Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

[Elixir]

The problem is still secondaries, though.

Yeah. Good label. Secondaries.
That’s the problem. Those damn secondary sand niggers getting in the way of the righteous Netanyahoo Crusade.

Glad you identified the problem, because once we run out of secondaries, there won’t be any problem getting Hamas. At that point we will know; if it moves, it’s Hamas and needs killed.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Link to footage from the 10/7 attack. From security cameras, dash cams, terrorist cameras, and IDF camera footage of the aftermath. The more gruesome stuff not included but viewer beware.

I hope the idiot Hamas supporters see what they are supporting.

Still zero replies to my thread about some of their misdeeds.

How can you defend this?

Warning!!! This is technically not NSFW. But I most certainly would not watch it at work. And also a trigger warning for a whole lot of things. And this is the tame version, a lot of things are narrated rather than shown. Israel has screened the real one for various reporters but AFIAK...

iidb.org

 

[Derec]

This fits here. Enjoy.

 

[Derec]

Yeah. Good label. Secondaries.
That’s the problem. Those damn secondary sand niggers getting in the way of the righteous Netanyahoo Crusade.

Do you even know what the word "secondaries" means in this context?

Glad you identified the problem, because once we run out of secondaries, there won’t be any problem getting Hamas. At that point we will know; if it moves, it’s Hamas and needs killed.

I guess not.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Do you even know what the word "secondaries" means in this context?

Squibs.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Do you even know what the word "secondaries" means in this context?

Squibs.

No. Squibs would not be noticed. Secondaries are when the boom is obviously beyond the expected result of what you dropped.

I have seen a claim the explosion was similar to a ton. What Israel dropped was a GBU-39, carries 36 pounds of boom.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Do you even know what the word "secondaries" means in this context?

Squibs.

No. Squibs would not be noticed. Secondaries are when the boom is obviously beyond the expected result of what you dropped.

Making these kinds of claims sound like conspiracy theories to me, thus functionally equivalent to squibs.

Granted, I tend to be agnostic on these types of things including squibs, but until I see a good proof that it's squibs I'm not going to believe it.

I have seen a claim the explosion was similar to a ton.

We see lots of claims on the Internets. Most of them are not true.

What Israel dropped was a GBU-39, carries 36 pounds of boom.

How do you know what Israel dropped, that it's "36 pounds", and that what is observed is not what was dropped?

 

[crazyfingers]

A squib is a non-magic person born of at least one magic parent.

Squibs are rare and due to their non-magical status they often prefer to join the muggle world.

 

[Arctish]

A squib is a non-magic person born of at least one magic parent.

Squibs are rare and due to their non-magical status they often prefer to join the muggle world.

Can they generate additional explosions, or are they the other kind of 'secondaries'?

 

[crazyfingers]

A squib is a non-magic person born of at least one magic parent.

Squibs are rare and due to their non-magical status they often prefer to join the muggle world.

Can they generate additional explosions, or are they the other kind of 'secondaries'?

No but they can see dementors!

 

[Loren Pechtel]

What Israel dropped was a GBU-39, carries 36 pounds of boom.

How do you know what Israel dropped, that it's "36 pounds", and that what is observed is not what was dropped?

Israel said what weapon they dropped. It's easy enough to look up how much boom is in it. Obvious things like that are not secret, there would be no point to it.

 

[bilby]

Israel said what weapon they dropped.

...and it is unthinkable that they could ever be less than perfectly truthful.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Israel said what weapon they dropped.

...and it is unthinkable that they could ever be less than perfectly truthful.

History says that when they give details they're almost always right.

 

[Copernicus]

Israel said what weapon they dropped.

...and it is unthinkable that they could ever be less than perfectly truthful.

History says that when they give details they're almost always right.

Not history. That's pro-Israel partisans doing the talking.

 

[lpetrich]

Professors Nationwide Defend Protesting Students as Politicians, Police Attack - May 2 2024, 5:15 p.m. - The Intercept - "University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza."

“This moment has actually brought faculty together in a way I’ve never experienced in 20 years on campus. I’ve found myself working closely with colleagues I’d never met before,” Columbia University history professor Nara Milanich told The Intercept. “People have dropped everything to support students and respond to this moment.”

