Vice President Kamala Harris has angered supporters of Israel by expressing support for a college student who accused the country of ‘ethnic genocide’ against Palestinians.
The interaction came as Harris made a surprise visit on Tuesday to a political science class at George Mason University in northern Virginia to encourage voter registration and discuss voting rights.
Desmond Cole was hired by the Toronto District School Board to give talk on anti-Black racism
An address to educators by a prominent Toronto activist landed with a thud, and has city Jewish groups demanding answers from the school board.
“If people interpret ‘Free Palestine’ as being violent, it is because they are benefitting from Palestinians being unfree,” Cole said in a clip of the address posted online.
“In the same way if you answer “Black Lives Matter’ with ‘All Lives Matter,’ you must have some investment in Black lives being undervalued.”
In an epic self-own, Toronto activist Desmond Cole is incensed by the suggestion that the slogan ‘Free Palestine’ is meant as a call for the destruction of Israel. He demands proof that anyone ever said so… Here’s how his own followers responded… a thread 🧵 pic.twitter.com/zky2U8OU7E
— Jaime Kirzner-Roberts (@jaimekr) September 26, 2021
Of course the Muslims support him.
I’ll have a lot more to say about this soon, but for now thank you @nccm for this support
the TDSB staff in this exchange repeatedly disrupted an equity talk the board hired me to give—they were uncomfortable with me saying “free Palestine” https://t.co/urD0zvz9ET
— negro frolics says Free Palestine (@DesmondCole) September 24, 2021
In 2019, the Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) division of Stanford University’s Student Affairs department launched a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training program with a mandate to instruct students about institutional racism. Instead, the program provided a case study of how radicalized forms of social-justice indoctrination can fuel antisemitism.
Earlier this year, Dr Ron Albucher, a Stanford psychiatrist and a former CAPS director, along with his colleague Sheila Levin, an eating-disorder specialist in the same department, filed complaints with federal and state civil-rights agencies regarding what they alleged to be “severe and persistent anti-Jewish harassment.” “Unfortunately, what we found was that the very program meant to help build an inclusive environment for all members of the Stanford community was, in fact, perpetrating the invidious discrimination it sought to eliminate,” wrote the complainants in an open letter published by the Stanford Daily last month.
It is grossly unfair to judge all police officers based on the actions of a handful like Derek Chauvin, all Black people from the behavior of Patrisse Cullors and Black Lives Matter Global Network, or all Caucasians from the actions of swastika-waving white supremacists like Andrew Anglin. It is however reasonable to judge the fields of Gender and Women’s Studies, Feminist Studies, and similar academic programs from the endorsement by roughly a hundred such university departments of anti-Israel hate propaganda that denies Israel’s right to exist. The Palestine Action Toolkit, from the same Palestine Feminist Collective supported by these departments, goes even farther: “78% of historic Palestine was stolen to create the Israeli state. This catastrophe was greenlighted and supported by the United Nations.” In addition, “There is Only One Solution: Intifada! Revolution!” and “From the River to the Sea! Palestine Will Be Free!”
.@Laurier student posts a horrific TikTok video glorifying stabbing people in Israel, comparing them to toilet paper and garbage.
This type of incitement for violence & antisemitism must be investigated @LaurierPres – your Jewish students deserve to feel safe at your school. pic.twitter.com/WtZWI8iI5b
— StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) May 14, 2021
In a video posted on Facebook, Waters launched into one his now famous rants, telling Wonder: “This is an apartheid regime. This is Israel. You will be whitewashing them beyond all belief if you accept the prize.”
Some of the country’s most prominent, self-described “anti-Zionists” are rushing to defend the Biden administration’s possible selection of a top Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) aide to serve at the State Department.
Following a Washington Free Beacon report last week on Matt Duss’s anti-Israel history, anti-Zionists including Peter Beinart, the Jewish writer beloved by anti-Israel activists, are coming to his defense. Beinart wrote in a self-published piece on Monday that Duss is being unfairly maligned by the pro-Israel community and Republican leaders because he is a Christian who cares “about the powerless and the abused, whatever their race, religion, or nationality.”
