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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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453 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.971s | 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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snapetom ◴[04 Apr 25 16:27 UTC] No.43584700[source]▶
Except they're not mainstream Jewish. Jewish Voice for Peace has been linked to known terrorists and receives support from anti-Jewish interests. At best, they're "useful idiots" but more realistically they were long corrupted by anti-semitic interests.

https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/jewish-voice-peac...

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nielsbot ◴[04 Apr 25 18:51 UTC] No.43586337[source]▶
You can be 100% correct while not being mainstream.

And you're laundering what the linked page says--they try to paint a picture of JVP being anti-semitic, but don't specifically accuse them of that. They do call them anti-Israel and anti-Zionist but you must not conflate that with anti-Semitism.

Do you find the ADL credible anyway. Seems they themselves could be accused of anti-semitism: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5097676-elon-mus...

Saying Musk's anti-semitic behavior isn't anti-semitic is definitely stretching the truth.

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snapetom ◴[04 Apr 25 19:02 UTC] No.43586460[source]▶
So you're pointing out one particular action of ADL and calling them anti-semitic? After decades of action? And they are historical collaboration and cross-pollination with SPLC, too. Are you going to attack SPLC?

Classic straw-manning. You should know better than that.

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nielsbot ◴[04 Apr 25 21:59 UTC] No.43588094[source]▶
What is SPLC? What have they done?

I'm also wondering why the ADL would defend Musk at all. Can someone explain their motivation for that?

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1. snapetom ◴[04 Apr 25 23:51 UTC] No.43588962[source]▶
If you're asking what the SPLC is, even if you google it and see the first result, you have no skin in this game. Sit this discussion out. You're just using this opportunity to leak your anti-semitism and you're not even being subtle about it.
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2. nielsbot ◴[05 Apr 25 06:36 UTC] No.43591404[source]▶
Maybe just explain what it is instead of avoiding my point?

Those who defend Israeli colonialism actually increase anti-semitism in the world and no amount of intentional conflation of Judaism and Zionism will erase that. Maybe you'll realize that one day.

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3. snapetom ◴[05 Apr 25 06:54 UTC] No.43591475[source]▶
No, I will not explain because you clearly have no background or any prior knowledge in the fight against antisemitism and racism. You're just parroting using the cause du jour as an excuse to express your own antisemitic beliefs.

GTFO about Israeli colonialism. Jews are the indigenous people of the land. The archaeological record is clear on this.