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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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453 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | 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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salt-thrower ◴[04 Apr 25 15:33 UTC] No.43583925[source]▶
Your argument is so out of touch I can only assume it’s being made in bad faith.

Many of the pro-Palestinian protesters are also Jewish. Equating all Jewish people with Israel and Zionism is insidious and misleading.

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trustinmenowpls ◴[04 Apr 25 21:07 UTC] No.43587606[source]▶
> Many of the pro-Palestinian protesters are also Jewish

Nearly every person who claims to be jewish, when pushed turns out to be "jewish" it's essentially a strange version of blackface and fairly bigoted.

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1. MPSFounder ◴[04 Apr 25 23:40 UTC] No.43588896[source]▶
Exactly. Most people of Jewish faith I have met puts the interests of Israel above those of the United States, because it is in their religion to return to the homeland. Look no further than Pelosi arguing that if the Capitol burned to the ground, as long as Israel prospers, elected officials will remain committed to Israel (and the crowd at that Jewish council cheered on). Btw, one cannot find this video anywhere anymore (you will find it on Facebook using Pelosi Capitol). I wonder why.... People advocating for Israel at this point are traitors to the United States and should be treated as such. When elected officials like Pelosi would rather the capitol burns to the ground but Israel prospers, I feel nothing short of dread. But students writting opeds opposing Genocide is the story...