[ April 24, 2024 ]
More of the poison fruit of the normalization of Jew-hatred on the left. Pitzer College came under fire from Jew-hating Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib and others, and caved to the pressure, which is frankly neo-Nazi: the Nazis started by boycotting Jewish businesses, and this initiative is no different, either in its ideological underpinnings or in where it will ultimately lead if it is not stopped. Pitzer College ought to be ashamed of what it has done, but like all leftists, those who have done this cloak their Jew-hatred in a spurious mantle of righteousness. But they are enabling and normalizing the murderous jihad against the Jewish state.
“BREAKING: Pitzer College Council Votes to Suspend Israel Study Abroad Program,” by Aaron Bandler, Jewish Journal, March 14, 2019 (thanks to Mark):
The Pitzer College Council voted to suspend their study abroad program at the University of Haifa on March 14, by margin of 67-28, with 8 abstentions in front of hundreds of people in the McConnell Center’s Founders Room.
Story continues below advertisementThe motion, which was introduced by Pitzer faculty in November, initially stated that Pitzer should suspend the program until Israel ends its immigration ban on supporters of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and provides visas to Palestinian university exchanges on an equal basis. The motion was amended before the vote by Faculty Executive Committee chair Claudia Strauss and Pitzer History and Anthropology Professor Daniel Segal to be “uniform policy that applies to all of our study abroad programs,” not just the Israel program. The visas to Palestinians university exchanges section of the motion was dropped and will be brought up at a later meeting.
Strauss argued that the motion didn’t constitute as an “academic boycott” since students could still petition to study abroad at an Israeli university, according to Marc Rod, news editor of The Student Life (TSL) newspaper.
Before the vote occurred, the council agreed to let all 36 student senators present to vote on the matter, undoing the limit set earlier in the week that only 32 student senators could vote. All 7 staff council members present were allowed to vote as well.
The Claremont Independent, which was banned from covering the vote in person, noted that “non-Pitzer Independent staff were allowed to enter, but [Pitzer College President Melvin] Oliver repeatedly asked non-Pitzer students to leave midway into the meeting, but ignored the presence of non-Pitzer pro-Palestine student organizers.”
Oliver will be making the final decision on the matter. Kellen Browning, the editor-in-chief of TSL, tweeted that Oliver declined to comment on the outcome of the vote.
University of Haifa President Ron Robin said in a statement, “We regret today’s vote by the Pitzer College Council to uphold the Pitzer faculty’s misguided plan to boycott the college’s relationship with University of Haifa.”
“While such proponents of the BDS movement in the academic community utilize a free speech argument to justify boycotts of Israeli institutions, those who support these votes at Pitzer are actually undermining academic freedom and free speech by depriving students of their freedom to choose where to study abroad,” Robin said. “The Pitzer boycott is particularly misguided given the fact that at University of Haifa, 35 percent of our students are Arabs, and that our Israeli and Arab students work together harmoniously on extracurricular activities and community service. This is diversity, coexistence, and tolerance at its finest.”
Robin continued, “Further, such boycotts meet the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism by ‘applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.’ Sadly, the Pitzer College Council today gave its seal of approval to contemporary anti-Semitism.”
American Jewish Committee (AJC) Los Angeles Assistant Director Siamak Kordestani and AJC Director of Campus Affairs Zev Hurwitz denounced the motion’s passage in a statement as “an outrageous attack on academic freedom.”
“The decision threatens to allow a dangerous precedent – that it is acceptable for outside political influence to limit student experiences,” Kordestani and Hurwitz said. “The responsibilities of a leading university include providing as many opportunities for education and research as possible – not politicizing academia. We urge President Oliver to overturn this misguided action by the College Council.”
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder and director of the AMCHA Initiative, said in a statement that the motion’s passage was “an academic abomination.”…
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27 Comments
5 years ago
“the Nazis started by boy-
cotting Jewish businesses”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Nazi_boycott_of_1933
The Brits bombed San Marino.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Marino
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnest_Hooton#The_%22Hooton_Plan%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Must_Perish!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Nizer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What_To_Do_With_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam#Plan_A_(planned_mass_poisoning_in_Nuremberg)
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
America wanted to bomb German cities
(their men were in war) with poison gas
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What_To_Do_With_Germany
5 years ago
Muzzy’s most horror beach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Beach
5 years ago
We need to get organized. Look how much progress Muslims have made!
