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Re: Should we cooperate with the DEI team at all or work towards their demise ?

 

Add David French of the NYT to the mix:?


On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 8:58?PM Evan Morris <evan.morris@...> wrote:
Arthur-

Excellent collection. thanks for assembling. (Some but not all are on the Website.)

Now you feel my ambivalence.

I agree. A group discussion is warranted.
I think it best to do it in person¡­ behind closed doors, of course.

When do you think would be a good and practical time.

Evan

Bill Akman has no love lost for DEI at Harvard. So, we will have company.

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Evan



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Re: Should we cooperate with the DEI team at all or work towards their demise ?

 

Arthur-

Excellent collection. thanks for assembling. (Some but not all are on the Website.)

Now you feel my ambivalence.

I agree. A group discussion is warranted.
I think it best to do it in person¡­ behind closed doors, of course.

When do you think would be a good and practical time.

Evan

Bill Akman has no love lost for DEI at Harvard. So, we will have company.

?



Evan


Re: Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green

 

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"Palestinian Liberation"
Ask the cosigners:
UCONN Students for Justice in Palestine
Yalies for Palestine

What is AMPCT
What is WWR


From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Harvey Risch via groups.io <Harvey.Risch@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 7:27 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?

What is "Palestinian liberation"?? Liberation from what?


On 12/10/2023 6:57 PM, David Sasso via groups.io wrote:
Just a follow up. I had a couple of good follow-up exchanges by email with President Salovey today. He sent me a message at 5 pm letting me know that he has posted the following statement.


The Yalies4Palestine group and the other organizers of the event have tried to distance themselves from the menorah incident on social media. See below.

I've seen very little coverage of this in the news.


From:?[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of David Sasso via groups.io <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:42 PM
To:?[email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject:?[YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
FYI, I sent this letter to President Salovey, Provost Strobel, and Secretary Goff-Crews moments ago. I have shared with Gayle Slossberg at Federation.
I encourage others to write as well if they wish.




From:?Sasso, David <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:38 PM
To:?President Peter Salovey <president@...>; Salovey, Peter <peter.salovey@...>
Cc:?Strobel, Scott <scott.strobel@...>; Goff-Crews, Kimberly <kimberly.goff-crews@...>
Subject:?Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
Dear President Salovey,

I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying a happy Hanukkah, made all the more difficult, and meaningful, by the events we confront at this time.?

Following up on our conversation in October and your letter after the recent congressional hearings, I want to make sure that you are aware of this incident on the New Haven Green yesterday. It was part of an event that I understand was cosponsored by Yalies4Palestine. (Some will argue that the other participants wanted the flag taken down because it was important to them not to vandalize a menorah. It is clear from listening to the video that they were instead concerned with optics.)


I trust that Yale will investigate to determine if any of these were Yale students. Will there be a statement from the University condemning what occurred? Even if these were not Yale-affiliated students, this occurred in Yale¡®s backyard, and the event was sponsored by a Yale?affiliated group (which should no longer receive Yale support or recognition).?

I urge you to consider what kind of statement Yale would release if such an incident were to occur in New Haven, cosponsored by a Yale student group targeting a religious or cultural symbol of any other group and to act without double standard.

Your recent letter stated: ¡°
Chants or messages that express hatred, celebrate the killing of civilians, or contain calls for genocide of any group are utterly against our ideals and certainly are not characteristic of our broader community.¡±

The march yesterday included chants that, as you well know, do all of those things. I urge you to demonstrate to the world that Yale will not tolerate such behavior or language, just as you would do, and have done, in many other instances.?

Free speech is a bedrock principle. What is occurring has crossed from free speech into calls for violence and actual vandalism of a religious symbol. The double standards are glaring. This is not the time to hide behind free speech. We have seen what the world thinks of that sort of equivocation.?

As always, I welcome your response and further conversation.

Sincerely,

David?

--
David A. Sasso, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry / Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Therapeutic Center for Children and Families, Westport, CT
Phone: (203) 454-2428, ext. 718


Should we cooperate with the DEI team at all or work towards their demise ?

 

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To the? YFJF&F

We have had a cooperative relationship with Dean Lattimore, and our speaker for January 22-23 Rabbi Fersko will be doing an "educational session " with the DEI "captains" and faculty.

I propose a discussion of our group as to whether we should to the lead and change course.?

The connections between DEI and antisemitism are the subjects of the following:

Antisemitism is one example of a much deeper rot on campus.
www.wsj.com
Gerrymandering Jews into an ¡®oppressed¡¯ class won¡¯t save universities from a malevolent ideology.
www.wsj.com
Diversity bureaucracies stoke anti-Semitism on campus.
www.city-journal.org
Two major changes in universities have contributed significantly to the dramatic rise of antisemitism on college campuses.
thehill.com
I saw antisemitism on a weekly basis in my two years as a faculty ¡°diversity, equity and inclusion¡± director.
nypost.com
In an age of skyrocketing antisemitism, university programs meant to combat prejudice and hate have become the latest Jew-free zone
www.tabletmag.com
Are we ready as a group to take the lead in the Ivy League to push for the end of DEI ?

