Professor Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, was reportedly denied access to the main campus on Friday as his school ID was “deactivated” during the recent protests over the Israeli-Gaza conflict. What was equally concerning is that the university did so for his own protection out of concern that, as an outspoken Jewish faculty member, he could not walk around the campus safely. It was reminiscent of the recent controversy of a man in London threatened with arrest because being “quite openly Jewish” would trigger pro-Palestinian protesters.
Davidai said that the university told him they banned him from campus because they could not ensure his safety. This followed a Columbia rabbi telling Jewish students to leave campus for their own safety.
The most basic obligation of a university is to ensure the safety of its faculty and students from physical assaults. If there is a problem on campus, it is found in those students or faculty who would threaten a Jewish professor if he were to walk on campus.
This is not part of the debate over what language is considered a threat or hateful rhetoric. This is barring a professor because his status alone makes his presence inflammatory or dangerous. I cannot imagine how the solution was barring the potential victim of religious-based bigotry and violence.
We have not heard from Columbia University on the “deactivation.” Unless Professor Davidai is lying, someone cut off his access in the university. The university owes him and the Columbia community an immediate explanation. Indeed, University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik should have issued a statement yesterday.
There are calls for Shafik to resign. That position is not helped by the silence on the barring of a faculty member. If the accounts are untrue, Shafik needs to say so. If they are true, she needs to explain the basis for this extraordinary action. I cannot imagine the basis for such a deactivation since Shafik has not been accused of any threatening conduct himself.
As major donors like Robert Kraft pull their financial support from Columbia, the school will need to respond more quickly and transparently to such controversies. That can start by reactivating the card of Professor Davidai and supplying whatever security is needed to allow him and others to walk around campus without fear of assault.
“It’s the [Obama], stupid!”
– James Carville
“Never underestimate Joe fu(king things up” ~ Obama
John Jay required that the president be a “natural born citizen,” per the legal text and reference of the era, the Law of Nations, precluding Obama, the son of a foreign citizen, in his letter to George Washington.
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To George Washington from John Jay, 25 July 1787
From John Jay
New York 25 July 1787
Dear Sir
I was this morning honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 22d Inst: & immediately delivered the Letter it enclosed to Commodore Jones, who being detained by Business, did not go in the french Packet, which sailed Yesterday.
Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise & seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government, and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the american army shall not be given to, nor devolved on, any but a natural born Citizen.
Mrs Jay is obliged by your attention, and assures You of her perfect Esteem & Regard—with similar Sentiments the most cordial and sincere I remain Dear Sir Your faithful Friend & Servt
John Jay
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Obama
___________________
“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
“Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.”
– Vladimir Lenin
That happened.
At some point, someone is going to do something really dumb and someone is going to get seriously hurt and or killed. And then things are going to get worse.
I hope I am wrong.
@Upstate
That’s my fear too – one or just a handful of pure idiots, on whichever side, are going to do something very, very stupid and the rest of us will just have to watch in horror as things spiral out of control. Not good.
James,
It is my feeling (yeah, I know) that it is the Jews who are being prosecuted albeit no obvious body or entity. The lack of commendation from pretty much everyone I find alarming.
@Upstate
Same here. That’s what bothers me, tremendously, about it. No way, particularly with younger people, this is organic. It is madness, and it is orchestrated and paid for. I cannot distinguish the stuff happening in universities from my own dealings with Nazi skinheads 30 years ago, and i had two friends hospitalized by those thugs, one of which never recovered from the injuries to his brain, they beat him so badly. There is no distinction between Antifa, these protestors, and those little hate bombs from years ago. The difference is that now they have funding and cover.
As an aside that is also alarming to me with people overseas that have had to deal with the likes of the National Front. We appear to be very, very stupid and privileged people, and if we don’t wake the heck up – this just ends badly. The modern left ARE the perpetrators. The aristocracy of the globalist UN and the likes of Soros ARE the feeders. Some of us have already seen this play out in microcosm, and it is NOT good.
And hey – thanks so much for your sane and fair comments.
James,
Sane?
Reading the news, the good professor’s columns, I feel like I must be going mad. It is the only thing that makes sense.
Thank you, and thank you for your well thought out comments.
Well the ‘really dumb’ has already happened.
The president of Columbia U didn’t react fast enough and should have called in Police immediately.
This is a clear Title VI violation. No excuse. She was already hauled in front of Congress.
She further messed up by deactivating the professor’s access card. That’s also a lawsuit he can file against the University.
While she said that students have the right to protest… there are limits and they went over the line based on the content of the protest.
Any faculty who joined the students should be shown the door for cause.
Students expelled.
Same for MIT, Yale and any other school that allowed the protests.
