social media sites with a knife that he claims “makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier,” and vowing to use his GUPS presidency “to radicalize half of our population and bring them back with me as fighters.”
Upon being informed of these threats by a Jewish group called AMCHA Initiative, SFSU President Leslie Wong took decisive action by yawning, shrugging and sticking his fingers in his ears. After the police intervened, Mohammad Hammad disappeared from campus, presumably with his weapons collection intact. But the radical student group that elected him president still has free reign.
AMCHA Initiative, led by the politely relentless Tammi Rossman-Benjamin,documents the anti-Semitic tsunami on University of California’s campuses. At UC Berkeley, a Jewish girl holding an “Israel Wants Peace” sign was ramroddedwith a shopping cart by the head of Students for Justice in Palestine. At UC Irvine, eleven Muslim students disrupted the speech of the Israeli Ambassador with such ferocity they were convicted of disturbing the peace. And on and on and on.
The regal disinterest of UC’s Board of Regents has allowed the cancer to spread. If these characters can get away with it in California, they can pull it off in Michigan, Boston, and Brooklyn, too. As Caroline Glick explains, anti-Israel student activists at the University of Michigan recently hurled death threats at Jewish student council members and called them “dirty Jew” and “kike.” Michigan university administrators aggressively intervened — on behalf of the anti-Semites.
Last February, Brooklyn College campus police forcibly removed four Jewish students who were peacefully monitoring an anti-Israel event. Brooklyn College administrators then lied about the Jewish students, claiming they were disruptive. Karen Gould, the college president, was forced to apologize to the students after a video exonerated them.
And at Northeastern University in Boston, a pressure campaign finally goaded administrators into suspending Students for Justice in Palestine’s campus affiliation for a year, after a series of vicious provocations. Students defaced a menorah on campus, disrupted Jewish events, and frightened Jews by placing mock eviction notices on their dormitory rooms.
Now it’s Vassar’s turn. Long gone are the days chronicled in Mary McCarthy’s famous novel, “The Group,” in which aristocratic young women clad in sweater sets gained a little academic polish while searching for husbands. Now Vassar is all about multiculturalism, with one notable exception: It’s edgy, it’s cool, it’s hip to hate Israel. Thirty-nine Vassar faculty members (including, tragically, Joshua Schreier, Director of Jewish Studies) signed a libelous letter supporting an academic boycott of Israel, in which they accused the Jewish state of cartoonish evils. As on the other campuses, the road to physically intimidating Jews was paved with academic corruption.
A planned trip to Israel with Earth Sciences Professor Jill Schneiderman and Greek and Roman Studies Professor Rachel Friedman has set off a firestorm of anti-Semitic fury. In late February, Students for Justice in Palestine activists physically intimidated students going into Professor Friedman’s class to discuss the upcoming trip. According to William Jacobson’s invaluable reporting at theLegal Insurrection blog, Professor Friedman was “shocked” and “in 17 years at Vassar never experienced anything like this.”
Vassar’s administration then convened a campus-wide forum to discuss “the ethics of the travel trip.” On March 3rd, 200 people gathered for an “open conversation” which quickly degenerated into what Schneiderman described as a “very toxic atmosphere” in which “rage against Israel was the theme.” “I was knocked off-center by a belligerent academic community dedicated to vilifying anyone who dares set foot in Israel,” wrote Schneiderman on her blog. Friedman said that Jewish students who spoke in defense of Israel were heckled, drowned out with finger-snapping noises and loudly laughed at.
So far, Vassar president Catharine Bond Hill has refused to comment. But Vassar’s national reputation has taken a serious hit, and a newly formed group of parents and alumni called Fairness to Israel may continue to press the issue.
The anti-Semitism weaponized at California universities has now infected campuses around the country. The academic community bears the blame for its studied indifference to this ugliness and its outright enthusiasm for tormenting Jewish students and faculty.
