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2024-10-13 Fifth Column
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Campus Hamas Follies Week of 10/6-12
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Pro-Palestinian activists go loud at Columbia as students mark year since Oct. 7 attack
[IsraelTimes] Israel supporters cap a difficult year amid raucous demonstrations by rival anti-Israel groups at NYC school that has been a hotspot since Hamas onslaught sparked the ongoing war.
Despite all the press and the promises, it’s not gotten any better.
Our martyrs’: Chicago college students rally for ‘Gaza’
[CollegeFix] Pro-Palestinian activists plan to host events throughout the week at Chicago universities, with at least two specifically meant to “honor” the “martyrs” of the war on Israel.
- Students for Justice in Palestine will host a “vigil” on Oct. 9 at Loyola University Chicago to “honor our martyrs.”
- Students for a Democratic Society at DePaul University will host a rally on Thursday, according to an Instagram post.
- A walkout and rally are also planned for this afternoon at the University of Illinois Chicago. “Join us for a powerful day of rallying, learning, and community building,” the campus SJP wrote, describing its “For Gaza We Rise” event.
Anti-Israel activists vandalize homes of UMich leadership, orgs with Israeli ties to mark Oct. 7 anniversary
[CampusReform] ‘To mark one year of genocide against the Palestinian people, an autonomous group visited the homes of two University of Michigan leaders, President Santa Ono and Chief Investment Officer Erik Lundberg,’ the tip said. ‘They also decorated the offices of the Jewish Federation of Detroit and the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator, organizations that are deeply entrenched in the apartheid state,’ it continued.
Columbia student group retracts apology of member who said ‘Zionists deserve to die’
[IsraelTimes] Day after Oct. 7 anniversary, Columbia University Apartheid Divest issues explicit endorsement of violence as Khymani James claims he ‘never wrote neo-liberal apology’ in April.
Anti-Israel Columbia Student Sues School For Suspending Him After Daily Wire Exposé
[DailyWire] Student Khymani James said in video that "Zionists don’t deserve to live," compared them to Nazis.
Columbia's Student Protesters Really Have Embraced Hamas
[HotAir] Hamas' goal is to kill Jews, civilian or otherwise, and drive them from the land. This is what "from the river to the sea" has always meant. Now the group which ran the Columbia protests and inspired similar protests around the country is flat out saying they support the same thing.
The increasingly revolutionary tilt of the student movement reflects an internal push among many pro-Palestinian groups to align their goals with principles known as the Thawabet, crafted by the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1977. They include the right of Palestinians to armed resistance and to self-determination on all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Harvard: Windows Smashed, John Harvard Statue Vandalized in Act of ‘Palestinian Resistance’
[TheCrimson] An individual smashed the ground-floor windows to University Hall and covered the John Harvard statue in red paint as an “act of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance,” according to a video posted on social media. The perpetrator of the anonymous act of vandalism appeared to film themselves using a blunt object to break the windows of University Hall, which houses the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The video was published on Instagram by “Unity of Fields,” an account that does not appear to have any affiliation with Harvard. The account, which describes itself as an “anti-imperialist propaganda front bringing the war home,” wrote that the video of the vandalism at Harvard came from an “anonymous submission.”
The vandalism comes amid rising tensions on Harvard’s campus around the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. In a statement Monday night, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee called on student activists to ramp up their protest activities. Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, an unrecognized pro-Palestine group that organized the encampment in Harvard Yard last semester, denied involvement with the act of vandalism.
Unity of Fields also posted photos on X of graffiti on the campus of University of Massachusetts Amherst on Tuesday.
“Autonomous activists struck the Engineering Quad and Fine Arts Center of UMass Amherst… Expect more autonomous actions at UMass Amherst. We will not rest until war profiteers are gone, and Palestine is fully liberated,” the post stated.
After similar acts of vandalism at SUNY New Paltz on Sunday night and the City University of New York, New York Governor Kathy Hochul wrote in a post on X that the state has “offered the NYPD and CUNY support to ensure all students are safe.”
