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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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450 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.466s | source
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mapt ◴[04 Apr 25 14:59 UTC] No.43583429[source]▶
Columbia has an endowment that stands (pre- Liberation Day) at 15 billion dollars.

They kowtowed to some of the militant Zionist interests involved in that endowment in order to attain a fractionally higher return, and betrayed their students.

They kowtowed to the fascist administration on the grounds that it was threatening 400 million dollars in grants, and betrayed their students to the point of facilitating a project to unilaterally deport many of them based on Constitutionally protected quasi-private speech.

At this point I don't think they want or deserve to be called a university. Let's go with "Tax-exempt investment fund".

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xhkkffbf[dead post] ◴[04 Apr 25 15:08 UTC] No.43583552[source]▶
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wat10000 ◴[04 Apr 25 15:58 UTC] No.43584289[source]▶
I’m Jewish. If you want to support me, you’ll let people protest and definitely not throw people out of the country just because they wrote something supporting Gaza.
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1. slg ◴[04 Apr 25 16:49 UTC] No.43584957[source]▶
As another Jew, the way non-Jews are using us as a cudgel to crack down on free speech certainly doesn't feel like "support". As one of history's leading targets when it comes time to scapegoat a minority, I get more antisemitic vibes from the "we have to sacrifice our American ideals to protect the Jews" folks than the "stop killing Palestinians" ones.
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2. wat10000 ◴[04 Apr 25 17:05 UTC] No.43585160[source]▶
Right on. And the conflation of anti-Israel and anti-Jew feels really dangerous, considering the current state of affairs in Israel.

I'm an American, thankyouverymuch. I've been to Israel once. I don't care a whole lot about the place either way. Acting like I must be aggrieved when someone attacks that country is doing far more damage to me than the attack.

3. whatshisface ◴[04 Apr 25 17:06 UTC] No.43585177[source]▶
I remember first hearing of the "not in our name" protests (very early on) and thinking "I'm so glad I'm not the only person who realizes that what is being presented as patronization is blame."