Arthur


Re: Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green

 

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What is "Palestinian liberation"?? Liberation from what?


On 12/10/2023 6:57 PM, David Sasso via groups.io wrote:

Just a follow up. I had a couple of good follow-up exchanges by email with President Salovey today. He sent me a message at 5 pm letting me know that he has posted the following statement.


The Yalies4Palestine group and the other organizers of the event have tried to distance themselves from the menorah incident on social media. See below.

I've seen very little coverage of this in the news.


From:?[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of David Sasso via groups.io <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:42 PM
To:?[email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject:?[YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
FYI, I sent this letter to President Salovey, Provost Strobel, and Secretary Goff-Crews moments ago. I have shared with Gayle Slossberg at Federation.
I encourage others to write as well if they wish.




From:?Sasso, David <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:38 PM
To:?President Peter Salovey <president@...>; Salovey, Peter <peter.salovey@...>
Cc:?Strobel, Scott <scott.strobel@...>; Goff-Crews, Kimberly <kimberly.goff-crews@...>
Subject:?Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
Dear President Salovey,

I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying a happy Hanukkah, made all the more difficult, and meaningful, by the events we confront at this time.?

Following up on our conversation in October and your letter after the recent congressional hearings, I want to make sure that you are aware of this incident on the New Haven Green yesterday. It was part of an event that I understand was cosponsored by Yalies4Palestine. (Some will argue that the other participants wanted the flag taken down because it was important to them not to vandalize a menorah. It is clear from listening to the video that they were instead concerned with optics.)


I trust that Yale will investigate to determine if any of these were Yale students. Will there be a statement from the University condemning what occurred? Even if these were not Yale-affiliated students, this occurred in Yale¡®s backyard, and the event was sponsored by a Yale?affiliated group (which should no longer receive Yale support or recognition).?

I urge you to consider what kind of statement Yale would release if such an incident were to occur in New Haven, cosponsored by a Yale student group targeting a religious or cultural symbol of any other group and to act without double standard.

Your recent letter stated: ¡°
Chants or messages that express hatred, celebrate the killing of civilians, or contain calls for genocide of any group are utterly against our ideals and certainly are not characteristic of our broader community.¡±

The march yesterday included chants that, as you well know, do all of those things. I urge you to demonstrate to the world that Yale will not tolerate such behavior or language, just as you would do, and have done, in many other instances.?

Free speech is a bedrock principle. What is occurring has crossed from free speech into calls for violence and actual vandalism of a religious symbol. The double standards are glaring. This is not the time to hide behind free speech. We have seen what the world thinks of that sort of equivocation.?

As always, I welcome your response and further conversation.

Sincerely,

David?

--
David A. Sasso, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry / Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Therapeutic Center for Children and Families, Westport, CT
Phone: (203) 454-2428, ext. 718


Re: Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green

 

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Just a follow up. I had a couple of good follow-up exchanges by email with President Salovey today. He sent me a message at 5 pm letting me know that he has posted the following statement.


The Yalies4Palestine group and the other organizers of the event have tried to distance themselves from the menorah incident on social media. See below.

I've seen very little coverage of this in the news.


From:[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of David Sasso via groups.io <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:42 PM
To:[email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject:?[YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
FYI, I sent this letter to President Salovey, Provost Strobel, and Secretary Goff-Crews moments ago. I have shared with Gayle Slossberg at Federation.
I encourage others to write as well if they wish.




From:?Sasso, David <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:38 PM
To:?President Peter Salovey <president@...>; Salovey, Peter <peter.salovey@...>
Cc:?Strobel, Scott <scott.strobel@...>; Goff-Crews, Kimberly <kimberly.goff-crews@...>
Subject:?Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
Dear President Salovey,

I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying a happy Hanukkah, made all the more difficult, and meaningful, by the events we confront at this time.?

Following up on our conversation in October and your letter after the recent congressional hearings, I want to make sure that you are aware of this incident on the New Haven Green yesterday. It was part of an event that I understand was cosponsored by Yalies4Palestine. (Some will argue that the other participants wanted the flag taken down because it was important to them not to vandalize a menorah. It is clear from listening to the video that they were instead concerned with optics.)


I trust that Yale will investigate to determine if any of these were Yale students. Will there be a statement from the University condemning what occurred? Even if these were not Yale-affiliated students, this occurred in Yale¡®s backyard, and the event was sponsored by a Yale?affiliated group (which should no longer receive Yale support or recognition).?

I urge you to consider what kind of statement Yale would release if such an incident were to occur in New Haven, cosponsored by a Yale student group targeting a religious or cultural symbol of any other group and to act without double standard.

