[ April 19, 2024 ]
Talk about the normalizing of hatred of the Jewish people. College campuses these days can’t stand to suffer the presence of a conservative speaker. But vile antisemitic propaganda? That’s OK; that’s considered educational. And the University of Michigan is by no means singular in this. This kind of presentation is the norm on college and university campuses all over the nation today. But imagine the uproar if the University of Michigan, or any university or college, forced students to attend a lecture opposing jihad terror and sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. The whole place would be shut down.
“University of Michigan Student: I Was Forced to Attend ‘Antisemitic Lecture’ Comparing Netanyahu to Hitler,” by Shiri Moshe, Algemeiner, October 5, 2018:
An undergraduate at the University of Michigan said she “was forced to sit through an overtly antisemitic lecture” on Thursday, which compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.
Story continues below advertisementAlexa Smith, a senior, said the presentation was part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series, which arts and design students are required to attend.
The image — shared by lecturer Emory Douglas, a graphic designer who served as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party — branded both Netanyahu and Hitler with the caption, “Guilty of Genocide.”
“In what world is it ok for a mandatory course to host a speaker who compares Adolf Hitler to the Prime Minister of Israel?” Smith asked in a Facebook post shared on Friday.
A student group at Columbia University protested on Thursday against what it described as the administration’s tolerance of harassment directed at…
“As a Wolverine, I sat through this lecture horrified at the hatred and intolerance being spewed on our campus,” she continued. “As a Jew who is proud of my people and my homeland, I sat through this lecture feeling targeted and smeared to be as evil as the man who perpetuated the Holocaust and systematically murdered six million Jews.”
Smith — a member of the campus group WolvPAC, which aims to promote the US-Israel relationship — said her recent experience was not unprecedented.
Two years earlier, she attended another Stamps lecture with comic book artist Joe Sacco, who “made references to Israel being a terrorist state and explicitly claimed that Israeli soldiers were unworthy of being represented as actual human beings in his artwork.”
“This time I will no longer sit quietly and allow others to dehumanize my people and my community,” Smith said. “The administration is repeatedly failing to forcefully respond to antisemitism, and so it comes back worse and worse each time. A line needs to be drawn and it needs to be drawn now.”
Rick Fitzgerald, a spokesperson for U-M, told The Algemeiner that Douglas’ lecture centered on the “vast body of work” he produced, most during his time with the Black Panther Party.
“His presentation included a video and nearly 200 slides with images of his work,” Fitzgerald said. “He presented and discussed a wide array of topics and subject matter, much of which was focused on the oppression of people across the globe by governmental powers.”
“The Stamps program is intentionally provocative and we are clear with our students about this,” he continued.
Part of the introduction to the event includes a disclaimer emphasizing the diversity and independence of speakers, which the university does not “control or censor,” Fitzgerald added….
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47 Comments
5 years ago
“His presentation included a video and nearly 200 slides with images of
his work,” Fitzgerald said. “He presented and discussed a wide array of
topics and subject matter, much of which was focused on the oppression
of people across the globe by governmental powers.”
I wonder if any of his works showed Islamic oppression.
5 years ago
Reply to
Eyal
Not where his experience is. Read the article, and look up his background.
Now, as for the issue, one has to view uncomfortable things in life. What would be pertinent is how it’s tested.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Then there should also be a forum to present opposing views which there are not. College campuses are very adamant about not letting opposing views on their campuses, it is not just Michigan. Jews and Christians are not allowed on campuses to speak at gatherings or rallies about their views. What are the Presidents, Deans, Muslims, Communist, Socialist, and atheists afraid of?
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
And when they DO accept an invite, which isn’t often extended, rioting moslems and their snowflake supporters disrupt it, often to the point where physical injury is caused to those attending. When the authorities are called, they are less than useless, and the disrupters all start howling about their ‘rights’ and ‘safe spaces’.
We’ve all seen the evidence of that, constantly.
5 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
Address it then. If the authorities fail, then it’s a lawsuit to file.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Why should they face the disruptions they do when liberals can speak without disruptions? You can make any excuses you choose but college/university campuses are afraid to hear opposing views and are afraid their little minds might be tweaked by what conservatives or republicans say.
5 years ago
Reply to
Beverly
Or are lead and or controlled by Muslims or NeoNazis their mindless followers.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
I must admit, I do enjoy laughing AT you as you HUMILIATE yourself. You poor, poor, poor little thing.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Come on. Really. Just file a lawsuit, is that it? You think it’s that easy? If it isn’t obvious to you that Christians and Jews will be bullied and harassed off the stage EVERY time, and that the courts usually do not side with them, then you are living in delusional land.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Why don’t you ask Pamela Geller if she is allowed to speak on college campuses or Ann Coulter to name two.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Both HAVE been, little aemoreira1981. Ann Coulter has been refused the ability to speak at NUMEROUS universities, as the administration has deemed it “too dangerous”. Why do you continue to HUMILIATE yourself?
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Little aemoreira1981. Why do you continue to HUMILIATE yourself, time, after time, after time?
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Poor little aemoreira1981. It is so very unfortunate that you were NOT able to read, and understand, the article. You poor, poor, poor little thing.