But the Jewish community must also acknowledge its failure to effectively combat this dangerous trend. Mainstream Jewish institutions have been AWOL from the battle. Now that Abe Foxman is finally retiring from the Anti-Defamation League, it’s time to replace him with someone who knows how to start winning.
I nominate Dr. Charles Jacobs of Americans for Peace and Tolerance. Jacobs led the fight against Northeastern and helped create the new film, The J Street Challenge, that’s taking the battle to the campus. It’s a war and Charles Jacobs is ready to wage it.
yamit82 Said:
Then you didn’t injure you brains!!!!!!
@ honeybee:
I feel fine, thank you very much, I only landed on my head.
@ yamit82:
how a you feeling, the second day , after a fall, is usually the worst.
yamit82 Said:
I would be disappointed if you were not so acquainted.
honeybee Said:
No I didn’t see it. Sorry.
We have some great bars in Israel and some really good bar tenders. Trust me I know.
@ Yamit82
That should have been Bar_Refieli. To many bars in Israel.
yamit82 Said:
You didn’t see Bar-Lev’s commercial??
yamit82 Said:
I use to tell people, but found they would laugh at me. I will tell from now, but don’t laugh.
honeybee Said:
I thought they were dead?
honeybee Said:
Do you have any more premonitions about me I should know in advance?
the phoenix Said:
True dat. We have relative on base in a medical unit. Quite concerned!
honeybee Said:
Well,
There has been shooting at FT Hood
yamit82 Said:
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yamit82 Said:
I know !!! I pretend he’s clever, more effective then anger.
yamit82 Said:
I would hop a plane but I busy making a commercial with the Muppets.
honeybee Said:
I ordered one but she hasn’t arrived yet.
honeybee Said:
That’s what all the guys say.
Next time he wants a cold beer? You know what to do. 😉
yamit82 Said:
Tx did that a few years back and developed blood clots I his leg. I hope you’re feeling better. You’re doing a lot of work there, must have a three holler. To bad you don’t have a women to sooth you injured body.
@ yamit82:
Hope you’re ok.
honeybee Said:
Fell off the ladder so I rested for a few hours. Hope to finish by Fri.
@ yamit82:
What no smart mouth reply to me. Exhausted!!!!!!!!!!!
FIGHTING JEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8wzpcSgFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDV6-cO7cc
yamit82 Said:
TX just said, ” he pays in benefits that are not always material in nature”.
@ yamit82:
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honeybee Said:
What color is your new fridge??? 😛
@ the phoenix:
Is he speakin Amurican????
@ keelie:
2 of my 4 grandkids are taking karate! They’re only 6 and 4 so I can’t take them on my bike to Palestine House!
http://youtu.be/HVjbf-dHjW0
@ Sonnyboy8080:
True…
In fact, at least six months to one year of committed karate training – in relentless Japanese style – would raise the self-confidence of all our “youths” to the point where they wouldn’t mind at all “having a go”.
I taught some “elderly” Jewish men some time ago, and they were outstanding; ready for anything. I also spoke to some younger guys (Jewish “Youths”) who thought the IDEA was cool, but faded out of sight when it came time to commit a little time to it. While I’m on the subject, whatever happened to all these nice Jewish children whose parents dutifully took them to karate classes at the “Y” in Toronto?
@ evildoctor:
I like you, doc!
🙂
@ the phoenix:
I specialize in treating yidleftitis. This is a nefarious disease that afflicts many Jews who suffer from a self righteous impulse to prove that they are better than everybody else because they think they are doing the right thing by helping the enemies of the Jews and the the enemies of human progress. There is no cure and I fear that none shall ever be found. Years ago it was postulated that the Holocaust would cure many Jews of yidleftitis but the voting record of the majority of US Jews in the last 2 presidential elections proved otherwise.