Your recent letter stated: ¡°
Chants or messages that express hatred, celebrate the killing of civilians, or contain calls for genocide of any group are utterly against our ideals and certainly are not characteristic of our broader community.¡±

The march yesterday included chants that, as you well know, do all of those things. I urge you to demonstrate to the world that Yale will not tolerate such behavior or language, just as you would do, and have done, in many other instances.?

Free speech is a bedrock principle. What is occurring has crossed from free speech into calls for violence and actual vandalism of a religious symbol. The double standards are glaring. This is not the time to hide behind free speech. We have seen what the world thinks of that sort of equivocation.?

As always, I welcome your response and further conversation.

Sincerely,

David?

--
David A. Sasso, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry / Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Therapeutic Center for Children and Families, Westport, CT
Phone: (203) 454-2428, ext. 718


Re: Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green

 

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It¡¯s deplorable. I believe the chant was ¡°Shut it down,¡± which is the name of the event, rather than ¡°Knock it [the menorah] down.¡±?Absolutely sickening either way.?

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Naomi Libby, MD, MHA
Chief Medical Officer
The Children¡¯s Center of Hamden
Assistant Clinical Professor
Yale Child Study Center
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On Dec 10, 2023, at 1:46 PM, Arthur Seltzer via groups.io <arthur.seltzer@...> wrote:

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Excellent letter from David Sasso.?

Listen as the crowd is shouting "Knock it down" referring to the Menorah as they hoisted the Palestinian flag.

The faces can be identified in slow motion.

They need to be prosecuted.?

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Evan Morris via groups.io <evan.morris@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:44 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
Excellent letter
Evan

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of David Sasso via groups.io <david.sasso@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:42:18 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
FYI, I sent this letter to President Salovey, Provost Strobel, and Secretary Goff-Crews moments ago. I have shared with Gayle Slossberg at Federation.
I encourage others to write as well if they wish.




From:?Sasso, David <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:38 PM
To:?President Peter Salovey <president@...>; Salovey, Peter <peter.salovey@...>
Cc:?Strobel, Scott <scott.strobel@...>; Goff-Crews, Kimberly <kimberly.goff-crews@...>
Subject:?Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
Dear President Salovey,

I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying a happy Hanukkah, made all the more difficult, and meaningful, by the events we confront at this time.?

Following up on our conversation in October and your letter after the recent congressional hearings, I want to make sure that you are aware of this incident on the New Haven Green yesterday. It was part of an event that I understand was cosponsored by Yalies4Palestine. (Some will argue that the other participants wanted the flag taken down because it was important to them not to vandalize a menorah. It is clear from listening to the video that they were instead concerned with optics.)


I trust that Yale will investigate to determine if any of these were Yale students. Will there be a statement from the University condemning what occurred? Even if these were not Yale-affiliated students, this occurred in Yale¡®s backyard, and the event was sponsored by a Yale?affiliated group (which should no longer receive Yale support or recognition).?

I urge you to consider what kind of statement Yale would release if such an incident were to occur in New Haven, cosponsored by a Yale student group targeting a religious or cultural symbol of any other group and to act without double standard.

Your recent letter stated: ¡°
Chants or messages that express hatred, celebrate the killing of civilians, or contain calls for genocide of any group are utterly against our ideals and certainly are not characteristic of our broader community.¡±

The march yesterday included chants that, as you well know, do all of those things. I urge you to demonstrate to the world that Yale will not tolerate such behavior or language, just as you would do, and have done, in many other instances.?

Free speech is a bedrock principle. What is occurring has crossed from free speech into calls for violence and actual vandalism of a religious symbol. The double standards are glaring. This is not the time to hide behind free speech. We have seen what the world thinks of that sort of equivocation.?

As always, I welcome your response and further conversation.

Sincerely,

David?

--
David A. Sasso, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry / Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Therapeutic Center for Children and Families, Westport, CT
Phone: (203) 454-2428, ext. 718


Re: Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green

 

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Excellent letter from David Sasso.?

Listen as the crowd is shouting "Knock it down" referring to the Menorah as they hoisted the Palestinian flag.

The faces can be identified in slow motion.

They need to be prosecuted.?


From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Evan Morris via groups.io <evan.morris@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:44 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
Excellent letter
Evan

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of David Sasso via groups.io <david.sasso@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:42:18 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
FYI, I sent this letter to President Salovey, Provost Strobel, and Secretary Goff-Crews moments ago. I have shared with Gayle Slossberg at Federation.
I encourage others to write as well if they wish.




From:?Sasso, David <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:38 PM
To:?President Peter Salovey <president@...>; Salovey, Peter <peter.salovey@...>
Cc:?Strobel, Scott <scott.strobel@...>; Goff-Crews, Kimberly <kimberly.goff-crews@...>
Subject:?Vandalism of menorah on the Green
?
Dear President Salovey,

I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying a happy Hanukkah, made all the more difficult, and meaningful, by the events we confront at this time.?