The irony… Harvard shut it down and didn’t allow protests. Seems the new president learned from Gay’s mistakes.
(Beyond the plagiarism bs. )
-G
(Gumby)
Dear Prof Turley,
(raises hand) How’s it going @ GW .. . any student ‘activists’ in your classroom?
Though I walk through the valley of your blog, I shall fear no drivel. After all, one man’s student activist, is another man’s Columbia U. professor. (special note. *Columbia’s most recent hire is former Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland .. . fresh off her stint defending freedom & democracy in Ukraine … to the last Ukrainian!)
I’m always fascinated by people critical of Joe Biden, yet unequivocally support all his policies around the world.
Take Israel-Palestine, e.g.. Tucked away inside Biden/Speaker Johnson’s recent Funding Supplemental for weapons of war in Israel is $9.6bn for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Just in the nick of time. How’s that for fair and reasonable .. . weapons of war, symptoms of madness.
Some people think Trump was the most divisive president, ever. .. but I’m not so sure.
*otoh, Columbia also employs Prof Sachs .. . a font of reason in a sea of student activists.
While the mind of an individual can be awe inspiring to the society of mankind, society can fundamentally transform to become a state of degeneration by the minds of mankind.
I have been trying to warn the Jewish Community since 2005 when I first discovered the information about General Dynamics selling weapons to the Saudis in 1963. The Saudis were selling them to Egypt Syria and Iraq, stockpiling weapons for a war in the Middle East. Nobody wanted to listen to me. Go read it for yourself- 88th Congress 1963, 1st and 2nd – Index heading “Middle East”. I downloaded the information to foreign press and Israeli press because I dont trust the MSM. Reported all of it to Weisenthal. After the War, The Nazis went to Egypt, changed their names to Mohammed and other Islamic names, and converted to Islam to hide their identities. They planned years in advance to infiltrate the west and subvert the government by immigrating. They got law degrees, teaching credentials, ran for office, made themselves look respectable – I read all this in a book called “Behind the Egyptian Sphinx”. The book was mentioned in the hearings. I found a single copy in a vault under the Creve Coeur public library in St Louis. The Nazis have storage vaults. I had to argue with the librarian to see it. I made a copy and gave it to the local Jewish Center to return. Then I copied it to flash drive and distributed it. Some of my contacts put it online. The Creve Coeur library is a document storage unit. The third floor is a depository. If you want to get on there, tyounwill need a form of ID. Thr Latter Day Saints have been keeping records in similar vaults nearby. This was all planned. I also tried to warn Trump but he’s so cloistered, I never got thru. But that’s what’s going on. Better informed than not.
Or, you could just buy a copy off Amazon. That would save a trip to St. Louis, which is a pretty dangerous city.
Dude, you’re all over the place.
2005 provisional government of Iraq was aligned to the US and UN.
SA has been a long time ally in the Middle East until Biden mucked it up.
You point to an outdated reference in ’63. US had been selling arms to middle eastern countries at the time in competition w the Russians.
(Look at the 1973 Yom Kippur War and Egypt’s weapons.)
You should get help.
-G
A Warning to America: 25 Ways the US is Being Destroyed | Explained in Under 2 Minutes
(see video @WesternLensman)
🟥ONE: Open borders and illegal immigration.
🟥TWO: Rampant crime and unsafe cities.
🟥THREE: Mass addiction and fentanyl.
🟥FOUR: Election insecurity and interference.
🟥FIVE: The educational indoctrination of children.
🟥SIX: The asymmetrical weaponization of justice.
🟥SEVEN: The destruction of private property rights.
🟥EIGHT: Inflation and debt.
🟥NINE: The global depopulation agenda.
🟥TEN: Record-low fertility and plummeting birth rates.
🟥ELEVEN: Unaccountable federal bureaucracies.
🟥TWELVE: The toxic food supply.
🟥THIRTEEN: Vaccine and pandemic disinformation.
🟥FOURTEEN: The trans contagion and sterilization of children.
🟥FIFTEEN: The over prescription of pharmaceuticals.
🟥SIXTEEN: The destruction of the nuclear family and parental rights.
🟥SEVENTEEN: DEI and the new racism.
🟥EIGHTEEN: Moral and societal decay.
🟥NINETEEN: The financing of endless foreign wars.
🟥TWENTY: The sprawling surveillance state.
🟥TWENTY-ONE: The centralization and consolidation of government power.
🟥TWENTY-TWO: The destruction of trust in institutions.
🟥TWENTY-THREE: The Censorship Industrial Complex.
🟥TWENTY-FOUR: State-media propaganda.
🟥TWENTY-FIVE: The smearing of those who challenge it.