evildoctor Said:
Amen, this my motto as a wife!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the phoenix Said:
Dentist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ evildoctor:
totally agree with your comment, which has elicited a huge grin that just won’t quit… 🙂
out of curiosity which specialty are you ‘eveling’ in? 😉
RE:
This makes me want to puke. Every time I read one of these stories there is a comment that the terrified Jewish students or whatever fled or cowered or appealed to the authorities, etc., etc. Arnold is correct: until Jews start defending themselves they will continue to be harassed and victimized by the Jewhaters. I have no sympathy for these sniveling and cowardly Jews. Such are fodder for the trains to the ovens. Several years ago there was a boycott of Israeli wines orchestrated by the local Palis and their useful idiot sympathizers (many of whom were Jews) at one of the largest wine/liquor outlets in the Toronto area. I belong to a group of Jewish bikers and organized a group of about 35 bikes–some with Israeli flags– to ride over to the the boycott and show our support for those who were counter demonstrating. As we rode into the parking lot the counter demonstrators applauded and the boycotters disappeared in an instant! 35 large bikes with leather clad riders was something that the boycotters didn’t expect from Jews and given the (unwarranted) stereotype bikers have, the protesters were scared shitless. We also have ridden out to Palestine House twice in the far reaches of the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) to demonstrate against that group of Jewhaters. I can recall that the Palis and their supporters were not pleased to see us there! The point is simple: until such time we are ready to defend ourselves Jews will continue to be victimized. Nobody respects frightened Jews. Jews should never forget this written by Machiavelli several centuries ago:
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Until such times that Jews learn and embrace such and validated by several thousand years of history we will continue to have our butts kicked if not much, much worse.
@ Sonnyboy8080:
We Jews need to “find our inner Bugsy Siegel , Myer Lansky and Mickey Cohan”.
@ keelie:
Actually, ‘breaking bones’ would be MORE moral….
@ Bert:
Never mind the pro-Israel rallies, which I find fundamentally useless, especially when undertaken by Jews. If you read what Arnold Harris and I have been discussing, the main thing is to “muscle up” to the situation – and muscle is what it takes.
Good luck on that, because as you’ve noticed, we Jews are reluctant to admit to the current War on Jews, let alone act on our own behalf. Hell, even our nice parents avoid taking their offspring aside and offering some “advice” on not joining the BDS crowd, let alone withdrawing their money for providing them an education in institutions that also have no spine.
@ ArnoldHarris:
You’re right of course, although I’m not sure women could handle the weight. I also assumed that people using a 1″ oak dowel (3 to 4 feet long – known in the martial arts as a hanbo or jo respectively) could naturally wield the stick effectively. Only problem is that one has to get real close with the “heavy sock”. Perhaps better to use the buckshot (preferably #00 or #4) directly…
Gun sounds better, but as you know, you have to be trained in safety, if nothing else, and most of our fellow Jews “don’t have the time” or “moral inclination” (see below) to do this. I know this from experience. We think and talk a lot…
We Jews tend to believe that it’s moral not to hurt or kill somebody. Period. But that’s not morality; it’s stupidity.
I live in Poughkeepsie and must point out that the local Jewish community has never held a pro Israel rally or even scheduled a community meeting to discuss anti-Semitism. I have repeatedly asked the local Jewish Federation to allow local Jews to meet and dialogue on issues of Jewish concern. I have been rebuffed and ignored every time. There is no education on learning the truth and how to answer attacks on Israel. The local Jewish community is poorly informed and even misinformed. Now when this crises erupts at Vassar the local Jewish leaders all hide out hoping that no one will notice and this will blow over. The result of Jewish failure to provide a proper Jewish education has resulted in assimilation and even young Jews who support the BDS criminals.
@ keelie:
Keelie, you are on the right track. But 1″ diameter oak or maple doweling can be used as an effective weapon only if it is shoved into the face of an opponent. But swinging it “with abandon” won’t have the effect you want and may need for personal protection. The problem is that the weight of the dowel is evenly divided, whereas, if you want to use it as a club, you need something with greater weight at the business end.
