[ April 18, 2024 ]
Students and professors at Columbia University have been targeting a nearby business and calling for a boycott because the proprietor thinks Israel has a right to exist.
This is America’s higher places of learning, circa 2017. And it’s not as if this is the first time Columbia University’s been involved in anti-Israel activities. Look here:
And here — cases of anti-Semitism at the university:
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On this latest, more than 170 at Columbia have signed a petition, calling for a boycott.
Legal Insurrection has more:
More than 170 members of the Columbia University community have signed onto a petition calling for a boycott of a local bookstore for affirming Israel’s right to exist.
The petition takes aim at Book Culture, a locally-owned independent bookstore that also sells textbooks. In response to backlash from a local synagogue after the store began selling P is For Palestine, a book that praises “intifada,” the owners of Book Culture released a statement acknowledging the violence perpetrated against Israeli civilians during the Palestinian uprisings known as the first and second intifadas.
“We regret that we did not fully appreciate the political or communal ramifications of the children’s book, P is for Palestine, by Dr. Golbarg Bashi, nor did we anticipate the pain and distress it has caused in our community,” the statement began.
The owners of Book Culture also sought to dispel any misconceptions that they may support terrorism against Israelis, and further noted that they “support Israel’s right to exist” and “do not endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”
This statement angered members of Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, who subsequently launched a petition to boycott Book Culture, urging the owners to retract their statement of support for Israel and reaffirm support for “marginalized voices in literature.”
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44 Comments
6 years ago
The only countries where
Black Slavery still exists
ARE ALL Islamic countries !
6 years ago
Reply to
JayPee
Islam is the genesis of the international trade in black slaves. He should google it.
6 years ago
Reply to
Karen J Burnett
Agree. Left/Liberals are bowing down so much they are well on their way to creating more humgoats http://bit.ly/2iMxEZt
And call it cultural diversity !
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Read Darwins books, one of the four talks about the weird combos they used to see on farms!
6 years ago
Reply to
JayPee
… to slaver#1 allah 40/2, captives of the right hands https://quran.com/4/3, 24 (in general) https://quran.com/33/50 (in war)
6 years ago
Reply to
JayPee
Almost correct. You are forgetting India, the world’s leader in enslaving children. They are not an Islamic country.
6 years ago
Reply to
Laura Mullen
In 2011, there were 138,188,240 moslems in India, as best they could tell. The number of moslems, in India, is estimated well in excess of 155,000,000, today. That’s enough moslems to keep a well oiled slave trade.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
1971 Bangladesh genocide .. In 1971, Muslims murdered 2.4 million Hindus and raped 400,000 Hindu women. in just one year.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
I really do not know what is worse, a pakky scum moslem, or banger filth from bangerdouche.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
The Bangladeshis are a bit less violent and fanatical, I think, maybe because they are closer to their West Bengali cousins in India.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
You should tell that to the 2.4 million Hindus murdered by them, in 1971 alone. Time for another concert?
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Sorry, I just thought India and Bangladesh were, like, kind of allies or something, and that they fought together against Pakistan in the past.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
I believe you to be mistaken. You may be thinking about the battles, between India and pakkystein, over that area prior to 1971. Upon the creation of bangerdouche, that’s when the 2 to 3 million human beings were murdered by banger moslems. And, it didn’t stop then, it is ongoing to this very day.
6 years ago
Reply to
Laura Mullen
They are fast becoming one, in fairness. They might be the world’s third-largest Muslim country within a decade or two.
6 years ago
…and it was this particular bookstore that benefited the most? wow demonrats are dim
6 years ago
These people are mentally ill and therefore a danger to America and themselves.
6 years ago
… for Supporting nefarious death https://quran.com/3/141 -> 4/89, 9/5, 8/12-17, 5/33(41/28) cultists of Israel, ‘amputate hands’ (without anesthesis, incl. of kids) https://quran.com/5/38-40
6 years ago
America’s trust of Jews is eroding because of what we all witness daily !!!
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Schmuck Chomper
Does Not represent All jews.