Following up on our conversation in October and your letter after the recent congressional hearings, I want to make sure that you are aware of this incident on the New Haven Green yesterday. It was part of an event that I understand was cosponsored by Yalies4Palestine. (Some will argue that the other participants wanted the flag taken down because it was important to them not to vandalize a menorah. It is clear from listening to the video that they were instead concerned with optics.)


I trust that Yale will investigate to determine if any of these were Yale students. Will there be a statement from the University condemning what occurred? Even if these were not Yale-affiliated students, this occurred in Yale¡®s backyard, and the event was sponsored by a Yale?affiliated group (which should no longer receive Yale support or recognition).?

I urge you to consider what kind of statement Yale would release if such an incident were to occur in New Haven, cosponsored by a Yale student group targeting a religious or cultural symbol of any other group and to act without double standard.

Your recent letter stated: ¡°
Chants or messages that express hatred, celebrate the killing of civilians, or contain calls for genocide of any group are utterly against our ideals and certainly are not characteristic of our broader community.¡±

The march yesterday included chants that, as you well know, do all of those things. I urge you to demonstrate to the world that Yale will not tolerate such behavior or language, just as you would do, and have done, in many other instances.?

Free speech is a bedrock principle. What is occurring has crossed from free speech into calls for violence and actual vandalism of a religious symbol. The double standards are glaring. This is not the time to hide behind free speech. We have seen what the world thinks of that sort of equivocation.?

As always, I welcome your response and further conversation.

Sincerely,

David?

--
David A. Sasso, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry / Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Therapeutic Center for Children and Families, Westport, CT
Phone: (203) 454-2428, ext. 718


Speech by Geert Wilders

 

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Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission. ?All is not well in the old world. ?There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. ?We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. ?This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. ?The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First, I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . ?Then, I will say a few things about Islam. ?To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks. ?But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. ?It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. ?And if they are, they might regret it. ?This goes for the police as well. ?It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. ?The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity.
?These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . ?With larger congregations than there are in churches. ?And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. ?Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim:
?just take Amsterdam , ?Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . ?In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. ?Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned,
?because that would also mean mentioning the pig, ?and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. ?In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims.
??Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. ?Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims,
?including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . ?The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system.
?Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. ??Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers,
?on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. ??French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya , ?Israel . ??I could go on forever with stories like this. ?Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live. ?San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now.
??Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. ?And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate.
??But there are few signs of that. ??The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France . ??One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. ?The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. ?Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. ? And this is how we give them respect. ?We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. ?We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers,
?to small-scale riots. ? Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. ??I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. ??Because that is what they are. ?They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. ?Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims,
?forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. ?Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet.
??His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. ?Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, ?there would be no problem. ??But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. ??Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. ??Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. ??If it is good for Islam, it is good. ?If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion.
??Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. ??But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. ??It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. ?Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. ?Islam means 'submission'. ??Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. ?If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam
?'the most retrograde force in the world', ?and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. ?The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. ?I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. ??I support Israel . ? First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz; ?second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad,
?frustrating Islam's territorial advance. ??Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines , Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan , Lebanon , and Aceh in Indonesia . ??Israel is simply in the way. ??The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel .
??It is a war against the West. ? It is jihad. ?Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. ??If there would have been no Israel , ?Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. ? Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, ?parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. ?But if Israel were,
?God forbid, ?to go down, ?it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. ??On the contrary, ?the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. ??They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. ? The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. ?It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. ?If they can get Israel , they can get everything. ?So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. ?In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. ??And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. ?Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. ?The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. ??An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. ?With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem ...

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts.
??My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. ??All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. ??My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. ??We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. ??We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. ?Future generations would never forgive us. ?We cannot squander our liberties. ?We simply do not have the right to do so.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.


Re: Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green

 

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Excellent letter
Evan


From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of David Sasso via groups.io <david.sasso@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:42:18 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [YFJFF] Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green
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FYI, I sent this letter to President Salovey, Provost Strobel, and Secretary Goff-Crews moments ago. I have shared with Gayle Slossberg at Federation.
I encourage others to write as well if they wish.




From:?Sasso, David <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:38 PM
To:?President Peter Salovey <president@...>; Salovey, Peter <peter.salovey@...>
Cc:?Strobel, Scott <scott.strobel@...>; Goff-Crews, Kimberly <kimberly.goff-crews@...>
Subject:?Vandalism of menorah on the Green
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Dear President Salovey,

I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying a happy Hanukkah, made all the more difficult, and meaningful, by the events we confront at this time.?