College Professors Are Being Fired for Activism on Gaza War - May 16 2024, 5:00 a.m. - The Intercept - "As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure."

Many scholars committed to Palestinian liberation can no longer do their jobs. That’s because many of the professors most supportive of Palestine don’t have jobs anymore.

This is nowhere truer than in the Gaza Strip — where all 12 universities have been reduced to rubble, and more than 90 professors have been reported killed during Israel’s assault on the territory. The gravity of what United Nations experts warn could amount to U.S.-backed “scholasticide” has no equivalent on American soil.

Yet Israel’s attempted eradication of intellectual life in Gaza echoes far beyond the territory, with U.S. universities ensuring that some professors vocal in their support of Palestine can no longer do their jobs either.

Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, academics in fields including politics, sociology, Japanese literature, public health, Latin American and Caribbean studies, Middle East and African studies, mathematics, education, and more have been fired, suspended, or removed from the classroom for pro-Palestine, anti-Israel speech.

Columbia Law Review Board Nukes Website Over Palestine Article - June 3 2024, 10:37 p.m. - The Intercept - "The students who edit the journal sought out the article by a Palestinian scholar who was censored by Harvard Law Review last year."

Last November, the Harvard Law Review made the unprecedented decision to kill a fully edited essay prior to publication. The author, human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah, was to be the first Palestinian legal scholar published in the prestigious journal.

As The Intercept reported at the time, Eghbariah’s essay — an argument for establishing “Nakba,” the expulsion, dispossession, and oppression of Palestinians, as a formal legal concept that widens its scope — faced extraordinary editorial scrutiny and eventual censorship.

noting
Harvard Law Review Blocks Article About Genocide in Gaza - November 21 2023, 10:25 p.m. - The Intercept - "The article on the Gaza war and the Nakba was commissioned, edited, fact-checked, and prepared for publication — but was then blocked amid a climate of fear."

Back to the more recent article.

Eghbariah’s paper for the Columbia Law Review, or CLR, was published on its website in the early hours of Monday morning. The journal’s board of directors responded by pulling the entire website offline. The homepage on Monday morning read “Website under maintenance.”

According to Eghbariah, he worked with editors at the Columbia Law Review for over five months on the 100-plus-page text.

“The attempts to silence legal scholarship on the Nakba by subjecting it to an unusual and discriminatory process are not only reflective of a pervasive and alarming Palestine exception to academic freedom,” Eghbariah told The Intercept, “but are also a testament to a deplorable culture of Nakba denialism.”

Why did that happen?

Seven editors who had worked on the article told The Intercept that, over the weekend, members of the board of directors pressured the law review’s leadership to delay and even rescind publication. Most of the CLR editors spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity, fearing the backlash that others have faced for speaking out for Palestine.

 

[Derec]

Professors Nationwide Defend Protesting Students as Politicians, Police Attack - May 2 2024, 5:15 p.m. - The Intercept - "University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza."

No, it's not "brutal and violent", just the first time in their lives these entitled students have faced consequences of their actions.
Also, it's the rabidly Teh Intercept again. Smh.

And another one from Teh Intercept:

College Professors Are Being Fired for Activism on Gaza War - May 16 2024, 5:00 a.m. - The Intercept - "As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure."

Good riddance!

Many scholars committed to Palestinian liberation can no longer do their jobs. That’s because many of the professors most supportive of Palestine don’t have jobs anymore.

This is nowhere truer than in the Gaza Strip — where all 12 universities have been reduced to rubble, and more than 90 professors have been reported killed during Israel’s assault on the territory. The gravity of what United Nations experts warn could amount to U.S.-backed “scholasticide” has no equivalent on American soil.

I wonder how many of the 90 moonlit as Hamas or Islamic Jihad fighters/commanders.

