[ May 13, 2024 ]
Over 200 Columbia University faculty, students, and alumni have pledged to boycott a New York bookstore after its owners apologized for promoting and selling a children’s book promoting Jew-hatred.
Universities are hotbeds of radicalism — taxpayer-funded factories of irrational hatred of the good and the free, a commitment to a course of blind destruction. The profound loss, or should I say, conquest of what once was the envy of the world reflects the extent of left’s power and evil. Parents (and students) take on crippling, lifelong debt in order to fund the destruction of the mind. Unless you mean to be a doctor or lawyer or any other specific occupation that requires a particular degree, eschew a university degree. Save your children’s minds (or yours if you mean to go to university) and go to a vocational school or start your business. It’s not merely to save you the cost of a worthless degree, it’s to save your mind.
Ayn Rand said, “the only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life—by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past—and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.”
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Instead, the academia-jet set coalition is destroying “the American character by the deliberate breeding of helplessness and resignation—in those incubators of lethargy known as ‘Progressive’ schools, which are dedicated to the task of crippling a child’s mind by arresting his cognitive development.”
Columbia Faculty Boycott Bookstore After it Apologizes for Promoting Palestinian Violence
Rachel Frommer, Washington Free Beacon, January 21, 2018:
Over 200 Columbia University faculty, students, and alumni have pledged to boycott a New York bookstore after its owners apologized for promoting and selling a children’s book that praised Palestinian violence against Israel.
The petition condemns Book Culture, an independent bookstore with a location near Columbia, for apologizing after Jewish and non-Jewish communities objected to its selling P is for Palestine by Golbarg Bashi, a book for young children that glorified the intifada.
The petition, first reported by Campus Reform, includes a refusal to buy books from or order course materials through Book Culture and a promise by faculty to remove their course books from the store.
The petition calls on the bookstore owners to “retract their statement and issue an apology for choosing to participate in the censorship and slander of already-underrepresented Palestinian voices.”
The co-owners of Book Culture, Chris Doeblin, Annie Hedrick, and Rick MacArthur, apologized in a statement published Nov. 29 on the website of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue for the “pain and distress” caused by its funding the publication of and hosting an event for author Golbarg Bashi‘s book.
Of particular concern was the entry in the children’s book for the letter “I,” which celebrated the intifada as “Arabic for rising up for what is right, if you are a kid or a grownup.”
Periods of violence running from the late 1980s through early 2005, known as the first and second intifadas, were marked by Palestinian suicide bombings, shootings, and stabbings of Israelis on buses and in open-air markets and restaurants. Over 1,200 Israelis were killed.
“There was nothing romantic about the Intifada,” read a letter to Book Culture from the Rabbis at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. “It was not some grand uprising to usher in an era of human rights, tranquility, and peace. It was not freedom fighting. The Intifada was the purposeful targeting of men, women, children, and babies in schools, hospitals, restaurants, pubs, dance halls, buses, trains, theaters, hotels hosting weddings, bar mitzvahs, and Passover seders—any place a crowd of Israelis gathered.”
Doeblin, Hedrick, and MacArthur, subsequently affirmed that they “oppose terrorism or other forms of violence perpetrated against Israeli civilians during the intifada or thereafter.” They also clarified that they do not endorse the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement to delegitimize Israel.
The Columbia petitioners insist a conflation of “‘intifada’ with ‘terrorism,’ distorts the complexity of the first and second intifadas as massive, multifaceted periods of grassroots mobilization against Israeli apartheid, occupation, and ethnic cleansing.”
“The term ‘intifada’ cannot be provincialized to acts of violence, nor can it be reduced to ‘terrorism.’ Such a notion is better suited to describe decades of state-sanctioned terror and colonization that have characterized the Palestinian experience of Zionism,” reads the petition.
Most of the faculty signatories are affiliated with the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies—including Iranian studies professor Hamid Dabashi, husband of the author of P is for Palestine.
The effort to boycott, organized by Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Barnard/Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace, would likely lead to the closure of Book Culture, according to store co-owner Doeblin.
Doeblin told Campus Reform he and his co-owners’ mission is to offer customers “books that both support and oppose any and all of one’s ideas.”
“The ground between Israeli and Palestinian views is a difficult place to find footing,” he said. “We refuse to be used and politicized by any side.”
Bashi is currently attempting to fund a second run of her book.
In response to Bashi’s book, an early childhood educator and Zionist activist Melissa Landa published I is for Israel. The volume, targeted to a similar audience of children aged 5-7, includes entries like “‘A’ for Israel’s army, the IDF,” and “‘E’ is for Ethiopian Jews, for whom Israel is home.”
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67 Comments
6 years ago
these are also the students who promote teaching pre-tenth graders that children who are underage can choose which sex that they want to be…….and see no wrong in lewd acts by gays and trannies during neighborhood parades …..the parades are for the children , what they hell ?….don’t these people have relatives?
