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.
Well, one thing you can say about him – he’s not shai! 🙂
Davidai Demands Police Escort To Protest Area
Davidai—who is currently under investigation at Columbia following reports of harassing students—sent an email to University administrators, including University President Minouche Shafik, Vice President Gerald Rosberg, and Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway, at 8:50 a.m. on Sunday. He requested New York Police Department escorts to help him enter the encampment, according to a screenshot of the email he posted on X.
“Since the events of last night have shown that you have completely failed to protect the safety of your Jewish and Israeli students, I am requesting approval to have a police escort of at least 10 cops with me,” Davidai wrote in the email, referring to reports of antisemitic incidents. “I would ask for escort from the school’s Public Safety, but they have proven themselves useless versus these mobs, and I do not want to put their lives at risk.”
Holloway responded to Davidai’s email before the planned appearance, writing that he must hold his protest in a counterprotest area, in a tweet posted by Davidai at 7:49 a.m. In response, Davidai wrote in an email to Holloway, also posted to X, that he still planned to go to the “illegal encampment” on Monday. In a second response, Holloway restated the requirement for Davidai’s event to be held in a designated area.
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/23/business-school-professor-shai-davidai-denied-access-to-morningside-campus-ahead-of-planned-entry-into-encampment/
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This is rich. Not only does Davidai want to confront the protesters, he expects the NYPD to back him up!
YAWN
you are an odious toad
Jonathan: It was another bad day for DJT and his lawyer, Todd Blanche, in Justice Merchan’s courtroom. First, Merchan held a hearing on DA Bragg’s request to hold DJT in contempt. Blanche tried to argue that DJT could not be held in contempt for re-posting articles from some one else. Merchan asked Blanche to cite any case authority for his claim. Blanche replied: “I don’t have any case law”. To which Merchan replied: “Mr. Blanche, you are losing all credibility with this court”. Merchan deferred a ruling until later. But when you re-post something, and even make changes to the original post, you have adopted the post. You own it!
And David Pecker continued his testimony today. He was what trial lawyers like to refer to as a “road map” witness. His “catch and kill” scheme plot with DJT was not about making money for the National Inquirer. It was to promote DJT’s campaign in 2016. Pecker’s testimony ties everything together to show the wider conspiracy of election interference–that turns a misdemeanor into a felony. Pecker testified about how DJT would call Pecker with a salacious story about Ted Cruz. Pecker would publish the story and DJT would use the story in the 2016 campaign. It was a well coordinated campaign to influence the 2016 election.
David Pecker was the nuclear bomb that went off in the courtroom today. He tied up with a bow all the corroborating testimony that will follow from Stormy Daniels, Susan McDougal, Michael Cohen and other witnesses. That’s why Alvin Bragg led with Pecker–who could have been Bragg’s only witness. That’s how strong was Pecker’s testimony.
Those in the courtroom today saw DJT pretend to be not interested in what Pecker had to say. Truth be told DJT knows he just saw his ship sink with Pecker’s testimony. And it’s only going to get worse for the Trumpster!
Paying someone for silence over an affair is something non-politicians do all the time. Nothing illegal. Influencing an election? Look at you.
Lying about a bribe being a legitimate legal fee IS illegal when it is calculated to help Trump win the election.
Incorrect. Payment for an NDA is a legitimate legal expense. I would bet that half the jury has NDA’s, and that lawyers were paid to draft them and to secure them. Almost every single court settlement involves an NDA – it is commonplace for both parties in a legal settlement to agree not to talk about some or all details of that settlement. Everything about that settlement is a “legal fee”,
A bribe is an illegal payment to a public official to secure favorable treatment – the Money paid to the Bidens to get Shokin fired is a bribe.
Daniels was not a public official. She was being paid for something that she had the legitimate right to sell – her story.
Words actually have meaning.
Legal acts to win an election are still legal. There are no bribes within 10,000 miles of this case.
As to Daniels – in Coangello’s opening yesterday – Coangello it he Bideon/Obama/DOJ attorney that has been following Trump arround from case to case going after him – but NO the WH is not involved – and if you beleve that I have swamp land in florida for sale.
Regardles Coangello stated in his opening that Daniels approached Cohen looking to get paid – not the other way arround.
She did so shortly after the access hollywood tape – she was looking for a payday, and she got one.
She tried to shop the story to the media – a slate reporter had talked to her and had the story but did not have her permission to run it.
She asked him for money and he told her slate would not pay for the story, but begged her to let him run it.
Instead she went for money from Trump.
I would note that she could just as easily have shopped the story to Clinton – do you think Clinton would have hesitated for a second to pay for the Daniels story ?
@John Say
Its called consideration.
You’re right. Asking someone to sign an NDA and then giving them consideration for signing… is not a bribe.
Did Stormy report the income? But I digress.
You do not always get paid for signing NDAs.
I forget how many NDAs I’ve signed over the years.
Every time I talk w a different client or tech partner and we discuss IP, I sign an NDA.
Adding consideration to the NDA makes it a lot easier to sue someone over a breech.
-G
The BRIBE was reported as a LEGAL FEE, which is wasn’t–THAT is fraudulent, and THAT’S why it was illegal. The PURPOSE of the bribe was to hide the truth from voters in order to help sway the election.
Gigi, the core of your poosts – and Dennis’s – pretty much all of them all the time,
Is – if Trump does something it is illegal. If democrats – clinton, biden do the same thing or worse it is not.
Clinton paid over $1m dollars to produce a fake story, she “sold it” to the FBI – in the hopes they would go public with it.
What she wanted was an NYT story that Trump was being investigated by the FBI for colluding with Russia.
All she needed was a leak from the FBI. Miraculously she did not get one – because they KNEW the story was fraudulent and that was going to eventually come out.
Regardless the only illegal part of what Clinton did was lying to the FBI.
Lying to win an election is legal. Biden did it many many many times. As did Clinton.
Killing a damaging story is also legal. The Biden campaign conspired with former CIA agents, soical media, the media to kill the hunter biden story that was legal.
BHill Clinton’s war room went to extraordinary efforts to kill the “bimbo eruptions”
stories – or to discredit them – lying through their teeth – all legal.
Trying to influence the outcome of an election is not illegal, it is precisely the biggest thing that every political campaign that ever was does.
As noted – Daniels is not a public official. What she sold to Trump was hers to sell to whoever she wanted. Or she was free to give it away to slate.
There is no bribery here. That is lunacy. There is a credibly claim that Daniels blackmailed Trump.
Regardless,
As Alina Habba has said repeatedly – people pay lawyers to solve problems – that is legal. Paying them to solve a problem is a legal expense.
This is not a weak case – it is a non-existant case. MAYBE that will fly with a manhattan jury and a corrupt judge with a prosecutor straight from the Biden WH.
But this will not survive appeal – everyon but you and dennis knows that.
The ACTUAL “illegal” election interference – is by democrats.
Candidates CAN pay porn stars for their silence – legally.
Actual illegal election interferance requires a REAL crime – ballot harvesting. rigging election equipment.
OR it requires GOVERNMENT to try to influence an election.
A candidate – as candidate can try to change the outcome of an election.
DOJ can not.
the Manhattan DA can not.
“Lying about a bribe being a legitimate legal fee . . .”
Would that be those state *misdemeanors* whose statute of limitations expired long ago?
Sam: the PURPOSE for the lie was to hide the truth from voters, in order to help Trump win the election. THAT’S election interference. No matter how many times your alt-right media try to spin the facts–it won’t fly. Trump already lost a motion to dismiss the case based on those arguments, amplified by Turley–it’s a dead issue. There IS liability for what he did.
“the PURPOSE for the lie was to hide the truth from voters, in order to help Trump win the election.”
Which makes it a *federal* issue — one that is not under the jurisdiction of a local DA. And one that the Feds already refused to prosecute.
Still waiting for an identification of the crime — the crime that is under Bragg’s jurisdiction and that does not have an expired statute of limitations.
BTW, if a politician lying to win an election is a crime, we need a new penitentiary just for politicians.
Use your brain, Dennis.
The collapse happens slowly.
Then all at once.
Dennis, the more you go on and on about Trump, the more it sounds like you’re actually in love with him.
Must be a big star/fit right in when you post on the NPR/MSNBC comment boards.
But what’s your average here, 100% partisan, 98% off-topic cut-and-pastes with zero real insight?
-Cat
I’m one indictment away from being re elected. Independent Bob.
This legal analysis brought to you by the douche who was celebrating that DJT’s bond wasn’t good enough.
You look like an idiot now about that and you will look like an idiot later about this.
Dennis: Thanks. Judge Merchon bantered back and forth with Blanche about whether the “repost “ was a verbatim repetition of something said by Watters. It wasn’t—Trump embellished Waters’ post about “liberal activists “ lying to get on the jury—a claim without any factual foundation.
Another Trump claim that got shot down was the argument that he bribed Stormy Daniels and McDougal to squelch his affairs because Trump was concerned about Melania. His lawyer said in opening statement that Trump was a “husband and father” who was trying to protect his family. There was also a claim that there is a love child with a maid that a doorman knew about. Trump tried to delay paying off these people until after the election because if he lost, he didn’t care if the story got out—but the payees wouldn’t go for it—which proves that concern for Melania wasn’t the motivation.
Gigi, none of this changes the fact that the gag order is unconstitutional.
The only speech of Trump’s that Merchan or any other judge can bar is speech that is already illegal.
True threats.
No the claim that Trump did this to protect his family was not “shot down” in fact Pecker testified specifically that Trump had been doing this FOR YEARS.
It was very stupid to bring up the “love child” story. Why – because that one was proven false.
Trump did pay off the doorman. But there is no love child with a hispanic maid.
This was resolve 6 years ago.