Following up on our conversation in October and your letter after the recent congressional hearings, I want to make sure that you are aware of this incident on the New Haven Green yesterday. It was part of an event that I understand was cosponsored by Yalies4Palestine. (Some will argue that the other participants wanted the flag taken down because it was important to them not to vandalize a menorah. It is clear from listening to the video that they were instead concerned with optics.)


I trust that Yale will investigate to determine if any of these were Yale students. Will there be a statement from the University condemning what occurred? Even if these were not Yale-affiliated students, this occurred in Yale¡®s backyard, and the event was sponsored by a Yale?affiliated group (which should no longer receive Yale support or recognition).?

I urge you to consider what kind of statement Yale would release if such an incident were to occur in New Haven, cosponsored by a Yale student group targeting a religious or cultural symbol of any other group and to act without double standard.

Your recent letter stated: ¡°
Chants or messages that express hatred, celebrate the killing of civilians, or contain calls for genocide of any group are utterly against our ideals and certainly are not characteristic of our broader community.¡±

The march yesterday included chants that, as you well know, do all of those things. I urge you to demonstrate to the world that Yale will not tolerate such behavior or language, just as you would do, and have done, in many other instances.?

Free speech is a bedrock principle. What is occurring has crossed from free speech into calls for violence and actual vandalism of a religious symbol. The double standards are glaring. This is not the time to hide behind free speech. We have seen what the world thinks of that sort of equivocation.?

As always, I welcome your response and further conversation.

Sincerely,

David?

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David A. Sasso, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry / Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Therapeutic Center for Children and Families, Westport, CT
Phone: (203) 454-2428, ext. 718


Letter to Pres. Salovey fw: Vandalism of menorah on the Green

 

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FYI, I sent this letter to President Salovey, Provost Strobel, and Secretary Goff-Crews moments ago. I have shared with Gayle Slossberg at Federation.
I encourage others to write as well if they wish.




From:?Sasso, David <david.sasso@...>
Sent:?Sunday, December 10, 2023 12:38 PM
To:?President Peter Salovey <president@...>; Salovey, Peter <peter.salovey@...>
Cc:?Strobel, Scott <scott.strobel@...>; Goff-Crews, Kimberly <kimberly.goff-crews@...>
Subject:?Vandalism of menorah on the Green
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Dear President Salovey,

I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying a happy Hanukkah, made all the more difficult, and meaningful, by the events we confront at this time.?

Following up on our conversation in October and your letter after the recent congressional hearings, I want to make sure that you are aware of this incident on the New Haven Green yesterday. It was part of an event that I understand was cosponsored by Yalies4Palestine. (Some will argue that the other participants wanted the flag taken down because it was important to them not to vandalize a menorah. It is clear from listening to the video that they were instead concerned with optics.)


I trust that Yale will investigate to determine if any of these were Yale students. Will there be a statement from the University condemning what occurred? Even if these were not Yale-affiliated students, this occurred in Yale¡®s backyard, and the event was sponsored by a Yale?affiliated group (which should no longer receive Yale support or recognition).?

I urge you to consider what kind of statement Yale would release if such an incident were to occur in New Haven, cosponsored by a Yale student group targeting a religious or cultural symbol of any other group and to act without double standard.

Your recent letter stated: ¡°
Chants or messages that express hatred, celebrate the killing of civilians, or contain calls for genocide of any group are utterly against our ideals and certainly are not characteristic of our broader community.¡±

The march yesterday included chants that, as you well know, do all of those things. I urge you to demonstrate to the world that Yale will not tolerate such behavior or language, just as you would do, and have done, in many other instances.?

Free speech is a bedrock principle. What is occurring has crossed from free speech into calls for violence and actual vandalism of a religious symbol. The double standards are glaring. This is not the time to hide behind free speech. We have seen what the world thinks of that sort of equivocation.?

As always, I welcome your response and further conversation.

Sincerely,

David?

--
David A. Sasso, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry / Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Therapeutic Center for Children and Families, Westport, CT
Phone: (203) 454-2428, ext. 718


Re: Watch this attack on New Haven Green Menorah yesterday...no news coverage, no arrests I am aware of

 

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Thanks Ed, I was just about to send this out as well.?

Here¡¯s a longer video where others plead with him to take it down because ¡°it¡¯s going to look bad.¡±






On Dec 10, 2023, at 10:36?AM, Edward Kaplan via groups.io <edward.kaplan@...> wrote:

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0qX7rMKsWU


Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device



-------- Original message --------
From: "Evan Morris via groups.io" <evan.morris@...>
Date: 12/10/23 10:33 AM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: [YFJFF] There must be a reckoning throughout academia - please write to Elise Stefanik, or to your rep

I wrote to Elise Stefanik


I asked her (note the 500 word limit of the form) to call the Presidents of Brown and Columbia before her committee. At Columbia, the lawbreaking continues apace. At Brown, the President removed references to Jews from her speech.
At Yale, there has not been a SINGLE campus-wide email that mentions the word ¡°Jew¡±. Salovey avoided using the word on Oct 11. Nancy Brown did not mention Jews on Oct 9, Darin Latimore failed to mention Jews on Dec 9. The universities are doing what the Nazis dreamed of. Erasing us.?