The heckler’s veto.
Jonathan: It doesn’t appear you are fair and balanced in your coverage of the controversy surrounding the Israel/Gaza war. In a previous column you defended the right of a Jewish protester in London. Now it is a pro-Israel professor at Columbia.
In a previous comment (4/21/24@12:43pm) I raised the issue of the case of Asna Tabassum, a Muslim student who was also “deactivated”. Her commencement speech was cancelled by USC essentially because she expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments–about the killing of over 33,000 innocent Palestinians in Gaza. You have chosen to ignore that “free speech” controversy.
The Gaza/Israel war has provoked protests around the country. In your coverage you focus only on those that support Israel. Isn’t the cancellation of Tabassum’s speech deserving of equal treatment?
The Shapiro chair is not going to give you a down the middle unbiased take, he is going to service his benefactors. Come on, there is only one law under Gods green earth and that is Gods law which the Shapiro chair and every other legal scholar have lost sight of—–no harm comes to the innocent. But Gods law does not comport to the predatory nature of jew blood, capiche.
@’Robert’
We’re onto you. You should probably tell your employers it’s a waste of their money on this site. Yaaaaaawn. 🥱🥱🥱 Sure, Christ, yadda, yadda. Christ was Jewish and it was the Romans (who were polytheistic) that killed him, but whatever. There was no such thing as a ‘Christian’ per se, in Jesus’ lifetime.
If you are insane or paid, take your pick, or both, obviously historical facts don’t matter. You have gone from idiocy earlier today to just boring. We will carry on. 🥱🥱🥱 And don’t think I’m offended – someone as small as you doesn’t have the power or salience to offend, just to annoy and carry on like a child, it’s like swatting a fly that sneaked into the house. And people wonder why we all hate the Soros party and its privileged and whiny fruit. 🙄🙄 Thanks, Hillary and Obama.
Why would the Romans kill an innocent man who did no wrong? Face it kyke, the Jews where the only ones who had a reason to kill Christ. Christ was the son of god. The Jews believed Christ to be the son of God. The Jews wanted Christ to meet the demands and expectations the jews had for their messiah. Christ refused and chose to die instead. The son of God found the Jews unfit and undeserving of the blessings of God, and oh how right he was Christ killer.
Christ was not Jewish kyke. They personal traits and characteristics of Christ are not present in the Jewish people, they are polar opposite from Christ. Nice try though schmuck.
What an ignorant fvck you are. Christ was absolutely Jewish, which is passed down from the mother.
And you just said he chose to die.
You are a sinner, and since he died for all sinners, you share an equal blame for his death.
Paul was also a jew, and responsible for the bulk of the new testament beyond the gospels. In fact, most of the apostles were newish, dumb fvck.
Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad
The tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in
The fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages,
Eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and
The ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the
Standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to
Tithing, and stocked, punished, and imprisoned; who
Hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his
Body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear,
But mice, and rats, and such small deer,
Have been Tom’s food for seven long year.
Hey Dennis! How do you like having this wackadoodle Robert Browning in your party?
And I thought Bug boy made you look bad. This wackadoodle takes it to a whole new level of how low the Democrat party has taken it.
Please, Dennis is the worst of the lot.
Turley is being fair. He is not being balanced. Nor would I expect Turley or anyone to be.
There is a gigantic difference between supporting a right – free speech, and supporting a position – pro-hamas.
I and Turley will defend the right of Students, professors, consevatives. progressives, communists, nazi’s and the KKK to speak.
That is NOT the same as defending WHAT is said
I have joined you in support of the Valedictorian who was denied the right to give her valedictory speech.
Turley has supported the rights of various different left wing groups to speak.
This is about free speech – NOT the positions that each side advocates.
You may not silence your oponents – not even for their own protection.
You may not prevent others from hearing them.
But you are not obligated to listen yourself.
Nor is Turley obligrated to give anytime- much less equal time to their views.
What he is obligated to do, is to respect their right to speak.
@John Say
Turley is being balanced.
Look, I agree with everything you’re saying except on the balance issue.
Being balanced doesn’t mean Turley has to condone speech that isn’t protected speech. Hate speech and calls for violence are not protected speech and you can be balanced up until that point.
Look, if the protesters want to burn American flags or Israeli Flags… that’s protected and to be balanced is to acknowledge that.
(Even thought I’d want to beat the tar out of them… I won’t act or stop them.)
But saying ‘Kill all Jews’ or harassing Jewish students as they walk across the campus? That’s both a violation of the student code of conduct, and Title VI which can classify them as a hate crimes. Turley can be and is balanced yet doesn’t support or condone those actions.
I realize that this is a nit… but that it is an important one.