So let’s try something different. Get a pair of long, heavy men’s socks. Stuff one inside the other. Then fill the botton of the inside sock loose buckshot, about 5 lbs. You can buy this buckshot of that type in any gun shop where reloadable ammunition is sold. Tie off the buckshot-loaded socks. Find a suitable tree in your backyard. Draw the outline of a human head on a sheet of 8-1/2 x 11″ paper and nail the completed target to the tree, at about the same height as a 6-ft tall man. Then stand back and practice swinging the weighted sock in a great arc, so that it hits the paper target human head at about the same point each time you try. After a few hits at increasing velocity, there won’t be much left of that target. And if and when you have to take your new weapon out of your purse and use it for possibly life and death defense, you want to make sure you smash that face the first time. If you do the job on him properly, he will go down. Then use your cell phone to call a cop.
Maybe you want to go defend yourself with a gun. Nearly all the 50 US states have standardized the processes of lawful concealed carry licensing. You don’t need a large-caliber pistol, such as the 1943 Government Issue Colt Automatic Pistol, .45 caliber. Pump one of those big slugs into him, and his feet will leave the ground and he will be knocked backwards as if someone had struck him in the chest with a telephone pole moving at about 20 miles per hour. But women find these brutes a little too heavy. So try a 9mm Browning High Power auto-loader pistol. It carries 13 rounds of ammunition in its magazine, and doesn’t kick as strongly as a .45 caliber pistol. If you intend to carry a loaded weapon, you are strongly advised to take a short and relatively inexpensive training course. Not merely for safe handling and usage of firearms, but also that you understand the potential legal consequences of killing someone in the street, and the need to prove self-defense to a local district attorney.
Chances are, all of this sounds surrealistic to you. But you and I did not make the world the way it is. It, and the human race just set things up that way. In any case, you have not only a right to defend your own body, but a moral obligation to yourself to do just that. Otherwise you have chosen to become a victim when push comes to shove.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
I’m of the opinion that we need our feisty Jewish women to show our very sensitive Jewish men how to fight: like lionesses.
If they want to be a little more discrete or can’t handle the weight of a baseball bat, I recommend 1″ oak or maple dowelling (not softwood), if possible sanded, stained black and lightly oiled. Very aesthetically pleasing, not too apparent to the eye, but very nasty to lots of other body parts when swung with abandon.
I was just about to comment that nowhere in the two sentences below do I see the word “fight”. If there’s no fight, how can one “win”? Certainly not with words alone.
Arnold Harris is correct. Time to learn how to be a little less “moral”. Break some bones; inflict lots of pain. Bullies hate pain… their own pain. Classes in self-defence are ok, but nothing beats the WILL to physically defeat the enemy. Try reading about the code of the Samurai, the ultimate fighting machine… That would be a good start.
Why don’t some of these super-sensitive American Jews band together in their own gangs, arm themselves appropriately, and start breaking the bones or even killing some of their Arab tormenters?
Because unless and until that occurs, absolutely nobody will respect their rights. So don’t listen to what these fucking American and West Europeans say is appropriate conduct. Just watch they way they tilt when the Jews among them are actually threatened with deadly violence.
And as far as I am concerned, I don’t respect those Jews either. And for foolish, disorganized and cowardly dogs such as them, I never have shown respect and I never will show any such sentiment.
Nor do I give a shit how earnestly they pray for peace, which they never will have in any case. The time has come for young Jews to learn to fight, and if they can’t protect themselves any other way, to kill. When push comes to shove, there is no choice. You either fight, or you get beaten anyway. And before this crap plays its course on those university campuses, some of will indeed get killed.
They don’t even have to use guns. Just that when they come together at a public meeting on campus, bring along a nice old-fashioned 42-ounce hickory Louisville Slugger baseball bat. You can smash all the bones that count with just that kind of armament.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
American Jews who subscribe to Jstreet, and the like, are directly responsible for the current anti semitism. Jstreet propagates libels against Israel which are no different than the libels that lead to prior pogroms in europe. Libels precede pogroms. Diaspora Jews are supporting libels and this will blow up in their face.