At Brown:?

At Columbia:?

Please consider doing the same. ?It will take 3 minutes.
You may not like Elise Stefanik. But she is the current instrument of a much needed reckoning.

Evan


Watch this attack on New Haven Green Menorah yesterday...no news coverage, no arrests I am aware of

 

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0qX7rMKsWU


Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device



-------- Original message --------
From: "Evan Morris via groups.io" <evan.morris@...>
Date: 12/10/23 10:33 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: [YFJFF] There must be a reckoning throughout academia - please write to Elise Stefanik, or to your rep

I wrote to Elise Stefanik


I asked her (note the 500 word limit of the form) to call the Presidents of Brown and Columbia before her committee. At Columbia, the lawbreaking continues apace. At Brown, the President removed references to Jews from her speech.
At Yale, there has not been a SINGLE campus-wide email that mentions the word ¡°Jew¡±. Salovey avoided using the word on Oct 11. Nancy Brown did not mention Jews on Oct 9, Darin Latimore failed to mention Jews on Dec 9. The universities are doing what the Nazis dreamed of. Erasing us.?

At Brown:?

At Columbia:?

Please consider doing the same. ?It will take 3 minutes.
You may not like Elise Stefanik. But she is the current instrument of a much needed reckoning.

Evan


There must be a reckoning throughout academia - please write to Elise Stefanik, or to your rep

 

I wrote to Elise Stefanik


I asked her (note the 500 word limit of the form) to call the Presidents of Brown and Columbia before her committee. At Columbia, the lawbreaking continues apace. At Brown, the President removed references to Jews from her speech.
At Yale, there has not been a SINGLE campus-wide email that mentions the word ¡°Jew¡±. Salovey avoided using the word on Oct 11. Nancy Brown did not mention Jews on Oct 9, Darin Latimore failed to mention Jews on Dec 9. The universities are doing what the Nazis dreamed of. Erasing us.?

At Brown:?

At Columbia:?

Please consider doing the same. ?It will take 3 minutes.
You may not like Elise Stefanik. But she is the current instrument of a much needed reckoning.

Evan


Re: The problem is bigger than three college presidents

 

Yes. The problem is much bigger. But it is important for those three to lose their jobs as a warning to others. Frankly, I am going to write to Elise Stefanik and ask her to call the Brown and Columbia presidents to a hearing. ?Eacvh one of them is irredeemable. They need to be removed. If not, nothing will change.

At Columbia



At Brown


End DEI

 

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The Day The Empress' Clothes Fell Off

Did the Congressional hearings finally expose the scandal of the Ivy League?

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ANDREW SULLIVAN | DEC 8, 2023

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It may be too much to expect that the Congressional hearings this week, starring the three presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn, will wake people up to the toxic collapse of America¡¯s once-great Ivy League. But I can hope, can¡¯t I? In the immortal words of Hitch (peace be upon him), as you listen to these people, ¡°You see how far the termites have spread, and how long and well they have dined.¡±

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The mediocrities smirked, finessed, condescended, and stonewalled. Take a good look at them. These are the people who now select our elites. And they select them, as they select every single member of the faculty, and every student, by actively discriminating against members of certain ¡°privileged¡± groups and aggressively favoring other ¡°marginalized¡± ones. They were themselves appointed in exactly the same way, from DEI-approved pools of candidates. As a Harvard dean, Claudine Gay¡¯s top priority was ¡°making more progress on diversity,¡± i.e. intensifying the already systemic race, sex and gender discrimination that defines the place.

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Thanks to the recent Supreme Court case, the energetic discrimination against Asian-American candidates for admission at Harvard is no longer in doubt. But countless other candidates for admission have little to no chance, regardless of their grades, or extracurriculars, because they belong to the wrong race, sex, sexual orientation, and ¡°gender identity.¡± As soon as students are admitted under this identity framework, they are taught its core precepts: that the ¡°truth¡± ¡ª or, in Harvard¡¯s now-ironic motto, ¡°Veritas¡± ¡ª is a function not of logic or reason or of open, free, robust debate and dialogue, let alone of Western civilization, but of inimical and evil ¡°power structures¡± rooted in identity that need to be dismantled first. Identity first; truth second ¡ª because truth is rooted in identity and cannot exist outside of it.

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In the hearings, President Gay actually said, with a straight face, that ¡°we embrace a commitment to free expression even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful.¡± This is the president whose university mandates all students attend a Title IX training session where they are told that ¡°fatphobia¡± and ¡°cisheterosexism¡± are forms of ¡°violence,¡± and that ¡°using the wrong pronouns¡± constitutes ¡°abuse.¡± This is the same president who engineered the ouster of a law professor, Ronald Sullivan, simply because he represented a client, of whom Gay and students (rightly but irrelevantly) disapproved, Harvey Weinstein.