-G
This blog is not about Israel or the hamas/israel war.
It is about free speech.
I agree with you that the canclellation of Tabassum deserves atleast a mention by Turley.
If there were not so many examples of a campaign of censorship by the other-side it would warrant more than a mention.
But the issue is NOT about what Tabassum or any other might say. That is irrelevant to their right to speak.
It is that they are being silenced.
She was not silenced. She was deplatformed. A platform is not a right.
With respect to the “issues” – there are protests arround the country. These protests are nearly entirely pro-hamas, and they reflect the views of a tiny minority of americans.
The protests are almost entirely left wing college students.
All of that is fine.
What is not fine is that from the start the pro-hamas protestors have sought to do everything in their power to silence any opposition.
What is not fine is that they have gone beyond chosing sides between Israel and Hamas and openly advocating violence against Jews.
What is not fine is that they are increasingly VIOLENT.
Those of you on the left rant about hate speech and hate crimes. Ignoring the FACT that before this conflict, even though they make up only a tiny percent of the country Jews are the target of nearly 50% of all hate crimes – with Asians being the next largest group.
All the groups the left fawns over are a small portion of the victims of hate crimes in the US.
Directly addressing the conflict.
The state of Israel exists. Get over it.
It will continue to exist so long as the people of Israel support it.
That will cease when it is no longer able to secure Israeli’s against violence by Hamas or other terrorists.
Oct 7th was either an act of War – if you think that Hamas was a legitimate Pasletinian government,
or an act of Terrorism if you do not.
Regardless, it was an act that REQUIRES the state of Israel to attempt to assure Israeli’s that can never happen again.
“Never Again” is pretty much in the DNA of Jews throughout the world. Further Beyond the religious aspects – Israel is the refuge for Jews from arround the world who continue to face persecution everywhere – including the United States.
There should not have to be a country in the world controlled by Jews where Jews are safe.
But whether that Should be the case – it inarguably is.
Whether you like it or not Israel could choose to remove every single non-jew from the country – justified by the necescity to assure their safety.
Conversely to the extent that Palestinians are not welcome in the rest of the world – that would be because of their reputation of sewing violence where ever they go – including the US
We would all like to see less “civilian” deaths in Gaza as Israel works to destroy Hamas.
But the reality is the numbers are quite low.
Civilian casualties from the US efforts to take out Al Queda were far far higher.
We would all like if there were ZERO civilian casualties. But war does not work that way.
Hamas was the legitimate government of the Gazan people. The Gazan people can expect that the violence inflicted by their government in their name will come back to bite the Gazan people.
Dennis McInlyre said it best.
Democrats are for violence when its for the right cause.
The protests we are seeing are exposing the vileness of the left.
The civil rights protests, the anti-war protests of the 60’s even the BLM protests of 2020, did not have this strong anti-semetic undercurrent.
Some of you an the left ranted about the relatively tame and theatrical anti-semetism of the Charlotte Alt-Right protests.
Despite idiotic chants of “the jews will not replace us” – there was no actual violence against Jews or anyone else. The violence at Charloteville was started by out of control counter protestors – not the alt-right.
Those pro-hamas protestors today are chanting “death to the jews” and places like Columbia are correct to be very concerned about the safety of jewish students and professors. We are seeing escalating violence targeting jews.
We have not seen this in the US in my lifetime.
This is resembling The virulent anti-semitism of early Nazi’s
You have ranted and this administration has fixated on the near non-existent possibility of far right violence.
While the obviously violence inclined left has grown bolder by the day.
Something bad is already happening – but this is only likely to get worse.
And democrats in power can not figure out what to do.
These racist lunatics are not only part of YOUR base, they are a part YOU have Kowtowed to.
You hope and pray that the Trump trial will win you the election. This threatens to destroy the democratic party.
Regardless, this is YOUR problem, and of YOUR making.
Figure it out.
Many hear have been demanding what seems to be impossible – the fundimental transformation of our education system.
But right here visible for all you are bringing that about.
People do not want to donate to colleges where this is happening.
Parents do not want to send their kids to places like this.
The important lesson here is that Colleges are run for the benefit of students.
They are not run BY the students.
It is no more appropriate for college students to decide what colleges should teach, than it is for teens to decide to mutilate their own body to accomidate mental health issues in many cases driven by raging hormones.
Colleges do not exist to cater to the whims of students. If they did they would be far less significant. Exhorbitant amounts of money flow through colleges from donors and parents who seek to make college students into highly productive members of society.
Fail to do that and the money will dry up. We may be seeing that happen extremely quickly.
Aside from the revolting anti-semitism on display, aside from channeling past fascists, what is also revolting to most of the country is the massive entitlement.
