Posted on 11/25/2015 12:14:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
But how will UT-Austin handle the lawsuit that Nabulsi and others in his group are now threatening to bring? Yes, the aggressors are potentially suing for having been..."offended?" "Violated?" Predictably, Nabulsi's group is not only threatening to sue, they are whining that they-the bullies-in-chief-no longer feel "safe" on campus.
They are enacting the role of both the persecutor and the victim, just as Palestinian Jihadists do. They-the Jerusalem jihadists and the American students in their image-initiate the violence and then insist that the world count them as "victims."
Earlier this month, on November 13th, twelve members of a group calling itself the "Palestine Solidarity Committee," descended, lynch-mob style, upon an American campus in Austin, Texas. What happened next makes the grossly objectionable Apartheid Week follies slightly pale in comparison.
Here's why.
The ringleader, Mohammed Nabulsi, is a law student and presumably an American citizen. He is educated, not illiterate; he is not living in a Jordanian refugee camp; presumably, he has options. This suggests that his rage and his motivation are coming from other sources.
Political tracts, religious texts, perhaps? Or, does he believe that this will advance him personally in some way? That's been known to happen.
Perhaps what's new about the intifada in Austin is this:
Such anti-Israel anger is no longer merely yelling itself hoarse outside on the campus pavement. Nor are the protestors conducting brief "aktions" and then fleeing the scene. Now, they are holding forth at great length instead of scheduled lecturers.
The non-invited Nabulsi claimed that he was there to give a speech-and not Professor Ami Pedahzur's invited guest, Dr. Gil-Li Vardi from Stanford University. Nabulsi said he would not leave until he, too, was heard.
What exactly are Nabulski's credentials? Well, he had a grandfather who...
Such entitled aggressiveness, this pure example of Islamist supremacism, is being tolerated (is that because it is so familiar?) for longer periods of time in the American classroom. [emphasis added]
In addition, whoever is behind this political act-up/act-out theater, has circulated a heavily edited video meant to vilify Professor Ami Pedazhur.
Professor Pedazhur had invited an academic to deliver a lecture. He had not publicized a debate or an open mic or a Speak-Out. However, increasingly, all classes that touch on the Jewish presence in the Middle East become shouting matches unless the discussion is a completely anti-Zionist presentation. Then, there are no disruptions and no debates.
This apparently unaffiliated group unfurled the Palestinian flag, accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing," and shouted "Long live the Intifada" which, by definition, is a genocidal call for Israel's destruction.
Why is this group even allowed on campus? They are not an academic group. They are a goon squad, the 21st century equivalent of the Hitler-era fascist Brownshirts. They are trespassers with hate in their hearts and on their lips.
What is the University of Texas administration planning to do about harboring such haters in its midst?
Precious little, it seems. Both the President and the Dean have released mealy-mouthed statements.
But how will UT-Austin handle the lawsuit that Nabulsi and others in his group are now threatening to bring? Yes, the aggressors are potentially suing for having been..."offended?" "Violated?" Predictably, Nabulsi's group is not only threatening to sue, they are whining that they-the bullies-in-chief-no longer feel "safe" on campus.
They are enacting the role of both the persecutor and the victim, just as Palestinian Jihadists do. They-the Jerusalem jihadists and the American students in their image-initiate the violence and then insist that the world count them as "victims."
Here's what we must wrestle to the ground: The continued claim that such angry, highly propagandized disruptions are intrinsic to learning in the West; that deeply "felt" propaganda is equivalent to objective facts; that such in-your-face false "equivalencies" are what academic freedom and free speech are supposed to protect.
This must change. Someone has got to legally "unpack," as the deconstructionists might say, the difference between free speech, hate speech, academic freedom, and the First Amendment--and the difference between a civilized learning environment and intimidation which permits no independent thought to flourish or survive.
Neither President Greg Fenves nor Dean Randy Diehl at UT-Austin seem to understand that a lecture is not supposed to be interrupted; that debates can be civil and carefully planned; that a political rally is not the same as an academic lecture.
This is a tragedy unfolding, because it can. Where are the cops? Where is the dismissal from attending the university? Where is the administration?
Lives are lost over crap just like this. America is in a trance, sleeping through again, and the house is burning.
I think we will see civil war. Too many foreigners have taken over. It just hasn’t been officially announced. As the America we knew, we’re probably “DONE”.
I first used the term (to myself) Political Correctness on the UT-Austin campus back in 1990 or so. Nothing would surprise me from that crowd. It should be noted that it’s still a largely conservative campus that ‘tolerates’ the leftism in its midst. Hairy legged women in homosexual bed-ins in the Free Speech area in front of the Texas Union, for example.
Obama has signaled his strategy to diminish and contain America - his fellow travelers in academia are going along with implementing the program.
The America that we grew up with is gone. If, you disagree with the direction that America is going, then, you are an extremist. A major war is coming that will tear apart the country.
The anti-American, anti-Israeli forces are in a position to influence (media, education and politics) but they aren’t a majority.