The “Love Child” payment proves that Trump will pay people to kill FALSE stories.
That really does not help your case.
There has been a claim that there never was a one night stand with Daniels.
The fact that Trump paid so little for the story suggests that is true.
If the story was True – Daniels likely would have gone to Clinton who would pay a million for it – if Daniels could prove it.
Only Trump will pay a lessor amount to kill a FALSE story – because the risk that he might not be able to disprove it before it costs him the election is high.
Todate their is no evidence beyond Daniels word that this ever happens. Trump has repeatedly denied it.
Daniels has denied it in writing 8 times – including sworn statements.
How exactly does your claim fly that Trump engaged in election interferance by buying a FALSE story and killing it.
If Daniels testifies – not only will her prior claims that no affair ever occured be enetered in evidence,
But she is going to have to testify to verifiable details – she has NEVER had to do that before.
Where did this occur, When did it occur. Trump with near certainty has records – diaries as well as travel records, and people who accompanied him and logs from aircraft and drivers logs and time records, probably for most of his life.
This is why E. JEan Carrol had to dodge about when her encounter with Trump took place.
Many similar cases against Trump were dismissed in the past – because the person making the allegation provided a date, time and place – and Trump was able to prove he was thousands of miles away and the case was dismissed.
It is possible that Trump had this one night stand with Daniels. But what those of you on the left have not thought about is that it is equally possible that he did not.
Trump was a known playboy. Frequently being caught in public. But he also was constantly accused of things that did not occur.
And he won 100% of them in court in the past. Why ? Because for most of his life there has always been a record of where Trump was all the time.
If Trump did have this fling with Daniels – there are drivers that can confirm that Trump was where Daniels says. There are desk clerks that checked Trump in. There are people who served them dinner.
Yet we have never heard any of that. Brag has had this case for years. He has had the ability to attempt to confirm Daniels story.
Soon we will see if he can.
I would bet that if he could – we would already know.
If this story could be confirmed – Robery Mueller would have acted on it.
If this story could be confirmed – SDNY would have acted on it.
Do you really want to try to make a claim of election interferance for buying a FALSE story ?
What I bet we will see is much like the Carrol story – Daniels will not remember a single details that can be tested.
She will remember lots of details that can NOT be tested. But she will not know the date, the time, the place.
Not remembering allows the prosecutors the illusion that the story could be true.
The strongest evidence this story is false is how little was paid for it immediately after the access hollywood tape was released.
Gigi,
All of the payments in Bragg indictment occurred after the election.
As I recall there were 11 equal payments of approx 35000 each to Cohen starting in March or April of 2017.
Bragg charge 3 felonies for each one – that is how he got 34 counts.
Regardless, you have a really messy problem with the money – nothing lines up with Bragg’s theory.
The payments are after the election.
They are about 3 times higher than the daniels amount.
The NDA has Cohen not Trump as a party.
Cohen paid Daniels not Trump.
Cohen plead guilty stating that the 130K to daniels was an illegal campaign contribution from him.
It can not be both.
If as brag claims the money came from Trump – then it is NOT an illegal campaign contribution – because candidates can contribute unlimited amounts to their own campaigns.
If Brag/Coangello actually proved the money came from Trump. Then there is no campaign finance violation felony and the alleged false records become a misdemeanor with the stature of limitations run out.
There is no route to a conviction that does not require ignoring some part of the law – even under Braggs bizarre legal theory.
Cohen took out a home equity loan to raise the cash to pay off Daniels BEFORE the election. Because Cohen was in the 50% tax bracket, Trump had to overpay him to make him whole–so he would net out the $130,000. David Pecker testified about the plot he concocted with Trump to “catch and kill” stories about Trump and his peccadilloes with women, all to try to avoid Americans learning the truth about what a pig he is. Trump didn’t care about Melania’s feelings–just getting what he wanted.
So, according to you, suggesting favorable stories to a friendly journalist is “interfering in an election”? It sounds a lot more like “campaigning in an election.” Your absurd comment is revelatory. In the eyes of the Left, Trump committed a crime by merely seeking office and then daring to win.
Speaking of ‘suggesting favorable stories to a friendly journalist’, remember when Dick Cheney did just that to help him get his war in Iraq (and then Halliburton could make $$$ rebuilding, etc.). Strange that he was never prosecuted, despite 1 million+ people dying in part because of his lies to the press. Seems to be quite a lot worse than anything Trump is in court about. There’s no statute of limitations on war crimes, so…
The legal theory behind this case makes every single politician that ever was a criminal.
A few democrat judges and legal scholars have noted that – this case is really stupid.
Bragg could win, Trump could still get elected, and the Trump DOJ could have a field day convicting every democratic politician that ever was of trying to win an election.
But it is worse than that. We all know that Biden will pardon himself and his family on the way out of office.
But Bragg’s absurd legal theory converts all federal crimes to state crimes – which Biden can not pardon himself for.
Some Trump DA somewhere can prosecute Biden for fraud tied to election interferance for firing shokin for money or for burying the hunter biden laptop.
There is no limit to the legal campaign activities that can be converted into state crimes through brags theory.
There is a reason that even legal scholars on the left are warning this is stupid and dangerous.
The worst outcome is that you establish this as a legal precedent AND you DONT prevent Trump from winning.
You are doing an excellent job of demonstrating why this needed to be publicly broadcast.
This is plenty of case law regarding the unconstitutionality of gag orders – some of it has been published in NYT of all places.
The “story” as I have heard it is that MErchan asked for PROOF that Micheal Cohen was attacking Trump.
Blanche should have been prepared for that. though I think he was shocked that MErchan was so stupid as to even ask.
The expletive Micheal Cohen twitter post has been all over the place, and youtube has many video’s of Cohen attacking Trump.
The SCOTUS case – that has been cited for all Trump gag orders is the Sam Shepard case – where the courts gagged the PRESS to protect the Defendant for biased negative publicity.
The Shepard case is also the case that requires Merchan to remove this case to somewhere where Trump can get a fair trial.
Regardless – maybe your sources are correct and Blanche had a brain fart in front of Merchan unable to recall a single case of the many many scotus cases that have found gag orders unconstitutional.
Unfortunately for you – while both the defense and prosecution make arguments regarding the law to the judge, the DUTY to follow the law and the constitution rests with the JUDGE and the COURT.
There is no “go straight to jail” card for defendants whose counsel fails to tell the court about unconstitutional actions of the court.
The court is obligated to act constitutionally – even if the defense does not tell them when they do not.
Regardless, who outside of you is paying any attention to Merchan ? Merchan lost all credibility long ago.
When he imposed the gag order.
When he refused to delay the trial when SDNY and Bragg dumped 100,000 pages of exculpatory evidence on Trump 3 weeks before the trial.
When he (continues) to hide motions from the docket so the public can not see them. When he requires the defense to file pre-motions for his approval before they can file a motion – I know this is beyond you – but the rules of due process and the rules of professional conduct for attorneys – particlarly defense attorney’s leave the decision as to what motions to file up to the attorney.
A defense attorny is OBLIGATED to file motions that protect the defendants due process rights. The judge can turn them down if they dis agree, but that is reversable error if the judge is wrong. There is no – you can only file the motions I say you can.
Merchan lost his temper with Blanche – that was a mistake – but a predictable one.
As I noted before Merchan and Coangello has rope-a-doped themselves
Merchan is angry because there is a limit to the fines he can levy for violating the gag order – a limit that Trump will violate with impunity.
The only actual leverage MErchan has is to jail Trump. I know that you left wing nuts are salivating over that – But Trump is also just itching to get Merchan to do something stupid. So far the NY appealate courts have refused to reign MErchan – who was required to recuse himself in.
But this conduct by the judge all adds up. I am sure that Blanche does not want Trump jailed. But Trump would be ecstatic is Merchan would be so stupid as to Jail trump over this gag order.
Nothing would create a sense of urgency in the appeals courts more than Jailing Trump over an unconstitutional gag order.
Nor would anything undermine MErchan so greatly, nor would anything benefit Trump so greatly politically.
You do not seem to Grasp that Trump WANTS Merchan and Coangello to lose control and act stupidly.
You re so stupid – you think you are winning when you are losing.
And I have not even mentioned the conflict that requires MErchan to recuse – his daughter financially benefits depending on the outcome of the case. The only Conflict that would be worse is if Merchan benefited personally.
Your sources for Pecker – also confirm the need for this trial to be broadcast.
Numerous lawters are asking what the h311 Coangello/Bragg are doing ? Pecker is destroying their case.
Pecker testified that LONG before Trump was running for president that he “caught and killed” stories for Trump,
That doing so is common place and that the national enquirer is not the only outlet that does so.
This obliterates the claim this was about the 2016 election – not that it would matter if it was.
As many other lawyers and JUDGES – including a federal judge in the NYT today pointed out – candidates trying to influence the outcome of an election is not only legal. It is PRECISELY what campaigns are about. Get people to vote for you. Get people to vote against your opponent.
Hide things that will not go over with voters about you – dig up things that will go over badly with voters for your oponent.
And in Hillaries case LIE about your opponent to make them look bad.
The Twitter files have proved that the Biden campaign was actively and successfully trying to kill the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Bill Clinton had a war room specifically to deal with “bimbo eruptions” as president he went to an enormous amount of trouble to keep the BJ’s he was getting from Lewinsky secret. All that was legal UNTIL he lied under oath about it in the Paula Jones case, and then tried to get others to lie under oath about it.
Pecker was a nuclear bomb that went off – but it Blew up Coangellos case.
Aside from Spin most of what you claim is true. It is also LEGAL.
We have DOZENS of stories of Hillary or Biden or other political candidates working with the press to get favorable stories published or to kill unfavorable stories.