These students have been coddled their entire lives. These students have been fawned over and favored, we have selected them to be the elite, and to be the most productive members of our future.
And they are failing miserably right in front of our eyes.
The left has fostered class warfare for nearly a century – and now you have working class people throughout the country watching as overprivildged left wing nuts through a violent hissy fit.
The left rants about the rich – most of whom have earned their wealth. You get wealthy by being the most productive members of society.
But here we have the priviledge class of the country – those chosen to lead us in the future – and not just to lead us, but to overproduce like their peers in prior generations – raising standards of living for all of us.
It is the future over productivity of college students that justifies the money spent and the bubble we call college that we provide for them.
Now they are exposing themselves as clueless to a working underclass that has been supporting them.
Kill the Jews! Death to Jews! But President Biden just said there are good people on “both sides”.
Biden just had his “fine people on both sides” moment and instead of attacking him for it, the fake news media are burying it, running cover for Biden…per usual.
The interesting thing is that its a riff on Trump.
Remember Trump’s comment?
Trump was aware that it wasn’t a binary issue when it came to taking down the statutes.
There were those who were opposed to the removal but were not white supremacists.
Here Biden is trying to placate the Left Antisemites but unlike Trump this is a binary issue.
You support the ‘Palestinians’ you are supporting terrorists and a death cult whose members are descendants of Arab Nazis.
(This is a true historical fact.)
The MSM doesn’t cover this because it would blow up the aligned leftist groups that are supporting the image of an innocent Palestinian getting slaughtered ignoring that they aren’t innocent just human shields.
-G
Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik’s actions can logically be viewed only as either of two possibilities:
-She is totally incompetent and unable to manage the institution in her charge. (Another DEI product in the image of Claudine Gay?)
-The circumstances at Columbia are acceptable if not overtly endorsed by her leadership. In essence, Shafik practices the art of ‘protecting’ individual rights by effectively taking those rights away in order to serve the cries from her mob. As in the ‘Reichstag Fire Decree’.
There has to be some actual physical contact for her to take action, I understand you do not like our laws. Our laws are designed to protect the innocent a subject you and your kind hate. Right or wrong, Christ killer?
Bad guess Robert Browning. Your bigotry is showing.
Actually I like “our laws”, Robert Browning. Especially the part of the law that requires enforcement to “protect the innocent subject” you mention. As manifest in arrest, detain, fine and/or imprison those judged to have broken “our laws”.
Bigotry is hatred without reason, I got a reason for hating you schmuck. You and your kind persecute and torment the weak and the innocent and it is a condition of your blood, your blood kyke.
Wrong definition, Robert Browning. Your bigotry clouds your thinking to the point making up stuff and name calling?
You hate the innocent and you deserve to be hated Christ killer, get it thru your thick skull you dumb fzxcking jew.
In a mere few sentences, you display apophenia, anchoring bias, egocentric bias, framing effect bias and all supported with name calling. No bias there, eh? Well done!!!
What would Jesus do?
He tried to reason with the Christ killers and they killed him. Now, you tell me what will Moshiach do, when he gets here? Will he try and reason with them or will he turn on them and wage war on them as has been foretold? How do you reason with this filth? That becomes the question.
Bob Lawblaw,
Thanks for the laugh!
Some etymologists believe the Old French version of bigot, which means “sanctimonious,” was used by the French to mock the Normans, a people who lived in France and invaded Britain in 1066. Allegedly, the Normans used the Old English expression bi God so often that the French nicknamed them bigots. This idea is backed up by the fact that the French during Joan of Arc’s time called the English the “goddamns.”
– https://www.dictionary.com/e/bigot/
ex dem
This is nothing but a troll
Only intent is to get attention
I know, iowan2. But claims as these, such as they are, need to be addressed to point out their inherent weakness.
Lighten up Francis.
You’re wrong.
Looking at all of your posts, your Neo Nazi tenancies are showing.
Legally incorrect.
There has to be an actual act of lawlessness to punish.
non-punitive action that respects peoples rights does not require actual lawlessness.
OT, but related,
Alan Dershowitz says he is no longer loyal to Democratic Party after Columbia protests
“Dershowitz, a Democrat who has been a major critic of President Joe Biden and the current administration, said his party has been an “extraordinary disappointment” because they have not been very vocal about the pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/alan-dershowitz-says-he-no-longer-loyal-democratic-party-after-columbia-protests-0
Dershbag is a Christ killer, he hates the innocent just like you kyke.
You confirm your bigotry. Well done!
Bigotry is hatred without reason, you fzxcking Jew retard.
You have the definition wrong, Robert Browning. And your responses demonstrate it perfectly.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Gal 3:28).