6 years ago
Reply to
wall poster
Its Left/Liberal pro-jihadi propaganda artists who run the show in colleges while conservatives were too busy with watching sports, going to Left/Liberal hollywood Movies …or with stuff that won’t mean much when their children are being turned into Left/liberal pro-jihadi zombies.
Muslims are united in their goal of occupation , domination , terrorising and subjugation and practice Islamic Art Of Occupation & Ethnic Cleansing Without Killing http://bit.ly/2y1iju8
while infidels are clueless and disunited. Unite,fund, support conservative , patriotic bloggers, youtube channels etc and share the info to inform, Organise and resist . Or you’ll end up in a Islamic hellhole like EU today is in.
6 years ago
Reply to
wall poster
It should be prohibited at schools. Parents should sue the school districts for these pervert’s “studies”
If children decide to change something in their lives, they have to make their own decision. Not following their sick mind school indoctrination. Let kids to be kids. Get a good lawyer, parents.
6 years ago
Reply to
wall poster
Even 20 years ago, I witnessed a so called ” Gay Pride” float in a local parade, & all it consisted of was several middle aged men with beer bellies, dressed in nothing but womens’ panties or other lengerie, riding on a flat bed & thrusting their groin/pelvis at people as they rode by.
It was disgusting & ridiculous then, I can’t imagine what it’s like now.
That’s one of the main reasons that I don’t go to parades any more.
6 years ago
Reply to
Saved1973
Good post, but now unfortunately, I’ll have that picture in my head for who knows how long.
Eeeeewwww : (
6 years ago
Reply to
Saved1973
We hear of Toronto and Vancouver allowing full nudity. Why are gays and Muslims so obsessed with sex? Disgusting.
6 years ago
Last picture -> monster https://quran.com/5/38-40 worshipper from behind
6 years ago
It’s time for the American people to
Boycott Columbia
116th St. & Broadway, N.Y., N.Y.
6 years ago
Reply to
JayPee
My youngest daughter, a born and bred White American, is going to Japan to have her University education
As a White American Conservative Christian, I myself no longer have any trust in American / Canadian / Western University
6 years ago
Palestinianism is an acute and deeply warped form of mental illness. I do not even attempt to talk to those suffering from this psychological derangement.
6 years ago
Again, there are 29,372 students registered at Columbia. Over 200 (how many over 200 … maybe 1 or 2) signed this petition. Moreover, of that 200 how many were faculty and staff? Seems like there is a groundswell of support, doesn’t it?
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
great point Achmed … we might bet there are many ‘normal’ people in the closet though at Columbia. Although lots of folks probably do not support anti-Semitism at Columbia, I’d bet a sizeable sum that any faculty or students rushing to the defense of the book store for their apology would be demonized, threatened, and possibly suspended or terminated.
Of course the book store should have had more sense than to carry the Jihadi’s water in the first place.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Hi, Dan. I have to give the bookstore some credit. It’s highly doubtful that they read “p is for pallystein” prior to carrying it. When what was contained inside that vile piece of trash was brought to their attention, they stopped selling it.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
It only takes 1 atheist to remove a cross. One homosexual couple to destroy a business. It only takes one of these slime to get what they want.
6 years ago
Reply to
notme123
That is true, notme123. However, it takes hundreds of millions of dollars to fund organizations, such as the ACLU, not to mention the bribes to corrupt “activist” judges. The homosexuals and atheists aren’t in it alone.
6 years ago
palestinians and their supporters never give a good reason to support and encourage the development of palestinian views. It is all hate, boycott, rage, violence and other stupidity. Why would anyone want to be associated with such subhuman trash? palestinians are grubs leaving a trail of slime wherever they go.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Grubs they are. However, their trails are more akin to those left by slugs or snails. Best analogy would be slugs.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Right, was thinking slugs and writing grubs, both are applicable to muslims.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
They may leave a trail like a slug, but they are more akin to grubs. A slug can do substantial damage to one’s garden, but they may be controlled by organic means. Grubs, on the other hand will totally devastate one’s lawn … and they take very strong chemical applications to kill.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Whatever it takes, will be used to get rid of this imported vermin.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Certain minerals from the good Earth work quickly & well on vermin, like lead for example ; )
People should make sure they have an adequate supply.
6 years ago
Reply to
Saved1973
The EPA may hit you with some serious fines … and force remediation methodology upon you .. but … It’s well worth the associated costs.
6 years ago
I suppose if Book Culture apologized for selling ‘N is for Naztie’ or ‘K is for Klansman’ or ‘H is for Hate’ or ‘R is for Racist’ ( I’m here all week btw ) … the Columbia faculty would express similar outrage?
But they apologize for selling a hate book and the Leftists go nuts. Which kind of begs the question of
‘Does Columbia value free speech (to sell a hate book) or value common sense (to apologize for doing it)?’
No wonder the bookstore owners are confused.
6 years ago
Other than a Yashiva University, where can a jewish student go for a good education? All the other colleges and universities are “Halls of Lower Education”.