We are unprepared to confront them. As little children MUSLIMS learn Bible verses and how to get around them.
How many Christian kids or even adults are taught offensive Christianity or even defensive Christianity?
Many Muslims have LEFT Islam! They leave privately because they are afraid to leave it publically. It’s their entire social life. Dawah is their training guide to preach easy to understand Islam in a favorable light.
http://www.masjidattaqwa.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/intensive-dawah-training-workshop__web.jpg
5 years ago
How about a lawsuit here?
I see discrimination based on lies.
5 years ago
A lousy place for a Jew to go to college. My kids are out of college but my grand kids are coming up. They will not go to UCI, Berzerkley or Pitzer. In all honesty they probably will not be going to any of these 3 anyhow. But, every Jew that I know will be spreading the word.
5 years ago
The President of the school had a spine and stood up to them and veto their vote!!
5 years ago
President Oliver is a POS. Follow the money and I’m sure it will be discovered he took a payout for this. Hes WORSE than the cheating SAT parents. I sure hope Pitzer College doesnt get any federal funding. If they do, Trump should cut that off. Tonight!
5 years ago
land stealing study is not a good subject though …
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
What about s e x with goats, semen ?? That is a subject you are an expert in…..
5 years ago
Anti-Semitism is a kind of indulgence trade, the Jews serve as a projection screen and “shadow” of the
soul (Carl Jung) for all the weaknesses, vulgarities and malignities of the gentiles that they interpret into
the Jews. In the end, they look into their own abyss and mirror. In former times the scapegoat was used
for this purpose. Jews can do and leave what they want, they are always trapped. If they are successful,
they have acquired their money only thanks to their “Jewish cunning”. It is all too understandable that af-
ter centuries of hatred and persecution the Jews no longer want to play this thankless role of the eternal
“wandering” scapegoat and instead create and defend their own kingdom. But they’re still the scapegoat.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
The question why Jews behave so defensively can be compared with the signs of the zodiac or the gen-
der attributed to us: Are we like this just because we believe we have to be like this? What was first there,
the egg or the chicken, what is cause, what effect? Or is it the known synchronicity of cosmic processes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
So it wasn’t even Jung who invented this
concept? But the Jewish Wolfgang Pauli?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli
https://web.archive.org/web/20061208041508/http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/publications/RMpapers.htm
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Seems to be a similar case to Heidegger and his Jewish superviser
Husserl. Norbert Bolz also learned his “revolutionary way of thinking”
according to his testimony from his Jewish supervisor Jacob Taubes.
5 years ago
The globalist conspiracy is determined to undermine and destroy Israel. Israel is the only western democracy ftht has a high fertility rate, expanding economy, defends its borders, its language and culture and religion. Consequently, it is an existential threat to the globalists and they certainly do not want students to go to Israel and witness a viable and true democracy. They might carry these ideas back to the US.
5 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Interesting thought, thanks for your upvote (unfortu-
nately I can’t upvote myself as an anonymous user).
5 years ago
But Pam has unnecessarily chosen this lady in a very advan-
tageous picture, because she doesn’t look that cute in reality.
5 years ago
What do you expect from a school in California? You are Right, and they are Left. This is a boycott and the real people who will suffer are the students. But, again, this is a place where you can do wrong, and expect people to still agree with you.
Also, we call ourselves a Democracy, but that is a broad word and has to be recognized in context. The US is a Constitutional Republic. True Democracy recognizes the power of mob rule. A Constitutional Republic takes consensus and looks at the pro and con of the idea, then puts it into law. Not every country does this, but we do, and people are forgetting the rules. They have different motivations, and they are ALWAYS
going to think they are right, even if clearly wrong.
We would be appalled to condone racism, if we were talking about race, but we won’t extend the same thinking to anti-Semitism.