You know you have made God in your own image when He hates all the same people you hate.
If you can’t say it in your own words, you do not feel it in your heart. You are just reciting text, there is no heart felt connection to God. Sorry kyke.
I can say it in my own words, if the words of the Bible don’t mean anything to you. You are like a tree that is dead when it was supposed to bear fruit. You and I will be judged by our actions, not just our words. Christ doesn’t hate anyone, he died for all of us. I don’t expect to reason with my enemies, but hating people on this forum and calling them disgusting names does not make you a defender of Christ, it makes you a hypocrite. May God soften your heart and give you His peace.
I hate the blood of those who persecute and torment the weak and the innocent. Do you understand me you fzxcking Jew retard? Or do I gotta scream it in your ugly fzxcking face?
“[T]he pro-Palestine protest[ors]” and their Leftist sympathizers.
There are two types here:
The phonies, e.g., Biden — angling for votes in Michigan.
The ones who are sincere about supporting Hamas, anti-Semitism, dictatorship.
The sincere ones are far more destructive.
One wonders exactly why it took Dershowitz so long to wake up. If anybody anybody has had a front row seat in the Democratic Party show for the last 3+ decades, it is Alan Dershowitz.
By no means do I imply that Dershowitz is not welcome in his stance against the Democratic Party. But it had to come to the point that blatant, overt antisemitic activity (with a POTUS standing by silently) had to force his change? One wonders, if people like Dershowitz, Ackman and others, had not sat by silently for the past few decades could this current circumstance have been avoided. We will never know but they have to live with that.
Ex Dem,
Well said and good point.
As I mentioned in another comment, my sister is a life long Democrat. But now, she is even seeing the crazy and wants nothing to do with it. Some, are finally waking up to the situation.
I applaud your sister’s actions. It demonstrates her ability to consider facts and circumstances and change her mind. And that is not an easy thing to do.
Nobody should be a life long anything without consideration and reconsideration of facts and circumstances.
I’ve often thought the same thing about Prof Turley. How long…
By no means do I imply that Dershowitz is not welcome in his stance against the Democratic Party.
Dershowitz, is not against the Democrat Party. He is against the actions of the Democrat Party that are constantly in conflict with the Constitution, and Rule of Law.
“Dershowitz, is not against the Democrat Party. He is against the actions of the Democrat Party that are constantly in conflict with the Constitution, and Rule of Law.”
Can one be against the actions of a party but at the same time “not against” of that party? A very fine gray line, indeed. How would that party view such a stance? Perhaps the circumstance could be clarified by a listing of specific items that he finds attractive in the Democratic Party and supports?
Bill Mahre is asking the democrats to fix this extreme left wing BS, move away from this woke crap and move closer to move closer to middle of the road centrist ideology. Otherwise this might be fixed by extreme right wing people and I somewhat agree with him. Unless the dims move closer to moderate, middle of the road philosophies, the fix could be very ugly. I don’t think any of us want this. Independent Bob.
Dems will never move back to the center. Count on it.
OldManFromKS,
I think there is a silent majority of Democrats who are just as appalled by the far left extremists that have taken over the Democrat party.
My sister is a life long registered Democrat and she many of her Democrat friends are. She even wrote to the Biden campaign and the DNC that if they dont regain their senses, she will not vote for Biden, but either RFK Jr. third party or not at all.
With these zealot far left extremists, they are much more prone to violence then my sister and her friends would ever be.
Good for her! But what she needs to do, is not just walkaway, but stomp on the Democrat Party by voting for Trump. Personally, I think some of the Republicans are as batsh!t crazy as any Democrat, but their kind of craziness does not destroy civilizations. For example, cutting back on unemployment benefits is stupid, but it is not going to destroy the country. Democrat craziness, like open borders, feminism, and trans stuff, will destroy a civilization. Look at us, as a nation, we are not making enough new people to replace us when we pass. Same with other nations, and Japan particularly.
Your sister can now understand this quote:
“I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” I do.
“[H]is school ID was ‘deactivated’ . . .” “The university did [because] he could not walk around the campus safely.”
Kristallnacht.
This pogrom is not by the Nazi’s SA and SS. This one is executed by Hamas supporters and their sympathizers on the Left.
Sam,
Well said.
UF: TY.
Robert Browning is proving how ignorant some of you are. He obviously doesn’t have a productive job as he is commenting 7×24. Maybe he gets paid by the government. I don’t think he is a bot as the spelling and punctuation has mistakes.
Here’s a couple of guidelines I follow.
I know by now who the commenters are that show no respect for others, I skip right over them.
If the comment is over 1/2 a page long, I skip over it.
I try to enjoy the intelligent thought on JT’s blog.
