Students at Columbia University support Hamas, get doxxed, then their Professors lie about what they said.
Some students at Columbia University issued a statement supporting Hamas, which I quote in full below, though without the names at the bottom.
Then some guy hired a mobile billboard truck and put the names and faces of the students up on the truck, and drove around the University; probably not a good thing to do, but there you go, that’s what he did. While it would be possible for me to find the students’ names and faces I am sure, I will not do this, as I do not want to shame anybody in particular, particularly not young people who are still finding their way in life, and who may have made a mistake in signing that statement.
However, after this, 100 Professors issued a statement of support of the students who had signed the statement supporting the Palestinians.
What is quite notable about the Professors’ statement of support is that they imply quite strongly that the students’ statement did not support violence against civilians. In fact, they are drawing an incredibly long bow on this one, in other words, twisting the truth into something that looks remarkably like a lie, and is a lie, in fact.
Here is the students’ statement — if you can find anything in this screed condemning the barbaric terrorist attack, you are better at reading between the lines than I am —actually, you are imagining it, because it is not there:
Palestine Solidarity Groups at Columbia University regarding the recent events in Palestine/Israel: Oppression Breeds Resistance
The loss of a human life is a deeply painful and heartbreaking experience for loved ones, regardless of one's affiliation. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the individuals and communities at Columbia University affected by the tragic losses experienced by both Palestinians and Israelis. The sting of tears, the weight on our hearts, and the profound sense of loss are universal emotions that connect us all in grief and unify us by experience. As we mourn the loss of lives, let us come together as a Columbia community and fervently advocate for the universal human right to live in peace and seek justice. We also affirm that there can be no future of safety and freedom for all Israelis and Palestinians without holding the Israeli occupation accountable for its actions and putting an end to the untenable status quo of Israel's apartheid and colonial system.
"When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe" - Frantz Fanon
We cannot view the recent actions of Palestinian fighters in isolation. Gaza is an open-air prison that lacks the essential necessities such as food, clean water, medicine, and electricity. Palestinians in Gaza have endured five brutal wars and prolonged inhumane siege for 16 years depriving them of their most basic rights. The United Nations issued a warning in 2012 that Gaza would become unlivable by 2020 due to Israel's siege. Yet, here we are in 2023, and the whole world is SILENT while Palestinians live in an open air prison and continue to suffer as a result of the siege and wars applied by a series of fascist, racist, and colonial Israeli governments.
Before the latest surge in violence, Israeli soldiers and settlers had already killed more than 250 Palestinians, including at least 47 children, across the occupied Palestinian children, across the occupied Palestinian territories just this year. Extremist Israeli colonial-settlers have also ramped up their attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. What is also tragic is the blindness and deafness of the international community to the situation for over 75 years persistently turning a blind eye to decades of Palestinian oppression.
Ignoring this grim context will undoubtedly contribute to further bloodshed and the cycle of murder.
The weight of responsibility for the war and casualties undeniably lies with the Israeli extremist government and other Western governments, including the U.S. government, which fund and staunchly support Israeli aggression, apartheid and settler-colonization.
This issue of why this occurred now is not about timing. This is about root causes and a fundamental issue with Israeli occupation and the deprivation of human rights, including the lack of respect for the Palestinian people's legitimate right to self determination. Every single political avenue available to Palestinians has been blocked, including the International Court of Justice.
First, we condemn the discrimination against Palestinians evident in Barnard College's email and Columbia's school of General Studies emails which were sent to the student body over the weekend as each school only addressed Israeli students alone, and not Palestinians. We see this as an attempt of a complete erasure of Palestinians and the decades of suffering occupation, ethnic cleansing, and colonization.
We urge Columbia University to stand against such discrimination and issue a statement supporting all students.
Second, we urge Columbia University to stand firmly for accountability and end its ties with apartheid Israel, including discontinuing the Columbia Global Center in Tel Aviv and the Dual Degree Program with Tel Aviv University. The Columbia community must reassess its relationship with Israel in light of our core values of justice, peace, and human rights.
Finally, we remind Columbia students that the Palestinian struggle for freedom is rooted in international law, under which occupied peoples have the right to resist the occupation of their land. If every political avenue available to Palestinians is blocked, we should not be surprised when resistance and violence break out. The international community is quick to affirm Israel's right to protect itself but does not extend this same right to Palestinians. Israel does not have the right to defend its occupation, its apartheid state or its siege of Gaza. As an occupying power, the state of Israel has a responsibility to protect civilian life under its own occupation. The international judicial system must intervene and hold all parties, including the state of Israel, accountable for the violations it commits.
We urge Columbia students to stand up for justice.
There are several notable points that I bring to the reader’s attention:
This statement completely fails to condemn the violence against innocent civilians within the border of Israel, who were going about their lives.
Palestinians in this instance were in general not the victims (although admittedly there were some Palestinian Israelis who were killed by Hamas). It was probably not appropriate to reach out to the Palestinian students as well in this case, unless it was specifically to those whose relatives or friends were killed by Hamas; to say that the faculty ought to have done otherwise (the letter implies they should reach out to Palestinians killed beforehand in Israeli attacks) is ridiculous and quite insulting to the grief of the Jewish students who may have lost relatives and friends in the October 7th attacks.