Brown University rejects anti-Israel students’ divestment proposal
[IsraelTimes] Explaining vote, board of governors says the university’s ‘mission is to discover, communicate and preserve knowledge. It’s not to adjudicate or resolve global conflicts’.
Brown is a ray of light in the darkness, though it would have been more comforting if they’d moved at faster than glacial speed.
Pro-Hamas Activists at Pomona College Take Over and Vandalize a Campus Building
[HotAir] Pomona College in southern California is one of five undergraduate colleges and two grad schools that make up a group called the Claremont Colleges. On Oct. 7, Pomona Divest from Apartheid (PDfA) held a student walkout with the 60+ student orgs demanding Pomona divest from weapons manufacturers, because there can be no business as usual during genocide.
After the walk out marched to Carnegie Hall where classes were being held and shoved their way in past security.
Organizers announced over megaphones that “Today this is a People’s University for Palestine,” and that demonstrators would be leaving at 4:00 P.M. Inside, students chanted while organizers handed out pamphlets. Lead organizers commandeered multiple classrooms to lead “teach-in” sessions for participants. A list of approved chants obtained by the Independent includes “Intifada intifada, LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA,” “Hey hey ho ho! iSRAEL [sic] HAS GOT TO GO,” and We don't want two states, WE WANT ‘48!”
Professors told students in the classes being disrupted that they could leave, but one Jewish student said they didn't feel safe walking through the throng of activists chanting about the Intifada. The activists also zip-tied the doors shut and blocked entrances so no one else could come in.
One professor whose office is in the building was stuck inside because the activists would not let him back into his office to get his phone. He told the Claremont Independent he was shoved by the activists and added, "People were pretty nasty for two or three hours."
Midway through those two to three hours the school put out a statement condemning the action and threatening consequences.
A statement. Golly.
10 UC Irvine anti-Israel activists face charges, including refusal to disperse, resisting arrest
[CampusReform] The charges stem from a May 15 protest that took place at the school. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said that ‘criminal activity which transcends peaceful assembly will not be tolerated.... my prosecutors are continuing to review evidence against the remaining 40 arrestees.’
National Students for Justice in Palestine celebrates glider attack in 'call to action' image
[CampusReform] The anti-Israel student group advertised the Day of Resistance with an ad that pays homage to the Hamas paraglider attack over the weekend. During the 10/7/2023 attack, reports say that Hamas militants killed at least 260 civilians who were attending the Tribe of Nova music festival.
‘Demonstration of Ignorance’: Anti-Israel Installation Riddled With Falsehoods Stands in Harvard Yard
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] ‘It shames Harvard and makes you wonder what is being taught, and what is being learned, in its classrooms today,’ Middle East scholar Elliott Abrams says
UPenn donor who cut ties with alma mater redirects millions to Israeli universities instead: 'Unreformable'
[FoxNews] David Magerman, a venture capitalist and philanthropist, severed ties with the University of Pennsylvania over its response to antisemitism last year. His donations will support programs for English-speaking students to learn academic Hebrew and integrate into STEM degree programs in Israel. He said it's naive to believe that elite U.S. universities are "reformable."
After donating roughly $10 million over the years, Magerman said he was "ashamed" to be associated with the university. Other prominent donors followed suit. Apollo CEO Marc Rowan, who donated $50 million to UPenn in 2018, called on other donors at the time to send $1 checks with the hopes of forcing a change in leadership at the university. He urged all Jewish donors to "close their checkbooks."
Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, pulled his donation estimated at approximately $100 million shortly thereafter, writing in a letter that the school's "permissive approach to hate speech calling for violence against Jews and laissez-faire attitude toward harassment and discrimination against Jewish students would violate any policies or rules that prohibit harassment and discrimination based on religion," Axios reported.
Magerman recently announced that he plans to reallocate the funds he previously sent to UPenn to five Israeli colleges in $1 million increments. These include Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University, and Jerusalem College of Technology.
Hedge fund billionaire Cliff Asness did the same shortly after the outbreak of the Gaza war. 
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