Shalom
He was s a good reminder though of just how vile and ignorant the people we oppose are.
Educate me Christ killer, you know nothing about the morality of Gods chosen people, the Christian faithful.
OldManFromKS is, clearly, more moral than you.
You are not a faithful Christian.
You worship Satan.
15,000 dead kids makes you a morally just person, show me your horns kyke, don’t be shy, show us your tail too. You fzxcking subhuman animal.
The measure of a morally decent person is not his status, social position or wealth, now is it Christ killer? Why did you kill Christ kyke? Nature or nature. What is the nature of the beast, can you look in the mirror and tell me Christ killer?
Robert Browning, I’m surprised that you are allowed to spuew this BS on this blog. I may disagree with some people but I try to keep it civil. Independent Bob.
I know better than to reason with an animal. I am well aware of what I am dealing with sub-human filthy, gutter slime.
@Anonymous: Re: “Robert Browning is proving how ignorant some of you are.” The irony of the ‘Christ Killer’ mantra, recited throughout the ages is that a foundational doctrine of the Christian faith is God sending his only Son to be sacrificed to pay the penalty for the sins of mankind-that without this act of love by the Son of God, humanity would have no hope of life after death. That, research supports, in so many iterations. Having said so, it can be inferred that His chosen people become His instrument for the salvation of mankind. It logically follows that said contention might be argued, however, entering into a philosophical exchange of ideas with a block of wood, in such matters, is fruitless endeavor. As to the ‘Jew Haters’ assessment of the morality of God’s chosen people, the Christian faithful, it appears that it depends upon whose Christian ox was being gored. Catholics burning Protestants and vice versa is a notable scar in the history of ‘not so merry old England’ and does not speak well of their tolerance and moral high ground with respect to those whose belief systems differed. even in Christ. Regrettably, the declarations by Pope Benedict XVI or the Declaration of the Vatican Council(1962-1965) have done little to dissuade the thinking of this self-satisfied yet disillusioned fool whom the likes of ISIS and others of their ilk would put to the sword along with the Jews he so vehemently detests.
My simple takeaway from your comments is: HIs Chosen people are the Jews (always have been), and they were “chosen” to be the instrument of His salvation for mankind, for which they have paid a severe price, and continue to. The way I read it, they will be redeemed and defended in the final battle.
No kyke, the Christian faithful are Gods chosen people and they and only they will lead the world to the light. And the light is Christ, Christ killer.
What is the nature of the beast? The beast persecutes and torments the weak and the innocent. Christ the Palestinians the unborn, do math schmuck.
Let me see if I got this right. The Columbia University powers that be will not have the university grounds emptied of riotous individuals who are disrupting the entire campus and supposedly forcing the president of the University to stop on campus teaching and go remote. They then say that they cannot guarantee a faculty member’s safety so that faculty member is banned from the university grounds. Were all other faculty also banned from the grounds? A blogger on this site has asserted that this professor was also harassing Palestinian students. Really. Possibly he was pointing out their illogic and criminal behavior. I mean many Palestinians have shown such great logic in their dealings with Israel and Jews. As I remember in 2000 Bill Clinton had negotiated a peace giving Yasir Arafat everything he wanted and all he had to say was “I accept”. But he could not. Billions of $ sent to Gaza but it all went underground into fortresses and tunnels that would have made the Maginot and Siegfried lines pale in comparison and then they cry about their poverty. Most normal people would have made Gaza a seaside paradise. Better yet they should have sold Gaza and gone somewhere else and let developers have a go at the land. Oh, that’s right. No one wants Palestinians in their country because they riot and bring about instability. Egypt won’t let them in, Jordan drove them out. No Palestinian colonies in Iraq or Iran or Syria, or Turkey, Libya, Morocco??? Wonder why. Instead they remain in camps separate from the rest of the populations.
To correct some previous mistakes in blogger comments.
Jesus was tried and condemned by the Sanhedrin, a court, not “The Jews”. And it was not unanimous. The Romans did not try him, Pilate simply had to give appellate review of the death penalty (as the true Man in Charge in Judea) that the Sanhedrin desired. Pilate asked for mercy but the mob refuses to hear of it. Obviously Jesus was a victim of Lawfare 2000 years ago similar to what we see in many cases now in this country. Caiaphas was an activist judge who dispensed with many favorable witnesses, used others that were questionable and coached misrepresented Jesus’s statements to the Sanhdrin, when he was sent to Pilate. “My kingdom is not of this world” was misrepresented to Pilate as contradicting Roman law that Jesus was saying he was King of Jews. Strange how little changes.
