[ April 24, 2024 ]
As I noted last week, all colleges are hotbeds of left-wing hate and bigotry, but NYU is at the forefront of norming Jew-hatred. They set an horrifying precedent with this incomprehensible award given, no less, at an enormous graduation commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium. Students for Justice in Palestine is the largest anti-Jewish student group in the country. Judea Pearl is to be commended for standing up to this evil. Now where are the Jewish leaders denouncing this? Where is the ADL? Where is the Jewicidal left?
“Distinguished Alumnus Denounces NYU After It Honors Anti-Israel Group,” by Nic Rowan, Washington Free Beacon, April 16, 2019 2:25 pm
Turing Award winner Judea Pearl denounced New York University and threw aside his status as distinguished alumnus after the school honored Students for Justice in Palestine for its “extraordinary and positive impact on the University community.”
Story continues below advertisementPearl graduated from NYU in 1965 and was given a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2013. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also runs an organization named after his son Daniel Pearl, a journalist who was killed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002.
Pearl spoke out against NYU’s decision in a letter to college president Andrew Hamilton, the Algemeiner reports.
“In the past five years, SJP has resorted to intimidation tactics that have made me, my colleagues and my students unwelcome and unsafe on our own campus,” Pearl wrote. “The decision to confer an award on SJP, renders other NYU awards empty of content, and suspect of reckless selection process.”
Pearl went on to say that his past concerns voiced to university officials “have been met with platitudes about ‘free speech’ despite the fact that the US State Department now includes, in its definition of discrimination, intimidation based on race, religion and ethnicity.”
“I know the difference between free speech and campus norms,” he wrote. “Entrusted with the mandate of maintaining a climate of learning and mutual respect, your office should distance itself from the SJP selection and explained to the campus why such distancing is necessary. In the absence of a corrective action by your office the academic standing of this university is begging for other voices to call out the Orwellian character of (SJP’s) award.”…
“Judea Pearl Renounces NYU Distinguished Alumnus Status as School Prepares to Award Students for Justice in Palestine,” by Shiri Moshe, Algemeiner, April 16, 2019 (thanks to Wendy):
Turing Award winner Judea Pearl has renounced his status as a distinguished alumnus of New York University, following the school’s decision to award its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter — which orchestrated an ongoing boycott of Zionist student clubs — for “extraordinary and positive impact on the University community.”
Pearl, who graduated with a doctoral degree from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering in 1965, was granted a Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Polytechnic Alumni Association during a campus lecture in 2013 and is currently a chancellor’s professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also leads a foundation named after his late son, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by Islamic terrorists in 2002 while on assignment in Pakistan.
“In the past five years, SJP has resorted to intimidation tactics that have made me, my colleagues and my students unwelcome and unsafe on our own campus,” Pearl wrote in a letter to NYU President Andrew Hamilton. “The decision to confer an award on SJP, renders other NYU awards empty of content, and suspect of reckless selection process.”
Pearl stated that his efforts to engage with university officials over these concerns “have been met with platitudes about ‘free speech’ despite the fact that the US State Department now includes, in its definition of discrimination, intimidation based on race, religion and ethnicity.”
“Mr. President, I have been in academia for close to 50 years, and I know the difference between free speech and campus norms,” he continued. “Entrusted with the mandate of maintaining a climate of learning and mutual respect, your office should distance itself from the SJP selection and explained to the campus why such distancing is necessary. In the absence of a corrective action by your office the academic standing of this university is begging for other voices to call out the Orwellian character of (SJP’s) award.”…
SJP first revealed that it would be receiving the award, which will be presented on Wednesday, in a Facebook post earlier this month.
“We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected to receive a presidential service award at NYU,” the group wrote. “Despite the pushback we have received from our institution, we agree that we have made ‘significant contributions to the university community in the areas of learning, leadership, and quality of student life,’” SJP added, quoting a letter it said it had received from the university.
The news was met with concern by some NYU students and alumni, who pointed to SJP’s blacklisting of campus clubs with opposing views and its introduction of a resolution supporting the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, which was adopted by the Student Government Assembly (SGA) in December….
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5 years ago
The BHO / Brennan doctrine of allowing the viscerally anti American / pro Shariah “Muslim Brotherhood” to grow and metastasize in the US (in MSM / politics / schools / academia / judiciary / large segments of the black community) MUST be totally eradicated!! Trump MUST designate ALL US organisations that are affiliated with the “Muslim Brotherhood” (e.g. ‘CAIR’, SJP etc) as terror supporting organisations!
Trump is the only leader in the west that can wage an effective ‘Holy’ war on these ‘non American’, Americans or Anti US / Treasonous US citizens that are destroying America from within
5 years ago
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Tilt
I am hoping now that the Russia farce is over, the Muslim Brotherhood, an offshoot of Hamas and CAIR and offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and another Hamas terrorist organization supporter gets indicted and prosecuted with deportations. Omar has had a few closed door meetings with CAIR. That might be an additional way to take her down and possibly lock her up. I’d like to see her shown for what she is and destroyed. Rashida Tlaib is more mature and not as flamboyant as Omar.
5 years ago
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felix1999
Tlaib called Trump a “mother fuxker” in some town hall a couple of months ago…
She is a “Palestinian” so she is probably somewhat more calculated / careful / focused but far more dangerous then the Somalian…
Both are garbage
5 years ago
Free speech seems to only apply to the left.
Look at Obama’s aloof snotty look as he pays tribute to the death of Daniel Pearl.
President Barack Obama. accompanied by Mariane Van Neyenhoff, widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and their son, Adam Daniel Pearl, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 17, 2010, after he signed the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act.
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Dr. Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002, speaks in Miami Beach, Fla., Sunday, April 15, 2007. Pearl’s son was honored Sunday during a Holocaust memorial ceremony during Yom Hashoah, the annual time of remembrance.
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5 years ago
A Jew with guts…To be commended!!!
5 years ago
When I was a teenager NYU was on my short list of four schools to go to. The others were California (Berkeley), Univ. of Western Australia, and Chapman Univ. floating campus of Orange County. The floating campus toured the Mediterranean Sea. The floating campus was a tour liner. I went to Cal. Glad I ruled out NYU. Later I learned NYU was mostly a Jewish school so I would not have fit in as I was a WASP.
5 years ago
Judea Pearl works at the University of Communism, Los Angeles? He has my sympathies for that and my condolences for his brave son.
5 years ago
Respect Judea
5 years ago
NYU has such a massive Jewish population…if they ALL stood up together, then the university would not dare tolerate so much hostility towards Israel.
5 years ago
Well done Judea Pearl, let us hope many more of his colleagues will speak out against this travesty.