Are you so stupid that you do not know that the Birther story would planted by Clinton operative Sydney Blumenthal – as was the First Biden Ukraine story that ran in the NYT in 2015 – as an effort to drive Biden out of the race.
This is NOT election interferance – Ballot harvesting is election interferance. Rigging voting machines is election interferance.
Failing to follow election laws is election interferance.
Try to win legally is NOT. NDA’s are legal. Candidates working with the press to kill stories is legal – democrats do it all the time.
Candidates working with the press to plant stories – often false stories is legal – democrats do it all the time.
If Merchan were an honest judge he would direct the Jury to disregard all of Peckers testimony as it is entirely about legal conduct.
Do you really want a Trump prosecutor in TX going after Clinton for “election interferance” using your stupid thesis ?
Or Biden ?
The whole Steele dossier was a FALSE plant to make Trump look bad and win the election.
Thje whole effort to kill the Hunter Biden laptop story was a vast conspiracy to “interfere”
with the election.
The conspiracy involving Biden campaign officials and former intelligence officers and the press to l;ie about the hunter biden laptop and get the story killed is far more egregious and far larger a conspiracy.
But it was also LEGAL – exactly like everything that Pecker is testifying to.
But the BIG REVEAL from Pecker was that he had been doing this with Trump stories for YEARS – long before the election.
It is an established matter of LAW that dual purpose expenses are NOT campaign expenses. (this rule extends beyond elections it is not a special election rule). If something serves a purpose in the election. And it serves any other purpose – then it is NOT a campaign expense and therefore NOT a campaign violation.
You are aware that Mueller interviewed Pecker years ago. As did SDNY.
Everything you are hearing from Pecker was heard by Mueller (actually Andrew Weisman becaus eMuller was a potted plant).
As well as Biden attorneies at DOJ/SDNY and they did not prosecute this.
Why ? Because it is not a crime. And because successfully mangling it into a crime will result in every politician in the country going to jail.
Also exposed to day – unredacted versions of documents obtained via FOIA have exposed that the Biden WH was part of the Documents case litterally from Jan 21, 2021. That they were twisting NARA’s arm to do things that NARA can not do, that the shopped this to the DOJ, that the Biden WH has not only its fingers in this from day one – but that it was directing this.
So much for the claims that this is not political.
Also out today. Trump Faux impeachment I “whistleblower” was actually involved in the firing of Shokin. He has been an active propoent of Ukraine and aide for Ukraine for years. That he was on the delegation that went to Ukraine with Biden that he was shocked when Biden threatened to pull a Billion in aide if Shokin was not fired – that he did nothing.
That while in the Trump WH he was suspected of Numerous classified leaks.
There is a reason that Eric never testified before congress – because he could not be questioned under oath by republicans.
He would destroy the impeachment case or he would end up in jail or both.
Dennis, What crime did Pecker testify to?
“. . . the corroborating testimony that will follow . . .”
To prove what “crime?”
Still waiting for someone to identify the alleged crimes.
news flash: Joseph Biden lied.
news flash 2: Joseph Biden committed cultural appropriation showing his racism
news flash 3: Joseph Biden lost the vote of all Papua New Guinean Americans!!!
“Biden wrong to call us cannibals, says Papua New Guinea PM”
US president claimed his uncle was eaten after plane crash on island during Second World War
Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has rubbished claims by Joe Biden that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in the Pacific island nation, accusing the US president of having a “blurry moment”.
James Marape said his country had been unfairly characterised after Mr Biden claimed his serviceman uncle was eaten after his plane crashed there during the Second World War.
Mr Marape urged the United States government to instead focus on clearing up dangerous live munitions, ship and plane wrecks that were still littering the South Pacific almost 80 years after the end of the war.
Mr Biden had “appeared to imply his uncle was eaten by cannibals after his plane was shot down over PNG during WWII”, Mr Marape’s office said in a statement late on Sunday.
“President Biden’s remarks may have been a slip of the tongue; however, my country does not deserve to be labelled as such,” it added.
The statement was issued after Mr Biden recounted the story last week at an event in Pittsburgh. He told the crowd that the US was unable to recover his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s remains after his plane was lost.
“And my uncle, Ambrose, they called him Bosie… and he became an army air corps, before the air force came along, he flew those single engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones,” Mr Biden said, according to CNN.
“And he got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of New Guinea.”
The official account of Finnegan’s death, published in the US by the Defence POW/MIA Accounting agency, says his A-20 Havoc was “forced to ditch in the ocean near the island’s coastline “for unknown reasons”.
The US president’s controversial comments come at a sensitive time in US-PNG relations, as Washington tries to court it and other Pacific island nations to compete with China’s growing influence in the region.
Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, met with Mr Marape on Sunday as part of an effort by Beijing to build closer economic ties, while Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister, arrives this week to commemorate the Second World War.
The US signed a defence co-operation pact with Papua New Guinea last year.
In a separate interview, Mr Marape clarified that Mr Biden’s remarks would not significantly damage diplomatic relations as there were “deeper values in our relationship than one statement, one word, one punchline”.
The prime minister attributed the incident to a “loose” and “blurry moment” but stressed that his administration wanted “the White House to look into cleaning up these remains of WWII so the truth about missing servicemen like Ambrose Finnegan can be put to rest.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/22/biden-wrong-to-call-us-cannibals-says-papua-new-guinea-pm/
Floyd, Trump has referenced so-called “sh!thole countries. Do you have any feedback from natives of those countries?
Most of them want to leave. There’s your feedback moron. They agree.
Did he break a law by saying this? What about free speech?
The Ivy League’s Anti-Israel Protest Meltdown
Anyone who thinks concerns about antisemitism are overdone isn’t paying attention to the scenes at elite universities. Anti-Israel, antisemitic protests at Columbia, Yale and elsewhere are getting uglier, and it isn’t clear the progressives in charge of these institutions are up to the job of enforcing order or protecting Jewish students.
At Columbia in New York City, pro-Palestinian demonstrators have surrounded Jewish students to push them from a protest camp dominating the campus lawn. “Attention Everyone,” a voice says in a campus video, “Can I get everyone to form a human chain, we have a Zionist at the entrance of our encampment.”
The “Zionist” was a Jewish student whose friend wore a necklace with a Star of David, according to News Israel correspondent Neria Kraus. The Palestinian crowd followed the order to “slowly walk and take a step forward so we can push them out of the camp.”
Many protesters on and near campus wear masks or kaffiyehs to disguise their identities. Students have to walk through a gauntlet to get to class. The protesters carry banners calling to “Honor the Martyrs of Palestine” and a sign pointing to pro-Israel counterprotesters as “al-Qasam’s next targets.” Al-Qassam is the military wing of Hamas. That’s a call to kill Jews.
On Friday Columbia President Minouche Shafik invited police to clear the campus encampment after protesters refused to leave. About 100 were arrested. But the demonstrators returned with a vengeance, and it isn’t clear that Ms. Shafik has the fortitude to handle them.
In a statement on Monday she told students that “antisemitic language, like any other language that is used to hurt and frighten people, is unacceptable” and that “appropriate action will be taken.” The school moved all classes temporarily online to “reset” and “de-escalate the rancor” and to “consider next steps.”
But the protesters are winning if they’re allowed to shut down classroom instruction. Ms. Shafik’s statement notes “there is a terrible conflict raging in the Middle East” but doesn’t include a single mention of pro-Palestinian groups as the perpetrators of the campus harassment. Columbia also deactivated the university key card of Jewish professor Shai Davidai and told him he was “not permitted to enter the West Lawn” on grounds that his plan for a counterprotest was a safety risk.
Similar scenes unfolded over the weekend at Yale in New Haven, Conn., as Gabriel Diamond described Monday on these pages. Jewish students were harassed and one was hit in the eye with a flagpole and hospitalized. On Monday Yale finally called in police to arrest those who refused to leave a campus plaza.
This crisis in liberal education has been decades in the making. These schools have sown the intolerance their students are demonstrating by putting identity and left-wing politics above the free exchange of ideas. A progressive faculty monoculture has fueled divisive narratives blaming the Middle East’s ills on colonialism and imperialism.
Antisemitism has too often been tolerated within Near Eastern Studies departments. On Oct. 8, 2023, Columbia professor Joseph Massad praised the “awesome” scenes of the Oct. 7 massacre “witnessed by millions of jubilant Arabs.” In 2018 Columbia professor Hamid Dabashi posted on Twitter (now X) that “Every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world” could soon be traced to “the ugly name of Israel.”
The liberal elites who run these institutions seem to lack the moral self-confidence to stand up to these student bullies. College presidents have to take charge, restore order and protect Jewish students, or the trustees should fire them and find someone who will.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ivy-league-protests-palestine-israel-hamas-columbia-yale-1b660d95
Floyd is one of those MAGA southerners who hates anyone with a college education. In his far-off corner of the woods an 8th Grade education is considered perfectly adequate.
Anon is a pretentious piece of shit who thinks he knows something about a random dude On the internet whom he has never met.
What a douche
Heck son, up in Blue Country, in the inner cities, an actual 8th grade education would be like a graduate of MIT, considering that where Democrats run things, you have whole swaths of schools where not one little black Democrat is proficient in either maths or English. No wonder they keep voting for Democrats – they are uneducated morons!
IMHO, there ain’t no Democrat got no business talking bad about MAGA deplorable clingers, what with the feral rabble that is the Democrat base.
And you are is one of those retard leftist that believe a college degree, makes you smarter than everyone else.
Today day we know that college degree, other than STEM, offers NOTHING of value.
This Jewish Hate, festival is a perfect example. Ask the idiots in hamas garb, just what River, and what Sea they are chanting, and thy don’t know.