5 years ago
qatar / OIC funds these scumbags
Sharia Police in Uk are not willing to protect those who speak truth about islam https://tinyurl.com/ya6j3phj
Instead go after those who expose the jihadi crimes and oppose their Left/Liberal supporters !
5 years ago
Whether it is the University of Michigan or another breeding-ground that incubates hatred, one being, anti-Semitism or the loathing of all based upon Judeo-Christian principles; it verifies that educators, the faculty and administrators are propagandists. Refuting their totalitarian diktat is a kiss-of-death for those not of this malignant doctrine, Left-wing progressivism.
Comparing Netanyahu to Hitler is repellent and anti-Semitic to its toxic core. It is, however, the nefarious intent of those of Academia to rewire the minds of a susceptible student body by fear of failure and more importantly, no to deviate or question the New World Order, of the ideal fascists, namely, Progressive Fascism.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
She isn’t being tested on this. Different people have different opinions. Life isn’t always hunky dory.
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
How is this rewriting history? Now, if she had to agree to pass, that’s different.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Read the title of the article for starters. Comparing Netanyahu to Hitler and the genocide he committed. You think that’s acceptable?
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Why, little aemoreira1981, do you continue to HUMILIATE yourself? You poor, poor, poor little thing.
5 years ago
Amen, Riley, extremely poignant while revealing the truth.
5 years ago
This hatred is not coming out of nowhere. This is all part of a deliberate plan by the left to not only discredit Jews and Christians but, to completely vilify them to the point that the insane leftists start taking the law into their hands more and more. What this campus and others like it are doing, is nothing short of pure evil.
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
It is a well planned evil concocted by Muslims to “conquer from within”.
5 years ago
“The stamps program is intentionally provocative.” Let’s see them “provoke” the murdering islamists. Bet they won’t.
5 years ago
People of the Book need to fight this.
Time to turn the other cheek is over. We must stand and fight as necessary.
5 years ago
me thinks the leftard university professors have one too many wine enemas
5 years ago
History has a solid record of showing that it always starts with the Jews…
Islam is the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of the NWO scoundrels. Islam is the antithesis of all things Judeo-Christian, capitalist, conservative, 1st world & Western Civilization.
5 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
How come you’re so outspoken, among all these other commenters? You’ve said the truth so bluntly. Congrats.
5 years ago
Netanyahu may not be a perfect leader — no politician in the world is, after all — but he is NOT comparable with the likes of Hitler. The next generation is so hopelessly sheltered, they do not truly comprehend the brutality of true evil, which is not that of an evil struggling daily for survival in their ancestral homeland.
5 years ago
Netanyahu may not be a perfect leader — no politician in the world is, after all — but he is NOT comparable with the likes of Hitler. The next generation is so hopelessly sheltered, they do not truly comprehend the brutality of true evil.
5 years ago
Don’t worry, kid. Plenty of U.S. Conserves. are compared to Hitler all the time. And Nazi is socialist party!
5 years ago
Telling lies to get their way is what leftist and Muslims do they are min to each other through Satan
5 years ago
University of Michigan DERANGED!
5 years ago
These are the same liberals that state there should have a law making Bigfoot an endangered species. Very unstable people (?) and they are truly traitors and enemies of the Republic.
5 years ago
If you can’t see that most U.S. Universities now act as Deep State Brainwashing Centers for the leftist takeover of our country, you are a victim of the leftist brainwashing.
5 years ago
Universities and colleges of today (except for ones like Hillsdale) are nothing more than cesspools of America hatred…..
….have you ever noticed when you were in school that those who were unhappy and miserable always worked very hard to make you and others miserable and unhappy? Especially the teachers and administrators….
Most of these young college people…and the ones who graduated within the last 15 years….are the most unhappy people as a group I’ve ever seen. They were fed daily with revisionist history, their religions were mocked, and they were told over and over what an unjust and bad place America is…..by old, washed up Communists from the 1950s and their children who strived to follow their parents’ dogma….
Most of the violent, vile protesters are children and grandchildren of this very mentally unbalanced lineage…..
I remember being taught that “misery loves company”…and lately that is all I see on the Left…total misery ….which they daily share with the rest of us.
President Trump is the only leader in my lifetime that promotes America the Beautiful…the upbeat and happy things we have done and continue to do in America….
Don’t let the miserable bring you down….they are on a road of self-destruction. Don’t travel with them.
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
We were able to enjoy the happy upbeat things of the U.S. as recently as what…60 yrs. ago? Thanks for reminding me: 2-parent families driving few hundred mi. the scenic route for vacation. Walking to school unbothered? Riding my bicycle to the shake-shack? The extended fam. meeting at amusement park for the day?
5 years ago
I am outraged by the statement: “as a Jew, I am proud of my people and my homeland…” because the hosting of shamelessly vile and ignorant speakers on the taxpayer dime offends me as an American, a taxpayer and a caring person. Everyone present should be repelled by this and the management of the University should be terminated with cause immediately.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Huber
You would not dare to make such a statement would you Mark. And so it will be repeated over and over and you will remain heroically silent.
5 years ago
Stinking rotten haters with Ph.D.’s
5 years ago
What exactly do you mean you were “forced” ???