Everything the student statement says tries to justify the violence of Hamas against innocent people, non-combatants. Nobody forced these Hamas soldiers to go and slit the throats of babies and pregnant women. They did it quite willingly and quite gleefully, indeed, I believe there is good evidence that they were rejoicing in their sick religious belief in their sick god as they put into practice their plans, as nauseating as this may seem. (Note that I don’t point the finger at all Moslems here: there do exist moderate, peaceful Moslems, who don’t follow the teaching of jihad as a literal holy war)
The Professors’ statement can be found here; you can read it for yourself, and their names are signed below:
But the salient point worth making is that the Professors excuse the students’ statement quite dishonestly, in fact. I quote:
In our view, the student statement aims to recontextualize the events of October 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years. One could regard the events of October 7th as just one salvo in an ongoing war between an occupying state and the people it occupies, or as an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation, something anticipated by international humanitarian law in the Second Geneva Protocol. In either case armed resistance by an occupied people must conform to the laws of war, which include a prohibition against the intentional targeting of civilians. The statement reflects and endorses this legal framework, including a condemnation of the killing of civilians.
In fact, the student statement does nothing of the sort. It expresses sorrow over loss of life in the first paragraph, yes, as though it all happened by accident and not by an evil, demonic design; nowhere does the student statement condemn the intentional, barbaric killing of innocent babies, women and children, as well as peaceful non-combatant men, which is what the October 7th attack by Hamas represents.
One can’t help suspecting that these academics are so used to twisting the truth in their publications and studies, that this habit extends also to the twisting of the truth about the student letter they have endorsed.
What is wrong with these people?
They certainly seem to have forgotten the University logo: In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen, which means “In Thy light shall we see light”.
Right now, I believe that nations and individuals are being sifted to see who will support the right of the Jewish and Palestinian people to live in peace in Israel (both Palestinians and Israelis live side by side there; it is not an apartheid), and who among the nations will support the evil, terrible pogroms and hatred and persecution practiced against the Jews for the past 5000 years, which began with the Pharaoh of Exodus, and which are still being preached and practiced by Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran, and by many Imams in the West.
This is a moment of decision for the nations, and in the end, the sheep will be separated from the goats.
There is an even larger picture: yes, those who have mistreated the Palestinians will have to answer for their deeds as well before God, but that list surely includes Hamas, who have mistreated their own population, denied them free elections, denied them food and fuel, in their cowardliness used women and children as human shields, even to the extent of building their military base underneath a hospital; notably the Israels have not destroyed that hospital – I am pretty sure they could have if the IDF were such villains as the knowledgable Professors seem to believe. I suspect that the list of those who have mistreated the Palestinians in God’s sight does not ultimately include Israel, who have offered peace agreement after peace agreement together with massive concessions to the Palestinians, only to receive the repeated, dreadful answer, “we want you all gone, we want you all to be destroyed.”
We must pray for peace in Israel.
And we must pray for our own nations.
For I believe it is the survival of our own nations that will be seen to be in the balance here, at the end of the day; not, ultimately, the survival of Israel.
God have mercy on us all.
Chris Bray has a provocative Substack yesterday asking whether violence leads to more violence,
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/does-violence-lead-to-more-violence/comments
Tanto Minchiata left a provocative response:
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Unfortunately in this conflict there is no alternative to extreme violence at this point.
Israel, a sovereign nation under international law, cannot constantly be under threat of pogroms and annihilation by the Islamofascist terrorists which surround it. No other sovereign nation has to justify its existence in perpetuity. The terrorists must be eradicated to prevent further savagery. Everything else has been tried to placate the Muslims in the surrounding areas: financial assistance by governments around the world, diplomacy including the offer of statehood in the so-called two state solution, economic development and educational programs,etc. They are implacable, because at the bottom of it, they hate Jews and they want them gone. They want to kill all of them. They keep showing us this behavior. When are we going to believe them? In point of fact, all the aid, assistance and “solidarity” have made problem much worse and have led to the current debacle. Solidarity with groups that want to kill you is just fucking stupid. So Muslim terrorists blow up Europe, they blow up the United States, they blow up India, they blow up Muslim nations, and we send them money and amplify their bullshit propaganda and embolden them. They want to kill Christians just as badly.
This is not a joke. They say so in Arabic and Farsi on television, in publications. You don’t get those translations here because it doesn’t fit the Western critical theory intersectional bullshit egregiously stupid and destructive narrative of every culture is good except of course Western culture and now especially Jewish culture.
The bullies kill their own people all the time. They do it in Syria and Yemen and Iran and Afghanistan and Sudan and Lebanon, Iraq, you name it. They slaughter gays and women and any Muslim who stands in their way. They use women and children as human shields. They fight from under hospitals and inside schools. Hamas doesn’t care about Gazans. They shoot them if they try to escape to safety. They care about nothing but martyring innocents while the leadership sits in Qatar counting their money and making speeches. None of the SJWs make a peep about those atrocities and war crimes. It’s only when Jews defend themselves that the Commie agitators ( all paid and organized by the Democrat fundraising machine btw) get out in the street. So: STFU you phony hypocrite antisemitic cretins.
Israel must eradicate Hamas, Hezbollah, and Irans regime. The world should help them. This isn’t an isolated battle. How many times do we need to see this movie? If the Muslim world wants to be integrated into world civilization then they have to be civilized, not try to murder and dominate everybody who is not on their team. That means showing strength and resolve. And wiping out the death cult terrorists. Israel has to do it today. It’s a question of survival. You can see how things are going in the demoralized West. How long until we have the same situation here? We already do I believe. We certainly are inviting it with the moronic immigration and foreign policy moves we make.There are many tribes and nations that have disappeared. They were wiped out and dismantled by violent means more often than not. Violence is never the answer, except when it is. Civilization must triumph over homicidal maniacs and brutal savagery, even if the disgusting bigots at Harvard, Berkeley and other indoctrination camps don’t like it. It has to be done. The more you appease a bully, the worse it gets. Every time.