The also have no Idea, that the Jewish People are the original residents of GAZA. Palestinians are the colonists and settlers.
Watch Democracy Now. Amy Goodman hosts a conversation among officials who are offended that the police were called to remove peaceful protestors who had not engaged in physical intimidation of anyone. The Universities, they said, belong to the faculty and the students and they have every right to protest peacefully.
Davidai Is An Israeli Army Veteran Inflaming Tensions
Davidai had planned to stage a sit-in on the lawn where the pro-Palestinian encampment is located. Ahead of his appearance on campus on Monday morning, Davidai posted an email exchange of his negotiation with university chief operating officer Cas Holloway. Holloway told Davidai that he could hold his “counterprotest” on the Math Lawn, where public safety officers would be present. In response, Davidai wrote that he was “exercising my right as a Jewish professor to stand in a public space on campus.”
Some allege that Davidai has crossed boundaries and endangered student safety. Several students told the Columbia Daily Spectator that they had received threats after being “targeted” by Davidai on social media. Davidai told the newspaper that he was being investigated by the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, and he wrote on X in March that the internal investigation was “a clear act of retaliation and an attempt to silence” him for his advocacy.
The tensions at Columbia show no sign of easing. The school is facing lawsuits filed by students on both sides, as well as a U.S. House probe about antisemitism on campus. Over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested by New York police last week.
https://time.com/6969953/shai-davidai-columbia-business-professor-israel-protests/
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Johnathon Turley has never been more disingenuous. Davidai is NOT some random Jewish professor. Davidai is an Israeli army veteran and militant zionist with no appreciation of Columbia’s situation here.
A substantial number of university students, all across the U S, sympathize with the Palestinian people. Schools like Columbia can’t keep be expected to tow the Israeli line by arresting or expelling pro-Palestinian students. That’s not realistic!
Yet Republicans have seized on these divisions as proof that ‘elitist universities’ are breeding ‘antisemitism’. How unhelpful! The administrators of these schools are the victims here! They honestly don’t know how to get a handle on this crisis!!
As an academic, Turley should have a good grasp of these realities. Yet Turley’s only focus is exploiting divisions in pursuit of his part-time job as a culture warrior. Which makes Turley part of the problem.
One gets no sense whatsoever that Turley ever talks to students or makes any effort to understand their world view. Because too much of Turley’s income is coming from Fox News!
REGARDING ABOVE
The above commenter is a Troll Veteran Inflaming Tensions because the Army would never accept xim/xer/xthey
REGARDING ABOVE:
That was Floyd with the troll veteran comment. He was too obese to make basic training.
That wasn’t it at all. I could not tell my right from my left, so I kept messing up drill formations and parades and stuff. I tried to explain the DI, that right and left are relative, and that in South America or Australia, right and left are reversed because of the Coriolanus Effect.
Turdrunner the coward with more brilliant insight.
What a king sized tampon he is.
Inflaming? Like killing concert goers?, like kidnapping citizens? Like drawing comics?
Everything inflames those low-iq sand monkeys
The American Founders would like to say a few words.
Go ahead, Gentlemen.
Ahem,
“You immutably anathematic ——- communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) have totally —— — our once-coherent, purposeful, resolute, homogeneous and free country.”
Understanding the aforementioned regrettably unacceptable status, we profoundly recommend and direct your attention to the renowned historical reference below.
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
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So say we all,
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, John Adams, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, Robert Livingston, Sam Adams, Roger Sherman et al.
Oh, and…
“I think the real danger to the country is the progressive agenda.”
“A continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide.”
“I will vote the Republican ticket. I will support the Republican ticket.”
– Former Attorney General William Pelham Barr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAWPVMQr3co&t=1382s The subject and interviewer are calm, erudite and well educated academics refuting the top 10 Zionist arguments for the illegal Zionist occupation of Palestine. Start @ 22:50 to hear a long list of examples how the UK with the USA’s 100% support and cooperation, has for 76 years now in Palestine administered one illegal and immoral action after the other cancelling Palestinian rights.
One could make a good case that the Zionist occupation of Palestine is a gold mine of immoral cancelling of human rights that by itself, outweighs the sum of everything Turley has ever posted on this subject. IOW, if Turley wants to focus on the moral decay associated with human rights abuse, he could find no bigger treasure than to start listing such atrocities committed by the West in Palestine yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Virtually every square mile of the earth has been taken by conquest from those who ere there first.
Prior to the first europeans landing in the new world various “native” groups war with and conquers each other whether that was north american tribes or the Aztecs in central america.
Recently the Souix won a lawsuit against the Federal govenrment requiring payment for some land that the government took from the Souix that the souix were promised payment for.
But the FACT is that the Souix had only been there are few decades having Driven out the cherokee before who drove out the … who drove out the … In fact over the past 500 years the group that has posessed this land for the longest has been the US government.
This nonsense about colonialization or illegal occuption as a historical. While less commonplace it is STILL the norm for nations to expand their teritory through concquest. We do not like that. But it has been true always and everywhere. Homo Sapiens Took much of asia and north america from Homo Neanderthalis by consequest – and genocide.
With respect to Israel – the jews laid claim to Israel about 5000 years ago. Jews have lived in Israel continuously from long before the time of moses They have been invaded conquered, rebelled, and come back over and over and over again.
The term Palestine is a name that is atleast 3000 years given to the region norht and east of Egypt – what is today israel.
That name has been used to refer to the land of the jews – especially when they were under occupation such as by asyria or Rome for more than 3000 years. To the extent that it refers to a people rather than a land area it refered to the Philisteins – who are noted in the Bibble and many other historical texts. by the 5th century BCE the Philisteins completely vanished from the historical record as a distinct group.
Regardless the Phillisteins – the only group with anything approaching the claim of the Jews to Palestine – not only ceased to exist 2500 years ago but bear no relation to the people who today call themselves palestinians.
Conversely against all odds the jews – one of myriads of ethnic groups from the mideast have maintained an identity as a people for 5000 years. There is probably no people in the world with a clear history that long. They have survived multiple efforts at genocide, exile, forced relocation. They have continued to maintain their identiy as a people, and they have REPEATEDLY returned to their land to re-establish Israel.
Regardless there have been jews continuously in Israel or Palestine if you prefer for 5000 years.
Is the land between “the river and the sea” inarguably that of the jews ? No. But any group trying to make a stronger claim for it, must do so by cherry-picking history.
We would all prefer that the jews and modern day Palestinians – who did not arrive until after the time of Christ, go along and coexisted.
And amazingly several million palestinians in Israel – not Gaza or the West bank do coexist and are legally Israeli’s with full rights and citizenship. What distinguishes them from those in Gaza or the west bank ? During the 1948 war of independence – When Britian walked away from the colony of Palestine and Arab nations rejected the British division of palestine, Arabs attempted to obliterate the jews.
Those non-jewish residents of palestine who left their homes and in many cases fought with the arabs against Israel have not been allowed to return to a state they left and have spent nearly a century trying to destroy.
Does the US or any other organization have the right to demand that Israel take them back ? No.
As to your Scholars – I have not read them. Nor do I need to – the Israeli war of independence took place 10 years before I was born, the remainder of the history took place during my lifetime.
Could history have turned out differently – had the British made different decisions in 1948 or after WWI – certainly.
But they did not.
History would be different if Egypt made different decisions 3500 years ago or Rome 2000 years ago, or Arabs or Crusaders 1200 years ago.
But we can not reverse history.
I would further note that the West bank and Gaza are not “Occupied” – they are autonomously governed and have been given multiple oportunities to form their own nation. They have refused. The remainder of Israel is not “occupied” either, the people who live there were mostly born there, as in many cases were there parents. Regardless, they have ties back to Israel that are 5000 years old.
There is no nation on earth that has the long a provanace as the jews with regard to Israel.
If you want to be taken seriously, learn to use spellcheck.
John Say,
In the past, you have implied that secession is prohibited by the Constitution because secession is not prohibited by the Constitution.
Please cite the Constitution for the prohibition of secession.
Secession is not prohibited and was and is fully constitutional.
Lincoln became a criminal of high office and must have been impeached and convicted when he denied, with brute military force, the constitutional right to and freedom of secession.
Every act of Lincoln, subsequent to his unconstitutional denial of secession, was and remains equally invalid, illegitimate, illicit, and unconstitutional, including, but not limited to, the “Reconstruction Amendments” of Lincoln’s fellow traveler, Karl Marx.
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“They consider…that it fell to…Abraham Lincoln…to lead his country through…the RECONSTRUCTION of a social world.”
– Karl Marx Letter to Abraham Lincoln, 1865
Who gives a shit george. U lost the war. Get over it
No.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights lost the war.
There may be some actual Americans who earnestly care about that.
What does this have to do with the topic at hand?
The British Mandate for Palestine was approved by the Council of the League of Nations. Representatives of seven Allied countries – Belgium, Britain, France, Greece, Italy, and Japan – which were meeting in San Remo, Italy beginning on April 19, 1920, decided to provisionally grant Great Britain the mandate over Palestine. The mandate was approved on July 22, 1922, at a private meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at St. James Palace in London. This gave the British formal international recognition of the position they had held de facto in the region since the end of 1917 in Palestine and since 1920–21 in Transjordan. Therefore, the Mandate was not a self-appointment but was given to the British through a vote of world nations at the time.
And if my aunt had —-s, she’d be my uncle.
Seriously?
So you missed Auschwitz, Dachau, Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, October 7, 2023, Obama Been Laughin’, Saddam Hussein Obama, etc., etc., etc.?
That seems to be all ——-s do: Cut innocent, cuffed, and shackled people’s heads off.