Parts of the article you did not choose to cite:

“What she effectively did was blacklist me globally,” [Muhammed]Abdou told me of Shafik’s testimony. (Columbia did not respond to a request for comment.)
Abdou said he was smeared for words in a Facebook post on October 11 that were taken dramatically out of context. The activist-scholar was framed in Congress and in the right-wing media as an antisemite and Hamas supporter. His lengthy post asks readers to think about a future for Palestine, and support for resistance, beyond the binary of a secularized, Eurocentric state formation, or “Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s neoconservative idea of Sharia.”

While Teh Intercept claims it was taken out of context, the lengthy Facebook post is in reality very extreme. Here are some excerpts.

Decolonization, Islam, Palestine & Turtle Island:
...Decolonization is an inherently violent, yes, but it's also a spiritual act in restoring neocolonialism's disfiguring impact on the native's racialized, sexualized, gendered, material, historical, symbolic, political, and spiritual relationship to our mother earth, non-humxn life and land (that are also spiritual subjects not objects).

In addition to using the word salad common in contemporary academia (especially of the intersectional kind) it is tacitly endorsing the idea that "Palestine" and even "Turtle Island" (Amerindian nationalist term for North America) should be "decolonized", even if that is "inherently violent".,
Btw, what the hell is a "humxn"?

Yes, I'm with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad but up to a point - given ultimate differences over our ethical political commitments;

More about this Abdou guy.

Back to Teh Intercept:

“I was fired after 18 years as a professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice,” Danny Shaw said. He was told last month by administrators at the college, which is part of the public City University of New York system, that he would not be reappointed to his longtime adjunct position. Shaw’s colleagues had moved to reappoint him but were overruled by John Jay President Karol Mason, according to an open letter from the economics department.

No, this particular anti-Israel POS was not even a professor. He was an adjunct lecturer. Big difference. He only has a master's, not a PhD.

Two more Teh Intercept articles that I do not feel like addressing now. Why so many from that one, highly biased, source?

 

[Derec]

Do you even know what the word "secondaries" means in this context?

Squibs.

No, a squib is a small charge. I am talking about a regular bomb that explodes and thereby triggers other explosives stored at the target location to blow up as well.

 

[Derec]

Standford students who had occupied an administration building charged with felonies.
Meet the 13 Ivory Tower Intruders: Stanford Students Charged with Felony Burglary

On June 5, thirteen pro-Palestine protesters were detained after breaking into Building 10, the Stanford President’s office. Since then, a baker's dozen have been charged with 459(a) PC, a felony charge of burglary with intention to commit a felony or theft.
The Review has obtained the names of these students in-person from the Stanford University Office of Public Safety. Eleven are current Stanford students. All listed are age eighteen or above.

Hopefully they stick. About time these creeps face some real consequences.

 

[Derec]

Today, some of these extremist protestors have been protesting in front of the White House.
They were carrying signs and banners in support of Hamas and Jihad more generally.

 

[Derec]

More disruptive protests at UCLA.
About 25 arrested at UCLA as group attempts to set up protest camp, university police say
Unfortunately they were all released right away with tickets.

About 25 people were arrested Monday night as they attempted to set up a tent encampment on the University of California Los Angeles campus, university police said in a statement.
"The individuals are in the process of being cited, issued 14-day stay away orders from UCLA property, and released," the UCLA Police Department said. "Approximately 150 protesters remain in the area as of the latest update."
[...]
About 100 people marched on Monday afternoon through campus, entering at least one hall and disrupting a final exam, police said.
The group, which was associated with a registered student organization, also set up "unauthorized and unlawful" encampments at several locations around campus. They used "tents, canopies, and barricades with patio furniture," police said.

UCLA should deregister the organization. I wonder which one it was - Students for "justice" in Palestine? Muslim Student Association? Khomeini Jugend?
Btw, if anyone is wondering why they have final exams, California - always being extra - is still holding on to the quarter system so their calender does not align with the rest of the US universities.

"As a result of the unauthorized and unlawful encampments at the three locations, the group damaged the Shapiro fountain, spray-painted brick walkways, tampered with fire safety equipment, damaged patio furniture, stripped wire from electrical fixtures, and vandalized vehicles," police said.

As we know from debates here, property damage does not matter as long as it's leftists doing it. </progressoauthoritarian>