I suspect Jesus was tried in New York City
[Q]”I cannot imagine how the solution was barring the potential victim of religious-based bigotry and violence.”[/Q]
It’s just the old practice of “blaming the victim.”
I’m so old I can recall it being said of each of several rape victims: “She shouldn’t have worn such a short skirt.”
We see that impulse in human beings, as well as the impulse to blood-lust by mob behavior, over time and across cultures. I think it’s built into human DNA.
OT, but important,
“The threat facing our country is from the far left. And the drift that’s been occurring toward really a socialistic system and one that brooks no opposition, one that cancels people, that has only one viewpoint taught in colleges, that tries to push parents out of the picture when it comes to the education of their children. It’s a heavy-handed bunch of thugs, in my opinion. And that’s where the threat is.”
[President Biden is] “not enforcing the law on the border. He’s forgiving tens of billions of dollars of money owed to the United States that puts this onus on the back of hardworking taxpayers, people who are not getting these breaks. And the court’s already said that they didn’t have the power to do this. And he’s trying to do it before the election to buy votes. This is, to me, lawless and crass behavior,”
“At the end of the day, we have to select between two different individuals. And I’ve said all along, and I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think will do the least harm to the country. And I think that to me, that’s clearly Trump and the Republican administration, which I think is important,”
— Bill Barr
Upstate, I saw this too and agree that Biden is a great threat. I think it possible, though, that Trump could do well as President, so I’m not as down on him as Barr.
Another OT: Does anyone understand Bragg’s theory? He does not appear to be relying on the Federal campaign finance laws to define the underlying crime that Trump was seeking to cover up through his ledger entries, but rather some kind of “election fraud,” based on the idea that it is somehow a crime to try and prevent damaging information from coming out during an election by entering into an NDA or a catch and kill arrangement. This conduct is not a crime.
Daniel,
Bill Barr also said,
” But at the end of the day, you have to remember, serving in his administration, I was fine with his policies. I think his policies were good policies,”
But most people cannot look past a mean Tweet.
You have a much more experience and knowledge in law than I, but clearly when a corrupt DA goes out of his way to turn what would a misdemeanor into a felony, we have a Soviet Union style show trial.
A lot of “old” things have come back to life recently, like making eunuchs of little boys, and anti-Semitism, courtesy of Democrats. Maybe the Democrats at Columbia can bring back the old board game of the 1930s, Juden Raus?
“Juden Raus! (1936)
Juden Raus! (lit. “Jews Out!”) is a cross and circle-style game published in Germany by Günther & Co. in 1936.[3][4] The game was advertised as “entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed”.[5] The game’s equipment includes a pair of dice, a game board, and several game piece figurines with large pointed hats meant to represent Jews.[6]
Players take turns rolling the dice and moving their “Jews” across the map toward “collection points” outside the city walls for deportation to Mandatory Palestine.[7] Written on the game board, it says “If you manage to send off six Jews, you’ve won a clear victory!”[6]
Juden Raus is a commercial boardgame rather than a Nazi propaganda effort,[8] and contains no Nazi symbolism.[9] The game was criticised by the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps, which believed the game trivialised anti-Semitic policies.[9] Ben Barkow of the Holocaust museum at the Wiener Library recounts it being documented as a “considerable commercial success”, with possibly a million copies of it being sold.[8][9] However, an article in the Board Game Studies Journal suggests that the game’s commercial performance may never actually be known because it may have been exaggerated in advertising material. The article considers it unlikely that the game could have been successful in Germany after having been condemned by the SS.[9]
The article published by the International Board Game Studies Association calls it “history’s most infamous board game”. The review says, “Juden Raus! shows that after decades of propaganda, anti-Semitism was so deeply rooted in German society in the 1930s, that someone thought it would be a good subject for a children’s game. Racism is present in many board games, but Juden Raus! is unique in its portrayal of how racism manifests itself in society and is a terrifying example of the banality of evil. … There are many areas of the world where such a game might still find a receptive audience. … Juden Raus! is a warning to us all”.[9]
Floyd,
I would not put it past some Democrat to think that would be a good idea.
This will eventually degenerate into “Hitler was right!”, IMHO. Might take 2 or 3 years, but Palestinians make a good victim-class for the Democrats. If Jews, en masse, abandon the Democrats, it might slow it down some, but this is where things are headed. I think it will happen in Europe, too.
Floyd,
These are some dang scary times.
Never thought I would ever see this kind of thing in my lifetime. Looks more and more like 1930s Germany.
Going to load up some 45-70gvtHPs with lard.
I got plenty of ammo for my 357, and that rascal sounds like a durn cannon when it goes off. The sound alone would send people fleeing. I gave my Remington auto shotgun to my Nephew. I am planning on learning Cane Fu, too.