Next thing you know, you’ll claim that the Asiatic nomads, with no surveys, receipts, or deeds, roaming what is now known as the North American continent are its authentic owners.
Is it true that the current President of Columbia is a also Baroness and Member of the Brit House of Lords? Is she not an American citizen?
Dr. Minouche Shafik is a dual UK/US citizen; she was granted life peerage and introduced to the House of Lords in October of 2020.
The U.S. Constitution prohibits the U.S. government from granting titles of nobility, and naturalized citizens must renounce all foreign titles during their oath of allegiance. However, the Constitution does not ban U.S. citizens from receiving or inheriting titles of nobility from other countries.
In the case of Minouche Shafik, she is a life peer in the UK, a title that was granted to her by the UK government. This does not conflict with her U.S. citizenship because the title was not granted by the U.S. government.
It’s also worth noting that there is a proposed, but still-pending, amendment to the U.S. Constitution known as the Titles of Nobility Amendment. If ratified, it would strip U.S. citizenship from any citizen who accepts a title of nobility from a foreign power. However, this amendment has not been ratified and is not currently part of the Constitution.
So, in summary, a U.S. citizen can hold a title of nobility from a foreign country as long as they do not pledge allegiance to a foreign power.
The campus protests are exactly what Professor Turley suggests. They are not violent and students are actively keeping counter protesters separated to avoid violence. Davidai is intent on provoking students and creating a disturbance to justify punishment for pro-Palestinian protesters.
Turley is not telling the whole story and he’s characterizing it as anti-semitism because Davidai is looking to provoke students. Clearly Davidai is looking for trouble and using the fact that he’s Jewish as an excuse to claim victimhood for being denied entry into campus. He’s intent on provocation. Turley ignored the fact that there is a specific zone for counter protests. The school is maintaining a safe atmosphere by preventing Davidai’s intent to provoke by denying him entry.
There are republican senators demanding military intervention against the students. Because they are protesting.
Protests are supposed to be disruptive. They are meant to be uncivil. Seeking to punish them because they are being disruptive and “violating student conduct” is the antithesis of free speech.
That Shapiro chair has strings attached, don’t you understand that George?
Every single one of the first Christians was also a Jew.
Every apostle was a Jew. Christs followers abandoned him at Gethsemane.
Peter denied even knowing him.
Paul was not even a christian.
The earliest Christians after Christs death still considered themselves Jews, and Christ as the Jewish messiah.
What ultimately separate Christianity from Judaism was that early Christians were evangelical. While Jews have never really been.
eventually almost 1/3 of the world was converted to christianity. While jews remain a race as well as a religion.
The first of christs last seven utterances was
“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
Something you clearly have not taken to heart.
>”While jews remain a race as well as a religion.”
What race is that? And how does race or religion apply to the state of Israel? Or Palestine, for that matter.
Rather than argue over some ancient hereditary title in God’s ‘holy lands’, clearly some kind of equitable two-state state solution (or one-state Greater Israel-Palestine) seems fair and reasonable .. . after all, Allah rests in reason.
*and Israel can do that all by itself. .. without any need for force of arms.
The Jews are the descendants of neanderthals. You had Jew rabbis bragging about it not too long ago.
Joe Biden brags about being a hard-core ‘Zionist’, and his uncle was a cannibal .. . what’s your point?
*the Jews have nothing on Joe Biden.
It is has been estimated that about 1-4% of the DNA of modern Europeans and Asians derives from Neanderthals. https://news.cornell.edu/ stories/ 2023/06/lingering-effects-neanderthal-dna-found-modern-humans
…and what percentage of kykes, schmuck? Bragging about it, rabbis as in Schneerson. God rest his soul.
You are not a big picture thinker. The Jews created Christianity sure, after they were nearly killed off the face of the earth, but in doing so they found the height of morally virtue, by accident and it has haunted them ever since. What is the height of moral virtue, what is Gods will and Gods law, it is no harm comes to the innocent. The Jews needed a morally just people and a moral world to allow them to live another day but in doing so they render themselves as moral inferiors, kind of funny.
Get thee to a convent, George. The nuns will sit you down and make you memorize (or write on the board 100x) the First Amendment, you know, the part about “or the right of the people peaceably to assemble…”
The right to peaceably assemble does not mean the right to force your way into a provocation. Davidai has a zone where he can exercise his own counter protest. He deliberately chooses not to so he can get into students faces and provoke them. He is not looking to just enter and go about his business. He’s intent on provocation and playing victim when he’s “attacked” by protesters. The school and students are aware of that and that’s why they are denying him entry. He held a rally before going to campus. He was looking for trouble.
Not so. First, you cannot speak to his “intent.” He has as much right as the student protesters (if not more right) to be wherever he wanted on campus. Instead, he was relegated to an off-center location away from others. When he held to his right to be where he wanted, they deactivated his access. look at his X posts, https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1782029397718892739/
No, time and place restrictions apply. He could protest at a designated location to reduce the likelyhood of violence. The pro-Palestinian protesters were already there. Davidai wanted to provoke violence by insisting on being right in the middle of the encampment. The university had every right to keep him away to ensure the safety of everyone.
It was his intent. He made it clear in an email to the school. He was ignoring school policy as a staff member. So they shut off his access.
“Davidai wanted to provoke violence . . .”
Sure. Just as the existence of the Twin Towers provoked Muslim terrorists.
“The right to peaceably assemble does not mean the right to force your way into a provocation.”
Words have meaning. The right to use ACTUAL force outside of the defense of self and others is severly limited – that is the foundation of the social contract.
Protection from and Punishment of the use of force outside of self defense and defense of others is the first and most critical of the duties of government.
Short of the use of force you ABSOLUTELY are allowed to provoke others.
It is YOUR duty to refrain from violence when others provoke you.
While it is unwise to provoke others it is not illegal. It is even your constitutional right.
“It is YOUR duty to refrain from violence when others provoke you.”
No, nobody has a duty to refrain from violence. It’s a choice. It’s not a duty. You can provoke all you want. But that’s not a protection from the consequences.
Davidai chose confrontation and demanded protection for choosing confrontation. He wanted to be protected from the consequences of his provocative intentions. He was risking violence to show how he is a victim. The school was correct in denying him entry.
It was not because he was a Jew.
Curious. Shouting down a speaker is also your constitutional right.
It does not matter what his “intent” was. There is no such thing as a crime of pure intent.
All crimes are ACTS, Most crimes require three things – and Act of violence, knowledge that the act was wrong, and committing the act deliberately.
You can legally intend violence – without acting.
Even more importantly – you can intend to provoke violence in others – that does not change the FACT that the violence of others is a crime, and provoking them is NOT.
It is your duty to resist violence – even if provoked.
Further this should be obvious – humans have free will. The entire foundation for our system of law and government is free will.
When you try to justify violence by claiming you were provoked – and the provocation was not itself actual violence, you are arguing that you have no free will. That you are a giant raw nerve that can not control yourself.
Is it all that difficult for you to understand – you can not make society work if you are free to do violence to others because you did not like what they said or did that did not constitute violence itself.
@John Say,
You’re wrong. Davidai wanted to provoke a confrontation. He was given a choice where he could counter protest peacefully and avoid violence. He refused. He was refusing to follow campus policy therefore he was denied entry because he was intent on confrontation.
Provoking violence is not protected speech. It’s no different than deliberate incitement. He was going there to force a violent reaction and use it to justify his victimhood.
Provoking violence is a crime. If the words used are deliberate and produce an immediate violent reaction it can be a crime.
Free will is not license to antagonize others without consequence. You speak of punishment of others for shouting down a speaker, but provoking others to violence is not punishable? Thats a nice double standard.
You’re the double standard you ignorant fvck.
You say its fine to shout down a speaker but ok to provoke violence.
Then when someone says the opposite you call them for a double standard.
Eat shit, douche.
A provocation like sailing terrorists over the border and gunning down and kipnapping civilians? That kind of provocation.
The victimhood olympics seems to be held every so often in the middle east – it’s boring and i wish nothing but continued unhappiness and blight on both parties. F those people.
They Were Assaulted on Campus for Being Jews
“At Yale, Sahar Tartak was stabbed in the eye. At Columbia, Jonathan Lederer’s Israeli flag was burned and he was hit in the face.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/they-were-assaulted-on-campus-forf
They are violent.
That article does not exists. 404 not found notice.
Meaning it was taken down.
It’s always easy to point to victims when they are the original provocateurs. Provoking students by being confrontational intentionally is something they do.
Fortunately students at Columbia recognize it and prevent it as soon as it is noticed.
Burning a flag is protected speech. It’s not violence. If he was hit on the face it likely was while trying to forcibly prevent the burning of the flag in the first place. That means the counter protester instigated violence first.
You are lying.
I just looked in two different browsers.
It is still there.
You are lying.
Nope, still get the same notice. Don’t know what it is but I’m not seeing an article in the link.
https://www.thefp.com/p/they-were-assaulted-on-campus-for
Some how an extra “f” got attached.
My bust and apologies.
Now I see it. Thank you. Apology accepted.
After reading the article. It seems it’s two accounts of two isolated incidents. That is not evidence that all the protests are violent or seeking to intimidate Jews. It’s easy to blow a couple of incidents into something bigger. I don’t condone the violence upon Jews, but I also don’t condone Jews intentionally provoking students to get attacked and cry victimhood.
It’s a highly charged issue and Jess should understand that it’s risky to approach such demonstrations. Safety is important and keeping counter protesters separate while still letting them protest is the best solution. Davidai was told he could hold his counter protest at a designated area. He refused. Because he was intent on provoking pro-Palestine protesters on their zone. Thats a recipe for violence. Davidai refused to adhere to campus policy and was therefore denied entry. It was not because he was Jewish. It was because he was refusing to adhere to campus policy.