Their increasing overt push, now that Obama is nearing the end of his reign, exposes them at a time we’re witnessing a rise domestic and international terrorism - their stealth mode has been ratcheted up to “in your face.”
States’ governor seats and legislatures are majority Republican. Democrats are having to narrow their appeal to odd-ball demographic grievance groups.
That Obama and his ilk defend the enemy, is becoming clear to anyone who has a working brain cell.
Push-back on American campuses:
EXCLUSIVE: The Media Is Wrong, White Student Unions Are not ‘Hoaxes’ Created by Racists
“.............Juan (real name omitted at his request), a Mexican-American student at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), said he started his White Student Union page as a means to mock the “absurd nonsense of crybaby, race-obsessed college students, [by] using their tactics against them,” although Juan also added that he now thinks there might be a serious problem to tackle. “We’re coming to see that there might actually be some hostility to the thought that one might be proud of being of European descent.”
Rajesh (real name omitted at his request), a South Asian student who founded a White Student Union page page for the University of British Columbia (UBC), also expressed concern at what he saw as the increasingly unequal racial hierarchy emerging on campuses. “In the current ideological and cultural environment I, as a non-white, am lucky,” said Rajesh. “I have the right to be proud of my heritage, I am not made to feel ashamed of who I am and don’t need to constantly walk on eggshells in conversations for fear of being thought a racist.”
“I value whites. I’m culturally comfortable among whites. I’ve always grown up around whites. I enjoy the company of whites,” he stated.
Rajesh also claimed he was not the only minority concerned by the new racism: “I’ve been surprised by how many non-whites we’ve had approaching us. They are familiar with the stigmatisation of white identity and white people... And they don’t like that.”
White students involved in the new movement report a similar sense of stigmatisation. John (real name omitted at his request), a student at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) and an editor of its White Student Union page, said he was led to set up the page by “a pervasive set of attitudes at my school towards people of European descent. I have had physical threats via pm, intimidation, and verbal abuse both online and off.”
John also detected hatred in attitudes to European history. “European history and culture is considered evil, and entirely defined by the harm it did other cultures,” he said..........”
All public and many private colleges receive funding and grants from federal and state governments. It’s time for state legislatures and Congress to use that leverage to end this anarchy.
Muslims are projecting. Mecca is an apartheid place run by muslims.
Muslims can get elected in Israel’s parliment. Jews are forbidden that same freedom in muslim countries.
Where is the pushback!
You have it backwards. Because of Federal funding, colleges are coerced into allowing this lunacy. Colleges like Grove City and Hillsdale who take no Federal money provide more traditional academics.
Once you take federal dollars, you become their property.
Meet the crybullies.
These people have physiological issues beyond nuts. They are offended because nobody recognizes their superiority or special talents. When they realize nobody gives a damn about them, they will become violent or litigious. And when they become violence or litigious. they will get their a$$es arrested (kicked) or counter-sued. And of course they will be further offended as a result and the cycle will repeat itself until they grow up to face a hard life where nobody gives a damn and it sucks to be them.
They are the perpetually offended. After a while, a hard-core few may blow themselves up in a crowd, harmlessly self-explode (suicide) at home, or arm themselves and think they are the reincarnation of some fictional character like Batman or The Joker on a mission to save the world. After they take out some innocent lives in gun free zones, still nobody will give a damn. That’s how it starts and ends.
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. /s
The more I see whats happeneing and the cresendo it is taking on because the progressive utopia is fading in washington leads me to the realization that we may very well need a Trump who speaks his mind and we stand behind him in agreement
Best research their history before committing.
You have it right in a nutshell. It is a truism across the board.
It is happening here
“.....For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal-”social justice”-is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things.
“Social Justice” for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires.
It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.......”
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24376
“...The title of Clinton’s thesis was “There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” In this title she had identified the single most important Alinsky contribution to the radical cause - his embrace of political nihilism. An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words, the cause of a political action - whether civil rights or women’s rights - is never the real cause; women, blacks and other “victims” are only instruments in the larger cause, which is power. Battles over rights and other issues, according to Alinsky, should never be seen as more than occasions to advance the real agenda, which is the accumulation of power and resources in radical hands. Power is the all-consuming goal of Alinsky’s politics..” - David Horowitz
There is a reason Austin’s city motto is, “Keeping Austin Weird.” Austin is the blue blight in the middle of the state’s blue/red political map. Take uber liberal Austin and multiply the insanity by a million and you have the UT campus. I knew this fact for years but it hit home about 12 years ago when I had to go across campus and was screamed at and had fist shaken at me by a bunch of muslims protesting some unknown something. It was all very scary trying to get past them. Never again. If I MUST go there, it’s driving around until I find a parking place by whatever building I’m going to and quickly in and out.
This last week was another eye opener in Austin. Far too many libs but their peace and love was greatly lacking in that every where I went had security out the wazoo. There was simply no need for any of it - locked doors, phone only access, key cards, escorts and the lack of directories was very creepy. These were ordinary boring office buildings. I vowed it’ll be a cold day before I set foot in that hell hole again.
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