6 years ago
Leading member of German far-right party resigns after converting to Islam http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/europe/germany-afd-islam-arthur-wagner-intl/index.html
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Does that smiley face indicate that you’re happy about what you posted, or is the smiley face always part of your avatar/screen name?
6 years ago
Want to know some other books that promote Jew hatred?
Try these on for size:
1. holey quranus
2. ahadith (some of it genocidal)
6 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
There are too many people walking around saying “I don’t see in the Koran where it says such bad things”.
The Koran tells Muslims repeatedly that they need to imitate Mohammed in every detail, in the Hadith & Sira, they can see for themselves how vile & despicable the teachings of Islam are.
6 years ago
Reply to
Saved1973
And Izzy is spreading the word where to get that obscen book to every whacko who is capable of opening its cover.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Don’t forget the Sira. Most of the materials in those books are about the “Prophet” Moebombhead.
6 years ago
I can only ask “Is the USA dying?”
6 years ago
Reply to
old003
It is going to be a massive operation to cut out the infection.
I wish him success.
6 years ago
Communist infiltration of our education system. Been going on for decades. Always rioting, burning up stuff, making marches, bullhorn speeches, er slogans.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Just a few things to think about and who created Communism and why. There is allot more to this ugly story, but it is a start to learning
Who financed Lenin and Trotsky?
http://www.wildboar.net/multilingual/easterneuropean/russian/literature/articles/whofinanced/whofinancedleninandtrotsky.html
Wall Street Funded Both Communists and Nazis
http://transmissionsmedia.com/wall-street-funded-both-communists-and-nazis/
Events of the Armenian Genocide
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/events-of-the-armenian-genocide
Cyprus Convention: Wikis
http://www.thefullwiki.org/Cyprus_Convention
6 years ago
No good American should support or send their children to this college. Ever. . Buck a Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran ??⚔?? right wing republican life time member NRA and friend to Israel
6 years ago
As a lesson from history, do not forget that at the outset of the Nazi madness and the resultant Holocaust, public book burnings were all the rage, primarily books by Jewish authors along with public statements by the likes of Goebells that the day of Jewish intellectualism were over.
6 years ago
The left has ruined free speech in the USA. They preach free speech as long as the speaker agrees with their views. They are hypocrites. I am on FB suspension for 20 more days due to a meme I posted about the evil of radical muslims on FB. I have seen much worse from others, but the FB left wing censors allow left wing hate filled posts and simple factual pose about radical muslims gets me suspended.
6 years ago
What the hell is going on?
6 years ago
Nazis all. Will we ever learn from his story(history) to learn from our mistakes and to nip things in the bud. All the warning signs are being ignored for PC. But we have been warned. Mark 13:23 “But take heed, I have foretold you all things.”
6 years ago
sad, ugly days. the schools have been infiltrated for a decade. Jewish students are assaulted. no one is allowed to speak regarding Israel, or immigration, or on behalf of our law enforcement, or western civilization. the administrators scratch their balls and twats while this has been occurring and yawn and stuff themselves with a bit more moslem funding. many of the universities have sold entire departments to them and they install their own so called professors. credible scholarship not required. this has been happening to a deafening silence. canary mission and the louis brandeis law group have been carrying the water to alert Americans and to sue the bastards wherever possible. congress on the other hand does nothing to withdraw taxpayer funding from the offenders of our liberties nor do they require these moslems to register as agents of a foreign government. that is too bad. because we’re losing. and they with their stinking foul agenda that will kill this republic, the greatest constitutional republic in the history of the world, are winning.
6 years ago
These propaganda shiteholes have been bought with mooslime billions.
6 years ago
And let’s not forget : There is no “P” sound in arabic… therefore, there is no word “palestine” in arabic.
6 years ago
The tentacles of Muslim hate and antisemitism has hit all aspects of our once great society.
6 years ago
So, promoting and endorsing hate from the left is okay but if you say it’s not—-then you get the full wrath of the left. I think I understand. Strange, wasn’t Columbia once considered a place you’d want to send your kids for an education? Now it appears to be a Jihadi s***hole.
6 years ago
do you have contact info for the bookstore so I can start to order from them? would love to support them and make up for any deficits they incur as a result of the ‘intellectual’ crowd …!
6 years ago
Reply to
Joseph111
Book Culture, 536 W 112th St between Broadway and Amsterdam, New York, NY 10… · (212) 865-1588
6 years ago
This shows how many communists, & other sick & twisted individuals have invaded our institutions of higher learning.
6 years ago
Let’s boycott Columbia! Don’t donate to them. Don’t hire their graduates. Don’t participate in any event that benefits them.
6 years ago
Tell the bookstore to be patient. It’ll all be forgotten next semester.
6 years ago
These students should be concerned more about Muslim terrorism around THE WORLD, or at least about the nuclear threat of North Korea. Strangely, they seem to calmly ignore both of these issues.
6 years ago
When you see a resume that includes Columbia University, instantly throw it in the garbage. Don’t even recycle as it will contaminate the good stuff. Muslims in any University have no interest in education, just terrorism.