“Holloway responded to Davidai’s email before the planned appearance, writing that he must hold his protest in a counterprotest area, in a tweet posted by Davidai at 7:49 a.m. In response, Davidai wrote in an email to Holloway, also posted to X, that he still planned to go to the “illegal encampment” on Monday. In a second response, Holloway restated the requirement for Davidai’s event to be held in a designated area.
“To maintain the safety and security It is our standard operating procedure at any protest to establish a counterprotest area, which is where you will be required to hold your event (on the Math Lawn),” Holloway wrote in an email sent at 8:34 a.m. obtained by Spectator. “To maintain the safety of the Columbia community, you are not permitted to enter the West Lawn.”
In anticipation of Davidai’s entry, students in the encampment stationed individuals in neon vests, mostly faculty who had received de-escalation training, around the encampment’s perimeter. Behind them, protesters within the encampment lined up to block the entrance of the encampment. At around 9:44 a.m., protesters within the encampment closed access to the west side of South Lawn.”
That’s what professor Turley leaves out. Davidai was intent on ignoring school policy. So he was shut out.
How many isolated incidents to you need before you have Krystal Nacht.
“I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus — like the example of a young woman holding a sign with an arrow pointing to Jewish students stating ‘Al-Qasam’s Next Targets,’ or another where a woman is literally yelling ‘We are Hamas,’ or another where groups of students are chanting ‘We don’t want no Zionists here’ — and I condemn this hate speech in the strongest of terms. Supporting a terrorist organization that aims to kill Jews is sickening and despicable. As I have repeatedly said, hate has no place in our city, and I have instructed the NYPD to investigate any violation of law that is reported. Rest assured, the NYPD will not hesitate to arrest anyone who is found to be breaking the law.”
NYC Mayor Adams
It’s all part of free speech. Isolated incidents are always going to be an issue. Getting all exaggerated over a few incidents is not going to bring about the Krystal nacht.
You’ve said it yourself. Hate speech is still protected speech. The only way to counter it is with more speech. Calling for certain actions and signs is not enough to arrest anyone.
“That is not evidence that *all* the protests . . .” (emphasis added)
If you are not Anon, you are its Siamese twin.
You use the same intellectually dishonest tactic: Manipulate language to deflect and to undercut a person’s confidence.
I beleive there is an extra p on the end of your link.
I found the article easily.
But got George’s 404 when clicking on your link.
Regardless, Georges’ argument is absurd.
The article was not taken down either Upstates link was changed or he has an extra character.
regardless you can
google “At Yale, Sahar Tartak was stabbed in the eye. At Columbia, Jonathan Lederer’s Israeli flag was burned and he was hit in the face” and the first hit will be Barri Weiss’s article.
https://www.thefp.com/p/they-were-assaulted-on-campus-for
For the first person account of the women who was kidnapped (forcibly impairing another persons freedom of movement is kidnapping in most states), and then stabbed in the eye
https://www.thefp.com/p/i-was-stabbed-in-the-eye-at-yale
It seems she was bruised by the flag pole. We don’t know how bad it was. It was wrong to encircle her like that and it was wrong to assault her. But… she was also responsible for her predicament. She should have known better than to walk in on a highly charged situation. The smart thing to do was to stay away of keep her distance. It’s no different than choosing to walk into a riot or a riled up crowd and expect to be protected.
There’s a certain level of ignorance when deciding to go into situations like that. The campus police can only do so much and she was warned that it could be risky. But she chose to go anyway. Thats on her.
Protesters are going to be agitated and operational at times. Why she expected any different is her own failure. She acknowledged that they had a right protest and shout nasty things about Jews. Going there was a risk and she learned the hard way.
If they find the individual responsible for the assault he should be prosecuted. But those shouting at her and “blocking” her without touching her are free to do so.
“They are not violent and students are actively keeping counter protesters separated to avoid violence.”
Violence from whom?
They are preventing violence from erupting by both groups. One is intent on provoking the students.
George there is no crime of “provoking”
Worse still there is no difference between being a target for walking while jewish than of being targeted for walking while black.
There is no evidence at all of “provocation” – being being visibly likely jewish.
But even if their were – you do not have the right to use violence against those you do not like, no matter how “provocative” they are.
There is no first amendment exception for being provocative.
Jews – have the same right to be on campus, to protest, to counter protest to be provocative as the pro-hamas protestors.
Adam’s and many others make clear – as henious as the support of these student for Hamas is, and as vile as their remarks – such as Death to jews, they have a right to speak heinously and vilely. But they are obligated to respect the rights of others at the same time.
Pro Hamas suppoorted have the right to say “1000 more October 7ths.” and the rest of us – jewish or not have the right to say – “how disgusting and vile support for those who rape, immolate, behead and murder people because of their race or religion”
Ad we have the right to say it right to your face – as provacative as you may think that is.
They were not just walking while being Jewish. They were deliberately walking into a risky situation and intending to provoke a reaction, a violent reaction. Common sense would dictate that they keep their distance or avoid it all together.
“But they are obligated to respect the rights of others at the same time.”
No, they are not obligated at all. The government only ensures violence and other crimes are not committed.
These are not pro-Hamas demonstrators. They are pro-Palestine demonstrators.
In the 30’s and 50’s violence caused by provocation was widely accepted. Insults that ended with a punch to the face were common and accepted. Provoke someone and get punched in the face or beaten was expected.
Jess have a right to be on campus. But they also have a right to be safe. Meaning for their safety they are prevented from walking into a hostile mob. It’s not smart. It’s stupid and it’s unnecessary. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Why is it a risky situation, you gullible fvck? Because these are violent protestors.
Walking freely anywhere in the US should not be a “risky situation”
Fvck off with that nonsense.
“These are not pro-Hamas demonstrators. They are pro-Palestine demonstrators.”
Right. And the Hitler Youth were not pro-Hitler demonstrators. They were pro-German demonstrators.
Deceive all you want. The fact is that those demonstrators are genocidal anti-Semites, who support a dictatorial theocracy (just as did their government, Hamas).
I missed the part where you provided the evidence (which you say is “clear”) that Davidai is intent on provoking? Is he guilty of walking around while being Jewish?
@Meursalt,
“Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, called on his supporters to sit in with him at “Columbia’s declared ‘Liberation Zone’”—referring to the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”—on Monday but was denied access to the Morningside campus after his Columbia University ID was deactivated.”
“Davidai—who is currently under investigation at Columbia following reports of harassing students—sent an email to University administrators, including University President Minouche Shafik, Vice President Gerald Rosberg, and Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway, at 8:50 a.m. on Sunday.”
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/23/business-school-professor-shai-davidai-denied-access-to-morningside-campus-ahead-of-planned-entry-into-encampment/
He is calling on his supporters to sit in among the protestors. That’s seeking provocation. He’s intent on putting himself and his
supporters in an unsafe situation to get sympathy if they get attacked. It’s deliberate. He’s being denied access because it’s obvious to university staff that he seeks confrontation.
“He is calling on his supporters to sit in among the protestors. That’s seeking provocation. He’s intent on putting himself and his
supporters in an unsafe situation to get sympathy if they get attacked. It’s deliberate. He’s being denied access because it’s obvious to university staff that he seeks confrontation.”
George no doubt considers himself an intellectual.
“George” used to go by the sock puppet names “bythebook”, “committohonestdiscussion”, “bob”, late4dinner” and many, many more. He is like Hamas: bombs his adversaries, then demands readers look at the dirt on his shoes as proof that he was assaulted. He likely couldn’t get into Harvard because they considered him too predictable and would plagiarize his “works”
It does not matter the “provocation” argument is logically absurd.
These protests of the pro-hamas students are inarguably “provocative”
There is no – we can provoke you, but you can not provoke us in the first amendment.
Being provocative has NOTHING at all to do with whether your choices are legal.
Resorting to violence must be justified – very few things justify violence.
Self defense, and defense of others covering 95% of all cases.
@John Say,
These are not “pro-Hamas” protests. Demagoguing their cause by falsely characterizing them as pro-Hamas is a bad faith argument.
They are being prevented from provoking each other. Davidai was intent on confronting pro-Palestinian protesters in the encampment. That’s looking for a provocation and violence is always not far behind. Free speech as Turley envisions it involves civil discussion. That’s not always the case.
Preventing violence is the goal. Keeping pro-Palestinian protesters and pro-Israel protesters separated is not a violation of anyone’s rights. But those who seek to provoke as Davidai does justifies restricting his intentions. He is still able to protest in a zone designated for pro-Israel supporters. What he wants is confrontation and hoping for violence to prove pro-Palestinian protesters are violent. This is what he wants and the school knows it. He refused a reasonable accommodation because he wants to inject himself and his supporters in the middle of the encampment. That’s just a recipe for violence.
They can scream and hurl insults at each other as much as they want as long as they maintain a certain separation that minimizes or prevents a violent reaction.
This is not self defense. It’s intentional provocation in a highly charged situation. He wants someone to attack him so he can claim self defense and gain pity because he’s a Jewish individual who is “innocently” prorating his side in the middle of a pro-Palestinian mob. The school is not obligated to protect him if he’s intent on providing an attack. The school already gave him a safer option. He refused. He made his choice to be in a risky position. The school is no longer obligated to offer security after he refused an alternative.
They are in fact “pro-Hamas” protests, plus your mother dresses you funny
Your paid handlers are not sending their better trolls
Dam those jews, for the past 5000 years they keep provoking people to do violence to them.
We must exterminate them.
No one can remain in control of their violent impulses when confronted by someone in a Yamaka
Worse still many of them actually speak up against the murder of jews and claim that israel has the right to self defense.
Of COURSE they are provocative. Clearly they are responsible for the desire of others to kill them.