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This is the same president who watched a brilliant and popular professor, Carole Hooven, be effectively hounded out of her position after a public shaming campaign by one of her department¡¯s DEI enforcers, and a mob of teaching fellows, because Hooven dared to state on television that biological sex is binary. This is the president of a university where a grand total of 1.46 percent of faculty call themselves ¡°conservative¡± and 82 percent call themselves ¡°liberal¡± or ¡°very liberal.¡± This is the president of a university which ranked 248th out of 248 colleges this year on free speech (and Penn was the 247th), according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Harvard is a place where free expression goes to die.

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The critics who keep pointing out ¡°double standards¡± when it comes to the inflammatory speech of pro-Palestinian students miss the point. These are not double standards. There is a single standard: It is fine to malign, abuse and denigrate ¡°oppressors¡± and forbidden to do so against the ¡°oppressed.¡±

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Freedom of speech in the Ivy League extends exclusively to the voices of the oppressed; they are also permitted to disrupt classes, deplatform or shout down controversial speakers, hurl obscenities, force members of oppressor groups ¡ª i.e. Jewish students and teachers in the latest case ¡ª into locked libraries and offices during protests, and blocked from classrooms. Jewish students have even been assaulted ¡ª at Harvard, at Columbia, at UMass Amherst, at Tulane. Assaults by woke students used to be rare, such as the 2017 mob at Middlebury that put Allison Stanger in a neck brace ¡ª but since 10/7, they¡¯re intensifying.

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If a member of an oppressor class says something edgy, it is a form of violence. If a member of an oppressed class commits actual violence, it¡¯s speech. That¡¯s why many Harvard students instantly supported a fundamentalist terror cult that killed, tortured, systematically raped and kidnapped Jews just for being Jews in their own country. Because they have been taught it¡¯s the only moral position to take. They¡¯ve diligently read their Fanon, and must be puzzled over what the problem is. Palestinians are victims of a ¡°colonial,¡± ¡°white,¡± ¡°settler-state¡± and any violence they commit is thereby justified.

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It would be wrong to see this as a function merely of old-school anti-Semitism. The new anti-Semitism is simply a subsidiary of the entire rubric of ¡°anti-Whiteness¡± that is taught as the supreme principle of ¡°Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.¡± DEI does not mean and has never meant diversity, equity and inclusion for all. It means active support for the ¡°oppressed¡± against the ¡°oppressors.¡± It means challenging ¡°whiteness,¡± as represented by individual white people. Let¡¯s go to the Smithsonian to read a definition of the term:

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Since white people in America hold most of the political, institutional, and economic power, they receive advantages that nonwhite groups do not. These benefits and advantages, of varying degrees, are known as white privilege. For many white people, this can be hard to hear, understand, or accept ¡ª but it is true.

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Now replace the word ¡°white¡± with ¡°Jewish,¡± and it all fits neatly into place, doesn¡¯t it? Jews ¡°hold most of the power.¡± Jews ¡°receive advantages¡± others do not. Jews have ¡°Jewish privilege.¡± Within ¡°white supremacy¡± there is, definitionally, ¡°Jewish supremacy,¡± because Jews in America (and even Israel!) are defined by their ¡°whiteness.¡± They may not want to hear it, but they are the oppressor class now. If ¡°white supremacy¡± is changed to ¡°Jewish supremacy,¡± you even get the title of David Duke¡¯s 2003 book, Jewish Supremacism.

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The tropes, the structure, and the psyche of anti-Semitism have simply been copied and pasted onto anti-whiteness. There¡¯s the same envy and resentment of an all-controlling racial group that is deemed not inferior (as in anti-black racism), but superior ¡ª by underhanded, shifty, rigged means. That¡¯s why the word ¡°merit¡± is now derided in the Ivy League: it doesn¡¯t exist in neo-Marxist eyes. Only power exists.

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As whites, Jews helped construct a Constitution long ago that pretends to guarantee equal rights, but once you ¡°awaken¡± to the racist conspiracy that will always define America, you can see it was actually designed to oppress non-white goyim forever. This is what the New York Times believes, as we discovered in 2019, in an entire issue of their magazine, which they then distributed to high-school kids, so they could learn which groups to hate in America, and which groups to love.

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This is why when non-whites commit hate crimes, they are instantly redefined as enacting ¡°white supremacy.¡± It is why it is not ¡°triggering¡± to call a conservative student a ¡°white supremacist¡± or a white gay man of my generation a ¡°queer¡± ¡ª we deserve it as oppressors ¡ª but it is a form of violence if you misgender a trans person or ask where someone is from. Even ¡°Silence Is Violence,¡± as the BLM protestors insisted. In fact, some say, ¡°silence is the worst form of violence.¡± Could Chairman Mao have put it better?

