The backlash over the settlement of Northwestern University with pro-Palestinian protesters continues to mount. In a letter acquired by The Daily Northwestern, seven out of 11 members of the “President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate” resigned this week in protest.
Under the controversial agreement, the school will admit five Palestinian students each year, support two Palestinian faculty members annually, create special housing for Muslim students, and add students to Committees to review purchases from Israeli businesses.
The resigning committee members criticized NU President Michael Schill’s failure to seek advice from the committee regarding the agreement.
The Anti-Defamation League criticized the deal, writing: “Instead of holding the perpetrators accountable, the university rewarded them. It would be unbelievable if it wasn’t true.”
Brown University has also been the target of criticism over its settlement with protesters, including a pledge by Brown President Christina Paxson to consider the divestment from all Israeli businesses.
Rutgers may be the next flashpoint for such criticism after agreeing this week to all but two demands by protesters.
— Rutgers accepting “at least 10 displaced Gazans” to complete their studies at the university.
— Plans to create an “Arab Cultural Center” by the fall semester at every Rutgers campus.
— Creation of a “memorandum of understanding” and “long-term educational partnership” with the West Bank’s Birzeit University.
— Use of “Palestine” and “Palestinians” instead of “Middle East” or “Gaza region” in all official university communications regarding “Israeli aggressions in Palestine.”
— Training for university staff and the hiring of experts in “anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism.”
— Display of flags on campus of “Palestinian, Kurdish, Kashmiri and other disputed territories.”
— “Full amnesty to all faculty, staff, student organizations and students” who took part in the Rutgers anti-Israel encampment and protests the past week.
The two items not agreed upon — divestment from companies that do business with Israel and ending Rutgers’ partnership with Tel Aviv University and the HELIX Innovation Hub — will be dealt with later by the university.
Northwestern is dead. It’s a rubbish institutions. Many years ago on the Res Ipsa Loquitur Blog, I said that colleges and universities for the most part no longer existed and that they were replaced by Leftist Indoctrination Entities, aka by the acronym “LIEs.” The Leftists here tried to prove me wrong and utterly failed. I pointed out that Harvard, which once regularly produced Nobel Prize winners in the areas of genuine merit, such as medicine, physics, chemistry, etc., now produced absolutely nothing of value, let alone Nobel Prize winners. One Leftist feebly pointed that Harvard did win a Prize in medicine but it was 20 years ago. And I said, “exactly, that’s my point.”
Now, there’s no longer any question that the LIEs have replaced the real college and universities. The damage is done. The faculties are total Leftist rubbish. The administrations are total rubbish. The real question is what to do about the situation for those remining among us who care about the fate of Civilization, which is gradually being destroyed before our eyes.
The following are the required first steps. One, all federal funds of the LIEs must be permanently cut off. Billions and billions of federal funds have been wasted on the LIEs. That must stop once and for all. Two, the tax-exempt status of the LIEs must be revoked. LIEs aren’t educational institutions. They don’t teach anything of value. They are just Leftist indoctrination production lines, dedicated to producing more degenerate, depraved, useful idiots for the Left. Let them be taxed like businesses and pay their fair share. And if that means they start depleting their endowments, that’s the way it should be. Let their endowments be transfered to the U.S. Treasury. These two things alone will have a dramatic effect on the LIEs. The LIEs will have to change for the better or they will disappear, which is as it should be. And new, real educational institutions will emerge and be rewarded and replace the LIEs.
The fate of Civilization depends on these vital changes ASAP. These should be a priority when President Trump returns to the White House and the Biden disaster is put behind us.
IF any of these students – protest in form other than a peaceful assembly – THEY GO BACK ON THE FIRST PLANE!
Jonathan: The resignation of members of NU President Schill’s Advisory Committee is only one data point among many others that paint a much different picture about how the wave of student protests around the country have nothing to do with “antisemitism”. Your column (5/4) about Jewish Professor Orleck illustrates that Jewish faculty and students are in solidarity with the goals of the protests–a halt to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the creation of an independent Palestinian state free of occupation.
Your column today, along with previous columns, is simply an attempt to sow divisions in the protest movement–to divide students and faculty by religion and ethnicity. As mentioned in a previous comment this was attempted in 1968 during the massive wave of student protests against the Vietnam war. The Nixon administration tried to divide the movement by falsely claiming “outside Marxists and Communist agitators” were leading the protests. The same attempt is being made today by the right-wing media. It didn’t work back then and it won’t work today!
BS!
You’re full of leftist crap.. The people in GAZA FPhucked around and found out. They’re all terrorists. Israel should kill them all and rightfully so.
The inmates are truly running the asylum! Armageddon is upon us.
The Gazans celebrated October 7th.
That opens a can of worms where someone can make arbitrary demands about any arbitrary thing they want. The sky is the limit.
Wow.
I will never hire a Northwestern grad.
Sorry but this is bad.
O T – Some people say that Trump “obstructed justice” by not complying with the DOJ subpoena for classified documents. That is nothing compared with extortionate behavior of the DOJ itself. Quoting from Emma Colton, “New revelations in Florida documents trial put Trump on offense against ‘deranged’ special counsel” (Fox News May 5, 2024):
“Trump was charged alongside his personal aide and valet, Walt Nauta, as well as Mar-a-Lago maintenance chief Carlos De Oliveira. Unredacted court filings show Nauta’s attorney was allegedly threatened he could lose a shot at becoming a federal judge if Nauta didn’t flip on Trump.
A motion filed in June 2023, and recently unredacted, reported that Nauta’s attorney, Stanley Woodward, met with DOJ National Security Division Chief Jay Bratt just weeks after the raid on Mar-a-Lago and “was led to a conference room where Mr. Bratt awaited with what appeared to be a folder containing information about Mr. Woodward,” The Federalist reported.
“Mr. Bratt thereupon told Mr. Woodward he didn’t consider him to be a ‘Trump lawyer,’ and he further said that he was aware that Mr. Woodward had been recommended to President Biden for an appointment to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia,” the motion stated, the Federalist reported. “Mr. Bratt followed up with words to the effect of ‘I wouldn’t want you to do anything to mess that up.’ Thereafter, Mr. Bratt advised Mr. Woodward that ‘one way or the other’ his client, Walt Nauta, would be giving up his lavish lifestyle of ‘private planes and golf clubs’ and he encouraged Mr. Woodward to persuade Mr. Nauta to cooperate with the government’s investigation (this was prior to the appointment of the Special Counsel).”
Bratt was later appointed lead prosecutor to Jack Smith’s case.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/revelations-florida-documents-trial-put-210650098.html
Democratic Party justice in action.
Djt can’t win. Remember when he campaigned in illinois in 2016 and his protesters blocked the roads – and cook county wanted to charge him with obstruction! He can always be charged with obstruction.
Your colon has an obstruction.