They hate the innocent. Christ, the Palestinians, the unborn, their crimes? The persecution act does not work anymore. It is falling flat on its face, give it up.
self-immolation seems to be trending with anarchists. How can we help you in that regard?
Do me a favour and choke to death on a ham sandwich, kyke.
@John Say,
Mischaracterizing what I’m saying is the first sign of making an argument in bad faith.
I’m only pointing out the actions of one particular individual and it’s clear from the reporting that his intentions were to provoke. He is also intentionally refusing to abide by campus policy regarding counter protests. He is not being singled out because he’s Jewish. He’s a university staff member openly refusing to follow campus policy that is specifically meant to avoid violence or any confrontation that could lead to it. He was given the ability to counter protest and walk into campus. But he chose to bring his own supporters and confront the pro-Palestinian protesters in the encampment. He wanted to force his way into a potentially violent confrontation. The university recognized it as such and prevented Davidai from entering after refusing to abide by campus policy. We have people calling for students to be punished because they are violating campus policy. Davidai, a staff member, refused to abide by campus policy, which he’s obliged to follow, so his privilege to enter the campus was correctly revoked. It was not because he was Jewish.
I used to live in NYC and well aware of Jewish individuals who intentionally provoke others into arguments to the point someone becomes violent. It’s not unheard of that some Jewish individuals do play the victim card after provoking others. That kind of behavior does not get a free pass just because they are Jewish. Using it as an excuse is worse.
Says all you need to know:
https://twitter.com/ManhattanMingle/status/1782162556460663213
Ain’t America great?
James (commenter, below) speaks of a “global” effort; I could not agree more.
For strength, the “effort” is gathering up all the loose odds and ends of society, collectively referred to as “victims.” Because each marginal group is too small to garner attention, the “global”effort is to unite them with other marginals to create a thunderous, massive, global mob.
(1) Students at Columbia were ostensibly protesting under the “Free Palestine” banner. –But there in the gatherings were speakers who spoke of other things, e.g. : “…[A protester] then broke into a trade union-inspired song called ‘Rich Man’s House,’ singing: ‘So I went down to the rich man’s house and I stole what he took with me.'”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/more-wild-anti-israel-protesters-descend-columbia-university-lawn-vowing-hold-line
(2) And of course, other student groups at other colleges had their own demands: students at several colleges (U of M; UC Berkeley; Yale, etc.) started demanding that their school’s disclose their financial investments to the students–they further demanded that the schools divest in all things Jewish. “Divest” was the big word of the day. Can you imagine a scenario where your employees went on strike, demanding to see your company’s financial documents and demanding that you divest of any financial relations/investments in something they disagreed with?
(3) James aptly mentions the “younger generations” and the lack of parenting. Of course, we note that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter was arrested for her role in anti-Israel campus protesting.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ilhan-omars-daughter-suspended-college-amid-anti-israel-activism
(4) How many times have we seen the words “Transgender” in the news lately???? Did I miss something? Are they now so great in number that we no longer can rely on mere procreation to keep our faith, sanity, civility intact and in the majority???
(5) Our temporary resident, “Robert Browning.” What an apt, Anglicized, milque-toasty, and carefully-selected pseudonym. –And of course, he victimizes Christ and Christians and Children…at the hands of [those #%^& Jews]. Let’s throw all the three “Cs” in too! Everybody let’s get stoned!
Apologies for the lengthy post.
I got a birth certificate to prove I am who I say, schmuck.
Great, now get your death certificate and make the world a better place
You need to be Moshiached kyke, all the way up tp your tonsils, you are going to love your Big Mo, he aims to please.
I have one suggestion that may get some people’s attention: Shut down the University; suspend all classes for the rest of the year 2024. No graduation this year (and/or) until normalcy is restored. Colombia University may (or may not) reopen in the fall; depending.
Jonathan: It has not gone unnoticed Melania has been AWOL at her husband’ first criminal trial in Manhattan. She hasn’t been seen with DJT anywhere–not on the campaign trail, nowhere. She’s like a ghost. But she has made it clear she wants DJT to testify–to defend her honor. She wants DJT to deny the charges by Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Probably not going to happen. DJT probably won’t testify because he would be subject to some pretty devastating cross examination. He would have to lie and that would expose him to perjury charges.
So what is Melania doing these days? Last week she addressed the Log Cabin Republicans. And in honor of Mother’s Day Melania is now hawking a “Love & Gratitude” necklace for $245. The signature gold pendant is valued at about $20 by those who have examined it. Melania’s latest scam was greeted with scorn on “X”. One person said “We never hear from Melania, not that I’m complaining, until it’s time for her to sell something for profit. Is she donating the revenues to a women’s shelter or charity? Of course not, she’s grifting off Mother’s Day, $245 dollar necklaces, and it’s disgusting!”. There were other similar mocking comments.
Will we see Melania at any of the criminal proceeding before Judge Merchan? Don’t hold your breath!
Who cares?
NEW: Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted.
On the left: What DOJ/Jack Smith wanted to conceal.
On the right: Now we know why. More proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case. pic.twitter.com/YVHVmAfOai
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
To clear up any confusion as to what Special Counsel Jack Smith sought to conceal in classified documents case, this is what Smith told Judge Cannon in Feb 2024 in response to Trump’s motion to compel discovery from numerous govt agencies:
1) Defendants are not entitled to…
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 23, 2024
The same month (Feb 2022) that Biden’s White House and DOJ were in cahoots with NARA to concoct a reckless document-handling case against Trump, Maggie Haberman helped the cause by claiming Trump used to flush files down the toilet: https://t.co/6ahzAv3p0F
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
Why in god’s name would Melania want to be at this farce ?
Trump is only there because he has been FORCED to be there.
Melania is actually participating in the campaign – something YOU said was not going to happen.
Regardless, Where is Joe Biden ? Actually he is campaigning all over. But the press is not covering it, almost no one is attending his events.
There is no recording of the proceding – so the result is that the attention of the press is focused OUTSIDE the courtroom – Where Trump is getting hours of press coverage everyday slaming this FARCE of a trial.
YOU say Biden is not involved – I personally doubt he has any more involvement than Henry II ranting “who will rid me of this troublesome priest”.
But Trump has WON the political argument, 60% of people beleive Joe Biden is behind this. That is really not True.
It is Democrats in the Biden administration behind this – the Children who are the real president of the united states – pulling Pupet Joe’s strings. But that does not really change anything.
People Like you rant this is not political – yet WHO gives the opening remarks – the former Acting head of the DOJ, the former 3rd Ranking member of the Biden DOJ. A White House counsel under Obama, The Traveling Trump prosecutor Micheal Coangello.
And what is Coangello’s opening ? Trump conspired to win the election.
Of course he did. That is not illegal.
Coangello devoted his entire opening to the non- crime of trying to win an election that is not charged ranting about a conspiracy – that is not charger and not a crime.
Further Blanche asserted 3 times in his opening that NDA’s are legal , which was objected to and sustained by Merchan.
I doubt you understand – but that was a LOSS for Coangello. NDA’s ARE legal, This Trial is about NDA’s, Probably half of the Jury has agreed to an NDA of one form or another. This is not so much a case of not being able to unring the bell as of reminding Jurors what they already know – that NDA’s a legal. Merchan sustaining an objection to obviously correct and relevant statements in front of the jury harms the Judge.
Merchan also lost it in the Gag order hearing today – yelling at Blanche because he had not cited a specific Tweet of Cohen or Daniels regarding Trump.
Does Merchan live under a ROCK ? Most of us are familiar with the explative filled tweet by Cohen that Triggered Trump’s criticism of him.
Not to mention Cohen’s podcasts and public apearances.
Merchan is angry for obvious reasons – he can fume and rant all he wants – he can get away with the $1000 fine that is all that NY law allows,
But he can not jail trump or do any more. Myriads of legal scholars have questioned why Trump has not more vigorously legally challenged the gag order – Despite claims by the Lunatic left – Gag orders of Defendants of this kind are as scarce as hens teeth.
My guess is that Trump is deliberately looking to get Merchan to act stupid.
And MErchan is aware of that and is angry because at the very same time as he has all the power he is also powerless.
Left Wing nuts are begging Merchan to jail Trump. Coangello is begging merchan to jail trump.
Trump is practically begging Merchan to dare to jail him.
The more egregiously Merchan behaves the more it benefits Trump – both politically and in the trial.
And yesterday we had another example of the lunacy of Merchan. The trial was suspended because of an alternate juror’s dental appointment. But Merchan is unwilling to suspend the trial so Trump can go to a Supreme court case involving him, or to his son’s graduation. Dental appointment can be rescheduled. The Supreme court can not. Baron’s graduation can not.
Trump may show up at the Supreme court anyway – we will see.
I think the odds are 90:10 that Trump goes to Baron’s graduation.
Those of you on the left are STUPID. You keep manufacturing ways that Trump can but heads with you AND WIN.
If Trump goes to Baron’s gradulation and Merchan jails him – Trump wins.
If Trump goes to the supreme court and MErchan jails him Trump wins.
If Trump does these and Merchan does nothing – Trump wins.
If Merchan bars Trump from testifying – Trump wins.
We have the same with the current Gag order battle.
Merchan has gotten himself into a lose-lose.
And no matter what happens Trump will dominate the news EVERY DAY.
Biden is actively campaigning in Pennsylvania which is a MUST WIN for Biden. Biden allegedly won PA by only 80,000 votes out of a total of almost 8M. Since 2020 more than 400,000 MORE republicans have registered to vote than Democrats. In 2023 Republicans exceeded democrats in voter registration in EVERY SINGLE COUNTY a feat that has never occured before.
