Oakland, California: Cafe staff refuse to let a Jewish woman
use their restroom
A mass psychosis indeed, the likes of which we have not seen since the days of National Socialist Germany.
This took place in Oakland, California, at Farley’s East coffee house at 33 Grand Avenue.
Canada: Bus company that left hundreds stranded
for Ottawa pro-Israel rally owned by Mohammed Ashraq
In an update to a previous story on Jihad Watch, Toronto: Hundreds stranded as buses fail to show for rally in support of Israel, the subcontractor company that left the pro-Israel rallygoers stranded has been identified by the organizer, United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation of Greater Toronto, as Prestige Worldwide Transportation Network LLC, which is owned by one Mohammed Ashraq.
Some of the bus attendees stated what’s on everyone’s mind, although this is sure to be deemed “Islamophobic” by the usual players: “It’s obvious what happened here.” And it is.
There will be follow-up: Adam Minsky, President and CEO of UJA stated: “We will respond aggressively with every legal and public affairs tool at our disposal.”
It is unnerving that a member of the service industry would take his pro-Hamas mission to this level. Did Mohammed Ashraq think that he would get away with this? Whether he did or not, he clearly didn’t care, which makes his actions even more concerning. He needs to face legal consequences that will serve as a deterrent to others.
Bus company leaves pro-Israel supporters stranded en route to rally:
‘it’s obvious what happened here
by Peter Aitken, Fox News, December 6, 2023:
A few hundred Jewish people on their way from Toronto to Ottawa for a protest were abandoned when over a dozen drivers did not show up, with protest organizers accusing the company responsible for driving the buses of antisemitism.
“We were shocked that, of more than 70 buses UJA booked, 17 did not show up,” United Jewish Appeal (UJA) president and CEO Adam Minsky said in a statement on Tuesday. “Those 17 buses were the responsibility of a particular subcontracted company.”
“Despite charging in full in advance and confirming its participation, the company did not send a single bus and has declined all communications while refusing to provide any explanation,” Minsky explained.
“Given the absolute silence of the subcontractor and with no other explanation, we are driven to the view that this shameful decision is intended to disrupt our peaceful rally out of hatred toward Jews,” he added, calling the act “sickening and outrageous” and promising to take legal action.
“Hate and discrimination against any community can never be tolerated in Canada,” Minsky declared.
Some of the bus attendees suggested that police should investigate the incident as both a theft, due to the money spent on hiring the buses, and a possible hate crime. One attendee told the Toronto Sun that the situation “smells” because “there were no weather issues,” claiming that “it’s obvious what happened here.”….
It seems there is a very good case for a lawsuit here, as well as criminal charges.
UK: Two women beat a Jewish woman unconscious
as passersby ignore the whole thing
London 2023 has become Berlin 1938. And it’s not just London.
The raging antimenitism in America's universities is based on completely false information in relation to Palestinians and Jews. If this is an example of the research capabilities of the countries top students and professors, then we are all in trouble.
Brown University President Cuts Denunciation of Antisemitism From Speech
Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, has publicly denounced Israel as being responsible for the attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7. More on Bartov’s grotesque remarks can be found here: “‘Genocidal Intent’: Brown University Holocaust Professor Blames Israel for Hamas Terrorism,” by Alec Schemmel, Washington Free Beacon, December 6, 2023:
One day after the terror group slaughtered scores of innocent Israelis—including women and children—a Brown student group during an “emergency meeting” argued that Hamas’s attack was “justified violence” and “in fact a victory,” the Washington Free Beacon reported. Brown students have also sympathized with Hamas on Sidechat, a popular app on Brown’s campus that allows students to share anonymous thoughts with their classmates. Students have taken to the app to share comments such as “There is no such thing as an innocent Israeli.”
The Brown students who think that the atrocities committed by Hamas constituted “justified violence” and a “victory” have lost all moral sense. There is no reasoning with them. They should, however, be punished — all the way up to, and including, expulsion from the university — for defending, and even praising, what are clearly war crimes. There is, alas, no way to find the authors of the anonymous comments on Sidechat, where Brown students have been justifying the October 7 murders of civilians in such terms as “there is no such thing as an innocent Israeli.” They are, every one of them, including a three-month old, ten-month-old, two-, four-, and six-year-old children, guilty of war crimes and deserve to be punished.
Brown president Christina Paxson has also faced criticism for abandoning Jewish students—during a recent event, Paxson cut from her speech a planned remark denouncing anti-Semitism after pro-Palestinian students heckled her. A university spokesman said Paxson merely “abbreviated” her remarks in an attempt to wrap up her speech….
Jordan Peterson: Blame idiotic Marxism
for the demented antisemitism
oozing out of universities
Presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn turn blind eye to calls for genocide against Jews, while claiming the moral high ground
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The rot in the western world that has accrued in the last few years, revealed with particular clarity since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, showed its depth in a heretofore unparalleled manner this week in Washington, D.C. The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania appeared at a congressional hearing to face questions about the rise of antisemitism on their respective campuses (a phenomenon duplicating itself across the academic landscape).
I watched the event unfold with the same sense of surreal disbelief that has surrounded me more and more frequently over the last decade, as the academic world and the broader culture it shapes have succumbed ever more completely to the faux-compassionate blandishments of the radical left.
