Posted on 05/13/2024 10:10:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As I walked around taking photographs of the Anti-Israel encampment at Cornell University, one of the participants kept calling after me -- “Julie! Julie, right? Haven’t we met before?”
It was one of the appointed mediators for the student activists. She wore a yellow vest, carried a walkie-talkie, and used any pretense she could think of to strike up a conversation with non-students to quickly discern their intentions.
A week before I visited, twenty-two students and two staff members had been arrested for staging a sit-in in Day Hall, the administrative center for Cornell. Shortly before that, multiple suspensions had been handed down to students for participating in protests, which included an encampment set up on the well-known art quad. School administrators had met with activists to request they move to a less disruptive part of the campus -- they’d refused.
And so they stayed in the art quad where statues of two great Americans -- Cornell cofounders Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White -- stared silently down at a campus obsessed with the latest political statement and fashion fad -- the black and white keffiyeh.
There are many who still associate the black and white keffiyeh with former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) head Yasser Arafat. It’s a statement of solidarity that’s hard to stomach when transposed onto American campuses; especially for those of us old enough to remember its long history of turmoil and terrorism.
Academy award winning British actress Vanessa Redgrave (well-known to American audiences by the 1970s) may have been the first celebrity to add the keffiyeh scarf to her wardrobe not long after funding, producing and narrating the 1977 documentary, The Palestinian.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I like Rev. Franklin Graham but I might add here that the Department of Education does not fund any local public schools, or pay any teachers, or teach any school classes. It arranges and oversees and studies the schools overall from desks and cubicles in DC.
In other words, we should put it out of business.
As all citizens know the school taxes are local and go up with property assessments.
RE: a day spent with the Cornell tent city rioters....(paraphrased)
Like we say when a movie or TV show ends up being really worthless:
I can’t get that wasted time back again.
Photo on bottom....
Note the nicely lettered sign from a computer printer. And the Staples or Office Max plastic laminated sheet protector.
Amazing these victimized young people starving and dehydrated and denied their prescription drugs in a tent city protest produced that while sitting on a muddy lawn.
Try to read this NY Post report from last week without having tears well up:
A different university (Princeton):
“This is absolutely unfair. My peers and I, we are starving. We are physically exhausted. I am quite literally shaking right now as you can see,” the protester says into the megaphone in a widely shared video on X.
A student-led hunger strike began Friday, with protesters demanding the school meet with them to discuss divestment and drop the criminal and disciplinary charges against two students who were arrested for erecting tents and 13 other peers who were arrested for trespassing an academic hall last month, Princeton’s student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, reported Monday.
After meeting with administrators on Monday, students indicated that they have no intention of halting their protest, which has left them “immunocompromised,” according to the female protester whose rally cry has gone viral online.
Whitaker Chambers called Cornell the father of the CPUSA, the Communist Party of America.
Title should be:
“My Thoughts on 50 Years of Israeli History, Which I was Reminded of During A Recent Visit to Cornell”
Worse yet, one thing we never thought we’d see in America is the rise of antisemitism on the right.
As American journalist Jonathan Tobin pointed out, with conservatives like Candace Owens “who has essentially mainstreamed antisemitism in her own way” and Tucker Carlson “who seems to be willing to platform Israel haters” -- we are entering uncharted and dangerous territory.
Libs of Tiktok founder Chaya Raichik summed it up best when she said, “The lack of moral clarity on this issue is really terrifying … The difference is that on the left [antisemitism] is institutionalized, whereas on the right it‘s not -- yet.”
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