Further the GOP gains have primarily been in the suburban ring of countries surrounding Philadelphia.
If Trump wins GA – where he leads by 10pts as a result of the Fanni Willis Fiasco and PA – the Election is OVER.
Trump will have 270 electoral votes. But it is worse than that of the 6 “swing” states – only PA and Michigan are close.
Further there are atleast two more states that were blue and not swing states in 2020 that are now swing states.
Increasingly Biden has to “shoot the moon” to win.
I noted previously the demographic groups who are responding tghe most negatively to this political lawfare – are hispancs – particularly hispanic males.
And here we are int he midst of Turley articles on free speech and antisemitism.
Democrats have lost control of their own left wing. A significant part of Biden’s decline has been the Democrats split between ProIsrael and ProHamas. Biden has been walking a tight rope between the two. Every single time the ProHamas groups start rabble rousing – Biden’s position declines.
There is no consequential divide in the Republican party over Israel. While Biden needs the enthusiastic support of both Pro-Israel and ProHamas groups to win in 2024.
Democrats – almost prophetically are going back to Chicago for their 2024 Convention. The chaos of the 1968 convention was a major factor in electing Nixon.
Many are predicting that violence at the 2024 convention will be worse.
Those of you on the left continue to worry and hope that some right wing nut bombs and abortion clinic or that some other act of violence that you can pin on the right shocks the nation.
But all the violence we have seen is by the left – and much of it is blue on blue violence.
No one is blaming the mess in Columbia on the far right.
No one will blame the mess at chicago on the far right.
OT: Bragg has now revealed the underlying crime that the ledger entries are alleged to have concealed. It’s a NY statute that makes it a misdemeanour to conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person through the use of “unlawful means.” Even assuming that this applies to Presidential elections, neither catch and kill arrangements nor NDAs are “unlawful means.” In a fair trial, this would result in a Trump acquittal, perhaps even through a directed verdict. But that won’t happen.
Trump is going to say that he is testifying right to the end. It is also possible that he may give part of the closing arguments.
But he is not testifying. He can testify truthfully – and democrats will still charge him with perjury.
Trump is going to rope-a-dope merchan into doing something stupid – so that it is Merchan not Trump who precludes Trump’s testimony.
One of the problems with judges that behave egregiously lawlessly and egreriously stupidly is that you can box them into a corner.
Merchan has alreadly lost his cool because he is in a lose lose over the gag order. If he does not enforce it – he looks weak and it becomes increasingly obvious it is unconstitutional. If he does not enforce it – Trump will push him even harder.
And if he does enforce it – he looks even more biased and lawless and gives Trump a winnign appeal – WITH JEOPHARDY ALREADY ATTACHED.
You think it is Trump’s conduct that is being scrutinized – it is not. It is Merchan’s.
And though you may not be smart enough to grasp that. Trump is and Merchan is.
As to Milenia. She made a strong LGBTQ appeal AND she publicized Trump’s examplary issue on REAL LGBTQ rights.
Melania has been in the news more than Jill. Further Melania is in the news fore her OWN campaigning.
When Jill is in the news – it is for propping Joe up.
If you do not want a “love and Gratitude” necklace do not buy one.
The only correct value of the necklace or anything else is what YOU are willing to pay for it.
For YOU the answer appears to be zero. For others it appears to be $245.
Regardless free markets will sort this out.
But she has made it clear she wants DJT to testify–to defend her honor
You are that compulsive liar that will lie when it absolutely accomplishes nothing.
Wrong story, pilgrim. Stay on topic.
@ByronYork
Watching wall-to-wall Trump trial talk on some cable networks, it’s notable how much time is devoted to discussing tabloid journalism, catch-and-kill, etc. and how terrible it all is, and not on whether this or that act was illegal. Occasionally someone notes that it all comes down to individual bookkeeping entries, and then only if those entries were false and made as part of some other crime. That’s where the talk gets really vague. FEC filing? New York state election law? Anything? Vague, vague, vague. Better just to insinuate that Trump did something really bad than focus on whether there are 34 real felony cases here. Link: Groupthink chorus emerges at Trump trial.
https://washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2975683/groupthink-chorus-emerges-trump-trial/
Dennis – at least we know that Melania is not the power behind the throne in the Trump campaign. She is happy being a wife of a successful man. By contrast, Jill does appear to be one of the people who “run” Joe Biden and is not happy living outside the limelight. She wants to exercise unauthorized power and pushes her husband beyond his mental, emotional and physical limits. If she really cared for him, she would get him out of the glare and pressure of the White House asap.
If this is true and Columbia is concerned for Professor Davidai’s well being, that says more about the other side and Columbia than anything else.
Regardless of what one thinks about protests in general or these protest in particular, the fact there is real concern of violence should make everyone take notice.
NOBODY should have to worry about dialog and their safety. Those that threaten violence should be made aware if they carry it out, they pay the price. There should be no excuse for ANYONE to worry about their safety.
While I understand the emotions, I do not understand the violence. For those that think violence is speech, remember that when a bat gets laid across your skull because someone does not agree with your speech.
Democrats are losing blacks
Democrats are losing Hispanics
Democrats are losing homersexuals
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“Melania Trump announces push to woo gay conservatives during Mar-a-Lago fundraiser, organizer says”
Richard Grenell, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany and former acting director of national intelligence under Trump, becoming the first openly gay person to hold a Cabinet-level position in the U.S., will be spearheading the new Log Cabin Republicans initiative with help from White, a former president of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, and White’s husband, Bryan Eure, a senior vice president at insurance brokerage firm Willis Towers Watson.
This initiative is expected to be one of Melania Trump’s top priorities, White said, and she is set to support it with “upcoming activities” — which would mark a notable contrast given how little Melania Trump has campaigned on behalf of her husband in either 2016 or 2020. (The Trump campaign did not provide more details about possible events for conservative gay and lesbian voters.)
“They hear us, they see us, and they love us,” White said of the Trumps’ message to Log Cabin Republicans on Saturday night.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/melania-trump-announces-push-woo-gay-conservatives-fundraiser/story?id=109477174
So, what you’re saying is that the Republicans are morphing into Democrats in an attempt simply to win an election for winning’s sake, right?
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“Just win, baby!”
– Al Davis, Oakland Raiders
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Even if he and the entire NFL had to sell out America, American sports, and American fans and hire Africans.
Next up, an exponentially burgeoning $35 trillion national debt, 10 million illegal alien invaders, Democratic voters, and new recruits for Obama, Jeremiah Wright, and Louis Farrakhan’s Fundamental Transformation Army, renewed persecution of Israelis, abortion, and NAMBLA, right?
Wait. That already happened!
“Prosecution of Israelis?” Haha. Did you miss Biden’s speech circa 2023/10/8 in which Biden stated publicly for the universal record that the USA promises to buy every single bullet and bomb Israel requires to “defend” itself IOW USA purchased all the ammo Israel used to murder the estimated 13k Palestinian children Israel murdered since Oct. 7 2023.
He should be the pick for vp
This is and will continue to be a slash and burn effort by communist activists who hate this nation and everyone. They have recruited and stirred up mindless lemmings and have given them a “cause.” In this case, they are pro-terrorism. .
Communism looks good to a person strapped down with debt they cannot pay. Unless the students are from rich parents or have a full ride scholarship, future prospects for paying back an Ivy League liberal arts or a “studies” degree are dismal. Robots are replacing burger flippers and A.I. will replace B.S. jobs. Migrants who are hungry will flood the market with those who are actually willing to work.
Oh, don’t forget, those who are arrested will have that scar on their job application.
Oh, and those who walk out of class and do not complete their assignments must realize that their grades will suffer or they may fail the semester that they are paying (borrowing) for. That will be an unforgettable lesson.
You mean WE are probably paying for it….if Biden has his way.
One thing for certain, the webmaster is MIA regarding this Browning character! Surely if someone on the right would have made the type of statements Browning made about Gays and Blacks they would have been taken down. Anyone else feel the same?
‘Browning’ is a troll.
And yes, since its a holiday today… seems that his posts will get taken down.
Or maybe better left up so that everyone can see this nonsense.
This piece isn’t up to Turley’s writing style. Was this article hacked?
All supporters of Israel might wear yellow Jewish stars in support.
Whatever the intent your comment is hurtful and totally unnecessary.
On topic: this is the final insanity, and if we don’t clean it up, things are going to get very bad. I personally throw in the additive of younger generations and how they haven’t been parented at all, particularly among the privileged (the dems’ focusing on the ‘poor’ or the ‘disadvantaged’ is a racist and classist canard on their part (the aristocracy is gonna aristocracy, as they always have in their tiny, uneducated minds, thinking gold or its metaphorical equivalent and its acquisition is all that matters on this planet), I am just thrilled that Trump’s bond held, we still have a tiny modicum of sanity in the courts (very tiny), even in NYC. We are in for the election of several millenniums in November, and we should all brace ourselves. This really is tyranny vs. freedom at this point; covid demonstrated that admirably; it is clear the UN and its tendrils would like to be in charge of the entire planet, and not in the feel good way that Star Trek portrayed. We are talking about global tyranny, and that is all there is to it. Fight it with all of your might.
Trump wants the judge to toss him in Jail for contempt.
It would trigger a few legal moves along w a lot of free publicity and sympathy.
(Rightly so btw…)
The judge should hear a motion to throw the case out of court.
Lack of jurisdiction on the part of Bragg. He can’t bootstrap a dead case using a Federal Statute he has no legal right to raise.
Not to mention Trump did nothing wrong.
Everyone outside of NYC sees this for what it is.
Makes every independent who sees the decay Biden has created want to vote for Trump.
Waiting to see what happens DNC or OH blinks first and to see if Biden gets on the OH ballot.
-G