We’ll give the devil his due, first, as is always appropriate. The three personages in question were most definitely subjected to intensely unfriendly questioning, particularly by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.). They were put on the hot seat, while their politico interlocutor performed for the camera, and they reacted more defensively, angrily, resentfully and counterproductively than they might have otherwise. However, the same Congresswoman was for all her partisanship rather dreadfully effective in exposing the depth of narcissistic, moralizing, malevolent stupidity that passes for thought in our apparently-doomed institutions of higher education.
I make that latter comment with no pleasure whatsoever: the six years I taught in Cambridge, Mass. at the pre-eminent Ivy League campus in the United States served as a pinnacle point of my early career. Harvard truly lived up to its reputation in the early ’90s. The senior faculty serving there were the most educated and able people I had ever met; their junior counterparts truly the hottest young researchers and teachers in the world; the undergraduates reliably the smartest, hardest-working and generally admirable young men and women imaginable. The great university did its job, and it did it well.
Those days are long gone. Even the last competent president of the once-stellar university, Lawrence Summers, recently and publicly admitted as much. Now, led by the woefully unqualified Claudine Gay, Harvard was recently awarded a score below zero for freedom of speech on campus by FIRE, an organization that would have been recognized as quite liberal at any point in the past, excepting the last four or five years. MIT is faring no better. I spoke at length with two of their prominent professors in the last month. Both have bailed out in disgust from what was once and rightly so the engineering centrepiece of the entire world. The administration there no longer recognizes merit, they told me. It fails to support its faculty, no longer prioritizing the innovation, excellence, and sheer brilliant eccentricity once fostered and celebrated, above all, precisely there. As goes Harvard and MIT, so goes U Penn, also a once-admirable and excellent school. There are virtually no exceptions in the realm of higher education to this rule of corruption and failure.
I watched the demise of the University in Toronto over the 20 years I spent there as a professor. Every bloody time the ever-expanding administration put counterproductive pressure on the faculty (hiring more Deans, Associate Deans, Assistant Deans and Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity commissars) the spineless academics folded. I grew tired of objecting, one painful faculty meeting after another: “Why are we allowing them to increase class size; place more restrictive rules on our research protocols; implement yet another delusional and false five-year plan; eliminate all year-long courses; subject us to constant ideological training, conducted by self-evidently unqualified frauds; etc., etc? We could just say ‘no’! What could they possibly do?” The answer I received was always the same: “Then they won’t give us what we want.” My objection — “They don’t give us what we want now” — was continually met by the collective shrug of shoulders that over two decades handed the entire enterprise over to the encroaching bureaucrats.
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UPenn loses $100 million gift following president’s refusal to condemn genocide of Jews
By Charles Hilu, The Washington Free Beacon
A donor to the University of Pennsylvania withdrew a gift worth around $100 million from the school Thursday, the latest instance of fallout following elite university presidents’ controversial congressional testimony on campus anti-Semitism.
Ross Stevens, an alumnus of the university’s Wharton School of Business and founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, cited the college’s response to anti-Semitism, including President Liz Magill’s answers in her Tuesday testimony to Congress, in his decision to withdraw the donation, Axios reported.
“Mr. Stevens and Stone Ridge are appalled by the university’s stance on anti-Semitism on campus,” Stevens’s lawyers wrote in a letter to the university. “Its 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 of rules that prohibit harassment and discrimination based on religion, including those of Stone Ridge.”
The lawyers cited Magill’s testimony to Congress on Tuesday, in which she suggested calling for the genocide of Jews would not necessarily violate her college’s rules regarding bullying and harassment.
“It is a context-dependent decision,” Magill said after Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) asked whether such calls would violate the school’s code of conduct.
Stevens’s lawyers noted that Magill “belatedly acknowledged” that such calls would be harassment “only after her Congressional testimony went viral and demands for her termination amplified.”
Stevens’s withdrawal of the gift is the latest backlash toward the university following Magill’s testimony. Her comments drew a denunciation from Pennsylvania’s political leaders on Wednesday, including Gov. Josh Shapiro (D.), Sen. Bob Casey (D.), and Republican Senate candidate David McCormick. Magill stated on Wednesday clarifying her comments and committing to evaluate the school’s policies in light of the “signs of hate proliferating across our campus and our world in a way not seen in years.”
Presidents Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Claudine Gay of Harvard University testified with Magill and gave similar answers to Stefanik’s question, declining to affirm that calls for genocide would qualify as bullying and harassment.
Gay issued a statement Wednesday claiming “those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account,” but that did not stop David Wolpe, a visiting scholar at the university’s divinity school, from resigning from Gay’s newly created advisory board dedicated to stopping anti-Semitism. He cited Gay’s “painfully inadequate testimony” and an ideology on campus that “places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil,” though he added that he believed Gay “to be both a kind and thoughtful person.”
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Video: Netanyahu to women’s rights orgs
that are silent about the abuse of Israeli women:
‘Where the hell are you?’
So where indeed are human rights and women’s rights organizations in the face of the horrific abuse of Israeli women? Good question.
Human rights and women’s rights organizations are dominated by Leftists. They just didn’t care about Israelis. They didn’t care about Muslim rape gang victims in the UK, either. Nor did they care about the Yazidi sex slaves raped by dozens of ISIS fighters. Their focus is on hating Israel — the only democratic, shining light in the Middle East, and on hating the so-called “far right,” and hating Western tradition and culture.