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It is why you can set up a segregated dorm at MIT, call it ¡°Chocolate City,¡± and be praised by the president, Sally Kornbluth, as being about ¡°positive selection.¡± It¡¯s why due process exists in sexual abuse cases for women on campus, but is denied to all men. It¡¯s why these universities have racially segregated graduations for everyone ¡ª except ¡°whites.¡± And because this grotesque racist engineering requires admitting vast numbers of students who cannot meet the academic standards of the evil past, 80 percent of Harvard and Yale students now get an A or A- as a grade. This is not ¡°equity,¡± however they re- and re-define it. It is the hard bigotry of no expectations.

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The absolute worst thing you can do right now is what the presidents of these woke institutions now say they intend to do: switch Jews out of the ¡°oppressor class¡± and into the ¡°oppressed one,¡± and re-apply all the DEI discrimination on their behalf.

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That doesn¡¯t solve the problem; it compounds it. Pro-Palestinian, and anti-Israel speech should no more be censored than any other ¡ª and the suppression is real. There should be one standard and it should be free speech. But there can be no free speech and no guarantee of it until the toxins of critical theory, and the architecture of its enforcement, DEI, are excised from the university altogether. Asking the current leadership to correct these lost institutions is an exercise in futility.

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End DEI in its entirety. Fire all the administrators whose only job is to enforce its toxic orthodoxy. Admit students on academic merit alone. Save standardized testing ¡ª which in fact helps minorities, and it¡¯s ¡°the best way to distinguish smart poor kids from stupid rich kids,¡± as Steven Pinker said this week. Restore grading so that it actually means something again. Expel students who shut or shout down speech or deplatform speakers. Pay no attention to the race or sex or orientation or gender identity of your students, and see them as free human beings with open minds. Treat them equally as individuals seeking to learn, if you can remember such a concept.

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David Wolpe is a distinguished and learned rabbi who resigned this week from Harvard¡¯s advisory committee on anti-Semitism. In a tweet, he wrote:

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Harvard is still a repository of extraordinary minds and important research. However, the system at Harvard along with the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty, the ideology that works only along axes of oppression and places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil.

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Yes, it is evil. This is no time to be mealy-mouthed about it. And we must root it out. Before its poison makes our liberal democracy almost impossible to reconstruct.

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The problem is bigger than three college presidents

 

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House members call for the firing of the 3 stooges

 

Joe Courtney (who is my rep in CT) is one of 3 dems to sign. ?If you are a PENN, Harvard or MIT alum, and are so onclined, please call Courtney and tell him you approve. ?It took a bit of guts to defy most of the Dems.

House members call on Harvard, MIT and Penn to fire presidents

Seventy-four members of Congress on Friday signed a letter urging the governing boards of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania to fire their presidents as fallout continued from the campus leaders' disastrous testimony during a hearing on antisemitism Tues

Seventy-four members of Congress on Friday??urging the governing boards of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania to fire their presidents as fallout continued from the campus leaders' disastrous testimony during a hearing on antisemitism Tuesday. ??

"Testimony provided by presidents of your institutions showed a complete absence of moral clarity and illuminated the problematic double standards and dehumanization of the Jewish communities that your university presidents enabled,"??... "[W]e demand that your boards immediately remove each of these presidents from their positions and that you provide an actionable plan to ensure that Jewish and Israeli students, teachers, and faculty are safe on your campuses.

"Anything less than these steps will be seen as your endorsement of what Presidents Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth said to Congress and an act of complicity in their antisemitic posture. The world is watching - you can stand with your Jewish students and faculty, or you can choose the side of dangerous antisemitism."

The highly unusual request from nearly one in five members of the House of Representatives¡ªall but three of whom are Republican¡ªcarries no legal weight. But the lawmakers' letter was the latest sign of how much the politics of the Israel-Hamas war have poisoned the political climate surrounding higher education.

The failure of the three college presidents to clearly say that calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated their campus policies?on social media¡ªgalling alumni, free speech??and??in the Jewish community alike. Pennsylvania's governor, a Democrat, called Wednesday for Penn to fire Liz Magill, and Claudine Gay, Harvard's president, has also come under intense pressure from alumni and some students.

The lawmakers' letter was led by Elise M. Stefanik, the Republican congresswoman from New York whose??of the three presidents was the hearing's seminal moment. Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, was the other lead co-signer.

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A Hanukkah gift from Wharton's board of trustees

 

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Edward H. Kaplan
William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research
Professor of Public Health
Professor of Engineering
Yale School of Management
Box 208200
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8200

Phone:? 203-432-6031
e-mail: edward.kaplan@...

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Harvard Bans ¡®Cisheterosexism¡¯ but Shrugs at Antisemitism

 

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