But he does, unfortunately, represent
Some of them.
6 years ago
Reply to
JayPee
Actually, Senator Schumer is representing the idiots of New York that continue to elect him.
6 years ago
The more palestinians do stupid things like denying people the right to have their own opinions, the less support there is for palestinian anything. There is no reason to support palestinians as they are merely hate mongers and liars.
6 years ago
muslims still allow slavery in islamic countries. Shove it.
6 years ago
Going to now have to strike Columbia grads off of the hire list.
6 years ago
That is why they make ketchup bottles with lids on the bottom, for columbia graduates who go on to careers in shelf stocking.
6 years ago
“This statement angered members of Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, who subsequently launched a petition to boycott Book Culture, urging the owners to retract their statement of support for Israel and reaffirm support for “marginalized voices in literature”. What marginalized voices? There is no palestinian literature, as very few palestinians can read, those that do, spew hate literature from the qur’an.
6 years ago
Mr. Google signholder didn’t google enough about black slavery – oh, the irony. If he did, he’d realize who’s enslaving them today. And it ain’t the Jews.
Of course Google’s algorithms would steer most people away from finding this out.
6 years ago
MORE than 170 signatures, already? Columbia has a total enrollment of 29,372. Why would this even bring a glance?
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
But the number of professors who signed might be more notable.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Columbia does not have notable anything, but idiots. Looking at what the protesting students are saying, the only conclusion that can be arrived at, is that they are all there based on affirmative action or adult status, no evidence of academic ability at all.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
That is true, personally, I think most of the Ivy League schools are ridiculously overrated and not worthy most people’s money.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
At one time an ivy league school was the standard bearer of academic excellence, now, just another madrassa preaching rote factoids and random unworkable theory. The ivy is now fungus growing on the hallowed halls.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
The story “The emperor’s new clothes” can be contemporized to “Academia’s not relevant”. When one listens to what students and graduates are saying, it is clear that they are not educated, merely implanted with unworkable postulations.
6 years ago
These institutions of “higher learning” are now on the downward slope of decline. They know their idealogies are and have all failed. This is a desperate attempt to twist the truth and to turn more and more people, not only against Jews but, Christians and anyone who loves this country. THESE people are the puppets who are being used by their masters in a last ditch effort to totally destroy this country from within.
6 years ago
And these are suppose to be our brightest?? Looks like it is more of our dumbest. But as soon as they KICK them out of school they all head straight for Washington.
Like flies attracted to TURDS!! No wonder they call Washington a CESSPOOL.
6 years ago
The Arabic word for a slave is Abd. The Arabic word for a Black person is also Abd. That says it all.
6 years ago
Big threat. If the book store displeases them, they will spend their borrowed student loan money elsewhere? That is, until they spot a bargain.
6 years ago
Columbia is the mecca of muslimes. I do not see Maryl Streep barking about the fact that Prof Edward Said had an affair with a student named Peg Streep, her cousin. Is Meryl afraid of a fatwa so is staying silent?
6 years ago
I truly hope Trump and congress start defunding these leftist so called learning institutions who are the very racists they claim to hate!
6 years ago
NAZI -islam has always been about slavery for 1400 years and NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
CRIMINAL ISLAM NEEDS TO BE the ‘UNTOUCHABLE” criminal political ideology that attracts CRIMINALS who like the idea of living their criminal thoughts in the here and now and NEVER getting exterminated for this WRONG!
6 years ago
Sending your conservative child to most American colleges today, is sending them into a progressive hellish war zone. How can you justify such a huge sacrifice for a current college degree when there are men and women with master’s degrees working on production lines?
D
6 years ago
This cesspool needs to be cleaned with an acid bath to be certain they remove all of the excrement.
6 years ago
What is absolutely hilarious, is that palestinians and their supporters always behave in an ignorant violent excessively stupid manner. They never behave in a way that attracts positive attention to their cause. Always “Death to Jews, America, or insert local choice”. These knobs wonder why no one wants to have anything to do with them.
6 years ago
The left should be called a hate and terrorist organization.
